Agatha Christie is the latest bestselling novelist to get the rewriting treatment for 2023 readers, according to a British newspaper. The bestselling novelist in the world, Christie created enduring popular sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple , and the Daily Telegraph reports that new editions of both these series have had original passages amended or removed by publisher Harper Collins. The Telegraph states that digital versions of new editions of the books written between 1920 and 1976 (the year of Christie’s death) include text stripped of “descriptions, insults or references to ethnicity, particularly for characters Christie’s protagonists encounter outside the UK.” For example, in the book Death on the Nile – published in 1937 and recently remade for the big screen by Kenneth Branagh – references to “Nubian people” have been removed, as have several references to non-British characters’ physiques. The word “local” replaces “native” A line in Christie’s … [Read more...] about Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Miss Marple Classic Mysteries Rewritten For Modern Sensitivities
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Dancing Show Judge ‘May Quit Hit Show’ After Abuse By Online Trolls Forced Her To Seek Medical Help
The lead judge on the UK’s most popular entertainment show, Strictly Come Dancing , has hinted she may quit her role after receiving huge amounts of online abuse during the 2022 season. Shirley Ballas , who has been a judge on the show since 2017, has revealed she received unprecedented criticism during last year’s run, with trolls slamming her decisions and accusing her of ageism and sexism in her choices of which contestants to send home. Now Ballas, a former world Latin dancing champion whose son Mark used to appear on Dancing with the Stars , tells the UK’s Daily Mirror newspaper that the 2022 season could be her last, after the abuse “snowballed out of control” and that, for the first time in five decades of her professional dancing career, she was forced to seek medical help to manage her anxiety. The judge said that, of all the social media messages she received after announcing her decisions on the show, “one in five were hateful” – accusing her of … [Read more...] about Dancing Show Judge ‘May Quit Hit Show’ After Abuse By Online Trolls Forced Her To Seek Medical Help