Nicola Fahey

ELLE • 1st September 2025

Lola Young: ‘I Know What I Stand For. There’s No Façade or Alter Ego'’

‘Hi babe! So good to be here,’ says Lola Young, her arms flung wide with the intimacy of someone you’ve cried with at 2am. She arrives on set midway through her European tour with her mullet artfully dishevelled and no make-up on – just her signature eyebrow piercings and the deceptive energy of someone who’s had nine hours’ sleep (she hasn’t). She is weeks away from releasing her third album I’m Only F**king Myself, and running on oat lattes and pure adrenalin.There’s Erdem and Simone Rocha on...

Cosmopolitan • 7th April 2025

Rose Gray on her debut album, body image and adapting to life in the public eye

Rose Gray has committed a classic British blunder - placing blind faith in the weather. A few reckless days of March sun lured her into choosing a café in London’s Victoria Park for our interview. Now, we’re shivering on a bench, clutching teas like lifelines. Ninety minutes later, we’re practically cryogenically frozen, but somehow, with Rose, it doesn’t feel that way. She’s like that fleeting heatwave - warm, electric, radiating good vibes - and her music has the same effect: lifting you up, o...

Esquire • 20th May 2025

Mads Mikkelsen On New Films, Great Style and Sharing Parenting Tips With De Niro

This year, Cannes cracked down on skin. The infamous naked dress – that sheer, headline-thirsty red carpet staple made famous by Bella Hadid – has been quietly outlawed from the Croisette. Modesty is having a moment. But while some are dressing with new restraint, Mads Mikkelsen, Denmark’s most stylish export since mid-century furniture, remembers the time he tried testing the festival’s own sartorial boundaries. It did not end well."They have very strict rules here with the bow tie thing," says...

ELLE • 25th April 2025

'The Saddest, Loneliest Time': Jessie J Reveals The Brutal 6 Days That Inspired 'No Secrets'

Jessie J is multitasking motherhood, promo and laundry like a woman who’s cracked the code to modern chaos. In the past 24 hours, she’s redesigned her toddler’s playroom, survived a full day of back-to-back interviews, picked up the weekly food shop and wrestled a mountain of baby clothes into the wash – all without so much as smudging her signature red lipstick.Her one-year-old son, Sky, is in Denmark with his dad,...

Red Online • 29th January 2025

Brooke Shields is done justifying her middle-aged existence - here's why

As I portal into Brooke Shields’ four-storey New York townhouse, she’s in the thick of book promo for her latest memoir. The actor, author and entrepreneur is tethered to her desk, juggling back-to-back video calls while managing moments of chaos with her daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18, who are home for a brief stint before heading back to college – and her AirPods have gone on strike. ‘Hey, guys – can you just, like, take it down a notch?’ ‘You know, I miss them so much now that I have an...

ELLE • 29th July 2024

Emma Corrin On Shaving Their Head & Pitching Business Ideas To Ryan Reynolds

Deadpool & Wolverine is a guaranteed on-screen riot, but it turns out proceedings were rather more serious off-camera.The film's shaven-headed super villain Emma Corrin has told ELLE UK during a game of Knowing Me, Knowing You how Ryan Reynolds - scriptwriter, actor and entrepreneur extraordinaire - transformed the cast’s downtime into a low-key Dragon’s Den, encouraging them to pitch their business ideas in return for his investment. FIND OUT MORE ON ELLE COLLECTIVESadly for Corrin, who makes t...

ELLE • 13th June 2024

Getting Ready With Bridgerton's Hannah Dodd For Season 3's Part 2 Premiere

Hannah Dodd is the latest Bridgerton star to have received the show's magic sprinkling that has transformed the careers of alumni Nicola Coughlan, Phoebe Dynevor and Simone Ashley, and is still acclimatising to commanding such attention. Chatting to ELLE UK from her London flat just hours before the premiere of Series 3: Part II of the hit Netflix series, the Colchester-born model turned actor is getting accustomed to the churn of the red carpet's thrill and trepidation.'I don't think I'll ever...

Cosmopolitan • 28th January 2020

Lena Dunham on how falling in love with herself became greatest love story of all

It’s a cold winter morning when Lena Dunham arrives on set in silk pyjamas. Her face is bare apart from a shiny gold septum piercing and a warm, infectious smile. Arms thrown open wide, she greets each and every one of us, before professing her love for all things Cosmopolitan. She has a modest entourage – just two managers and her Mexican hairless pug, Ingrid, who dashes off to explore. As she flicks excitedly through the clothes our fashion team has assembled, the confidence of someone who is...

Cosmopolitan • 3rd January 2020

Vanessa Hudgens on her journey from High School Musical to Hollywood

From teen sensation to blockbuster leading lady, Vanessa Hudgens has proved herself the master of reinvention. But, asks Nicola Fahey... what’s next? Vanessa Hudgens is the sort of woman it would be very easy to just... hate. At only 31 years old, she’s already had the kind of career most of us dream of. She got to kiss Zac Efron on-screen for three years – and off-screen for another two. She got a blockbuster trilogy, High School Musical, under her belt by the time she was 19, owns two homes an...

Cosmopolitan • 5th November 2019

Mariah Carey reveals how she wrote 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'

This month marks the 25th anniversary of Mariah Carey's iconic anthem 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' and, as she cuddles up on the sofa with her beloved Jack Russell Cha Cha for our chat in her 10,000-square-foot, peach-coloured Beverly Hills mansion, Mariah is feeling nostalgic. "I’m sitting here and thinking about it – I’ve been looking for pictures from that original photoshoot, which was like me in the snow in that little Santa suit. It became the first song that I wrote for that album."...

Cosmopolitan • 30th September 2019

Christine and the Queens on refusing to be anything other than herself

In just three short years, Héloïse Letissier – better known as Chris from Christine and the Queens – has transformed from critically acclaimed musician to a bona-fide icon-in-the-making. This is the story of how refusing to be anything other than herself made 2019 her biggest year yet.Héloïse Letissier does not want you to call her a role model.Since her first album, Chaleur Humaine, became the UK’s biggest-selling debut of 2016, she has been nominated for two Brit Awards, performed with Sir Elt...

Cosmopolitan • 2nd September 2019

Bebe Rexha opens up about size discrimination in the fashion industry

“Oh god, I think we need coffee.” Bebe Rexha’s Staten Island drawl carries over the early-morning hush of one of London’s oldest hotels. A waiter in a starched white waistcoat arrives with a silver pot, pouring us both a steaming cup. He turns to leave but she stops him. “Do you know what?” she says, beaming politely. “Can you just leave the entire pot?We’re in a private room the morning after Rexha landed from LA and, aside from the universal uniform of the jet-lagged (black hoodie, joggers, sl...