The BBC's new reality show, The School of Saatchi, will do for aspiring artists what the X Factor does for budding pop stars.
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As Westminster fumes over the leaked details of Sir Christopher Kelly's report on MPs' expenses, one family fully appreciates already the perils of employing wives and children at the House of Commons. Remember the Conways?
Success may have limited her lifestyle but Alexandra Burke, suddenly No1 in the charts, is proud to have overcome so much on her rise to fame
Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist is now the most powerful figure in international art. Fortunately, as he tells Alison Roberts, he considers the artists to be more important
Jack Dee talks about his trademark glum expression, nearly going mad, almost becoming a vicar and how he beat his drink problem.
Helen Hamlyn talks about reviving her late husband’s scheme to make the Royal Opera House affordable for first-timers.
As Jasper Conran joins the family business he speaks out on body shape, his own eating disorders, Victoria Beckham and why Elton would make a great dad
Are you sitting comfortably? Well, don’t take it for granted. Even London’s cosiest middle classes can be reduced to low life at a stroke, according to William Boyd in his latest novel. Here he expands on this and other themes
After enduring years of humiliation by her mother for being ‘ugly’, Constance Briscoe had her first cosmetic operation at 20. Now, she says, surgery is essential to her happiness
David Bailey recently spent a night taking pictures of ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things in the East End with a camera phone
At her Kentish Town studio, the Portuguese-born painter, the subject of a searching new film by her friend Jake Auerbach, talks candidly about her troubled life, her extraordinary art — and her fear of insanity
Tom Parker Bowles - food writer, son of the Duchess of Cornwall, stepson of Prince Charles - grew up, rather surprisingly, on Findus beef burgers
Seven-year-old Jack Brown finally lost his battle with cancer in May. Here his grieving parents salute the boy who would not give in
It was only when PR Sara Campbell fled to Egypt that she found she was 'part fish'. Here she tells Alison Roberts about becoming the women's freedive champion
When Farah Damji, notorious conwoman and serial mistress, decided to write a memoir, she spared no one's blushes. But how much of it is true?
She’s ditched her car, given up flying, flushes the loo with rainwater and keeps chickens on the roof . . . This is the reformed It Girl It Girl who’s going carbon-neutral in Chelsea
On the eve of their new show, the eccentric artists talk about Union Jacks, dangerous literature and the Take That Christmas annual.
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