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Irish actor Saoirse Ronan has spoken about the reaction to a viral clip of her on The Graham Norton Show where she managed to silence the three male A-listers with a remark about gender-based violence.

The 30-year-old actor, who stars in the Steve McQueen wartime drama Blitz, appeared on 25 October edition of the BBC talk show alongside Gladiator II stars Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington and The Day of the Jackal actor Eddie Redmayne.

The moment occurred after, Redmayne, 42, revealed how he had been taught how to use a phone in an attack while he was training for his role as a lone assassin in the Sky Atlantic series.

In response, Mescal joked: “If someone attacks me I’m not going to go (reaches into pocket) phone.”

The Aftersun actor’s gag got a chuckle out of the audience before Ronan chimed in and said: “That’s what girls have to think about all the time. Am I right ladies?”

The response from the Brooklyn star earned an enthusiastic response from the female audience members.

Clips of the moment were soon shared on social media and at the time of writing, have been viewed more than 19 million times.

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Speaking on The Ryan Tubridy Show on Virgin Radio UK on Wednesday, Ronan said: “The reaction has been wild. It’s definitely not something that I had expected, and I didn’t necessarily set out to sort of make a splash.

“But I do think there’s something really telling about the society that we’re in right now and about how open women want to be with the men in their lives.

“So many men and women that I know from all over the world have gotten in touch with me about this one comment, which is, again, I would urge people, please, please, please to watch this in context.

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“Please watch the whole interview or watch at least that part of the conversation, because it really wasn’t about… the boys weren’t sort of like debunking anything that I was saying.

“But at the same time, it felt very similar to like when I am at dinner with a bunch of my friends and I will always make the point that, well, this is actually an experience that we go through every single day, 100 per cent.”

Ronan said Normal People star Mescal is one of her “very dear friends” and added that she has “had conversations like that with him before and he completely gets that.”

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She continued: “I think the fact that there was a moment like that that happened on a show like Graham Norton, which is something that the entire nation channels in to watch and even overseas, it’s something that people tune into, it seems to have had an accessibility which seems to have really gained traction, which I think is amazing.

“It’s opening a conversation and again, hopefully, it’s allowing more and more women to just be like, well, yeah, actually, let’s talk about our experience.

“I met a woman last night who’s working on Blitz, and she said ‘It’s really interesting, after we watched that interview, myself and a few of my female friends were with my husband and we said, you know, this really reminds me of the fake phone call.’

“And her husband went, ‘What, fake phone call? What do you mean?’.

“And of course, you wouldn’t understand if you’ve not had to go through anything like that. But she somehow, throughout her life as a female, has gained these tools without ever talking to other women about it and understanding that this is sort of a survival tactic.

“And we’ve all sort of subconsciously found the same tools and use them again and again and I find that really interesting.”

Additional reporting by PA.

MARRIED At First Sight fans were left irritated tonight after spotting Amy’s very annoying habit.

Amy was left furious as Lacey told her that Luke was “envious” of her when she salsa danced with Adam last week.

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Amy who admitted that Adam treated her like a “princess” during her time with him, was upset that she was not receiving the same treatment from her husband Luke.

She relayed this to some of the girls but viewers were too busy picking up some of the errors in her grammar.

Amy repeatedly kept saying ‘tret’, mistakenly using it as the past tense of ‘treat’, when it is actually ‘treated’,

E4 viewers quickly pointed this out, with one writing: “Tret” isn’t a word darling.”

A second said: “It’s treated not tret.”

This annoyed viewer posted: “AMY STOP SAYING ‘he TRET me like a Queen’ TRET is not a thing’.”

Someone else said: “Amy – the past tense if treat is NOT tret. IQ of a pineapple.”

This person commented: “STOP SAYING TRET IT’S NOT A WORD.”

On tonight’s show, Lacey dropped a huge bombshell that rocked Amy and Luke’s marriage.

During a conversation with Lacey, Kristina and Sacha, Amy said: “The thing that made me think, was that Adam was treating me like a queen and he said to me ‘Amy, I’m not doing anything for you that I don’t do for Polly’.

“It made me think, I can’t wait to ask Lacey, what’s Luke done for Lacey.”

Lacey then spilled the beans and said: “Another thing, you know that picture of me and Adam, he said that he was actually a little bit envious deep down.

“He wanted a partner like that.”

Amy gasped and said she needed a minute to comprehend what her husband had said.

Sacha pointed out: “That’s contradicting himself massively.”

Amy tried to clarify, saying: “So at the beginning you weren’t classy and he was proud of me for being classy, but now he wants me to be like you because I’m too classy.”

Lacey simply replies: “Yes,” leaving Amy confused and hurt.

Lacey was referring to the photo that was taken between Lacey and Adam when they were salsa dancing on the separate days.

Luke described that initially as not being classy.

Expert Paul C Brunson explained: “The fact that Amy sees that Like likes the way Amy acts, is confusing to Amy.”

A furious Amy admitted to the girls: “That comment about him being envious because he wants me to be like you is f****** bull***.”

Sacha let rip at Luke at the dinner table and told him he playing up to the cameras, leaving him gobsmacked.

But it looks like only half of the conversation was relayed.

Last night, Luke simply said that he would have liked a wife to be “less stiff” and to let her hair down.

He also told Lacey during their chat that he wanted Amy to relax more, so he could see a different side to her.

Luke also apologised to Lacey for saying that dancing with another man was “not classy”.

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The new Netflix series Territory is earning rave reviews from critics while fans on social media have compared it to hit shows Yellowstone and Succession.

The Australian series arrived on the streaming service last week.

An official synopsis says: “When the world’s largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart.

“Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners – move in for the kill.”

On reviews aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes the series is rated 80% fresh, with Hollywood Reporter critic Daniel Fienberg declaring: “The cattle in Territory may not have a lot of genetic diversity — it’s a plot point! — and the hats may look a bit worn around the edges. But whatever you’re looking for, this series has a lot of it.”

On social media, viewers pointed out the similarities to Yellowstone with one writing: “I’m just 1,5 episodes in, but if #Netflix cancels this Aussie Yellowstone gem of a show, they are damn fools and we all should cancel subscription and renew it for a month when a particular show comes out, because COME ON! #Territory”

Another viewer added: “the new Netflix show ‘Territory’ is a mixture of Yellowstone and Succession. 9/10”

Others were less complimentary about the parallels, with one writing on X: “Territory is just Yellowstone with accents.”

Another said: “Netflix just dropped a new series called Territory that’s basically Yellowstone (hate to admit, it’s an admittedly great show)…”

In a B- review for AV Club, critic Todd Lazarski said he found the show both “bloody” and “soapy.”

“With such a shotgun-and-pickup-truck swagger, and a plot in conversation with season two of Fargo, Netflix seeks to get in on the wide-open-spaces itch of fans of Yellowstone, or Tulsa King, or whatever else Taylor Sheridan is cooking up under the expansive stars of his ranch,” wrote Lazarski.

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“But it’s not long before the tough-guy-and-girl schtick runs a bit toward pulpy, ending frequently in the realm of soapy. And for stretches, it can read as downright sudsy, with a love story sparked around an awkward request to take iPhone vids of some sweet horseback-riding moves. A Road House-esque brawl is precipitated by the kind of bar entrance where you hop on your buddy’s back and jostle his hat down over his eyes and then start a for-fun quarrel with bottles smashed over heads.”

Territory is on Netflix now.

MARRIED At First Sight UK viewers have insisted that one bride is ‘enjoying causing issues’ with another couple.

On tonight’s edition of the hit Channel 4 social experiment, tensions rose at the latest dinner party.

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Before they sat down for the main meal, the girls and the lads all exchanged stories about the partner swap twist.

The Married At First Sight couples were all separated at Amy was put with Adam and Lacey spent time with Luke.

The girls exchanged stories and couldn’t help but compare their partners behaviour when they were with someone else.

Lacey admitted that when she spent time with Luke, he did things for her that he would never do with Amy.

She admitted that he went to the gym, but he left her a note saying he would be back to make her breakfast.

He also made her a coffee, all the things that Amy wished that Luke would do for her in their marriage.

Amy then said that Adam “treated me like a princess,” unlike her own husband as she later brought up his comments at the dinner party.

She thinks he said to Lacey: “I’m envious my wife isn’t like you.”

At the commitment ceremony, Luke complained that Amy is not “classy” like Lacey, and suggested that she needed to be more fun and carefree.

However, fans think that Lacey was deliberately trying to cause issues between Amy and Luke,

They took to X, formerly known as Twitter, accusing her of trying to sabotage the reality couple.

One user wrote: “Lacey really enjoyed telling Amy what Luke said. Still not over that classy comment.”

“Lacey is enjoying causing issues between Amy and Luke,” stated a second fan.

As a third noted: “Lacey, Polly and Sasha are trying to break Amy and Luke. Just st*u.”

“Lacey is a Snake. She could not wait to run tell Amy. Luke said he wished he had that sort of intimacy with Amy,” posted someone else.

As a fifth viewer added: “Lacey is such a s*** stirrer and has ironically proven that she has zero class.”

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Married At First Sight UK is available to watch on E4 and stream online on Channel 4.

MARRIED At First Sight star Lacey‘s mum makes another appearance in the upcoming homestays following fan backlash.

But things don’t go to plan as she begins to flirt with her son-in-law Nathan and jokes that she’d “snap him up”.

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Lacey heads home to visit her mum and sister Paige as the process nears the end.

In a preview clip for Thursday’s episode, Nathan is seen doing some DIY as he picks up a paint brush.

But Lacey’s mum uses it as an opportunity to enjoy some flirty banter with the young lad, 24.

She cheekily rubs his shoulders, prompting Lacey to warn her: “Mum, stop flirting with my man.”

The smitten mother-in-law then tells the camera: “If only he was 20 years older, I’d snap him up.”

Earlier this month, viewers watched as Lacey’s mum and sister Paige divided fans during “meet the in-laws” week.

However, fans hit out at “the mother in law from hell” after a disastrous visit.

First, her mother cornered Nathan in the kitchen and intensely quizzed him about whether he actually fancied Lacey – or sister Paige.

The barrage of questions continued over dinner, before the mother in law burst into tears when Nathan made a joke about her cooking.

Vegetarian Nathan ‘bantered’ that the chicken fajitas she had whipped up for them ‘looked like they were from the bottom of the bin’.

Fans were aghast at how the visit went and felt sorry for Nathan, who suffers from ADHD.

Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, one fan blasted: “Lacey’s mum = mother in law from hell.”

Another added: “Laceys mum is MONSTER IN LAW.”

A third chimed in: “Oh Lacey’s mum is awful the mother in law from hell I would be so embarrassed I feel so sorry for him.”

But Lacey jumped to her mum’s defence.

Posting on Instagram, she wrote: “Hey everyone, wanted to clear a few things up, my mum did NOT know Nathan was vegetarian also she had no say in what we was eating, she just was told ur making fajitas!” she posted on her Instagram Story.

She added: “You need to remember it is edited for entertainment and to take it with a pinch of salt!”

This isn’t the first time Lacey’s mum has come under fire by fans.

She found herself in the spotlight during her daughter and Nathan’s wedding episode earlier in the series.

As he made his big entrance for the first time, she shouted across the wedding venue about his appearance.

“Wow, wow, oh my god. Can we swap?!” she yelled.

“Oh wow!” she added, before gasping and holding placing her hands on her face in shock.

Sitting in the front row, Lacey’s mum then continued towards Nathan: “Mummy’s got the approval, she likes!

“Very handsome man, very very handsome man.”

Fans were very quick to brand her “inappropriate”, with one adding: “Genuinely think I would die if my mum acted that way around my husband.”

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Stephen Colbert has reacted to Donald Trump’s recent outlandish remarks he made at a rally in Georgia.

On Monday (October 28) evening, the former US president defended himself against accusations that he is a fascist while speaking to rallygoers in Atlanta. “I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,” Trump told the crowd. “Y’know, years ago, my father – I had a great father, he’s a tough guy – he used to always say, ‘Never use the word Nazi.’ And he’d say, ‘Never use the word Hitler, don’t use that word.’”

During the latest episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the late-night host responded to Trump’s unconventional family rule, saying: “Well, that’s just weird. You can’t say Hitler? What does that mean? It’s not a swear word.”

Mimicking Trump’s voice, Colbert joked: “My dad used to say, ‘You can’t say Hitler, OK? Don’t you dare take his name in vain.’ And he would make me put a quarter – anytime I would – he would make me put a quarter in the ‘Hitler jar’ and when it got filled, he would send it to my uncles in Argentina.”

Trump, 78, has continuously denied claims made by former officials of his first term administration that he’s a fascist. In an interview with the New York Times published last week, former chief of staff John Kelly said that Trump “fits the definition of fascism.”

“Looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” he said. “In my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America.”

Shortly after, 13 former members of Trump’s administration wrote a letter in support of Kelly’s comments, saying: “There are moments in history where it becomes necessary to put country over party. This is one of those moments. Everyone should heed General Kelly’s warning.”

Kelly previously claimed that Trump privately praised Hitler and expressed envy at his control over the military.

The Trump reelection campaign has vehemently denied Kelly’s claims, telling The Independent: “This is absolutely false, President Trump never said this.”