Paul Simper

Andrew Ridgley talks the new Wham! documentary, missing George Michael and achieving pop superstardom at 19 (Photo by Pete Still/Redferns)As she watched her 19-year-old son achieve his first pop success alongside his best friend from school, Jennifer Ridgeley sat down at her modest home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, opened a brand new scrapbook and proudly pasted in the first few cuttings about their band – Wham! She was to lovingly curate another 49 scrapbooks in all, and her meticulously neat hand…

He’s the longest standing Goggleboxer

Jo Whiley (Picture: Rex)Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley, 57, on boozing with Bono, caravanning in Cornwall with family and making up with Damon Albarn.Do you have a routine for the start of your weekdays?Usually I take our daughter to school. I get up at seven, make her bacon sandwiches and take them to her in bed. I’m like Mrs Overall. After taking Coco to school, I get myself a coffee and the biggest croissant I can find and wake up slowly. Sometimes I go to the gym, or I run. I’m trying to get myself ba…

An arsonist obsessed with the Three Little Pigs? Yep, sounds like a night out in Plymouth.

‘I’m not a Mamil. I couldn’t handle the attention.’

Poppy O’Toole is smashing the toxic stereotype (Picture: Getty Images)The Poppy Cooks TikTok chef, 28, on serving up ants, fan-girling over Daisy May Cooper, MasterChef and how to deal with toxic workplaces.What was your reaction when you were asked to co-host and judge Young MasterChef? When I get a bit overwhelmed I shut off so I was a bit like [casual], ‘Yeah, OK, great.’ And then after a couple of weeks I was like, ‘Ohmigod this is a really big deal!’ Then it hit me full pelt in the face tha…

‘I was so furious for my gay and LGBT+ friends.’

‘I’ve known her for 21 years and she’s the best human.’

Sam Thompson had an awkward meeting with a TV boss he was pitching to (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)The social media star from Made In Chelsea, 30, on changing nappies, pranks he regrets and why he loves Michael McIntyre. Can you politely explain what FML means in this campaign you are doing with Not On The High Street? Ah, the polite way of saying what FML moments are would be to call them Oh Dear Lord moments. We all have them. It’s a very fun thing to get involved with and my life has been one…

‘He wrote and said he loved our new tracks.’