4 d. ago Travel nanny for the rich and famous reveals how she was forced to sit in economy 'entertaining the kids' while the parents sat in First Class

Three British travel nannies have opened up about the highs and lows of working for wealthy families around the world - revealing it's not quite the dream role that it may seem. 

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9 d. ago ‘They were so feral’: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman and cast on nose

In the acclaimed new film about boys written off by the system, Murphy drew on his own past as a troublesome schoolboy while Little Simz played a teacher – and wrote a 90s-style banger of a songMonths before the publication of his latest book, Max Porter went on holiday with Cillian Murphy and a mutual friend. “I said, ‘I’ve just finished another novel,’” recalls Porter. “And they said, ‘You’ve only just done one.’ I said, ‘Well, I bang them out fast, then edit them slowly.’” He ended up reading it out aloud, giving them their first glimpse into the “sensejumbled” head of a teen delinquent named Shy, resident of a “shite old mansion converted into a school for badly behaved boys in the middle of bumblefuck nowhere”.Murphy had become close friends with Porter after starring in a stage adaptation of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, his debut novel. It wasn’t that Porter was angling for another collaboration. On the contrary: “I felt it was unadaptable because of it being a kind of we...

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2 w. ago Music tycoon who wrote songs for Taylor Swift died alongside girlfriend and her daughter, 28, in private plane crash

James, 57, his girlfriend Melody Wilson, 59, and her daughter Meryl Maxwell Wilson were aboard the musician's Cirrus SR22T plane when it crashed on Thursday.

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2 w. ago The varied fortunes of Busted: How the band battled addiction, fallouts and health woes as their McFly tour is thrown into chaos

As a three-piece boy band who played their own instruments and wrote their own songs they were a breath of fresh air in a world dominated by bands pedalling cheesy tunes.

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2 w. ago 'I visited Bahamas resort loved by Prince William and Kate – but without a royal budget'

This resort in the Bahamas has been a favourite playground for the rich and famous for years – and it's easy to see why, as our writer discovered

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3 w. ago Classic car in which Paul Weller wrote songs is up for auction

The motor was owned by the star from 1996 to 2014, during which time it became his family's school-run vehicle.

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3 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson hits back at claims that Cotswolds have been ‘taken over’ by celebrities

TV presenter’s Diddy Squat farm and Farmer’s Dog pub are located in the Cotswolds area, which is known to be a popular haven for the rich and famous

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3 w. ago Rick Davies brought a peculiar funk to Supertramp, a band that existed on its own unfashionable terms

The tension between co-founders Roger Hodgson and Davies – who has died aged 81 – was the driving force of a band who refused to fit into any genreIt must be odd to have been a band’s co-founder and joint frontman and to know that when thousands of people came to see you, they did so on condition that not only did you play songs you neither wrote nor sung, but had also initially agreed not to perform. That was what happened to Rick Davies, who formed Supertramp with Roger Hodgson in 1970. Hodgson left the band in 1983 – on the agreement that he took his songs, and Davies took the name. But touring as Supertramp is impossible without The Logical Song or Dreamer or Breakfast in America, and so, to Hodgson’s irritation, Davies played the songs.It was fitting though, because the tension between Davies and Hodgson was very much the driving force of Supertramp. Davies loved jazz and blues, whereas Hodgson was in love with pop. And it was in the combination of their two impulses that Super...

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3 w. ago ‘I wrote songs for the rich and famous and this is what it’s really like’

RuthAnne has penned hits for Britney Spears, Niall Horan and John Legend, and shares her experiences writing some of pop music's biggest bangers.

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4 w. ago Andrea Jenkyns belts out own song in bizarre Reform conference entrance

Dame Andrea Jenkyns walked onstage at the Reform UK conference, belting out a song entitled "Insomniac" that she said she wrote.

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4 w. ago Moment Dame Andrea Jenkyns makes rock star entrance to Reform UK conference in a blue sparkly jumpsuit singing 'I'm an insomniac' song she co

Wearing a sparkly blue jumpsuit, the Reform UK Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire belted out 'I'm an insomniac' to a sell-out crowd at the party's rally in Birmingham today.

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4 w. ago Fashion designer of the rich and famous Giorgio Armani dies aged 91

He was one of the most influential designers of the late 20th century.

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