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April 01, 2021 - 19:35 BST Eve Crosbie As the hit BBC show returns to screens, find out all about the wives, husbands and families of the show's investors We're so pleased that Dragon's Den is back for a new series. The hit BBC show, which has been on screens for more than 15 years, gives viewers front-row seats as plucky entrepreneurs try to pitch their winning business ideas and secure investments. MORE: Piers Morgan announces 'return' to Good Morning Britain – but it's not what you think While we all know that the Dragons are tough, self-made entrepreneurs worth millions but what about their love lives? Find out more about their previous and current relationships here... Peter Jones Peter Jones CBE, 55, has been on the show since it began in 2005. At the time, he was married to his ex-wife Caroline, with whom he shares two children. However, the couple divorced in 2008. Peter has been married twice These days, he lives with his long-term partner Tara Capp who is the founder of lifestyle brand Truly. Together the couple share three teenage daughters: Natalie, Isabella and Tallulah. Deborah Meaden Deborah Meaden is the second longest-serving Dragon on the show. She met her husband Paul back in 1985 when she was in her early twenties. After dating on-and-off for seven years, the couple married. While they don't have any children together, they share their period Somerset home with numerous pets. Deborah Meaden and her husband Paul Tej Lalvani This year, Tej Lalvani will celebrate his tenth wedding anniversary with wife Tara Ruby, who he tied the knot with in a Sikh ceremony in London back in 2011. The happily married couple do not have any children together. Tej and his wife Ruby Touker Suleyman British-Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur Touker Suleyman prefers to keep his personal life out of the spotlight, so not much is … [Read more...] about Dragon’s Den: Meet the partners of Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden and more

Photo: HBO Some people might be content with HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequels House of the Dragon and Tales of Dunk and Eggs , what with their packed cast and fantasy adventuring respectively, but not you. You need more, which is ostensibly why the network is reportedly developing the concepts for three more Game of Thrones prequels, according to the Hollywood Reporter. One series, from Rome creator Bruno Heller, has the working title of 9 Voyages and would follow the story of Lord Corlys Velaryon, the Sea Snake, Lord of the Tides, and an extremely busy guy, seeing as how he’s already appearing in House of the Dragon, played by Small Axe and In the Long Run actor Steve Toussaint. The other projects reportedly in development include 10,000 Ships , about the adventures of warrior queen Princess Nymeria, “a revered ancestor of House Martell who founded of the kingdom of Dorne,” and a show which takes place in the mean streets of King’s Landing’s Flea Bottom, “the maze of tight streets in the capitol city where characters like Davos Seaworth and Gendry Baratheon were born.” There, now you never have to watch a TV show that isn’t in some way connected to Game of Thrones . You couldn’t if you tried! This is like five hours of television a week, and these are just the prequels we know about…so far. Sources THR … [Read more...] about Want More

Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by Apple TV+/YouTube, Netflix, Disney+ and Adult Swim New twists on classic characters and formulas and the looming end of a definitive anime kick off a year shaping up to be a big one in contemporary cartoon history. All the while, streaming services are investing heavily in the medium as the pandemic continues and the value of moving pictures that can be produced from a safe distance becomes even clearer. While most of those recently announced projects are still years away, the first few months of the year haven’t been too shabby for cartoons either, with iconic creators making triumphant returns to form, beloved series coming to a close, and a thrilling action movie from one of the biggest studios in Hollywood. Attack on Titan : The Final Season, Part 1 There hasn’t been a more chaotic anime produced in recent memory than Attack on Titan , a show about the conflict between a race of people that can transform into humanoid behemoths capable of inflicting massive destruction — and gobbling up lots of victims while they’re at it. Though it’s always been controversial for its violence and perceived ideological bent, Attack on Titan: The Final Season (which premiered in 2020 but aired most of its episodes so far in 2021) so far feels like an exciting and worthy conclusion to the series. Alliances have radically shifted, and there are new characters who question the evolution of the heroes and villains we’ve followed since the show’s debut in 2013. The result is exceptional, blockbuster serial storytelling from the animation studio MAPPA, which took over from Studio Wit. The series has never been subtle, and criticism of its use of fascist imagery and references to Nazi Germany remains important to serious discussions about its cultural value, but it feels important to state that Attack on Titan has no real winners. Its central commentary is that generational trauma, political maneuvering, and the … [Read more...] about The Best Animation of 2021 (So Far)

Rooney Mara can’t believe what she’s reading. Photo: Merrick Morton/Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. Early Sunday , a panicked e-mail from Sony Pictures Entertainment announced that New Yorker film critic David Denby would be publishing his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo review in this week’s magazine, violating the studio’s December 13 embargo. A small firestorm ensued, mostly stoked by Nikki Finke, who chimed in to call Tattoo producer Scott Rudin “the biggest baby.” (A few film critics also had some opinions.) But what does Denby have to say for himself, you might be wondering, or how is Rudin feeling? You’re in luck! The Playlist has gotten ahold of the e-mail exchange between Rudin and Denby, and it is really something! The highlights: Rudin, to Denby: I’m stunned that you of all people would even entertain doing this. It’s a very, very damaging move and a total contravention of what you agreed. You’re an honorable man. Denby responds with some thoughts on the hardships of film criticism: The system is destructive: Grown-ups are ignored for much of the year, cast out like downsized workers, and then given eight good movies all at once in the last five weeks of the year. And then he offers a three-part explanation as to why he broke the embargo (below, an excerpt from Part 3): We had a dilemma: What to put in the magazine on December 5? Certainly not “We Bought the Zoo,” or whatever it’s called. If we held everything serious, we would be coming out on Christmas-season movies until mid-January. Rudin answers: The fact that the review is good is immaterial, as I suspect you know. You’ve very badly damaged the movie by doing this, and I could not in good conscience invite you to see another movie of mine again, Daldry or otherwise…You will now cause ALL of the other reviews to run a month before the release of the movie, and that is a deeply destructive thing to have done simply because you’re disdainful of We Bought a … [Read more...] about You Can Now Read Scott Rudin and David Denby’s

Still from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (US) trailer Sony Pictures Entertainment’s publicity department sent out an early morning (2 a.m.) e-mail today that is creating shock waves in the film criticism world. It singled out The New Yorker ’s critic, David Denby, for breaking an embargo the studio had placed on any reviews for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo running before December 13, about a week prior to the film’s release date. (You can read the review, which is positive, here .) Below, a snippet from the e-mail. Dear Colleague, All who attended screenings of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo agreed in writing to withhold reviews until closer to the date of the film’s worldwide release date. Regrettably, one of your colleagues, David Denby of The New Yorker , has decided to break his agreement and will run his review on Monday, December 5th. This embargo violation is completely unacceptable. […] As a matter of principle, The New Yorker ’s breach violates a trust and undermines a system designed to help journalists do their job and serve their readers. We have been speaking directly with The New Yorker about this matter and expect to take measures to ensure this kind of violation does not occur again. The letter, signed by Sony’s head of Motion Picture Publicity, Andre Caraco, has been raising some hackles from media observers. Deadline’s Nikke Finke, who called embargoes “dumbass” and said all film critics should embargo all future studio embargoes, held no punches when she went after the film’s producer, Scott Rudin. To begin with, producer Scott Rudin is the biggest baby on the planet. (Remember how, when The Social Network began losing to The King’s Speech last awards season, he stopped attending every honoring ceremony including the Oscars? No class. New York contributing editor Mark Harris, also with Entertainment Weekly and Grantland , had pointed words for Sony specifically on his Twitter. Hypocritical for … [Read more...] about ’s David Denby Breaks Sony’s

Photo: Columbia TriStar Marketing Group The degree of its popularity is a mystery, but not the reason: The late Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a satisfying lefty-feminist revenge saga, its villains alternately venal super-capitalists, government-empowered sodomite-rapists, and neo-Nazi serial killers, its heroine a visibly damaged but single-minded and resourceful righter of wrongs. The verbiage and inept translation didn’t matter to millions of readers, and neither did the TV-movie flatness of the hit 2009 Swedish movie, which was at least faithful to the prose. More than that, the film had Noomi Rapace, who made the studded hacker chick Lisbeth Salander inaccessible, unpredictable, feral. With her angular, young-old face, Rapace never went soft on the character. The chip on her shoulder remained the size of a planet. David Fincher’s American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo adds nothing to the previous adaptation, but it’s certainly the more evocative piece of filmmaking. Fincher has to grind along to get in all that plot (Steven Zaillian’s script hurriedly hits its marks, with few grace notes), but his brusque, clinical touch — especially when the film shifts from Stockholm to the frigid north — keeps you off balance even when you know what’s ahead. The Trent Reznor-Atticus Ross score preys on your nervous system, its ambient drone punctuated by clanks and dissonant chimes, which sound as if they’re being blown about by Arctic winds. (The credits sequence, with its volcanic silhouettes, lavalike black vinyl, and Karen O.-caterwauled cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” is a spellbinder.) At first, the decision to make the largely Brit and American cast speak English in Swedish accents is a hoot, but you do get used to it, and it adds to the alien vibe. As usual in Fincher’s movies, no one in the cast looks comfortable: Their nervousness around their exacting director is infectious. Daniel Craig is very compelling … [Read more...] about Movie Review: Fincher’s