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Alex Taylor
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Journalist at BBC News. Present band member/scribe of the Culture desk. Very bad at walking. Contact me: alex.taylor01@bbc.co.uk
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And an added extra from the junket - Danny Boyle is also a pained Man Utd supporter 😆😅 #28YearsLater
June 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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28 Years Later star Jodie Comer sees similarities between the plot of her new film and social media today #28YearsLater #JodieComer #DannyBoyle #SocialMedia #Virus #RageVirus #28DaysLater #28WeeksLater #Film #Movie #BBCNews
June 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Stop it, Spotify
Spotify's auto-generated personalised playlist for me, titled 'teen rock not a phase saturday night'
January 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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6. As I Will Always Love You turned 50, I tried not to break hearts in exploring the song's history - from Dolly Parton's tender original to Whitney Houston's powerhouse classic. No apologies for this opening 😆
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Are you having a productive day? Perhaps consider Dolly Parton and think again. One afternoon in 1973, a flash of inspiration saw her sit down and write two classics back to back. First came Jolene - a career-defining smash, synonymous with Parton alone. The next? I Will Always Love You. Not a bad nine-to-five.
December 31, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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4. Looked at the power of TikTok and streaming in changing how films like Saltburn find success. Murder on the dancefloor? Perhaps. But mostly amazed I'm still alive after getting this paragraph published on the BBC 😂😅
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The not-so-family-friendly thriller arrived on Amazon Prime days before Christmas, just in time to heat up living rooms: its salacious scenes leaving viewers recoiling red-faced and unsuspecting in-laws squirming - neither set to look at bathtubs, nor perhaps cranberry sauce, in quite the same way.
December 31, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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I have been back home over Christmas visiting my parents for the past few days... now back at my flat!

Nice being home, tempers only temporarily flared at finding the correct episode for the Would I Lie To You Christmas special

"WELL YOU DO IT THEN"
"Okay, I will"

Fab Wallace and Gromit episode!
Alex, in front of the Christmas tree back at his family home, wearing a "Jingle balls" Christmas jumper Alex, smiling in front of the Christmas tree at his flat, there is a plant and polar bear in a father Christmas hat beside it, as well as a neon Top of the Pops sign (switched off)
December 27, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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John Prescott's prescience at coverage of his death feels incredibly on brand 😅... the punch is indeed currently splashed across most news sites - BBC included

(quotes from this 2019 Guardian interview www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...)
When you get to being 80, you’re not scared of anything. I’ve got four or five years to think about death. When I do die, after 50 years in politics, all they will show on the news is 60 seconds of me thumping a fellow in Wales.
November 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM