One of Bronte's highest and most impressive homes
'Panorama House' sits atop a sandstone escarpment on a level and private block with views to die for
For Sydney's high-end property buyers
If that vista is uninterrupted and from a flat block of land
then the buzz becomes as loud as the city's mid-summer cicadas
'Panorama House' at 31a Yanko Avenue, Bronte is one such place that has well-heeled Sydneysiders talking
'Panorama House' at 31a Yanko Avenue, Bronte
three-bathroom stunner on 841sqm boasts not only amazing views but also a north-facing aspect and is an architectural masterpiece — tick
Local anaesthetist Dr Erin Cook and his wife Sophie bought a Californian bungalow on the block in 2010 for $5.85 million
they demolished it to build what Mr Cook described as an "incredible piece of art in a perfect spot"
"It's right on the tip of the escarpment overlooking Bronte Beach
We get this beautiful sunrise over the ocean then northern sun all day
you can see the whales passing by and on Boxing Day
Sydney to Hobart yachts," Mr Cook said
Designed by Richard Cole Architecture and built by Jeff Towler Building
"It's all curves with a roof that features a wave line to replicate Bronte's waves
I still get a new appreciation for the artistry of the architecture; it's just mind-blowingly gorgeous," said Mr Cook
winner of the 2019 NSW HIA-CSR House of the Year award
features a striking double-height lounge room walled by glass with a two-way Escea fireplace
The ground floor also includes various dining areas
a high-spec kitchen with a butler's pantry and a Calacatta Oro breakfast island
The upper level offers a parent's retreat with an ensuite featuring a double shower and bath with ocean views
The lower ground floor includes a rumpus room
a sundrenched garden and a heated saltwater pool and spa that appears to float over the ocean
"Every room has a view," said Mr Cook
"And the spa is magnificent; you can turn it on at work so when you get home you can crack a beer and enjoy it while overlooking the beach — nothing beats it."
Additional features include a 11.9kW solar power with 10kW battery
triple parking and a double garage with an EV charger
On a battleaxe block down the end of a long cobblestone driveway
You're a few minutes' walk to all the beautiful spots of Bronte and the busyness of the beach
but it's totally quiet," said Mr Cook
Agent James Ball at Sotheby's describes the panoramic views of the gully
beach and ocean as "probably one of the best I've seen in that market"
properties there tier up or down to get that view
so this is a really unique feature of the home," Mr Ball said
He said he has had "good interest" in the property
prompting him to raise the original $24 million guide price
"It's pulling interest from overseas and locals looking to upgrade from nearby suburbs like Double Bay and Bellevue Hill," he said
The current Bronte price record was set by 3 Tiper Avenue, which sold for $29.25 million in April 2023
the Cooks are downsizing and planning to buy an apartment in Sydney and a weekender down the coast
"It's time for someone else to enjoy this gorgeous spot," said Mr Cook
Bronte will go to auction on Saturday 3 May at 12.30pm
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Netflix's You is back for its final chapter
and the stakes (and body count) have never been higher
You follows Penn Badgely's Joe Goldberg, a charming but psychopathic bookstore manager whose obsession with finding love often ends in him
Using social media and manipulation, Joe stalks and eliminates anyone he perceives as an obstacle to his relationships
starting with aspiring writer Beck in New York
Each season saw Joe reinvent himself — moving to Los Angeles
and finally back to New York — while leaving a trail of murdered people in his path
Badgely and Charlotte Ritchie as Joe's wealthy wife Kate return
along with plenty of new and old friends (or sworn enemies)
The series has dodged significant controversies over its last four seasons
especially with claims that the show romanticises domestic violence and turns a serial killer into a sympathetic figure worth rooting for
there was a rather baffling response from some corners of Twitter and TikTok with fan edits and thirsty reactions to the character of Joe
The show is well aware of this in the final season — in fact
it's created an entire story arc in tribute to how women often fall for a 'nice guy' act despite the red flags
After an extremely shaky (and to be honest
I can confidently say that the final season is a return to fine form
it's full of cutting social commentary… and oddly poignant
The new season introduces Bronte (aka Louise) as Joe's next obsession and The Handmaid's Tale actress Madeline Brewer is beyond brilliant in this role
she is aware of what Joe has done to the women in his life
the violence he has exhibited and the lives he has ruined
but also… he's so cute and charming and intelligent
This internal struggle within Bronte is at the heart of season five; mirroring how the viewer has fluctuated between disgust and desire in how they view Joe throughout the show's tenure
the free-spirited playwright who moves to New York City to pursue her writing ambitions
Kate and Joe's marriage is in strife in the final season
with several cameos from Elizabeth Lail as Beck in memory montages
The season quite masterfully sets out to remind the viewer how Joe was made: he stalked and manipulated Beck
but with increasing delusions that he was the upholder of what was morally right
But this season brings him back down to earth
In a slow crescendo to the final episodes (a build that You does so well)
Joe becomes TikTok infamous when he is filmed by some true crime sleuths killing Bronte's supposed ex-boyfriend and the video is uploaded for the masses to dissect
which is a hilarious-albeit-depressing parody of the current state of the media
effectively capturing the fickle nature of the internet
Joe shares a carefully crafted apology with an internet personality who is "barely a journalist
notes Pitch Perfect's Anna Camp's character
As he offers platitudes about falling in love with Bronte
the masses easily fall for his faux-apology
Joe is a "white guy with good hair." He is anointed "Joe Smoldenberg" online for his good looks
as a smiling Joe with the words "I did it for love!" covers the daily newspaper
This show is not subtle and it isn't meant to be
Joe becomes a hero for men's rights activists
one of whom Joe imprisons in his glass cage after he tries to abduct Bronte
This man offers the perfect contrast to Joe as the archetype of a stereotypical misogynist: he calls Bronte a 'bitch' and 'whore' and he rants about his mummy issues
He viciously spits out that he doesn't hate women
But just because Joe doesn't wear his misogyny like a badge of honour
it doesn't mean his intentions are any less sinister — if anything
an episode that felt like the finale that most of us expected — as Joe had to confront the women he had victimised while being held in the same glass prison he kept them captive inside
Nadia and a very-much-alive Marienne from the confines of his box
as he attempted to bargain with the women over his 'good intentions' and saviour complex
Blind rage and a group decision to murder him
"You are too f**king delusional to own anything you've done," Nadia tells Joe
You are a f**king abuser," Marienne finishes him
This would have been a satisfying enough conclusion for most fans
but You had a delicious twist in store for episode 10
even this was something I didn't see coming
The final instalment is set up in the final minutes of the penultimate episode when there's a sudden shift: as Bronte saves Joe from his burning bookstore
the viewer is taken inside her inner thoughts
as Bronte takes the reins from Joe as narrator
Bronte finally realised that Joe isn't her saviour: he's the person she needs to save herself from
The final instalment opens with Joe and Bronte on the run 'Bonnie & Clyde' style
But the castle this 'white knight' promised to give his princess (yep
he actually tried to buy her an Irish castle) turned out to be a creepy cabin in the woods
The final episode reveals You for what it really is: this is a horror movie
What follows is a thrilling episode that references every horror trope imaginable with clever nods to the classic horror The Shining and to modern masterpiece Fresh
This is Joe like you've never seen him before
or is this Joe how you didn't want to see him
Joe's inner psychopath breaks out into his physical form… and he's terrifying
led to this moment where Joe's true nature came shining through
After Joe thinks they're sharing a romantic moment on a starlit night
Bronte pulls a gun on him before revealing the truth: she was Beck's friend and she demands to know how Joe killed her
Joe received a phone call from his son Henry
"What did you do to Mummy?" the child asks
referring to the woman Joe had bashed over the head mere hours earlier before leaving her to die in a blaze
Joe has an emotional breakdown and Penn Badgley needs to be commended for one hell of a powerhouse performance
Joe has been activated and Bronte runs through the house and wilderness
you didn't know how good you had it," and reveals to her that when he saved her from being abducted
it was Joe who broke her ankle so she would need his help
Joe just showed his hand: he is the cure but he's also the disease
This is a sentiment Bronte repeats to him in their finale scene
The fantasy of a man like you is how we cope with the reality of a man like you," she says
Joe's story ends with him begging Bronte to kill him
as police surround the ill-fated twosome in the dark woods
That would be a far more poetic ending than you deserve
"You are gonna live the rest of your life alone," she tells him
and you are going to have to see yourself."
Then she shoots him in the dick and he goes to jail for life
An epilogue shows that all the women impacted by Joe had moved on to much happier lives — especially Bronte
he'll just be some asshole I dated," she muses
the perpetual victim Joe is still monologuing that 'hurt people
hurt people' and he shouldn't wear all the blame
we are reminded that the world is a sick place (duh!) as Joe palms through fan mail from lustful women from his prison cell
it's you," he grins as the screen fades to black
Between the layered performances and the thought-provoking themes explored
the final season of You more than delivered
with some pitch-perfect anthems from the likes of Taylor Swift and Chappell Roan — You knows its audience
it's a TV show that was first and foremost for the girlies
I got chills when Olivia Rodrigo's 'Vampire' was blaring the moment Bronte realised that Joe is
I had heart palpitations when Billie Eilish's revenge anthem 'Happier Than Ever' played just as Bronte was about to enact her plan
the series wasn't completely perfect (but very close) as a lot of the endings felt a little too neat
Kate surviving and getting custody of Henry when
As was her evil corporation somehow being magically absolved of its sins by rebranding as a non-profit
Let's not forget the show was initially a Lifetime series before Netflix scooped it up
Then there was one storyline that was never tied up: what happened to Ellie
It was rumoured that Jenna Ortega might reprise her role
which could have come in the form of a TikTok callout about Joe like Love's mother Dottie provided
she was fleeing LA after her sister Delilah was imprisoned by Joe and murdered by Love
a rather tone-deaf choice to completely erase one of the few women of colour from Joe's past while focusing largely on the first white woman he killed years ago
But these are just a few criticisms of a stellar final season of You
and a delightfully surprising end to a twisted stalker thriller that doesn't get the credit it deserves
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Emily Brontë placed coercive control at the heart of her celebrated gothic romance
But Heathcliff is an abused child who becomes an abuser – and teaches his son to copy
In the novel
Cathy declares that “My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight
but it nonetheless underpins the emotional logic of Brontë’s plot
This article is part of Rethinking the Classics
The stories in this series offer insightful new ways to think about and interpret classic books and artworks
Wuthering Heights is a novel of two halves
caught between her tamely domestic husband Edgar Linton and the thrilling wildness of Heathcliff
To revenge himself on Cathy for marrying Edgar
Heathcliff elopes with Edgar’s infatuated sister Isabella
Isabella initially sees Heathcliff as a brooding romantic hero
Heathcliff’s abuse of Isabella is sometimes physical
to “keep strictly within the limits of the law” to avoid giving Isabella “the slightest right to claim a separation”
The law grants him ownership of his wife’s money and property
but subtler refinements of abuse include humiliation
She’s “wan and listless; her hair uncurled: some locks hanging lankly down”
Isabella has already reported that she is forced to sleep in a chair because Heathcliff keeps “the key of our room in his pocket”
Heathcliff delights in humbling her before Nelly and his own servants
Isabella escapes Heathcliff clad only in “a girlish dress” and “thin slippers”
and goes into hiding with her brother’s financial help
Heathcliff recovers their son Linton and uses him to engineer a second coercive marriage to his cousin
Linton Heathcliff is perhaps the most unappealing character in Victorian fiction
lacking altogether the strength and charisma of his father
But his puny physicality casts the coercive nature of his abuse into relief
Catherine is imprisoned at Wuthering Heights and blackmailed into consenting to marry Linton
who becomes the legal owner of all her property
conspiring in his father’s surveillance and depriving her of beloved possessions:
All her nice books are mine; she offered to give me them
and let her out; but I told her she had nothing to give
and said I should have that; two pictures in a gold case
and on the other uncle [Catherine’s father]
That was yesterday – I said they were mine
leaving the widowed and orphaned Catherine his penniless dependant
Wuthering Heights is a dark parable about the absolute power that marriage can grant to abusive men
Brontë’s plot was rooted in a real-life local case of domestic torment
a Mrs Collins came to Haworth Parsonage to ask Emily’s father Patrick’s advice about her alcoholic
He was Patrick’s colleague and fellow clergyman
Patrick advised her to leave him and take her two children with her
just seven months before Wuthering Heights’ publication
Mrs Collins returned to Haworth to thank him
She told the Brontë family how she had settled in Manchester with her children
supporting them all by running a lodging house
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Mrs Collins’ experience of abuse did not only shape the chilling psychodrama of Wuthering Heights. There are echoes of Patrick’s advice in Emily’s sister Charlotte’s novel Jane Eyre (1847)
and her eponymous heroine’s famous declaration of autonomy: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will
Mrs Collins’ strength and resilience also inspires the bravery of Helen Huntingdon in Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Like Emily’s “eternal rocks,” coercive control lurks beneath the Brontës’ best-loved fictions
warning Victorian readers of the terrifyingly real dangers of psychological abuse long before the law caught up
As part of the Rethinking the Classics series
we’re asking our experts to recommend a book or artwork that tackles similar themes to the canonical work in question
but isn’t (yet) considered a classic itself
Here is the suggestion from Hannah Roche and Katy Mullin:
Like the Brontës’ famous novels, George Gissing’s The Odd Women (1893) shows an acute awareness of the impact of psychological abuse
the 21-year-old Monica Madden marries Edmund Widdowson
a man 23 years her senior who attempts to police every aspect of her domestic
Gissing’s fictional abuser is a classic coercive controller
a perpetrator of a crime that did not yet exist
and his pattern of behaviour is now so familiar and identifiable that it appears both prescient and predictable
Widdowson does not have access to online communication tools or spyware
But the many red flags in his treatment of Monica are likely to appear strikingly modern to readers today
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we are going to cover the WHOLE truth and then judge accordingly
I was really hoping that the person from Joe’s past who would get him once and for all would be the balcony sprite herself, Jenna Ortega
But she probably got too famous and expensive for that — good for her
who is exactly who “Bronte” turns out to be
Back when I was power-ranking Pretty Little Liars
I was constantly railing against those girls for speaking to the cops without a lawyer
Considering how frequently they found themselves entangled in murders
it seemed like they (and/or their parents) ought to have been keeping one on retainer
watching Bronte explain this semi-self-incriminating situation to a police officer without an attorney in her corner
Did anyone else spend the whole episode waiting for that to blow up in her face
Extremely funny for me because I finally read Jane Eyre this year for the first time
managed to make it this far without knowing what happens in this book from 1847.) The novel’s “romantic” ending has this unbearably boring tragedy-orphan marrying her ancient employer — basically the first man she’s ever met?
— who had literally locked his first wife in the attic
That Louise was moved deeply by this book — where our male hero is all
but she was psycho!” and Jane’s take is (paraphrasing only slightly)
we are the most in love two people have ever been and will ever be!!!!!!!” — is perhaps the biggest tell that Louise is going to accidentally fall in love with Joe
but if she was going for a believable fake name and this was her source material
Louise dropped out of the writing program to go back to Ohio
She read Beck’s memoir over and over; she could tell that Beck did not write some of the book
she connected with some other true-crime freaks who also had questions about Beck’s murder
Bronte joins forces with Dom (the girl from the reading) and Phoenix
who’ve both “been wronged by the justice system,” and Clayton
Clayton figured out that Joe was seeing Dr. Nicky under an alias, so he knew Beck and Joe were having serious problems. This Scooby Gang solves the mystery: Beck was killed by her boyfriend, Joe! Then Louise’s mom died and so, apparently, did Joe
BUT the group saw the article about Joe being alive after all
and Clayton wanted to move slowly and stick to the edges of Joe’s life
And that’s where we met her: breaking into the bookstore
and commencing the most high-stakes catfish of her life
but the part where Louise lost me was when she reported on the human aquarium but claimed to find no there there because it was just full of books
When will someone from law enforcement go check out the cage?
WHY WAS IT NOT SUSPICIOUS TO HER THAT IT LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE
Louise told her friends she could make Joe fall in love with her
Clayton helped make the story airtight by “expanding Bronte’s world.” Together
Louise trusts the guy who she KNOWS is suspicious as hell and did all these murders
It does help that Clayton is a violent guy — Joe’s intervention
just proves that Joe “will defend a woman when someone is hurting her” because she has drunk her own broken-bird Kool-Aid
After tasing Joe, Louise called Dom in a panic. Fun fact: Dom is the one who had Clayton’s gun. Clayton, in Louise’s incredulous words, “was convinced that Joe is this guy who kills all the women he falls in love with.” Louise, in a grand idiot plot tradition, not only rejects this premise despite staggering evidence but also believes that she alone can fix him
horrified that Clayton is willing to risk her life to prove his point
she was also willing to risk her life to prove her point
Breaking into the bookstore and dating Joe was your idea
Clayton showed up unannounced — he accused Louise of being “a fucking Manson girl” and latching on “like a goddamn tourist” — and Joe did the rest
Louise tells the cop that this means Joe was acting in self-defense
where he ruminates on how everything he shared with Bronte was a sham
and then released from said police station
I genuinely don’t know why Kate didn’t just let him stay in prison
and he went out and murdered someone on live — take the win
Joe decides that Bronte is a “snake,” which does not really portend well for her survival
Joe gets home so he and Kate can have a screaming match
It is very satisfying to hear her scream him out for being “obvious and pathetic” and for killing her sister
Joe’s defense that Reagan was evil and that
she thinks clearly enough to surround herself with security and remove Henry to a safe location that Joe doesn’t know about
and taking him from them was one of the worst things I have ever helped you do.” YES
The papers Joe signed at the police station had a temporary custody agreement — Kate
assumed Joe would be too caught up in his own deal even to read the pages — which means he has already declared himself unfit to parent
She also tells him off for only seeing their son as an extension of himself; Joe has never cared about another person
Kate reminds Joe that all their power and money is hers
and he can only access those resources if he obeys her
where he uncovers a camera hidden in a book — a camera connected to Louise/Bronte’s phone
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*Warning: This article contains full spoilers for the final episode of You season 5.*
Netflix's You has finally come to a dramatic conclusion with the long-awaited comeuppance of creepy serial killer Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley)
Having moved from obsessions with Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) to Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and then to Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle)
Joe finally seemed to settle down at the end of the last season
then realised she was duping him and was part of a Reddit community that wanted to take him down and
proposed to her with Mooney's burning down just beside them
We knew it was going to be a wild ride of a finale
but nothing could've quite prepared us for the heart-racing battle to the death that ensued between Bronte and Joe
as Bronte continued to wrestle with her true feelings and prospective future with a serial killer
But who succeeded in this game of cat and mouse between Bronte and Joe
Read on for a full breakdown of the fates of each character in the final-ever episode of Netflix's You
including some exclusive reflections on the finale from actress Charlotte Ritchie herself
Joe Goldberg is ultimately incarcerated for his crimes
After Maddie (Anna Camp) burns down Mooney's with her own sister Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) and Joe inside
but as she was seemingly dead and with Joe still alive
The finale starts with the pair on a road trip just outside New York
driving round to find somewhere to rest up for the night before they make their way to the Canadian border with new passports that have been pre-arranged by Joe
Bronte isn't blinded by her love for Joe any longer after her heartfelt conversation with Marienne
She's intent on making sure the world learns the truth about Joe and plays nice
resisting the urge to speak to a police officer when they stop for petrol and concealing a gun of her own
They end up at a holiday rental that Joe breaks into (he has no money
spending the evening eating and going out on the boat for a ride around the lake
They end up in the bedroom just about to have sex when Bronte gets out the gun she's concealed under one of the pillows and aims it at Joe's head
demanding to know the truth about how he killed Guinevere Beck
Bronte orders Joe to redact all his own words from Beck's book
tearfully talking about how Joe has managed to erase parts of herself while they've been together
They're interrupted by a call from Joe's dodgy friend
who informs him that Henry's online playing his game and can be patched through to Joe
Henry is at home with his uncle Teddy (Griffin Matthews)
who is seen solemnly talking to the police
Henry quizzes Joe about what he's done to his mother
Henry tells Joe that despite Joe telling him there weren't any monsters in his room
who completely loses it at Bronte and starts to question how he has become the person he is
Bronte is tired of Joe trying to play the victim and says she should call the police
but Joe says there's little point as he always manages to get off scot-free
with Bronte eventually managing to break free and run into the surrounding woods
She returns to the house to call the police and manages to finally get through
once she's had to jump from the bedroom window to hide from Joe again
The phone is connected as Joe admits to breaking Bronte's ankle himself to keep her around so they can talk
He calls her ungrateful and spiteful as he follows her into the lake
strangling her seemingly to death in the water
Joe goes running into the woods and ambushes a police officer
who the camera pans to for a second time as it's revealed his gun is missing
Bronte is actually alive and has taken the officer's gun for herself
who eventually begs her to kill him as the police start to circle the area
Joe runs at Bronte but she shoots him in the penis
he drops to his feet and the cops come to take Joe away
After narrowly escaping Joe's deadly clutches and making it out alive from her tense stand-off with him
Bronte is the one narrating the final part of the episode
she reworked Beck's manuscript and took out Joe's additions after demanding he redact himself
A newly released version of Beck's book is released in stores
who wishes she were there in person to see it
She admits that her life will not be seen as before and after Joe
admitting that the memory of him shrinks with each passing day
She doesn't know what she wants to do or who she wants to be just yet
As we learn in the episode's closing moments
Kate survived the fire at Mooney's after all
she wears them proudly as she embarks on a new chapter in her life with Henry and continues to spend plenty of time with her brother Teddy
who has made Lockwood Corporation a 100 per cent nonprofit after taking over as CEO
Kate returns to her first love of art and continues to champion Marienne as an artist
who can now live in the public limelight after Joe is put behind bars
but Maddie is now living happily as herself with Harrison
whose charges for Reagan's murder were dropped
Although Maddie was tried for arson and her sister's murder
she didn't have to serve time due to the circumstances
We see her enjoying time in the park with Harrison and Gretchen
Chatting exclusively to RadioTimes.com about Kate's fate in the You finale
There were so many moments in the make-up room where I remember catching eyes with Penn
and he was definitely talking about Kate and he was like
'So are you sad that Kate...?' And I was like
I don't know anything.' So there was this real tension.\"
She continued: \"There were a lot of rumours going around that he died
They were really good at keeping it under wraps
I wonder if they were sort of still deciding towards the end..
It's as close as satisfying as you could get
I reckon seeing him having to face himself
the possibility that he could is quite exciting
Marienne can live a successful life as an artist
Having been plagued by Joe's existence for the last three seasons
Marienne is finally freed of him thanks to her alliance with the other women he has harmed
Marienne pursues her art and is even helped by Kate
who continues to raise Henry away from his father
Having been freed from prison with the help of Kate and with Joe now in prison himself
Nadia returns to writing and seems happier than ever
She is seen returning to her prison to teach classes to women and uses her gifts to help others process their trauma
We then flash forward to a courthouse where Joe is being led from a courtroom to awaiting press and paparazzi
clearly numb to the fact that he has now finally been caught for his crimes
Bronte's narration reveals that Joe's trial was messy
and the truth of his true nature was undeniable
Joe was also immortalised on the internet as a meme
Joe was convicted of the murders of Love Quinn and Guinevere Beck
which then led to a flurry of allegations coming his way
ensuring that Joe will never be free again
We learn that Joe has also been convicted for the murders of season 1's Benji Ashby (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Peach Salinger (Shay Mitchell)
Dr Nicky's conviction for Beck's murder was also vacated
with Dominique (Natasha Behnam) and Phoenix (b) telling a podcast that they're far from done with their internet sleuthing as there continue to be many more Joe's out in the world
Co-showrunner Michael Foley recently told Netflix's Tudum that everyone involved in the series agreed \"death would be too easy\" for Joe
“I always thought somebody killing Joe wouldn’t be justice
Anybody who kills him would be brought down to his level
Meanwhile, speaking about how she thinks fans will react to the ending, Charlotte Ritchie previously told RadioTimes.com: \"I think there'll be a mixed reaction
\"I think this is such a larger than life character that finding an ending that satisfies everybody based on all of the various feelings they have about him
but I think it's a nice nod to the kind of relationship we have with him
which I think is quite fun and quite kind of inclusive
In addition, he told the New York Post in a recent interview that season 5 had an alternative ending where Joe realised he was actually dead and is a ghost
\"We liked putting him in a veritable cage [in prison]
We liked him not knowing the touch of a lover,\" Foley told the publication
adding that \"it was late in the season\" when the writers had \"finally locked that down\"
there was a shared belief among the writers and the creators that Joe wouldn't get away with his crimes,\" he added
\"We came into the season knowing that we didn’t want to redeem him
that he was going to face some of those whose lives he ruined
we knew he was going to be made to face himself.\"
The final scene of the series is of Joe in his prison cell
denoting he has been imprisoned for the most violent crimes
He finishes reading The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
likely hinting at Joe's thoughts of the future
despite New York having abolished the death penalty
Joe's narration remarks on the loneliness of the time ahead and whether all the blame can be pinned on him if he's simply a product of his environment
who is explicit in the kinds of sexual fantasies she wants to enact with Joe
Joe asks whether it's fair that he's caged while people like this continue to roam free
asking finally if the problem of this all is actually not him
On that final moment of Joe reading his fan mail
Charlotte Ritchie told RadioTimes.com: \"I don't know about the psychology of that
There's something about the distance that matters
\"It's the same with the intrigue in the show
It's not someone there in your living room or at your school or whatever
People are into stuff that you can't explain.\"
speaking to Tudum about that final monologue
Foley explained it was a final \"deflection\" highlighting that Joe \"has not changed\"
“I can see the whole arc of the series and I’m like
I’m glad I got to do that,’” Badgley added
“But there’s no amount of enjoyment or gratitude that can eclipse the brutal reality of what a man like Joe Goldberg is
it just feels like a really good way to end it.”
Elsewhere, Badgley was even more scathing about Joe's much-deserved fate
Speaking to Deadline
the actor said: \"If somebody was to kill him – and it would be a woman
right – well then actually now what you’ve burdened her with is having committed murder
You season 5 ending explained: Who lives
who dies and Joe Goldberg's fateMajor spoilers below
Netflix's You has finally come to a dramatic conclusion with the long-awaited comeuppance of creepy serial killer Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley)
Having moved from obsessions with Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) to Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti) and then to Marienne Bellamy (Tati Gabrielle)
proposed to her with Mooney's burning down just beside them
but nothing could've quite prepared us for the heart-racing battle to the death that ensued between Bronte and Joe
Read on for a full breakdown of the fates of each character in the final-ever episode of Netflix's You
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in episode 506 of You
Courtesy of NetflixJoe Goldberg is ultimately incarcerated for his crimes
After Maddie (Anna Camp) burns down Mooney's with her own sister Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) and Joe inside
Bronte isn't blinded by her love for Joe any longer after her heartfelt conversation with Marienne
She's intent on making sure the world learns the truth about Joe and plays nice
They end up in the bedroom just about to have sex when Bronte gets out the gun she's concealed under one of the pillows and aims it at Joe's head
Bronte orders Joe to redact all his own words from Beck's book
tearfully talking about how Joe has managed to erase parts of herself while they've been together
They're interrupted by a call from Joe's dodgy friend
who informs him that Henry's online playing his game and can be patched through to Joe
Frankie Demaio as Henry Goldberg in episode 507 of You
Jocelyn Prescod/NetflixHenry quizzes Joe about what he's done to his mother
Henry tells Joe that despite Joe telling him there weren't any monsters in his room
Henry's emotional statement breaks Joe
but Joe says there's little point as he always manages to get off scot-free
once she's had to jump from the bedroom window to hide from Joe again
The phone is connected as Joe admits to breaking Bronte's ankle himself to keep her around so they can talk
who the camera pans to for a second time as it's revealed his gun is missing
Bronte is actually alive and has taken the officer's gun for herself
Madeline Brewer as Bronte in episode 5010 of You
Clifton Prescod/NetflixAfter narrowly escaping Joe's deadly clutches and making it out alive from her tense stand-off with him
she reworked Beck's manuscript and took out Joe's additions after demanding he redact himself
A newly released version of Beck's book is released in stores
She doesn't know what she wants to do or who she wants to be just yet
Charlotte Ritchie as Kate Lockwood in episode 5010 of You
Clifton Prescod/NetflixAs we learn in the episode's closing moments
Kate survived the fire at Mooney's after all
whose charges for Reagan's murder were dropped
Although Maddie was tried for arson and her sister's murder
she didn't have to serve time due to the circumstances
Chatting exclusively to RadioTimes.com about Kate's fate in the You finale
'So are you sad that Kate...?' And I was like
'Sad that Kate what?' And he was like
I don't know anything.' So there was this real tension."
She continued: "There were a lot of rumours going around that he died
It's as close as satisfying as you could get
It's nice he can't get near anyone."
Tati Gabrielle as Marienne Bellamy in episode 509 of You
Having been plagued by Joe's existence for the last three seasons
Amy-Leigh Hickman as Nadia Farran in episode 507 of You
Courtesy of NetflixHaving been freed from prison with the help of Kate and with Joe now in prison himself
Bronte's narration reveals that Joe's trial was messy
We learn that Joe has also been convicted for the murders of season 1's Benji Ashby (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Peach Salinger (Shay Mitchell)
Dr Nicky's conviction for Beck's murder was also vacated
with Dominique (Natasha Behnam) and Phoenix (b) telling a podcast that they're far from done with their internet sleuthing as there continue to be many more Joe's out in the world
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in episode 5010 of You. Clifton Prescod/NetflixCo-showrunner Michael Foley recently told Netflix's Tudum that everyone involved in the series agreed "death would be too easy" for Joe
Meanwhile, speaking about how she thinks fans will react to the ending, Charlotte Ritchie previously told RadioTimes.com: "I think there'll be a mixed reaction
"I think this is such a larger than life character that finding an ending that satisfies everybody based on all of the various feelings they have about him
but I think it's a nice nod to the kind of relationship we have with him
In addition, he told the New York Post in a recent interview that season 5 had an alternative ending where Joe realised he was actually dead and is a ghost
"We liked putting him in a veritable cage [in prison]
We liked him not knowing the touch of a lover," Foley told the publication
adding that "it was late in the season" when the writers had "finally locked that down"
there was a shared belief among the writers and the creators that Joe wouldn't get away with his crimes," he added
"We came into the season knowing that we didn’t want to redeem him
we knew he was going to be made to face himself."
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Clifton Prescod/NetflixThe final scene of the series is of Joe in his prison cell
He finishes reading The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
likely hinting at Joe's thoughts of the future
Joe's narration remarks on the loneliness of the time ahead and whether all the blame can be pinned on him if he's simply a product of his environment
Joe asks whether it's fair that he's caged while people like this continue to roam free
Charlotte Ritchie told RadioTimes.com: "I don't know about the psychology of that
There's something about the distance that matters
"It's the same with the intrigue in the show
It's not someone there in your living room or at your school or whatever
People are into stuff that you can't explain."
Foley explained it was a final "deflection" highlighting that Joe "has not changed"
Elsewhere, Badgley was even more scathing about Joe's much-deserved fate
Speaking to Deadline
the actor said: "If somebody was to kill him – and it would be a woman
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contextualized the choice against a larger cultural reckoning with “bad men.” “It does become a question of
‘What do we do with people like Joe?’” he says
“If somebody was to kill him — and it would be a woman
right — well then actually now what you’ve burdened her with is having committed murder
So what do you do?” And thus they landed on the ruination of his junk
Joe pursues Bronte through the woods like a demon
and Badgley goes hard on making Joe sound like a teeny
voice squeaking once he realizes he’s been caught
I know you have it in you!” (Badgley has been consistently great throughout the series
and in a just world he would be in the Emmys conversation.) The move to maim his member also places Joe within the long tradition of castration as the worst possible thing you could do to a dude onscreen
Think back to Theon Greyjoy’s neutering on Game of Thrones
which plays out as the central pillar of his torturer’s campaign to annihilate the character’s sense of self
or the famously thorny scene in Pulp Fiction where Marsellus Wallace exacts revenge on his rapist by firing a shotgun at the guy’s genitals
Castration recurs in pop culture as comeuppance for men who inflict or threaten violence on women: Recall Robocop blasting the family jewels off a nameless criminal attempting to sexually assault a woman on the street or the sequence in Hard Candy where 14-year-old Hayley convinces the pedophile she’s torturing that she’s surgically removing his testicles
castration doesn’t quite feel satisfying as a proportional symbolic response to Joe’s tenure of terror
Shooting his dick off is a great punchline
What made Joe so distinctive as the show’s central figure isn’t just that he’s a serial killer
It’s that he constructs fantasies and narratives about himself to justify his actions
and kills countless others in the service of love
reframing his use of violence within an internal logic of self-defense or an expression of trauma-induced mental sickness
Joe’s internal narrative takes on a valence of self-determination: His violent urges are immutable parts of himself
so leaning into them amounts to a form of radical self-acceptance
and unleashing them against people who “deserve it” (abusive boyfriends
smarmy therapists) is analogous to a harm-reduction technique
When it comes to the lovers he’s destroyed
(Though Marienne didn’t actually die at the end of the fourth season
you figure he’d chalk up her apparent overdose as an accident
Whoopsie.) The beating heart of his monstrosity isn’t his sexual cravings but his sense of romanticism and righteousness
the things that make Joe so compelling as a metaphor for very real men
Dickless Joe would’ve been a satisfying payoff if You was just contained to its first season
There’s a magic trick to building a story around the villain
it really should be doled out expeditiously; otherwise
the narrative loses its moral authority of fundamental opposition to its central character
and the task of producing a proportionally satisfying comeuppance grew more complicated with each Joe getaway
There’s also the fact that the series is so darn entertaining
an outcome predicated on eliciting an affinity for Joe by virtue of his positioning as the story’s main point of view
his (perfectly reasonable!) class critiques as he infiltrates various glamorous worlds
and the procession of idiots who parade into his life as plot hurdles to navigate (or kill)
It’s slippery to make a villain both your protagonist and your target of deconstruction
the harder it becomes for it to also challenge the mythologies protecting dangerous men like him
It also gets more difficult to point the finger at society for creating conditions that enable behavior like this when that really means you’re pointing the finger at viewers for wanting to root for someone like Joe
You can’t reap the rewards of successfully making him a protagonist while angsting against the audience feedback loop producing those rewards
If you boil down Joe’s romantic fantasies as a mere cover for what he always was — a predator acting on violent sexual urges — you could argue that castration serves as a fitting symbol for his atrocities
You needed to spend a lot more time unpacking Joe’s downfall
which is ultimately compressed into a ten-minute-ish coda slapped on the very end of the series finale
If the fundamental project was to deconstruct Joe’s self-mythologizing
there should’ve been a whole episode forcing him to confront his own monstrosity
(I guess I’m saying You’s series finale should’ve taken a thing or two from Seinfeld’s.)
The more You fleshed Joe out as a character
the bigger the distance grew between him and what he symbolizes: the threat of how any decent-seeming man could
a monster who believes himself to be the hero of his own romantic story with such ferocity that he’s able to convince others to join him in his fantasy
“What is wrong with me that I know who you are and part of me can still feel this good?” Bronte wonders in the finale
“But who doesn’t love to be loved?” Of course
or the fault of any of the other women who fell victim to his carnage
the fantasy of men like him is how women deal with the reality of men like him — a fantasy he’s all too eager to speak into being
Brewer is a new addition to the main cast of You for its fifth and final season
Returning for its fifth and final outing, You returns with Penn Badgley's Joe Goldberg at its helm – but this time around
As is often the case, Joe fixates on one woman each season of the Netflix series and
despite being married to Kate (Charlotte Ritchie)
he can't quite help himself when he crosses paths with playwright Bronte
The new character was announced back in 2024 as production on the final instalment got under way, with teasers and trailers hinting at the sparks set to fly between Joe and this enigmatic addition
Known for her roles in The Handmaid's Tale
Madeline Brewer embodies the role as Bronte and is a self-professed \"huge fan\" of the series herself
saying that joining You \"has been wonderful
Madeline Brewer is an American actress, best known for her roles as Janine Lindo in The Handmaid's Tale and as Tricia Miller in Orange Is the New Black
Brewer made her TV debut in Orange Is the New Black back in 2013 and has since had a variety of roles
now joining the main cast of You for its fifth and final season as Bronte
a mysterious addition who starts hanging around Joe's bookshop Mooney's
Aside from her role in Orange Is the New Black, Brewer is best known for her main role in The Handmaid's Tale as Janine, a role which she continues to hold in the present sixth season and has been in since the show's premiere back in 2017
Brewer has received an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress
You may also recognise Brewer from horror TV series Hemlock Grove, Black Mirror's Men Against Fire episode or Shining Girls
Brewer revealed of her bookworm character: \"She likes romance novels
As to why she thinks Bronte is drawn to Joe
Brewer said: \"Bronte is drawn to Joe because
She sees someone who may have struggled and is trying to reinvent themselves
\"They love the same things — they're both avid readers
and she finds that captivating and wants to know more.\"
Not only does Brewer's character have her own secrets to hide
but she also has to reconcile her feelings for Joe
Brewer said: \"Bronte really does have feelings for Joe
'I'm not supposed to feel this way about you.'
\"She doesn't want to give up working at Mooney's or being around Joe
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet for You season 5
Brewer also teased that her character is an \"enigma\"
Yes, you can find her at the handle @madbrew
Meet the You star playing BronteBrewer is a new addition to the main cast of You for its fifth and final season
As is often the case, Joe fixates on one woman each season of the Netflix series and
he can't quite help himself when he crosses paths with playwright Bronte
The new character was announced back in 2024 as production on the final instalment got under way, with teasers and trailers hinting at the sparks set to fly between Joe and this enigmatic addition
Known for her roles in The Handmaid's Tale
Madeline Brewer embodies the role as Bronte and is a self-professed "huge fan" of the series herself
saying that joining You "has been wonderful
Madeline Brewer as Bronte in You. Clifton Prescod/NetflixMadeline Brewer is an American actress, best known for her roles as Janine Lindo in The Handmaid's Tale and as Tricia Miller in Orange Is the New Black
a mysterious addition who starts hanging around Joe's bookshop Mooney's
You may also recognise Brewer from horror TV series Hemlock Grove, Black Mirror's Men Against Fire episode or Shining Girls
Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg in You season 5
Clifton Prescod/NetflixSpeaking about her role in season 5
Brewer revealed of her bookworm character: "She likes romance novels
Brewer said: "Bronte is drawn to Joe because
"They love the same things — they're both avid readers
and she finds that captivating and wants to know more."
Not only does Brewer's character have her own secrets to hide
Brewer said: "Bronte really does have feelings for Joe
'I'm not supposed to feel this way about you.'
and let's just keep working at Mooney's
and I'm sure it'll work itself out.'
"She doesn't want to give up working at Mooney's or being around Joe
and she doesn't want to give that up."
Brewer also teased that her character is an "enigma"
Yes, you can find her at the handle @madbrew
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and as a result locals are expecting this pad to fetch more than $25m
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Warning: Major spoilers ahead for You Season 5
where he’s spent the past three years living with his wife
Kate became CEO of the Lockwood Corporation
prompting the couple’s move from London to Manhattan
It wasn’t long before they became one of the city’s most popular power couples
But Joe is no longer living under an alias
he’s buried his past—along with the secrets and murders that came with it—and reclaimed his real identity from Season 1
Though Kate eventually realizes she doesn’t know the full extent of Joe’s dark history
who had been living with another family ever since Joe killed his mother
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the biggest challenge for Joe in New York City is navigating the complicated family dynamics of the Lockwood family
He’s strayed away from murdering anyone for an impressive three years
but he slowly slips back into his old ways when Kate is getting threatened by her Uncle Bob
because in order to build a pipeline for her company
Joe’s old instincts take over when he murders Uncle Bob and stages it to look like he killed himself
He continues to feel the need to protect his wife as she faces new threats—this time from her sister
the ruthless CFO of the Lockwood Corporation
Joe plots to kidnap Reagan but mistakenly abducts her identical twin
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Joe then captures Reagan and locks her in his glass cage with Maddie
He forces Maddie to kill her sister using an insulin overdose
but because she’s finally had enough of Reagan’s cruelty
Maddie pretends to be her deceased twin sister as Joe orchestrates a plan to fake Reagan’s death
Maddie wants to start a new life with Harrison
Reagan’s husband she’s been having an affair with
Kate begins to notice Joe’s behavior unraveling and decides to dig into his past and present
an employee at Joe’s bookstore who is spending more and more time with Joe
but it is only a matter of time until Bronte’s secretive past comes to light
It turns out Bronte isn’t who she claims to be
The woman Joe thought had simply wandered into the bookstore and crashed there for a few nights is Louise Flannery
a catfish secretly plotting revenge for the murder of her friend
Louise read her posthumously published book, The Dark Face of Love
and found inconsistencies that didn’t sit right with her
Her suspicions led her to a Reddit thread dedicated to uncovering the truth about Beck’s death
who also believes the real killer was never caught
she began to lose sight of her original mission to take him down
blurring the line between revenge and a romantic connection
When Joe rushes in to protect Bronte from a furious Clayton (Tom Francis)
“We got him!” Bronte’s friends shout as they live-stream Joe
But Bronte becomes just another pawn in Joe’s twisted game of love
While speaking to the police after Clayton’s death
she convinces herself that Joe acted in self-defense and that he truly believed her life was at risk
Bronte is drawn to the idea that Joe was willing to kill for her
and her sudden change of heart only fuels Joe’s delusion
making him believe that what they had was real the entire time
Kate decides the only way to end the vicious cycle is for Joe to die
the woman Joe believes he killed last season
to lure him into a trap and finally get a full confession
Kate uses a decoy of herself to lure Joe into a trap
ultimately capturing him and locking him in the glass cage beneath his bookstore
She and Nadia have no intention of letting him live—but they offer him a carefully crafted ultimatum
he’ll be sent to a remote island to start a new life
It’s all a lie (but Joe doesn’t know that)
as he was pretty sure killed her three years ago
As Kate and Nadia debate who should be the one to end Joe’s life
She urges her to see how Joe manipulates love and weaponizes his romanticism to justify violence
Bronte finally remembers why she came to New York in the first place: to stop Joe once and for all
Plot twist: Joe had one last secret (literally) up his sleeve—a hidden key embedded beneath his skin
and knocks her unconscious with a blow to the head
she locks him back in the basement and sets the building on fire
ignoring his pleas that Kate is trapped down there
Kate regains enough strength to strike Joe unconscious
the former lovebirds share a heart-to-heart conversation
Joe finally confesses—admitting to killing Kate’s father
But he doesn’t know that Kate secretly records the entire conversation and sends it to Nadia so she can share it with the police
Bronte shows up and pulls him from the burning basement after he pleads that he only hurt Kate in self-defense
But viewers quickly realize that this isn’t a rescue out of love
Bronte reveals she’s had another change of heart after talking with Marienne
She now sees Joe for who he truly is and is determined to get justice for Beck
Bronte and Joe head toward the Canadian border
But Joe knows it’s only a matter of time before the police catch up with him
especially after his damning confession to Kate
In one last favor from his old friend Will
he asks for fake passports to help them cross the border
Joe also wants Will’s help getting his son
Bronte is quietly strategizing her final move
She’s still figuring out the best way to take Joe down
but it’s becoming clear he’s growing suspicious of her
off-the-grid lake house as their temporary hideout
She knows she can’t keep up the act much longer
“We hear her thoughts, which is different from when we’ve heard thoughts from other characters in past seasons,” Badgley told Netflix’s Tudum
“The vantage point is shifting to Bronte and [Joe]’s becoming the object
She demands he tell her exactly how he killed Beck
she hands him a copy of The Dark Face of Love and tells him to go through and redact the lies he added to Beck’s manuscript after murdering her
He says he managed to get Henry on the line
He then proceeds to tell his dad that he’s the monster
and the two struggle violently for control of the gun
Their brutal fight takes place in and outside the lake house
Joe makes one last desperate move toward Bronte
it seems like she was successful at killing him
which goes viral during his trial and helps the public turn on him.) The police move in and finally arrest him
Co-showrunner Michael Foley told Netflix’s Tudum that everyone involved in the series felt that Joe’s fate in jail would be worse than simply killing him off
and the truth undeniable.” He was convicted for the murders of Love Quinn and Guinevere Beck
which led to additional convictions—and life without parole—for the deaths of Benji and Peach
dedicating her work to helping women process their trauma
Harrison’s charges were dropped in the murder of his wife
Maddie was tried for arson and her sister’s murder
but avoided prison time due to the circumstances
it’s revealed that Kate miraculously survived the fire and her gunshot wounds
The Lockwood Corporation has since been transformed into a fully nonprofit organization
and Kate has returned to her first love: art
Hanging in her new studio is a painting by Marienne
who’s back to creating and finally living without fear of being hunted by Joe
she removed everything Joe had added to Beck’s manuscript and published a new edition featuring only Beck’s original words
Bronte is focused on writing her next chapter and finally finding herself
Joe reflects on his isolation and loneliness behind bars
he clings to the belief that he’s not the problem
Aren’t we all just products of our environment
“Why am I in a cage when these crazies write me all of the depraved things they want me to do to them
Foley told Tudum that it was very important the series ended with “Joe having not changed,” despite everything he’s gone through
I’m glad I got to do that,’” Badgley explained
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Netflix's You viewers were left shocked after they discovered where they recognise Bronte from
You returned to screens last week with the fifth and final season of the thriller and saw the return of Penn Badgley as protagonist Joe Goldberg
the drama picks up three years after the previous season and sees Joe return to New York
With the help of his wife Kate Lockwood (Charlotte Ritchie)
he regains custody of his son Henry (Frankie DeMaio)
Played by Madeline Brewer
some viewers were stunned to realise where they have seen the actress before
Madeline is known for her roles in The Handmaid's Tale and Orange Is The New Black
The star portrayed Janine Lindo in The Handmaid's Tale and even received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series back in 2021
one of the youngest inmates at Litchfield Penitentiary in Orange Is The New Black
Some viewers took to Reddit to express their surprise and one posted: 'From OITNB!'
Others replied: 'Makeup is crazy fr lmao I did not realize I knew so much of Madeline Brewer's work.'
'She’s also in one of the best episodes of Black Mirror!'
'I feel like Madeline Brewer makes an appearance in half of the stuff I watch
However, despite seeing four successful seasons previously, You has been hit with stinging reviews from some critics.
The Guardian only rated the new instalment two out of five stars and described the ending as 'insulting rubbish'
While some may be disappointed that their favourite series is coming to an end
They noted that though the storyline 'was once ludicrously fun,' the finale is 'so bad that it's offensive'
You didn't impress The Telegraph either who matched the Guardian's unimpressed rating
Describing the show as swinging 'from soap opera to stale slasher flick' they claimed the 'final season will bludgeon your attention-span to death'
While The Daily Beast argued the new season's 'fatal flaw' is 'how muddled the show has allowed its satire to become'
The publication claimed aspects like the 'social media true-crime component' was 'woefully underbaked'
Its final verdict was the show 'should've wrapped up several chapters ago'
Echoing The Daily beast, The Standard also felt the show was well overdue to end and called it 'embarrassing,' alongside a two out of five star rating
Tech Advisor shared a more positive outlook and praised the cast and 'outlandish storyline'.
It even encouraged fans of the previous four seasons to 'tune into this wild ride of a finale'.
Though the site did acknowledge, 'Joe’s many self-indulgent attempts to defend his violent instincts can get tiresome'.
All seasons of You are available to stream on Netflix now.
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explains how a visit to the Abbey to research her latest book led her on a surprising journey
When I began following in the footsteps of Charlotte
I had no inkling that it would lead to a historic discovery
My resulting conversation with the Dean of Westminster led to the correction of an 85-year-old spelling mistake
now with the correct spelling of the Brontë sisters' surname
when I wanted to see the memorial to the authors of masterpieces such as Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I was researching a new book with my co-author Ann Dinsdale
principal curator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth
I am also a lifelong journalist and now editor of The Brontë Society Gazette
I crossed the ancient flagstones where Emily and Charlotte walked with their father
The sisters were enjoying a little sightseeing on their way to Brussels
where they hoped to improve their French in an ultimately doomed plan to open a school in Yorkshire
Anne Brontë was also enduring a grueling life as a governess near York
As the anonymous daughters of a country curate
the fire of their imaginations was yet to set the literary world alight
I looked for the elegant little tablet paid for by the Brontë Society and installed in October 1939
That’s when I saw that all three sisters were called ‘Bronte,’ not ‘Brontë.’ The names of the famous writers were misspelled
A place of pilgrimage for literature lovers and home to memorials to more than a hundred of our greatest writers
I made an appointment with Dr Tony Trowles
Librarian and Head of the Abbey Collection
Mr Hopewell set out the wording for the Brontë inscription with each surname bearing its diaeresis (dots) over the final letter.
What had happened to the spelling between this letter in May 1939 and the installation of the tablet
Further investigation showed Sir Charles Peers
using either ‘Bronte’ or ‘Bronté’ in their correspondence
Minutes of an earlier Chapter meeting in April 1938 regarding the memorial also say ‘Bronte.’
I brought the mystery to Dr Trowles’ attention
and he could find no further clues in the case of the missing dots
he agreed the sisters should have their correct names on their memorial and offered to broach the subject with the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle
before I made a request for the error to be rectified
When I wrote to the Dean the following day
I was delighted to receive an equally immediate and sympathetic response
He took the matter to the Westminster Abbey Fabric Commission and contacted me in March to say the work to add the diaereses had been given the go ahead
I duly shared the good news in my editor’s letter to Brontë Society members in the Gazette.
Abbey stonemason Mark Croll adds the missing diaereses
So why was ‘Brontë’ incorrectly carved three times in 1939
The sisters’ signatures are preserved on their letters
little books and diary papers in the Brontë Collection
The name has adorned countless copies of their novels and poetry
published from after their deaths to the present day
It is among the most famous and enduring in literature
The Times used the correct spelling when thundering its approval of the memorial in 1939
Yet somewhere along the line the people making the tablet lost sight of the brief.
The name began evolving from ‘Brunty’ or ‘Prunty’ when Patrick arrived at St John’s College
His gentrification of his name could have been inspired by Horatio Nelson
he took a shine to the Greek word for ‘thunder.’ It may have gained its final iteration with the diaeresis
when Patrick’s poems were published before his children were born
I’m not worried about the name of the father and grandfather of Charlotte
This is not about the men – it’s about the women
Abbey Conservator Lucy Ackland puts the final touches to the updated memorial
we don’t know how the diaereses disappeared during their journey from Mr Hopewell’s pen to the discussions of Sir Charles and Mr Turner
Who was carelessly rewriting history in 1939
I was met with only courtesy and co-operation from Dr Trowles and the Dean in the here and now
This was a Brontë story with a happy and timely ending in 2024.
Britain had just gone to war with Nazi Germany
As the Abbey authorities scrambled to evacuate its treasures
spelling mistakes were the least of anyone’s worries
But why was it never highlighted until I happened along
I’ve looked for evidence of anyone else pointing out the obvious in peacetime and cannot find a scrap
I can only reflect on the eventual ceremony for the memorial in 1947
Were Brontë Society members in their best hats and suits too overawed to mention it
Author Sharon Wright beside the memorial in Poets' Corner
I love a mystery from history and maybe one day I’ll solve it
it’s enough to see the Brontë Society instructions followed
and to have played a part in honouring the names of the fellow Yorkshirewomen I admire beyond measure.
once described the sombre sound that punctuated their lives
She wrote: ‘… as you issued from the Parsonage gate
you looked upon the Stone-cutter’s chipping shed which was piled with slabs ready for use
and to the ear there was the incessant sound of the chip
of the recording chisel as it graved in the In Memoriams of the departed.’
to carve the overdue final marks to the immortal names of Charlotte
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One of the bosses of Chemist Warehouse has snapped up a Bronte beachfront residence quietly for $25m and is keeping the Bellevue Hill mansion he bought for $23.5m a few years ago
Sources revealed the hushed-up sale on the eve of Chemist Warehouse listing for the first time on the ASX today
which follows its merger with Sigma to create a $30bn company
the managing partner of the pharmaceutical giant
have bought the landmark residence at 12 Bronte Marine Drive
once owned by the F45 co-founder Rob Deutsch
Deutsch sold up in 2022 for $17.7m to the founder of cosmetic proceedures firm Cosmos Clinics
42-year-old tech investor Peter Crown and his wife
Home of famous family listed for first time in a century
The property has sold on the quiet for about $25m
F45 founder Rob Deutsch sold the property for $17.7m in 2022
The Crowns have perhaps opted to focus on the huge 1300 hectare property they bought from Hume Coal for close to $100m in 2021
the title on the Marine Drive property shows a range of caveats by Bridge St Capital
Patriot Equity and hard asset investment specialists Merricks Capital Holdings
It’s understood the $25m sale was negotiated by Elliott Placks and Ashley Bierman of Ray White Double Bay
Both agents have been contacted for comment
The Bronte Marine Drive property is close by the Bayview St
Bronte property that the Bassalys sold for $16m in 2021
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They’re certainly shrewd property buyers and sellers
next door to the former home of the late actor Heath Ledger
set a new per-square-metre record at the time
Bellevue Hill “architectural mansion” — with putting green
gym and sauna — would be worth considerably more than the $23.5m they bought it for in May
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It’s not clear if the couple intend to use the three-level Bronte property as their beachhouse or on-sell it
it offers uninterrupted grandstand views of Bronte Beach and the Pacific Ocean
Effortless entertaining is at the forefront of the design
with a recreational lower level complete with a cocktail bar
There’s a resort-like north-facing garden with pavilion and mineral pool
entertainment pavilion and outdoor kitchen
The final season of You is home to some recognisable tunes
After an almost seven-year reign of terror, Joe Goldberg's serial killer antics have been brought to an end in the fifth and final season of You
The Netflix thriller returned to our screens in April, picking up three years on from the end of season 4, with Joe (Penn Badgley) now living peacefully with his wife Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) for the past three years
But, of course, he soon reverts back to his old serial killer habits when he crosses paths with a new, mysterious character called Bronte (Madeline Brewer)
the final instalment is accompanied by an epic soundtrack
Across 10 episodes
we'll soon find out how our problematic protagonist winds up
all unfolding against a backdrop of songs that takes us from the dulcet tones of Sade right through to indie classics from The xx
Read on to find out what songs are featured in season 5 of You on Netflix
Blake Neely composed the score for You season 5
His previous credits include Riverdale and The Flight Attendant
You season 5 soundtrack: Every song in final episodes of Netflix dramaThe final season of You is home to some recognisable tunes
The Netflix thriller returned to our screens in April, picking up three years on from the end of season 4, with Joe (Penn Badgley) now living peacefully with his wife Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) for the past three years
But, of course, he soon reverts back to his old serial killer habits when he crosses paths with a new, mysterious character called Bronte (Madeline Brewer)
Across 10 episodes
we'll soon find out how our problematic protagonist winds up
Read on to find out what songs are featured in season 5 of You on Netflix
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had no idea about the big twist until she read the script for episode 6
Another season of You, another obsession for Joe Goldberg. As you've probably already seen, You season 5 – the final season of the Netflix series
– sees Joe fall in love with another woman despite still being married to wife Kate
Bronte is played by Madeline Brewer and she's a brand new character in You season 5
Joe first meets Bronte when she attempts to escape Mooney's after breaking in to "borrow" a book
she's hiding a massive secret from Joe and viewers find out at the exact same time he does
What is Bronte's real identity and what does she actually want with Joe
Bronte's real name is actually Louise Flannery and she's been catfishing Joe this whole time
when Joe follows Bronte to the beach house with the aim of "saving" her from Clayton
This whole thing is not only witnessed by Bronte
but also Dominique and Phoenix who also happen to catch it on a livestream
Joe then learns of Bronte's real name – Louise – and realises that she's been catfishing him this entire time with the sole purpose of bringing him down for the murder of Guinevere Beck
Bronte/Louise backstory is laid out in episode 6 when we see flashbacks of her time as a student
Beck was her TA while she was studying to be a writer in New York and the two were friendly enough that Bronte had even spoken to Joe briefly over the phone years before while he was on a call to Beck
Bronte and Beck fell out of touch after Bronte dropped out to care for her sick mother
Bronte learns about Beck's death and the posthumous release of her novel
she immediately clocks several details that point towards the fact that someone else had written parts of it
Her concerns lead her to Reddit and she ends up joining forces with Dominique
Nicky's son) who are all looking for answers about Beck's killer
they set up a plan and Bronte agrees to catfish him in order to find out the truth
Bronte tells her friends that she can make Joe fall in love with her
But the tables quickly turn when she finds herself falling in love with him half-way through her mission
It becomes clear that Bronte has fallen for Joe's disturbingly charming ways when when she tells the police that Joe killed Clayton in self-defence – despite knowing damn well that Joe is a murderer
When her friends urge her to expose Joe publicly
She manages to regain Joe's trust after the whole catfishing saga and the two rekindle their relationship
After Joe saves her from a brutal kidnapping attempt
he confronts Bronte who tells him that she "began to suspect that we were wrong" about him being a cold-blooded killer after she got to know him
"Despite my best efforts to think of you as a monster
it's Marienne who manages to snap Bronte out of it by revealing the hard truths about Joe's manipulative ways
Thankfully that conversation arrives just before Joe proposes to Bronte
is the one who finally brings Joe Goldberg down
she didn't realise just how major Bronte's big Beck twist was until she read the script for episode 6
Speaking to Tudum
she said: "I knew that there was a twist
but I didn’t entirely understand to what degree it was until I read Episode 6
I just wasn’t sure what that purpose was when I started."
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Ask someone when they first read Jane Eyre
and they will no doubt remember: the voice of its protagonist leaps off the page as if to grab you by the forearm
and fiercely protective of her claim to happiness
Jane possesses a strength of character that utterly belies the plainness and penury of her beginnings
are likely to associate it with popular representations of governesses and madwomen
which Jane Eyre helped enshrine as icons of the Victorian era
Narrated from the first-person point of view
Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece is a landmark in the novel of interiority
and the representation of religion and race
“An Autobiography,” and the events of the novel – at once domestic and strange
familiar and fantastical – are deeply shaped by the experiences of its author
Born in Yorkshire to a prickly curate father
Charlotte Brontë was surrounded by death as a child
followed by two older sisters when a typhoid outbreak swept through their boarding school
Charlotte remained at home with her other siblings – Anne and Emily
they lost themselves in the creation of a fictional world called “Glass Town,” which they catalogued meticulously in tiny paper booklets
After failing disastrously as a schoolteacher and governess (which Charlotte relates in trenchant letters to family and friends)
she and her sisters sought to make a career out of their childhood passion
three undeniable classics in what one critic has dubbed a second “Northumbrian Renaissance.”
The early chapters of Charlotte’s novel take us deep into the mind of Jane Eyre
an orphan who has been reluctantly accepted into the household of a wealthy aunt
abused by her cousins and constantly reminded her existence is an unwanted burden
The family nicknames her “Madame Mope,” but Jane is anything but sullen
she harbours within her the spirit of a “rebel slave,” desperately seeking love but unwilling to abase herself in pursuit of her aunt’s (or indeed anyone’s) approval
When Jane is wrongfully accused of attacking her vicious cousin
she is locked in the “red-room,” the bedchamber of her dead uncle
and the room becomes a potent allegory for the psychological misery inflicted upon children
Hope seems to arrive in the prospect of a charity school for orphans
but Jane’s restless spirit stands poised to chafe against its gospel of Christian meekness
the director recounts for Jane’s edification the example of
who knows six Psalms by heart: and when you ask him which he would rather have
or a verse of a Psalm to learn he says: ‘Oh
The verse of a Psalm!’[… and] gets two nuts in recompense for his infant piety
Unimpressed by the child’s craven obeisance
are drawn from Charlotte’s own knowledge of the boarding school that killed her sisters
The children are half-starved and beaten while their zealous benefactor espouses the virtues of poverty
Jane’s only solace is a kindly teacher and the ethereal student Helen Burns
who possesses Christ-like powers of submission
The death of Helen from typhus points to the impossibility of moral perfection in a bleak and fallen world
she quickly sees that her own path will involve a different kind of suffering and resistance
Jane is often described as “plucky” or “spunky,” a quality best revealed by her energetic self-reliance
she spends the next eight years at Lowood educating herself so she can seek out better opportunities elsewhere
she gets hired to be governess at Thornfield Hall
a large estate with a mysterious proprietor
the tone shifts from social criticism to gothic romance
as Jane falls deeply in love with the owner of the estate
The unconventional courtship between the star-crossed (and class-crossed) lovers is one of the novel’s chief delights
a dissipated aristocrat who becomes captivated by Jane’s frankness and inner strength
Jane sees glimmers of a finer nature beneath Rochester’s brutish façade
but resists the temptation to become his plaything or ornament
In a daring renovation of the courtship plot
Brontë depicts Rochester as the needier and more flirtatious of the two
he is not above pretending to be engaged to another woman or dressing as a female gypsy to ascertain the true nature of her feelings
refuses to sacrifice her personal dignity at the altar of romantic love
When Rochester asks her to remain his ward’s governess after he marries his supposed fiancée
and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips
and my drop of living water dashed from my cup
In a move that scandalised some of Brontë’s critics
Rochester responds warmly to Jane’s principled self-defense and immediately proposes marriage
“My bride is here […] because my equal is here.”
Most people are familiar with the phrase “the madwoman in the attic,” but few know it comes not from the novel but from a pioneering work of feminist criticism inspired by Brontë’s example
In The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979)
Gilbert and Susan Gubar placed the incredible plot twist at the heart of Jane Eyre – that Rochester is secretly married to a mixed-race madwoman from the West Indies
who is confined to the third floor of his house – at the heart of a new symbology of writing by women
“By projecting their rebellious impulses not into their heroines but into mad or monstrous women (who are suitably punished in the course of the novel or poem),” they write
“female authors dramatize their own self-division
their desire both to accept the strictures of patriarchal society and to reject them.”
thus becomes a monstrous double of Jane – a transgressive woman of violent temper who demonstrates what happens when women are oppressed by unequal marriages or violate social norms
The invention of Bertha is a brilliantly lurid device to keep Rochester and Jane apart
But it has not always sat well with readers
Brontë further develops the colonial contexts of Jane Eyre in the novel’s final section, when, after the collapse of her engagement to Rochester, Jane takes up residence with an earnest missionary and his sisters. Here, Jane finally finds herself in a community of equals, except it lacks the romantic dimension of her relationship with Rochester.
When the missionary, St. John Rivers, proposes marriage to Jane, it is because he judges her to be the perfect help-meet for his religious labours in India, not because he desires her erotically. Where Rochester was excessively sensual (we are made aware that he married Bertha for sex as well as money), St. John is coldly ambitious — not a bad man, per se, but one who sees his spiritual destiny as incompatible with the life of the heart.
Through the colonial activities of both men, Brontë associates the wider British empire with masculine egoism and derogation from equality between the sexes. Such a place, she suggests, is likely to produce “revolted slaves” not unlike her heroine Jane.
The most famous line of Jane Eyre – “Reader, I married him” – encapsulates how this sometimes dispiriting novel moves inexorably toward maturity and fulfilment.
While still considering St. John’s proposal, Jane hears Rochester’s voice beckoning to her through the ether – a moment of occult indulgence that recalls the more mythopoetic style of Charlotte’s sister, Emily. Fortunately, the voice inspires Jane to return to Thornfield, where she finds that Bertha has burned the house to the ground, killing herself in the process, and leaving Rochester blinded and maimed.
A sombre mood prevails as the two lovers reacquaint themselves, but Jane resumes her teasing manner when she realises that Rochester has become insecure toward her because of his disabilities, not because his passion has cooled.
In contrast to her scepticism about St. John’s mission, Jane delights in the possibility of serving as Rochester’s caretaker and nurse because she is motivated by love rather than duty.
In a culture where most people, but women especially, were encouraged to sublimate their desires to the goals of more powerful men, Jane Eyre offers a radical solution. By marrying a man who has become her physical and financial dependent – but who remains an equal romantic partner – Jane can enjoy both power and femininity, which for many Victorians was an improbable combination.
I hold myself supremely blest – blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.
Her confident assertion of dignity, of integrity, and of moral and social equality is as relevant to our own time as it was to hers.
While Aldi’s managing director Oliver Bongardt heads up national buying at the German supermarket known for its low prices and cheap brand alternatives
his recently listed Bronte home is distinctly top shelf
the designer home is one of two Sydney eastern beaches properties being offered by the grocery executive
who is also selling a designer apartment in neighbouring Tamarama’s Skye building
which has just hit the market with a guide of $3.2 million
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Bronte Nieuwenburg has outlined her selections and suggested game plan for Thursday's eight-race card at Ballarat
R1 – 6.00pm – Ballarattrottingclub.com.au Pace – 1710m
R2 – 6.34pm – Golden Point Football Club "Billie's Legends" Trot – 2200m
Cochy Malc is a trotter previously trained by Riley Butt in Queensland
He steps out tonight for the first time under the care of Andy Gath
his Queensland times are on par with or slightly better than this field
and I think we’re likely to see significant improvement with the change in scenery
BACK: 11 Cochy Malc – 2 Units (win) / 2 Unit (place)
R3 – 7.05pm – National Tiles Pace – 2200m
R4 – 7.36pm – Trevor Petrie Real Estate Pace – 2200m
R5 – 8.06pm – The Muller's Coodabeens Pace – 1710m
this race looks to map well for Tophut Johny
He should be able to find the front from barrier three
I’ve marked Breathe Easy and My Darling Dancer as his main rivals
but it may be too hard for them to catch Tophut Johny if he gets an easy run at the top end
BACK: 3 Tophut Johny – 2.5 Units (win)
R6 – 8.36pm – The Park Bistro Pub Boys 3yo Maiden Pace – 2200m
R7 – 9.06pm – Ballarat Sportsmans Association Trot – 2200m
Mont Sally goes into this race with the best sectional times
not finishing worse than fifth since July last year
She may need to be saved for one late run and rely on a bit of luck
R8 – 9.35pm – Woodlands Stud Trot – 2200m
This race is a case of strong exposed current form versus a first starter with winning trial form from a strong stable
I’m sticking with the exposed form of Nellie Joy over Trouville Sur Mer
BACK: 5 Nellie Joy – 1.5 Units (win)
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t – for example 1 unit is 10% of your bankroll
portrayals of Jews on screen are under greater scrutiny than ever
So what are we to make of the bizarre and morally complex ending to Netflix’s hit show “You,” which centers on a Jewish serial killer
Having a villain viewers are supposed to root for isn’t new — just ask fans of Tony Soprano. But while he was a stereotypical Italian mobster
“You” stood out thanks to its unique narrative style
a deeply disturbed man who justifies murder in the name of love
he falls for aspiring writer Guinevere Beck
Each season follows a similar pattern: obsession
But the fifth and final season may be the most gripping
becomes infatuated with Bronte (an excellent Emily Brewer)
whom he hires at Mooney’s bookstore — the same bookstore where he once tortured people in a glass cage
the show grapples with themes like toxic masculinity
and how easily people overlook red flags when charisma is involved
Though it doesn’t reference real-life cases directly
the final season’s portrayal of media frenzy around killers echoes headlines like that of Luigi Mangione
who was indicted for the murder of health CEO Brian Thompson
The series critiques how easily the media flips between villainizing and romanticizing murderers
Even as he cheats on his wife and leaves a trail of bodies
he’s a smooth talker who keeps the audience uncomfortably intrigued
Some viewers may question the decision to portray a Jewish character as a cunning serial killer
Joe isn’t physically imposing but uses charm
and social media to control others and conceal his violence
the trope of a Jewish puppet master pulling strings might hit too close to antisemitic conspiracy theories
The series is based on novels by Caroline Kepnes
who has spoken about writing the first book while grieving her Jewish father’s death
Joe’s manipulation through social platforms became a twisted reflection of that grief
a Gen Z Jewish fan told me Joe’s Judaism didn’t bother her — he wasn’t defined by it
the series rarely foregrounds Joe’s Jewish identity
A previous season included a Jewish camp reference
but Judaism is never portrayed as a catalyst for his actions
It’s also worth noting that Jewish characters on screen aren’t monolithic. In Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This,” Adam Brody plays a hot Jewish rabbi — the moral inverse of Joe
Writers and creators have the right to explore a wide range of characters
even when they’re dark and not the best representation
Season 5’s acting is arguably the show’s strongest
Charlotte Ritchie returns as Joe’s wife Kate
while Maddie is warm and playful — calling Joe “boo” and cracking his emotional armor
helps make the finale its most compelling chapter
Most viewers assumed Joe would finally be killed
The final episodes smartly explore how society sometimes glamorizes predators and what it takes for their masks to fall
Joe’s anonymity is eventually shattered by bloggers — one of the series’ most satisfying twists
But a small portion of the ending felt off
it leaned into symbolism that some might find problematic or too forgiving
many killers aren’t as smart as Joe—and some still get away with it
“You” leaves us with a chilling takeaway: persistence can be romantic
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led by one of the country’s highest-profile investors
has recorded one of its better recent performances
with its short book driving outperformance amid the volatile global markets
Hempton said his Amalthea Fund had posted a 4.56 per cent increase over the quarter
beating the benchmark MSCI All Country World Index’s 2.21 per cent loss
the fund posted a 3 per cent drop last month
Bronte Nieuwenburg has outlined her selections and suggested game plan for Thursday's seven-race card at Kilmore
R1 – 10.03pm – Interpath Pace – 1710m
Tinsel Tiara is a high-speed mare now in the care of Ricky Ryan
With great gate speed and the best last 400-metre sprint
driver Michael Bellman has options whether to use her speed early or save her for one run late
She’s been ultra-consistent this year and finds a winnable race here
BACK: 5 Tinsel Tara – 2.5 Units (win)
R2 – 10.03pm – Brandt Ballarat Pace – 2200m
Montana Pride has improved significantly with age
he’s now capable of making his own luck when needed
His last 400-metre sprint is at least a second faster than the rest of this field
BACK: 6 Montana Pride – 2.5 Units (win)
R3 – 10.03pm – Alfredton Laundry Pace – 2200m
R4 – 10.03pm – Natures Cargo Pace – 1710m
well-bred mare from the Kyle Marshall stable
She’s in winning form and looks set to continue progressing through the grades with her high ability
but she’s good enough to overcome it
BACK: 5 Ruebe Starbuck – 2.5 Units (win)
R5 – 10.03pm – Radio Ballarat Trot – 2200m
Mattyo is by far the best recent sectional-performing trotter in this field
He now seems to be figuring out what trotting is all about and finds another winnable race here
R6 – 10.03pm – Ballarat Mower Centre 4yo & Older Maiden Trot – 2200m
R7 – 10.03pm – Ballarattrottingclub.Com.Au Pace – 1710m
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steering the hedge fund’s performance back to form after the second-worst losing streak in its history
Mr Hempton, who put his struggling short-selling strategy under review late last year
posted a draft job advertisement in his latest investor letter targeted at former and current investigative journalists harbouring hedge fund ambitions
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Young Tasmanian harness racing trainer-driver Bronte Miller probably had the biggest smile going around at last Friday night’s (April 4) Hobart meeting
after a much anticipated and emotional return to the winner’s circle
drove Will He Pike (Heston Blue Chip) to a popular win in the Ladbrokes Racing Club Pace – her first victory for two years and three months and the 67th of her career
but I was so relieved and absolutely over the moon,” Miller said
“I suppose I proved to myself and everyone else that I can still do it.”
Miller was one of the passengers involved in a horrifying road accident on January 30
when a vehicle towing a loaded four-horse float crashed at Rowella
The State’s leading female driver in the 2022 season spent two-and-a-half weeks in hospital with injuries including a broken left hip
a dislocated right hip and a broken her right foot and hand
Miller was fortunate to retain 100 percent vision in her left eye
Miller underwent a number of operations and long stints of rehabilitation
including SA reinswoman Dani Hill and Victorian legend the late Ian McCallum
who succeeded despite having sight in just one eye
“I obviously had no choice because I was never not going to return to being out on the track!” she said
“Wanting to get back out there pushed me through all my stints of rehabilitation
and my judgement of range is really good.”
Miller’s comeback in mid-February was hindered when she broke her ankle
and her win was at her first drive back after that setback
But Miller said she had her doubts after coming out of the gate hard and getting caught in the death seat on Will He Pike
“I thought ‘this isn’t going to be good’
But later when the leader was being driven up heading for home
but he’s a lovely fella and I’ve always had a soft spot for him,” she said
“He’s trained by Tammy Langley who’s given me plenty of opportunities which I’m so grateful for
“I must also say a big thanks to Bianca Heenan and her partner Nathan Ford who are the owners of Will He Pike who have been there for me since day dot
I’m basically a part of their family – I often joke that I’m their adopted child.”
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While the vast majority of Australian buyers aren’t international swimming champions, the need for proximity to local amenities is something many can relate to.
The Coorparoo Queenslander-style home she settled in – which is now for sale – offers privacy and peace without sacrificing convenience. Located a 20-minute drive from the Brisbane CBD, the house is the epitome of relaxed and elegant living.
The covered front and back verandahs are set among trees, with city glimpses. And, in the safety of this quiet cul-de-sac, kids can run and play with reckless abandon.
“I grew up on a road that was a cul-de-sac, so it reminded me of that.” Campbell says, when asked what first drew her to the home.
Coorparoo has become a sought-after location in recent years for its connection to nearby parklands, public transport, shopping, dining and schools.
Listing agent Paula Pearce of Place Estate Agents Brisbane says prestigious schools have attracted more families to the area. In addition, an increasing number of buyers are prioritising lifestyle, moving away from larger cities in other parts of the country.
“Buyers are looking for walkability and connectedness to infrastructure,” she says. “Schools in the area, secondary schools in particular, have continued to grow in popularity, so we’re seeing more young families looking to buy here.”
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With its white picket fences, VJ dado panelling and French doors, the home is move-in ready. The calming, neutral colour palette throughout is a blank slate for a range of design preferences.
“It’s a Queenslander replica,” Pearce says. “This means you get the charm and style of a Queenslander without the added maintenance.”
The house has a bright and airy feel, with a spacious layout and a kitchen and dining area extending onto a patio and large garden – perfect for hosting guests.
Campbell says she has loved entertaining on the outdoor deck, having dinner parties with friends and fellow athletes.
“I remember inviting mates around [after settlement], sitting on milk crates and celebrating with drinks,” she says. “At that stage, you’ve got no furniture but that’s part of the experience.”
The property has a generous four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Even living with three friends at one point, Campbell says that “somehow it never felt crowded”.
“I had a friend who worked in finance living downstairs for a while,” she says. “It’s a separate and self-contained living space, which worked well since we were on completely different schedules. They sometimes worked late into the evening, then I’d be getting up at 4am for training.”
It’s this versatility that makes the property a stand-out option in the market. If an owner-occupier moves in, the downstairs area — with kitchenette and bathroom — could offer independent living for a teenager, a young adult, elderly family members, or even a tenant. For investors, there’s the opportunity for a source of rental income.
The listing has a notable inclusion for those with an interest in sports: a signed team shirt from the Paris 2020 Olympics that Campbell plans to leave behind, as well as ample outdoor space for wellness activities.
“We added artificial grass in the back garden and it became my favourite place to do stretching and yoga,” she says. “It was much better doing recovery on grass, not hard bricks.”
Change is in the air for the swimmer, who is moving to Sydney. Earlier this year she got engaged to her partner, musician Benfield Lainchbury, and her business, Earthletica, has taken off.
“It’s bittersweet to be leaving my footholds in Brisbane, but it’s always a base to come back to with friends and family still here,” Campbell says.
“I’ll always be a Queenslander because that’s where I grew up.”
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Olympic gold medallist Bronte Campbell has listed her Coorparoo home for sale with agents asking for offers in the high $1ms
Househunters inspecting a worker’s cottage were in for a shock with Olympic gold medallist Bronte Campbell greeting them at the door – and she has another surprise waiting in the wings
double garage home in Brisbane’s Coorparoo for sale by private treaty
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The star swimmer told The Courier-Mail that she decided to “stick around’ to add a personal touch at her first ever open house
“It’d be lovely to maybe meet the potential new owner of the house – hopefully they’re here today – and pass on the torch to the next family that’s going to be in here,” she said
Ms Campbell said her family spent last weekend repainting the entire home right down to the white picket fence
which now looks “so good” she fell in love with the classic Queensland property again
A signed Australian Olympics team shirt from the Tokyo games which is a gift for the buyer from Ms Campbell
resting at one of her favourite spots in the home – the back veranda with views on a clear day of the Brisbane skyline
Ms Campbell with the Paris Olympics gold medal which is heavier than expected
She was armed with a signed Australian Olympic team shirt that she plans to gift whoever the new owner is
“I felt like I was leaving Queensland and I wanted to leave something behind,” she said
I’ll throw in a signed shirt from the Tokyo Olympics
I was actually in Brisbane when I was training for Tokyo Olympics
so it’s a nice little memento for whoever the new family is that gets to take over the house”
The neighbours came over to chat about how good the home looks after the previous weekend’s paint work
double lockup garage house eight years ago in October 2016
after moving out of a Bowen Hills apartment she shared with fellow Olympian
The home has potential to be a double income earner for an investor
or a home and side hustle for an owner-occupier with a self contained one bedroom with kitchenette and lounge unit downstairs
The property is on a 405sq m block in a quiet cul-de-sac
which is earmarked as one of the venues for the Brisbane Olympics in 2032
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