Interview

The 28-year-old star of The Buccaneers talks Saltburn, Nathan Fielder, Lena Dunham and her favourite night out in London.

From blockbuster celebrity profiles to an essay on, um, Fred Again, these are the stories you loved most this year.

This year we met the best pop star on the planet, the most influential producer in music and a TikToker whose fans crashed our website. Not bad, eh?

She's the best pop star on the planet: a rage-soundtracking, youth-code cracking, confidence-power packing backdrop to a million teenage lives. And jaw-droppingly, brilliantly, excitingly, the 20-year-old is just getting started.

Saltburn, the writer-director’s second film, is a wicked satire of sex and class starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi. As it launches the London Film Festival, Fennell spills the Earl Grey.

Think it was only genius tech bros who shaped social media? Think again.