Author: Lucas Bennett

A controversial memoir by Jason Arday was released to the US public today – with no mention of the scandal that has derailed his academic career.Great and Unfortunate Things tells the extraordinary story of how Mr Arday rose to become the University of Cambridge’s youngest ever black professor after overcoming an autism diagnosis at the age of three, being unable to speak until he was 11 and to read or write until he was 18.But its release in the US by publishing giant Simon & Schuster comes just days after the 41-year-old resigned his post at the university amid an…

The Office star, 53, shared on Tuesday that she’d been diagnosed with incurable stage four breast cancer, and she ‘doesn’t know how long she has left’.

Every police chief in the country has urged Andy Burnham to prevent the early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers.In an unprecedented intervention, 50 police leaders – representing every force in the UK – united to condemn Labour’s soft justice reforms, calling on the Prime Minister to scrap plans to set free Jessie Cole, Albert Bowers and thousands of other dangerous prisoners.The National Police Chiefs Council released an extraordinary joint letter from heads of 48 UK police forces, the National Crime Agency and Jersey Police, condemning the plans, warning it ‘risks undermining public safety, victim confidence and wider confidence in…

The daughter of a famed music studio owner is being sued for allegedly squatting in a New York City apartment for years after refusing to pay rent to her landlord.Tracy Rosenthal, the 39-year-old daughter of Steve Rosenthal, has been on a ‘rent strike’ for the last four years after moving back to the city from Los Angeles. Rosenthal claimed during a North Carolina Democratic Socialists meeting that her two-bedroom $2,300 apartment in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was riddled with cockroaches, the New York Post reported. ‘As soon as I moved in, I realized that we had roaches… and I lost my mind,’ she…

By CAROLINE PEACOCK, SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER Published: 17:16, 11 August 2026 | Updated: 20:36, 11 August 2026 Twinnie Lee-Moore has said she’s been ‘crying all night’ after her boyfriend split up with her.The former Hollyoaks star, who played Porsche McQueen, shared the sad news in an emotional video posted on TikTok on Monday.Wearing a baggy blue T-shirt, she said: ‘I’m sorry if I look like s***, I’ve been crying all night because my boyfriend split up with me last night.’Twinnie, 39, explained that her music career as a country artist put a strain on their relationship due to her regular travelling.She said:…

A missing teenager who vanished from her Florida home nearly two weeks ago has been found in New Jersey, following a desperate search and fears from her father that she had been coerced away from the family. Sophia Veronica Cover, 16, had left her home in Naples in the early hours of July 31. She was last seen on haunting surveillance footage with a sweatshirt over her head, fleeing into darkness. Her family issued emotional pleas for the public’s assistance, and the Collier County Sheriff’s Office finally announced on Monday that Sophia had been found safe more than 1,200 miles away. Sophia’s father, Richard…

By LAURA FOX, ASSOCIATE SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR Published: 20:22, 11 August 2026 | Updated: 20:24, 11 August 2026 Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez have married in a civil ceremony in Cascais Portugal.The couple tied the knot in an ‘intimate and private’ ceremony with their five children present, a year after they first got engaged.Ronaldo shared that he and Georgina had tied the knot by sharing a snap of their wedding bands on Instagram.He captioned the post: ‘C❤️G.’A representative for Ronaldo also confirmed news of the union, saying: ‘Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez were married today in a civil ceremony in Cascais,…

Dr Phil McGraw and his wife Robin have pulled back the curtain on the relationship dynamics that have helped them maintain a marriage of half a century.They struck up their romance in 1973, when Phil was a 23-year-old whose first marriage to one Debbie Higgins McCall had just collapsed.Meanwhile, Robin was the 19-year-old school friend of Phil’s little sister Brenda, who invited her home to get ready for a double-date plan that ultimately fizzled.When Robin entered the McGraw household, she was greeted with a brusque: ‘Who are you?’ from Phil – but even during their ostensibly inauspicious first meeting, she…

Jaws: The Revenge icon Lance Guest has delighted fans recently with a slew of public appearances, 39 years after appearing in the panned sequel.Guest, now 66, is best known for playing Michael Brody in the fourth and final Jaws film, which was dubbed among the ‘worst movies of all time.’He also played Jimmy Lloyd in Halloween II and the lead role of an American teenager called Alex Rogan dragged into an interstellar war between space aliens in Nick Castle’s The Last Starfighter.He has also guest-starred on TV shows including Dallas, St. Elsewhere, Knots Landing, The Wonder Years, The X-Files, JAG,…

A hospital worker who prosecutors said wanted child rape to be legalized has been jailed after investigators uncovered some of the most disturbing child sexual abuse material they had ever encountered.Benjamin Naylor, 32, of Deer Park, Ohio, was sentenced Monday to between seven and nine-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing images and videos of children being abused.The former Christ Hospital scheduler pleaded guilty last month to eight counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor and one count of illegally using a minor or impaired person in nudity-oriented material.Some of the material found on…