‘people think i’m all sweetness and light – i’m harder than stacey’

Alison Steadman is finally getting back on her feet after a nasty fall in January left her wheelchair bound and needing surgery. The 79-year-old Gavin & Stacey star was at a poetry event in Dubai when

T here is a low-level hum that forms the soundtrack to many women’s lives. It’s a conditioning. The silent expectation to be the architect of everyone’s day, managing the moods of daily life. Being th

LITERALLY no jobs come in over the Christmas period,” Jenna said. Lola Everett looked into her sister’s face, which was like her own but six years younger. “But is that true?” she asked. Jenna had a h

It was lovely writing about my childhood in Swansea. When I turned 18, I felt so young – I’d never lived away from home before. My world was so safe and secure and wonderful. But I’d been reading Kenn

From singing sensation to popular presenter, bestselling author to agony aunt, Coleen Nolan has many strings to her bow. But, out of the limelight, she is a working mum whose first priority is her fam

She’s the UK’s bestselling contemporary poet who’s now sold more than a million books. Here Donna Ashworth, 50, talks about overcoming anorexia, finding huge success in later life and why Christmas is her lifeline