Actor demands fewer sex scenes to protect marriage

(Image credit: Netflix)

published 16 February 2023

An actor has asked for fewer sex scenes to protect his marriage, reported Variety. Speaking on a podcast, Penn Badgley, 36, who stars as a serial killer in the popular Netflix series You, said: “I asked Sera Gamble, creator of the show, ‘Can I just do no more intimacy scenes?’ . . . she had a really positive response.” He explained that “fidelity in every relationship, especially in a marriage, is important to me”. He added that Gamble regarded his request as “reasonable and practical”.

Guinness World Records turns down ‘dick pic’

A developer who created the world’s biggest ‘dick pic’ has had his request to feature in the Guinness Book of World Records turned down. The image, which is 290 times larger than the current record holder, was created by an anonymous Washington DC-based developer, who told BuzzFeed he wanted to be referred to as ‘Eggplant’. He was told by Guinness World Records that “the image does not comply with the record guidelines and we, therefore, have no choice but to reject the claim”.

A huge dinosaur footprint has been found on the Yorkshire coast. The “giant carnivorous dinosaur likely rested or crouched down in Yorkshire 166 million years ago”, said CNN, leaving behind a “record-breaking footprint”. The “Jurassic footprint”, measuring nearly a metre (3.3 feet) long, is the largest of its kind found in the county of Yorkshire, added the broadcaster. Thousands of dinosaur footprints and many fossils have been recovered over the years along the “Dinosaur coast” of Yorkshire.

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.