A body positivity campaigner has revealed that she ‘vowed’ to diet as an impressionable young teenager after watching the Bridget Jones films, in which Helen Fielding’s character is obsessed with her weight. In a post on Instagram, Alex Light, a blogger and journalist for Hello! Magazine, 31, said the character’s ongoing obsession with being ‘fat’ … Read more
Lockdown could be needlessly prolonged because of the Government’s obsession with bringing the ‘irrelevant’ R value down, MPs and scientists have warned. Ministers are relying on the reproductive ‘R’ figure – the average number of people a coronavirus patient infects – to tell them when it will be safe to unlock the country. Prime Minister … Read more
The perilous attraction of owning exotic pets existed long before the meme-worthy Joe Exotic made his sensational debut on Netflix’s hit show: ‘Tiger King’. Curiously, it would be Tippi Hedren, an actress most famously remembered for her 1963 role in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’- to first put big cats on the map. Tippi Hedren’s lifelong … Read more
Paperboy, 17, with a vampire obsession murdered a 90-year-old woman, ripped out her heart and drank her blood in a bid to become immortal, new documentary reveals By Jack Wright For Mailonline Published: 00:45 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 02:12 BST, 5 April 2020 Matthew Hardman (pictured), then 17, broke into widow Mabel Leyshon’s … Read more
Britons are now chugging 898 million litres of fruit juices and smoothies each year, according to the British Soft Drinks Association (stock image) Walk down any suburban high street and you’ll see at least one slender gym-bunny clutching a brightly coloured fruit juice or smoothie. And these days, it’s not just exercise fiends who enjoy … Read more