Teen

Freya Mavor: Skins storylines were hard to deal with

TV Gossip

24 Jan 2012

Freya Mavor found it "hard" to deal with some of the storylines in the sixth series of 'Skins'. The 18-year-old star - who plays Mini McGuinness in the E4 teen drama - was "quite scared" when she read some of the plot lines because she has grown so…

Usher's teen parties with P. Diddy

Celebrity Gossip

12 Feb 2011

P. Diddy used to take Usher to wild parties when he was only 14. The 'OMG' hitmaker was mentored by the hip-hop mogul when he signed to Bad Boy records as a teenager and P. Diddy - who was then calling himself Puff Daddy - would let him go along to…

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

17 Jul 2008

TEEN COMEDY (cert tbc) tbcmin After successfully tackling teenage tomboys in Bend it Like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha takes a step into younger territory with this adaptation of two of Louise Rennison’s bestselling books for girls. Looking at life…

Camilla D’errico & Joshua Dysart - Avril Lavigne’s Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 & 2

4 Jan 2008

TEEN (Titan) I really wanted to hate this. I was hoping for a cheesy, corporate celebrity tie-in scamming money out of a willing fanbase. Sadly, it’s a stunningly-drawn, intelligent, jet-black study of adolescent isolation. Dammit. Hana is a…

Mike Carey, Louise Carey & Aaron Alexovich - Confessions of a Blabbermouth

4 Jan 2008

TEEN (Minx) Minx is a DC imprint, created as a way to entice teenage girls into graphic-novel reading, and while this may at first seem a little patronising, the genre is unfortunately still viewed by most as the preserve of speccy adolescent males.

Jess Weixler

9 Aug 2007

Jess Weixler is so all-American she looks like she’s jumped straight out of a photograph of high school cheerleaders. Her long blond hair and blue eyes make her the archetypal American beauty – just like all those Britney Spears wannabes lusted after by…

Apples

Richard Milward

9 Apr 2007

TEENAGE DRAMA The confused and lusty youthdom of Britain are everywhere at the moment from the seemingly daily scare stories on the tabloid front pages and broadsheet opinion columns to the hedonistic revelry of Skins. On literature’s side, January’s…