Best-selling author Richard Mason's latest hero - dashing, charismatic and sexually ambiguous - sounds a lot like himself. Here he tells Katie Law about his same-sex marriage, being an outsider at Eton and learning to live with bipolar disorder... more
The other day, I bought a pair of tights from the ground floor hosiery department of John Lewis on Oxford Street (bear with me: this gets more interesting. A little)... more
Matt Barr is an old St Anton hand but when he was allowed on set for the making of Chalet Girl, chatting to stars like Bill Nighy, he saw a resort truly living up to the hype ... more
Gossip Girl hunk Ed Westwick drove Westfield wild at the premiere of new British rom-com Chalet Girl, posing for pictures with screaming fans on the red carpet... more
Glee on Monday, Gossip Girl on Wednesday, Skins on Thursday. That's my social-life substitute sorted for the next few weeks: watching characters a decade younger than me bonking, boozing and belting out showtunes on their path towards adulthood... more
The Pierces, sweet-voiced sisters from Alabama, have a new sound that will propel them to stardom — and over the page are five other names to watch out for next year... more
Sales at fashion retailer Mulberry have soared by 79 per cent in its full-price shops in the last 10 weeks, in the latest sign that fears over government austerity measures have had no effect on well-off shoppers... more
Chace Crawford may play a spoilt Manhattan philanderer in Gossip Girl, but in reality he is a chaste, church-going Texan who's on the hunt for true love. Hermione Eyre falls for his Southern charm... more
Abbey Clancy is pictured reclining on a sofa wearing a vest top and skimpy shorts as she promotes her own collection of TV shows to keep "football widows" entertained during the World Cup... more
Poppy Delevingne is a brand ambassador for Chanel, Sienna Miller's flatmate and the toast of New York. Hermione Eyre encounters a rising star...... more
The Plastiscines formed six years ago and within a year they were signed by EMI. Their catchy choruses à la Girls Aloud and thrashy chords soon caught the attention... more
Back before the fall of Lehman Brothers and the global economic collapse, I had a dirty little secret: my weekly addiction to the TV series Gossip Girl, about the absurdly rarefied lives of a fictional group of wealthy New York teenagers. Now ratings for the show are soaring: more than ever, people want cheap escapism. ... more
It is the latest must-see teen drama that has taken America by storm, and it has now hit British TV screens. Gossip Girl, created by the producers of The OC and based on the best-selling novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, is set in the debauched world of over-privileged teenagers from New York's Upper East Side
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