Gillian Anderson has opened up further about the controversy surrounding the source material her film The Salt Path.

In 2024, Anderson starred alongside The White Lotus’ Jason Isaacs in a big-screen adaptation of Raynor Winn’s book of the same name.

However, last year, Winn’s book – which was marketed as a memoir upon its release in 2018 – came under scrutiny after The Observer published a lengthy piece casting doubt on the legitimacy of some of the claims outlined within it.

“It was really disappointing, a huge letdown,” she told The Times of the debacle. “The story came out the week we were signing US distribution and Sony withdrew.”

She admitted: “We had been so surprised by its success: ‘What, really, this film about two old people going on a walk?’. It felt like such a betrayal because we’d spent time with [the Winns].”

Noting that she hasn’t heard from Winn since the Observer’s piece was published, Anderson added: “I was interested in the due diligence – like, how has it come to this? What degree of proof was there?

“They had told us that they couldn’t talk about [a previous] legal case because it was ongoing. Anyway. It was unfortunate.”

Last week, Anderson broke her silence on the controversy, telling Radio Times: “I think we were about to sign with Sony Classics [to distribute The Salt Path] for the United States the week when the article came out, so it sucked, and continues to suck.”

Around the same time, Isaacs also spoke about the thorny matter for the first time, insisting that he and Anderson had made a “beautiful film” and that “much of it is still completely valid”.

In Winn’s first book, she claimed that she and her husband Moth had walked the 600-mile length of the South West Coast Path after being made homeless.

She also wrote about Moth’s struggles with the neurodegenerative disease corticobasal degeneration (CBD), with which which he was diagnosed shortly before the couple lost their home.

The Observer’s original 2025 article raised questions about a number of parts in The Salt Path, including exactly what led to the couple being made homeless, and specific parts of Moth’s illness.

At the time, the writer’s legal team provided a statement to the outlet, which read: “The Salt Path lays bare the physical and spiritual journey Moth and I shared, an experience that transformed us completely and altered the course of our lives. This is the true story of our journey.”

The Telegraph also published a longer version of this statement, which added: “[The] Observer article is highly misleading. We are taking legal advice and won’t be making any further comment at this time.”

Natalie Harp has managed to escape much public scrutiny even as she stands, day after day, in the shadow of one of the most heavily scrutinised individuals on Planet Earth, US President Donald Trump.

Harp, one of Trump’s very closest aides, was the target of a pointed barb from Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Sunday, when the senator told a large crowd that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job” of president, as evidenced by his golf habits, the mess he’s made in Iran and his continuing habit of appearing to fall asleep in meetings.

“He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenceless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar,” Ossoff said.

Just days earlier, a series of bombshell reports revealed that the US Secret Service had spirited the 80-year-old president away from a conference in Turkey aboard a secret aircraft, leaving top Cabinet members and the entire White House press corps to ride home on the craft usually designated Air Force One because that plane was at risk of being shot down by Iran.

Who was reportedly brought inside this international caper? Just three aides — including Harp. Not even Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seen as a potential successor to the MAGA movement, was with the president.

In short: a California-born, homeschooled Christian ex-TV host who adores — adores — Donald Trump.

She is young, in her mid-30s. The Daily Beast reported that she celebrated her 35th birthday on Aug. 8, although HuffPost was unable to immediately confirm that.

Her path to Trump’s inner circle included stops at Fox News, the 2020 Republican National Convention and the One America News Network before ascending to the White House, where she follows Trump around minding his Truth Social account and printing out glowing articles about him for him to read.

She is, in essence, a one-woman presidential cheerleading squad.

In 2019, Harp appeared on Fox News to praise Trump for supporting the Right to Try Act, which she said had allowed her to try experimental medical treatments for bone cancer. The following year, she stood at a podium on an empty pandemic-era stage to say to Trump: “I wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for you.” (Experts consulted by The Washington Post doubt that is true.)

Harp then spent a couple years hosting an OANN show with her name on it before she joined Trump’s campaign in 2022, according to political columnist Michael Wolff, who wrote in his 2025 book All Or Nothing that Harp was eventually considered “a potential danger to herself as well as to the president” due to the security risk she presented. No one, however, apparently wanted to be the one to have that uncomfortable conversation with him, as Trump has always prized loyalty in his staff.

Harp once wrote Trump a “series of devotional letters,” The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan revealed in a 2024 report.

“You are all that matters to me,” she reportedly wrote in one letter to her boss. In another, “I want to bring you joy.” One missive thanked Trump for being her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”

The letters apparently alarmed even Susie Wiles, now Trump’s ever-composed chief of staff, Haberman and Swan noted in Regime Change: Inside The Imperial Presidency Of Donald Trump.

(Wolff addressed speculation that Harp’s relationship with Trump, a notorious cheat, may have gone beyond just work, but he concluded that the president was “post-sex,” having replaced it with politics. Which may be worse.)

The New York Times duo gave Harp a small supporting role in their book, describing her as a frequent presence in the Oval Office, on hand to “gush with delight” at whatever Trump’s latest gilded addition to the historic office walls turned out to be.

The portable printer Harp carries has inspired some in Trump’s orbit to refer to her as the “Human Printer” — although Maggie Haberman says she is more like a human comfort blanket, or Trump’s “binkie.”

At another point in Regime Change, Harp is showered with praise after Trump directs her to get “the real numbers” on tariffs imposed by India and China on the United States, as he did not trust the ones being provided to him by his own commerce secretary.

As Haberman and Swan wrote:

“Natalie, give me the real numbers. Do your Google, do your computer thing, and get me the real numbers.” … Trump had taken to telling his staff that Natalie (or “Nathalie,” as he would call her, using a French pronunciation) was the only one who loved him as much as his wife and kids. “All of you will go off and make money,” he would say. “She’ll never leave me.” … Harp, despite her best efforts, was not finding the numbers that didn’t exist.

A quick search through newswire image databases shows Harp hovering in the background of Trump’s second presidency — exiting Air Force One, smiling alongside Trump’s children, standing at attention in the Oval Office. During the last campaign, when Trump was being tried for fraud in New York City, Harp was there.

Earlier this month, she reportedly spent her birthday with him at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course.

Her brother has called her relationship with Trump “very unhealthy.”

“She’s just like his fan club,” Preston Harp, 38, told the Daily Mail earlier this summer. The older Harp said he has been estranged from his sister and his mother, Jill Harp, after the 2020 death of Robert Harp, the siblings’ father, who, like Trump, was a real estate businessman.

The siblings were homeschooled together in their childhood, Preston Harp said.

“The focus for my mom’s kind of Christianity just really seemed about preaching about hellfire,” Harp told the Mail, adding: “Natalie just kind of followed my mom.”

Ossoff’s focus on Harp appears to have hit a nerve at the White House.

Communications director Steven Cheung lobbed a crude nickname Ossoff’s way in a social media post on Monday.

“Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics,” he wrote. “Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he’s a miserable person who hates this country. It’s because he’s a radical, extremist Dumocrat.”

Trump himself demurred when asked about Ossoff’s remarks.

“You mean Pee-wee Herman? Pee-wee Herman look-a-like?” he said of the senator, going on to pat himself on the back for his White House renovation work.

President Donald Trump lashed out CNN’s Kristen Holmes on Monday after she attempted to ask about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and whether Trump canceled a joint US-South Korea military exercise at his request.

“Did [Kim Jong Un] ask you to scale back on those?” she asked.

Instead of answering the question, Trump pointed a finger at her: “Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet!”

“You’re very disrespectful in front of this young man,” Trump said, turning to a boy who was seated on the couch for an unrelated Oval Office meet-and-greet. “Don’t you find her disrespectful?” he asked the boy, laughing to himself.

Trump then asked what outlet Holmes was with and fell back on his old standby of yelling “fake news” after learning the answer was CNN.

“I just want to follow up on the South Korea question,” she persisted.

“FAKE NEWS,” he yelled back. “YOU’RE FAKE NEWS. You’re loud. You’re a loud, boisterous person; you’re fake news.”

Undeterred, Holmes asked again: “I’m trying to find out if you have been talking to Kim Jong Un and if he asked you…”

Trump again cut her off: “Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You’re a fake reporter. And you report fake news.”

Following the president’s Oval Office outburst, a social media account associated with the White House doubled down on attacking Holmes hours later. It called her a “disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession.”

Avoiding the question of North Korea entirely, the account seemingly blamed Holmes for an earlier “cheap shot” question about Trump’s close relationship with aide Natalie Harp, which Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) had publicly questioned over the weekend.

(In the meantime, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung responded to Ossoff’s criticism by calling him a “cuck loser.”)

Holmes was attacked a third time in a follow-up White House post:

“Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question,” read the post. “They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive. It’s quite troubling.”

CNN responded to the attacks by affirming its support for Holmes in a public statement:

Kristen Holmes is one of the most respected and accomplished journalists covering the White House. This afternoon, she did her job and asked the President of the United States a tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people. Public officials are free to challenge reporting they disagree with, but personal attacks on journalists for asking questions are beneath the office and inconsistent with the principles of a free press. We stand firmly behind Kristen and reject these attacks in the strongest possible terms.

The first year after a baby is born can be a complete blur for new parents – I’ve been there twice, and I feel like I was delirious for about 90% of it.

Between the sleep deprivation, the constant state of high alert and the mental and physical recovery, it’s really no wonder so many new parents feel so exhausted.

Those who choose to breastfeed might also notice this makes them feel more wiped – even after months of milk production. (I breastfed for two years and felt just as exhausted by year two than I did earlier on in my journey.)

Google searches for “does breastfeeding make you tired?” have gone up by more than 5,000% recently, according to analysis by Proceive Breastfeeding. The answer is certainly, yes. But why?

Well, there are several reasons.

Dr Nikki Ramskill, a GP verified on the healthcare review platform Doctify, and founder of The Female Health Doctor Clinic, told HuffPost UK: “Firstly, your body is doing a huge amount of work behind the scenes. Prolactin, the hormone responsible for milk production, naturally has a calming, sleepy effect, and levels rise overnight.

“Producing breast milk also requires extra energy, roughly 300-500 calories a day, at a time when your body is still recovering from pregnancy and birth.”

Broken sleep will also play a part. “It’s not always about how many hours you’re getting in total. If you’re waking every couple of hours to feed, you’re repeatedly being pulled out of the deeper, restorative stages of sleep,” Dr Ramskill explained.

“You can technically have had six or seven hours of sleep across a night and still wake up feeling absolutely shattered.”

There’s the nutrient loss to consider, too. Registered nutritionist Charlotte Grand, who works with Proceive, said: “The mother’s body prioritises the baby above all else. Breastfeeding actively draws critical micronutrients, including B vitamins, vitamin D, zinc, and iron, directly from the mother’s tissue stores to ensure the milk is perfectly balanced.

“Because this continuous nutrient loss drains her internal reserves, it can quickly lead to systemic depletion and profound fatigue if those vitamins are not actively replenished.”

And as if all of that wasn’t enough, there’s another factor that can be fuelling breastfeeding fatigue over the summer – and that’s the hot weather. In Japan, summer exhaustion has an actual name: “natsubate”.

“During a heatwave, your body has to work much harder to keep your core temperature in a safe range,” Dr Ginni Mansberg, a GP and co-founder of ESK, previously told us. “That means diverting blood to the skin, increasing sweating and making your heart work a little harder.”

When it’s hot, you’re at risk of dehydration – and breastfeeding increases your fluid requirements, so it becomes even easier to become dehydrated. Dr Ramskill noted even mild dehydration can leave you feeling tired, headachy and generally wiped out.

Thankfully, there are a few ways to help try and ease the feeling of fatigue.

Dr Ramskill suggested keeping a bottle of water next to you every time you feed, and making sure you’re eating enough. “I’d favour small, regular meals or snacks containing protein and iron rather than trying to keep yourself functioning on caffeine and sugary snacks,” she added.

Grand recommended also introducing a supplement to replace the micronutrients being depleted. (Proceive offer one, as do brands like Vitabiotics and Wild Nutrition).

She also urges mums to “honour the prolactin window”. Explaining this further, she said: “Since prolactin naturally induces drowsiness during a feed, mothers should try to align their rest with the baby’s schedule where possible. Even a 20-minute resting block immediately following a morning feed can help reset the nervous system.”

“Postpartum blood loss, combined with the iron demands of breastfeeding, makes subclinical iron deficiency a major driver of fatigue,” said Grand, who advised incorporating iron-rich foods (like lean meats, lentils, and leafy greens) alongside vitamin C (which optimises iron absorption).

Dr Ramskill agrees, noting that iron deficiency and anaemia are “incredibly common” after pregnancy, particularly in those who lost a significant amount of blood during birth.

Signs of iron deficiency anaemia can include: tiredness, lack of energy, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, looking paler than usual and headaches.

“B12, vitamin D and thyroid function are also worth considering if the exhaustion feels excessive or simply isn’t improving,” the GP added.

“Postpartum thyroid problems, for example, can easily be mistaken for the normal tiredness and upheaval of having a new baby.”

Most new mums are going to be tired – but that doesn’t mean it should be ignored. Don’t be afraid to ask your support network for help with feeds or taking the baby so you can get some rest.

And if the tiredness feels overwhelming, is getting worse rather than better, or doesn’t improve at all when you do manage to rest, speak to your GP.

“Symptoms such as breathlessness, dizziness, palpitations, significant weight changes, feeling unusually hot or cold, or heavy or prolonged bleeding are also worth investigating,” claimed Dr Ramskill.

“And I’d pay particular attention to mental health. Persistent low mood, anxiety, intrusive thoughts or feeling unable to cope shouldn’t simply be put down to being a tired new mum.”

Perez Hilton is receiving inpatient treatment two weeks after he was hospitalised following a mental health episode in which he appeared to self-harm during a TikTok livestream.

On Sunday evening, a fresh update was posted on Perez’s blog, attributed to his family, in which they said: “To everyone who has reached out, checked in, and kept Perez and our family in your thoughts, THANK YOU!

“At this time, Perez remains hospitalised and is receiving the medical care he needs. His treatment is continuing in an inpatient setting under the care of a dedicated team of medical and mental health professionals.”

They also shared that Perez’s team will begin updating his celebrity blog from this week onwards while he continues his recovery.

“For now, Perez’s health remains the priority as his team keeps the site active and moving forward,” they added.

Earlier this month, police officers were called to Perez’s home in Miami in the wake of a TikTok livestream in which he was apparently seen self-harming.

The former Celebrity Big Brother housemate – whose legal name is Mario Lavandeira – was subsequently taken to a nearby hospital for medical attention.

“Perez’s condition remains serious but stable,” his family said last week. “He experienced significant blood loss and sustained additional injuries that will require surgery in the coming days.

“His treatment and recovery will be a long process. We are grateful that Perez was able to spend time with his mother and sister yesterday.

“As our family remains focused on Perez’s treatment and recovery, we also need the space and privacy to care for everyone affected by this situation.”

Before that, the family had said their “highest priority” was helping Perez’s children – aged 13, 11 and eight – “begin to heal from what they experienced” following the episode.

They noted that his children, niece and sister had all been at Perez’s home before the livestream got underway, but “immediately fled to protect the children from witnessing any further trauma” when it “became clear that Perez was experiencing a severe mental health crisis and harming himself”.

This article contains spoilers for The End Of Oak Street.

If you were in the mood to watch an old-school blockbuster family adventure, see Anne Hathaway’s wonderful face projected onto a 20-foot screen or just needed an excuse to chill in an air-conditioned room; you may well have spent some time in the cinema watching The End Of Oak Street at the weekend.

As you’ll know, the movie stars Oscar winner Anne and Ewan McGregor as the parents of a family in the early 80s who find that they, their kids and their entire family have been transported back through space and time, and must suddenly contend with dinosaurs on their cul-de-sac.

Early on, Ewan’s character perishes while trying to save his family, only to be brought back in the movie’s final moments through a good old bit of time-swapping.

However, speaking to USA Today, the Scottish actor admitted that the film didn’t always have such a happy ending.

Instead, he claimed that the original finale was even “more interesting” as it saw Anne’s character and her children winding up not travelling far enough in the future to save their dad, ending up “in the prairies during the settlers’ times” instead.

“They hadn’t made it back to their own time, and poor old Greg wasn’t there,” Ewan explained, praising that the finished movie allowed “the mending” of his and Anne’s characters’ relationship in its final scene.

Before the end of the year, she’s also set to share the screen with Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett in the Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity.

She’s got another project in post-production, having now completed work on the military drama Alone At Dawn, co-starring Adam Driver.

The End Of Oak Street is in cinemas now.

Nothing reminds me that I’m a mere mortal mammal like the overwhelming urge to forage I get every August. Blackberries, cherries, and even some apples thrive and ripen during this month.

Sure, I get that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea – the brambles, the blackberry stains, and yes, the bugs. And while I can’t help the nature of, well, nature, I can suggest some hacks for ensuring your picks are pest-free.

Here’s how to properly clean your blackberries – and how to store them when you’ve debugged the bunch.

I grew up picking blackberries, which means I’m all too familiar with the teeny-tiny, pale worms that often populate the fruit. These are usually the larvae of fruit flies, and are not likely to come out at first rinse because they nestle deep in the berry.

One way to provide a hostile bug environment for long enough to actually extract the worms involves submerging the entire batch of berries in water, perhaps with a dash of vinegar or salt added.

Delishably agree: “Some people recommend just rinsing blackberries in a colander or a sieve to clean them. This is definitely not what I recommend because I know from experience that you can still end up with little bugs remaining and hiding in the fruit if you try to wash them this way. For a proper clean what they need is a good soak.”

The best way to banish every last bug from your berries is to:

• Fill a bowl with tepid water, enough to cover the entire blackberry pick
• Add a dash of apple cider vinegar or salt if desired
• Swirl the blackberries around like you’re washing rice
• Remove the worms that have floated to the top (gross, I know)
• Drain and soak again – I do this around three times
• Leave to air-dry in a colander or sieve
• Spread onto kitchen rolls or clean cloths to dry.

Unfortunately, blackberries have a pretty rubbish shelf life. Even if stored in a well-ventilated container in the fridge, you can’t expect them to last more than two-ish days fresh (boo).

If freezing blackberries, you’ll want to avoid packing all the berries together in a huddled mass. This can cause them to clump and stick together in a tricky-to-use chunk when frozen.

Instead, consider fully drying the berries and then flash-freezing them for a couple of hours on a baking sheet. Ensure none of them are touching each other. Then, when you freeze the berries, they should all tumble out in individual berries.

Of course, the frozen kinds are mushier and more shapeless than their fresh counterparts, so reserve these for crumbles, jams, bakes, and smoothies where the berries are less visible.