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Laura Whitmore: ‘It’s all coming out now, the stuff I tried to speak about eight years ago’
The actor and TV presenter had a bruising time on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016. She talks about victim-shaming, gaslighting and life in the public eye
The Guide: Kilkenny Arts Festival, Fatboy Slim and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end
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Laura Whitmore alleges ‘inappropriate behaviour’ during Strictly stint
Former Love Island host was partnered with professional dancer Giovanni Pernice in 2016
2:22 – A Ghost Story review: Thoroughly entertaining night of psychological dread and heart-stopping shocks
Theatre: Shona McGarty, Jay McGuiness, Colin O’Donoghue and Laura Whitmore bat their lines with jittery appeal
Love Island review: The sun may be shining and the bodies may be bronzed but this is dreary stuff
Television: We’re now on series 11 of this ITV fake-tan test and it’s trundling along on autopilot
Laura Whitmore Investigates: ‘I was the victim of a stalking incident ... It was scary’
Television: The Irish TV presenter mixes empathy and journalistic verve in these frank and sometimes shocking documentaries
Love Island 2023: Everything you need to know before the new series begins
Buckle up for lashings of banter and ‘grafting’ as the show goes south for winter
Laura Whitmore quits Love Island after two years citing ‘very difficult’ elements of the show
Whitmore joined Love Island as a temporary replacement for Caroline Flack after Flack was arrested
‘Spouting gibberish to the opposite sex’: Channel 4 borrows the Irish mating ritual
TV review: The Language of Love places British and Spanish monoglots in an Andalusian villa
Tourism officials launch €4.6m blitz to attract British visitors
Marketing campaign to encourge holidaymakers to press ‘green button’ and book visit
Love Island 2021: Five questions the final episode must answer
Will Kaz or Tyler win? Will the winner split the cash? And other hugely important questions
Love Island: It’s a bounty of begorrahs as Salma and Kaila arrive. Who’ll be the new Maura?
TV: The Dubliners are joined by Matthew MacNabb, a shrug-at-destiny sort from Belfast
Love Island: Ah, happy memories of meeting my own wife while taking part in an erotic challenge
Patrick Freyne: Is the reality show giving young people unrealistic ideas? I wouldn’t say so
Love Island 2021: Everything you need to know as the reality-TV juggernaut returns
The feelgood series, with host Laura Whitmore, is back for the summer. Here’s what to expect
Ryan Tubridy proves his lockdown life is as boring as everyone else’s
Radio: The RTÉ presenter shows his everyman side but could do with more substantial material
Laura Whitmore: ‘I’ve had enough of being trivialised and gossiped about’
The TV presenter on pregnancy, celebrity, her new book and the ‘tough place’ that is London
Dara Ó Briain and Richard Corrigan to host Irish charity cookalong
Chef will demonstrate favourite recipes with celebrity guests to help Irish Youth Foundation
Is it not time we celebrate Ireland and Britain’s closely intertwined culture?
We should support Laura Whitmore’s freedom to appear on whatever podcast she pleases
Was Caroline Flack ‘hounded’ to death by tabloid media or us?
The internet has made the hounding business low cost, low risk and 24/7
Love Island: Since Caroline Flack’s death it has become utterly unwatchable
The contestants don’t know of Flack’s suicide. The reality show is now utterly unreal
Caroline Flack’s death a wake-up call to ‘Twitter warriors’, friends say
‘Be kind, only you are responsible for how you treat others,’ says Laura Whitmore
Caroline Flack death: Public disquiet over media conduct grows
Love Island did not air on Sunday night; petition urges inquiry into role of media
Patrick Freyne on Love Island: I had forgotten how oddly asexual the hunks are
The Love Island hunks do press-ups in tiny shorts – just like we do at The Irish Times
Winter Love Island: Laura Whitmore is the hostess with the most… time off
The January show is a bore by the shore, a too-tanned horse being flogged to death
Blood, rugby and two trips to Love Island for Virgin Media Television in 2020
Broadcaster previews spring schedule amid ‘challenging’ environment for media industry
New Love Island host Laura Whitmore sees profits top €1m
Love Island host is one of the country’s most successful broadcasters operating overseas
Irish presenter Laura Whitmore takes over as Love Island host
Caroline Flack stepped down from role at the ITV show after assault charge
Love Island: Laura Whitmore a favourite to take over as host
Caroline Flack stepped aside from the reality TV show following her assault charge
Jarlath Regan: On My Culture Radar
The podcast host on his Michael Jordan obsession and king of comedy Zach Galifianakis
Laura Whitmore: On My Culture Radar
The presenter on the art of Duda and Peter Holman, her childhood in Temple Bar, and why Friends is an antidote to The Starry Messenger
Appetite for Irish film in London continues to grow
Irish Film Festival London returns next week for eighth year
Late Late Show London special: A glorified town-hall shindig
Review: The move to London made Friday’s Late Late Show even more parochial than usual
Laura Whitmore’s family history is fascinating...to Laura Whitmore
Who Do You Think You Are?: Whitmore is effervescent in the face of scant material
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