Technology brings us closer to the people furtherest away and distances us from those nearest. The words of sci-fi king and film/television whiz J.J. Abrams are echoed by the star of his series Almost Human ."The smartphone is...
Friday, 3 October 2014
Having fat friends makes you greedy
SITTING next to overweight people makes you more likely to gorge on unhealthy food, a study found.
Ryan Bingham: Southern songman
The story of Ryan Bingham somehow manages to combine every image of Texan life you can conjure. Old dudes playing mariachi, pick-up trucks parked up outside a rodeo, the streets of Laredo, open mic nights at Austin bars, hill country,...
In it for the long run! EastEnders' Danny Dyer to sign £400k deal to remain on the Square
HE'S only been on EastEnders less than a year and already Danny Dyer has proven to be hit with TV fans and bosses alike.
Intrepid NZ: Mountains of pluck but no ego
You'd think Intrepid NZ (Wednesdays, 8.35pm, TV One), would be bursting with man talk and show-offery. Two brawny guys pulling off dangerous stunts for the cameras. But this is no Marc and Matthew road trip. Kevin Biggar and Jamie...
Michael Hurst: No holds bard
Michael Hurst turned 57 a few weeks ago. But there was no cake."Sugar is the enemy - Kevin Smith told me that. So I've told everyone: no cake. I've cut all that stuff out, which isn't easy for me. I do have a sweet tooth and I do...
Becks still hits the net, mega net profit, that is...
DAVID Beckham may have hung up his boots last year, but the soccer legend still managed to net himself almost £15million in sponsorship deals.
TV pick: Transparent
Lightbox is adding 10 episodes of new American comedy-drama Transparent to its line-up from Saturday. It stars Jeffrey Tambor - best known as Arrested Development 's patriarch George Bluth - in a role that calls for the description...
'We play naked Twister!': Mel B lifts the lid on her happy marriage to Stephen Belafonte
WHILE most married couples dread the seven-year itch, Mel B has revealed her and her husband Stephen Belafonte still have the spice in their marriage.
Movie Review: Reaching for the moon
Miranda Otto and Gloria Pires as the American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.The lives of the poets have often found themselves at the mercy of that least poetic, most prosaic of genres, the...
'Top Gear' crew flees Argentina after cars stoned
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) The host of the popular BBC television program "Top Gear" and other members of the crew have fled Argentina after being pelted with rocks by people who believed one of their cars had a license plate alluding...
Movie review: The Boxtrolls
A stop-motion animation based on Alan Snow's children's adventure novel Here Be Monsters, The Boxtrolls offers unconventional, witty and heartfelt family entertainment. It's by Laika Studios, who brought us the whimsical and eerie...
Watch: Bradley Cooper takes the lead as a gun wielding marksman in American Sniper
HE'S played the hopeless romantic, the relentless bachelor and now Bradley Cooper has taken the lead as a lethal marksman in Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'.
VIDEO: Listen to Ali Campbell's new album FREE right here
UB40 star Ali has given Express.co.uk an exclusive free preview of his brand new reggae album Silhouette
Jesus in a Swanndri a huge talent
I met Ewen at his first gig at a comedy competition at Cobb & Co in Manukau in 1994. Back in those days South and West didn't get on so well but he managed to make South Aucklanders laugh at themselves.Ewen's style was completely...
The Diary: 'I haven't spent a night alone'
She wants to try and inspire others with a positive attitude, but for Millie Elder-Holmes, whose partner of six years, Connor Morris, was taken from her two months ago, life remains a conflicting daily battle of tears and happy memories."I'm...
She's got talent and, she hopes, the X factor
A 23-year-old Auckland woman hopes she'll be third time lucky when she auditions for Kiwi TV talent show X Factor next weekend.Rachael Adams has unsuccessfully tried out for New Zealand's Got Talent and New Zealand Idol in...
Tribute: Ewen Gilmour 1963 - 2014
The last time I interviewed the comedian Ewen Gilmour, in March 2012, he arrived laughing. He was laughing at me. Oh, that old joke. He'd been laughing at me since 2001, about an interview in which he told me he was retiring from...
2 rare sculptures inspired by goddesses to be sold
NEW YORK (AP) Two rare sculptures inspired by goddesses are among the prized pieces to be sold at Sotheby's impressionist and modern art auction in New York.The works by Alberto Giacometti and Amedeo Modigliani (ah-mah-DAY'-oh...
Whoops! Rachel Riley is left red-faced after 'erection' pops up on Countdown
COUNTDOWN PRESENTER Rachel Riley was left slightly red-faced as the word 'erection' popped up during this week's show.
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