Former professional rugby player Jodie Ounsley, now best known as Fury on Gladiators, talks sports fuel, air fryers, and her mum’s ‘top-tier’ cooking

Being an athlete, my meals are so simple. They are just based on what I need for fuel. So I’ve never been like, “Oh, let me get my cookbook out and see what sauces I can have on this.” It’s just been, “Right, that’s a carb, that’s a protein, that’s the veg and vitamins I need in that, whack it together and eat it before training.” When I played rugby, it was particularly strict. [Fury, aka Jodie Ounsley, was a rugby union player for Exeter Chiefs women.] But now I’m a Gladiator, it’s not as full-on: I’m still always eating well, but it will be nice to expand what I eat.

I do love all cheesecake. And do you know Tony’s chocolate? They keep bringing weird ones out all the time. I swear I try one of them and then they’ll bring out a new one with pretzels or something. So those are my go-tos.

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The actor was eight when he landed his first movie, and spent his teens working with the likes of Martin Scorsese and Harrison Ford. Now he’s making his theatre debut, in a role that mirrors his own experiences of big time rejection

Interviewing actors usually involves asking them to remember things: lines spoken, expressions pulled, performances given weeks, months or even years ago that are only now seeing the light of day. But instead of fondly reminiscing about his latest project, Asa Butterfield is desperately trying to envisage it. The Sex Education star is about to appear in Second Best, a play about the boy who came agonisingly close to being cast as Harry Potter in the film franchise. It’s his first week of rehearsals, and Butterfield isn’t merely figuring out how to play the part, he’s also trying to predict how scared he’ll be while doing it: in an extremely bold move, this 90-minute one-hander will be the actor’s theatrical debut.

It is an especially ballsy choice when you consider that theatre “has always terrified” Butterfield. “Standing on stage in front of hundreds of people without being able to say, ‘Cut! Can we try again?’ is sort of ‘eurgh!’” he says, sitting in the middle of a spartan rehearsal space in north London. He tries to visualise himself in the wings before the first performance. “I’m going to have stomach-churning anxiety, undoubtedly.” Is he someone who tends to ruminate on that sort of thing? “Yes,” he sighs instantly, with the knowing weariness of a chronic overthinker.

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Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped period drama mingles war and architecture, while the art-popster aims for sensual wellness with her new album

The Brutalist
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Architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) flees postwar Europe and sets up in Pennsylvania, where he attempts to piece his life back together. Guy Pearce plays the rich industrialist who recognises Toth’s talent; Felicity Jones is his estranged wife. Hotly tipped epic, directed by Brady Corbet (Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux).

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At points, this year’s show has been repetitive, ropey, even blood vessel burstingly annoying – but it pulled it out of the bag with those blazing final showdowns

If you’ve been following The Traitors, you will already be aware that it hasn’t exactly been a vintage series. What felt fresh and exciting last year has now become slightly rote; something not helped by an intake of contestants who seemed to have been chosen based on their innate annoyingness.

One problem is that they all kept saying ‘yourself’ instead of ‘you’, which is a harrowing thing to have to hear over and over again for a month. But the bigger problem is that everyone is wise to the game now. Almost every contestant rocked up to Andross Castle with a honking great sense of self-interested superiority. And maybe that would have been fine, if it hadn’t made them all atomically insufferable.

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Will Frankie’s ‘Seer’ power win it for the Faithfuls? Or can treacherous Charlotte connive her way to victory? All will be revealed in the killer climax…

• SPOILER WARNING: by its nature this liveblog will contain spoilers for anyone not watching live

Traitors-mania has gripped the nation more than ever this year, with episodes being watched by more than 10m faithful viewers . Tonight’s final is expected to hit new heights, with the audience predicted to climb towards 12m. Who needs Gavin, Stacey, Wallace or Gromit? Let alone Feathers McGraw.

It’s just 15 minutes until the turret bell tolls…

“Why am I still here? I must be close to a Traitor who’s keeping me in”

Cutaway shot of an owl/eagle/grouse/peacock

Nervous sipping of glass goblet and licking of lips at Round Table

Frankie wears something with a signature sleeve or puffy shoulder

“I love you” or heart-hands before a banishment

An amusingly on-the-nose song strikes up on the soundtrack

Someone says they’re “100% Faithful” or “Going with their gut”

Claudia gets amusingly cross at Round Table and tells them off

Misspelling on slate at Round Table, even though there’s only four other names to learn and they’ve had weeks to do so

One last reappearance for the horror clowns/creepy dolls

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The hit show has been compared to cosy crime drama. But it also has parallels with Hilary Mantel’s historical masterpiece

Doomy towers, candlelit assignations, whispers in corridors, banishments in the dead of night and a cruel and capricious master – The Traitors has more in common with the prestige historical drama Wolf Hall than you might expect. Based on Hilary Mantel’s Booker prize-winning trilogy following the life of Thomas Cromwell, The Mirror and the Light , its final instalment came to its bloody end in December. In January, the treacherous skies over 16th-century Hampton Court shifted to storm clouds swirling over Ardross Castle in Scotland for the return of the hit reality TV show. Dark times call for dark television.

The Traitors might be a spin on the cosy crime formula (strangers in a country house, murder and amateur sleuthing), but the parallels with Mantel’s trilogy are also striking. The English Reformation divided the faithful, after all. In the politics of the Tudor court and castles, it’s all about manipulation, power and self-preservation. Everyone is jockeying for favour, watching their backs, backstabbing and trying to fill the coffers for themselves and their cronies. By the final episode, most of the main characters end up with their heads on the block. All of which makes Claudia Winkleman Henry VIII, but with better hair and knitwear.

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As the third season of the glorious reality TV series reaches its climax, here are its finest parts. Brace for dodgy accents, feuding sisters and acting so bad it sets your teeth on edge

It started with 25 people being asked to leap off a train. Along the way we were treated to premature burials, marauding clowns and the genuinely dangerous moment Alexander chased a shuttlecock into a hedge. And now we are down to just five people – only one of whom is a traitor. Will the contestants realise Charlotte has been lying – and not just about coming from a market town in Monmouthshire? Frankie certainly will, as her new power as the Seer sets things up for an explosive finale. But before that it’s time to grab your Welsh phrase books and look back on the 10 most treacherous – OK, plain daft – moments of the 2025 season …

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The broadcaster’s new documentary sees presenter Vicky Pattison create an AI-generated explicit film of herself – against wishes of campaign organisations

Channel 4 has been accused of ignoring the wishes of campaign organisations representing those whose images have been digitally turned into pornography and shared online against their will.

The broadcaster’s new documentary, Vicky Pattison: My Deepfake Sex Tape, saw it consult groups representing survivors of online image abuse, before having its reality star presenter create and release an AI-generated explicit film of herself – despite groups saying they specifically advised it against doing so.

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The Hollywood stars join Graham Norton on the sofa to discuss their nuptials-themed romp. Plus: Lucy Worsley on the reputation of Bloody Mary. Here’s what to watch this evening

11.05pm, BBC One

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