Monday, 5 January 2015

Review: Phil Hogan delivers clever psychological thriller

"A Pleasure and a Calling" (Picador), by Phil HoganWilliam Heming is the proverbial quiet man, nondescript, keeping to himself, mastering "the skill of being likable, but not memorable." Yet Heming seethes with self-righteous contempt...


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Benedict Cumberbatch 'RELATED to King Richard III'... who he'll play in new BBC2 drama





A GENEALOGIST has discovered Benedict Cumberbatch and King Richard III are related - with the Sherlock star set to play the former monarch on screen later this year.


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'Real Housewives' star set to make prison her new home

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) " One of New Jersey's reality TV stars is about to exchange her designer threads for prison garb.Teresa Giudice, a cast member of Bravo's "Real Housewives of New Jersey," is scheduled to report to a federal...


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Review: Fishing guide plunges into evildoings in thriller

"River of No Return" (Scribner), by David Riley BertschVivid scenery and a likable protagonist mark the second book in a series by David Riley Bertsch.In "River of No Return," Wyoming fishing guide Jake Trent, a former Department...


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Taraji P. Henson as Cookie at heart of TV's 'Empire'

LOS ANGELES (AP) " 'Taraji P. Henson is driving down an LA street, chatting on her cellphone, when a billboard catches her eye."Hi, me! Hiiii!" she says, smiling at her latest on-screen incarnation: glamorous ex-con Cookie in "Empire,"...


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'I'd go out of my way to protect Belle' Katie Piper 'over worries' about her baby daughter





OVER the last 12 months Katie Piper has welcomed her first child into the world and got engaged, but she had admitted she still can't believe how lucky she has been.


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Make it your resolution to keep a diary





MANY of us start to write a diary but few manage to keep it going yet there is great pleasure in looking back over a journal - a window into the past we would otherwise forget


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Tamzin Outhwaite reveals split from husband Tom Ellis wasn't over 'a one-night stand'





THEY SPLIT in the summer of 2013 and Tamzin Outhwaite has spoken out about her break-up from Miranda actor Tom Ellis.


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Massive Monday is here! Recruitment boss reveals his top job interview tips





MASSIVE MONDAY will see record numbers of Brits chasing new jobs: recruitment boss James Reed gives us an insider's guide to the perfect interview


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Marilyn Monroe announced as the new face of Max Factor - despite being dead for 53 years





THE Hollywood starlet may have died in 1962 but that hasn't stopped the beauty giant appointing her as its new 'global glamour ambassador'


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'A tube of GLUE helped us conceive': Couple have baby girl after seven years of failed IVF





A COUPLE are over the moon after a tube of glue helped them have the healthy baby girl they have always dreamed of


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A Brief History of Eddie Redmayne's style hits





AFTER being named GQ's best dressed man of the year, we round up the The Theory of Everything actor's best looks


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The Theory Of Everything: Stephen Hawking's ex-wife Jane on life with a genius





HER story is dramatised in a new film starring Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne. The script is based on her own memoir Travelling to Infinity


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'I don’t find it painful' Jennifer Aniston opens up about her divorce from Brad Pitt





IT MAY have been ten years since they split, but Jennifer Aniston's divorce from Brad Pitt is still very much the hot topic of conversation.


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What would Len Goodman say? Strictly winner Caroline Flack sunbathes TOPLESS in Jamaica





SHE HAD an extraordinarily busy December with Strictly Come Dancing and splitting from her boyfriend so Caroline Flack is enjoying some well-deserved down time.


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Red hot! Ellie Goulding sizzles in tiny two-piece on private yacht in Miami





SHE'S ALWAYS had a cracking figure and Ellie Goulding flaunted her hot body on a yacht in Miami this weekend.


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Queen Elizabeth II to make state visit to Germany

LONDON (AP) " Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II will make a state visit to Germany in June " the fifth such engagement of her long reign.The monarch will be accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh in the June 24-26 visit, which...


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Claire Richards looks pale and gaunt as she loses even more weight and vows to stay slim





AT HER heaviest she was a size 20, but judging from the latest pictures of Claire Richards, she will never be that size again.


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Celebrity Big Brother 'hire legal team to monitor Katie Hopkins' rants on the show'





SHE hasn't even been confirmed as a contestant on the show yet, but it seems that Celebrity Big Brother bosses are already worrying about Katie Hopkins.


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Laneway headliner Lykkie Li pulls out of festival

Auckland's upcoming Laneway festival has lost one of its headlining acts just weeks before the event.Lykke Li, the Swedish singer-songwriter who was billed as one of the biggest names performing at the January 26 festival, said...


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