Coronation Street spoilers: Craig Tinker in danger as Karl Munro returns?  | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV

Of course, Karl knows he wouldn’t have been caught if it weren’t for Craig and Dev, so they could find history repeating itself if Karl were to lock them in a situation they couldn’t escape from.  Dev is already struggling at the moment after learning his daughter Asha’s (Tanisha Gorey) intimate photos had gone viral.  … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: Coping with lockdown… Rule 1 – Step away from the fridge! 

Top U.S. Mindfulness guru Ann Ziety is the author of Just Relax (2018) and I Said, Just Relax, Weren’t You Listening?'(2019).  Here is our first extract from her forthcoming bestseller, Coping With Lockdown. 07.00am: Grab a pen and paper and copy out this handy timetable for Getting Through The Day. 07.12am: So these past 12 … Read more

Jackie ‘O’ Henderson’s manager tried to ‘get her a deal with Jenny Craig’

Jackie ‘O’ Henderson’s manager tried to ‘get her a deal with Jenny Craig’ after she gained weight… and she was tempted to sign up By Jo Scrimshire For Daily Mail Australia Published: 22:11 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 21 April 2020 Jackie ‘O’ Henderson once came close to signing up as an … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: Sexism 1970s style from… Cosmopolitan magazine!

How times change! I’ve just discovered an article from the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Under the heading ‘What I Want In A Wife’, Cosmo asked: ‘What do Britain’s most eligible bachelors look for in a wife?’ The previous month, the magazine had been published in the UK for the very first time. Back … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: From The Beatles to Wordsworth in three shakes of a lamb’s tail for Macca 

Last week, there were two major cultural anniversaries. Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, William Wordsworth was born.  Fifty years ago, on April 10, 1970, The Beatles split up. Does anything link these two anniversaries? They seem to belong to different worlds and, in many ways, they do.  Yet bizarre though … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: A toupee with a life of its own? Titter ye not! 

Death has its draw­-backs, particularly for those whose toupees survive them.  Recently, an auction house in Bristol sold off a number of items that had once belonged to Peter Wyngarde, the smoothie actor who played the moustachioed detective Jason King in the TV series of the same name.  The lots at the auction included Wyngarde’s … Read more

Craig Brown loves 93-year-old Jan Morris’s beguilingly dotty diary

Thinking Again Jan Morris Faber £16.99 Rating: Back in 2001, Jan Morris, then aged 74, announced that she had just written her final book. Oh yes? By my calculation, she has produced another six books since then – or seven if you include this new one. She has never been a slave to consistency. Whenever … Read more

Quiz EXCLUSIVE: ‘Coughing Major’ Charles Ingram dithers over Craig David question in first look clip

ITV have revealed an exclusive first look clip at their much-anticipated drama based on the infamous Who Wants To Be A Millionaire coughing scandal. The preview features the infamous moment ‘Coughing Major’ Charles Ingram almost blowing the money he banked on a question about pop music, with wife Diana threatening to expose their plan by … Read more

CRAIG BROWN: Is Huw Edwards just the chap to star in YOUR bad novel? 

These are strange times and many people who are otherwise perfectly healthy have started to feel the tell-tale symptoms stirring inside them. They experience the sudden need to get words down on paper. Medical researchers have identified this condition as novo malo, or bad novel. Doctors estimate that bad novels can lie dormant in human … Read more