1 week ago ‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife‘It’s difficult not to see it as a kind of finale,” says Tim Curry of his memoir, Vagabond. That he’s written it at all is a surprise. Curry has always liked the comfort of privacy – my efforts to persuade him to do an interview with the Guardian began more than five years ago. At 79, he still prefers looking forward, too, which is how he has covered so much ground in his career.Boundless energy has been the actor’s hallmark. He once exerted so much while filming the murder mystery comedy Clue – in which he plays the frantic, sharp-tongued butler Wadsworth – that a nurse who took his blood pressure on set told him he was at risk of having a heart attack.I’ve always tried to make my villains amusing. It gives them a bit more edge Continue rea...

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1 week ago Manchester bomb survivor tells Coronation Street stars about life after injury

Martin Hibbert was among those standing closest to the bomb in the 2017 attack, suffering shrapnel wounds that left him paralysed from the waist down.

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1 week ago Sporty teenager left paralysed from shoulder down after ‘stitch’

Shayne Dawson-Dymond says he is determined not to let his condition ‘get in the way’

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1 week ago BBC DIY SOS viewers in tears as man paralysed in beach accident gets new home

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers were left in tears after a man paralysed in a freak beach accident was given a new home by Nick Knowles and his team

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2 w. ago Teen left paralysed after kayak race determined to get 'back in my boat'

Shayne Dawson-Dymond was partially paralysed from the shoulder down after having ‘seizure-type’ spasms during the race

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2 w. ago Sporty teenager left paralysed from shoulder down after ‘stitch’ while kayaking

Shayne Dawson-Dymond says he is determined not to let his condition ‘get in the way’

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2 w. ago Graham Lee makes heartbreaking admission after horror fall left him paralysed

The Grand National and Ascot Gold Cup-winning jockey, who was paralysed in a fall in 2023 has opened up about his life in a new TV interview

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2 w. ago Togo’s Samuel Asamoah ‘at risk of paraplegia’ after colliding with advertising board

Asamoah broke neck after hitting LED panelMidfielder plays for Guangxi Pingguo in ChinaThe Togo international footballer Samuel Asamoah broke his neck after colliding with a pitch-side advertising board during a domestic fixture in China, with fears he may be left paralysed.Video footage appears to show the 31-year-old being shoved by an opponent during a match on Sunday in China’s second-tier League One as they jostle for the ball, ploughing head-first into an LED advertising panel. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Footballer, 31, breaks neck during match as club say 'high risk of paralysis'

A Togolese international footballer has been left with a 'high-risk' of paralysis after a horrifying collision with an advertising board during a league match

Sport

3 w. ago ‘Happy, healthy’ girl left paralysed from neck down after falling ill

Ivy Amos was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord

Science

4 w. ago Boy, two, is left paralysed in crash after his mother let her cocaine dealer drive her children home

Single mother Shayna Bowman, 29, agreed to let Rhys Farry give her, her two sons and daughter a lift from a football tournament even though she knew he had been drinking and taking drugs.

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4 w. ago Boy, 2, left paralysed after mum let her drug dealer drive kids home

Shayna Bowman, 29, from Wythenshawe, was aware that Rhys Farry, 30, had ingested cocaine and was over the limit when she let him drive her two sons and daughters home from a football tournament

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