Kerry Katona and Katie Price to host Strictly #exclusive

Another hellish assignment. www.thetimes.com/article/b36d...

“Someone told me recently I always play depressed and put-upon people. I think it’s just the structure of my eyes.” @julsmith.bsky.social

I met the still-got-it Pierce Brosnan - he didn't want to talk about Bond (I don't entirely blame him). Nonetheless, I asked. He's keener on Harry Potter. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c6e17f0...

Honour as someone who came of age in the 90s to speak to the woman who was first to reflect the joys and anxieties of my generation of women. The new Bridget Jones film Mad About the Boy is v funny and also - as she enters middle age - v moving. Strongly recommend www.thetimes.com/article/8d89...

Just stick your stupid mail "follow-up" suggestion down your smug tech bro throats @Apple

Hard recommend to #thedoubleact by brilliant @markjagasia.bskyb.social @arcolatheatre.bsykyb.social . Dark, poignant, very funny, thought provoking and full of references to Keith Chegwin and Bobby Ball for the cognoscenti- go!

1,000 academic jobs gone in a week. And that's just the start. Britain - the stupid country.

Please @tfl start fining people who watch TikTok on public transport without headphones. Or at least stick up some posters explaining why it's horrible. Seriously. It's ruining tubes and buses for everyone

Thanks to the Sunday Times and @julsmith.bsky.social for covering my upcoming book, highlighting how antidepressants may well do more harm than good and why the medical establishment has been so reluctant to consider this possibility www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

Do antidepressants work? My interview was Professor Joanna Moncrief in today’s ST mag. Fascinating to learn how ADs have become part of the culture wars. Whether they work or not, we should certainly be aware of the science. www.thetimes.com/article/1a4d...

I met Debbie Harry for @thetimes. Normally I avoid meeting my heroes but at 79 she was even more awesome than I could ever have dreamt www.thetimes.com/article/d67c...

I did a task! I did well! And I chatted to the lovely Taskmaster's "little" Alex Horne, who feels guilty about everything... but shouldn't www.thetimes.com/article/f9a4...

I met Cate Blanchett who told me how her lust-crazed, ineffective German chancellor she plays in Rumours is NOT Angela Merkel. For the Telegraph

RIP Barbara Taylor Bradford I interviewed her years ago at her Connecticut mansion. It was December, freezing and she'd centrally heated her lake so her swans could still swim www.thetimes.com/article/77ce...

Love when you interview someone & the response even from Times readers isn't the usual - "what is this nonsense doing in the paper of record?" but I LOVE so and so. And so it rarely proved with Danny Mays. www.thetimes.com/article/ef8b...

found it very hard to keep it together when I was talking to beautiful and gracious Annabel Croft about the sudden, shocking death of her husband of 39 yrs, the cruelty of some medics and the joy she found from Strictly ❤️ www.thetimes.com/article/4485...

What a modest, funny and inspirational woman Becky Adlington is. We all fell in love with her commentary at the Olympics most didn’t know she’d recently been through the most terrible time having lost her baby Harper. By me @TheTimesSports www.thetimes.com/article/ecb3...

I adore Ian McKellen, he's clever, fun + cool - plus a gay rights' hero. A huge honour to be the 1st journalist to interview him about his fall from the W End stage, to find how his fat suit saved him from worse & how desperate he is to get working (and missing his pub quiz). Get well soon Ian

Fascinating one to write - victim blaming at its finest blhttps://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/chloe-ayling-i-was-kidnapped-but-people-didnt-believe-me-5x7z53ddr

Annie Nightingale was the coolest woman I’ve ever interviewed. Dozens of blond pigtails, fishnets, green dog, glasses, aged 76. Extract

I watched #Ferrari so you don’t have to. A dislikable millionaire, his dull affair, car races that are about as exciting as darts to watch, people being killed nastily but that’s apparently ok because the Ferrari name survives. And US actors with bad Italian accents. Awful

Please go if you can. It only takes about an hour. I went this week and there was hardly anyone there. They're desperate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pains me as a Gen-Xer but having seen Madonna live twice and Taylor’s Eras film - TS EASILY wins. Unlike Madge TS doesn’t constantly tell the audience she’s a legend just demonstrates it. Not ageist, Jagger does the same. Madge promised celebrations but only celebrates herself not her audience.

Like finding a tenner in an old raincoat pocket SO EXCITED to read Nina Stibbe’s #wenttolondontookthedog - all the lolz you’d hope for in 21-century London PLUS the importance of dog-friendly cafes/pubs. Bliss

I spoke to the charming Today prog’s Justin Webb about his fire childhood, the importance of a stiff upper lip, and why we mustn’t be frightened of discussing trans issues www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Saw the much-hyped Saltburn. It’s very funny, looks gorgeous, fabulous acting – then when you analyse it, it totally falls apart, but still… bravo!