Table of contents for Issue 627 in Grazia

The ultimate pay-it-forward – or just downright wrong? That’s the question we’re debating this week, after the controversy over IVF clinics encouraging women to donate eggs in return for free fertility treatment. How would you feel if your own IVF failed, but your donated egg resulted in a child for someone else? And what about the clinics who get to profit from your donated eggs? Grazia’s Emily Phillips writes very personally about her own experiences on page 29. Do you agree with her views? We’d love to hear. Another woman tackling controversy this week is the formidable Johanna Konta, Britain’s hottest tennis hopeful in 40 years. After she was reduced to tears publicly by tennis legend Ilie ‘Nasty’ Nastase during a match, she hits back at the bullies and insists…

IN THE EIGHT MONTHS SINCE Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, there have been accusations about his alcohol misuse and anger management issues, a child abuse investigation (since dropped) and claims that he started therapy and routine drugs and alcohol testing to win the right to see his children. Yet amid the jaw-dropping allegations about their divorce – and even Angelina’s decision to open up about the split (earlier this year, she told an interviewer, ‘It was a very difficult time. We will get through this and hopefully be a stronger family for it’), Brad has maintained a dignified silence. Until now. In an interview with US GQ Style, released last week, the 53-year-old conceded that the divorce had been ‘self-inflicted’ and that his excessive drinking had become…

Photos: Clive Brunskill/Contour by Getty Images, Getty Images, Reuters ‘I’D NEVER BEEN VERBALLY threatened before, and by a mass of people. And that reaction came out because I was a little afraid.’ Johanna Konta frankly admits, explaining why she cried at the Fed Cup in Romania last month. It sounds as shocking as it looked when the usually formidable British tennis No.1 was led off court after being blasted as a ‘f** king bitch’ by opposition coach Ilie Nastase (aka ‘Nasty’, also under fire for racist comments about Serena Williams’ baby). Nastase was ejected from the stands and Konta, 25, says the Romanian crowd turned hostile. After playing a game through tears, she was eventually allowed to leave the court for 20 minutes to compose herself. When she returned and…

Photo: Getty Images IT’S 18 YEARS from now: a teenage stranger is standing in front of me. Even though I’m distracted by the robot that she’s helping me with – because it’s ‘The Future’ and I’m 53 – I can’t help noticing she’s got hazel eyes and freckles that spill down her arms, just like mine. But it can’t be… Can it? Because if I were to donate my eggs today, in return for the IVF I’m currently considering, a real human, begot from my eggs, could pop up out of nowhere. She might not figure in my mind, because I’m off to meet my own daughter, born in 2018, who resembles this stranger, only with my husband’s nose. Or, in a troubling alternate reality, I’m midway through the menopause,…

LET’S HEAR IT for those who dared to embrace the ‘avant-garde’ theme at last week’s Met Ball in New York. Bravo to RiRi for actually laying her hands on a piece of Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garçons – the subject of the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition – and looking bloody brilliant in it. Hurrah for Helen Lasichanh in her boundary-breaking scarlet. And the next best thing to Comme? Katy Perry in blood red Maison Margiela. As for all those who shirked the issue – what were you thinking in your too-polite Oscar-esque frocks? Here’s our take on the Met’s mesmerising trends… EVEN RIRI BLUSHES! Dug up from the beauty archives of the ’80s, Rihanna has undoubtedly ushered in the revival of ‘draping’ – using blusher to contour. It being RiRi, she’s…

Photos: Collection Christophel, Xposurephotos.com There’ s something mesmerising about the way Johnny Depp spends money. Further to the revelation he once dropped a million dollars shooting Hunter S Thompson’s ashes into space (de trop?), comes more news of abject profligacy (look it up, I just did), via an ongoing legal battle between Depp and his former managers. The managers’ attorney is using Depp’s extraordinary extravagance – the $30,000 he spends each month on wines he has flown to wherever it is he is, the sound engineer he has on permanent retainer so he doesn’t have to learn lines – the engineer simply recites them to him through an earpiece when he’s on set – as evidence of ‘psychological issues’, specifically ‘compulsive spending disorder’. ‘It’s my money,’ Depp told the Wall…

OUR PANEL REBECCA GONSALVES Grazia’s acting fashion news and features editor is drawn to the simple things in life – good jeans, crisp shirts and classic coats – all the better to show off a statement shoe. @R_gonsalves ANNA SILVERMAN Grazia’s features writer has a string of fashion faux pas under her belt, including wearing Crocs on a mountain trek and clubbing in a dress she later discovered was a negligée. RITA ORA REBECCA SAYS: This is a pretty toned-down look for Rita, and I have to say she can #werk executive realness with the best of them. Love the outré eyeliner and Pat Butcher earrings – well, a girl’s gotta have some fun. ★★★✩✩ ANNA SAYS: Rita just needs a gentle reminder that she’s not Madonna or Frank Sinatra.…

‘I’M IN.’ TWO ELUSIVE WORDS THAT ENTREPRENEURS dream of hearing. The golden ticket that finally means all those years of working too hard, too much and too late might just have – finally – been worth it. But when, last February, the founder of Detox Kitchen Lily Simpson got her ‘yes’ from investors offering her the cash injection she needed to realise her dreams, she didn’t start popping champagne corks. ‘I was excited, obviously, but I suddenly felt quite accountable,’ Lily, 32, explains. ‘Up until then, I’d had no one to answer to and I got the sudden feeling that I’ve really got to make this work.’ The lack of champagne was also down to the fact that earlier that day, Lily discovered she was pregnant with her second child,…

ON THE SPOT Adult acne sucks almost as much as, say, doing your tax return. Luckily, La Roche-Posay’s Effaclar acne range has a Purifying Clay Mask, £13, to turbo-charge blemish banishing. And Skin Design’s On The Spot serum, £105, harnesses peptides and salicylic acid to bust bacteria and pimples. BOSS CREAM You may be ambitious, but in this instance CEO doesn’t refer to your next career move. From cult skincare brand Sunday Riley, C.E.O Protect + Repair Moisturiser, £60, is a thick and nourishing formula designed with drier skins in mind, containing vitamin C (to neutralise the free radicals that age us), antipollution properties and toxin-fighting antioxidants. COMING OF AGE Add the word ‘exosome’ to your lexicon, the term scientists now give to the aggressors that make our skin age…

1. LIGHT ME When your fave spa is 50 miles and a pay cheque away, fire up Elemis Life Elixirs Candle in Calm, £36. With its stress-melting melange of sage and lavender wafting around the room, close your eyes and you’re there. elemis.com 2. BRUSH UP Give bacteria the brush-off by cleansing make-up tools with Spectrum Collections Mermaid Tail Scrub Vegan Brush Soap, £14.99. Swirl brushes into its scrumptious coconut-scented balm to wash away make-up and dirt. Rinse, then leave to dry. spectrumcollect ions.com 3. GLOW ON For a subtle sweep of radiance, a single layer of Elizabeth Arden’s Limited Edition Dare To Bare Body Bronzing Oil, £25, is all you need. A blend of macadamia, jojoba and sunflower seed oil transforms scaly limbs and smells like holidays, too. elizabetharden.co.uk…

Photos: Alamy, LMK I doubt there is a single figure in the top tier of television who isn’t watching the masterful progress of Aziz Ansari. More casual observers have instant recall of him as the hip-hop aspirant, blingconversant local government official Tommy Haverford in Parks And Recreation. Keener eyes have romped through his stand-up. In last year’s Master Of None – a title of arch irony, given his polymath persuasion – he went for broke, dissecting the huge subject of American institutional racism, particularly in the entertainment firmament, by way of a series of observational stories. It was a cut-throat gamble that paid handsome dividends, as they tend to when executed at a superior production level. As Dev, a jobbing actor with varying degrees of success, he goes for castings,…

1 HARRY STYLES: H ARRY STYLES Guess who? It’s, erm, Harry Styles. The 1D boy bander shows us what else he and a host of top producers have been up to, besides ’70s-inflected Sign Of TheTimes. Out Friday 2 MISS SLOANE Jessica Chastain stars as the titular Miss Sloane, a tenacious Washington lobbyist who rejects an offer to represent the gun lobby. Out Friday 3 MADE BY US Fascinating new photographic exhibition by London youngsters who are homeless or living in hostels, and took part in the charity Accumulate’s creative workshops. The Guardian, Kings Place, London N1. 12 May to 3 June 4 BUNGA BROADWAY Immerse yourself in London’s West End by watching a musical tribute show while you scoff a generous set menu dinner. Every Thursday, Bunga Bunga, 167…

TALKING HEADS I’ve suffered from bipolar for many years and I have to have a monthly injection, else I hit rock bottom. If it weren’t for family and friends, as well as the medical profession, I’d be dead now. The two pieces on mental health (Goodbye to the stiff upper lip?, and Why we need to reclaim crazy, 1 May) really hit home. Losing a parent is a terrible thing, as it was for Prince Harry, and we should never forget the blows that life can deal us. On a more positive note, let us all forge ahead, never giving up hope, for that is all we are bound by – that and love. Aminatta REALITY CHECK Reading the letter from Anonymous in the 1 May issue, about how her…

Incoming: new bag alert. We’re finally far enough away from our school days to get behind Fendi’s Back To School bag. The fact that the messenger converts into a backpack with the flick of a chain strap means it’s two for the price of one. Now that’s the kind of maths homework we like. From £1,340, fendi.com Photos: Rex Features, Star Traks CONGRATULATIONS to Cheryl and Liam Payne, who have named their baby son Bear (although, if he grows up to be as fond of new monikers as his mum, that might be subject to change). HAMPTON COURT PALACE FESTIVAL celebrates its 25th anniversary from 7-24 June. Double Grammy Award-winner Corinne Bailey Rae plays on Tuesday 20th. Tickets from £39; hampton courtpalacefestival.com AS CO-FOUNDER of Agent Provocateur, Serena Rees is responsible…

1. WISH LIST PIECE Booties, £475, Mulberry (mulbery.com). Yes to pillar box patent leather and yes to fabulous frills. Don’t keep these for winter. They’re the perfect match for a summer dress. 2. FULL-THROTTLE FLORALS Dress, £150, and trousers, £49, both Warehouse (warehouse.co.uk). Florals for summer hardly feels groundbreaking, but up the ante with coordinating accessories and layer over trousers. 3. HIGH STREET HIT Dress, £69.99, Mango (mango.com). This hardworking dress is equally at home in the office with tan leather mules or paired with box-fresh sneaks for a cool off-duty look. 4. STAR GAZER Watch, £1,070, Gucci (gucci.com). We’ve fallen for Gucci’s celestial timepiece. Being punctual never looked so good. 5. POOL PARTY Top, £49, and briefs, £29, both Guess x A Bikini A Day (guess.eu). Gingham is the…

GUCCI SAINT LAURENT Shoping : Polly Kn night. Photos: Xposurephotos. com, Rex Features, Jason Lloyd-Evans, Catwalking.com SUNGLASSES AT THE READY – bling is back with the sort of statement sparkles that wouldn’t look out of place in a mid-noughties hip-hop video. Our magpie eye was first caught by shimmering Swarovski bodystockings on the Gucci catwalk back in February – they’ll retail for an eye-watering £3,110. (And fancy the crystal mesh leggings? That’ll be another £3,480.) A few days later, Anthony Vaccarello’s second collection for Saint Laurent raised the stakes with these slouchy rhinestone cowgirl boots (£7,435) tripping the light fantastic, while crystal-studded cocktail frocks and cable knits added to the glitz. The red carpet is rife with razzledazzle, too. Bella Hadid’s Alexander Wang bodystocking may have been the most extreme…

Photos: Getty, Rex THE THEME OF last year’s Met Gala may as well have been Taylor Swift. The singer acted as co-chair of the annual fundraiser, debuted a punky new look curated by Anna Wintour and dominated headlines when she enjoyed a dance-off with Tom Hiddleston, who would later become her boyfriend. Fast forward 12 months and she was conspicuous by her absence at this year’s event. In fact, as we recently reported, Taylor hasn’t been photographed since January, nor has she posted a candid Instagram picture since October – inspiring fans to consider filing a missing person’s report. Now Grazia can reveal that Taylor could soon be back – with a bang. One well-placed source said, ‘She was completely knocked by the backlash last year and needed some time…

REIKO CHINOS My Spends/ongoing attempts to not wear jeans all the time led me here. KITRI’S SLIP DRESS I bought this and got it tailored so it fits like a frigging dream and I am basically a grown-up now. LAURENCE DACADE MAIA BOOTS Summer boots; a Thing. BARDOT TOPS This year is all about the one-shoulder-on, one-shoulder-off top. AMUSINGLY SLOGAN’D CANVAS TOTES Birkin baskets are on. GOING ON ABOUT HOW GREAT THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY SOUNDTRACK IS The Big Little Lies one is better. Actual non-fake news.…

Photos: PA, Getty Four weeks to go and personality politics have turned into personality despolit ics. Because never mind the PM’s excruciating encounters with a cone of chips in Cornwall or unanswered doors in Scotland, what has really been at play is an extraordinary display of ego. This week, we’ve seen each party leader flex controlling muscles rarely seen outside of North Korea. Even if Labour do get smashed at the election (and this is still the likely scenario), there’s no reason to stand down as #supremeleader is there? Jez may have kicked off the election 20 points behind the Tories, with terrible personal leadership ratings and a photo call involving a toilet, but it’s all cisterns go. As he approaches his 68th birthday, he’s a man clearly in his…

Photos: courtesy of Getty Images for Gucci WE’RE ALL IN A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND BAGS OF STYLE WHAT Burberry DK88 bag launch WHERE Burberry, Spring Street WHO Serena Williams, Matt Smith Hot on the heels of slaying at the Met Ball, Serena Williams joined Christopher Bailey to celebrate Burberry’s DK88 bag collection. Matt Smith also shook off his hangover from the night before to join Ellie Goulding, Ruby Rose and Jourdan Dunn at the brand’s SoHo store. IN FULL BLOOM WHAT Gucci Bloom fragrance launch WHERE Museum of Modern Art WHO Lana Del Rey, Dakota Johnson Down the road, A$AP Rocky tore himself away from newly confirmed girlfriend Kendall Jenner, climbing into MoMa’s DJ booth with Juliana Huxtable, while Dakota Johnson and Hari Nef schmoozed Gucci’s creative director…

IT BAG ALERT Once banished to the land of bad taste, the bum bag is back with a bang. JUMP TO IT Clean lines and chunky silver hardware make this jumpsuit your go-to for off-duty dressing. MAXED OUT Take a cue from the ’90s and pair this practical khaki maxiskirt with a crisp white tank. AT YOUR LEISURE Play with layering. A white hoodie gives these neutrals a real zing. PROPORTION PLAY Offset XXL volume with a cold shoulder, and belt your waist with a bag. WHITE WASH Palette cleanse in these white workwear-inspired overalls. Just add a crop top. Hair: Brady Lea at Stella Creative Artists using ColorProof. Make-up: Nancy Sumner at Eighteen Management using Crème de la Mer. Fashion assistant: Jessica Skeete-Cross, Casting and bookings: Holly Scott Lidgett.…

Giorgio Armani Sky di Gioia, £66, reimagines the traditional rose-based scent by adding fresh lychee and green pear for a fragrance that's young and fun. Created for those on the move, Chanel Chance Three Moods, £60, is a set of irresistibly cute pots of shimmering scented gels that can be swept over wrists and necklines. Pink pepper blends deliciously with sour cherry and patchouli in Valentino Valentina Blush, £82.50, creating an easy-to-wear and marvellously more-ish eau. Whisking you off to a late afternoon in the Med, Dolce & Gabbana Velvet Cypress, £165, is a sexy, almost masculine mix of Italian cypress, bergamot and lemon. Photos: Marco Vittur. Armani: armanibeauty.co.uk. Chanel: chanel.com. Dolce & Gabbana: harrods.com. Elie Saab: debenhams.com. Elizabeth Arden: elizabetharden.co.uk. Escentric Molecules: escentricmolecules.com. Givenchy: debenhams.com. Valentino: johnlewis.com. Vilhelm Parfumerie:…

ROAST COD WITH WARMING GINGER AND JUICY TOMATOES Serves 4: Prep time: 70 minutes (including an hour’s marinating) Cooking time: 15 minutes 4 medium cod fillets (about 180g each) For the marinade: Small handful of basil leaves, torn 1 medium red chilli, deseeded and finely sliced 3 tbsp olive oil Generous handful of cherry tomatoes Sea salt flakes 30ml lemon juice 30ml olive oil 2cm piece of ginger, peeled and finely grated 1 garlic clove, finely grated To serve: A handful of fresh herbs: basil, chives and mint A handful of toasted pumpkin seeds 1 Put the fish fillets in a roasting dish just big enough to hold them comfortably without being cramped. 2 Mix together the ingredients for the marinade and rub over the fillets, cover and leave to…

STAGE FRIGHT There’s always a poignant undertone to the ritualistic camp of the Eurovision Song Contest. This year, with the triggering of Article 50, it’s in plain sight. It’s as if Mrs May personally has sent Lucie Jones to Madame Guillotine to meet her destiny.With a pertinence no one could have predicted, Lucie’s song is called Never Give Up On EU, sorry, You. There will be tears. First semi final on Tuesday, 8pm, BBC One COMEDY GOLD Cult classic alert. The zero publicity strategy of Schitt’s Creek was only ever going to go one way. This fantastic comedy of errors, about an American family’s lost fortune and new life, ticks every box of the future-quoted. Tremendous actors – including Eugene Levy – work with brilliant material: absurdist, triumphant, often a…

Photos: Rex Features POPPY DELEVINGNE, 30 We ask the model and actress to take a selfie – and reveal all Who is your best friend? My dad [above]. I’m pretty sure he was the second person I ever met. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t hear his voice. What’s your biggest regret? That McDonald’s I had for breakfast today. It happens once a year and every year I swear it won’t happen again. I had to practically roll myself out of there. What’s your biggest extravagance? Lipsticks and unicorns. Anything unicorn has to come home with me. I need a stable at home. When was the last time you were embarrassed? My most embarrassing moments always involve what I’m wearing. Ripped trousers. Boobs falling out. Terrible…

1. UP BEYONCE Cour tside and heavily pregnant, a look few women can pull off, but Beyoncé can, because of course she can ! 2. UP P DIDDY A-lounging on the red (/beige/blue) carpet (/stairway) of the Met Ball, later explained himself thus: ‘I was getting tired.’ Same same. 3. UP LAWRENCE DURRELL As portrayed by Josh O’Connor in series two of The Durrells (ITV1). We especially liked it when he had an incongruous moustache (ep one). 4. NEW IN DR DERRIERE AKA Dr Aaron Rollins, Hollywood’s ‘bottom doctor’; chipped in re Kim Kardashian’s bikini shots of last week. Honoured herewith for both his pseudonym and his real name. 5. UP Z AYN MALIK Suffering from what’s been widely reported as a ‘mystery foot injury’, which leaves us intrigued (mystery!)…

WHAT DO YOU DO when your boyfriend’s mother imposes a ‘forced separation’ and ships him to the US – apparently so that you can’t see him? If you’re Kate Moss, distract yourself with a series of luxury holidays on the other side of the world. The 43-year-old super jetted to the Maldives with her close friend Fran Cutler last month, as news broke that her on/off boyfriend Count Nikolai von Bismarck had left London to attend a rehab clinic in the US. It is the second time Kate has fled the UK for a ‘heartbreak holiday’. Last month, sources reported that the model had taken a trip to La Mamounia in Marrakech with a group of friends, who were said to have ‘rallied around her’ for a ‘healthy holiday’. This…

PARIS FASHION WEEK PARIS FASHION WEEK NEW YORK FASHION WEEK PARIS FASHION WEEK MILAN FASHION WEEK PARIS FASHION WEEK  THE WEATHER MAY NOT have got the memo yet, but summer has most certainly arrived in-store. Now is the time to formulate your plan of action for when the mercury rises – far better to make a cool-headed decision today than start panic buying as soon as the sun appears. Trust us, we’ve got the embarrassing Instagram photos to prove it. A dress is the obvious easy-breezy option, but what if you’re just not the dress-wearing type? Hot right now – and big news for autumn/ winter – is the pant suit. A relaxed silhouette and a pale colour is the way to go. If you’re worried about looking like you’re…

BLAC CHYNA, Amber Rose, Taylor Swift – the Kardashians have more feuds than they have ‘aesthetic doctors’ (and that’s saying something). Now, they appear to have turned on one of their longest running associates, their stylist of 10 years, Monica Rose. Last week it was revealed that Khloé – along with sisters Kendall and Kylie – had suddenly parted ways with Monica, was ‘furious’ and planning to sue her. While the circumstances surrounding their schism appeared mysterious, the sisters are apparently ‘upset because [Monica] was like family to them’. Indeed, Monica has worked closely with the whole brood since meeting Kim on a Complex magazine shoot in 2007. While she continues to work with big-name clients like Chrissy Teigen and Cara Delevingne, Kendall’s close friend Gigi Hadid has also let…

Photos: Xposure Photos, Joel Goodman/LNP, Mirrorpix, Rex, courtesy of Acrush. *Report by Legal & General and the Centre for Economics and Business Research HOMELESSNESS AN EPIDEMIC Manchester’s poverty has reached disturbing levels, with hidden communities of rough sleepers found living in tunnels beneath the city’s streets. UK homelessness is up for the sixth year running, but Manchester mayoral favourite Andy Burnham has pledged to give 15% of his salary a year to help end it. PRINCE PHILIP RETIRED FROM ROYAL DUTIES In the week that Prince Philip announced he was retiring from royal duties, it was revealed the Queen has a highly encrypted social media account. Here’s our guess at her latest status update... Queen Elizabeth is feeling blessed Just now One is just getting used to this social media…

Photos (posed by models): Trunk Archive, Getty. *Some names have been changed “IF I’M A FREAK FOR ENJOYING THIS, THEN THE WORLD MUST BE FULL OF FABULOUS FREAKS” MY SATURDAY MORNINGS are normally spent in my PJs, poring over fashion blogs and eating avocado toast. But on one particular lazy day a few months ago, I found myself lying in bed, phone in hand, scrolling through images of a beautiful woman with a penchant for red lipstick and an hourglass figure just like mine. My boyfriend leaned over for a look: he liked her too. And that’s how my adventures with Feeld – a Tinder-style app for threesomes – started: with my then boyfriend, in bed, discussing whether monogamy is a socially constructed concept; talking about our needs, our fantasies…

Emily Beryl/New York Times/Redux/Eyevine, Getty Images “DOES JAMES NEED THIS HOT GUY TO LIFT HIS SELF-ESTEEM SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE OUT LATER?” ‘I UNDERSTAND WHAT it’s like to be a woman,’ James says on his second cup of sake. I’m finishing up my fourth, and after that sentence I’m on to the fifth. It’s date night on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City [LA], which is basically a designated sushi district, so we’re having sushi, because we’re not that original. ‘Please, don’t ever say you know what it feels like to be a woman,’ I tell him, eyeballing the last of my fifth sake and now contemplating a sixth. ‘You have no f** king clue.’ ‘Kelly?’ James leans in, deadly serious. ‘I’m fairly worldly. In fact, I’d say I’m a…

Photos: Marco Vittur, Jason Lloyd-Evans. Ciaté London: ciatelondon.com, available from 30 June. KIKO: kikocosmetics.com. Leighton Denny: leightondennyexpertnails.com. Naio Nails: naio-nails.co.uk. Sensationail: sensationail.co.uk Where we spotted it Shiny tips caught our eye (and reflection) backstage at Philipp Plein. Why we love it We’ve crowned it 2017’s biggest and most wearable Insta-trend; thankfully it can be worked by both nail beginners and enthusiasts alike. Ways to work it Pressed for time? Look to the world’s first gel-free chrome polish by Ciaté London. But, if you have an at-home gel kit, use an eyeshadow applicator to smudge chrome powder over cured black polish. Finish with a gel topcoat, stick it under the UV lamp for 60 secs and you’re good to go.…

CALL HOLDING In our digi-addicted world, a broken phone can ruin your day - and your workout. Tech 21's sport cases to the rescue. The lightweight slim design (from £25) protects your mobile so you can go full pelt (as well as match it to your Apple watch!). Flash your abs in these leggings by The Upside, £88 . Camo print This workout gear has no intention of blending in... PACK-A-SNACK A scoop of peanut butter is the perfect post-workout pick-me-up - but a jar of Sunpat isn't exactly portable. Lucky for us, then, that Meridian has launched two peanut protein bars to give you the same boost. Choose from peanut and pumpkin or peanut and coconut, £1.19. SOUND ADVICE Make like Kendall Jenner and bag yourself a pair of…

Photos: Getty Images, Johnny Stephens Photo, LMK ELLENOR STEWART Grazia’s acting editorial assistant ★★★★✩ This haunting story transports you to post-war London where orphan Lucy Marsh lives with her grandparents above their pub. Her life is typically mundane until she’s sent on mysterious Sunday evening excursions and encounters The Funny Men; a group of disfigured ex-soldiers. The following events that unfold will change the course of her life forever. CAZ ROBERTS Grazia’s creative director ★★★★✩ If you go down to the woods with hero Lucy in this richly evocative novel you will be rewarded with some surprisingly funny lines: ‘The good news is you’re not dead’. Teenager Lucy is growing up post conflict and finds new friends in the forest named after Dorothy’s companions in The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.…

Photo: Thiemo Sander/Mondadori Photo TAURUS 21 Apr – 21 May All sorts of wild and woolly ideas might spring to mind as you feel inspired by Mercury’s link to Uranus, the planet of surprises. But before you get too carried away, you’ll have to consider the views of a partner, colleague or friend with whom you hope to create something special. The fact that Mercury’s also allied to Saturn should help you recognise the point at which caution has to override risk-taking. GEMINI 22 May – 21 Jun Having skirted around areas of responsibility you’re reluctant to inhabit, you’re about to do a U-turn and accept that it could benefit you to commit to whatever needs doing. It could take time and effort, but you’re about…

IT’S BEEN EMOTIONAL I wanted to share the many emotions Grazia generated with its 8 May issue. First off, the Kylie/Prince Andrew story at No3 of Chart Of Lust. * Screams a Nooooo on the train* . Girl, you can do so much better! Then, Ellen and Portia split?!* Sigh. Loses faith in relationships.* Shame. Then, the Vetements jeans with butt hole, sorry buttleavage. What?! Ha ha ha ha. Nope, I won’t be rushing out to buy that! The next? Vive L’Age Gap. Me and my close friends are all Vive la Macron, j’adore... all hail the older woman! Then, the article on modest fashion. Yes, this is big news at the moment. Why haven’t I thought of that?! Wish your daughter was a boy?! Grrr! Feeling sorry for Nazanin…