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Jonny Sweet gets our vote

11.08.09
Edinburgh Comedy: Just before his show formally begins, Jonny Sweet glad-hands the audience at the entrance as if he is standing for election.... more

Cannes gets a peak at depraved London

14.05.09
A salacious snapshot of London life in the Sixties is being revealed to at Cannes this week.... more

Minute waltz plays out for radio star and MP Clement Freud

16.04.09
Sir Clement Freud, whose eclectic career as a broadcaster, writer, politician and celebrity chef marked him out as a much-loved British institution, has died at the age of 84... more

How Russell Brand is flirting with his old enemy, self-harm

30.10.08
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Russell Brand ... he’s on TV tonight with a video of a woman who has sex with her pet dog... more

Dudo! It's the new Peruvian poker

28.10.08
It is late in Soho and I am facing down the world dice champion... more

Playwright makes plea on cycle paths

24.10.08
Alan Bennett is backing a campaign to extend cycle paths through all London's Royal Parks after his friend was fined for cycling illegally... more

Should Lloyd’s be listed?

09.09.08
English Heritage believes that Richard Rogers’s City landmark needs protecting — but it was never intended to be a monument.... more

Even when he was kissing me, Warren Beatty could not resist staring at himself in the mirror, by Judy Cook

15.08.08
In the final part of Judy Cook's memoirs about her life among the stars, she reveals how Terence Stamp dumped her for the model of the day and the depths of Warren Beatty's vanity.... more

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, 61, 'runs away with 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress'

11.07.08
The ageing rocker is said to have taken Ekaterina Ivanova to his home in Ireland, leaving his wife Jo behind at the family home in Kingston upon Thames.... more

Christie Brinkley gets to keep her children as she wins divorce battle with cheating husband

10.07.08
The former supermodel gained sole custody of their daughter Sailor, ten, and 13-year-old Jack and agreed to pay her husband £1million for three yachts and several properties.... more

Christie Brinkley divorce battle adjourned for three hour settlement discussions

10.07.08
The bitter divorce battle was briefly adjourned amid rumours that they were close to reaching a settlement.... more

Christie Brinkley's cheating husband 'slept with THIRTY FIVE women'

08.07.08
The divorce case between Christie Brinkley and her fourth husband Peter Cook grew increasingly bitter when it was revealed that her husband had slept with 35 women. ... more

'I haven't had a date in TWO YEARS since my husband's affair,' confesses Christie Brinkley

08.07.08
Christie Brinkley yesterday told a divorce court that she hadn’t been on a single date since discovering her fourth husband was cheating on her with a teenager two years ago.... more

Christie Brinkley seeks comfort in ex Billy Joel as her bitter divorce rages on

07.07.08
She may be in the grip of a bitter divorce, but Christie Brinkley is still on good terms with at least one of her former husbands.... more

Oh, for the days of divorce with dignity

07.07.08
The headlines here recently seem to have all been about sex - and costly, illicit sex at that... more

Downfall of an Uptown girl: How Christie Brinkley was betrayed by her fourth husband's sordid affairs

04.07.08
She's the woman Billy Joel idolised in song. Now a court is hearing how Christie Brinkley was betrayed by her latest husband's sordid affairs... more

My world fell apart after I learned my porn-obsessed husband was having an affair, sobs Brinkley

04.07.08
Christie Brinkley broke down yesterday as she told a court how her pornography obsessed husband cheated on her with a 18-year-old employee.... more

Christie Brinkley: My world fell apart when I discovered my husband's affair

03.07.08
Christie Brinkley broke down in tears yesterday as she told a court how her life 'vanished' on the day she learned her husband was cheating on her with an 18-year-old employee.... more

Divorce showdown for Christie Brinkley as she comes face to face with 21-year-old who stole her husband

02.07.08
Former supermodel Christie Brinkley came face to face with the 21-year-old year old who had an affair with her husband on the opening day of the couple's bitter divorce trial.... more

Olympic stadium unwrapped

06.06.08
Details of the 80,000-capacity Olympic stadium have been produced by Games chiefs... more

Ex-actress who ran the Athenaeum found dead

15.04.08
A society stalwart who ran one of London's best-known hotels for a quarter of a century has been found dead at her new home in South Africa... more

A good look at politics

27.03.08
Jeremy Irons is excellent in Never So Good - a thrilling portrait of a brave, haunted Harold Macmillan, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Double take! The clean-cut young boyo who became ... Ifans the terrible

16.03.08
It is hard to imagine dishevelled Rhys Ifans without his trademark shabby chic style. But here's the Welsh actor looking, it has to be said, rather clean-cut. No lanky punk-rock appearance, no jangling jewellery and no leather jacket. Instead, the star is almost unrecognisable ... more

Rising to the challenge

24.07.07
Peter Capaldi talks to Claire Allfree about his role in acclaimed political satire The Thick Of It and his latest project, a triple bill of absurdist plays.... more

Yearning for the good old days

15.03.07
Playing a man twice his age, Alex Lowe's heavy-jowelled prosthetics recall Roy Hattersley's Spitting Image puppet with better diction.... more

Ecological with the truth

02.01.07
Al Gore uses his skills and clout to try to stop global warming in An Inconvenient Truth, Adrift proves to be one of 2006's finest psychological nail-biters and Crank is Speed without the bus.... more

Something funny's going on in the capital

25.10.06
The Borat movie, starring London's Sacha Baron Cohen, is hailed as one of the most hilarious films in years, while the capital's comedy clubs brim with young talent. We're gagging for it.... more

Have you got the winning script?

22.09.06
Budding comedians are being given the chance to have their sketch performed alongside the likes of Eddie Izzard and Chevy Chase at the return of the Secret Policeman's Ball.... more

Heroin was my friend

03.08.06
Comedy interview: Heroin was once Russell Brand's best friend, but the comedian with the Byronic looks, sprayed-on jeans and vulnerable demeanour has been the year's most talked-about TV celeb. Bruce Dessau meets him.... more

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