‘people feel as if i’m one of their family members. it’s such a great feeling of love’

The TV presenter and novelist, who turns 68 this month, on weight loss, her unusual way with words, and why she has fallen in love with going to church

The popular presenter’s former agent hits out with a withering put down

Music is in Cat Bateman’s DNA. With a dad who was a guitarist and singer, and a childhood that’s reminiscent of The Partridge Family, she can’t remember a time when she wasn’t belting out a tune. “On

Stephanie Beacham has been nominated for her portrayal of one woman’s descent into dementia. Here, she tells Ed-in-Chief Siobhan Wykes why we all just need to seize the day…

‘STANDING OUT AT school, I thought, ‘Well, you can either be different and then be scared and intimidated, or you can go, well, I don’t want to be the same as you anyway and take control of it.’” It’s

‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi