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Rowan Pelling

Rowan Pelling is a British journalist, broadcaster, writer, and stand-up comedian. After studying English Literature at Oxford, she worked at Private Eye and GQ before launching the popular Erotic Review in 1997.

<p>Brigitte Macron was caught on camera shoving the French president in the face as they were about to leave their plane, having touched down in Vietnam</p>

Has Brigitte Macron got away with ‘le slap’?

<p>Nicole Kidman, left, and Harris Dickinson in a scene from ‘Babygirl’, which explores an affair between a married woman and her intern</p>

The unfashionable truth about surviving infidelity by a top therapist

<p>‘It might be easy to ignore such assertions if they came from a rival politician, but these napalm-laced claims come from a blood relative’</p>

How a niece of Trump and cousin of RFK Jr became their biggest trolls

<p>The society has faced a number of controversies in recent years </p>

How the Royal Society of Literature turned into a diversity bloodbath

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And I thought all I had to worry about was my sociopath of a husband

And I thought all I had to worry about was my sociopath of a husband

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Why sexual passion is failing us between the covers

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Rowan Pelling