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Lobster for dinner, anyone? Stars from music, TV and sports share their bizarre Christmas traditions
Stock image of a person putting a bauble onto a Christmas tree
Christmas

Lobster for dinner, anyone? Stars from music, TV and sports share their bizarre Christmas traditions

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: 'It wasn't the easiest thing to be a new mum at 25 making pop music'
Letter To My Younger Self

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: 'It wasn't the easiest thing to be a new mum at 25 making pop music'

Chris McCausland: 'I'd tell my younger self he's going to sit on the same toilets as his heroes'
Letter To My Younger Self

Chris McCausland: 'I'd tell my younger self he's going to sit on the same toilets as his heroes'

Myrrhder on the dancefloor: Who will triumph in the race for Christmas number one in 2024?
Christmas number one

Myrrhder on the dancefloor: Who will triumph in the race for Christmas number one in 2024?

'There's a war against buskers': Inside the crackdown on buskers – and why street artists are at risk
Busking

'There's a war against buskers': Inside the crackdown on buskers – and why street artists are at risk

From megalomaniac rabbits to lessons for young men: These are the best children's books of 2024
Children's books

From megalomaniac rabbits to lessons for young men: These are the best children's books of 2024

Drag star Le Gateau Chocolat: 'As a Black drag queen, I'm political… even when I don't want to be'
Drag

Drag star Le Gateau Chocolat: 'As a Black drag queen, I'm political… even when I don't want to be'

Danny Dyer says people looked at him 'like scum' while he sold the Big Issue in London
Andre Rostant and Danny Dyer selling The Big Issue on Charing Cross Road
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Danny Dyer says people looked at him 'like scum' while he sold the Big Issue in London

How can Netflix top sexy snowman caper Hot Frosty?
Film

How can Netflix top sexy snowman caper Hot Frosty?

Ruth Jones and James Corden: 'Gavin & Stacey finale might not be what you're expecting...'
Gavin & Stacey stars ahead of the final episode
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Ruth Jones and James Corden: 'Gavin & Stacey finale might not be what you're expecting...'

Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo: 'I didn't know where Steven ended and Dynamo began'
Letter To My Younger Self

Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo: 'I didn't know where Steven ended and Dynamo began'

Top 5 weird fiction books, chosen by short story writer Lena Valencia
Books

Top 5 weird fiction books, chosen by short story writer Lena Valencia

Rom-com master Richard Curtis on Christmas, Love Actually and criticism: 'You change with the times'
Christmas

Rom-com master Richard Curtis on Christmas, Love Actually and criticism: 'You change with the times'

James Blunt: 'Nostalgia and misery have been my mainstays for over 20 years'
Music

James Blunt: 'Nostalgia and misery have been my mainstays for over 20 years'

How consumerism and colonialism helped make dogs the pets we know and love today
Dogs

How consumerism and colonialism helped make dogs the pets we know and love today

Grand Theft Hamlet: Why these unemployed actors staged a Shakespeare play inside a video game
Film

Grand Theft Hamlet: Why these unemployed actors staged a Shakespeare play inside a video game

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Rumours review – an absurdist satire of the G7 summit that should make us all a bit afraid
Film

Rumours review – an absurdist satire of the G7 summit that should make us all a bit afraid

Ripcord by Nate Lippens review – acid-tongued meditations on middle-aged homosexuality
Books

Ripcord by Nate Lippens review – acid-tongued meditations on middle-aged homosexuality

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – language pared back almost to the bone
Books

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – language pared back almost to the bone

House of the Spirits author Isabel Allende: 'I have regrets – I hurt my family badly'
Letter To My Younger Self

House of the Spirits author Isabel Allende: 'I have regrets – I hurt my family badly'