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Hockney was "normalising same-sex relationships... that we take for granted", Bilton suggests, adding the artist showed that gay people "are just normal people... doing normal stuff, looking at our partners and thinking: 'oh, you're beautiful'".

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

He didn’t consider profiting off his tickets until he saw other people doing it: “I said, ‘Hey, I have a wedding to plan.’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Many spreading this story are doing so with little or no evidence of wrongdoing and are instead relying on information that is false or can be explained by more benign reasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Rupert Mannion is a creature of corrosive spite, lording his recent divorce over his ex-wife throughout Season1 and popping around to cut her back down to size whenever she seems to be doing well.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

“You like to scare me out of my skin. What are you doing here so early?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck