1 hour ago Peter Kay shares 'shameful moment' that pushed him to lose weight

Comedian Peter Kay has opened up about the eye-opening moment which shifted his lifestyle and pushed him to lose weight

Politics

2 h. ago ‘There’s a basic decency among British people’: Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles on how to defeat the far right

Lowles has spent his entire adult life organising against fascism, facing countless threats as a result. He discusses the street confrontations of the 80s, foiling a murder plot, Nazi satanists – and the urgent need for optimism and actionIn 1979, a 10-year-old Nick Lowles saw a hard-right party political broadcast. Born in Hounslow in London, he had moved to Shrewsbury when he was seven: “A very white town. There was a British Movement march soon after we moved up there.” Theirs was a “small-P political household”. His dad was a social worker, his mum worked for various charities. “She was from Mauritius, and now on the telly, the National Front were saying they were going to send people who weren’t born in Britain home in six months. I was petrified that my mum was going to get sent home.” The ambient racism of 70s and 80s Britain permeated everything. “I just remember being scared,” Lowles says. “We used to go on holiday and I tan really easily. I was frightened of coming back to...

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3 h. ago Peter Kay says he spent '48 years' trying to lose weight and shares 'shameful' binge

The comedian opened up about battling with his weight and the incident that made him confront his binge-eating habits

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4 h. ago Peter Kay says he spent first 48 years of his life trying to lose weight: ‘I tried everything’

Comedian said he joined weight loss groups including Slimming World and WeightWatchers

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5 h. ago Peter Kay reveals 'shameful moment' that made him focus on weight loss

Comedian Peter Kay underwent a drastic weight transformation in recent years, with fans left in awe when he stepped out looking noticeably slimmer during a 2023 stand-up performance at the O2

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13 h. ago Peter Kay, 52, reveals 'shameful' moment he realised he had a binge eating problem as he admits he spent 'the first 48 years of his life' trying to lose weight

Peter Kay has said he spent the 'first 48 years of his life' trying to lose weight as he spoke in a rare personal interview on Monday.

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28 h. ago 'I spent six years metal detecting and couldn't believe my luck after what I found'

A man who's spent the last six years of his life looking for anything exciting with his metal detector couldn't believe his eyes when he stumbled on his first bit of treasure

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29 h. ago A new start after 60: I’d spent five decades travelling. Then I fell in love, got married and finally found a home

Grady Harris spent his young life hitchhiking, working various jobs and playing in a band. When he met his future wife, he found his ‘bulwark’ and has never looked backOn Grady Harris’s wedding day, his father, a Presbyterian preacher, presided over the vows. “And when my father told us to kiss, and we did, I felt a sense of joy that I’d never felt before,” Harris says. “I’ve had a life full of happiness But that was a new joy.”Harris was 60, and marrying for the first time. Now 69, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Marcia Wood, 66, who has an art gallery in the city. At times, their relationship must have seemed unlikely – 12 years separated their first and second dates, and they met by chance through a long chain of friends of friends. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Wegovy jabs at a higher dose help people lose a quarter of their body weight

A new study suggests higher doses of popular weight loss jabs are ‘safe’ and could be offered soon to help people shed more pounds

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47 h. ago From junkie to judge – how woman went from breaking the law to upholding it

EXCLUSIVE: Mary Beth O’Connor went through hell during her childhood and was only 16 when she turned to drugs - she spent 10 years on meth before deciding to turn her life around

Events

50 h. ago ‘I’ve spent a lot of my adult life trying to prove myself’: Mawaan Rizwan on his long journey from shopping centre performer to Bafta

He’s the star and creator of the BBC hit Juice, but life has thrown him a few curveballs along the way. He opens up about his years of hard graft, his mum’s big acting break, and why things are getting weird with his therapistI don’t know if I’ve even really celebrated it to be honest, man.” Sitting in a north London bar on a boiling hot evening, resplendent in a matching silk shirt and shorts combo, Mawaan Rizwan is contemplating his life post-Bafta. In May last year, he won best male comedy performance for Juice, his gloriously surrealist BBC series in which he stars as Jamma, a clownish manchild with a bowl cut navigating a chaotic life alongside his dysfunctional family and buttoned-up older boyfriend.In the end, after a few sips of his negroni, Rizwan – whose CV also includes appearances on Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo and Doctor Who, plus a slew of comedy songs about racism, toxic masculinity and skiing’s lack of socioeconomic diversity – pinpoints one way his life has ...

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2 d. ago Man who spent £3k on fillers totally unrecognisable after having them dissolved

I had my first filler at 17 and by 18 I was addicted. Every couple of weeks, I would get it

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3 d. ago 'I spent six months in hospital after pouring a chip pan of boiling oil over myself'

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Kennedy lost everything when his life changed overnight after a horror accident left him in a hospital bed for months on end and living on a knife edge

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3 d. ago 'I’ve spent £1m on my body but giving up one thing was my greatest makeover by far'

EXCLUSIVE: Klara Lima's million-pound body turns heads but the 34-year-old insists that giving up alcohol has been the ultimate glow-up thanks to her discipline, vision, and self-love

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3 d. ago Can you REALLY lose weight on Mounjaro and avoid loose skin? We asked the experts

Those using weight-loss jabs may be more likely to develop loose skin, experts have said.

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4 d. ago Terence Crawford: from a bullet’s glancing blow to boxing’s biggest stage

From an Omaha gym to a Las Vegas stadium, Terence Crawford has built a career solving problems others can’t. Now he must out-think size, history and Canelo ÁlvarezTerence ‘Bud’ Crawford, America’s finest boxer since Floyd Mayweather Jr, has spent his life closing the distance between the improbable and the inevitable. He was the kid from North Omaha who survived a bullet to the head and poured himself into neighborhood gym. He was the stubborn amateur who missed the Olympics but kept showing up in dingy basements until the craft became second nature. He was the icy technician and ruthless finisher, denied opportunities against name-brand fighters for most of his career, who unified the fractured world championship at 140lb, then did it again at 147 by dismantling Errol Spence Jr so comprehensively that it felt like a curtain being ripped back. Here, at last, was the full measure of the quiet man’s design.Now, at 37, undefeated in 41 professional fights with 31 wins by knockout, he’s...

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4 d. ago Fitness influencer shares 11 Aldi products that helped her drop 20lbs

A fitness coach has shared the foods she buys from Aldi that have helped her lose weight and she's given fans a 'skip in their step' with her recommendations

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5 d. ago 'I lost 5st naturally and wish I knew 3 things before I started my journey'

A woman who lost 5st through a calorie deficit has shared three tips she wished she knew when she started her journey, in the hopes that it might help others lose weight

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5 d. ago 'Family tragedy and house fire led me to lose more than half my body weight'

Mum Sharon Pitkethly, 54, weighed almost 27 stone at her heaviest

Society

6 d. ago Doctor recommends 'forgotten' 10p superfood that keeps you 'full for hours'

People who are keen to lose weight and boost their health, one superfood could help

Society