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Robin’s Wish review – sad salute to a master comedian

This warm documentary about Robin Williams reveals how much he was loved by those who knew him

I’ve enjoyed talking to celebrities from my bed. Will I want to do it in person again?

Some of the greatest experiences of my life happened when interviewing famous people face-to-face, but now I’ve discovered the joys of duvet working days

Ian McKellen got his jab – phew. Now brace for a deadly outbreak of celeb smugness

As the vaccination’s famous recipients get younger, one thing’s for sure: the thumbs-up social media photo will get very tiresome very quickly

Breaking point: why Tom Cruise is living a mission impossible

Analysis: A leaked recording of the movie star yelling at crew on his latest blockbuster is not evidence of tyranny, but the extraordinary strain of keeping the huge undertaking afloat

Top bun: Tom Cruise’s cake-mailing habit proves he’s a real Christmas miracle

Rosie O’Donnell, Jimmy Fallon and Graham Norton are just a few of the famous recipients of the ‘Cruise cake’, a white chocolate coconut ring which might as well be a halo

George Clooney: Why we owe our domestic bliss to … Boris Johnson

Row over Parthenon marbles deflected attention from secret courtship with wife Amal, star reveals

Before Carry On typecast her, Barbara Windsor was a brilliant kitchen sink star

Forever remembered as the dolly bird prone to wardrobe malfunctions, the actor was a survivor whose career was forged in groundbreaking 60s realism

Elliot Page: star of Juno and X-Men announces he is transgender

Actor takes aim at transphobic politicians and ‘those with a massive platform who continue to spew hostility’, saying they ‘have blood on [their] hands’

Kebabs by Nicole Kidman? What Ryan Reynolds’ takeover of Wrexham might lead to

As Covid slows movie making in Hollywood to a crawl, perhaps other actors will look to branch out to keep their star alive

Matt Dillon’s still ready to rumble: ‘I have never lived a sheltered life’

He’s played a teen tearaway, a racist cop, a conman and a serial killer. But can he play a cellist? The star talks about his role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s first film since The Favourite – and making a jazz documentary

‘The best-kept secret about Audrey Hepburn is that she was so sad’

Unseen footage in new documentary reveals the private pain that lay behind a public image that came to epitomise grace and beauty

Spat’s entertainment: 10 of the best celebrity feuds

From Bette v Joan to Axl v Kurt, these very public rivalries have featured lyrical disses, scuffles and vindictive cakes

‘She made music jump into 3D’: Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius

She went platinum by plugging Bach into 20th century machines, and was soon working with Stanley Kubrick. But prejudice around her gender transition pushed Wendy Carlos out of sight

The fall of Johnny Depp: how the world’s most beautiful movie star turned very ugly

In the 1990s, he was a different kind of film star – eloquent, artistic and cool. But this week, with the loss of his court case against the Sun, the dream has decisively soured

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