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Bethany Elliott

@bethanyaelliott.bsky.social

230 followers 190 following 620 posts

Words in Unherd, Politico, New Statesman, New Humanist, The Fence, The Critic, The Daily Mash, Jamestown Foundation. Usually about Russia-Ukraine. Voice/face on BBC radio/TV and Times Radio.

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 21h

*chef’s kiss*

Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 21h

That is GENIUS

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 23h

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 23h

Wait, what.

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like Spotify suggesting music for me. There is one way to discover new songs and that is Shazaming car adverts.

Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 2d

I saw Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Young Vic, it was very well done. But I really struggle with both Pinter and Orton because - and this is true - their plays remind me too much of my father’s family.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 2d

William Hill phoning up Terry Eagleton, give us the inside goss Terry, who is showing form, who has peaked too soon

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 2d

I love it when they have the Nobel Prize for literature and they say so and so was the bookies favourite because I just picture Betfred employing the board of the LRB to give them the breakdown of the runners and riders

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 2d

Oh fine fiiine fiiiine. But when *I* try to put on a play about surreal dreams involving Ralph Fiennes…

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 3d

Best moment of TV all year #celebritytraitors

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Kippy Woo-ooo-ooo! 🦇🎃👻🧛‍♂️💀🐺🕷 @tygerwhocame2t.bsky.social · 4d

"Oh God! Oh Jesus Christ!"
#TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors
#TheWickerMan

Burning Wicker Trojan Horse in The Celebrity Traitors (2025)

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 4d

‘Crash’ is on MUBI so I started to watch it due to my huge crush on James Spader.

On reflection, train to Southend was wrong location.

Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll bring her along to every wedding I attend from now on.

Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 4d

At wedding earlier this year I accidentally signed in the best wishes book “ally“ instead of “all my” as in “all my love”. And was stood there horrified saying “I can’t cross it out, I have to go with Ally”.

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Mackenzie @mackenzievogt.net · 5d

Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar and then bemoaned he never wrote anything like it

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 5d

Slowing down so that my It Follows ghost can catch up because there's a bunch of teens loitering outside the shop and I don't want to have to walk past them by myself.

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 7d

I miss Twitter.

Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 7d

Final plug - it’s also available as a podcast open.spotify.com/episode/76WR...

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 9d

[talking to my puppet] She said she wants a divorce

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute pleasure to appear on today's Trump Report on Times Radio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=34uJ...

Trump’s ‘worrying’ moves this week signals a sharp ‘authoritarian’ turn

YouTube video by Times Radio

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 14d

Out for a stroll and there was a crisp autumnal bonfire type odour in the air so I took out my headphones to smell it more deeply.

Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 16d

Wait. They’re actually doing “let’s put Palestine under transitional British oversight“.…

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 16d

Oh fiiine fiiiine fiiiiiine. The Financial Times invites Tom Hollander to lunch and he goes. But with me it’s all “seriously, how did you get this number?!”

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16d

Actor Tom Hollander: ‘I would love to be a Bond villain’ on.ft.com/48CEKu7

Actor Tom Hollander: ‘I would love to be a Bond villain’

The show-stealing star on the ‘privileges of living in fiction’, why character acting is a misnomer — and how Tom Holland is keeping him relevant

on.ft.com