Summer House’s Hannah Berner is engaged to boyfriend of eight months Des Bishop

Summer House star Hannah Berner is engaged to her boyfriend of eight months Des Bishop. The 29-year-old podcast host and Bravo star officially said ‘yes’ to the 45-year-old Irish born comedian on Valentine’s Day, revealing more details of the proposal during a conversation with People.  Though the pair only began dating in July, both shared … Read more

BDO darts chief Des Jacklin slammed for nine-hour journey to retrieve World Championship trophy

Darts chief Des Jacklin slammed for Covid-19 lockdown breach after making nine-hour, 430-mile trip from Lincolnshire to South Wales to collect BDO World Championship trophy after police had recovered it from 2020 winner Wayne Warren BDO chairman Des Jacklin wrote in Facebook post he’d made the nine-hour, cross-country journey to pick up World Championship trophy … Read more

In first interview since his death, Des O’Connor’s widow reveals he was battling PARKINSON’s

Jodie Brooke Wilson couldn’t accept what the doctors were saying when they told her two months ago that her brilliant and much-loved husband Des O’Connor had died. He was 88 and in hospital following a fall but, after 30 wondrous years together, she couldn’t imagine a world without him. She still can’t. ‘Des was getting … Read more

Des O’Connor’s singer daughter Kristina, 32, pays heartbreaking tribute

‘Even now daddy can still make me laugh’: Des O’Connor’s singer daughter Kristina, 32, pays heartbreaking tribute to her father and reveals their last moments together Kristina O’Connor, 32, is distraught but overwhelmed by the mass of tributes   She revealed their deeply emotional last moment together where he welled up She said: ‘Even now, … Read more

Des O’Connor helped me as a teenager – I’ve never forgotten that kindness, writes JIMMY TARBUCK 

The best show I ever played was with Des O’Connor, Bruce Forsyth and Ronnie Corbett, the four of us presenting the 100th Royal Variety Show. Des was as excited as me. There was a boyish enthusiasm that never left him. This command performance in 2012 was at the Royal Albert Hall for the first time, … Read more

Des O’Connor became one of Britain’s best loved performers despite his mother’s saying he couldn’t 

What a gift for the headline writers. One evening in December 1980 an argument broke out at Risley Remand Centre in Cheshire.  A few of the prisoners wanted to watch a Panorama documentary on the only TV set in the young offenders’ wing. The rest were insisting on a variety show…Des O’Connor Tonight on BBC2. … Read more

Melanie Sykes leads tribute to her former presenting partner Des O’Connor

Melanie Sykes has led tributes to her former presenting partner Des O’Connor following his death last night aged 88. Sykes and O’Connor, who died in hospital on Saturday after a fall at his home, presented Today With Des And Mel from 2002-2006. She said O’Connor ‘had the softest hands of anyone I ever met and … Read more

Des O’Connor: The all-round entertainer and chat show king whose success spanned decades

Des O’Connor, who has died at the age of 88, was an all-round entertainer whose success spanned decades, appearing as a regular in prime-time television slots.  O’Connor was born in Stepney in London’s East End in 1932 to a Jewish cleaner and an Irish binman. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he was evacuated … Read more

Entertainer Des O’Connor dies at age of 88 

Entertainer Des O’Connor dies ‘peacefully’ in his sleep aged 88 after he was admitted to hospital a week ago following a fall at his home By Henry Martin For Mailonline Published: 09:20 GMT, 15 November 2020 | Updated: 09:32 GMT, 15 November 2020 Des O’Connor has died at the age of 88, his agent has … Read more

Son of one of Dennis Nilsen’s murder victims slams ITV for its ‘garbage’ dark new drama Des

The son of one of Dennis Nilsen’s murder victims has slammed the ITV drama Des, claiming it’s ‘garbage’.  Shane Levene, from London, is the son of Graham Allen, who was strangled to death by Nilsen at his London home in 1982.  He took to social media to criticise three-part drama Des, which recently aired on … Read more