Paul Simper

'There was a feeding frenzy for him.'

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…

'It was taken a bit out of context.'

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.

Michaela Strachan reveals that she's '2% Neanderthal'

‘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.’