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Outsider Aravind Adiga wins Booker
First Salman Rushdie failed to make the shortlist (despite being tipped to win). Now a rank outsider, 33-year-old Aravind Adiga (pictured), a first-time
author from India, has beaten off five more seasoned contenders to win this year's £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his novel The White Tiger, which was praised... [continued]
Doughty on attack ahead of Booker prize 
Salman Rushdie misses out on Booker
Rushdie is bookies’ favourite to win this year’s Booker
Mystery over death of Guillaume Depardieu
Mystery surrounds the last days of the French actor Guillaume Depardieu, son of Gerard Depardieu, who, as reported here yesterday, has died at 37 from complications related to
pneumonia. It was initially thought that he had contracted pneumonia at the Raymond Poincare Hospital in Paris where he died.... [continued]
Sean Thomas: Daddy dearest, I did it for you
Madonna and Guy Ritchie to divorce
After months of speculation about the condition of their marriage, a PR representative for the singer Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie confirmed
today that the couple are to divorce after seven-and-a-half years of marriage. Press speculation earlier today was that Madonna, 50, had wanted to wait until... [continued]
Madonna and Guy Ritchie ‘not divorcing’
Madonna and Guy consult divorce lawyers
Madonna gives Guy Ritchie’s new movie support on the red carpet
Downey Jr plays bare-knuckle Sherlock
David Frost annoyed with Nixon film
Being the arch self-promoter and egotist that he is, Sir David Frost (pictured in the 1970s) is relishing being portrayed in the film adaptation of the Peter Morgan play
Frost/Nixon which receives its premiere in London tonight. The only thing to spoil his fun is that, for much of... [continued]
Rain puts dampeners on Sir David Frost’s shindig
Ted Hughes and the Birthday Letters
When Ted Hughes (pictured) published his critically acclaimed poems Birthday Letters, which recorded his relationship with his first wife Sylvia Plath, they were a publishing sensation, selling more than 500,000 copies. At the time critics wondered why he waited so long to examine this most emotional of subjects – Plath,... [continued]
Isabella Rossellini delves into the sex lives of sea creatures
Isabella Rossellini, 56, the actress who has become no less weird with age, has been commissioned by the Sundance Channel to shoot a second batch of the Green Porno (in which she can be seen in photo), a short film series she conceived, wrote, starred in and co-directed. In the... [continued]
Rick Stein attacks Padstow yokels
Rick Stein (pictured), the seafood chef, had better batten down the hatches in Padstow, the quaint west country port where he has built a restaurant and culinary empire (it
is now dubbed "Padstein"). The reason? His decision to go public with a simmering row he has been having with... [continued]
BBC’s John Simpson ‘expects to be sacked’
Fiona Bruce too sexy, say viewers
When Fiona Bruce (pictured) joined the team that presents the BBC's long-running Antiques Roadshow, it was expected she would breathe fresh air into a much-loved if fusty old stalwart of the corporation's schedules. However, dedicated Roadshow followers claim she has "dumbed down" the programme and introduced an unwanted element of... [continued]
In brief: Branagh deserts Jude Law
Kenneth Branagh has pulled out of directing Jude Law (pictured) in his West End production of Hamlet next year at the Donmar Warehouse. The actor has been forced to withdraw due to commitments to a new film based on the Marvel comic book Thor ………. Veteran actor and womaniser... [continued]
