OK, Ruth Ware’s The Woman In Cabin 10 is set to be made into a film starring Keira Knightley. Very much into this information! 

 

I enjoy a Ruth Ware thriller. Way back in 2015, Reese Witherspoon was attached to making In a Dark Dark Wood (my favourite of Ruth’s books) but many titles are optioned by production companies and don’t ever get past development stage. So many elements need to come together at exactly the right time with the right people attached. 

 

There’s so much judgment around weight loss drugs and it’s a very complicated thing because you can’t blame women in the industry for capitulating to the pressure to be thin. They are shamed for NOT being a size two, and then if they do become a size two, they are shamed for HOW they became a size two. At the same time, there should be space for talking about how we will never get out of this cycle if women are perpetuating it. 

 

Kelly Clarkson is making headlines for confirming that she is using medication for weight loss (she said it’s not Ozempic). Talk show hosts give up a piece of themselves to the audience because they are so visible, day in and day out. There’s no hiding and there’s no skirting the big topics, particularly for someone like Kelly who is so genuine. And like many celebrity-centered stories it’s not about Kelly’s size; it is about how people feel about and treat women at different sizes.

 

Sports Illustrated has pretty much been gutted but the swimsuit edition lives on. So far I’ve seen four covers: Gayle King, Kate Upton, Chrissy Teigen and Hunter McGrady. I think it used to be on par with PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive but it doesn’t have the same “big reveal” energy it used to. 

 

Snoop Dogg is joining The Voice as a coach and I think it’s a pretty brilliant choice. Decades in the industry as an artist and producer and a one-man marketing machine, it will be interesting to see how he works with artists. If it’s anything like his Olympic commenting, he will be an instant fan favourite.

 

I don’t know if Sarah will review Unfrosted but her hometown critic Richard Roeper called it one of the worst films of the decade. Now I really want her review.