Sally Rooney, Naomi Campbell and Nobody Wants This

Are we the only ones not head over heels for Nobody Wants This? Critics are unanimously (and unusually) full of five-star praise for the Netflix Rom-com which has left us a little puzzled — we discuss! In other news, Naomi Campbell has fallen foul of the Charity Commission for allegedly spending money from her charity on lavish hotel rooms and cigarettes, so we put this in the context of her many controversies and ask whether the ‘diva’ label has insulated her from serious scrutiny. Finally, of course we’re debriefing on Sally Rooney, having read her latest bestseller Intermezzo over the weekend. We get into her couple dynamics, how she writes men vs women, marketing hype and why some readers have called out a thematic  ‘glorification of thinness’.

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Reccs/ culture discussed 

• Nine Lives, Bermondsey Street London
• The Barbary, Notting Hill  
• Nobody Wants This, Netflix 
• The Impeccable Smoothness of Nobody Wants This, Vulture
• Netflix’s Nobody Wants This and the Persistent Jewish Stereotype, Glamour
• Nobody Wants This Mean-Spirited Depiction of Jewish Women in Nobody Wants This, Time
• Drama GCSE, Mathilde Barker, TikTok
• Baby Reindeer was wrongly billed by Netflix as a ‘true story’, judge finds, Guardian
• Tyra Banks recalls ‘evil and awful’ conflict with Naomi Campbell in early career, Independent
• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
• 'The Interview': Sally Rooney, The Daily Podcast 
• Glimpses of Utopia: Sally Rooney's Couples by Joanna Biggs, London Review of Books 
• Sally Rooney in her own words: ‘I’m fighting a cultural battle’, The Times 
• Why Are All the Characters in Sally Rooney’s Novels So Thin?, Vogue
• Are you cool enough to have the next Sally Rooney book? Esquire