It has taken the artist Damien Hirst 10 years to prepare his new exhibition, which opens in Venice in April, but one of his most recent works is not included — it is hanging in a nearby restaurant. Hirst visited Giovanni Fracassi’s Da Ivo celebrit y restaurant last week and left him a sketch the … Continued
Fans may be dismayed but Wayne Rooney and Joe Hart have been dropped from the Englands quad to make way for new heroes Jamie Vardy, Harry Kane and the injured Danny Welbeck. Well, sortof. The new team is actually made up of lookalikes who appear in a new £5m Mars advert designed to inspire team and … Continued
Jennifer Lopez was beaten to the role of a Colombian drug cartel boss by Catherine Zeta-Jones in a forth coming film because she “doesn’t have the acting quality to pull it off”, its executive producer said. Zeta-Jones, who was born in Swansea, found herself at the centre of a discrimination row when she was cast … Continued
Anyone who thought it was M who gave orders to James Bond may need to reconsider: it is apparently 007’s wife. The actress Rachel Weisz will have a big influence on whether her husband, Daniel Craig, continues in the role because she is concerned about the physical toll that playing the character takes on his … Continued
Dame Helen Mirren prefers browsing the aisles of DIY stores to glitzy Hollywood events and rejected pleas to cash in on famous photographs of her wearing a bikini, according to her screenwriter nephew. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Simon Mirren said: “What Helen loves is going to Home Depot [an American DIY chain], … Continued
He is the hardman of British cinema, known for roles in Scum and Sexy Beast, but Ray Winstone is now so burly that his body double has to wear a fat suit under his armour. The news filtered out from the set of Winstone’s latest venture, the biblical drama Of Kings and Prophets, which is … Continued
If you want to reach the top as a woman in the police, get a house husband. Britain’s most senior female officer has revealed that she was able to getto the summit only because her partner, formerly a police officer too, stayed at home. In her firstinterview, Lynne Owens — who takes over as head … Continued
Her work with the free telephone counselling services ChildLine and The Silver Line has helped millions of vulnerable children and isolated elderly people but now Esther Rantzen has admitted she is suffering from acute loneliness herself. “There is a stigma to admitting you are desperately lonely,” said Rantzen, the TV presenter and campaigner whose husband, … Continued
