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Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan
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Abel Tesfaye’s ever-ratcheting anxiety becomes overwhelming, then numbing over 22 tracks and 80 minutes
Britney Spears meets Shakespeare: How & Juliet puts a pop twist on star-cross’d lovers
& Juliet creator David West Read’s TV credits include Schitt’s Creek but his passion for theatre propelled him to rewrite a Shakespeare classic featuring the music of one of pop’s top hit makers
Taylor Swift isn’t the first to monetise her heartbreak. Here are five of the best examples
This list will make you ponder what you could have done after a break-up instead of sitting around the house moping
I’m a Celebrity 2023: Nigel Farage maintains his jolliness while taking orders from a Frenchman
Television: After a stodgy first episode, viewers will hope the figurative gloves come off sooner rather than later
Nigel Farage and Britney Spears’ sister to appear on I’m a Celebrity
Jamie Lynn Spears, JLS’s Marvin Humes and Channel 4′s First Dates’ Fred Sirieix will also join line-up
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears: This memoir is as dark as a Hans Christian Andersen fable
The half detailing her agonising conservatorship experience makes for a harrowing, infuriating read
Toxic by Sarah Ditum: Reappraising the noughties through a feminist lens makes for an uncomfortable read
Difficult reading about how the culture treated famous women that is critically engaged, well-researched and colourful but not exploitative
Britney’s gossipy celebrity memoir contains a serious hidden message
The weight of the contradiction - to be a child dressed as an adult, to be an object of allure and contempt - broke something in her
Britney Spears was treated in a way that seems impossibly gross now. Could it happen again?
Horror at what was normal in the 2000s makes us grasp for the comfort of ‘it was a different time back then’ - but we should still question how young women are being treated
Britney Spears says she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake
Singer’s memoir, The Woman in Me, is the first in-depth account of her life and career
Britney Spears’ husband Sam Asghari files for divorce - reports
Wedding was seen as milestone in Spears’ reclaimed life after dissolution court conservatorship
Britney Spears to release tell-all memoir in October, publisher says
The Woman in Me will be a ‘brave’ account of the pop star’s life as book deal said to be ‘one of the biggest of all time’
Britney Spears announces pregnancy: ‘Baby one more time’
Months after her release from an “abusive” conservatorship, Spears is free to have a child
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