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Culture 22nd August 2018 This weekend, we’re hosting a series of  workshops at Topshop Oxford Circus . Part of the line-up is a class by Doughnut Time, teaching you how to design your own customised doughnuts. Can’t make it down to the store? We asked Doughnut Time to share the recipe for their vegan chocolate fudge glaze and brownie toppings with us so you can try it at home… Vegan chocolate glaze  Ingredients: 500g icing sugar Pinch of salt 4tsp cornflour 25g cocoa powder 100ml water 25g caster sugar 1. Sift the icing sugar, cocoa powder, cornflour and salt into a mixing bowl 2. Combine the water and the caster sugar in a saucepan. Heat mixture until the sugar has dissolved 3. Mix the syrup with the icing sugar and stir until no lumps remain and the glaze is smooth and glossy Vegan brownie topping Ingredients: 125g plain flour 30g cocoa powder 1tsp baking powder 175g soft light brown sugar Pinch of salt 125g vegan butter 1tsp vanilla extract 125ml ...

For reasons that are best described as “huh…okay then,” the VMAs decided to ask Madonna to give an Aretha Franklin tribute at last night’s show. And um…it didn’t go great, guys! Basically, Madonna spent the entire speech talking about herself, and only mentioned Aretha at the very end: “So you’re probably all wondering why I’m telling you this story [edit note: YES WE ARE],” Madonna said. “There’s a connection, because none of this would’ve happened—could’ve happened—without our lady of soul. She led me to where I am today and I know she influenced so many people in this house tonight, in this room tonight, and I want to thank you, Aretha, for empowering all of us. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Long live the queen.” Advertisement – Continue Reading Below Yeahhhh. Speaking of R-E-S-P-E-C-T, fans seem to think it would have been more respectful to talk about Aretha’s achievements, accomplishments, and impact on people other than Madonna during this speech. Here are some of the strongest reac...

Getty Images Matt Winkelmeyer Selena Gomez was among the celebrities who skipped tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards in New York City for good reason: She had no nominations and no real reason to fly from the West Coast to the East to attend. But Gomez did pop on Instagram during the broadcast to share another Instagram of her great summer. These are a few of Gomez’s favorite things—friends, Friends , pools—that have nothing to do with the VMAs: Advertisement – Continue Reading Below Gomez later amended her caption to stress these are just highlights and not her entire life on display: “I had something I’ve thought about for a while that I want to share,” she started. “This page is my high lights and a few low lights. I post what I am willing to share with you guys. I hear people say all the time that they wish they had someone else’s life based on a few pictures.. we all do it. But this is me sharing some happy moments with you guys. Trust me, my life isn’t always this filter...

Getty Images Vivien Killilea The Hills cast reunited at the MTV VMAs tonight to announce their new series, The Hills: New Beginnings , with Lauren Conrad very visibly missing. E! reports that Conrad is just very, very busy (and likely not that interested). “Lauren is concentrating right now on her Kohl’s line and her charity work, which she is very passionate about,” the source said. “She is the head designer of her Kohl’s line and has worked with them for 10 years, causing her to fly cross-country several times a month for her work. She’s also opening her first store for Little Market right now.” Advertisement – Continue Reading Below Back in 2016, Conrad was reported to be the one big holdout on a The Hills movie following the group’s 10-year anniversary TV special. Without her, the project didn’t move forward then. Conrad notably told Redbook in 2015 that “I definitely wouldn’t encourage my child to do reality television,” giving a clear hint on how she felt about s...

Boots Riley has some sharp critiques Sorry to Bother You and BlacKkKlansman have been two of the most critically acclaimed movies to be released this summer. So it was interesting to Boots Riley , the writer and director of Sorry to Bother You, dish out some sharp critiques of BlacKkKlansman, which was directed by Spike Lee . READ: Spike Lee Paid $200,000 By NYPD For Consulting On Ad Campaign Boots Riley started critiquing the movie on Friday (August 17th) when he wrote a pretty detailed explanation of his issues. Basically, Riley detailed all the ways Lee’s movie played with the truth when it came to the film’s protagonist Ron Stallworth. Riley felt like the Lee and the writers went out of their way to make the character more heroic. This is pretty par for the course for most Hollywood movies. However, Riley’s critiques come from the fact that Stallworth was part of the FBI’s controversial Cointelpro program, and he helped infiltrated a black radical group. At one point ...

After Aretha Franklin’s passing was announced, Ariana Grande shared two tributes to the music icon, who she had the honor of meeting, on her Instagram. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below But her most poignant homage to Franklin came later on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. She was there to promote her new album, Sweetener , but news of the music legend’s passing inspired Grande, with Tonight Show house band The Roots, to perform a moving tribute of Franklin’s classic “Natural Woman.” Grande’s vocals are always impressive, but they are especially dazzling in this moment: Advertisement – Continue Reading Below After her performance, Grande also spoke to Fallon about meeting Franklin multiple times. “We sang at the White House, and she was so sweet,” Grande started. “And she was so cute. I was like, how are you a real person? It was an honor to have met her, and we’re going to celebrate her.” Fallon then mentioned that Aretha Franklin had sent her something, and Grande told ...

Ariana Grande ‘s new album, Sweetener dropped on August 17, and the pop star opened up about the first time she met Pete Davison—who inspired a song of the same name on the new album—while visiting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote her new tracks. The audience got a sneak preview of the album, hearing snippets from “ R.E.M, ” “Breathin,'” and “Pete Davidson.” And, of course, when Pete Davison’s song came up, Fallon had a few questions for the pop star about her speedy engagement. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below When asked how she and Davidson met, Ariana Grande explains that she and her now-fiancée met in the writer’s room at SNL some three years ago, and that Ariana had a huge crush on the SNL star. “I’m not a crushy person, I don’t have crushes on people,” Ariana Grande tells Jimmy Fallon in the clip. “But I left [the writer’s room] and jokingly said to my tour manager ‘I’m marrying him, 100 percent.’ I was like, ‘I’m literally marrying him.'...

Getty Images Picture Alliance Turn your Celine Dion track up a notch because we have a tragedy of Titanic proportions on our hands. While driving past Fish Lake in Minnesota, officers from the Chisago County Sheriff’s Department discovered three women stranded on a sinking watercraft, which was…a unicorn pool float. Driving by a local lake we observed a bunch of women in a stuck in the weeds…Yes a rainbow unicorn… With a handful of laughs and some mad rescue roping skills they were pulled back to the dock! #wherestheglitter pic.twitter.com/qCyhfJqAa9 — Chisago Co Sheriff (@ChisagoCountySO) August 11, 2018 Advertisement – Continue Reading Below After tossing a line to the women—who, by the way, appeared to be about 10 ft. from the dock in the first place—an officer pulled the float to shore, less than likely saving their lives. As cops we deal with heavy stuff on a constant basis. Domestics. Drunks. Assaults. Suicides. Drug addiction. So once in a while when ...

Getty Images Chris Jackson Meghan Markle hasn’t said a word about her father beyond her statement before her wedding to Prince Harry in May—and hasn’t said a word to him since her nuptials. But sources close to her have described her as deeply hurt , at her wit’s end , and fed up with Thomas Markle’s emotional blackmailing of her through his continuous paid interviews to British tabloids and TMZ. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below Now, Daily Mail —one of Thomas’s preferred outlets to talk to—got another exclusive from one of Meghan’s “close” friends about the one condition on which Meghan will talk to her father. “The only reason Meghan hasn’t spoken to her father yet is because she’s yet to hear from him in a respectful manner,” that source said. “Thomas is speaking to the press more than he’s reached out and spoken to his own daughter.” Meaning if Thomas was to reach out privately, Meghan would be more open to answering. The source pointed out that Thomas also alway...

Getty Images Gareth Cattermole/TAS18 This time last year, Taylor Swift won her sexual assault case against Colorado radio DJ David Mueller, who sued Swift for $3 million in damages because he was fired from his radio cohost job in 2013 after she claimed he lifted her skirt and grabbed her butt while posing for a photo. She filed a countersuit and sought a symbolic one dollar in damages, which the jury awarded her. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below Swift was playing her Tampa Reputation concert on the one-year anniversary last night, and she gave an emotional speech reflecting on the trial, thanking her fans for their support during it, and stressing the need for better justice for sexual assault victims. “I guess I just think about all the people that weren’t believed and people who haven’t been believed and the people who are afraid to speak up because they think they won’t be believed,” Swift said. “And I just wanted to say that I’m sorry to anyone who ever wasn’t...