After six seasons and séjours in two major European cities (so far!), Emily In Paris will be saying au revoir for good at the end of its next run.

On Thursday, Lily Collins shared that her upcoming return as social media exec Emily Cooper will be her last, with production on the new episodes already underway.

In a video shared on Netflix’s socials, the Golden Globe nominee explained: “After six unforgettable years of playing Emily Cooper, I’m here to share that this upcoming sixth season will be our final.”

She continued: “Season six will bring you everything you love about the show, and serve as the final chapter in Emily’s adventure of a lifetime. Our entire cast and crew are pouring our hearts into making this a fantastic farewell season, which we’re now filming.

“I can’t wait for all of the magic ahead, and to celebrate our final season with you in the most chic way yet. We’re so incredibly grateful and we love you.”

Following her previous trip from Paris to Rome, Netflix has teased that Emily’s next trips will take her to Greece and Monaco.

Creator Darren Star said: “Making Emily In Paris with this extraordinary cast and crew has been the trip of a lifetime. As we embark on the final season, I am so grateful to Netflix, Paramount, and, most importantly, the fans who have taken this incredible journey with us.

“We can’t wait to share this last chapter with you. Thank you for letting us be a part of your lives, inspiring your dreams of travel and your love of Paris. We will always have Emily In Paris!”

Although Emily In Paris has never exactly gone down well with critics, its low-stakes drama has made it a consistent hit with Netflix users since it launched in October 2020.

Emily In Paris’ first five seasons are now streaming on Netflix.

Tucker Carlson used Donald Trump’s MAGA motto to tear down the president amid their wrecked alliance.

“The last year has not made America great again,” the former Fox News host said Wednesday on “The Tucker Carlson Show.” “The last year has diminished American power at a rate some of us thought was unimaginable. We couldn’t have foreseen, less than a year and a half ago … the damage that this administration, led by that president, for whom we campaigned and liked personally, could do to this country.”

Fast-forward to 8:55 for those remarks and more:

Carlson spring-boarded on Trump’s boast that he had “99%” approval in Israel to lash out at the war the president initiated in Iran after pledging not to get entangled in overseas conflicts.

“The president of the United States bragging about his popularity in a foreign country,” he said, repeating Trump’s 99% boast. “Unmentioned is the fact that he’s 35% in the United States. Thirty-five percent support from Americans, the people he pledged to represent, to fight for, whose side he promised to take in every conflict, foreign and domestic. And yet, there he is, bragging about how popular he is in a foreign country, the same country that got us into the war that is causing, to some extent, his unpopularity in this country.”

“Now you could say, ‘Well that’s just Trump, searching for affirmation wherever he can. Unpopular at home, he retreats into the fantasy of his popularity in another country,’” Carlson continued. “Well, yes, true. But it’s not a one-time exhibition of this. That president has spent the last year looking outward toward the approval of other nations. That president has spent the last year fighting for people who are not his voters, and in many cases not even Americans, and allowing his own country to languish.”

A new Reuters poll indicated that a huge majority of Americans is not pleased with Trump’s job performance.

Carlson, who earlier this month said that Trump “could be the Antichrist” and then denied it, is still giving him hell.

The Oscar winner is among the star-studded cast of Nolan’s upcoming epic, in which she’s set to play the dual roles of Helen Of Troy and her half-sister Clytemnestra.

Over the last few months, Lupita’s casting in these roles has been met with some controversy among far-right critics, exacerbated by comments from conservative political commentator Matt Walsh and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who criticised the decision to cast a Black woman as characters from Ancient Greece.

During a new interview with Elle magazine, Lupita reminded her racist critics that The Odyssey is “ mythological story”.

“I’m very supportive of Chris’s intention with [The Odyssey] and with the version of this story that he is telling,” she continued.

“Our cast is representative of the world. I’m not spending my time thinking of a defence. The criticism will exist whether I engage with it or not.”

She also enthused: “It’s quite something to be a part of The Odyssey, because it is so grand. It spans worlds. So that’s why the cast is what it is. We’re occupying the epic narrative of our time.”

Nolan and the film’s production company Universal are yet to respond to the backlash.

The Odyssey is due to hit cinemas in July, with Matt Damon taking on the lead role of Odysseus.

Joining him in the movie will be Nolan regulars like Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Elliot Page, as well as Tom Holland, Zendaya, Mia Goth, Travis Scott and Oscar winner Charlize Theron.

Nolan is already dismissing critics who’ve taken issue with the historical accuracy in his latest film, insisting: “Hopefully they’ll enjoy the film, even if they don’t agree with everything.

“We had a lot of scientists complain about Interstellar. But you just don’t want people to think that you took it on frivolously.”

Read Lupita Nyong’o’s full interview in Elle magazine here.

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An online harms expert and therapist has urged parents to contact their children’s schools to get any images of them removed online.

Catherine Knibbs shared earlier in the week that cyber criminals are taking photos of children from school websites and social media, and then manipulating them with AI to make child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Schools are then being blackmailed to send money to stop the images from being shared.

“I’ve personally worked on cases like this as a child trauma and online harms expert – and the cases are sickening,” said Knibbs at the time.

And she warned it’s not just photos uploaded to school websites that are at risk of being taken and manipulated, it’s family photos shared on social media, too.

Her warning came after the National Crime Agency issued an alert in late April to hundreds of thouss of teachers over a “considerable increase” in financially motivated sexual extortion (sextortion).

After her first video was viewed over six million times, Knibbs shared an update urging parents not to wait for the government or tech companies to do something to tackle this growing problem.

“I have been inundated with requests for this … in the United Kingdom and Europe, you have the right to withdraw consent for your child’s images to be used by a setting, which includes schools, gymnastics, scouts, rugby, football, dance, you name it,” she explained in a new video.

“It also includes removing the permission to post on social media and the website and in advertisements and local newspapers.”

The expert has created a free template of a letter parents can fill in and hand over (physically, not via email unless it’s encrypted, she advised) to their children’s schools.

In response to her video, lots of parents commented on how, when they refused consent for their child’s images to be shared online, they were treated as “awkward” for doing so.

One parent said: “We never gave consent for pictures of our children to be used by any organisation and were treated as insane and awkward and difficult by most of them!

Another commented: “I have four children and I never gave consent for their pictures to be on Facebook or on the school website… some teachers did comment that this made taking photos of events very tricky and thought that I was overreacting… always been a bad idea.”

One parent noted how, after opting out of having images shared from day one of their child attending school, the headteacher “couldn’t understand my reasoning at all”.

They ended: “Schools do not need to use images of children’s faces to promote their settings.”

Some parents have already tried to tackle the issue. One mum created Aidos – a safeguarding platform that makes every pupil in a school photograph permanently unidentifiable before the image is shared online.

She previously shared on HuffPost UK: “Schools can keep sharing everything they have always shared. The difference is that those images can no longer be used to harm the children within them.”

I like a great fragrance as much as the next person. But if you’re planning on treating everyone to a noseful of your most prized perfume this summer, some experts advise doing so indoors.

That’s partly because of pests, UV rays, and efficacy; basically, sun and scents don’t always mix.

Here are three reasons why:

At least, that’s according to BBC Gardener’s World, which said you shouldn’t wear it in your garden because wasps are sometimes drawn to the smell.

Dazed reported that fruity and floral scents might be especially tempting. Look out for ingredients like linalool, phenylacetaldehyde and benzyl acetate, which essentially act like nectar signals for our flying friends.

These, they say, are commonly found in the following scents:

• jasmine,
• tuberose,
• ylang‑ylang, and
• orange blossom perfumes.

White flowers and summer fruit scents, like strawberry, are typically draws for wasps.

In a Facebook video, dermatologist Dr Niki Ralph said that you shouldn’t put perfume on skin you’re going to expose to the sun, like your neck.

“Fragrances… particularly certain oils, such as bergamot, lemon, lime… can exacerbate the effect of UV [ultraviolet rays],” she said. This is called photosensitivity, a condition which is triggered by sun exposure – citrus oils are usually the culprit here.

The result of this reaction is called phytophotodermatitis. Over time, that can lead to sun damage and even create broken capillaries and hyperpigmentation.

Applying it to your inner wrists may be safer, Dr Ralph added, because you don’t typically face those towards the sun.

GQ said that heat makes perfumes evaporate faster, meaning the smell doesn’t last as long. Sweat also makes it harder for the smell to cling in the first place.

Some smells, like citrus scents, vanish faster than others, too.

Moisturising your skin and spraying a little on your fabric instead of your dermis can help them to last a bit longer.