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British actor Robert Aramayo named EE Rising Star at Baftas

The 33-year old plays Scottish Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson in the biopic I Swear.

Evening Standard

Baftas ‘heckling’: What really happened during Alan Cumming’s monologue?

The Scottish comedian later explained the reasoning behind the disruption

The Independent UK

I Swear filmmaker did not ask Robert Aramayo to audition for lead role

The Bafta-nominated Kirk Jones film tells the story of Scottish campaigner John Davidson’s life living with Tourette syndrome.

Evening Standard

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Robert Aramayo is up against DiCaprio at the Baftas. He found out about his nomination while doing the dishes

RISING STARS: The British star of ‘The Rings of Power’ has had a busy month: he’s made his West End debut, and he’s been nominated for two Baftas for his work in the touching Tourette’s drama ‘I Swear’. And now he needs a lie-down, he tells Jacob Stolworthy

The Independent UK

The underdog Bafta nominee we think will beat Timothée Chalamet to Best Actor award

‘Marty Supreme’ star might be the favourite – but there’s one actor we think should win instead

The Independent UK

Bafta has caught the zeitgeist with One Battle After Another, but let’s hear it for The Ballad of Wallis Island

Paul Thomas Anderson’s antifa parable is queasily relevant to the times, but here’s hoping Tim Key and co can get some reward for their brilliant British film

The Guardian - UK

Diamonds delighted but injury sours Cup celebrations

A serious knee injury to Sunday Aryang has taken the shine off the Diamonds' celebrations after reclaiming the Constellation Cup in an unusual new format.

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Heard the one about the three vicars who went to the cinema – and were taught a lesson in tolerance?

Watching the film I Swear, at first I was irked by the shouting and swearing from an audience member. But I ended up thanking him, says vicar and standup comedian Ravi Holy

The Guardian - UK

I Swear review – A crowdpleaser about Tourette syndrome that isn’t at all treacly

4/5 Inspired by the story of campaigner John Davidson, this British indie occasionally adheres to tearjerking genre formula, but is also nicely subtle and smart about its hero’s disorder

The Independent UK

I Swear review – biopic of pioneering Tourette syndrome activist is funny, fierce and full of heart

Kirk Jones’s moving film about of John Davidson, the man who taught Britain about Tourette, offers compassion and catharsis

The Guardian - UK

I research Tourette’s – I Swear is an unflinching yet empathetic portrait of life with this condition

I Swear is a biographical drama based on Scottish campaigner John Davidson’s experience of Tourette’s syndrome.

The Conversation

Actor Robert Aramayo: ‘Like anybody who hasn’t had the education, I thought Tourette’s was all about swearing’

Formerly seen as a young Ned Stark in Game of Thrones and as Elrond in The Rings of Power, he is creating a buzz with his role as Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson. It taught him a lot, he says – but it’s a huge responsibility

The Guardian - UK

I Swear star Maxine Peake on impact John Davidson had on her understanding of Tourette syndrome as a young girl

Maxine Peake has explained the impact John Davidson had on her generation on understanding Tourette syndrome.

The Independent UK

How John Davidson used fishing to help actors tell his story in I Swear

John Davidson has revealed how he helped the actors who portrayed him in the film I Swear get into character - and it involved a fishing trip.

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The National (Scotland)

See if I Swear is a true story and if John Davidson really said 'F*** the Queen'

The film follows the life and work of Scottish Tourette's Syndrome campaigner John Davidson.

Louder

"If you wondered how Fleetwood Mac evolved into the Rumours-era juggernaut, look no further than Buckingham Nicks": Lindsey and Stevie invent the future on long-lost now-found album

The album that took Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks away from their day jobs into the belly of the Fleetwood Mac beast

AAP

Coach gives Reds the Kiss of life after sorry Super bow

The despondent Queensland Reds are licking their wounds after crashing out of the Super Rugby Pacific quarter-finals for a fourth straight season.

Louder

"Their music is as aggressively and pretentiously dull as their choice of band name": The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters

For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio

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The Independent UK

Trump tariffs and statehood comments about Canada stir loyalty debate about NHL great Wayne Gretzky

In Wayne Gretzky's hometown of Brantford, Ontario, and across Canada, the Great One's loyalty and legacy are being questioned at a time the nation's independence is being threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump

The Guardian - AU

Warriors coach Richard Agar given NRL breach notice after alleged press box incident

Warriors coach Richard Agar faces a $10,000 fine and three-game suspension after allegedly pushing a journalist in the throat in Las Vegas

AAP

Crusaders wing it, Force cop third-straight Super loss

Crusaders wingers Sevu Reece and Macca Springer scored three and five tries respectively in a 55-33 defeat of the Western Force in Christchurch.

AAP

Reds rolled as Crusaders restore Super order

The Queensland Reds were often their worst enemies as they let in six tries inside the first 42 minutes to lose 43-19 to the Crusaders in Christchurch.

The Guardian - AU

NRL integrity unit investigates alleged press box incident between Warriors assistant coach and journalist

Alleged incident between a journalist for Guardian Australia and Richard Agar during the season opener in Las Vegas under investigation

Louder

"It's unlikely that I'll ever listen to any other Asia albums but only time will tell": Asia upset the prog purists and delight their bank managers on freakishly successful debut album

Featuring members of Yes, ELP and King Crimson, Asia were billed as a prog rock supergroup but kept it concise, to enormous success

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Villanelle by John Davidson

A still potent vision of a Glasgow family in poverty at the end of the 19th century, clinging on to hope

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