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We've all had those moments of madness where we think to ourselves: "What if…" 

But if you never let those thoughts materialise into actions, you may be less common than you think. 

According to a survey by Illicit Encounters, 6 out of 10 women not only think about having sex with an ex-lover, but actively pine for it. 

Yep, and over a third of women would consider meeting up with an ex if they were approached on a social media site such as Facebook. 

Another surprising statistic from the survey revealed that only 44% of women said their best sex was with their current partner (compared to 71% of men.) 

"We have found the ‘greener grass syndrome' is a significant driver of female registrations," said Christian Grant, a spokesperson for Illicit Encounters

"Women are becoming increasingly sexually assertive and less prepared to settle for second best in a relationship.

"Women don’t tend to marry the guy they had great sex with. They marry for more ‘sensible’ attributes – like whether he’ll be loyal and a good father." 

Other fascinating results of the survey concluded that: 

  • Over 56% of women admitted they had their best sex with previous partners rather than their current one 
  • 59% regularly fantasise about sex with previous partners 
  • Only 4% of women said their best sex was with a one night stand (and only 3% of men said the same)
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In case you didn't see it, Junior Andre appeared on Loose Women alongside his sister Princess and mum Katie Price yesterday. 

And it seems the 10-year-old has earned himself a legion of new fans for the sassy way he called out his mother on the hit daytime show. 

And it's safe to say that Twitter was obsessed. Here's why: 

1) He wasn't afraid to ask the hard questions on live television 

"Mom, why did you divorce my dad?" 

2) He had a LOT of opinions on plastic surgery 

"People are perfect how they are."

 

3) He totally had his sisters back, even if it meant going against mom 

"Pedophiles will be attracted to her mom!" 

4) When he asked the tough questions 

"Hi the Vamps, I am about to prove that I am ten times cooler than you." 

 

5) And the cherry on top was his stellar performance of Mysterious Girl 

"Go away mom, you're stealing my thunder." 

 

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With parents like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, we all know that North West is going to grow up to rule the roost. 

She already has being a diva down from donning immaculate fur coats to telling the paparazzi exactly who is in charge. 

So when auntie Khloe decided to make a video turning North into a bona fide diva, we laughed because it is actually complete truth. 

Khloe posted the video to her website and used a picture of North with a modified voice to get the hilarious effect. 

"I don't think you know who I am," starts the gas clip with the 3-year-old donning a pair of over-sized sun-glasses. 

"I am North West and I'm about to run this sh*it for the rest of my life. Okay?" 

Absolute truth. 

Watch the gas clip below: 

 

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We all know what it feels like to just need a hair transformation, especially coming into the summer months. 

While many of us often opt to go a lighter shade for the spring season, Emma Watson has decided to do the total opposite. 

The Palo Alto actress has ditched her peroxide blonde, cropped hair and has decided to go for a luscious, soft brunette look complete with extensions. 

 

Change is always a good idea #DesertRose thanks to @nikkilee901 & @riawnacapri

A photo posted by Emma Roberts (@emmaroberts) on

She debuted the stunning transformation over on her Instagram and we reckon it suits her down to the ground while also warming up her pale skin-tone. 

The actress decided to keep the style beachy with soft blonde highlights running through her new long locks. 

"Change is always a good idea," reads the caption of the casual selfie. 

And it seems her fans are totally feeling the look as it has raked up over 285 thousand likes since being published just yesterday. 

Emma is currently starring in Ryan Murphy's black comedy series Scream Queens and also stars with Dave Franco in upcoming young adult drama Nerve which is due out in September. 

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With six full seasons – and two movies to boot – of Carrie Bradshaw's romantic antics, we can't imagine anyone else in the key Sex And The City roles.

Take Mr. Big, for example. No-one else but Chris Noth could have charmed Carrie with that smile as she dropped an entire handbag full of condoms onto the ground, we're sure of it.

But if things had gone a little differently, Carrie's main squeeze could have been played by someone else entirely. SATC's creator Darren Starr revealed in an interview this week that he had someone entirely different in mind for the role.

"I was thinking of Alec Baldwin for Big initially," Darren admitted, adding that he didn't know much about Chris Noth before meeting him for his first audition. 

"I don’t really watch Law & Order [Chris's main show prior to SATC], but I met with Chris Noth and thought he was perfect.

"I remember the first table read, how good he was. I’m not saying that Chris was Mr. Big, but he brought a lot of his own persona to the role."

Abso-f***in'-lutely, he did.

But it's not just Big who could have been played by a very different face – Darren revealed he had another actor in mind for the role of Aidan too.

"We initially were thinking about Aidan Quinn for Aidan, but I think he wasn’t available. 

"I loved John Corbett [the actor who eventually went on to play Aidan] in Northern Exposure, and we were like, ‘Well, what’s John Corbett been up to?’

"He just had the laconic, dudish vibe. But we kept ‘Aidan’ because we loved the name."

Okay, Alec Baldwin we can *just* about get over, but someone else in the role of Aidan? No. JUST NO.

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*Hello darkness, my old friend.*

It seems that the overwhelmingly bad critic reviews for Ben Affleck's latest film Batman v Superman have hit the actor hard if this interview is anything to go by. 

In fact, the 43-year-old looked so distressed when he and Henry Cavill were asked about about the negative response that a pretty spectacular meme was born. 

Yep, #sadaffleck is officially a thing and we are witnessing its birth. 

The now viral meme was solidified when one tech savvy person decided to maximise on Ben Affleck's potent sadness during a promotional interview for the movie. 

Watch the video that started it all below: 

 

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When we see a Taylor Swift inspired make-up tutorial on YouTube, we expect an easy tutorial showing how to achieve Tay's statement red lip and winged eyeliner. 

We don't expect to see a person who looks nothing like Taylor Swift, literally become Taylor Swift before our very eyes. 

And that's pretty much exactly what Korean beauty blogger Park Hye Min does in her latest video. 

But before you go and create your Taylor Swift Halloween costume for October, one thing we did learn from the vid is that this look requires a serious amount of products and a truck-load of serious skills. 

So while it's nice to know that you can transform yourself into pretty much anyone with just make-up, it's safe to say it probably won't be happening on our faces anytime soon. 

But the amazing clip is quickly going viral as it hits over a million views on YouTube at the time of writing.  

Watch the incredible tutorial below. 

 

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Dublin city's walls are covered in street art and graffiti, from gorgeous creations á la Joe Caslin's Equality mural, to words and slogans we'd really rather not see scrawled in white paint on our commute home.

One such negative piece of graffiti is drawing attention today, but it's for a pretty lovely reason.

Syrian-Irish Psychology student Tamim Mobayed posted the images to his Twitter account this morning, after seeing them "on a friend's Facebook page," and they've been getting quite a reaction online.

"Love it – lightheartedly illuminating darkness in Dublin," Tamim wrote alongside the before-and-after images, the second of which shows the words "All Muslims are scum" altered to say "All Muslims are sound."

The photos have gotten quite a reaction online, with Dubliners praising the anonymous graffiti-fixer for altering the offensive slogan:

It's not a perfect solution to Ireland's ongoing racism problems of course, but we love the message behind it.

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We all know that J.K Rowling just wins at Twitter, but we have a new found respect for her after she shared some way harsh rejection letters she received from publishing houses for her work. 

And these letters were sent to her after the success of Harry Potter. 

Yep, J.K went on to write a number of detective novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith after she had finished her monumental magical series. 

When she sent these manuscripts into publishing houses under the 'unknown' name, she was rejected several times. 

So of course, she decided to share some of these pretty brutal letters to inspire other struggling authors. 

"I regret to inform you that we have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we could not publish it with commercial success," reads the first paragraph of one such letter. 

The rejection continues with a number of tips by the publishing house on how to successfully get a book published, an area we reckon J.K may already know a thing or two about. 

Finally it finished with: "I regret we cannot reply individually or provide or provide constructive criticism (a writer's group writing course may help with the latter). May I wish you every success in placing your work elsewhere." 

Yikes. 

If J.K Rowling can't get a book published, then it's clear that most publishing houses probably don't know a good writer when they read one. 

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Her sister, Kylie, may be the queen of Snapchat and her BFF Gigi Hadid is also a fan, but Kendall Jenner has never had her own public account on the popular app. 

As her big sisters Kim and Kourtney recently jumped on the bandwagon, it seems that the stunning model decided it was about time she tried her hand at snapchatting. 

It was Kylie who actually made the official announcement yesterday, revealing to her Twitter followers that Kendall was taking to the popular social media app with a public account. 

The 20-year-old then revealed her Snapchat name to be @kendalljenner and she's already got going with some cute selfies. 

And she's not the only a-lister to reveal their presence on the site because it seems that One Direction's Niall Horan is also getting in on the action after a brief stint with no social media activity at all last month. 

The Mullingar native went on a backpacking trip to Australia and South East Asia recently but it seems that Niall is ready to be back on the grid. 

The 22-year-old shared his Snapchat name on Twitter earlier (@niallhoran) while also asking fans to take it easy on him: "Don't really know how it works so give me time." 

And now, I suppose, we just wait and watch,  

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Unless you've been incredibly disciplined with that Lenten "no chocolate" promise, you've no doubt already tucked into your first Easter egg of the year.

But did you know just how many eggs us Irish folk will consume in total this Easter? We'll give you a hint: it's a lot.

Repak Recycling have tallied up some interesting figures based on Ireland's chocolate-eating habits, and the results will give you a bit of a shock.

But if you can't binge-eat chocolate on Easter Sunday, when can you really? Behold, Ireland's Easter weekend in numbers…

17,700,000 – The number of Easter eggs we'll munch our way though in Ireland this year

2,136 – The amount of chocolate, in tonnes, we'll end up eating

4,200,000 – The number of marathons ONE runner could run on the calories contained in those eggs

€38,500,000 – The amount we'll spend on Easter eggs this year

shut up and take my money glee fangirl

8 – The amount of eggs eaten on average in each Irish household 

19,650 – The level of packaging, in tonnes, we'll generate this Easter

161 – The number of Boeing 747-800 aircrafts we could fill with all that cardboard, plastic and foil

Repak Recycling are encouraging chocolate lovers to #BeAGoodEgg this Easter and recycle their packaging. You can locate your nearest recycling facility at Repak.ie – especially useful if you'll be travelling over the weekend.  

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No one was more surprised than Panti Bliss after she discovered she was on the shortlist to feature in TIME Magazine's top 100 most influential people in the world for this year. 

And not only is the Irish queen on the list, but she's doing extremely well in the public vote which sees her ranking higher than the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Mark Zuckerberg and Taylor Swift. 

Panti is listed on the site as being: "one of Ireland's most prominent advocates for LGBT rights ahead of the country's historic 2015 vote in favour of same-sex marriage."

"Since, Bliss has become a global champion for equality."

And in true Panti Bliss form, the queen has had a pretty gas reaction to the news on social media. 

Even though J.K has since surpassed Panti in the poll, it it still an incredible feat for the author and personality. 

Panti, whose real name is Rory O' Neill, is one 127 people from around the world that were handpicked to make the list, with the official 100 being decided by a public vote. 

And her reaction to reports that she had '"topped Mark Zuckerberg in the poll" was also totally on point. 

Nothing gets past this savvy queen! 

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