12 h. ago Stephen Hendry 'devastated' wife after snooker icon left her for actress 19 years younger

Snooker icon Stephen Hendry is one of the greatest players of all time, but his personal life has not been without its difficulties after he ended his marriage for a woman 19 years his junior

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23 h. ago Flintoff's haunting Disney+ documentary lays bare the aftermath of horror Top Gear crash

The cricket legend does not hold back, in this landmark Disney+ documentary, describing his horrific Top Gear crash in detail for the first time, and how his lightning reactions saved his life.

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23 h. ago Andrew Flintoff's wife admits she'd 'never seen someone so scared' after his horror crash and opens up on heartbreaking conversation with their kids before they saw his injuries

Andrew Flintoff's wife has claimed she has 'never seen someone so scared' when she visited her husband in hospital for the first time after his life-altering car crash back in 2022.

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64 h. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Janette Manrara declares 'exciting news' in joint announcement with Aljaz Skorjanec

It comes after the couple shared an emotional look into their life as first-time parents

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3 d. ago Lady Pamela Hicks shares her life lessons as she turns 96: Queen's bridesmaids reveals how she was 'brought up to love everyone'

The aristocrat was pictured at different stages of her life, from the time she was a young girl to serving as a bridesmaid to the late Queen Elizabeth II.

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5 d. ago As a kid I hated Easter because nothing happened – now I treasure its stillness and strange beauty | Paul Daley

The seasonal change brings in me a mellowness and a desire to reflect that feels somehow spiritual, albeit in a secular wayFor Christians, Easter is a remarkable time of new life, of resurrection and spiritual renewal. But those of a more secular persuasion can also find themselves beguiled by the restorative zeitgeist of this celebratory time of year.In the northern hemisphere it’s spring, with its green shoots and brighter light. Down here, deep in the southern hemisphere, the transition is of a gentle autumnal splendour – of softer skies and a flourish of bronze in the deciduous treetops. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago No, you’re not fine just the way you are: time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world

Most working people can be put into one of three categories, from idealistic yet unambitious to greedy and immoral. But there is another option Of all the things wasted in our throwaway times, the greatest is wasted talent. There are millions of people around the world who could help make the world a better place, but don’t. I’m talking about the ones who have got the power to shape their own careers, though you would never know it from their utterly unsurprising résumés. About the talented folks with the world at their feet who nonetheless get stuck in mind-numbing, pointless or just plain harmful jobs.There’s an antidote to that kind of waste, and it’s called moral ambition. Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place. To devote your working life to the great challenges of our time, whether that’s the climate crisis or corruption, gross inequality or the next pandemic. It’s a longing to make a difference – and to build a legacy that truly...

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7 d. ago Freddie Flintoff Top Gear crash seen for first time in Disney+ documentary trailer

Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff's car crash from Top Gear has been seen for the first time in a tell-all documentary about his life - the sportsman was left with facial injuries following the accident.

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8 d. ago Scientists have discovered the formula for the perfect day – and I couldn’t agree more

Social scientists have presented us with a schedule for the ideal day, which includes a specific amount of work, socialising and other activities. Hannah Ewens agrees that it sounds exemplary, but one major thing would have to change for us to be able to follow it

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8 d. ago ‘I hated my body and wanted a different one’: Penn Badgley on dysmorphia, sex scenes and playing a serial killer

He has been starring in the hit Netflix show You, as the psychopath Joe Goldberg, throughout his 30s. As the actor says goodbye to the role, he reflects on celebrity, controversy and masculinityEarly morning in Penn Badgley’s house has the reassuringly normal noisy chaos that comes with a young family. The actor is in his New York home, preparing to talk about murder and manipulation, while listening out for signs that his wife, who is pregnant with twins, needs help getting their four-year-old son out of the door. She does; he excuses himself, and disappears for a few minutes. If Joe Goldberg, the serial killer Badgley portrays on the hit Netflix series You is controlling, devoid of love and unable to form relationships, Badgley appears to have created a life that looks the opposite.His time as Goldberg – the role that has been his highest-profile after his big break on another hit series, Gossip Girl – is about to come to an end. The series’ fifth and final season is about to air,...

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9 d. ago World Cup winner reveals rare genetic condition that leaves doctors wondering 'how he can WALK'

A former World Cup winner has opened up on the impact of a rare genetic condition on his life eleven years after he called time on his heavily decorated career which included a stint at Barcelona.

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1 week ago A new start after 60: I had a breakdown, the old me died – and I cried for the first time in my life

David Williams lost his mother, his marriage fell apart and he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. But it took one more blow to bring him to tearsDavid Williams was 17 when his mother died of cancer. But he didn’t cry when his mum’s friend knocked on the door in the dead of night to give him and his sisters the news. He was the eldest of three, “the adult male” as his father had left years earlier.Instead, he bottled up his feelings and carried on working. Williams, now 61, says: “Something happens to you in that situation that isn’t your choice.” This was 1980, and the family lived on the Lache social housing estate in Chester, which was, he says, “a tough place. Lads didn’t go around crying.”Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60? Continue reading...

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1 week ago Shocking appearance of nuclear engineer 'whose doctor husband tried to kill her' as she's seen for first time

In a tense courtroom moment, 36-year-old nuclear engineer Arielle Konig appeared composed but visibly injured as she faced her husband for the first time since his alleged attempt on her life.

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1 week ago The big picture: Sally Mann captures girls on the cusp of womanhood

For her classic series At Twelve, the American photographer created a collective portrait of adolescent girls, including world-weary Olivia pictured in her yardYou can see a whole world – submerged, waiting, ready to burst forth – in the face of any adolescent girl. In Sally Mann’s At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, she captures this special, unstable time of life. In this image, a plaited-haired girl sits in a chair, head in hand like a world-weary grownup. This is Olivia, “with that ruined prayer in her eyes”, as Mann describes her. In the background, a phalanx of dark trousers hangs from two washing lines that cut across the image and lead our gaze towards her grandmother, who dangles the now-empty plastic laundry basket over one shoulder.“This is just half the day’s laundry,” Mann tells us in a loose narrative that runs through a reissue of the well-known 1988 publication by the artist notorious for capturing girls on the threshold of womanhood with unnerving perspicacity. The...

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1 week ago Manchester Arena bomb terrorist ‘stabs three prison guards & throws hot oil over them’

Bomb plotter Hashem Abedi was convicted of conspiring with his suicide-bomber brother Salman Abedi over the 2017 atrocity, avoided a whole-life order because he was 21 at the time

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1 week ago ELLY BLAKE: A tarot card reading revealed when I'm going to meet the love of my life... it's not any time soon

ELLY BLAKE: I'd been back in the world of dating for a couple of months and the horror stories were piling up. I'd just about given up, until a friend recommended I get a tarot card reading.

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1 week ago Daughter smothered her terminally ill dad to death in 'mercy killing'

The court heard the woman performed "an act of mercy" that only shortened her father's life by "a very short period of time"

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1 week ago Bella Thorne, 27, accuses Mickey Rourke, 72, of 'bruising her genitals' and 'humiliating' her on set as she brands working with 'gross' actor the 'worst experience of her life'

The actress, 27, took to social media on Friday to claim that working with the actor, 72, was 'one of the all time worst experiences of my life' as she detailed their experience together.

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2 w. ago Who are the three 'close friends' in Michael Fabricant's polyamorous set

Michael Fabricant wasted no time in opening up about his varied love life as he discussed his polyamorous lifestyle during Tuesday's episode of Celebrity Big Brother. 

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2 w. ago The squabbling, the vomiting, the freeloading and the noisy sex: my 10 worst house

Across eight homes and 18 housemates, I have endured it all – from the guy who washed his clothes without detergent to the boyfriend who moved in by stealthThe only people I know who speak glowingly about house shares are the ones no longer living in them. When I hear someone describe their house-sharing era as the “best time of my life”, I know they have had at least two years to forget their trauma. That is not a luxury afforded to me – I am living in my eighth house share with my 18th housemate, still holding on to past horrors like they happened yesterday and facing the anxiety they may happen again. So here they are: the 10 worst moments from my many house shares. Continue reading...

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