Richard Madeley

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Graham Norton: ’When I found out how much the Telegraph paid Boris Johnson... To do a weekly column he’s paid, like, £250,000 a year. So I just thought, No’. Photograph: Christopher Baines/BBC
Graham Norton: When I found out how much the Telegraph paid Boris Johnson, I just thought, No

Graham Norton has said he stopped writing for the Daily Telegraph because its recent “toxic” political stances increasingly made him feel “nauseous”. (...)

This week’s distraction in The Circle: the arrival of daytime TV’s resident sun king, Richard Madeley. Photograph: Channel 4
‘They’re all wearing lederhosen. Brexit has gone more or less as expected’

Since writing about it last week I have started to love Channel 4’s The Circle. Eight people are holed up in flashy apartments in a block much like th(...)

Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions: the four horsefolk of the A-pop-alypse and diminutive chuckle-monkeys Ant and Dec. Photograph: ITV
Patrick Freyne: Britain’s Got Talent is making me want a no-deal Brexit

Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions (Virgin Media One, Saturday), a show featuring winners from various international Got Talent franchises, begins wi(...)

‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestants Brian Conley and Gemma Atkinson in London last year. Ms Atkinson endured sniping from some fans of the show about being supposedly “too masculine” for dancing. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
How strong became the respectable face of skinny for women

“Imagine you’re a Page 3 girl and they’re going for the butt shot,” says Chloe Madeley, helpfully. It is a grey January morning in a gym ne(...)

Keith Chegwin: he played up his persona as a cheeky scouser in Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. Photograph: Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty
Infectious, enthusiastic Swap Shop and Cheggers Plays Pop presenter

Keith Chegwin Born: January 17th, 1957 Died: December 11th, 2017 Keith Chegwin, who has died aged 60 after suffering from the lung disease idiopathic(...)

Vyvien White at the cliff garden he designed on Vico Road, Killiney. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
From the Cote d’Azur to Ireland’s Riviera

Horticulture runs deep in the veins of Vyvian White who, with wife Vivienne, has returned to Ireland after running a successful landscape company in s(...)

Remotely erase text messages with Wiper

The best thing about classic Bond films is the high-tech spy gear. My favourite has always been the top-secret message that came with a self-destruct (...)

Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan started their successful book club when they presented a daytime television programme
Sinn Féin adviser's book deal after impressing Richard & Judy

A senior Sinn Féin economic adviser has secured a two-book crime fiction publishing deal after impressing influential book club hosts Richard and Judy(...)

Heaven knows he’s still miserable now: Morrissey publishing shock (not)

Where will you be Wednesday, October 16th at midnight? Actually, you may not have any choice in the matter, as we’ve already been told we will be trem(...)