Poor Matt Hancock. I don’t envy him having to tell the nation’s baby boomers that they must self-isolate for the foreseeable future. Most 70-plus-year-olds I know are just as much the life and soul of the party as they were 50 years ago – in some cases more so. It’s like asking Patsy and Edina … Read more
When it comes to self-isolation, like most people who voted Leave I have a degree of previous experience. We Brexiteers, especially those of us who inhabit urban areas, are used to life in social Siberia. So I think I’ll be pretty well equipped to handle it. No, the biggest problem is going to be the … Read more
Across America, major broadcasters have cancelled studio audiences, with some even halting production altogether, amid the coronavirus pandemic. And now, The Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5 has become the first British television show to cease having a live studio audience ‘for the time being’, with a spokesperson telling MailOnline that they have made the decision … Read more
Jeremy Vine leads the tributes as Eggheads star Dave Rainford who was famous for being banned from pub quiz machines in Manchester dies Dave Rainford, who found fame as an Egghead quiz master, has died aged 51 Co-star Jeremy Vine confirmed the news, saying he was ‘always fun and sociable’ In 2018 he was forced to step … Read more
Fiona Bruce is almost unique among her generation of high-profile female presenters in that she has never — so she says — succumbed to the temptation of Botox. In an industry where frozen foreheads abound, she remains steadfastly untouched by the needle at 55, even though, as she puts it: ‘If you don’t do it, … Read more
The sordid story of Harvey Weinstein has taught us many unsavoury truths about Hollywood, and about the kind of abuse that lurks behind those million-dollar smiles. Never before have the workings of this tawdry world been laid bare in such excoriating detail. We have been spared nothing, from detailed descriptions of the ex-mogul’s apparently deformed … Read more