'I dislike my nose'
MICHAEL BOLTON is a multiple Grammy Awardwinning singer and songwriter and has sold more than 53 million albums and singles worldwide. Bolton is best known for such hits...
Q&A: Ludovico...
Who inspired you/why did you choose to start playing the piano?When I was growing up my mother played piano at home and she gave me the love for the sound of the piano. I...
Dame Judi, Downton and...
It tells the true story of the remarkable day two fairytales collided; the moment when, at the 1932 opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition, the inspirations behind Alice’s...
The PREMIER HOUSEWIFE
Over the din of a spinning washing machine, Baroness Shephard of Northwold is talking with gusto about Margaret Thatcher. The former Conservative cabinet minister’s new...
ACTING involves fraud
You were gorgeous then,’ I tell Richard Gere. He looks crossly over his glasses. ‘Were?’ he says. ‘Were – and are.’ ‘Thank you,’ he says, mollified. He looks back at a...
The happiest of mothers
As she celebrates Mothering Sunday, actress and chef Lisa Faulkner reveals why adopting a 15-month-old baby named Billie was the best thing she ever did.
IMOGEN STUBBS
What are you working on? I’ve been doing this play, Third Finger, Left Hand, which has taken up a lot of time – there are only two of us in it. I’m also trying to write a...
I refuse to have Botox
What are you working on? I’m promoting my new book, Dear Fiona. It’s a memoir about a 12-year period in my life when I was corresponding with a man who was serving a life...
'Most women look like me'
Dare I say it, but Mary Beard is a lot prettier than the media would have you believe. As we sit down to chat in the offices of The Times Literary Supplement, her face...
Farewell to the Iron Lady
Being powerful, Margaret Thatcher once said, is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Despite her modest origins as the daughter of a...
I would grab my...
What are you working on? My ‘Best Of’ album. It is out at the beginning of May. If you like music from that era, you will love it. When are you at your happiest? At lots of...
‘I must stop saying...
What are you working on? The part of Eva at the Theatre Royal Bath. She’s a German-Jewish fugitive who escapes from Germany on the last boat out of Europe and then meets up...
'Classical music is sexy'
Born to a German father and American mother in 1980, David Garrett studied at the Lubeck Conservatoire and undertook his first major concert with the Hamburg Philharmonic...
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine is in reflective mood. He’s in top form on this day, which is to say relaxed and loquacious. This week he celebrates his 80th birthday, and he seems...
My career has been...
What are you working on? Promoting my new album, Romantique. I will be going on my world tour soon. When were you at your happiest? When my children were born, those were...
LULU KENNEDY-CAIRNS
What are you working on? My new glasses range. There is a cool factor about wearing glasses today. It used to be seen as quite geeky, but geeky is now good. I have just...
Stella's next act
Stella Gonet can pinpoint the moment her passion for acting was ignited. ‘I was about 14 and we were doing a school play of Fiddler On The Roof. From then on, that was all...
'Love is hard to find'
As an example of ageing gracefully while retaining one’s inner youthful glow, the novelist Deborah Moggach can’t be beaten. In her early 60s, and just back from the Jaipur...
'I still think of Caron'
It’s the ninth anniversary of Caron’s death this week, but somebody asked me recently if I still think of my daughter very much. I went: “Are you crazy? I think of her...
JEFFREY ARCHER -...
What are you working on? I have just completed Best Kept Secret, which is the third of five in the Clifton Chronicles series. When are you at your happiest? On the first...
'Too expensive to save’
Chris Packham is not one to pull his punches. We’ve been chatting mere minutes and the stalwart of Springwatch has already condemned the perils of overpopulation, ruminated...
Daily tip from the lady archive
“HEAVEN forbid that we should go back to the days when beauty was under suspicion and plain girls were assumed to have angelic natures.”
The Lady. With Prejudice. 28th April 1938
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