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Swearing: it’s not big and it’s not clever

IF like me you watched last week’s Brit Awards on TV, it makes you wonder if the producers tell the presenters to spice it up during the show like Sharon Osborne tried to do by swearing at Vic Reeves. Read

More tea, Sir Alex?

COMING home from a jaunt can be pretty tedious. We're all guilty of acting tetchy when we've been killing time in airports and falling asleep in uncomfortable seats, then waking up with a severely cricked neck and creased-up face ... Read

Its name is Rio

WHEN you’re jetting off for a cheeky February getaway in exotic South America, the last thing you expect is non-stop rain. Read

What Jeremy Beadle was really all about

I WAS really upset to hear about the death of the television presenter Jeremy Beadle. The sort of pranks that made him famous with Game For A Laugh and Beadle’s About were my favourite type of joke. Read

Watch those sneaky airport rules...

I BOUGHT two diamond-encrusted magnums of Champagne at the airport in Thailand, but when I changed planes at Amsterdam to come to Leeds, they wouldn’t let me take them through the scanning system. Read

Our big night out with the stars

I HAD a great time at a celebrity preview screening of the bombastic new musical blockbuster, Sweeney Todd. Read

Lee Sharpe, his mates and the £225 tipple...

THE ex-footballer turned Celebrity Love Island canoodler, turned ice dancer Lee Sharpe and me go back a long way. Read

Celebs are getting their skates on ...

I ABSOLUTELY adore light entertainment, there’s nothing better than new talent-fests like X Factor and prime-time personalities on Strictly Come Dancing, sequinned up to the max, doing a quick-quick slow with a fixed grin. Read

My book’s out now ... and it’s all for charity

REMEMBER I told you all about a coffee table book of photos of the Leeds Rhinos I was putting together? Well, it’s finally gone on sale today – £12.99 from the club’s website if you’re interested. Read

Spare a thought for those troubled stars

SOME people seem to really relish seeing stars in the gutter, down on their luck – it seems to be a reflection on the sicker side of British society. Read

The night I became Joan Rivers’ toyboy

THE Royal Variety Performance – what a night! It was another mad, magical adventure that ended up with comedy grand dame Joan Rivers clamping herself to my side all night at the after-show party and proclaiming me as her new ‘toyboy’. Read

From secret to celebrity...

I GOT so much recognition from being on Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire, I feel like I’m more famous than most of the z-listers on I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here! Read

They were tough but happy days ...

I GAVE an interview the other day to a journalist working for a new magazine aimed at housing professionals who work at councils and housing associations. Read

I’m now a bona fide star of reality TV!

IF you’ve made plans to go out on Wednesday night, cancel them NOW … or at least set your recordable DVD for the TV programme of the year. Read

Terry George column: Nice big party but no celebs

I WENT to a party in Nottingham, hosted by my Secret Millionaire co-star Chek White. Read

Pricey for Peter down South

I TOOK Peter Grant, the super-smooth crooner, down to my bar, Fibre, for a drink after his sell-out show at Leeds City Varieties. Read

Lights, music and expensive underwear

I GOT a real insight into what life’s like for X Factor stars when I chatted to a few of them at the Leeds Christmas lights switch on. Read

I've met the two Mels but icon Geri's my fave

FIRMLY on my list of things to do at the moment is the task of securing a photographer’s pass for one of the London Spice Girls shows ... which is proving to be easier said than done. Read

Revealed - Russell's inspiration

I READ a newspaper interview with one of my favourite TV writers Russell T Davies, in which he gave exclusive details on a new show he’s planning. Read

New improved Moyles

I CONTINUE to be stunned by the change in motormouth DJ Chris Moyles. The bragging and laddish self-proclaimed ‘saviour of Radio 1’ has matured in to a much more thoughtful and considered chap. Read