‘it was like the worst thing in the world happened… and everything i’d ever dreamed of’

At 16, I was doing my first year of A levels at a minor public school in Oxfordshire. I’d done pretty well in my GCSEs – I got one ‘B’, which disappointed me, but it was biology and I don’t feel it’s

After her surgery to remove a brain tumour last year, Davina McCall is approaching life with more confidence and purpose than ever before. She tells Saska Graville about facing her fear of death and why finally, at 57, she believes in herself

“The only direction Britney gave me was that she wanted to die in the video,” said fashion photographer David LaChapelle of the instructions he received for his video of her 2003 single “Everytime”. R

DIANA VICKERS

THANKS TO HER ANTHEMIC AND VIRAL HIT ‘MESSY’, THE MUSICIAN IS ONE OF THE MOST DOWNLOADED WOMEN ON THE PLANET TODAY. SHE TELLS NICOLA FAHEY WHY SHE’LL ALWAYS FIND JOY – AND VULNERABILITY – THROUGH MUSIC

MY CHILDHOOD WAS split between Jordan, where I was born and raised until I was nine, and Hertfordshire, where I continued my studies as a teenager. I would say that both places had a profound effect o