Mica Paris has no plans to fade into the background — even if her last role in EastEnders technically left her behind bars. “EastEnders was a while ago now,” she laughs. “Would I ever go back? Well, I

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

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Nicole was born in Honolulu in 1967 and raised in Sydney by nurse-educator Janelle and psychologist Antony Kidman. She treasured the upbringing she was afforded and was devastated by the loss of her p

Nigella has faced personal loss, illness and heartbreak from an early age – but never hidden how much it hurts. She’s spoken openly about the grief of losing loved ones too young, including her mother