Jessie Thompson

Sporty Spice is telling it like it is in her new memoir, which details the true gruelling reality of being in the world’s biggest girlband. She looks back at it all, and what she’s learned, with Jessie Thompson

With the hit Broadway show about Michael Jackson set to arrive on the West End, Jessie Thompson asks whether a production that completely avoids the more troubling questions of his legacy is appropriate – or any good

The Spider-Man star tells Jessie Thompson about his new detective show, being the son of immigrants, and why his only career plan has been to ‘stay employed’

Over the years, Richard Curtis’s schmaltzy holiday romcom has become our go-to seasonal whipping boy. Get a grip, writes Jessie Thompson – no one ever said ‘Love Actually’ should be a manual for a life

Threapleton is a real revelation in this feature-length drama, while Winslet’s wrenching performance is similarly unshowy

It’s the biggest book release of the year, so why is ‘Spare’ making royal watcher Jessie Thompson want to run and hide?

Salman Rushdie, Stephen Frears and Lindsay Duncan are among those rallying around the author of ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’, who has lost use of his arms and legs. Jessie Thompson and Charlotte Cripps report

Sarah Polley’s superlative film, based on Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel, features an all-star cast on staggering form

It’s very hard to get excited about Taylor Swift and her rumoured American footballer love interest, while Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner are a snooze, and the less said about Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, the better. Celebrity couples never used to be this dull, writes Jessie Thompson

There’s nostalgia galore, a cast of football greats and a gripping portrait of the birth of a celebrity brand. Posh and Becks are happy to talk about anything from fights with Fergie, crude chants, THAT red card, sarongs and matching purple wedding outfits, but director Fisher Stevens stays friendly on trickier topics

The story that gripped a nation is brought to the screen by Disney Plus, and we finally hear Rooney’s account from the straight-talking, unpretentious woman herself

Published in the white heat of the #MeToo moment, Kristen Roupenian’s viral ‘New Yorker’ short story about a bad date and dodgy sexual dynamics captured the zeitgeist, writes Jessie Thompson. This week, a film adaptation arrives in cinemas – what will audiences make of this tale of terrible sex, six years on?

The former Time Lord tells Jessie Thompson why she shouldn’t have been the 13th Doctor, how she, Tamara Lawrance and Bella Ramsey had to shush each other on ‘Time’, and why playing a shut-off character who contains all her emotions in new Australian drama ‘One Night’ took some doing

The National Theatre’s search for its seventh artistic director is complete, and former Kiln boss Indhu Rubasingham will become the first woman to lead the institution in its 60-year history. Jessie Thompson writes that it’s her proven ability to face down vehement opposition that makes her the perfect candidate

From the sensational confessions in ‘Spare’ to the box-office thrills of Barbenheimer, Netflix documentaries offering A-list therapy and controversies at the BBC and GB News, 2023 hasn’t been a quiet year for culture, writes Jessie Thompson

A-listers are treading the boards in force and your favourite films are being transformed for the stage. Jessie Thompson brings you our ultimate guide to what to see at the theatre in 2024

This week Andrew Scott revealed he stopped performing Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy on stage when he spotted an audience member doing his emails. But is the relentless debate on ‘audience etiquette’ in danger of making theatre seem like a place with too many rules, writes Jessie Thompson

Spend your 2024 getting lost in very good novels – there are plenty to choose from. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to the year’s unmissable fiction

From candid memoirs to provocative essay collections, 2024’s forthcoming non-fiction is enticing. Jessie Thompson shares our guide to what you need on your reading pile

In the strange, beguiling novels of mid-century writer Barbara Comyns, girls levitate and ducks swim through drawing rooms, while her own colourful life included a friendship with spy Kim Philby, and her talents were championed by Graham Greene. Might a new biography finally secure her place in the literary canon, asks Jessie Thompson