My two-year-old is definitely more of a daredevil than my eldest child ever was – she’s the stereotypical “second child” who would happily try and abseil down her high chair, or attempt to dive headfirst out of her cot.

At the park, she’ll run too close to the swings – we’ve had a few close calls where I’ve grabbed her last minute before she’s been wiped out by one.

She’ll go full-pelt on a scooter, trip over her own feet in the middle of a road or attempt to leg it away from me while brushing her teeth (cue the fear she’s going to trip and do some serious damage with her toothbrush).

She is incredibly curious, energetic, and a tad accident prone. On any given day I find myself telling her to “be careful” more times than I’d like to admit.

But experts caution against overuse of the phrase, which is vague (be careful of what exactly?) and can begin to lose all meaning or even instil fear and worry in kids.

“Toddlers are not yet able to interpret vague instructions, so when a parent says ‘be careful’, they are not extracting a clear rule or action,” senior educational and child psychologist, Dr Sasha Hall, tells me. “What they tend to pick up instead is the emotional message behind it.

“In simple terms, a toddler hears that something is not safe or that something is wrong, but they do not know what that is or what to do differently. Because the phrase is used across many different situations – climbing, running, carrying objects – they cannot link it to a specific cause and effect.”

The issue here, the expert says, is that rather than learning a usable safety rule, “they are left with a general sense that something might be risky, without the clarity needed to adjust their behaviour”.

Over time, using the phrase “be careful” too much, particularly when it becomes a frequent background message during play and exploration, can also instil fear.

“If a child repeatedly hears that something is wrong, without being shown what the risk is or how to manage it, the environment can start to feel unpredictable,” explains Dr Hall.

“For some children, this can lead to increased caution or reduced confidence.”

Meanwhile, for others, the opposite happens, and the phrase might begin to lose its meaning altogether.

And as children get older and enter their preschool years, repeated use of “be careful” can also lead to frustration or disengagement.

“The child may begin to ignore it or resist it, especially as their drive for independence grows,” says Dr Hall.

“So the impact is not only about anxiety. Overuse can also dilute the message, making it less effective when it is genuinely needed.”

Try to share something specific and actionable (I know it’s easier said than done when you’re trying to quickly stop them from harming themselves).

“This might involve naming the risk, giving a clear instruction, or showing how to make something safer. For example, ‘that wall is very high, hold the banister’, or ‘go slowly on that step’,” says Dr Hall.

By being more specific, you’re helping your little one understand what the actual risk is and giving them a practical strategy to manage it, which they can actually use going forward.

“Over time, this is what supports the development of confidence and judgement,” adds the psychologist.

“It is also important to recognise that not every situation requires adult input. Children learn where their limits are by testing them. Small mistakes and minor wobbles are a natural part of developing coordination and resilience.”

For some (hi, hello, it’s me) “be careful” can become almost like a reflex over time, which Dr Hall notes is a “very common pattern” – mainly because the phrase is often spoken in moments of instinctive concern.

If this tracks with you, instead of trying to eliminate it completely, it might help to notice it and build on it, says the expert. So, following up your “be careful” with a specific instruction like “hold on with both hands” can help offer more direction.

Not even the biggest names in Hollywood are safe from the cutting room floor – and once a director hits the editing suite, the most A-list of A-listers can still find their scenes have been axed from a major film.

Whether it’s a change in direction, contractual issues or a long runtime, there are many reasons why an actor might not make the cut, regardless of how they performed on set.

Here are just a handful of stars who gave their all, only to find their performances didn’t make it into the final edit…

The Devil Wears Prada 2 was jam-packed with famous cameos, but some celebrities’ performances didn’t make the cut.

Last year, Sydney Sweeney was spotted on the set of the Meryl Streep sequel, but her appearance never made it into the film.

The Euphoria actor was supposed to play herself in a three-minute scene where she would be dressed by Emily Blunt’s character, but according to Entertainment Weekly, this cameo was cut for structural reasons.

At least she wasn’t the only star who didn’t make it into the film, though.

How to Get Away With Murder star Conrad Ricamora also filmed numerous scenes as Andy Sachs’ roommate, but this character was later removed from the film after test audiences raised questions about why he was there, according to Variety.

Conrad acknowledged this axing on social media, writing on Instagram that filming with Anne Hathaway had been “one of the best working experiences of my life.”

“In the end, my character didn’t make sense in the grand scheme of the film (something about me being too sexy and hot and my muscles being too big…story of my life),” he joked.

Lastly, Anna Wintour herself filmed “one take” for the sequel, in which Meryl plays a character who has repeatedly been compared to the formidable Vogue editor.

Director David Frankel told Entertainment Weekly that this sequence couldn’t be used as it was “a little out of focus,” and he didn’t want to ask her to do a second one.

“We actually explicitly didn’t want Anna to be in the movie because it’s a parallel world,” the director later explained in the April 2026 interview.

“It was like, well, what is Vogue and who is Anna Wintour, in a world where there’s a Runway and Miranda Priestly? It felt like it was too meta.”

After the success Harrison Ford had working with Steven Spielberg in the Indiana Jones films, the Star Wars actor was happy to make a cameo in E.T.

Not only was he good friends with the director, but he was also dating the movie’s screenwriter, Melissa Mathison, at the time.

Harrison was set to play against his normal lovable rogue type, appearing as Elliot’s mean school principal, in a scene where the boy was sent to the principal’s office and told off, only for the mischievous E.T. to start messing around.

The scene was eventually removed by Spielberg, though, as he felt that it added nothing to the film, and instead chose to focus less on adults and more on the film’s kid characters.

Paul Rudd spent all day throwing himself around an ice-skating rink, only for it to be deleted from the final cut of Bridesmaids.

Screenwriters Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo specifically penned a part for the Ant-Man actor as a deranged man that Kristen’s character, Annie, goes on a blind date with.

However, while the scene was later included as a DVD extra, it wasn’t featured in the cinematic cut of the film.

“There is always that terrible moment when you have to kill your babies,” director Paul Feig told Entertainment Weekly, explaining that Paul’s scenes were axed due to runtime, and to focus more on the existing love triangle between Annie, Jon Hamm’s commitment-phobe and Chris O’Dowd’s police officer.

“It just didn’t ring true that in addition to Jon and Chris, she’d be also going out on other dates to try and find more love,” Feig explained, claiming that it made “more sense that she’d be caught between these two guys”.

Mary Jane “MJ” Watson is usually the main love interest for Peter Parker in his various incarnations, but Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man spent his time crushing over Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy.

In fact, MJ was set to appear in the 2014 sequel, in which she’d have been played by Shailene Woodley.

However, the director felt it wouldn’t make sense to add another romantic character into the superhero film.

“It was something we only discovered when we were shooting and then in the edit room.” Marc Webb told the Los Angeles Times. “Shailene is a brilliant actress, and she did a great couple days of work. But it was very difficult to introduce someone as a competing love interest when so much is on the table with Peter and Gwen.”

Shailene actually agreed with this take, telling Perru Nemiroff that “Mary Jane was in four scenes in the whole film, and it didn’t make sense”.

“They’re introducing so many new characters, it really didn’t make sense to introduce such a vital character to the comic books in a movie that had so much going on,” she added.

The Big Little Lies star did hint at the time that her character could perhaps appear in the third film in the franchise, but due to poor reviews and box office, that movie never happened.

Speaking of Spider-Man, former Peter Parker actor Tobey Maguire was set to play a brief role in Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi.

Tobey would have played the writer who interviews the central character about his extraordinary life, having previously worked with Lee on 1997’s The Ice Storm.

However, after filming was over, the director was concerned that Tobey’s presence would be distracting for viewers and the role was recast, with English actor Rafe Spall playing the character in the version that we got to see.

“To be consistent with the other casting choices made for the film, I decided to go with an entirely international cast,” Ang said in a statement at the time, before adding how much he admired Tobey and hoped to work again with him in the future.

“I fully support Ang’s decision to go a different direction for this role in Life of Pi. Ang shared a lot of the film with me, and what I saw was absolutely beautiful,” Tobey told The Hollywood Reporter at the time.

Later on, the Brokeback Mountain director opened up further to USA Today about his casting error and the real reason Tobey was cut.

“I misjudged the situation. I underestimated the power of stars,” he admitted. “I love Tobey, but it’s a small part, so when it’s a movie star sitting there, it captures attention. It didn’t really work out.”

The removal of Oscar nominee Ana de Armas from the final cut of the 2019 film Yesterday resulted in a federal lawsuit against Universal Pictures for false advertising.

Ana appeared in a trailer for Yesterday, in which she played a woman who flirts with Himsesh Patel’s character on a talk show, but when the film hit cinemas, these scenes were not included.

Screenwriter Richard Curtis explained that the Blonde actor was cut because test audiences didn’t like the idea of the leading character straying from his primary love interest, played by Lily James.

Two men who later rented the film on Amazon Prime after seeing the actor in the trailer went on to sue production company Universal for false advertising, claiming they were each cheated out of $3.99.

In the end, the lawsuit was dropped, but not before it generated plenty of conversation and headlines in 2022.

Uma Thurman may be a Hollywood icon, but even she isn’t immune to being cut from movies.

The Kill Bill star originally appeared in Oliver Stone’s poorly-received Savages, playing Blake Lively’s mother.

Stone explained that, while the scenes in question were “funny,” they were cut due to the film’s long runtime.

“We ended up cutting characters from the book, like the mother. She was a good character – Uma Thurman played her beautifully – and the scenes were good, but you don’t have time, you know?” he told HuffPost in 2012. “We have one goal in the movie, and you go out that gate and it’s like a horse race.”

Blake later lamented: “It’s a shame that you will miss that, in the movie. It was really beautiful stuff with Uma Thurman, and I think it really told a lot more of how a girl could end up this way. She’s the modern girl. Divorces are so much more common now than they were.”

However, considering the 50% Rotten Tomatoes score that Savages wound up receiving, Uma probably doesn’t feel too bad about not appearing in it.

During production on 1995’s Dangerous Minds, producers had an idea that Michelle Pfeiffer’s character’s husband should appear in the film, with Andy García brought in for the part.

Andy was not exactly convinced this character was necessary, and told the creative team as much, but went ahead and filmed his scenes anyway.

“They called and said that they wanted to develop a love interest for her in the script,” he recalled to BlogTalkRadio.com. “They wrote up a whole arc for this relationship and we played it out.”

He continued: “I had a great time. We shot the whole relationship and then it was determined later on that it was really unnecessary in the storyline, which is what I said to begin with.

“But I did cash the cheque!”

Before her big break on Grey’s Anatomy, Ellen Pompeo was cast in the small role of Naomi, the ex-girlfriend of Jimmy Carrey’s Joel, in the 2004 cult classic Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

“I got completely cut,” she said at a 2025 event. “[I] got completely cut out of [the film], because Kate Winslet is in the movie, of course. Like, you have Kate Winslet, you definitely don’t need me,”.

Jim previously told Vanity Fair: “Michel likes to have real feelings in the scene and real chemistry, so he hired Ellen Pompeo, who’s a wonderful actress. But she reminded me completely of Renée [Zellweger, his ex-partner]. Her look was similar. And I said, ‘Bastard!’. And it ends up that she’s not even in the movie.”

The Liar Liar actor added: “We actually had really good chemistry. It was odd. It was almost too much. If it had been in the movie, it’s competing [with Kate’s character].”

Harry Potter boasts an array of A-list British actors in its cast – and originally, that was going to have included the late, great Rik Mayall.

The Bottom star landed the role of mischievous poltergeist Peeves in Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, with the intention for him to continue as a recurring character throughout the films.

In the end, the comedy legend was perhaps just too funny in the role.

“I got sent off the set because every time I tried to do a bit of acting, all the lads who were playing the school kids kept getting the giggles, they kept corpsing, so they threw me off,” he previously alleged.

Rik worked on the film for three weeks before being chopped, with Chris Columbus later admitting he wishes he could go back and put him back into the final cut.

The comedian later quipped that Harry Potter was the “most exciting film I ever did – because I got the oodle and I wasn’t in it”.

“Fantastic! “ he enthused.

Asked what he thought of the finished results, he quipped: “The film, with respect … no, with no respect at all… the film was shit.”

The story goes that Mel Gibson was originally supposed to make a problematic cameo in The Hangover II as “Tattoo Joe”, who gives Stu his face ink in the sequel.

After outrage online – and, apparently, on-set – due to the Braveheart actor’s anti-Semitic, racist and misogynist rants, he was replaced by Liam Neeson.

Liam apparently filmed for one day, but when he couldn’t come back for reshoots, the part was recast for a second time, with Nick Cassavetes playing the character instead.

Bridgerton fans were excited to see Simone Ashley appear alongside Brad Pitt in 2025’s F1. She was seen filming at various Grands Prix, and appeared at the film’s European premiere, but only appears as herself in a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in the final cut.

In an interview with People, the film’s director, Joseph Kosinski, explained why the “incredible talent” was cut.

“It happens on every film, where you have to shoot more than you can use,” he said. “There were two or three storylines that ultimately didn’t make into the final cut.”

Despite the disappointment, Simone was gracious and appreciative of the experience, which saw her film at the actual races and alongside real F1 drivers.

“I have a very small part, but I’m grateful to be in that movie. I got to experience many Grands Prix. I don’t think I’ll ever do anything like that again,” she told Elle.

John Malkovich was announced by Marvel to be joining their extended cinematic universe as the Fantastic Four nemesis Red Ghost.

So, when fans sat to watch Fantastic Four: Four Steps with Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby, they were surprised to see the Oscar nominee’s character had been cut.

Director Matt Shankman explained to Variety that the villain was supposed to appear in a lengthy scene in which the heroic quartet battled Red Ghost and his team of Super-Apes. Instead, this moment is edited down into an action montage, but while the Super-Apes are momentarily shown, Red Ghost is totally cut.

“There were a lot of things that ultimately ended up hitting the cutting room floor,” the director said, describing the removal of John’s scenes as “heartbreaking”.

“When we were building a ’60s retro-future world, introducing all of these villains, introducing these four main characters as a group, as well as individually, introducing the idea of a child – there was a lot of stuff to balance in this movie and some things had to go ultimately in terms of shaping the film for its final version.”

Sienna Miller’s entire role as Catherine Greig in the 2015 gangster flick Black Mass was cut from the final film, despite her working extensively on her Boston accent for the part.

Director Scott Cooper told the Boston Globe the Layer Cake actor had been “fantastic” as real-life gangster Whitey Bulger’s long-term partner, Catherine, but he went in a different direction with the movie’s plot.

Black Mass, which stars Johnny Depp as Bulger, ultimately focuses on the mobster’s earlier life rather than his “less dramatic” later years as a fugitive with Catherine.

Sienna admitted she spent time learning a South Boston accent for the two-week shoot, which ultimately turned into a “cameo”.

“The accent was something I really focused on because playing someone from Southie, you don’t want to mess that up. Hopefully I’ve managed to pull that off,” she said.

Sterling K. Brown has seen huge success in recent years thanks to his roles on This Is Us and Paradise, as well as his Oscar-nominated turn in American Fiction.

But the actor has been dealt some blows in his time, too, including when his role in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2015 horror Split was left on the cutting-room floor.

The Emmy winner was set to play Professor Shaw, the therapist of James McAvoy’s character in the action film, but the Sixth Sense director ultimately decided that Sterling’s role was unnecessary, and distracted from the film’s core narrative.

Luckily, you can see the clip of his deleted scene here.

Early on in his career, Yellowstone actor Kevin Costner had hoped that his role in The Big Chill would be his big break.

Sadly, all the scenes which showed his face were cut.

In the 1983 film, a group of college alumni, played by the likes of Jeff Goldblum, Glenn Close and William Hurt, reunite after the suicide of their friend, Alex.

Kevin was supposed to play Alex in flashback screens, which were filmed, but ultimately not used as director Lawrence Kasdan wasn’t convinced they worked.

The filmmaker allegedly felt so bad about it, he gave Kevin a role in his Western, Silverado.

Yep, even acting greats like the late Marlon Brando have their scenes cut, too.

In 1978′s Superman, Brando played the Man Of Steel’s father, Jor-El, and was due to reprise his role in the sequel, released two years later.

Days after the first movie hit cinemas, the Godfather actor sued the producers for breach of contract, and while his request that further showings of Superman should be stopped was thrown out, he did receive a $15 million settlement as a result of the court case.

The scenes he’d already shot for the second film were subsequently removed to avoid having to pay him a substantial percentage of the film’s box office, with his storyline instead being handed to Superman’s mother, portrayed by Susannah York.

In 2006, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut was released, featuring Brando’s previously-deleted scenes.

By now, the relief of The Devil Wears Prada’s legacy not being ruined by an objectively ruled “not rubbish” sequel has well and truly set in.

The new sequel reunites cast members Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, while also introducing new characters played by the likes of Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu and Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley.

And that’s without getting into the absolute sea of A-list cameos who also appear in the sequel.

Far from the fear of facing Anna Wintour’s wrath that came with the first film, The Devil Wears Prada 2 was also accessorised with plenty of celebrity cameos – so many, in fact, that you might have struggled to keep up with them all.

Indeed, with so much going on between the nostalgia rush of seeing the original cast back in action, as well as a surprisingly on-the-nose plot about the decline of journalism, it’s easy to miss a fleeting Chicken Shop Date reference or a renowned pop star or two.

With that in mind, we’ve rounded up all the major cameos in The Devil Wears Prada 2, in case there are any that passed you by in the cinema…

As well as cooking up three original songs for the soundtrack, Lady Gaga also appears in The Devil Wears Prada as herself.

Gaga’s scene-stealing cameo sees her flexing her acting muscles in a showdown with Miranda Priestly herself, in the film’s third act (for which she, hilariously, receives top billing in the closing credits).

Apparently we have Meryl Streep herself to thank for the star’s cameo, after they ran into each other at SNL’s 50th anniversary celebrations and seemingly struck up a friendship.

“We thought we’d make up this persona for Gaga that there’s this terrible history, and she’s such a diva that Miranda can’t stand her,” director David Frankel explained. “And she loved it.”

Fashion legend Donatella Versace made the hop from being fleetingly referenced in the first Devil Wears Prada (“Call Donatella. Get her jet”) to being a cast member in the sequel.

In one scene, we see her lunching it up with Emily, in her new capacity as a senior exec at Dior.

With supermodel status and a name for throwing the best parties, it makes sense that Heidi Klum has earned the rare bragging rights of appearing in both Devil Wears Prada movies.

After being spotted in a fashion show audience in the first film, this time round she appears in a scene opposite Emily Blunt.

Another big fashion world cameo, designer Marc Jacobs appears as himself to flap over a bow in his new collection that seems to meet with Miranda’s disapproval.

Winnie Harlow got her big break after appearing on America’s Next Top Model in 2014, and went on to work with Fendi, Victoria’s Secret, Marc Jacobs and even Beyoncé.

Look closely and, you’ll see her clinking glasses with the fellow rich and beautiful in the film.

“Someone who looks like me being in the fashion industry wasn’t even a thought when the first The Devil Wears Prada came out,” she wrote on Instagram.

“It became the biggest fashion movie in the world. To now be asked to be a part of the second film is bigger than a dream come true, it feels like history shifting in real time.”

Of course they wouldn’t dare leave one of the most iconic supermodels off the invite list when it came to cameos.

You’ll spot Naomi Campbell front row at the film’s Dolce & Gabbana fashion show, naturally seated right next to Miranda Priestly herself.

Outside of the fashion world’s BNOCs, there are plenty more celebrity cameos to look out for.

Grammy-winning singer Ciara is just one of them, popping up during the film’s Met Gala-inspired sequence early on in the proceedings.

Model and body positivity advocate Ashley Graham has an apt red carpet moment in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Speaking to People magazine, she recalled shooting her scenes in an appropriately fancy Christian Siriano dress, before encountering Meryl after the director called “cut”.

“[Meryl] starts walking towards me and I’m like, ‘Okay.’ Not uncomfortable visually, but mentally I’m like, ‘What am I going to say to her?’” she admitted..

“She comes over and she goes, ‘Darling, you have impeccable, impeccable posture.’ And then walked away. I was like, ‘Oh, this is Miranda. She’s in character. This is wonderful’.”

In a very much “blink-and-you’ll-miss-her” cameo, Chicken Shop Date host Amelia Dimoldenberg appears for a split second as a guest at Runway chairman Irv’s birthday party (her one line, fittingly, is “Chicken Shop Date?”).

Amelia has described appearing in the sequel as a “pinch me” moment, having previously admitted to studying fashion journalism at university based on her love of the first movie.

One of Anna Wintour’s faves, former Victoria’s Secret model and Vogue cover star Karolina Kurkova also crops up in The Devil Wears Prada 2.

She’s right where you’d expect her as the film opens, rubbing shoulders with other models and setting the scene for the many fashion cameos to come.

Another guest at Irv’s birthday party is self-proclaimed “gangly ginger model” and TikTok star Calum Harper.

“It was fucking crazy. I had my own cast chair. I sat next to Anne Hathaway. It was amazing,” he told The Observer.

“They ended up giving me some lines, asked me to improv, to flirt and talk bollocks about modelling and fashion week in a party scene. I was gassed.”

New York Knicks basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns is perhaps one of the more surprising cameos of the bunch, after Andy runs into him at one of Miranda’s parties and professes how much of a fan she is.

Turns out Karl-Anthony himself is a “big fan” of The Devil Wears Prada, with director David explaining to Screenrant: “We reached out to him, and he was thrilled.”

“For the athletes, we have KAT, and we have Rory McIlroy, which was thrilling for me as a golfer,” he added.

“I think Miranda’s world on weekends is filled with cool, interesting people. Anybody who’s the best at what they do, she wants to have for lunch. That’s how we sought out KAT.

Speaking of Rory McIlroy, the golfer does indeed appear as another cameo in the movie.

It all came about after the former world number one admitted in a real-life interview that he switched off by watching The Devil Wears Prada the night before winning a big tournament.

Naturally, that caught the attention of director David, who invited him to appear in the sequel as one of Miranda’s aforementioned cool and interesting friends.

Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and composer Jon Batiste appears alongside his wife, writer and advocate Suleika Jaouad.

You’ll catch a glimpse of them at Miranda’s house in the Hamptons, tucking into an expensive-looking lunch alongside Andy.

“Image architect” and Zendaya’s longtime stylist (not to mention the person responsible for sharing her and Tom Holland’s wedding news with the world) Law Roach is another big fashion name to appear in the movie amongst the style elite.

Law has spoken about how much the original Devil Wears Prada meant to him, saying: “I was a little boy growing up in Chicago and I wanted to work for Miranda. This movie literally set the tone and gave me so much to aspire to be.”

Another name doing the rounds at Miranda’s Hamptons getaway is US morning news host (and daughter of former President George W. Bush) Jenna Bush Hager.

She’s seen giving Andy her dues for her sweatshop exposé piece, and has explained that she styled herself for her cameo – and that her line was unscripted.

Former Tatler and Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown is a huge figure in the journalism world, so it makes sense that she’d be a friend – or, at least, a frenemy – of Miranda Priestly in the Devil Wears Prada universe.

You can look out for Tina at Miranda’s star-studded Hamptons party.

Also among the guests at Miranda’s swanky garden party is Ronny Chieng.

The comedian is a regular face on the topical US series The Daily Show, and also had a minor role in the rom-com Crazy Rich Asians.

Seriously, Miranda’s Hamptons party is a moment in The Devil Wears Prada 2 where you need to keep your eyes peeled.

Also hobnobbing at the event is Kara Swisher, a prolific writer for outlets such as New York magazine and The New York Times. Kara also fronts the current affairs podcasts On and Pivot.

Another real-life supermodel who has been immortalised in The Devil Wears Prada 2 is Anok Yai.

The Met Gala regular can be seen playing herself in scenes set at Milan Fashion Week.

Followers of the author and novelist Molly Jong-Fast might be surprised to see her also snag a cameo in the film.

She later joked that she was “in Devil Wears Prada 2 for about three seconds which is three seconds more than Sydney Sweeney”, alluding to the Euphoria star’s infamously scrapped scene.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is in cinemas now.

The truth is often stranger than fiction, and when it comes to TV dramas, it’s repeatedly been proven that the best plots are plucked straight from real life stories.

And that’s certainly the case with Netflix’s new six-parter, Legends.

Based on the true story of a bunch of civil servants who went undercover to infiltrate the country’s most notorious drug smuggling gangs from the inside, the series is already being praised by critics and pulling in big numbers on the platform.

With more than a few familiar faces in the mix, here’s where you might have spotted them before…

Best known for his portrayal of delusional presenter Alan Partridge for the last 30 years, Steve Coogan has a string of other roles under his belt outside his comic creation.

Steve appeared opposite Judi Dench in the 2013 film Philomena, and has also had big-screen roles in movies like 24 Hour Party People, Around The World In 80 Days, Night At The Museum, Tropic Thunder, Stan & Laurie, Greed and Joker: Folie À Deux.

On TV, he’s portrayed real-life figures including Jimmy Savile (The Reckoning), Brian Walden (Brian and Maggie), Stephen Lawrence case detective DCI Clive Driscoll (Stephen) and Samuel Pepys (The Private Life Of Samuel Pepys).

You might have also seen Steve in the likes of The Trip, What We Do In The Shadows, Happyish or Curb Your Enthusiasm.

He’ll next be seen alongside a star-studded cast in the long-awaited fourth season of The White Lotus.

You’re most likely to recognise Tom Burke from his roles in acclaimed BBC series like The Musketeers, War & Peace and Strike.

He’s also appeared in shows including The Crown (in which he starred as Derek “Dazzle” Jennings), Modern Love, The Lazarus Project, Great Expectations, Utopia, The Hour, Heading Out and Poirot.

Tom is also a big name in the film world, having starred in indie flicks like The Souvenir and The Wonder, as well as big budget movies like Black Bag, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Hayley Squires had her breakthrough as Katie in Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake, which saw her pick up a Bafta nomination.

Since then, she’s appeared in TV series like The Night Manager, Great Expectations, The Essex Serpent, Inside No. 9, Adult Material and Collateral.

You might have also spotted her in Call The Midwife and Southcliffe.

Hayley’s film work includes Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid, Blitz, and True Things – where she starred opposite her Legends co-star Tom.

Fans of historical dramas will recognise Tom for his performance as Prince Albert in ITV’s Victoria, in which he shared the screen with Jenna Coleman.

Since then, he’s played Kit Marlowe in Sky’s A Discovery Of Witches, and had prominent roles in The English, Those About To Die, Malpractice and The Gold, the latter of which was written by Legends creator Neil Forsyth.

Over on the big screen, Tom has appeared in movies like About Time, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Cemetery Junction and Madame.

Aml Ameen’s breakthrough moment came when he was cast as Trife in the British drama Kidulthood.

In the years that followed, he’s appeared in a wide variety of movies that includes everything from the political drama The Butler, the dystopian sci-fi movie The Maze Runner and Rustin, in which he starred as Martin Luther King Jr, to the British rom-com Boxing Day, which also marked his directorial debut.

He also played PC Lewis Hardy in The Bill, Capheus in Sense8, banker Simon in I May Destroy You and Malcolm Davies in Harry’s Law.

Douglas Hodge has been working consistently on both stage and screen since the late 1980s, racking up credits that include the likes of Vanity Fair, Scenes Of A Sexual Nature and Diana, in which he played butler Paul Burrell.

More recently, he played another iconic butler, Alfred Pennyworth, in the Oscar-winning Joker, acted alongside Jennifer Lawrence in the thriller Red Sparrow and appeared in the films We Live In Time, G20 and Pillion.

His TV work has seen him land prominent roles in Red Cap, Skins, Penny Dreadful, Catastrophe, Lost In Space, I Hate Suzie, The Great and The Night Manager.

Born and raised in Turkey, Numan’s first major international role saw him portraying Haissam Haqqani in Homeland.

After that, he went on to appear in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, Guy Ritchie’s live-action remake of Disney’s Aladdin and the thriller Point Break.

Besides Homeland, has TV projects have included Jack Ryan and Prison Break.

In the early 2010s, Charlotte Ritchie rose to prominence as Oregon in the comedy Fresh Meat, leading to roles in Call The Midwife, Doctor Who and Siblings.

Now, she’s probably best known for her performance as Alison Cooper, but you might have also seen her in Netflix’s You and Feel Good, or Grantchester.

She also competed as herself on Taskmaster, and had a minor role in the big-screen musical Wonka.

If you loved Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen, you might remember Jasmine’s performance as Charly, the on-screen sister of Theo James and Daniel Ings’ characters.

She’s also appeared in another popular Netflix show, Shadow And Bone, in addition to the BBC’s historical drama based on the life of Marie Antoinette, in which she starred as Lamballe.

Back in 2006, Johnny Harris played Derek in the critically-acclaimed British indie London To Brighton, before landing his Bafta-nominated role as Mick in the This Is England TV series.

He’s also appeared in two of Steven Knight’s grisly Charles Dickens adaptations,The Salisbury Poisonings and Without Sin, which reunited him with his former co-star Vicky McClure.

Gerald Kyd will be known to long-time Casualty fans for his performance as Sean Maddox in the late 1990s.

After stepping away from the medical drama, he went on to appear in shows like Sherlock and Silent Witness, and portrayed Caiaphas in Jesus: His Life.

More recently, he’s appeared in a 2021 episode of Doctor Who, and acted in the TV shows The Split, Hostage, Malory Towers and The Assassin.

Since his breakout in the web series Nate & Jamie, Joshua Samuels has appeared in the TV adaptation of Sexy Beast, Emerald Fennell’s film Saltburn and the short film On Loop.

Like co-star Tom Hughes, he also worked with Neil Forsyth in his previous hit series, The Gold, playing Jerren.

Thomas Coombes is no stranger to a prolific Netflix show, having appeared in the award-winning Baby Reindeer as police officer PC Daniels, the Luther film The Fallen Sun as Archie Woodward and the spy drama Black Doves as Philip Bray.

Besides these projects, he’s also starred in Save Me, the Stephen Graham outing Boiling Point, the Star Wars spin-off The Acolyte and Neil Forsyth’s The Gold.

Legends is Kem Hassan’s biggest role to date, but you may well have seen him before that, too.

Some of his most notable past work includes an episode of the police drama Vera and the surreal Netflix drama The Sandman, in which he played a character named Phil back in 2025.

All six episodes of Legends are now streaming on Netflix.

A former government minister has called on Keir Starmer’s cabinet to oust him as prime minister or she will trigger a leadership election.

Catherine West gave the PM’s top team until Monday to act or else she will.

She made her shock intervention in an interview with Radio 4′s PM programme on Saturday afternoon.

West, who was sacked as a Foreign Office minister by Starmer in a reshuffle last September, said: “This afternoon, I would like the cabinet to come around the table and elect a leader amongst themselves.

“If that cannot happen, and there are no leadership hopefuls who come forward tomorrow, then Monday morning I will put my name forward to stand for the leader of the Labour Party.

“I will be seeking the 81 names that are needed to take to the party chair and I will begin a leadership election.”

A Labour MP told HuffPost UK he was “almost certain” West will get the support she needs.

“Hopefully it doesn’t come to that,” the MP said, before adding: “She is a hero for doing this.”

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I’m still reeling from the stench I smelled in my fridge the other day. After an unpleasant inspection, I realised the issue wasn’t a rotting courgette or some turned milk; instead, the little drainage hole at the back of the fridge had gotten blocked, leading stagnant water to pool under our bottom drawer.

I probably don’t need to tell you that this was not a welcome aroma. Nor did it go away completely after I flushed and cleared the drain, no matter how many times I wiped and re-wiped the surfaces.

It took a tip from appliance company Whirlpool – using coffee grounds – to finally rid our kitchen of the stinky spectre.

You’ve likely already heard that a bowl of baking powder can help to get rid of some odours.

But if you don’t have that, coffee grounds do just as good a job, said Whirlpool.

“Coffee grounds contain nitrogen, which is great for neutralising odours. If you’re dealing with refrigerator odours, try placing a small bowl of coffee grounds in your fridge compartment,” their site reads.

“It will not only help absorb the odour but also leave behind a slight coffee smell.”

They do also reccomend vinegar for stronger smells, though we were dealing with a lingering, one-off scent remnant here rather than an ongoing smell issue.

And yes, old coffee grounds do the job brilliantly, as The Kitchn noted. Just make sure they’re dry; you can do that by placing them in a thin layer on a baking tray after use and waiting.

So far, it’s worked. A day after the Great Stink, our fridge is back to its normal aroma.

The Kitchn also recommended using their deodorising power on your hands.

“The next time your hands are stinky from cutting fish, onions, or garlic, wet them and then use the coffee grounds to scrub them,” they said.

One caveat, though: do this over a bin with its lid off rather than a sink, so the grounds don’t go down the drain.

We’ve written before about how helpful Spanish squats and reverse lunges can be if you sometimes struggle doing exercise due to knee pain.

And according to orthopaedic surgeon Dr Chris Raynor, you can add “cycling squats” to that list.

In a YouTube short, the expert said he loves to use these kinds of exercises “for rehabilitation after knee injury or knee surgery, because I think that they are a safe way of activating the quadricep muscle and developing quadricep strength”.

Men’s Health, meanwhile, called them the “ultimate quad burn” which can increase your ankle mobility, reduce the strain on your lower back, and, of course, strengthen your legs.

Also known as “heel elevation squats”, cyclist squats involve – surprise – keeping your heels elevated as you perform the exercise.

This is sometimes done with a sloped squat ramp or “riser”.

You should keep your feet together as you perform the movement, which can be done with or without a kettlebell or dumbbell held in front of you to your chest.

Cyclist or heel elevated squats with a kettlebell are called “goblet cyclist squats”.

• Stand on a squat ramp or “riser” with your feet together, torso straight, and arms either straight in front of you or holding a weight to your chest.
• Lower yourself down, hinging at the hips and knees, as if you’re trying to tuck your bottom on top of your heels.
• Rise back up, “pushing” the floor away with your feet.

This type of squat “encourages more work from the quads, and less on the hips, low back and adductors” than a regular squat, Mirafit explained.

They added that for people with weaker knees, cycling squats can help you progressively overload the joint over time, protecting it from future harm.

The heel elevation can help you achieve a deeper squat, too. And if you’re holding a kettlebell while doing the exercise, you’ll work your postural muscles, which help both your upper and lower back.

Dr Raynor added that goblet cyclist squats may help to activate the vastus medialus obliqus (VMO), a teardrop-shaped muscle in our upper legs, as “one of the best ways to make sure that it is engaged is to activate the quad when it is in its most lengthened position”.

That happens during deeper squats, like this one. The VMO is a key muscle in stabilising our knees.

A 2025 paper found that “elevated heel heights… can enhance squat stability by reducing centre of pressure (COP) deviation and trunk lean, both of which are key factors for minimising injury risks in squatting exercise”.

Once you’ve figured out how to give decent oral sex, it’s easy to go on autopilot. You know the basics, your partner’s not complaining, you might even have a little trick you’ve worked on through the years – why mess with success?

But bedroom skills, like anything else, can always use a little levelling up. And when it comes to cunnilingus, there’s one small adjustment that sex experts swear can upgrade the experience for both of you: the Kivin method, aka the sideways method.

Not to be confused with some random guy named Kevin’s go-to move, the Kivin method is an oral sex technique that relies on a perpendicular position: instead of facing the receiver head-on, the giver lies across their body, aligning their lips side-to-side. Usually, the receiver has one or both legs raised atop the giver’s shoulder, to allow more access.

The technique focuses on stimulating the clitoris, vulva and perineum from the side with the tongue, creating broader stimulation that some people find more intense and pleasurable. (The perineum is that diamond-shaped expanse of skin, muscle, and tissue located between the anus and the genitals.)

Usually, the receiver has one or both legs raised to allow the giver more access. For the visual learners, here’s what it looks like:

As for the name, the origins of the technique – who’s Kivin? – are a little hard to pin down, but the method is bandied about often by sex educators online, and it got a mention in 2001 in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex.

Sex therapists and sexologists we spoke to said taking a sideways approach to oral sex naturally changes the stimulation. It also might be more comfortable for the giver, especially for their neck, said Sadie Allison, a sexologist and author of Ride ’Em Cowgirl! Sex Position Secrets for Better Bucking. (Bucking is a subject for another day.)

Because you’re not craning your neck at an awkward angle the whole time, you can usually keep going longer, which means more pleasure for the receiver. The position also opens the door to mixing in other kinds of sex play, making the whole experience feel a little less routine and more exciting.

“Your hands are free in a different way, so you can easily touch breasts, stomach, thighs, and hips from a new angle, creating a fuller experience,” Allison told HuffPost. “Internal stimulation can be easier to incorporate. With this new position, it can be easier to provide vaginal, G-spot, or even anal play at the same time.”

And since the giver’s body is now more within reach of the receiver, they’re also free to caress, touch or otherwise be more engaged in the moment.

“This makes for a more intimate and connected experience,” Allison said. “Try rubbing their shoulders, playing with their hair, or tease their nipples.”

Obviously, every clitoris-haver is different, and not everyone is going to love what Kivin brings to the table. But if you want to try it on your partner now that you’ve got the basics down, here are a few additional tips on how to assume the position.

If you know you’re getting busy later and want to try a new position, it’s a good idea to stretch and limber up first, said Greg Kilpatrick, a psychotherapist and sex therapist in Pasadena, California.

“We stretch at the gym, before and during a run or yoga,” he said. “All of these other activities where we really want our bodies to show up, sex shouldn’t be any different.”

Keeley Rankin, a sex and relationship coach in San Francisco, actually thinks the Kivin method would be great if the receiver was lying on a sofa and the giver was kneeling on their knees, tipping their head to the side. It might be an easier position to get into than both people being flat on the same surface, she said.

“I think one of the most important things with anything having to do with sex, especially oral sex, is enthusiasm, and so much of that is needing to be comfortable while doing it,” Rankin said.

“You’re not going to have a ton of enthusiasm if you’re worried how your neck is going to feel tomorrow,” she said. So don’t be afraid to tweak your oral sex position and do what works for you, even if you’re in the middle of performing.

You can also try a version where the receiver lies on their side, Allison said.

“Bend the top leg and lift it slightly to open up,” she said. “Then you come in from the side in the ‘T’ position. Same concept, just a different feel.”

You also may want to incorporate a pillow (or a sex pillow) under the hips while the receiver is on their back.

“The giver can lie on their stomach, and it really does feel like everything is perfectly presented – easy access, great angle,” she said.

Oral in general is an interesting topic, Kilpatrick said, because it really illustrates how what we expect to feel great to a partner may not actually feel all that great, or how something we expect to feel “eh” can be total fireworks.

“This is particularly the case in heterosexual sex; there are plenty of erogenous areas that can be totally missed without exploration and conversation,” he said.

For instance, he said, it might not intuitively make sense to a male partner to give his female partner’s labia attention until he learns that his scrotum is made of very similar tissue and he likes his balls played with.

Similarly, openly talk about what you liked or didn’t like about the Kivin method.

“When we slow down and make connections like this, it suddenly can make more sense, and lead to more opportunities for pleasure,” Kilpatrick said.

Giving oral sex sideways is a great opportunity to try what Allison likes to call “The Velvet Glide”. We’ll let her explain.

“Create a soft seal with your lips over the entire vulva and keep a gentle, steady suction – nothing too intense,” she said. “Then slowly glide side-to-side along the full length of the vulva. Let it feel smooth and continuous as if you were gliding your puckered lips across corn on the cob.”

The key here is consistency and coverage.

“With the Kivin method, you’re stimulating more areas at once and building anticipation instead of focusing only on the clitoris,” she said. “There are thousands of pleasure enhancing nerve endings all over the inner labia as well, and you’ll be offering more coverage for heightened sensations.”

Everyone’s favourite demoted planet, Pluto, may be shielding a mystery that’s baffled scientists.

An icy body beyond the dwarf planet seems to have an atmosphere that shouldn’t be there, according to a paper published in Nature Astronomy.

At just 500km across, the object, catchily named (612533) 2002 XV ought to be too tiny to have any atmosphere at all.

That’s partly why little planet Pluto was believed to be the only object in our solar system that had an atmosphere beyond Neptune.

But researchers hink they’ve found a “refractive signature, indicating a thin atmosphere” from the even tinier icy mass.

And they do mean “thin”. Some reports suggest the potential atmosphere could be 50-100 times thinner than Pluto’s own, already very weak, atmosphere, and 5-10 million times thinner than ours here on Earth.

Nonetheless, the minor “plutino” planet seemed to affect how a distant star looked while it occulted (temporarily appeared to cover) it.

Rather than cleanly appearing, being hidden, and then reappearing in a kind of “blink” or “wink” illusion, the star appeared to fade slowly as it approached and left the cover of the plutino. That usually only happens when a plant has an atmosphere, as the gases change how the light is filtered.

“This discovery suggests that the traditional idea that global dense atmospheres form only around larger planets must be revised,” the paper reads.

However, planetary scientist Alan Stern told the Associated Press that while “The implications are profound if verified,” the “amazing development… sorely needs independent verification”.

That could involve confirmation by, e.g., NASA’s Webb Space Telescope.

The researchers put forward two theories, though Space.com pointed out that both may have flaws.

The first suggests that another body, like a comet, might have impacted the plutino. But that’d be a stroke of luck on the researchers’ part: the gases from collisions like these fade over time, meaning we would have had to have caught it relatively soon after the impact.

That’s why, study author Ko Arimatsu told AP, the researchers plan to monitor the site. “If the atmosphere fades over the next several years, that would support an impact origin.”

Another theory? Ice volcanoes, which release sublimated gas through cryovolcanic activity. But the cause of this proposed activity is completely unknown.

“If [the atmosphere] persists, or varies seasonally, that would point more toward ongoing internal gas supply,” Arimatsu said.