Author: Eleanor Price

The social media-driven obsession with high-protein eating has collided with a fundamental limit of the dairy industry, triggering a global shortage of whey protein that is forcing food manufacturers to reformulate their products, pause production lines and warn consumers of price rises ahead. Whey protein — once associated almost exclusively with gym shake bottles — has been incorporated at pace into everyday food products including waffles, pancake mixes, iced lattes, cookie dough and protein bars, as the so-called “protein maxxing” trend drives demand far beyond what the supply chain was designed to handle. The consequences are now becoming apparent. According…

It costs £65, leaves participants retching into buckets with swollen faces and contorted in pain, and has claimed the life of a British wellness coach in Leicester. Yet Kambô — the Amazonian frog poison ritual that involves burning the skin and applying toxic secretions directly into open wounds — has never been more popular, with celebrities queuing up to endorse it to millions of followers online. The practice works like this: a giant monkey frog is stretched and stressed until it secretes a toxic substance from its skin. That secretion is collected, dried and reactivated. A so-called shaman then inflicts…

A pirate-themed party boat carrying 148 passengers — including 20 children — has sunk off the coast of a popular Turkish holiday resort, with harrowing footage showing tourists leaping into the sea as the vessel rolled onto its side before disappearing completely beneath the surface within an hour. The Big Boss Diamond, described by its operator as the biggest pirate ship in Turkey, began taking on water off Paradise Island near the resort of Marmaris before capsizing. Video footage captured passengers scrambling to abandon ship as the vessel listed heavily, with only its sails visible above the waterline before it…

A 26-year-old YouTuber has produced one of the most profitable films in cinema history after his debut horror movie — made for just $750,000 in 20 days — has grossed more than $79.7 million worldwide in just two weekends, making it one of the highest-returning independent productions ever made. Curry Barker, who built his audience on YouTube before turning filmmaker, directed Obsession, which has defied almost every convention of modern horror filmmaking on its way to becoming the most talked-about film of the year. According to BoxOfficeMojo’s IMDb Pro data, the film has already earned more than 100 times its…

Coronation Street fans have turned their suspicions firmly on Tyrone Dobbs after the beloved mechanic was caught lying to detectives investigating the murder of villain Theo Silverstone — with viewers growing increasingly convinced he knows far more about the cobbles’ biggest whodunnit than he is letting on. Scaffolder Theo, played by James Cartwright, was killed earlier this month in a storyline that has gripped ITV viewers since Betsy Swain discovered his body on 1 May. The nasty character had spent months abusing his husband Todd Grimshaw, and several suspects have already been put in the frame — including Todd himself,…

Jennifer Lopez has appeared to take a pointed swipe at her ex-husband Ben Affleck, telling Jimmy Kimmel Live that she regrets not embracing single life earlier — and declaring that being alone is “fantastic” as she promotes her new Netflix film. The 56-year-old singer and actress appeared on the programme on Wednesday, confirming her single status to a cheering studio audience with a broad smile. “I should have done it sooner,” she told host Jimmy Kimmel. “I’ve been doing it all wrong. I’ve been doing it all wrong, trust me.” Lopez married Affleck in 2022 after the pair rekindled their…

Scooter Braun has made a striking admission about his infamous dispute with Taylor Swift, revealing that he barely knew the singer and had only spoken to her once — despite the controversy over his purchase of her master recordings consuming both of their public images for years. The 44-year-old music mogul addressed the saga during an appearance on the Second Thought With Suzy Weiss podcast on Thursday, saying he found it confusing to this day that the episode had become such a defining part of his public life. “There’s this big misconception that we knew each other and we had…

Euphoria viewers are convinced they have cracked the mystery of who survives the show’s season finale — and they believe the answer lies not in season three itself, but in a cancelled HBO series from three years ago. With the eighth and final episode of the third season, titled “In God We Trust,” airing on Sunday 31 May on HBO in the US — and landing on Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK on Monday 1 June — fans have been furiously theorising ahead of what has been billed as the most explosive finale in the show’s history. The…

Jennifer Lopez struggled to hold back tears on live television as she opened up about her 18-year-old twins Max and Emme preparing to leave home for university — admitting she has been crying for two months and confessing she is dreading becoming an empty nester. The 56-year-old superstar appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on 27 May and was visibly emotional as soon as the subject came up. “Don’t talk about it, I’ll start crying,” she told Kimmel, while choking back tears when asked about her kids graduating from high school. The warning came too late — she was already welling…

John Humphrys has revealed that he was visibly drunk while broadcasting live for the BBC the night Richard Nixon resigned as US president in 1974 — an on-air humiliation that the veteran journalist has now described as the moment he effectively quit drinking for good. The 82-year-old broadcaster, who went on to become one of Britain’s most formidable interviewers across three decades on Radio 4’s Today programme and as host of Mastermind, spoke candidly about his relationship with alcohol in a new interview with The Times — admitting that he may well have been an alcoholic during his early years…