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Over the past week Netflix viewers have rushed to watch a new British drama that’s been labelled ‘gripping’ and ‘superb’.

The four-part series Adolescence stars Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller, a father who is forced to confront the shocking actions of his 13-year-old son Jamie (Owen Cooper) after he’s arrested for murdering a female classmate.

Shot in one take, the show also stars Ashley Walters as DI Luke Bascombe, Christine Tremarco as Manda Miller and Erin Doherty as Briony Ariston.

In the third episode, Erin appears as the clinical psychologist, who has been tasked with making an assessment on the teenager before the case goes to trial.

Her performance in what unfolds as a chilling exchange with the young offender has also been called ‘utterly mesmerising’ by viewers.

Throughout her career Erin, 32, has also appeared in other hit shows. Here’s what we know about the actress, including her private life away from the cameras too.

Who is Erin Doherty dating?

Erin is known to have dated fellow actress Sophie Melville, who is Welsh. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Sophie’s become best known for appearing as Iphigenia in the one-woman play Splott.

On screen she has also appeared in a 2020 episode of Call the Midwife, played Mandy Thomas in the first season of the BBC drama The Pact and starred alongside Michael Sheen and Callum Scott Howells in The Way last year.

The pair met in 2017 when starring together in Alan Ayckbourn’s play The Divide, however they now no longer follow each other on social media.

This week Erin also spoke about her sexuality during an appearance on the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day.

After recalling a ‘mind-blowing’ relationship with a woman at the age of 25 that made her realise she was gay Erin admitted: ‘It took me a really, really long time to finally get to the point where I was like, “Oh, I’m gay”.’

‘I never really was ready to carve out that path for myself, even though looking back, I always knew that my relationships with men weren’t satisfying in that wholehearted way that I wanted them to be.

‘I wouldn’t change it because it’s really made me adore that part and really cherish it and I just hope that I get to offer that to other women or men, whoever you are just lean into your truth because there was something so monumental about that moment of going, “Whoa, this is me” and just embracing it and not applying anything else to it. I just think we all deserve that.’

Erin had previously called her relationship her ‘greatest achievement’.

Speaking to Porter, she also explained how they avoided competing in their careers. ‘Sophie and I don’t go up for the same roles, but we understand the limits of each other’s work. When a self-tape audition comes in, both of us are like, “Let’s drop everything and get it done”.’

What else has Erin Doherty starred in?

Hailing from Crawley in West Sussex, the actress has Irish heritage and began acting as a child.

A talented footballer, she eventually had to make the choice between pursuing a sporting career or one in the arts, choosing the latter. She then studied at the Guildford School of Acting before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Her first on-screen appearance was in a 2016 episode of Call the Midwife, followed by the 2018 BBC miniseries Les Misérables.

The following year she starred as Princess Anne in the third season of The Crown, also reprising the role for the next season too.

The actress has also starred in the BBC/ Amazon Prime drama Chloe, which was released in 2022. Aside from Adolescence, this month she’s also starred alongside Stephen in the Disney Plus series A Thousand Blows.

Last year Erin was also one of the celebrities selected to represent England against the World XI in the charity event Soccer Aid for UNICEF.

Adolescence is streaming on Netflix.

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Netflix’s new Stephen Graham drama Adolescence has been hailed a masterpiece, with reviews tumbling in just days after it aired on the streaming site.

Each of the four episodes of the crime drama about a boy accused of killing a teenage girl – written and created by Stephen and Jack Thorne – was filmed in a single shot in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

Dubbed ‘some of the best TV ever’ and ‘pure cinema’ by viewers on X, many fans of the show are looking for their next tense series fix after watching it.

From its award-winning limited series like Baby Reindeer to its forgotten triumphs like Mindhunter, Netflix has an impressive array of shows that can provide just this.

Maid

While Adolescence shines a light on the terrifying impact misogynistic ideologies by the likes of Andrew Tate can have on teenage boys, Maid spotlights the issue of domestic abuse.

The powerful story starring Margaret Qualley and Andie MacDowell, follows a young mother (Margaret) who is fleeing an abusive relationship with her young child, Maddy.

The 10-part series, released in 2021, is a powerful drama based on Stephanie Land’s best-selling 2019 memoir of the same name.

Maid is available to watch on Netflix now.

Unbelievable

Emmy and Golden Globe nominated eight-part miniseries Unbelievable is a dramatisation of the pain suffered by a young woman who is accused of lying about being raped.

The story, which is based on the real 2008 to 2011 Washington and Colorado rape cases, follows two detectives – played by Toni Collette and Merritt Wever – as they investigate a string of similar attacks to the one described by the young woman, played by Kaitlyn Dever.

Unbelievable is available to stream on Netflix.

Baby Reindeer

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Baby Reindeer is one of the most discussed TV shows of the last decade.

Real life comedian Richard Gadd tells the story of his stalker Martha in the creepy but gripping series.

Originally, Baby Reindeer was an Edinburgh Fringe show but reached stratospheric – and Emmy-winning – heights when it was commissioned by the streamer, becoming an international hit.

However, things took a sinister turn when the ‘real Martha’ behind the show came forward and gave a bizarre interview with Piers Morgan before suing Gadd for defamation.

Baby Reindeer is available to watch on Netflix now.

The Perfect Couple

The Perfect Couple is a perfect murder mystery cocktail to gulp down if you’re a fan of The White Lotus.

Starring Nicole Kidman as the matriarch of a minted and famed family, this series is all about pristine beachside glamour being muddied by cruel – and sometimes murderous – rich people.

The star-studded cast also includes The Bold Type’s Meghann Fahy, Bad Sisters star Eve Hewson, Liev Schreiber, and Dakota Fanning.

While it’s not a limited series with season two having officially given the go ahead, the six episodes of season one – based on Elin Hilderbrand’s novel – is just as satisfying as Netflix’s self-contained numbers.

Beef

The Emmy award-winning Beef is one of Netflix’s most successful series drops in recent years.

It follows two strangers who get into a road rage incident which sends their lives into a spiral of entertaining chaos.

The dark comedy/thriller – starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun – has been applauded for perfectly encapsulating the existential crisis of millennial rage, and has a fat 98% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Beef is available to watch on Netflix now.

Bodyguard

Who can forget about Richard Madden in the tense drama series, Bodyguard, which follows the fictional David Budd – a British Army Veteran suffering from PTSD as he works for the Met Police.

On its 2018 release, Bodyguard became the BBC’s biggest hit in a decade amassing an impressive 11million viewers.

While it was applauded for its value as TV entertainment, Bodyguard was also praised by a veteran’s mental health charity for its depiction of the effects of PTSD.

Now Bodyguard is available to stream on Netflix.

Mindhunter

Nineteen episodes of Mindhunter are not enough. The fascinating psychological thriller starring Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany was unceremoniously cancelled by Netflix following its first two triumphant seasons.

While the streamer explained that its audience wasn’t big enough to justify its expensive production costs, Mindhunter fans were hooked and are still – eight years on – hoping for a change of heart.

The series – co-produced by David Fincher – is based on the true-crime book, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, and explores the beginnings of criminal profiling in the 1970s, as investigators get uneasily close to the USA’s most prolific serial killers.

Toxic Town

This new Netflix addition starring Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood and Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is based on the disturbing true story of the 1980s Corby poisonings.

The four-part programme – hot off the heels of Mr Bates vs The Post Office – follows a group of four mothers who fought for justice for over a decade after their children developed birth defects from the environmental scandal.

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne also penned Toxic Town, so it’s sure to be a hit with those who have already watched the tense drama.

Toxic Town is streaming on Netflix now.

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I couldn’t help but roll my eyes when The White Lotus’s Jason Isaac claimed ‘no one would dream’ of discussing a woman’s private parts. 

Where has he been?

Every season, without fail, Mike White’s hit HBO series The White Lotus sparks fervent discourse for its shocking, scandalous and outrageously explicit themes. 

This season alone there’s an entire incest subplot, commentary on Trump’s America and plenty of love for Aimee Lou Wood’s untampered-with teeth. 

One moment, however, that left fans’ jaws hanging wide-open was when Jason’s character Tim Ratliff – dysfunctional dad and dubious businessman – went full-frontal nude in front of his mortified children.

Following in the footsteps of Theo James’ own newsworthy flash in season two, the moment sparked plenty of questions including whether it was Jason’s real penis.

Especially since his predecessor, Theo, had previously shared that he had used a prosthetic.

Discussing the speculation on CBS Mornings, the Harry Potter star seemed disgruntled.

He said: ‘A lot of people are debating it. It’s all over the internet. And it’s interesting because the best actress this year is Mikey Madison at the Oscars. And I don’t see anybody discussing her vulva, which was on [the screen] all the time… It’s interesting that there’s a double standard for men. 

‘But when women are naked, Margaret Qualley as well, in The Substance, nobody would dream of talking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of those things. So, it’s odd that there’s a double standard.’

And while Jason is more than entitled to shut down questions around his private parts if he doesn’t feel comfortable – his understanding of women’s plight in Hollywood couldn’t be more wrong. 

And it’s an especially concerning take from a veteran star who has not only been knee-deep in this culture for many decades but has had plenty of female co-stars who have likely undergone the scrutiny he claims isn’t taking place. 

It feels almost futile to list all the ways in which women’s bodies have been under the spotlight over the decades – from the 90s and 00s when Pamela Anderson’s sex tapes, eating disorders and the male gaze was the order of the day.

To the modern day where, despite movements like #MeToo and attempts to make Hollywood more inclusive, social media and popular discourse remains an exhausting place for women and their bodies – whether nude or fully-clothed.

Brooke Shields has opened up about how being sexualised from as early as her childhood shaped her life in her documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.

In 2007, barely an adult, Vanessa Hudgens was the subject of depraved internet gossip and intrigue after her nudes were leaked. 

In 2013, Blue Is The Warmest Colour stars Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos were interrogated by the world about the lesbian sex scenes in the movie – and at one point admitted filming it was humiliating sometimes’ as they were made to feel like ‘prostitutes’.

In 2016, the President of the United States Donald Trump publicly said that chat about forcibly kissing and groping women was simply ‘locker room talk’.

People lay in wait of Millie Bobby Brown turning 18 in 2022 to flood her social media with sexually explicit images.

Last year, Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney’s boobs somehow became a political symbol representing the ‘death of wokeness’. 

The same year, Megan Fox told the Call Me Daddy podcast how being labelled a ‘sex symbol’ in her youth fuelled her body dysmorphia.

During Trump’s inauguration, Kid Rock felt empowered enough to tell a female reporter she ‘sounds sexy’ on live TV.

And we see how the audience’s perception of a woman’s body remains a central theme of plenty of TV shows and films. 

For example, the Bond girl (already defined by a man) has been, up until very recently, almost exclusively associated with her sexual appeal.

There’s plenty of commentary yet on a woman’s body and how it is treated on screen – for better or for worse.

HBO’s The Idol was harshly criticised for its depiction of lead character Jocelyn, with the heavy sexualisation of her body told through the perspective of the male characters. British GQ even labelled some scenes ‘trauma porn’.

In 2019, rights group Plan International and the Geena Davis Institute, found that female leads were four times more likely to be shown naked on screen than similar male roles.

‘The bigger picture is that gender discrimination and harmful stereotypes still dominate on screen… We need to stop the sexualisation and the objectification of women and girls on screen and everywhere else,’ one of the lead researchers said at the time.

And Jason was factually wrong. 

Both the best actor winner Mikey and supporting actress nominee Margaret were asked about nudity and the use of prosthetics in their movies – given the female body is at the crux of both of these films. 

As put by America Ferrara in Barbie, women can put no foot right. 

Simone Biles is ‘too masculine’, Millie Bobby Brown looks ‘too old’ now, Sydney Sweeney has ‘big boobs’, Sabrina Carpenter is ‘too sexual’…

The amount women’s bodies – both in a fictional and real-life context – have been dissected could fill pages and pages.

There’s no end to the discourse around the female body, what it should and shouldn’t look like. It is so interwoven into Hollywood culture, it’s difficult to imagine the landscape without it. 

And unless actors like Jason fully comprehend this, they become part of the problem.

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If you’re looking for something to watch this week, Amazon Prime Video has you covered with The 100.

The post apocalyptic sci fi drama first aired a decade ago and ran until September 2020, lovely following Kass Morgan’s novel series of the same name.

The series, which ran for seven seasons, follows survivors from a nuclear Armageddon which destroyed civilisation as we know it on earth.

Three generations on, 4,000 survivors are living on the Ark in space, but resources are dwindled, and draconian measures are being put in place to keep humanity alive.

To find a solution, the leaders send 100 young prisoners back to earth to see if it’s still hospitable.

However, those sent to the planet are fascinated and scared in equal measures as they find themselves on earth for the first time, with the human race relying on them.

The show boasts an impressive 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, with fans singing its praises over the years.

‘The 100 is PERFECTION. This show is very very binge-worthy. I’m a science fiction geek and by far the 100 has covered every base I can think of,’ enthused Rommel Ayling on Google.

‘I love the characters, their development is awesome and you really get in touch with them. There’s always an extreme, impossible goal something you are hoping for this group of ragtag space kids to accomplish despite the crazy circumstances and the astronomical odds.’

And another fan, Naga Sri Kilari, branded the programme ‘one of the best shows ever watched’.

‘I’m surprised that not many people know about this show. It’s very addictive, the pace of the show is maintained so well not too slow nor too fast, it’s on point,’ they added.

Viewers praised the characters and story throughout the run, with others similarly impressed.

‘This series is more than perfect, it’s wonderful,’ wrote viewer Mariane Cristiane. ‘I never imagined that I would get so attached to a series, but when I watch this series I realize that it wasn’t just a series, it’s an adventure about everything we can’t imagine.’

And a different fan, Kate West, said in her Google review: ‘This is my favourite show ever, it’s ridiculously underrated… amazing characters, plots, scenes, imagery/cgi, actors.

‘It’s diverse in ethnicity/age/lgbt, there’s so many twists, it’s never slow or boring, it’s such a wholesome cast with amazing women leading the show.’

The cast included the likes of Quantum Leap’s Eliza Taylor, Thomas McDonell, Home and Away alum Bob Morley and Queen of the Ring actress Maria Avgeropoulous.

Also among the main stars were Oppenheimer’s Devon Bostick, The Orville actor Christopher Larkin, and Final Destination Bloodline’s Richard Hamond.

Although fans would no doubt love another season, showrunner Jason Rothenberg previously insisted the series ended at the right time.

‘It’s a long time to be telling the story of one group of characters,’ he told Collider.

‘We also didn’t want to overstay our welcome and be a show that was making episodes into Season 10 and 12, and beyond, just to do it.’

Although Jason suspected original network The CW ‘would have’ commissioned season eight if he wanted one, he was happy to end it where he did.

‘I don’t know if the studio and network would have let us continue into Season 8. I assume they would have,’ he added.

‘They were gracious enough to let us do 16 episodes, to get to episode 100 this year, so I assume they probably would have wanted more, but we were ready.’

The 100 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

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A Tempting Fortune star found himself in a sticky situation when a leech got attached to his penis.

The Channel 4 show, which is fronted Paddy McGuinness, started in 2023 and tested 12 strangers as they hiked across South Africa in tough conditions for 18 days.

This year, the competition has been moved to the Malaysia island of Langkawi – but one contestant have have wished for a different location.

Host Paddy, 51, said: ‘There are certain parts of the rivers that the locals call “leech city” – one of the contestants found one on his willy!’

The former Take Me Out star joked that the unnamed contestant raised some eyebrows after the terrifying moment.

‘It’s not a good look, but it’s impressive – if you can fit a leech on your willy, you’re doing well,’ he told The Sun’s TV Mag. ‘But it makes my skin crawl. I don’t know how they coped with that.’

Meanwhile, emergency doctors were called into action on the set in a separate incident when a contestant suddenly fell ill during filming.

The move to Malaysia has raised the heat, with average temperatures are in the high 20s year round.

And it appeared the conditions became far too much for one contestant who needed medical attention during one of the show’s challenges.

According to reports, 58-year-old contestant Ted appeared to be struggling in the humid, sweltering conditions of the scenic Southeast Asian country.

Speaking to The Sun, a source said: ‘The location used for filming can often hit up to 40 degrees celsius making conditions extreme and contestants didn’t have long to adjust to the climate.

‘As they trekked through the forest Ted took ill and had to sit down, appearing disorientated at times,’ they added.

‘Tempting Fortune has a strict duty of care policy and a medical team intervened immediately and carried out a full evaluation on him.’

Thankfully, Ted turned out to be alright: ‘After checking his vitals and cooling him down, bosses cleared him to continue in the competition.’

Ted himself then spoke to the publication, explaining that the incident did take place but that he was soon well enough to continue on.

‘My temperature went completely sky high. I dehydrated. It was horrendous. It was really, really, tough – [but] you just needed more fluids. It was hard work.

He described the humidity as a ‘killer’ and revealed that medics had to check on him when he developed a frequent need to urinate, indicating that his body wasn’t absorbing fluids properly.

‘So all the fluids were just going through me and not keeping any goodness inside my body.’

Viewers will be able to see Ted overcome his struggles on Channel 4 at 9pm on Sunday, with Tempting Fortune back for a third season this weekend.

The series offers prize money of £300,000 at the start, but that total is whittled down if contestants decide to spend it on luxuries along the way across their 18-day journey.

Channel 4 asks: ‘Paddy McGuinness presents the epic competition with a twist. Twelve strangers trek across hostile jungles and wildernesses, but who’ll spend some of the shared £300k prize pot on individual luxuries?’

BinkyBunny120 said of the series: ‘I’m torn between the two schools of thought – enjoying the experience and taking home less money (still a decent amount), or playing hardcore and maximising the winnings.’

WhatIsLife01 agreed: ‘I’m actually shocked that some people can’t delay their gratification even a little bit. For the prize money, you could have a several month long amazing holiday in South Africa. It’s literally in their grasp to have a better holiday afterwards.’

LilyBelleSmell said: ‘I think they’re out of touch from the real world. Once they get back home to their boring lives most of them will sincerely regret forfeiting what would have been at least a months wage in potential prize money.’

Watch Tempting Fortune on Channel 4, Sunday at 9pm.

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The One Show star Ade Adepitan has shared the joyous news with fans that he is now a dad-of-two with a first look at his newborn.

The media personality, 51, took to social media on Sunday with a snap of him beaming as he held his baby who was wrapped up on his lap.

‘Big Sunday win ft Zayla,’ he wrote in the caption, revealing their name alongside a pink flower emoji.

This is his second child with his wife of seven years – 34-year-old singer-songwriter Linda (aka Elle Exxe) – after their three-year-old son Bolla was born in January 2021.

Fans and friends were quick to congratulate the Paralympian and his growing family on their new addition.

‘Ahhh congratulations to you all,’ presenter Kirsty Gallacher wrote.

‘Aww congratulations to you all this is a brilliant photo of you both,’ @lisa.24 echoed.

‘So cool. Congratulations dude. A happy and healthy family,’ @myomeolife said.

‘Congratulations to you all and beautiful picture of your new baby,’ sharonlittlewood.1 praised.

When the decorated athlete’s son was born in 2021, he shared similar excitement on social media.

‘I’m still buzzing!! Because at 6:36 am this morning I became a father for the first time. So much respect for my wife @ElleExxe she absolutely smashed it, and now we have a beautiful baby boy!’ he said at the time.

The sportsman turned TV star has had an inspirational career journey after contracting polio as a child which resulted in leg damage.

After scooping up a bronze medal at the 2004 Paralympics, he went onto co-host the London 2012 sporting event as well as various travel shows and becoming a children’s author.

When Bolla was born, he reflected on being a parent in a wheelchair on the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast.

‘One of my biggest fears was always could I be a good father in all the ways that an able bodied person would be a good father?

‘The first time I went out with the ergo sling on my own with Bolla, I was really nervous about it. I was thinking. what if I fall out of my wheelchair, what if Bolla starts screaming and people start looking at me, thinking I’m not fit to look after a baby?

‘I think the fear for a lot of disabled parents is that we’ll be judged by able bodied parents as not being capable of looking after our children,’ he said.

And praised his partner for her support.

He added: ‘Linda researches everything. She was constantly like if we’re gonna get a pram we’re gonna get a pram that works for Ade, that Ade’s going to be able to push as well.

‘If we’re going to get an ergo sling we’ve got something that works for you. I never think about myself in that way. I’m so used to accepting that this world is not built for me and just making do.’

The happy couple met in 2010 at a television award ceremony.

Recalling his first impression in The Guardian, Ade said: ‘As I pushed past, she smiled a huge smile at me. Linda was so warm and friendly and she had this really amazing aura and positive air about her.’

He also spoke about the initial hurdle with their 17 year age gap.

He said: ‘It definitely threw me at first. The music she played was completely different to things I normally listened to. I get there and everyone’s quite grungy, very far removed from me.’

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