Deirdre Reynolds: Sex and the City spin-off is just toe-curlingly bad
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The Irish Sun
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- The Irish Sun
Bond girl unrecognisable 44 years after bedding 007, high-profile romances & Sex And The City role – can you guess who?
A BOND Girl looks unrecognisable 44 years after bedding 007. Starring alongside hearts when she played the role of an iconic Bond Girl. Advertisement 6 She attended the Chanel Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2025/2026 show Credit: Splash 6 Can you guess who she is? Credit: The Mega Agency 6 She starred alongside Roger Moore Credit: The Mega Agency She was known for the role of Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only way back when in 1981. Her character even famously bedded Bond in the hit flick. Going on to have a glowing career in TV and film, she appeared alongside Sex and the City. She also starred in movie The Bridge. Advertisement Read More about Bond Girls You've guessed it, it's 67-year-old French-born actress Carole Bouquet. The brunette beauty was seen arriving at the Chanel fashion show in Paris on Tuesday. She could be seen wearing a beautiful ensemble comprising of a black and grey tweed skirt and jacket. Carole wore her brunette hair down, with the mid-length locks brushing her shoulders. Advertisement Most read in Celebrity Smiling for the camera, the lady in her 60s looked ageless. Carole, who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, has made headlines with her love life in the past. Diletta Leotta shows off new 'Bond girl' look as DAZN host puts on revealing display in low cut ski suit She was the companion of film producer Jean-Pierre Rassam from 1981 until 1985 and the couple welcomed son Dimitri Rassam. She later had a son, Louis, with photographer Francis Giacobetti. Advertisement In 1992, she married immunologist Jacques Leibowitch, but they divorced in 1996. From 1996 to 2005, she was in a relationship with actor Gérard Depardieu. 6 Carole starred alongside Roger Moore in an iconic James Bond movie Credit: Alamy 6 She played the role of Melina Havelock Credit: Getty Advertisement And since 2014, she has been in a relationship with Philippe Sereys de Rothschild. In 2008, Carole opened up in a candid interview about her life and being considered as "beautiful". Speaking to The Independent, she said: "I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. "Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more," she added. Advertisement She went on: "I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability – and I'm making no claims here – proportional to your supposed good looks. "I think that's what I meant when I was talking about beauty. "I felt I should be proving I deserved the attention. "That I should be doing something special," she candidly said. Advertisement 6 Carole Bouquet posed for Chanel No5 in her youth Credit: Getty
Irish Independent
08-07-2025
- Irish Independent
Deirdre Reynolds: Sex and the City spin-off is just toe-curlingly bad
Airing here on Sky Comedy, the Sex and the City spin-off limped towards the halfway point this week, and I'm no longer mad that it's so toe-curlingly bad - worse than that, I'm sad.
Sunday World
06-07-2025
- Sunday World
Deirdre Reynolds: Sex and the City spin-off is just toe-curlingly bad
sex and the pity | It's nothing to do with the fact that the remaining three ladies, shown as being in their fifties on the show and ranging from 59 to 60 in reality, aren't exactly spring chickens any more Kim Cattrall Airing here on Sky Comedy, the Sex and the City spin-off limped towards the halfway point this week, and I'm no longer mad that it's so toe-curlingly bad - worse than that, I'm sad. When the HBO 'dramedy' first tottered onto TV screens back in 1998, following the lives of four single friends living in New York, it shattered taboos around everything from female pleasure to boardroom gender politics, and paved the way for a new brand of feminist television from Girls to The Mindy Project. Back then, we were all clamouring to identify as one of the fab four: be it fashionable Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), whipsmart Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), picture perfect Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) or sexually liberated Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall). Kim Cattrall Today's News in 90 Seconds - July 6th As a newly qualified journalist, catching up on Darren Star's creation during the heady early noughties, there are no prizes for guessing which one in my friend group I fancied myself as, though it's taken a decade or two to figure out that, unlike writer Carrie, tragically you can't live off penning a single newspaper column per week, no matter how sassy it is. Fast forward to 2025, and now, the only one any of us aspire to be is Samantha, after Cattrall had the good sense to leap from the sinking ship that was Sex and the City 2 in 2010, while trousering a rumoured $1m for a minutes-long cameo in the season two finale of And Just Like That in 2023. It's nothing to do with the fact that the remaining three ladies, shown as being in their fifties on the show and ranging from 59 to 60 in reality, aren't exactly spring chickens any more. There are plenty of top tier shows such as Hacks (starring 73 year-old Jean Smart) and Somebody Somewhere (starring 53 year-old Bridget Everett) with older female protagonists. It's that the beloved characters appear to have been lobotomised since the original series, based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. Take, most egregiously, Miranda, one the sarcastic rock of sense on Sex and the City, who has been reduced to an embarrassing meme in the latest installment of And Just Like That, and whose ex-husband Steve (played by David Eigenberg), a series regular, has apparently just dropped off a cliff. Read more Or Aidan (John Corbett), the once swoony furniture designer, who has been rewritten into such an insufferable drip of a divorced dad, that you wonder why Carrie would wait five minutes for him, let alone five years, as the excuse of a storyline demands. Now, in the grand scheme of things, I understand that a disappointing TV show is the least of the world's worries right now. On the other hand, what's airing round the clock over on the news channels is also part of the reason why good quality escapism has never been more essential. And Just Like That hasn't just jumped the shark - it's backflipped clean over it. For us Millennials who bought the box sets, coffee table books and movie premiere tickets, before streaming was ever a thing, it's a betrayal made only worse by Carrie retroactively branding the show's anti-hero Mr Big (Chris Noth), who also had the foresight to drop dead on an exercise bike in episode one of the revival, as 'a big mistake'. Honestly, these writers aren't making it any easier to defend the erstwhile singles poster girl, who has been recast by the TikTok generation as a red flag magnet, not to mention a toxic friend, who even as a fifty-something widow is still lambasting Miranda for eating her last yogurt. Still, like all SATC devotees, I'll Carrie on in the hope that Shoe the cat can save the franchise - and drown my sorrows with a large glass of Sarah Jessica Parker's Invivo X wine if not.
