London’s Leicester Square was given a touch of A-list glamour on Monday evening as Jennifer Lawrence attended the UK premiere of new film No Hard Feelings. 

With heavy rainstorms drawing a line under England’s recent heatwave the Oscar-winning actress could be forgiven for treading lightly after a series of high-profile red carpet stumbles. 

Indeed, Jennifer, 32, erred on the side of caution by ditching the heels in favour of flip-flops during a recent public appearance at the Cannes Film Festival in May. 

But the heels were back on as she greeted fans outside Odeon Luxe, where she led the glamour on a night dedicated to her latest box-office offering – a coming-of-age comedy co-starring Matthew Broderick. 

Posing for waiting photographers, Jennifer looked stunning in a semi-sheer black evening gown with a cinched waist and distinctive patterned embellishments.  

She added to the look with a pair of elbow length evening gloves, while a black bra was visible beneath the sleeveless gown as she made her way into the central London venue. 

Jennifer also sported with a glamorous make-up palette, complete with smokey eye and slicked back her long blonde locks into a ponytail. 

She was joined at the star-studded event by co-star Andrew Barth Feldman and the film’s director Gene Stupnitsky.

Both men flanked the stunner in smart suits as they beamed for the cameras and shared a joke. 

Joining the American stars were a whole host of famous British faces including a string of reality stars.

Former Love Island contestant Chyna Mills, 24, showcased her growing baby bump on the red carpet alongside fiancé Neil Jones 40.

She looked gorgeous in a figure-hugging green frock as she loving cradled her belly and beamed alongside her Strictly Come Dancing beau. 

Chyna’s dress featured a one-shoulder detail and she slipped her feet into strappy black heels, before accessorising with dainty gold jewellery.   

MIC’s Kimberley Garner put on a very leggy display in a black skater dress as she arrived at premiere.

The swimwear designer, 32, dressed to impress for the evening as she went braless in a backless halter neck number. 

She turned up the heat by adding inches to her frame in a pair of towering matching pointed toe heels. 

The beauty styled her long blonde tresses in a neat updo leaving two strands to frame her face. 

She flashed her gorgeous smile as she posed on the red carpet with her hands in the pockets of her dress. 

Meanwhile former islander Ellie Spence, 25, sent pulses racing in a plunging sheer black gown with very racy thigh-high split.

The outfit hugged every inch of her jaw-dropping figure with a sheer boned corset leaving very little to the imagination.

Sweeping her blonde hair high into a stylish up do and added height to her frame with a pair of towering heels. 

Elsewhere on the red carpet Dancing On Ice’s Vanessa Bauer, 26, ensured all eyes were on her as she slipped into a plunging red gown for the screening.

Vanessa opted to go braless for the evening, and looked breathtaking as she posed for photographs in the floor-length frock.

As she worked her best angles, the skating pro’s footwear could not be seen, due to the extreme length of her silky dress.

Keeping things simple, Vanessa styled her raven tresses into a sleek low ponytail and went without jewellery save a pair of understated earrings. 

Sophie Hermann, 36, cut an elegant figure in a blue silk mini dress and looked incredible in the stunning number which boasted a dazzling bow on the front.

The Made In Chelsea star toted her belongings around in a miniature which bag which had a matching silver glittering boy on the front. 

Sophie turned up the heat by adding a pair of dazzling eye catching chandelier earrings and applied a flawless palette of makeup. 

The raunchy new comedy, sees Oscar winner Jennifer play a cash-strapped woman trying to seduce a 19-year-old boy for pay.

Her character Maddie finds herself in such dire financial straits that she is on the brink of losing her late mother’s house.

She throws herself on the mercy of a rich pair of New Age ‘helicopter parents’ played by Broadway stars Laura Benanti and Matthew Broderick.

Percy (Andrew Feldman), their geeky teenage son, is about to go to college and has been cosseted his whole life, never breaking the rules.

The couple offers Maddie a car in exchange for a heavyweight favor – she must seduce Percy before he leaves for Princeton.

No Hard Feelings then launches into her increasingly desperate attempts to get Percy into bed, including a nighttime skinny dipping excursion, taking him out to drink underage and even playfully trying to kidnap him.

It comes after Jennifer  opened up about the ways becoming a mother has shifted her plans for the future as the star admitted she didn’t expect to pursue a career in directing any time soon.

The actress welcomed one-year-old son Cy in 2022 with husband Cooke Maroney, 38, and she made it clear that focusing on her family was her top priority in a new interview.

Speaking during an interview on Good Morning America on Monday, the Hunger Games actress explained how her hopes to direct a feature film had changed in recent years.

‘I used to think that [I would direct]. Now I’m just so tired and it just looks so hard,’ she stated.

However, the actress is still working hard in front of the camera and behind the scenes after starring and producing her upcoming comedy.

Reflecting on her experience as a producer, she told GMA host George Stephanopoulos: ‘It’s good. It’s busy but focused and streamlined. I don’t take on anything that I can’t personally read every draft of and give notes on.’

The actress admitted she hadn’t even been planning to get back into acting as soon as she did after giving birth, but the quality of the comedy’s script pushed her to make her Hollywood comeback.

‘I just had a baby and I wasn’t planning on working for a long time,’ she began. ‘But I read the script. It was the funniest thing I had ever read.’

Conventional wisdom says the friendships between adult men are a cold, inhospitable place devoid of nurturing or emotional support. 

But researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia and the University of Westminster in the UK report that changing cultural norms are leading to a rise in ‘bromances’. 

They also say the crisis in loneliness among men has been significantly overblown, despite earning widespread media coverage.

Assumed signs of aggression, like offensive comments and mocking banter, can actually be signs of real closeness, according to sociologist Alex Broom at Sydney and his coauthor Damien Ridge, a practicing psychotherapist at Westminster.   

‘It’s true that men often relate to others differently than women,’ they write. 

‘By focusing on the relative lack of verbal expression to suggest that male friendships are not close,’ they argue, ‘we then do not see how men demonstrate closeness less obviously, in coded ways, or even silently.’

In movies and TV, a quick joke between mates can be seen as a deflection: men avoiding the serious stuff by making light of it. But Broom and Ridge have found that the truth is often the exact opposite. 

They unpacked their theory, after examining peer-reviewed academic literature on male-bonding from the past two decades, in an essay for The Conversation.

They cite in-depth interviews with a sample of 30 Israeli military men, conducted by a behavioral scientist at Tel Aviv University, which found that humor — even insults — were often used to foster a sense of togetherness.

The vets described ‘humorous interactions involving idioms, nicknames, curses, nonsense talk, aggressive gestures, and embraces,’ according to the study, ‘staged publicly under the guise of instrumental action.’ 

But all these unclear messages on duty, according to the researchers, were like a tease designed to engage their fellow servicemen and draw them closer into real friendships.

‘Maybe down the track you might become close enough and then you might start ripping into each other,’ according to one male participant for another study they cited, this one published in the journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity. 

‘I think if people hear you talking like that to other blokes,’ the participant said, ‘then they definitely know you’re good mates.’

Grabbing a beer is a classic excuse for men to open up and express themselves, and the researchers noted it was one of several changes of venue that helped men get their bromantic partners to open up. 

They referenced a study of 15 young Irish males (all between 19–30 years of age) who’d struggled with the loss of close male friend to suicide in the past 5 years. 

‘Lads will only talk when there’s beer on board, you know,’ one subject told the researchers, ‘when the guard is down.’

But the pub wasn’t the only option. In fact, Broom and Ridge found that men could build emotional intimacy everywhere from volunteer organizations to DIY workshops and hobby groups.

‘We believe creating more of these safe zones for young men is key,’ they write. 

John Beckenbach, a program director in counselor education and supervision at Adler University in Chicago, whose work was used by Broom and Ridge, tells the DailyMail.com that academics should be engaging men on these questions directly.

‘I do agree with this article,’ Beckenbach says, ‘but simply creating the space has to deal with the reality that there is a masculine discourse that says, “Don’t do that.”

‘Instead of us deciding what we should be doing for men,’ Beckenbach recommends, ‘ask them. “How would you want to have a space created for you to have this opportunity? What would that look like?”‘

From Beckenbach’s own research, men often second guess their natural instincts on building close friendships, because of their formative experiences with intimacy. 

‘This one blew my mind at the time,’ he told the DailyMail.com, ‘they all learned about intimacy from their moms and their sisters and their first girlfriends. That’s what they say—and they all got the message that they do it wrong.’

For Broom and Ridge, the trend toward greater male intimacy can be attributed, in part, to changing generational attitudes on gender identity and male intimacy, a wider social acceptance of homosexuality. 

But Beckenbach adds that it’s most important to let men bond in their own way. 

‘Any version of trying to improve “bromance,”‘ Beckenbach says, ‘that term makes my eye twitch by the way, has to include the men who you’re trying to influence.’ 

‘You have to include them in the process. They have to have a say.’