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Forget David Beckham. Never mind Sir Steve ‘ooh look at all my medals’ Redgrave. If you want to get serious about hosting an Olympic Games then you have to go for the big guns. And when it comes to Olympics the guns don’t get any …

Tom Jones has revealed that he thought about throwing himself in front of a tube train just before he hit the big time back in the sixties. Not only would have this delayed the commute for other swinging pop stars like Twiggy, it would also …

Poor (channel) Five. It comes across as Channel Four’s idiot brother doing it’s best to imitate and catch up, but not realising that the only reason that anyone gives it any attention at all is out of pity because it was obviously dropped on its …

The Mail began serialising Piers Morgan’s ‘secret diary’ yesterday (couldn’t they have called it something other than a ‘secret diary’ it makes Morgan sound like a nine-year-old schoolgirl), so we thought we’d take a look and see what the broadhseets are saying about the book, …

Wednesday night on Channel 4 and you can’t really miss watching a TV programme with that title – specially when you know it’s not going to be about pantomime Dames or David Beckham’s latest “fashion” statement. The documentary was hosted by Turner Prize winning artist …

Could this be the funniest bit of CCTV footage we’ll never get to see? Yesterday afternoon a “a man in his 20s” violently attacked Madame Tussaud’s ‘controversial’ nativity scene before running off down the road. According to press reports, the enraged young man “charged at …

Question: which major worldwide brand opened a flagship store in central London this month? Answer: Adidas. Maybe not the best scheduling decision the world has ever seen. After all, we don’t recall seeing people queueing days in advance just to catch a glimpse of David …

We haven’t posted much about the Olympic bid recently. Mainly because you can read about it just about everywhere, but also because we’re sick to the back teeth of it. When it gets to the point where they’re using the DLR as a promotional tool …

Don’t worry we’re not going to go all Hello magazine on you. This isn’t about “stunning interiors” and “fabulous hallways”, it’s about the curse of Chelsea football club. First up, Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has had a few ‘connections’ with the west London club, to say …

Back on the Young British Artists ‘tip’, tonight sees the opening of Sam Taylor-Wood’s first solo show in London since 2002. Called simply New Work the exhibition incorporates two self-explanatory photographic projects: Crying Men and Self Portrait Suspended. For the Crying Men series Taylor-Wood visited …