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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

Samuel L Jackson: ‘A fullness comes upon me every time I land in Africa’

As their hard-hitting TV show Enslaved comes to an end, the star and his wife LaTanya Richardson talk about roots, race, revolution – and how to get rid of ‘the orange man’

Yippee Ki YAAAy: Bruce Willis plugs Die Hard car batteries

More hard up than Die Hard? It may look like a trailer for John McClane’s next shoot-’em-up caper, but Willis’s action-packed commercial runs out of power fast

Alan Arkin on Hollywood success: ‘I was miserable pretty much all of the time’

In his mid-30s, the actor was living the dream, but was far from happy. As he publishes his memoir Out of My Mind, he talks about turning his life around – and the disgraced guru he pinned his hopes on

Lovecraft Country’s Jonathan Majors: ‘Jim Crow America is literally in my DNA’

He has caused a sensation in HBO’s horror hit. As Marvel supervillainry now beckons, the Texan actor reveals how he went from shoplifting tearaway to hottest young star around

What did Prince listen to in the car? This Instagram account may tell you

OverheardCelebs taps into our desire to hear what stars are like during less glamorous moments

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