Christobel Hastings

London

Entertainment Editor, Women's Lifestyle at Hearst UK

Entertainment Editor - Women's Lifestyle @HearstUK. Formerly Entertainment Editor @stylistmagazine/@pinknews 🏳️‍🌈 ♒️

Articles

Bryce Dallas Howard on life in a famous family, embracing imperfection and new comedy Deep Cover

2 days ago | redonline.co.uk | Christobel Hastings

With her laptop balanced in one hand and her other gripping the bannister, Bryce Dallas Howard makes her way down the stairs of her New York home. Along the way, we pass mint green walls and Morris & Co wallpaper, every turn revealing technicolour hues and vintage accents. This isn’t an Architectural Digest tour, though. Rather, Howard has a surprise in store. As we round the corner into her art room, she suddenly swivels the screen.
Oti Mabuse on her body confidence journey: "It's been a rollercoaster"

2 weeks ago | prima.co.uk | Christobel Hastings

The June 2025 issue of Prima has landed, starring queen of the Strictly dance floor and TV personality, Oti Mabuse. In the new issue, Oti, who has gifted us with many memorable screen moments over the years, from her iconic samba with Danny Mac on Strictly Come Dancing, to smashing Bushtucker Trials on I'm A Celebrity, looks back upon her incredible journey that led her from South Africa to the UK spotlight.
Cynthia Nixon on Miranda's evolution in And Just Like That season 3: 'It's a brave new world'

2 weeks ago | redonline.co.uk | Christobel Hastings

Cynthia Nixon is a portrait of enthusiasm. Facing the morning light on a late-January day, fresh-faced and copper-haired, she spins her computer around to show me her garden in New York, which is covered with a postcard-perfect dusting of snow. The day before we speak, I watched her shovelling heaps of the white stuff from her walk on Instagram – a move not unlike her lovably pragmatic Sex And The City (SATC) character, Miranda Hobbes. ‘I move through life very quickly,’ she smiles, eyes sparkling.
5 ways The Last Of Us defies outdated LGBTQ+ tropes that needed killing off

1 month ago | cosmopolitan.com | Christobel Hastings

If you’re a fan of shows about the undead, there are certain hallmarks you can always come to expect: vacant-eyed zombies lurching in unison, screaming figures down dark alleyways, gaping mouths full of bloody teeth. But when The Last Of Us landed in 2023, it seemed that no one was prepared for the body horror.
How The Last Of Us became the LGBTQ+ representation we deserve

1 month ago | cosmopolitan.com | Christobel Hastings

If you’re a fan of shows about the undead, there are certain hallmarks you can always come to expect: vacant-eyed zombies lurching in unison, screaming figures down dark alleyways, gaping mouths full of bloody teeth. But when The Last Of Us landed in 2023, it seemed that no one was prepared for the body horror.
How David Oyelowo found liberation in Government Cheese

1 month ago | redonline.co.uk | Christobel Hastings

Eight years ago, David Oyelowo invited his ‘chosen family mother’, Oprah Winfrey, to see him perform Othello in New York. Unfortunately, the theatre was fitted with punishing wooden benches. ‘For eight years, she didn’t let it rest as to how uncomfortable she had been while watching that play,’ the 48-year-old says dryly. Upon returning to his roots on the London stage in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus recently, he seized the opportunity to capitalise on the National Theatre’s cushioned seating.
“I’m a medical miracle”

1 month ago | prima.co.uk | Christobel Hastings

The May 2025 issue of Prima has landed, starring award-winning comedian, author and host of The Great British Sewing Bee Sara Pascoe. In the new issue, the beloved stand-up, who has brought joy to audiences across the world with her trademark confessional humour, and has just embarked on a new international tour memorably titled I Am A Strange Gloop, looks back on her comedy roots. “I was a failed actor," Sara tells Prima. "I was trying to be an actor and I didn’t get into drama school.
Naomi Watts: 'Menopause is not the end – the longer your life, the deeper it gets'

2 months ago | redonline.co.uk | Christobel Hastings

Naomi Watts likes to take big risks. When she was a teenager, she walked away from a promising career as a fashion editor after attending a weekend acting course. ‘I definitely did things more blindly or less consciously when I was young, such as moving to America with nothing but a couple of thousand in my savings account,’ she says breezily, smiling at the memory. ‘And, yes, quitting what was considered to be a high-powered job at 19 to become an actor.
Kelly Brook on the struggles of fame

2 months ago | prima.co.uk | Christobel Hastings

The April issue of Prima has landed, starring TV and radio star Kelly Brook. In the new issue, the presenter opens up about the scrutiny she faced as a young woman in the public eye, and the detrimental impact it had on her self-image. 'I think back in the 90s and early noughties, it was a bit of a free-for-all,' Kelly tells Prima. 'And I do think the media were quite cruel at times. That was the fashion.
From Bridget Jones to Babygirl, the new era of age-gap romcoms is here

Feb 13, 2025 | redonline.co.uk | Christobel Hastings

Has Hollywood finally flipped the script on age-gap romances? If the new Bridget Jones caper, Mad About The Boy, is anything to go by, then the answer is a definitive ‘hell yes’.