It’s a joy watching our favourite singers or actors, but though we might admire them and enjoy the happiness they bring, do we ever give a thought as to how precarious the world of entertainment actua

One day in 1974, actress Prunella Scales travelled to Hyde Park Gardens to visit John Cleese in his flat to discuss a potential role in a new situation comedy called Fawlty Towers. As it happened, Cle

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Kiefer Sutherland stars in this Christmas movie as Hollywood action hero Brad Mack, who thinks he’s coming to Britain to star in a West End Shakespeare production, but finds he’s actually booked to ap

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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