The solid of Netflix’s LGBTQ British teen romcom, Heartstopper, was seen marching in London’s Delight parade on Saturday.

Draped in a Delight flag, Joe Locke, who performs the curly-haired protagonist Charlie Spring, and Equipment Connor, who performs rugby hunk Nick Nelson, held arms and waved to the gang. Followers of the present misplaced it — in particular person and on-line.

Locke and Nelson had been joined within the parade by Sebastian Croft (Ben Hope), Corinna Brown (Tara Jones), Tobie Donovan (Isaac Henderson), Kizzy Edgell (Darcy Olsson), and Jenny Walser (Tori Spring).

When the group got here throughout anti-LGBTQ counter-protesters, the actors drowned out their chants by singing Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Any person” and gave the center finger whereas leaping up and down.

Locke and Connor posted proudly concerning the interplay on Twitter.

Heartstopper, based mostly on the graphic novel by Alice Oseman, broke data with each reviewers and audiences when it debuted in April 2022. The lovable present has already been picked up for a second season, more likely to launch in 2023.

A 3rd of younger British males say they should change their look due to the “image excellent tradition” on social media.

A survey of greater than 2,000 folks by well being and health firm Origym additionally discovered that it was affecting the psychological well being of 1 in 10 of them.

Psychologist Rob Willson from the Physique Dysmorphic Basis stated: “There’s a number of strain from social media to attempt to conform to sure stereotypes of an idealised magnificence and significantly in males.

“This can be a actual problem as a result of we’re a bit much less used to it than ladies are, we’re extra just lately uncovered to those sorts of pressures and regretfully ladies have been uncovered for lots longer but additionally there’s little or no motion for the time being in opposition to strain on males.”

George Mycock, 26, from Staffordshire, developed muscle dysmorphia, also called “bigorexia”, as an adolescent.

He gained weight after breaking his again enjoying rugby.

His situation implies that he thinks he is much less muscular than he truly is.

Mr Mycock, who runs MyoMinds to boost consciousness of the problems, advised Sky Information that social media has turn into the “satan” in these conditions.

‘Engrossed in an echo chamber’

“I believe it does play an enormous half – it’s extremely straightforward to get engrossed in an echo chamber, you observe the individuals who agree along with your excessive ideas and so they present you extra excessive ideas and it begins spiralling uncontrolled,” he stated.

“I obtained into the health business, the health business group, and I noticed all the fellows in that had been huge, muscular, lined in veins, six packs, that stuff, and I believed that is what I wanted to stick to.

“That pursuit got here from there and that is after I took on disordered consuming, train habit, coaching ‘x’ quantity of occasions, being extremely restrictive how I ate. Ultimately it led to suicidal behaviours, suicidal ideations, it led down this darkish path.”

Males resorting to steroids

The report discovered that greater than 40% of males need to construct muscle and one in 10 need steroids.

Beauty surgeon Dr John Skevofilax advised Sky Information that some males are abusing steroids which might trigger breast development. In consequence, he is performing tons of of breast reductions on males yearly.

“If you happen to check out what’s enjoying proper now, what’s it? Love Island proper now,” stated Dr Skevofilax.

“If you happen to flip it on, each man on there has a six pack, his chest is out to right here, pecs and the whole lot are blowing out of their shirts, so guys are seeing this and so they need to emulate their heroes similar to within the eighties when it was Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.”

Disgraced former observe star Oscar Pistorius met final month with the daddy of his ex-girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, whom he murdered in 2013.

Barry Steenkamp “met with Oscar on 22 June 2022 for the Sufferer Offender Dialogue,” the Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp Basis, stated Saturday in a press release posted on Fb. The belief operated by Reeva’s mom, June Steenkamp, additionally thanked South African officers for his or her assist in organising the assembly.

The Steenkamp’s household lawyer, Tania Koen, additionally confirmed the assembly had taken place, telling NBC Information in an electronic mail that Pistorius, 35, took half in it, which is an integral a part of South Africa’s restorative justice program.

This system offers victims of crimes or their kinfolk an opportunity to fulfill with the offenders, in the event that they select to, earlier than the offender may be eligible for parole, in a bid to realize closure.

“(I can) affirm Barry Steenkamp and Oscar Pistorius participated in a victim-offender dialogue on 22 June 2022,” Koen stated in a press release. She added that to guard her shoppers’ privateness, she would make no additional remark. Pistorius was born with a congenital situation that led to each his legs being amputated under the knee when he was 11 months previous.

After he was fitted with carbon-fiber prosthetic legs, he went on to realize worldwide fame on the observe, incomes the nickname “Blade Runner.” He made historical past when he competed on the 2012 Olympics in London, and earned hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in endorsements.

However on Valentine’s Day 2013 Pistorius shot Steenkamp, a 29-year-old legislation pupil and mannequin, by means of the toilet door of their luxurious house within the South African capital of Pretoria.

After a lengthy and dramatic trial and quite a few appeals, he was convicted of her homicide in 2015 and sentenced to 13 years and 5 months in jail.

Though Pistorius grew to become eligible for parole final yr, a listening to was canceled as a result of his assembly with the Steenkamps had not but occurred.

Having served most of his sentence at a jail in Pretoria, he was moved to a facility within the southern metropolis of Gqeberha, the Steenkamps’ house city, forward of the assembly with Barry Steenkamp.

Pistorius will nonetheless attend a parole listening to the place correctional companies officers will determine whether or not he shall be launched early, based on The Related Press.

Singabakho Nxumalo, a spokesperson for the correctional companies, stated in a press release that Pistorius’ participation within the victim-offender dialogue equates to neither an finish of sentence nor parole.

NBC Information has appraoched Pistorius’ lawyer Julian Knight for remark. Knight stated final yr that he believed his consumer had met the necessities for early launch and had been a “mannequin prisoner.”

Reuters and Related Press contributed.