From extremely awkward sex scenes to addictive 10-minute episodes that have left fans accosting the stars in the street, Cheaters is a romcom like no other. As season two looms, the cast talk about nudity, orgasm faces and Prince Harry

It was the vase moment that did it. The first series of short-form romcom Cheaters truly took off when undersexed Zack, played by Jack Fox, overheard his wife in bed with another man. Surprised to find himself becoming aroused, he began pleasuring himself outside the door and grabbed a nearby vase at the climactic moment. “I was masturbating to the nation,” says Fox today. “I just remember our director telling me: ‘Longer strokes! I need to see the elbow move!’ Not a note I’d ever had before.”

“Seeing that scene pop up on Gogglebox was the greatest moment of our lives,” laughs co-star Callie Cooke. “Shirley from Caerphilly went: ‘He’s spunking into a vase!’ Marcus told Mica: ‘Put this in the planner now!’ It was fantastic for our ratings.”

A heady, risotto-style Mexican chicken rice with a knockout, chilli-spiked garlic mayo

This is inspired wholeheartedly by a dish I ate while cooking at the 45th birthday party of Nicos in Mexico City a few months ago. I love how many Mexican chefs are so enamoured of aspects of Spanish cooking, while still having a fierce pride in their own traditions and ingredients. Alfredo Villanueva, from Villa Torel , shared some of the secrets of this dish with me, which I have attempted to adapt for home cooking and the season. A veritable feast, and wonderful paired with a crisp, bitter-leaf salad.

Threat of protectionist ‘America first’ trade policies adds urgency to European reforms to boost economic growth

EU leaders are gathering in Budapest for an informal summit on the bloc’s ailing competitiveness – a task given added urgency by the threat of protectionist “America first” trade policies promised by the US president-elect Donald Trump.

“Don’t ask what the US can do for you, ask what Europe should do for itself,” the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said as the meeting got under way . “Europe must find a balance. We know what we have to do.”

• Liverpool midfielder became a father last month
• Dutchman believes ‘quality player’ will still improve

Arne Slot believes fatherhood may have elevated Curtis Jones’ game this season, but he has told the midfielder he needs to “show up” in every game for Liverpool.

Jones became a father for the first time the week before producing a man-of-the-match performance in Liverpool’s Premier League win over Chelsea . The 23-year-old, named in the England squad for the upcoming Nations League fixtures against Greece and the Republic of Ireland, stood out again in Liverpool’s emphatic Champions League defeat of Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday. Slot rejected the suggestion that he is responsible for Jones’ improvement and claimed contentment in the midfielder’s private life is a more likely explanation before Saturday’s meeting with Aston Villa at Anfield.

New modelling finds risk to global economies much worse than previously thought, but group of central banks says even this may be an underestimate

The physical shocks caused by climate breakdown will hit global economic growth by a third, according to a risk assessment by a network of central banks.

The rise in the estimated hit to the world’s economies as a result of the shocks from flooding, droughts, temperature rises, and mitigating and adapting to extreme weather was the result of new climate modelling published this year.

Instant boom enjoyed by some sectors belies complex decisions to be made on AI, monopolies and social media

When the US election result pushed shares in the artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia to a record high and did the same to the price of bitcoin cryptocurrency, the market gave its verdict on what Trump redux means for at least parts of the technology world – a boom.

Stock in the electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla surged by nearly 15%, which must have cheered its boss, Elon Musk, whom Trump called a “super genius” on Wednesday.

• Men used changing rooms at Ashton Gate ‘double header’
• Women’s teams had to shower at gym away from stadium

Bristol Bears and Saracens women’s rugby union teams changed in offices and had to shower at a nearby gym away from the stadium for their fixture last month – while the men’s teams playing at the same ground that day were given full access to the changing facilities.

While the men’s teams changed in the only set of changing rooms at the Ashton Gate stadium for the “double header” of men’s and women’s fixtures, the women’s sides were in offices in a stand at the ground.

With multiple prequel shows already in production – and George RR Martin showing no signs of finishing his book series – what can a Thrones movie really add to the franchise?

Spoiler alert – discusses ending of Game of Thrones

If we’ve learned anything from the tortuous final episodes of Game of Thrones, it’s that nothing quite unites humanity like collective disappointment. Which begs the question, given the news that Warner Bros is reportedly in the early stages of bringing George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones to the big screen , exactly how much worse could it get than Bran ending up the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and Daenerys deciding, after years of liberating cities and freeing people, that her true passion was crowd control via dragon fire?

Perhaps this new film, of which we know little thus far, will make us forget all the horrors of that final season. Perhaps it will usher Game of Thrones back into the light from the shadows of Jon Snow being packed off tediously to the frozen north and Jaime and Cersei dying boringly under a load of rocks. Maybe there will be dragon fire, steely eyed armies of the undead and maniacal ambition to make Littlefinger’s attempts at machiavellian ladder-climbing look like a Riverrun poetry club debating the merits of sad fish ballads. Or perhaps it will be about Tyrion’s desperate, increasingly drunken quest to uncover the last hidden bottle of Arbor Gold in Westeros.

Farmers’ union to bring 1,800 members to Westminster in protest, but some say mega-rich landowners are the problem

In the next few weeks tractors full of angry farmers could roll through the stately streets of Westminster. They have had enough, they say. The change to inheritance tax in the government’s budget last week was a blow – but it was also the most recent of a long series of blows. This is, apparently, as much as they can take.

Rachel Reeves stirred up anger when she made a surprise announcement at the budget that farmland worth more than £1m would be subject to inheritance tax. Since 1992, agricultural property relief (APR) has meant family farms have been passed down tax-free in a policy intended to bolster food security and keep people on the family land.