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Angus is back in Amanda’s good books this season, having her most personal season yet. “With Gigi packing for university and a long overdue trip to Poland to finally lay her father to rest, Juliet is learning how to let go… However, whether she’s setting the rules at her own styling event or delivering the most lethal set at the Drag Roast, her tongue remains the sharpest in London,” said Hayu. “But standing shoulder to shoulder with Amanda means inheriting her fallouts, and this season, the crossfire comes from every direction.

For Cronin, business is booming, and she is firmly in CEO mode. “But when her rekindled friendship with Juliet Angus leaves Karen feeling pushed out, Amanda finds herself juggling tensions on every front, and a treatment at her own clinic spirals into a saga that threatens the one thing she’s built her name on.”

Loderick-Peace is opening the season at a charity event, raising funds for Jamaica and hosting the girls’ trip of a lifetime in Antigua. “But as Amanda and Juliet Angus grow close again, Karen starts to wonder exactly where she stands — and asking the question out loud sets off one of the season’s biggest clashes. Sidelined but never silenced, Karen leans on Jeremy and the girls as old wounds from her past resurface… This season, Karen is done giving more than she gets back.”

After a “bruising start that leaves her on the outside looking in,” Mayhew is determined to win the group over one woman at a time. Against all odds, it starts to work. “With her West End dreams coming alive and Tiggy cheering from the wings, Juliet is finally finding the thing that fulfils her beyond motherhood,” teased the streamer. “But just as she steps into the spotlight, fate has other plans, and the woman accused of performing all season is about to show everyone exactly who she really is.”

Parker, “armed with the most expensive lips in London and opinions to match,” is done biting her tongue in season two. “When the lips in question become the season’s biggest source of tension, her friendship with Amanda is pushed to the brink, and Panthea decides that if anyone’s going to force this group to be honest, it’s her.”

Meanwhile, Welschinger is holding down the fort, with Remy abroad and her dad’s well-being on her mind. “When the women demand she gets off the fence, Nessie discovers her voice, and it turns out she’s funnier and fiercer than anyone expected. Between hosting Chinese New Year, stealing the show at the Drag Roast and facing down a new arrival who claims to know who she really is, Nessie is proving that the nicest woman in the room is nobody’s pushover.”

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Last year, she chose the dress as a way to pay tribute to some of the babies killed during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

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She bought a vintage gown and in red thread embroidered it with the names of 300 victims.

“I’ve used it as a blank canvas, really,” she told Al Jazeera.

She immersed the hem in a harsh cleaning product to fray the ends.

“I wanted it torn and ragged to represent the conditions in which these people live under.

“When it’s actually hanging, the threads drop the viewer to the bottom where you can sense the profound loss, really, because they sort of pool at the bottom.

“It sort of resembles a bit like a pool of blood.”

Williams, a retired art lecturer, said she was “compelled” to make the artwork “for people to actually grasp the enormity of what is actually happening”.

It is titled Know Their Names after an interactive series of databases compiled by Al Jazeera naming some of the tens of thousands of victims of Israeli attacks. In January 2024, a long list included the names and ages of some of the children who were known at the time to have been killed in Gaza. Overall, Israel’s attacks since the start of its latest war on Gaza in October 2023 have killed more than 20,000 children.

The gown created by Williams features the names of babies under the age of one such as Sara, Elias, Mai and Mona.

‘Profound loss’

Williams, who has three children and two grandchildren, has felt at a loss when watching mothers in Gaza mourn their daughters and sons. World leaders have failed Gaza, she said.

Holding back tears, she said, “All these politicians are fathers, mothers, aunties, uncles. They have children within their immediate family, and I can’t for the life of me understand how this is allowed to carry on.

“I find it’s the average person that’s showing sort of empathy if you like, and I don’t find that the politicians are calling it out at all.”

The gown won a people’s award in January at Galeri Caernarfon, an arts space in Caernarfon, Wales. Williams donated the prize money to Medical Aid for Palestinians. It has been exhibited elsewhere in Wales and has been shortlisted to be displayed at the National Eisteddfod, an annual cultural festival.

The suffering of Gaza’s Christian minority moved Williams, especially after she read about parents rushing to baptise their babies, driven by fear of their deaths.

“I don’t think anything has touched me as much as Gaza, to be honest, and I feel I have to do something,” she said.

Later this year, the empty gown adorned with the names of the war’s smallest victims is to be displayed in Paris and appear on a billboard in New York.

“It’s the actual emptiness and the profound loss that you feel because of it,” she said. “I think it’s sort of opened up a wider debate really about what is actually happening.” %!s()

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Neill was also remembered on the official “Peaky Blinders” Instagram account. “We are devastated to hear that Sam Neill has died,” the post reads. “Sam’s portrayal of Chester Campbell is one for the ages. A villain who is despicable, petty, manipulative, but also charismatic, vulnerable, funny and supremely entertaining to watch. Sam was one of the key forces that got ‘Peaky Blinders’ off to a running start, for which we will be forever grateful. Our love and thoughts are with his family.”

Toni Collette, who starred alongside Neill in 2002’s “Dirty Deeds,” shared a sweet selfie of them on Instagram with the caption: “I love you, dear Sam. You hero. You legend. You sweetheart. Our great friend. You are already missed so very much. Continue in peace wherever you are.”

Neill’s fellow New Zealand actor Karl Urban paid tribute to the actor in the comments section of the family’s Instagram announcement as “an inspiration for many who followed in his trailblazing footsteps. A beautiful man, a national treasure who gave so much to New Zealand and the to world. God speed Sam.”

“The Traitors” host Alan Cumming added: “Ahhh Sam, what a glorious beautiful man. You are missed. Sorry to the family for your immense loss.” Pop star Kylie Minogue wrote: “Vale Sam 💔.” Vale is a ternm for farewell or goodbye in Australia.

“Rest in peace to our Jurassic legend, Sam Neill,” Universal Pictures posted on X.

“Muriel’s Wedding” star Rachel Griffiths, who directed Neill in 2019’s “Ride Like a Girl,” wrote: “Such a shock – loved by so many – I’ll be cracking two paddocks tonight,” a reference to Two Paddocks, Neill’s Central Otago winery.

“Knew @samneilltheprop for 3 decades and finally worked with him on PALM BEACH in 2018. An officer and a Gentleman in the truest sense. Guided and helped me through a very difficult time in my Life,” actor Richard E. Grant posted on Instagram.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon also paid tribute on social media. “Sir Sam Neill was one of the greats. He started out when there was barely a film industry in this country to speak of. For more than fifty years he took New Zealand stories to the world and his talents helped make our film industry into what it is today – one of our greatest cultural exports,” Luxon wrote. He added, “Sam made us proud to be Kiwis and we couldn’t have been prouder of him.”

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese offered his own remembrance. “Wry and dry, thoughtful and laconic, Sam fought illness with the same dignity, humor and conviction that gave strength to his every performance,” Albanese wrote. %!s()

Standing on two huge hooves just off from the carpet (this one an aquatic-themed blue with added patches of real sand) loomed a giant Trojan Horse well over two storeys high and easily the most impressive promotional prop many attendees had laid eye on.

In details now provided to Variety by Universal, the mighty steed in question — visible from several streets away— was in fact some 36 feet tall and weighed in excess of 8,800 pounds.

Commissioned by Universal Pictures International UK & Eire, the construction is actually an exact replica of the wooden horse used in Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” made using the production’s blueprints. It took a team of 34 working a total of 288 hours to put it together using polystyrene, steel, resin tin foil and fibreglass.

Bringing the beast — an sumptuous offering to the gods of film distribution — to Leicester Square proved to be a minor Odyssey in itself. Three trucks transported it in four parts and a base which then took six people some nine hours to assemble. It was around the same amount of time to disassemble and put the pieces back in the trucks. In all, designing, building and assembling the horse involved a team of 45, not much less than the number of men on Odysseus’ ship (and roughly the same amount on board after the Cyclops and Scylla monsters had plucked off a few).

Ahead of “The Odyssey” release on July 17, the 36-foot horse will next be put back together in London’s Trafalgar Square for just one day on July 14 before getting a four-day stint outside the Westfield London shopping mall from July 16.

And while this giant Trojan Horse will be staying in the U.K., that doesn’t mean the U.S. has gone short of enormous mythical stallions.

In fact, there are two different horses in the country. At Universal Studios’ CityWalk, the original from the film — last seen on screen in flames as Troy was brutally sacked by Damon’s army of rampaging Greeks — is on display outside the AMC Universal Cinema. The other has already been roaming around, popping up in Venice, Texas and then Miami last month. This Tuesday, New Yorkers will get to marvel at its towering magnificence when it makes its red carpet debut at the U.S. premiere of “The Odyssey” at AMC Lincoln Square 13.

But for all of these Trojan Horses’ impressive stats, not to mention the amount of hours needed to build them and and drag them around, it still remains to be seen whether they generate as much awe-struck excitement as a distinctly smaller and more plastic-y promotional steed: “The Odyssey” popcorn bucket. %!s()