SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in the podcast “Hooked on Freddie,” currently available on Wondery, as well as the real tale it’s based on. Has there ever been a better elevator pitch than “dolphin sex scandal”? On the face of it, Wondery’s new podcast “Hooked on Freddie” is about precisely that. But the six-part series goes deeper, […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When I was a young journalist, my aunt Rozzie gave me two slim books with images of Aegean blue-and-white houses on the covers. Entitled Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus, both were written by Charmian Clift. Inside the former, my aunt wrote […]

"I'd like to just smoke a joint, put on some music, and like, get into pottery. You know what I mean?" Evans says of life in New England with now-wife Alba Baptista While we all know Chris Evans as the beacon of justice that is Captain America, it was a role he initially turned down… and more than once. In […]

DEAR DEIDRE: AN old letter confirmed my suspicions that my husband had cheated with my best friend – and she had tried to stop our wedding. We have been happily married for 35 years. He is 65 and I’m 67. My sister-in-law has just been to Scotland and one of her photos was at a landmark where we’d had our […]

Prime Video and Gaumont (“Intouchables”) are teaming up on an uplifting mother-son drama tackling disability, directed by Ken Scott (“Starbuck”), and starring French actors Leïla Bekhti (“All Your Faces”) and Jonathan Cohen (“Sentinelle”). Scott penned and will be directing the film which is titled “Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan” and is based on Roland Perez’s novel by the same […]

Kate Middleton is ‘not expected’ to join Prince William in Singapore for Earthshot Awards ceremony in November The Duchess of Cambridge is not expected to attend the event in Singapore  READ MORE: Will William and Kate ruffle feathers at the Palace? Prince and Princess of Wales’s bold decision to appoint a CEO may prove a smart move The Princess of Wales […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The years Julie Collins spent as a little girl living in a large public housing estate north of Hobart were some of the most stable in her early life. “I suppose you could say I had a bit of a tumultuous childhood,” she […]

"It was the fact that with people like Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan was that they were all traditional-looking Bonds. All handsome guys, all sexy, all very attractive to women and so forth." It’s nearly impossible to fathom now, but the public and even the director of Casino Royale had their doubts about Daniel Craig playing James Bond […]

MAJOR high street chains are preparing to close some of their stores for good this week. Businesses have come under huge pressure due to higher energy bills, increased labour costs and falling customer demand. It comes as the number of firms falling into insolvency surged to the highest level for 14 years, according to the Insolvency Service. More than 12,000 firms […]

One frosty December day in Finnish Lapland almost 40 years ago, a Soviet missile streaked across the border and landed on the outskirts of Lake Inari. The incident rattled locals’ nerves and set off an international media firestorm, as journalists from across the globe raced to the remote Nordic region. Some speculated that the threat of nuclear annihilation wasn’t off […]