50 h. ago Charlotte Church says she's trying to find her peace after childhood fame

Charlotte Church has admitted that she hopes to 'find peace' now that she runs her own wellness retreat after growing up in the limelight as a singer

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52 h. ago Charlotte Church admits she's trying to 'find peace' and 'reclaim her creativity' after growing up as a child star

The 39-year-old singer turned activist has created a new life for herself in recent years, working as a sound healer on the retreat she owns in rural Wales.

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54 h. ago Loose Women star Denise Welch addresses social media claims she went missing in hot air balloon

A series of social media posts claimed Denise Welch went missing over the weekend

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3 d. ago Love Island star confirms relationship status after weeks of split speculation

Love Island couple Whitney Adebayo' and Lochan Nowacki's relationship has been questioned in recent week, but the reality TV stars took to social media to address their pairing

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3 d. ago Cate Blanchett, Heston Blumenthal, FKA twigs: best original Observer photography

From Heston Blumenthal on the bipolar diagnosis that saved his life to FKA twigs and Charlotte Church on her retreat space in Wales: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in March 2025 Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Vogue Williams breaks silence on Spencer Matthews split rumours with lengthy statement

Vogue Williams has taken to social media to address the ongoing speculation that she and her husband Spencer Matthews have split - and she wasn't holding back one bit

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8 d. ago Charlotte Church was 'sexualised, patronised and ridiculed' during early days of fame

Singer Charlotte Church has opened up about her experience of being in the public eye, and has detailed how she was 'sexualised, patronised and ridiculed' by the press

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9 d. ago Charlotte Church says she was 'sexualised, patronised and ridiculed' before escape to the country

In an interview with the Guardian, the Cardiff singer spoke about living her young life in the limelight, the media attention that followed and her wellbeing rural retreat, The Dreaming, in Powys

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9 d. ago Charlotte Church addresses the media frenzy over her turning 16: ‘The tabloids were always right there’

‘Crazy Chick’ singer said that the media tried to turn her into a ‘caricature: sexualised, patronised, ridiculed’

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9 d. ago ‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother

Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleysWhen Charlotte Church arrives, she starts to cry. “I break down,” she says, “every time I reach here. It’s the first thing I do when I set foot on this soil.” It’s a two-hour drive from her home in Barry to The Dreaming, the retreat centre she opened in 2023, a pilgrimage across Bannau Brycheiniog and into the myth-steeped hills of the Elan Valley in Powys, central Wales. “Two to three weeks,” she’s explaining, icy ground crunching underfoot, “is the longest I can stay away before I start clucking. As I get closer, I feel myself relaxing, a calm coming over me, my nervous system resetting.” That bodily response, she’s sure, is physiological. Tears stream. “This land holds me like nothing else. It feels like coming home; I’m enveloped here.”It’s early Januar...

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1 week ago Golden era of French coaching is over, so who will replace Deschamps?

Forget the days of Wenger and Houllier – there is a worrying lack of French coaches in Europe’s elite leagues these daysWhere have all the coaches gone? French sports media address the theme on a regular basis and with good reason: the country’s football managers are no longer wanted abroad. The days when Arsène Wenger and Gérard Houllier opened the door for Jean Tigana, Rémi Garde, Claude Puel and others to coach in England are long gone. In the 2000s and 2010s, French managers could also find work in La Liga and Serie A, as Philippe Montanier did at Real Sociedad and Rudi Garcia at Roma and Napoli – leaving aside Zinedine Zidane and Didier Deschamps, who could not be really considered expatriates at Real Madrid and Juventus.This is no longer the case and takes particular significance now that Deschamps, whose France side face Croatia in a Nations League quarter-final on Thursday and Sunday, has entered the final straight of his 14-year association with Les Bleus and confirmed he w...

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3 w. ago Update in investigation into deaths of Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa

Sheriff, forensics and health officials will address the media about their findings

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3 w. ago Bernie Sanders has scathing verdict on Trump speech as he leaves Congress midway through

Senator Bernie Sanders was met by the world's media as he departed from Donald Trump's address to Congress early yesterday (March 4), and he had nine scathing words for the US President

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last month Gavin Henson's new life behind the bar: Charlotte Church's rugby star ex once sailed his yacht to Cardiff for a night out but twenty years on he's the landlord of a rural pub with his wife

Twenty years ago he was racking up the caps for Wales during his rugby playing days.

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