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Food was a bit cold and the taste wax not something you go “WOW” for like other good Persian food restaurants. Staff polite and service is good. Seating is good bit not the cleanest and modern places. A bit run down. Rice was nit as... good as other proper Persian rice I have tried. Prices very reasonable and I think for not Iranian customers the food might also taste just right. The menu even offers a 1.5 litre bottle of coke instead of separate drinks which would cost less to order and it’s enough for party of four. More

I found this place out of the blue when I needed a restaurant to host my birthday dinner with friends. The restaurant took a very reasonable deposit for booking and I was so impressed with the food, service, atmosphere and value for money. I rate... this restaurant highly and will be recommending to others. More

Travelled 135 miles to come to Ariana to meet up with family (we are currently not able to have people in our house due to COVID-19 restrictions). We had booked the table for four people for a Saturday lunchtime. Surprisingly we were the only people... there for the whole lunchtime, which did make for a lack of atmosphere. Consequently, however, the service was very good - too good in fact as we had wanted to spin lunch out before our 135 mile drive home. As we were sharing the different dishes (carefully!) we asked for the starters and main courses to be served together. No problem, except that one starter did not arrive (and was not charged for). Tasty food, well presented and in very generous quantities. Prices reasonable. Alcoholic drinks are not served, but you can take your own (a reasonable corkage charge is made). We would certainly go again. More

I organised a dinner with friends here based on reasonable reviews. They couldn't be further from the truth. We were offered a seat at the back of the restaurant, which was offered to someone else whilst we sat there waiting for it. After a handful... of requests we were finally given a table. Waiters in the restaurant should be given an award for most miserable staff in London! We were so polite and friendly yet it would have been easier to get blood out of a stone than a smile or even a passing show of enthusiasm. I wonder if they were being kept hostage? After almost 30 mins of trying to get someones attention we finally ordered drinks. The waiter was literally acting as though he was signing his life away to us as scribbled 2 diet cokes and a bread basket. After another 20 mins we received our bread and had to remind them about our drinks. It was £22 for 4 bowls of dips and a bread basket! Dips were bland and about as exciting as an office lunch. After 2 friends joined us we again had to try for 10 mins to get the attention of a waiter. A lady came over with pretty poor attitude, again everything felt like the biggest chore. We kept the order simple with 2 mixed meat platters and an afghani rice. Food arrived 20 mins later, we were then given the smallest starter plates to eat our mains, thankfully a drinks order was taken. The meat was tasteless and boring with the addition of 5 random roast potatoes, which even aunt Bessie's wouldn't have been happy about. The qabuli pilau was also an absolute shocker, bland, oily rice, lamb had no flavour. After finishing the meal we tried to get a waiters attention for 10 mins with no luck so we had to go up to the counter for the bill. We flagged to the manager that we didn't have a great experience and that we waited a very long time, his response was to look around to the 6 or 7 tables and say its a very busy night, no apology. Having worked in the restaurant industry for 15 years and eaten in 100's of restaurants across London I can happily say this is by far one of the all time worst. If this is the state of Afghani food in London then there's definitely room for competition. Was it a bad night? Seemed to be service as normal. Please do yourselves a favour and don't waste your money. More

I visited Ariana today, on the 7th of February 2020 with my friends, the evening was enjoyable to start with. We have been coming to this restaurant for many years and the staff were always well mannered and polite. Unfortunately, on this occasion we were... approached by a rude manager, we were humiliated and asked to leave because someone was waiting for the table, my friends were still drinking coffee and we were not warned in advance that this table was booked, not were we told when we arrived at the restaurant that we have only certain amount of time to stay in the restaurant. I have never been spoken to in this manner by anyone in any of the restaurants! I can't believe that someone who is a manager in a restaurant can treat his clients - women in this wait. I felt like an unterumensch as I was a pettite women and the manger was double my size and it seemed that he had right to humiliate us. i would like to warn other women who plan to go there that they may face a very unpleasant experience. My friends and I are never going to visit this restaurant again! We left a lot of money in this restaurant over the years and one would have thought that we were highly valued as clients! I would like to add that the table next us was taken by a group of man, who were eaten oranges only and rolling up the cigarettes, they were not told to leave although they were not ordering anything. What a horrible experience we have had as clients and women. Anna and friends More

We came at 7 on a Thursday and had the vegetarian dolmas and veggie ghormeh sabzi with some pickles to lighten it - it was so good I finished the whole (large) plate! It came very quickly, too.Thee mint tea was also delicious, (though I'm... not sure the waiter heard me ask for it without black tea...) Definitely coming back! More

This restaurant was great ! We stumbled on it on a walk about through the area! Delicious Afghani food with traditional teas! The waiters even offered me a flatbread bread called nan baked straight from the oven near the entrance ! Great ambiance ! Would... eat there again! More

Horrible food. In fact unhealthy. The meat was old and smelly. Never did I get food where I literally hated the smell before I even taste it. It was awful. Old and rancid, full of spices to mask the age but to no avail. And... you would think you will have your kebabs charcoal grilled no way, has a burnet surface must have been a normal grill but no charcoal. Horrible in every way and overpriced for something disgusting and most likely unhealthy. More

We had 2 rice-based dishes for our lunch. The lamb was divine, the chicken wasn’t too bad. All the foods are reasonably priced, combined with generous portion. We went to the restaurant around 2-3pm, The restaurant was very busy and the tables are tightly packed,... which made it difficult to social distance. We would not mind to wait a bit longer to be seated, as long as I don’t have to sit very close to other guests. If you like Afghan/Persian food, don’t mind the crowd, then his place is for you. More

Ariana. Mile End fantastic. Good food in a cool atmosphere with the restaurant Nextdoor to a nice Èast London park. And the canal a sort walk away. This restaurant will not disappoint on good Persian food. You have to take your own drink’ wine or... beers’ I can recommend the mixed meat grill. More

We turned up without a booking on a warm Friday evening and they went out of their way to find us a place. Good food, generous portions, good value for money, friendly atmosphere. Will definitely visit again

Had a family meal here and it was a reasonably priced, enjoyable experience. The food was tasty and fresh and the portion sizes were good. It would've been nice if the management had been a bit more welcoming and said hello etc. A bit poker... faced. Also, the mains arrived while we were halfway through the starters which made us feel rushed - this isn't really good practise. Overall it was an enjoyable meal and worth a visit. More

I’ve been here a few times and always liked the food (service is poor) but the food makes up for it. One of my colleagues took some food home for his wife after our meal and there was maggots in the meal 😩😩😩. Half of... my team were off sick the next day. It makes my stomach turn just looking at the photos More

Friends refused to be served because gay. We are in 2015! this is not good at all. Leave this place for Homophobic people!

This restaurant has the worst service. There staff even lack basic mannerism. Staff are standing around watching me fetch a high chair and put it togather, making room for it and moving around chairs to make room for it and no one offers to help.... Food is nothing you wont find any where else , very basic nothing special. There are plenty of other Iranian restaurants in London such as Bahishte in Finchley, one in queensway and one in covent garden. Place is full of mosquitoes due to Mile End park being so close. The restaurant is way too hot as they have a clay oven in the seating area which makes it way too hot. The man behind the till which may be the owner has attitude issues too. Well I am not going to give you a lesson on how to run a restaurant but carry on the way you are going and you are only loosing customers. Value for money : no, plenty of other choices if you want iranian cusine not not bitten by mosQuitoes Service: non existant Would i ever go again : hell no Would i recommend the place : not even to an enemy More

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To recap our trip would take days. There were so many activities that we did as a group, which was so much fun and made my trip back to the U.K. so different from before. Each day we would wake up around 7 or 8 am and go down for breakfast with one another. After breakfast, we made our way around the city to visit historical sites like The Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, The Crown Jewels and Kensington Palace to name a few. 

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If you have time while in the UK, I would definitely suggest visiting these three locations. The rich history from each one is amazing and it’ll take your trip over the top. 

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Is This The Death Of The Revenge Album?

From Olivia Rodrigo and Ariana Grande to Taylor Swift, writer Emma Firth explores the complicated art of making heartbreak music…

Borough Market, London, summer 2013. 'How long does this feeling last? I Googled it and apparently, it’s half the time of the relationship. So, a year?' I can still vividly recall that evening sitting outside a wine bar, the lump in my throat, tightness in my body, a refusal to cry, an uncharacteristic loss of appetite. I remember my friend’s honest and gentle response that she couldn’t give me an exact date, but promised with absolute certainty that the acute pain of heartbreak would pass eventually.

Frustratingly, getting over a break-up — in this case, my first — does not adhere to ‘a rough ETA’ schedule. There are of course coping mechanisms: kissing unsuitable men (indie singer-songwriters with a laissez faire approach to personal hygiene and texting back), or embodying the drama of that dog in the Instagram meme 'when a sad song comes on in the car and you look out the window and pretend you’re in a music video'.

Music has long been my emotional crutch. It has been for people for centuries: lyrics translating the euphoric experience of finding love or wading through its wreckage. Odd, when you think about it, how heartbreak is as much a collectively painful experience as an individual one, a life card we are all sure to be dealt. Some pop stars just choose to channel their pain into a song or entire record.

Lest we forget the popularity of then-teenager Olivia Rodrigo’s Grammy-award winning, autobiographical debut 2021 album, Sour , with hits like ‘drivers licence’, ‘traitor’, ‘good 4 U’ and ‘brutal’. It was hailed a triumphant ‘revenge record’, unapologetically exploring the bitterness and rage felt towards a former boyfriend who had 'moved on really easily'. While Rodrigo hasn't pioneered the genre (think the anthemic sounds of ‘You’re So Vain’ by Carly Simon; ‘You Oughta Know’ by Alanis Morissette; or Taylor Swift’s many, many achingly detailed lyrical clues alluding to past romances, from John Mayer to Jake Gyllenhaal), she did spark a rebirth of messy pop. Just last year Lana Del Rey placed a single billboard in her ex’s hometown to promote her 2023 album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (in September she’ll release her first-ever country record, Lasso ). And Shakira recently released viral ‘diss’ tracks (featuring un-subtle references to her ex Gerard Piqué, who allegedly cheated on her).

'I’ve always thought how cool it is for a woman to immortalise a failed love with a f**k boy and make money from her words and help heal others who have gone through it,' music publicist and founder of Artists' Way agency, Elspeth Merry tells me. As Taffy Brodesser-Akner writes in The Paris Review , Swift’s catalogue, for instance, ostensibly allows listeners to live out a fantasy, to 'dream of a time when the stings of the past are made better through the public hanging of dirty laundry'.

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This raw storytelling in music is crucial. It’s cathartic, most definitely, and potentially helpful for both artist and audience. What is equally as important though is exploring heartbreak through an empathetic, rather than a scornful, lens. Writing from the scar, rather than the wound, so to speak. Binge-listening to Ariana Grande’s post-divorce ‘concept record’, Eternal Sunshine , I was struck by her self-awareness, sensitivity, reflectiveness, and refusal to paint her ex as a villain (‘i wish i hated you’, Ariana explained, is about accepting 'I don’t need to pretend you’re a monster to make peace with this ending'.) Music critic and author of Reach for the Stars , Michael Cragg, says Grande’s album speaks to the power of self-protection for artists today. '[Also], maybe as songwriters they’re just bored of coming at it from the same angle,' he says. 'Miley’s "Flowers" really shone because it was refreshing to hear such a plain-speaking, I Will Survive -esque song about a very public split [reportedly about her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth].'

I’ve always thought how cool it is for a woman to immortalise a failed love with a f**k boy and make money from her words

'I think it’s to do with therapy,' Cragg says. 'Protecting your mental health, getting older, looking to external answers such as astrology, and not wanting to deal with the fallout on such a grand scale when fans now jump on unpicking clues,' he says. 'Having said that, Taylor [Swift] is the queen of that and I’m sure her new album, The Tortured Poets Department [released April 19] will be full of those Easter eggs.'

Ultimately, it’s necessary we consume a varied heartbreak mixtape 'diet'. Relationships are full of nuance and competing narratives. Sometimes people behave carelessly in love and you daydream about their humiliation post-split. Sometimes we find ourselves in denial about how we even feel. Sometimes there is nobody to blame in the aftermath of heartbreak, there’s just sorrow. These Carole King’s lyrics from her award-winning 1971 album, Tapestry , are some of the saddest and truest ever written about coming to terms with the demise of a relationship:

There's somethin' wrong here, there can be no denyin'

One of us is changin', or maybe we've just stopped tryin'

And it's too late, baby, now it's too late

Though we really did try to make it

Somethin' inside has died

And I can't hide and I just can't fake it

The other day I was chatting to leading music supervisor and self-described 'stupidly sensitive listener', Lucy Bright. She admitted she has to emotionally prepare for playing certain break-up songs as they are so devastating (including Blur’s ‘No Distance Left To Run’ and Bob Dylan’s ‘Most of The Time’). And yet, 'everyone is somewhat reassured by a heartbreak song', Bright adds. 'It helps us move through that pain.' Movement is crucial. Alongside revenge manifestos à la Rodrigo, we need art that reflects all the other seasons of the lonely-hearts club, that asks more questions than reveals answers. Acknowledging that no feeling – happy, sad – is final.

Ultimately, it’s necessary we consume a varied heartbreak mixtape diet

In researching this article, I discovered one of the most bitter break-up records of all time: Marvin Gaye’s My Dear . Inspired by an acrimonious (and costly) divorce battle with his wife, Anna, in the 1970s. Long story short, Gaye didn’t have enough cash, so as part of the divorce settlement he agreed to give his ex the full advance and profits made from his next album. The song titles are… brazen. ‘When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You’; ‘You Can Leave, But It’s Going to Cost You’; ‘Anna’s Song,’ and so on. Upon release, she threatened to sue him for invasion of privacy. In a wild plot list, they became close friends years later. 'It’s taken me a while,' Anna said. 'But with the passage of time I’ve come to appreciate every form of Marvin’s music.' Then I think about my friends promise over a decade ago. How that relationship ending turned out to be a kind of freedom. Something that allowed me, years later, to meet the person who has expanded my world in unpredictable ways. Any sadness and soured feelings attached to that break-up have long passed. Now I just feel grateful. Time, I suppose, is funny like that.

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Manchester Arena attack survivors and relatives take legal action against MI5

More than 250 people join group action claiming security service failed to take steps that could have prevented 2017 bombing

Hundreds of the Manchester Arena bombing survivors, along with relatives of the victims, have launched legal action against MI5, claiming it failed to take action that could have stopped the attack.

More than 250 people have joined the group action against MI5 and have submitted their claim to the investigatory powers tribunal, which hears complaints against the intelligence services.

It is believed to be the first time MI5 has been sued over its failure to stop a domestic terror attack.

A statement on behalf of Hudgell Solicitors, Slater and Gordon, and Broudie Jackson Canter, the three lead firms representing the group, said: “Legal teams representing injured survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 can confirm that they have collectively submitted a group claim on behalf of more than 250 clients to the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT).

“As it is an ongoing legal matter, we are unable or provide any further details, or comment further, at this stage.”

The security service’s director general, Ken McCallum, previously issued a public apology over the failure to stop the suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, whom MI5 had received intelligence about in the run-up to the atrocity.

An inquiry into the attack, which left 22 people dead and hundreds injured, concluded that MI5 missed a “significant opportunity” to prevent the bombing.

The inquiry’s chair, Sir John Saunders, said there was a “realistic possibility” investigators could have stopped the bombing if they had acted more decisively on two key pieces of intelligence, but it was “quite impossible” to say definitively whether any different action would have prevented the blast.

Andrew Roussos, the father of eight-year-old Saffie Roussos, who was the youngest of those killed in the attack, previously said suing MI5 was the “only way to learn” .

“Everybody learns by hitting them hard in the pocket, I am sorry to say,” he told Times Radio. “At 2017 we were at the highest alert and everybody was warned of an attack in this country, and MI5 – who, their sole job, they are well funded and well equipped – had 22 pieces of information about Salman Abedi.

“So, if they would have learned lessons, they wouldn’t have allowed Abedi to walk into that arena. So, yes, MI5 have, for me, most of the blame.”

Abedi detonated a homemade bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017 as hundreds of people were leaving an Ariana Grande concert, in the deadliest terror attack in Britain since the 7 July 2005 bombings in London.

He had packed the bomb with metal nuts and bolts that left many of the survivors, mostly children and young people, with serious injuries.

The inquiry into the attack, which concluded last year, found that Abedi’s return from Libya four days before the blast would have been taken “extremely seriously” by MI5 had key pieces of intelligence been taken more seriously in the preceding months .

It also found that the agency could have discovered Abedi’s homemade device, stored in a car in Manchester, if an investigation had begun earlier.

Roussos said: “Salman Abedi should not have made it to that arena that night. There were too many missed opportunities.”

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'Sunset Boulevard' sweeps London's Olivier awards

Nicole scherzinger and tom francis won best actress and actor, respectively, for their roles in 'sunset boulevard'.

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A radical restaging of Hollywood film noir musical "Sunset Boulevard" was the big winner on Sunday at the London stage Olivier Awards, taking seven trophies including best musical revival and best actress for American star Nicole Scherzinger.

Soccer-themed state-of-the-nation drama "Dear England" was named best new play, while Sarah Snook and Mark Gatiss were among the acting winners.

Scherzinger was rewarded for her performance as fading silver screen star Norma Desmond in a flashy revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "Sunset Boulevard," three decades after the musical’s 1990s debut. Her co-star Tom Francis won the corresponding best actor prize as a struggling screenwriter fatefully drawn into Desmond’s orbit.

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Jamie Lloyd took the directing trophy for the technically innovative production, which melds live video with the onstage action and also won Oliviers for sound and lighting design. It’s due to open in New York later this year, and Lloyd predicted it would "take Broadway by storm."

Scherzinger said that when she was growing up in Kentucky, "I always wanted to be a singer and do musicals."

"I dreamed of so many roles I wanted to do — and honestly this role, Norma Desmond, was not one of those roles," she said. "But God works in mysterious ways."

Nicole Scherzinger, winner of the best actress in a musical award for "Sunset Boulevard," poses for photographers during the Olivier Awards on April 14, 2024, in London.  (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

The prize for best new musical went to "Operation Mincemeat," a word-of-mouth hit based on an audacious real-life espionage operation that deceived the Nazis during World War II. The show began life in a tiny theater in 2019 and has moved to progressively larger venues, gathering accolades along the way.

"Stranger Things: The First Shadow," a dazzlingly staged prequel to the Netflix supernatural series, was named best new entertainment or comedy.

The Oliviers — the U.K. equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards — are celebrating a bumper year for new shows in the West End, finally bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic. Several winners lamented the soaring cost of theater tickets, and cuts to arts education that are squeezing working-class talent out of theatrical careers and theater audiences.

"If you don’t tell a kid to go and see a show … they’re not going to develop that habit, they’re not going to get that experience," said "Dear England" playwright James Graham, who grew up in a small mining town. "So I am really worried."

But the mood was largely celebratory as "Ted Lasso" star Hannah Waddingham presided over an exuberant ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall, opening the show by belting out "Anything Goes" alongside the London Community Gospel Choir. The show was peppered with performances from several of the nominated musicals, including "Guys and Dolls," "Hadestown" and homegrown hit "The Little Big Things."

The prizes, which recognize achievements in theater, opera and dance, were founded in 1976 and named for the late actor-director Laurence Olivier. Winners are chosen by voting groups of stage professionals and theatergoers.

Snook – the scheming Shiv Roy in "Succession" – beat a talented field including Sarah Jessica Parker and Sophie Okonedo to be named best actress in a play for "The Picture of Dorian Gray," an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s cautionary fable in which Snook plays more than two dozen characters.

Backstage, the Emmy Award-winning Australian performer said the solo stage show was "so much harder" than doing TV.

"I’ve never done anything harder than this," said Snook, who said she’d asked herself "why am I doing a 60,000-word monologue with an 8-month-old baby?" She revealed she’d learned her lines for the play during filming of the final series of "Succession," at night while breastfeeding her daughter.

Gatiss — co-creator of the BBC TV series "Sherlock" — won the best actor trophy for playing theater great John Gielgud in "The Motive and the Cue," Jack Thorne’s play about the struggle to mount a 1964 production of "Hamlet" with Richard Burton.

Gatiss recalled that Gielgud had considered awards ceremonies "vulgar."

"I’m very, very thrilled to be in such wonderfully vulgar company," he said.

Gatiss beat "Dear England" star Joseph Fiennes and Andrew Scott, who had been the favorite to win for the solo show "Vanya." The Anton Chekhov adaptation by Simon Stephens took the prize for best revival.

Will Close was named best supporting actor in a play for his performance as footballer Harry Kane in "Dear England."

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Haydn Gwynne, who died in October, was posthumously awarded the best supporting actress prize for her final stage role in "When Winston Went to War with the Wireless," about the early days of radio in Britain.

Awards for supporting performances in musicals were Amy Trigg for "The Little Big Things" and Jak Malone for "Operation Mincemeat."

The show ended with a tribute to the National Theatre, which turned 60 in 2023 — culminating in a star-studded cast singing the anthem "You’ll Never Walk Alone."

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Winners of the 2024 Olivier Awards celebrating work on the London stage

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April 14, 2024, 4:31 PM

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LONDON (AP) — The winners of the 2024 Olivier Awards , handed out Sunday for achievement in London theater, opera and dance:

New Play: “Dear England”

New Musical: “Operation Mincemeat”

New Entertainment or Comedy: “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”

Family Show: “Dinosaur World Live”

Revival: “Vanya”

Musical Revival: “Sunset Boulevard”

Actress-Play: Sarah Snook, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Actor-Play: Mark Gatiss, “The Motive and the Cue”

Actress-Musical: Nicole Scherzinger, “Sunset Boulevard”

Actor-Musical: Tom Francis, “Sunset Boulevard”

Supporting Actor-Play: Will Close, “Dear England”

Supporting Actress-Play: Haydn Gwynne, “When Winston Went to War with the Wireless”

Supporting Actress-Musical: Amy Trigg, “The Little Big Things”

Supporting Actor-Musical: Jak Malone, “Operation Mincemeat”

Director: Jamie Lloyd, “Sunset Boulevard”

Outstanding Musical Contribution: Musical supervisor Alan Williams for “Sunset Boulevard”

Theater Choreography: Arlene Phillips and James Cousins, “Guys and Dolls”

New Opera Production: “Innocence,” Royal Opera

Outstanding Achievement in Opera: Royal Opera House music director Antonio Pappano

New Dance Production: “La Ruta” by Gabriela Carrizo at Sadler’s Wells

Outstanding Achievement in Dance: Isabela Coracy for her performance in “Nina: By Whatever Means” at the Barbican

Set Design: Miriam Buether for set design and 59 Productions for video design, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”

Lighting Design: Jack Knowles, “Sunset Boulevard”

Sound Design: Adam Fisher, “Sunset Boulevard”

Costume Design: Marg Horwell, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theater: “Sleepova” at the Bush Theatre

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He really put his foot in it.

Hannah Waddingham slammed a photographer during London’s prestigious Olivier Awards on Sunday, who reportedly told the “Ted Lasso” star to “show me leg.”

“Oh my God, you’d never say that to a man,” Waddingham, 49, replied on the red carpet in a video posted on X (formerly Twitter) as she stood outside Royal Albert Hall.

“Don’t be a d–k otherwise I’ll move off. Don’t say ‘show me leg.’ No,” she continued. The “Mission Impossible” actress, who was dressed in a floor-length purple gown, was later spotted continuing to exchange words with the photographer while shaking her head.

At one point, Waddingham raised her finger and gestured toward the shutterbug before continuing on her way.

The heated exchange didn’t affect the “Game of Thrones” star’s hosting duties, however .

The Post reached out to the “Fall Guy” actress for comment.

Waddingham’s telling-off has since gone viral.

“I not only saw Hannah Waddingham,” said the person who posted the video . “But I saw Hannah Waddingham being pissed at an a–hole misogynistic p—k photographer and calling him off on it and I never yelled MOTHER so loud.”

“HANNAH WADDINGHAM FOR PRIME MINSTER, PLEASE. I didn’t know it was even possible to love her even more,” a second fan cheered .

“YOU GOT TO WITNESS THIS??? Oh my god that’s amazing. I love her so much. I’m so glad she said that to him. Misogynistic pigs need to be told off,” a third person agreed .

The award-winning actress has never been one to mince words.

Earlier this year, the actress brutally slammed a former teacher who once told her that she would never make it on television due to her physical appearance.

“I had one drama teacher that said to the whole class: ‘Oh Hannah will never work on-screen because she looks like one side of her face has had a stroke,’” the “Hocus Pocus 2” star told Michelle Visage  on her BBC podcast “Rule Breakers.”

“I thought, ‘I will do. Come hell or high water, I will work on-screen,’” she told Visage.

Waddingham, who later won an Emmy for her role as AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton  in the Apple TV+ series in 2021, said the comment gave her a “complex for years.”

“In my Emmys speech, I made a point — the one thing I said to myself [was] if this weird moment comes and I get this award, and I get my foot in this door, I’m going to rip it off its hinges for music theater people, or theater people, to follow,” the three-time Olivier nominee said.

The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” judge praised Waddingham on her courage and said that she could have gone “one of two ways” after hearing the comment.

“You could either break down and hate your life and be depressed, or you could rise up and do what you did and accept ‘Oh I actually, I’m gonna show you,'” Visage said, adding that it “says more about that teacher saying that to a child with stars in their eyes.”

Waddingham is set to return to the silver screen in the upcoming Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt-led film “The Fall Guy,” as well as “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 2” starring Tom Cruise .

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Johnny Depp Explains Why He Feels 'Perversely Lucky' at U.K. Premiere of His Film  Jeanne Du Barry

The actor attended the London premiere of his movie 'Jeanne Du Barry' on Monday

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Johnny Depp is back on the red carpet to roll out his French film Jeanne Du Barry .

The actor, 60, posed for photos and signed fan autographs at the film's U.K. premiere held at the Curzon Mayfair theater on Monday, April 15. Depp also posed with Maïwenn, his costar and director of the film.

Speaking onstage prior to the screening, Depp said he felt "strangely, oddly, perversely lucky" to have been offered the role of King Louis XV in the film, according to a report from Variety .

"When Maïwenn and I first actually met and talked about the notion of me doing the film and playing Louis XV, the King of France — see that’s when instantly what happens in your brain is you instantly go back to Kentucky, where, like, everything is fried," joked Depp. "So you realize that you’ve come from the bellybutton of nowhere and suddenly you end up playing the King of France."

Depp added, "It made no sense to me; I tried to talk her out of it. But she wasn’t hearing it and she had great courage to take me into her cast."

Jeanne Du Barry, Depp's first movie role after his contentious Virginia trial with ex-wife Amber Heard , had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023 . It also stars Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Richard, Melvil Poupaud and Pascal Greggory.

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In a Cannes press conference at the time, Depp joked, "So I thought it was very brave of [Maïwenn] to choose some hillbilly from Kentucky to play Louis XV. Very brave."

He added, "I was instantly up for it, wanted to do it. Just wanted to make sure that I wasn't, I don't know, stepping out of my box and into someone else's. Getting into other people's things, culture, thoughts, weirdness. But I'm glad she persisted and I'm glad I persisted."

The film is about Jeanne Vaubernier, a "working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, using her charms to escape her impoverished life." Soon, she has a "love at first sight" moment with King Louis XV.

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"Through this ravishing courtesan, the king rediscovers his appetite for life and feels he can no longer live without her. Making Jeanne his last official mistress, scandal erupts as no one at Court will accept a girl from the streets into their rarified world," the synopsis adds.

Jeanne Du Barry will be released in the U.S. in over 500 theaters nationwide beginning May 2 from Fathom Events.

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