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Cosmo's parents immigrated to London in 1964, just at the start of a swinging London. They bought a four-story terraced Georgian house in Islington, North London, for about £10,000. 'It was a complete dump that, under my parents' influence, became a vibrant dump with character,' he says. Fran Fran to his mother Fran in the living room and the kitchen to the right. Photographed inset: The demolished piano that once graced Cosmo's parents' wall is now on view at Tate Britain.

Yes, it's true: there are fewer sex scenes in season two of "Bridgerton" than in the first season. However, Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma's emulation and chemistry, the dramatic gazes, sharp-edged banter, and pure yearning between Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma do more than make up for it. Whether explicit sexy or not, a satisfying, believable romance only works when the anticipation builds up just right. Although "Bridgerton" gained a following for its abridged romance, it was still effective because it prioritised chemistry. We sincerely believed, while enjoying season one, that Simon Basset and Daphne Bridgerton wanted to jump each other's bones. Now, we have no doubt that Kate and Anthony share a magnetizing attraction — that they can't pull away even though they should. The fact that season two only had two explicit sex scenes didn't make it any less sexy. Anthony and Kate's intense chemistry made some people even sexier, and the majority of Hollywood should take note of why. There are few things as uncomfortable as seeing allegedly romantic scenes starring people who seem to only want to be in the same room. Since the demise of the rom-com genre, television reports often encourage us to believe chemistry is there just for the sake of telling us it is. However, those romances never live up to expectations. Take the much-anticipated (but meh) "Marry Me" which skipped the mark in the same way that so many Hollywood rom-coms have in the last decade: casting the most popular names possible and giving the all-important chemistry test a shrug. Or consider the emotional void that is most "romantic" subplots in big-brand franchises (hello and goodbye, Marvel's "first sex scene" in "Eternals"). No matter how artistic the camera angles, hot people walking around in each other's general direction or rolling about does not make a marriage proposal.