Eleanor Halls

London

Music Editor and Associate Culture Editor at The Telegraph

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Articles

Women, here's why you'll always have 'bad friends'

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Eleanor Halls

From the homoerotic bonds of the 17th century to 1990s romcoms, Tiffany Watt Smith has traced the evolution of female friendship with styleMy first friendship, when I was 12, was so formative that the minutiae of its creation and implosion are more vivid to me than that, two decades later, of an 11-year romantic relationship.
Women, here’s why you’ll always have ‘bad friends’

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Eleanor Halls

My first friendship, when I was 12, was so formative that the minutiae of its creation and implosion are more vivid to me than that, two decades later, of an 11-year romantic relationship. I still have, somewhere in a box, a black ring-binder chronicling my and my friend’s daily interactions, from furtive classroom notes to postcards and “top secret” six-page letters. I can still perfectly visualise her turquoise ink and curly handwriting.
Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver dish out gasp-inducing secrets

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Eleanor Halls

The gossip-packed live debut from the best friends and podcasters was entertaining, embarrassing and jaw-droppingly candidIn our current era of celebrities terrified to reveal little more than their morning routine lest they find themselves tipped into even a thimble of hot water, Miss Me, the hit BBC podcast hosted by childhood best friends Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver, is not so much a breath of fresh air as a blow-your-socks-off blast.
Influencers have ruined Mexico’s Caribbean coast – head here instead

Oct 24, 2024 | msn.com | Eleanor Halls

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Influencers have ruined Mexico’s Caribbean coast – head here instead

Oct 24, 2024 | msn.com | Eleanor Halls

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Influencers have ruined Mexico’s Caribbean coast - head here instead

Oct 24, 2024 | yahoo.com | Eleanor Halls

Mexico’s southern Pacific coast is much more relaxed than its eastern counterpart - GettyTrawl through TripAdvisor, Reddit and blog posts about what it’s like to holiday on Mexico’s east coast and the majority of recent reviews are enough to make you shudder.
Do artists need 'lore'?

Jun 18, 2024 | eleanorhalls.substack.com | Eleanor Halls

“There are no finger holes” was how New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica described the new Dua Lipa album, Radical Optimism, in a recent episode of his excellent podcast Popcast. It’s exactly how I felt listening to RA: like 28-year-old Lipa’s public persona, the music is shiny, smooth, unknowable.
This viral young writer can be funny – so why is he making up facts?

Mar 24, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Eleanor Halls

Five stars? Joel Golby's memoir rates even the croissants he eats Credit: Francesco Carta In 2017, when Vice Media was at its irreverent peak and virality was a writer’s currency, the name Joel Golby became synonymous with a certain type of homegrown journalism.
How Caitlin Reilly turned the idiocy of the Oscars into comedy gold

Mar 8, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Eleanor Halls

'My sketches come from a place of love and fascination': comic Caitlin Reilly Credit: CAROLINE BREHMAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Grasping her Best Actress Oscar, Caitlin Reilly is giving the performance of a lifetime.
We turned to Greece’s ‘lover’s island’ to cure our lack of romance

Feb 3, 2024 | yahoo.com | Eleanor Halls

When strangers ask me how I met my boyfriend, I am always struck by how old-fashioned the story seems for my generation. We met 10 years ago on the first day of university – his room was down the hall, and in a moment of brazen confidence, I knocked and introduced myself. When I tell this story to fellow millennials, they marvel and swoon at the quaint idea of meeting “offline”, while Gen Zers eye us suspiciously, as if beneath our (relatively) fresh skin lurks a secret ancient person.