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Few figures in American crime history pull people in quite like Edmund Kemper — a 6-foot-9 man who helped the FBI understand serial killers from the inside after killing 10 people in California between 1964 and 1973, including his grandparents, his mother, and six young women, before turning himself in (Britannica (encyclopedia entry)). What follows … Read more

When the Manchester Evening News retracted its claim that Bob Vylan had “performed Nazi salutes on stage,” the correction made a second point: the gesture was a sun salutation from the band’s guided stretching routine. The £16,000 damages payout that followed (Stereogum (US music site)) turned a legal victory into a lesson about how quickly … Read more

Ask most people to name a member of The Saturdays and Rochelle Humes rolls off the tongue within seconds, but these days she’s just as recognisable from the This Morning sofa and from the products in her own brand, My Little Coco. Yet the questions people keep asking her aren’t about music or makeup but … Read more

Few livestreamers go from a debut broadcast watched by 40 people to the I’m a Celebrity lineup in five years, but that’s the arc Angry Ginge has been on. The UK-based streamer — real name Morgan Burtwistle — now counts more than 8.6 million combined followers across Twitch, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, according to his … Read more

Anyone who watched Saturday-night TV in the 1980s or 1990s knows Cilla Black as the sequin-dressed host of Blind Date, all warmth and laughter. The woman behind that image — born Priscilla Maria Veronica White, according to the official Cilla Black biography — lived a far more private life. Separating the verified facts from the … Read more

Few politicians leave a party the way Rory Stewart did: expelled by text message, in public, and without apology. The former Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border lost the whip in September 2019 after rebelling against a no-deal Brexit, then turned himself into one of Britain’s best-known political podcasters, and this profile follows his … Read more

A certain kind of actor becomes a familiar face before their name ever registers — Jonathan Howard is one of them, credited in Thor: The Dark World, World War Z, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters. His route runs from British TV to blockbusters to Coronation Street, and the biographical details that still divide the … Read more

Eric Stonestreet’s path from a Kansas speech communication student to a two‑time Emmy winner is less a Hollywood fantasy and more a story of grounded persistence. He was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, and studied at Kansas State University before ABC cast him as Cameron Tucker on Modern Family in 2009, a role … Read more

One photograph can pull a celebrity marriage out of the tabloid pages and into every group chat. That is effectively what happened after the 2025 BRIT Awards, when McFly’s Danny Jones was reported to have kissed former Love Island star Maura Higgins. The reported kiss happened in the early hours after the BRITs after-party on … Read more

Even if you weren’t reading the 1990s gossip pages, you probably remember Tara Palmer-Tomkinson’s name — for a few years she seemed to be everywhere, from London nightclubs to the pages of Tatler. By the time she died in February 2017 at 45, according to BBC News (UK public-service broadcaster), the headlines had shifted from … Read more