Candice

Emma Stone‘s fifth stint as guest host of Saturday Night Live saw the award-winning actress be presented with a jacket to mark the occasion by two other “five-timers”: former SNL cast member Tina Fey and Candice Bergen of Murphy Brown. Fey noted that the 35-year-old Stone is now the youngest member of the club. “You’re going to love it in there,” she explained. “A few years ago, they even added a whole women’s section. It was actually Candice Bergen’s idea.” Bergen, who in 1975 became the late night…

It’s a sunny morning in south London when Cyril Pennington, a Jamaican-born, London-based bus driver, decides to take his children to get ice-cream at the park. This isn’t exactly straightforward, as Cyril has five children with four mothers who, until now, have never met, on account of “Cyril himself as more of a people person than a father. Sadly, for his children, this sociability didn’t extend to the five of them in a way that was mutually beneficial.”Nonetheless, by the end of their day out, Cyril has accomplished…

It was Candice Carty-Williams who came up with the “Black Bridget Jones” tagline for her debut novel, Queenie. (She wasn’t working in marketing for a publishing house at the time for nothing.) She wanted her novel, which follows the misadventures of millennial south London journalist Queenie, to reach as wide a readership as possible. She succeeded. Today, her name rarely appears without the words “publishing phenomenon” attached: Queenie won book of the year at the British book awards in 2020 (Bridget Jones took it in…