David Walliams’ book publisher says derided character is WHITE

Activist and food writer Jack Monroe has launched a withering attack on David Walliams, labelling the comedian’s popular collection of children’s stories racist and ‘fatshaming nonsense.’ But HarperCollins Children’s Books responded to the thread and said that Jack Monroe’s tweets are factually inaccurate because the character she claimed had racial undertones is actually white.  In … Read more

Publisher reveals character ‘portrayed in a racist way’ is white

Activist and food writer Jack Monroe has launched a withering attack on David Walliams, labelling the comedian’s popular collection of children’s stories racist and ‘fatshaming nonsense.’ But HarperCollins Children’s Books responded to the thread and said that Jack Monroe’s tweets are factually inaccurate because the character she claimed had racial undertones is actually white.  In … Read more

Food writer Jack Monroe slams David Walliams for ‘racist’ books

Activist and food writer Jack Monroe has launched a withering attack on David Walliams, labelling the comedian’s popular collection of children’s stories racist and ‘fatshaming nonsense.’ In a blizzard of posts on Twitter she dissected several of Mr Walliams’ best-selling children’s tales, picking out contentious characters and plot developments. The food writer accused the Little Britain star … Read more

Team GB sprinter Bianca Williams says Cressida Dick must quit

Team GB sprinter Bianca Williams says she is considering going ‘down the legal route’ after officers ‘racially profiled’ the athlete and her husband in a heavy-handed stop-and-search. Williams, 26, and Portuguese sprinter husband Ricardo dos Santos, 25, were hauled from their Mercedes and handcuffed in front of their three-month-old son in Lanhill Road, Maida Vale, on … Read more

Food writer Jack Monroe accuses David Walliams of ‘horrific racism’ and ‘sneering fatshaming’

Activist and food writer Jack Monroe has launched a withering attack on David Walliams, labelling the comedian’s popular collection of children’s stories racist and ‘fatshaming nonsense.’ In a blizzard of posts on Twitter she dissected several of Mr Walliams’ best-selling children’s tales, picking out contentious characters and plot developments. The food writer accused the Little Britain star … Read more

Team GB sprinter Bianca Williams says Met Police chief Cressida Dick must quit

Team GB sprinter Bianca Williams has called on Met Police chief Cressida Dick to quit after officers ‘racially profiled’ the athlete and her husband in a heavy-handed weapons stop-and-search.  The black athlete said she was dismayed by the Scotland Yard commissioner’s silence since footage emerged of police hauling the couple from their Mercedes and handcuffing … Read more

This Morning viewers hail brave boy with autoimmune condition

An eight-year-old boy with a rare immune condition has ‘defied all odds’ and finished his treatment after a life-saving stem cell transplant.  Finley Hill, from Worcestershire, who suffers from Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), was released from hospital shortly before lockdown, after a man in Brazil donated lifesaving bone marrow.  Appearing on This Morning today, his mother Jo told how after going … Read more

Gigi Hadid claps back at claims she is ‘disguising’ her baby bump says she wasn’t hiding anything

Gigi Hadid has not yet flaunted her baby bump since announcing she was pregnant in April.  And after British Vogue tweeted that she was choosing to ‘disguise’ her growing bump, the 25-year-old hit back.  She took to Twitter on Sunday to reaffirm her earlier statements that angles were merely working in her favor.  Clapping back: … Read more

Shia LaBeouf ‘got his whole chest tattooed’ to better play ‘Cholo’ gangster in The Tax Collector

Daytime Emmy winner Shia LaBeouf ‘got his whole chest tattooed’ to more authentically portray a ‘Cholo’ gangster for his movie The Tax Collector, which hits VOD on August 7. The 34-year-old Echo Park native permanently branded his abdomen with his character Creeper’s name over two Mickey Mouse gloves representing his own Disney Channel past. A … Read more

Hamilton actor Javier Munoz reminds fans that there are two members from the original cast missing

Hamilton actor Javier Munoz reminds fans that there are two members from the original cast missing in the filmed stage production on Disney Plus By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 01:17 BST, 6 July 2020 | Updated: 02:29 BST, 6 July 2020 The filmed stage production of the Broadway sensation Hamilton debuted on the Disney … Read more

David Ayer responds to backlash over ‘brownface’ casting of Shia LaBeouf in The Tax Collector

Director David Ayer responded to backlash over the alleged ‘brownface’ casting of Daytime Emmy winner Shia LaBeouf as a ‘Cholo’ gangster in his upcoming movie, The Tax Collector. ‘Shia is playing a whiteboy who grew up in the hood,’ the 52-year-old filmmaker – who boasts 479K Twitter/Instagram followers – explained. ‘This is a [half-Jewish, half-Cajun] … Read more

Team GB sprinter accuses Met Police of racial profiling after stop and search

A team GB sprinter has accused the Metropolitan Police of ‘racial profiling’ after she and her partner were stopped and searched. Commonwealth gold medallist Bianca Williams, 26, described the confrontation in Maida Vale, west London on Saturday as ‘awful to watch’. A video of Ms Williams and her Portuguese sprinter partner Ricardo dos Santos, 25, … Read more