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Baftas 2019: Roma and The Favourite win big – as it happened

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma triumphed, Olivia Colman was utterly regal and Joanna Lumley dressed up as an astronaut at this year’s British Academy film awards

Killer Queens: Olivia Colman and Rami Malek crown regal Baftas

Exemplary – if slightly unexciting – choices defined this year’s ceremony, but I can’t help but grieve for Richard E Grant

Dress to express replaces statement frocks at the Baftas

This year’s red carpet was remarkable for not being remarkable, with black, white – and black and white – the dominant trends

A peek at the diary of Liam Neeson’s agent: ‘He’s Started a Really Important Conversation’

What conversation is that, the celebrity booker asked. ‘Like, a man walks into a bar and says: “Which one of you guys wants to get coshed to death for being black?”’

Leave Timothée Chalamet alone! Why what happens on a plane should stay on a plane

A series of breathless tweets about an in-flight encounter with the actor has gone viral – yet another example of creepy onboard behaviour

It’s alive! Can Universal’s star-less monster movies rise from the crypt?

The Hollywood studio’s stable of horror classics should be ripe for reinvention. The key to its Dark Universe surely lies in the hands of emerging talent

Worst job in showbiz: why will no one touch the world’s glitziest gigs?

The Oscars have no host, Rihanna turned down the Super Bowl, and the White House dinner will be MC’d by a historian. What’s behind the sudden demise of entertainment’s biggest jobs?

Carol Channing, star of Hello, Dolly! on Broadway, dies aged 97

Celebrated for her performances in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! Channing also earned an Oscar nomination for Thoroughly Modern Millie

Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish: how we made The Adam and Joe Show

‘We walked into a shop with hammers and started smashing it up. We didn’t realise it would scare the owner. Then the police arrived …’

Life’s a beach party for Lindsay Lohan, reality TV’s queen of the cabanas

The Mean Girls star’s latest venture, in which she reinvents herself as a hardnosed entrepreneur on MTV, may prove her biggest test yet

Kevin Hart may return as Oscars host to ‘take a stand against the trolls’

In remarkable interview with Ellen DeGeneres, comic says he is rethinking decision to step down after homophobic tweets came to light

Queer actor Ezra Miller is the hero we need right now. Even Playboy gets it

The choice of a non-binary cover star shows the world is really changing, says Guardian commissioning editor Elle Hunt

Greek newspapers and walking sideways: the best ways to avoid paparazzi

Taylor Swift is reportedly carried around in a giant suitcase to avoid photographers. Here are other celebrities who have tried to dodged a photo op

Paris Hilton scents opportunity in disaster

The hotel heiress has been off radar, so it’s good to see her back offering her unique take on humanitarianism to Mexican earthquake victims

Pop’s dark star: the return of Andy Warhol

He predicted Trump, selfies and social media – but a blockbuster retrospective reveals that it’s the overlooked later work which can truly move us today

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