Will Pavia

Revealed: Harper Lee’s unseen stories — published at last Eight neatly typed short stories by the To Kill a Mockingbird author were discovered after her death. Will Pavia reads them and talks to her nephew — plus read Lee’s letter to Oprah Winfrey and how sh...

Harper Lee's '50s short stories, published tomorrow, are wonderful. There's one about attempting to sweet talk her way out of parking ticket by quoting Victorian literature. Sadly, the NYPD officer is unmoved
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Michael J Fox: ‘Dying? I just haven’t had the time’ The actor has lived with Parkinson’s disease since he was 29. Now 64, he’s jamming with Coldplay at Glastonbury and has written a new book about the film that made him a megastar. He takes Will Pavia ...

The cameras roll, the back of a lorry opens and out comes a swirl of dry ice and a silver DeLorean.

“And this guy jumps out and he goes, ‘MARTY!’ ” says Michael J Fox. “I’m, like, ‘Holy shit!’"

He shot that film with no rehearsal. It was wonderful to chat with him

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‘Terrifying’: comedy writers blast Trump and FCC after Jimmy Kimmel suspension Leading TV figures say the industry, whose presenters are often anti-Trump, is being censored after ABC host was taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments

I've spoken to some brilliant comedy writers about the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, and how writers will respond
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Yes! I would worry that if you eat a lipstick you are lip-sticking your insides but apparently the lipstick was made of chocolate

Doja Cat’s lipstick stunt is the best celebrity endorsement of all time Mere product placement is not enough anymore, experts say. Advertisement campaigns need to offer something edgy and new to go viral

When the rapper Doja Cat eats a tube of lipstick, what does it mean for humanity and/or the advertising industry and celebrity endorsements? Answers to these pressing questions here
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Is America finally warming to Oasis? Definitely, maybe Oasis tour: While the swagger and obvious hostility between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher put many off in old days, their Chicago show suggests things have changed

Once there were some Americans who thought Oasis a poor imitation of the Beatles; now their music may be old enough to sound original.
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Excellent line from @willpavia.bsky.social

My day waiting for Bruce Springsteen with his most ardent superfans The Boss says he returns to the bungalow where he wrote Born to Run on every anniversary of the album’s release. The Spring-Nuts have taken him at his word

I spent the day outside Bruce Springsteen's old bungalow, hoping to spot the Boss returning, as he apparently does each year, to solemnly contemplate the place where it all began. It was just me and about fifty other people
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Comet? UFO? Astronomers puzzle over fastest object in solar system 3I/Atlas, which is travelling at 118,000mph, has baffled scientists. Some suggest it could be an alien probe — others a hard-baked cosmic iceberg

Comet? UFO? Astronomers puzzle over fastest object in solar system

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Six-seven, sigma, unc — what the kids are saying behind your back Test your knowledge of the ‘Alpha-bet’ — the baffling slang used by Generation Alpha — in our quiz

How to talk, or at least understand, Alpha.
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Excellent by @willpavia.bsky.social

What I like is that there is a kind of logic behind it all, so it's possible to get the answers in the quiz.

My hair-raising investigation into a Gen Z cult Will Pavia volunteered his face for a social experiment. At first he hated his moustache — then it suddenly grew on him

A (possibly far too lengthy) investigation into the moustaches appearing on the faces of young men, and what it might mean, including, I'm afraid, some undercover work
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And sometimes they even feature Us in the news!
Shout out to @thetimes.com and our incredibly brave and super cool news journalist friend, @willpavia.bsky.social!
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The Hollywood mogul, his gay lovers — and his fashion icon wife Barry Diller is the studio boss who reinvented TV. Now, at 83, he’s written a candid memoir about his marriage to the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg

The Hollywood mogul, his gay lovers — and his fashion icon wife

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Do not read this article if you are over six. You won’t get it Meet Ballerina Cappucina, Bombardino Crocodilo and Tung Tung Tung Sahur — the little monsters of TikTok whose express purpose is to rot your child’s brain

I’ve spoken to some experts about the dangers of Italian brainrot, and only three of them were my children
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In a further sign of the end times, the auto-transcriber I use keeps rendering Joan Didion as ‘Diddy’

Trump loves Britain. You could tell by the Sean Connery impression As Sir Keir Starmer’s disembodied voice celebrated the US trade deal, Lord Mandelson echoed Churchill and tried to sell the president a Rolls-Royce

Trump on the all important will James Bond be tariffed question

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‘Let them eat cake’: the Met Gala is dead, long live the Debt Gala In Brooklyn, those who cannot afford $75,000 for a ticket to the high-fashion event raise funds for people in the red over healthcare. It’s a spectacle like no other

I went, very inadequately dressed, to New York's big fashion event of the week, the Debt Gala, which is like the one at the Met except that people enjoy it

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Kelsey Grammer: The truth about my sister’s horrific murder The actor is best known for playing the psychiatrist Frasier in the hit sitcom. But behind the success lay his drink and drug abuse due to the death of his sister Karen

I talked with Kelsey Grammer about piecing together the awful details of his sister’s murder, and about a glimpse of heaven, from a surfboard: ‘I looked up and saw the sun through the wave and it happened… an awareness suddenly that, oh, I’m in heaven already.’
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In Trump-voting Iowa, farmers have started to shout at each other In our second dispatch from the new president’s America, our writer in this polite corner of the Midwest sees tensions rise over tariffs and tattoos

After a hundred days of Trump’s second term, town hall meetings in rural Iowa are pretty feisty

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I tried the white-glove surfing experience —inside a shopping mall The Times correspondent Will Pavia joins Lodi High School surf club, the only one in the state, to catch some waves — despite being 40 miles from the sea

What it’s like to surf in the industrial marshland of northern New Jersey, with the only high school shopping mall surf club

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Meet Nicky Campbell, the brutal red carpet ‘fashion police’ It’s awards season and there’s a new star in town: Nicky Campbell, the former Vogue assistant whose blunt appraisals of celebrities’ outfits have turned him into a TikTok phenomenon

I went on patrol with the fashion policeman Nicky Campbell (or at least we talked about crimes he has investigated, and he gently roasted my outfit)

🔓 This story is free to read

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Central Park’s runners and riders are at war. Could I help them make peace? When is a red light not a red light? Our writer finds out

I have been in Central Park covering the conflict between runners and cyclists. I went in there at dawn, like the great Anthony Lloyd into a warzone, with barely a thought for my own personal safety
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The Times paywall is down this weekend: it's a chance to read silly writing about Trump singing and Elon Musk looking slightly like a seal

What the Salman Rushdie trial means for free speech The Story · Episode

🗣 ' Rushdie does not believe someone would write an equivalent of The Satanic Verses today'

What the Salman Rushdie trial means for free speech ⬇️

🎙 The Story podcast
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The Netflix documentary Prince’s estate won’t let you see After paying millions for access to the star’s archive and enlisting an Oscar-winning director for five years, this is how it fell apart for the producers

I can’t believe this. It’s like the masterpiece films that go up in smoke in a Paul Auster novel and all we have of them is the written account of someone lucky enough to see them

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My six-year-old tells me that the eggs we have bought do not have bird flu. He is confident of this because the hen portrayed on the box, in a cartoon diagram, 'looks pretty healthy'

Meet ‘Freida McFadden’, the doctor hiding her secret life as a bestselling author The Housemaid author has sold 17 million books and topped book charts around the world — but even her hospital boss doesn’t know about her double life

I had an appointment with a doctor recently who is also, secretly, the author of four of the bestselling books of 2024, known to her fans as Freida McFadden.

(I say appointment, I mean interview obviously. Still, it felt like the set up for one of her thrillers)

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One of the foundry guys said that it wouldn’t break off at the knee, like the Saddam Hussein statue, because it had a very study inner frame

‘Don Colossus’: why a 15ft bronze Trump statue will tower over Ohio ‘Crypto bros’ have clubbed together for a $400,000 tribute to Donald Trump’s defiance of his assassination attempt — ready in time for his inauguration

A fifteen foot bronze statue of Donald Trump will be unveiled in DC today, the ‘Don Colossus’, polished up to shine like the bathroom fixtures in Mar-a-Lago. I went to meet the sculptor, at the Ohio farm where it was cast

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Gigi Hadid has a New York rat problem. And so do I! Will Pavia knows the supermodel’s struggle

Evidence here of the striking similarities between me and Gigi Hadid
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What I saw on Rikers Island A rare insight into New York’s most notorious prison complex amid debate over who should be in charge of it

My colleague @harrietalexander.bsky.social on entering Rikers Island jail: 'Through this portal walk New York City’s boldest" says the sign above the door. Beyond it a disheveled man with wild hair and torn clothes was slumped on a bench, fast asleep...
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