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Barack Obama and his national security team follow bin Laden’s demise (Image: ) Dropped by Black Hawk helicopters, two dozen commandos from the US Navy’s SEAL Team Six forged a deadly path through Osama bin Laden’s fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, shortly after midnight on May 2, 2011. They quickly …

Geoff Deane wrote the screeplay for hit musical Kinky Boots (Image: ) It remains pure sitcom gold. Lesley Joseph as Dorien in Birds Of A Feather performing a hilarious version of Madonna’s hit single Like A Virgin in a karaoke competition – while lying on her back and scissoring her …

The first novel of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling The Hunger Games trilogy has already been a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and is now getting the theatrical treatment. Five-time Tony nominee Conor McPherson, behind plays like Girl From the North Country and The Seafarer, is set to adapt the book for the …

Their vanity, their hubris and their sheer bad taste were displayed for all to see as they travelled around the world by private jet, wrapped in furs and flashing their diamonds. “I have a lust for diamonds,” Taylor once admitted, “that’s almost a disease.” I rediscovered their films – the …

It’s been a few months since George RR Martin gave an update on his progress with The Winds of Winter, which has now been delayed for 12 years In the time since the release of A Dance with Dragons, his latest book in the A Song of Ice Fire series, …

When medic Jonathan Hollins arrived on a remote South Atlantic island, he discovered to his horror his celebrity patient was dying. Old age, dwindling eyesight and a poor diet had left him weak and near to starving. This was no ordinary VIP though. Hollins’ patient was an ancient Seychelles tortoise …

PAST MASTER: Dame Mary at the Colosseum in Rome (Image: PA) Bear with me, but how often do you think about Ancient Rome? I’m only asking because this slightly bizarre question has been doing the rounds on social media after a flurry of viral Tik-Tok videos of women quizzing husbands …

HORROR HEROES: King with Creepshow producer Richard P Rubinstein and director George A Romero (Image: Getty) Here’s a great pub quiz question: which living author has had more of his stories adapted for TV and film than any other? The answer is Stephen King. Master of the macabre, this American …

COURTROOM KING: John Grisham (Image: Getty) The first time Mitch McDeere stepped into the ornate lobby of the Peabody hotel in downtown Memphis, he was two months shy of his 25th birthday. He was a third-year student at Harvard Law and would graduate the following spring number four in his …

Father Ted creator Graham Linehan (Image: PA) The BAFTA winning co-creator of Father Ted who “lost his livelihood, his marriage and many friends’ for his views on trans issues said there are ‘sacred cows’ where celebrities and professionals and journalists fear to tread. Once celebrated by the film and TV …