30 h. ago Kremlin reacts to Trump saying he is 'pi**ed off' with Putin for criticising Zelensky's credibility

It comes shortly after Volodymyr Zelensky implored his American counterpart to 'force Russia into peace', after the Republican admitted he was 'p***ed off' with Putin.

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46 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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48 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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49 h. ago Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – with a little help from John, Paul, George and Ringo

The Guardian journalist’s tender account of how music became a bridge between him and his autistic son, James, is full of wit and wisdomHalfway through Maybe I’m Amazed, there’s a photograph of John Harris’s son, James, with one of his heroes. James is a young-looking 10 in knee-length shorts decorated with stars. Ian Hunter of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople stands beside him, a hand gently around his shoulder. “Sixty-nine years separate them,” Harris writes. “Here is proof of how songs and their creators find fans in the most unlikely of places.”Maybe I’m Amazed is the story of a growing child’s love of music, but it’s more than that: it’s also about how songs provided a whole world for James, and his family, after his autism diagnosis. It marks a departure for Harris, whose previous journalism, aside from his political work for the Guardian, has involved editing magazines and writing columns, reviews and other books about music. Continue reading...

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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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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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2 w. ago Supermodel Karlie Kloss pregnant with third child as she reveals bump

Karlie Kloss has revealed she is expecting her third child with billionaire husband Joshua Kushner as she showed off her growing bump

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2 w. ago Jockey itching for Cheltenham glory – even though he's allergic to horses

EXCLUSIVE: Jockey Sean Bowen discovered he was allergic to horses when he was a child growing up at his family stables in Wales, but he doesn't let it stop his racing career

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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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