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Huge queues form in Manchester as Molly-Mae Hague hands out free coffees and cookies

Maebe she's born with it, maebe she's Molly-Mae.

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 8th March 2025

Hundreds of people have flocked into Manchester city centre for a chance to meet super-influencer Molly-Mae Hague in the flesh. 

The 25-year-old former Love Island star is hosting a pop-up for her fashion brand Maebe. 

And after briefly promoting it on her Instagram stories to her 8.5m followers, the crowds have formed fast. 

Molly-Mae herself is in Manchester handing out free coffees and cookies to celebrate International Women’s Day. 

The Maebe coffee truck and pop-up structure are in Lincoln Square, just past the Town Hall. 

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Fans of the star (who are, yes, mostly female) have been queueing for several hours ahead of the pop-up opening at 10am. 

Many have been posing for selfies and chatting to a beaming Molly-Mae after collecting their free treats. 

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There are also film crews in attendance, who it’s believed are filming for the second instalment of her upcoming documentary, Molly-Mae: Behind It All. 

She launched her brand Maebe last September, pitched as offering accessible luxury fashion. 

Previous Maebe pop-ups have only taken place in London, despite Molly-Mae living in the north west. 

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The queues are still raging in Manchester for the pop-up, if anyone was planing to head down. 

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A Manchester dentist to the stars is offering an exclusive discount for their hugely popular treatment

Kristen MacGregor-Houlston Kristen MacGregor-Houlston Ruh Dental in Manchester has a discount on composite bonding

A designer dentist in Manchester is offering composite bond treatment with a huge saving this month. 

Rüh Dental, hailed as one of the top dental surgeries in Manchester and one which counts popular celebs like Helen Flanagan and Molly-Mae Hague as their patients, is offering readers a healthy 10% off composite bonding treatment this month.

The boutique surgery leads the way in creating a perfect smile that both stands out in a crowd but is effortlessly natural.

The whole process can be done in as little as 60 minutes too, depending on how much work you need.

If composite bonding is something you’re new to, it’s a straightforward, smile-perfecting procedure that is designed to give natural results and improve your grin, all whilst preserving the patient’s own teeth.

We caught up with leading dentist Dr Billal Arshad from Rüh, who is an expert in his field and is famed for his dental diligence and artistic flair.

He tells us “Composite bonding is a simple but effective treatment where we sculpt composite onto the teeth to make them look aesthetically pleasing.

“It’s a painless procedure that gives a natural look and lasts up to seven years without damaging the patient’s own teeth.”

You can find more about composite bonding from our Q&A session with Dr Arshad here.

Whilst Rüh Dental Manchester is also known for other treatments like their Invisalign treatments, general dentistry, veneers, etc, this offer is exclusively for composite bonding and for our readers. Quote TheManc10 when you call 0161 348 8738 to book.

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One of the 2025 Oscar winners was a favourite at a recent film festival in Manchester

Danny Jones Danny Jones A Real Pain wins Oscars UK Jewish Film Festival Manchester

It’s not often we get to say that Greater Manchester can lay any sort of claim to Oscars fame, but once in a while it happens and in this case, we’re only a few degrees of separation away from the latest Academy Award-winning film thanks to a recent film festival.

Being most recently hosted in Manchester once again, the 2024 edition of the UK Jewish Film Festival saw a number of shorts, student films and indie projects associated with the religion spotlighted – one of which just won not one but two bits of bronze.

Picking up not only the award for this year’s award for ‘Best Original Screenplay’ for the film itself but with Succession favourite and Home Alone child star, Kieran Culkin’s role winning him ‘Best Supporting Actor’, the much-celebrated A Real Pain has now won an Oscar.

But the part of all this that we’re especially happy about is that one of the first times it was seen in the UK happened right here in Manchester city centre late last year.

This year’s ‘Best Original Screenplay’ award winner at the Oscars, just a few months after screening in Manchester. Have you seen it yet?

The now Oscar-winning picture, which just so happens to be the second original feature film from Jesse Eisenberg (Social Network, Zombieland, Justice League), has been delighting audiences ever since its debut at Sundance in January 2024 and went on to premiere at several international film festivals.

However, the second time it was screened here in Britain prior to its official UK release nearly a full 12 months later (8 Jan 2025) at the UK Jewish Film Festival, was in 0161, returning for another consecutive year across multiple Greater Manchester venues.

Based at the main hub in the HOME theatre, cinema, arts and social space on First Street, A Real Pain was part of the event’s 28th annual programme of movie and TV programme.

Without giving away too much about the plot itself, the synopsis of the film reads as follows: “Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.”

Shown to us Mancs for the first time at Cineworld Didsbury on Thursday, 17 November last year, you won’t be surprised to hear it was one of the most popular picks of this festival too.

A Real Pain has been largely described as a buddy comedy and a road trip movie by lots of critics but there’s also tonnes of drama and serious subject matter that it gets stuck into.

Touching not only the obvious themes of Judaism and Zionism but also family, the Holocaust specifically and theology in general, the film has gone down as a deeply important piece of cinema for a whole community and plenty of people beyond it.

Admittedly, the Greater Manchester connection to the film might only be a slight one but given its new Oscars fame and how well-reviewed the film has been ever since we saw it at the UK Jewish Film (UJFF) Festival, we’re absolutely jumping on the bandwagon and we’re glad to keep supporting events like this.

Make sure you check out the UJFF the next time it comes to our neck of the woods. Applications to enter a film into the 2025 festival are now open.

Side note: it also led to arguably one of the best acceptance speeches in years:

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