Opinion

I can’t deny that it would offer another moment of grim hilarity were Lochte to stumble bro-tastically through a Woods-style presidential press conference in which he explains he had some compulsion or other that he plans to explore with the help of trained experts. It’s like Chazz Michael Michaels explains in the world cinema classic Blades of Glory: it’s a real disease, with doctors and medicine and everything. But I think we all know the sub-clinical reality is that Ryan’s just a big entitled idiotic baby. … [Read more...] about Ryan Lochte: an Olympic tale of gold medals and white privilege

I burned a carpet in a hotel in Israel when I was 13 because I was smoking. It wasn’t even weed. It was tobacco. From a hookah! It was about the silliest act of rebellion one could imagine, but I still tried to pretend like it didn’t happen. I swore that I didn’t do anything, that I was God’s special little angel on a mission to say please and thank you to everyone I came across. … [Read more...] about I get it, Ryan Lochte. I don’t want my mom to know what I’ve done, either

But Stuart was just as keen to start a family as Zoe: "I told her she should have a back-up and keep investigating her options but at the same time I said I believed it would work out between us and, if it did, I would love to have children with her." … [Read more...] about This Morning’s Dr Zoe Williams, 40, is pregnant after fearing she would never become a mum

"I said the other day that he wasn't at the top of the leaderboard because that's a no-no for a dancer," he said. "As a dancer you know how to stand ... even lifting his partner, he's been doing it for years." … [Read more...] about Strictly star Brendan Cole blasts ‘nasty’ Jason Gardiner after Gemma Collins row