“Caroline Phillips is a tenacious and skilful writer with a flair for high quality interviewing and a knack for making things work.”
The designer turned novelist tells how real life has inspired her first foray into fiction. Bella Pollen, once an internationally known fashion designer trading under the name Arabella Pollen, has just published her first novel, All About Men.
After three failed marriages, the time has arrived for Sian Phillips to dote on her cats.
For Joan Bakewell, it has been The Unmentionable. Ever since it was “exposed”, the broadcaster has refused staunchly to discuss her seven-year affair with playwright Harold Pinter.
Richard Ingrams, former editor of Private Eye, looks away as he shakes my hand. He’s imposingly tall and wearing his habitual cords, a jumper full of holes and undone laces.
The poster outside the Brighton theatre shows a tough, tight-lipped guy: Dennis Waterman playing an ex-con in the new thriller, Killing Time. The real Dennis stands in front of his image reading a review, wearing shades, loud check shirt and gold medallions. Dennis in this incarnation is lean and taut with a knuckle-crushing handshake.
If you encountered her as a character in a novel, you’d find her barely credible. “I’ve been stalked, battered, raped, bribed, attacked, kicked and threatened,” the prize winning author Lisa St Aubin de Teran mentions casually.
It’s important to know the etiquette when you greet a baby lion in the bush. A big-boned woman gets down on all floors on the dining room floor. “You’ve got to put your head down,” she demonstrates in a loud American voice, her long blonde hair tumbling to the floor. “Then the lion scrams your hair.”
The enigmatic Sir Jimmy Savile talks for the first time about his quadruple heart by-pass operation.
Everybody’s always rude about me, says Ann Widdecombe, former Prisons Minister, talking on the phone like a brisk schoolmistress. This time she’s in the spotlight over a very public squabble with her former boss, the Tory leadership contender Michael Howard.
After four months of captivity in the jungle, former hostage Daniel Start is coming to terms with life again.
Both feted and hated for his powers, the flamboyant psychic Matthew Manning will today hold a mass hands-on session.
The air is close with the smell of sweaty old feet and unwashed plates. He has stained bedsheets, pillows with red hearts, lopsided posters of…
A survey released last week by motor manufacturer Toyota found that the car has overtaken the breakfast table as a principal family meeting place. The…