34 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Vicky Pattison's life from health diagnosis to family 'battle'

Vicky Pattison is set to make her Strictly Come Dancing debut this weekend, but what do we know about the reality star's life away from the dancefloor?

Society

36 h. ago Blog: Expectations vs Reality: Life as an international student in London

Blog: Expectations vs Reality: Life as an international student in London  University College London

Society

6 d. ago Horrific wasps use other bodies like ‘real life alien movie’ parasites

Imagine your killer 'punches it's way through your chest it makes you tuck it in and cook it dinner', this is the reality of these parastic wasps that trick catipillars into a false life.

Events

8 d. ago Katie Price's boyfriend 'never gonna win' as he talks 'difficult' part of relationship

EXCLUSIVE: JJ Slater opens up on the struggles of fame, admitting he’ll “never win” when it comes to one thing but remains focused on building a life with reality star Katie Price

Politics

1 week ago Obsession review – nasty horror sees a wish for true love go horribly wrong

Toronto film festival: Writer-director Curry Barker follows up $800 YouTube hit Milk & Serial with a frighteningly effective, and head-smashingly gory, cautionary taleThis year’s Sundance saw the real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie play with the grotesque reality of being literally stuck to one another in the body horror Together, a wincingly effective lark that turned codependency into a curse. It didn’t really find its audience upon too-wide release this summer, a campaign that couldn’t succinctly explain the plot or convey a tone that went from horror to comedy and back again.At Toronto, YouTuber turned film-maker Curry Barker’s similarly themed Obsession should be an easier sell when it gets swiftly bought and packaged (it’s entering the festival as a sure-to-be-fought-over sales title). It’s a cleaner, more concise pitch – love spell gone wrong – and its reaction-securing moments of horrible violence even more alarming, a Midnight Madness winner that will probably ...

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1 week ago Danniella Westbrook makes heartbreaking homeless confession as she plans TV return

Danniella Westbrook revealed she once lived in her car and spoke candidly about the heartbreaking chapter of her life, but says she is now eyeing up a reality a TV comeback

Politics

1 week ago When did reality dating shows become as hellish as the real thing?

As the BBC launches its new series ‘Stranded on Honeymoon Island’, Ellie Muir looks at how ‘no distraction’ reality dating shows pander to a societal disappointment with modern romance, but have fallen into the trap of becoming as repetitive and boring as the apps they’re trying to help us escape from

Politics

2 w. ago British student joins US sorority and reveals if it's actually like the movies

A young woman has opened up about her 'hilarious' experience of being the only international student and 'the British girl' in a sorority at a university in the US

Politics

2 w. ago Home Office tells foreign students they will be removed if they overstay visas

About 130,000 to be contacted for first time in response to ‘alarming’ spike in numbers claiming asylum Tens of thousands of foreign students are to be contacted directly by the government and warned that they will be removed from the UK if they overstay their visas.The Home Office has launched the new campaign in response to what it has called an “alarming” spike in the number of international students arriving legally on student visas then claiming asylum when they expire. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Top Wales rugby international starts new life at 31 as harsh reality ends pro career

Former Wales star Steff Evans is embarking on a new career

Politics

3 w. ago Art fraudster Inigo Philbrick's life after jail and reality TV legend wife

Inigo Philbrick, a British-born art dealer, was once hailed as a prodigy of contemporary art dealing. He was later jailed for orchestrating one of the most audacious art frauds in recent memory.

Events

3 w. ago Rio Ferdinand's £7million Dubai bolthole revealed as he moves with wife Kate to lavish seven

The former Manchester United defender, 46, and his reality TV star wife, 34, have packed up their life in Bromley southeast London in exchange for a £6.5million bolthole in Dubai.

Economics

3 w. ago How the Thomas Brothers are the most ambitious showbiz dads in Britain: Stars champion their nepo

The Thomas family have become something of a showbiz dynasty thanks to roles in soap operas, reality TV shows and their ever-growing TikTok showcasing their family life.

Politics

3 w. ago ‘Everyone is coming into fire’: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trump’s assault

The effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight backStudents and faculty heading back to US colleges and universities from summer break are returning to bruised institutions reeling from the Trump administration’s unprecedented campaign to bend higher education to its ideological will, and are bracing for more uncertainty ahead.At the University of Utah, the Black student union has lost its funding and campus space – one of many student groups to face the brunt of Donald Trump’s anti-diversity measures. Indiana’s public universities have cut or merged more than 400 degree programs, about one-fifth of their academic offerings, while scores of other universities have made similar cuts as their budgets are on the line. At Harvard and Columbia, certain forms of criticism of Israel will now be punishable as antisemitism. And across the country, schools will see their international student pop...

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3 w. ago Suranne Jones says Hostage role showed her the brutal reality of political life

The actor leads Netflix’s new political thriller, in which her character Abigail Dalton forms an uneasy alliance with French President Vivienne Toussaint, played by Julie Delpy.

Politics

4 w. ago John Fury fumes 'don't care' as he shuts down Tommy's Christmas request

The verbal tussle between the two comes as reality star and boxer opened up his life to the cameras in his new BBC Three docuseries

Politics