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The “naked dress” has killed individuality and fashion

A pop-culture star whose public persona once overshadowed her talent, Pamela Anderson has liberated herself from the burden of caricature, emerging as an acclaimed actress and powerful role model. Lydia Slater meets a woman savouring her second act

Straight-talking, mad about make-up and proud to be an Essex girl, Dame Helen Mirren tells Annie Vischer what it means to be an icon

She’s played Dr Nikki Alexander in BBC drama Silent Witness for the past 21 years, but it’s clear Emilia Fox still loves her “dream role”, which she says fits in comfortably with her role as mother to

Full disclosure: I’ve known Nicky Hambleton-Jones for 25 years. We met at a book club when we were both lonely souls who had just landed in Britpop ’90s London – me from the North East of England and

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