Ruth Langsford made a witty joke about her husband Eamonn Holmes’ weight sending him into fits of giggles on Thursday’s This Morning. TV presenter Eamonn, 61, was discussing how people ‘think he eats a lot’ but that his weight is more to do with not being able to sleep due to chronic back pain. However … Read more
Educating Rita is a witty two-worlds-collide comedy about class differences in education and the possibility of reinventing oneself. VERONICA LEE gives her verdict By Veronica Lee For The Daily Mail Published: 15:30 GMT, 2 November 2020 | Updated: 15:30 GMT, 2 November 2020 Educating Rita (Rose Theatre, Kingston) Verdict: Spirited two-hander Rating: What a joy … Read more
‘My aim in life? Success: fame or even notoriety’: Oscar Wilde’s witty answers to questionnaire while he was still a student at Oxford set to go for £60,000 at auction Writer’s thoughts revealed in Robert Saxon’s 1877 album Mental Photographs It makes up part of a collection being sold by actor and director Steven Berkoff … Read more
The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money And Other People Can’t William Leith Bloomsbury £20 Rating: Books telling you how to get rich quick are every bit as popular as misery memoirs. Perhaps the impulse to read them springs from the same root. It is easy to imagine a couple on deck chairs, the … Read more