The singer and songwriter Claude Kelly worked with Britney Spears in the early days of her conservatorship on her 2008 comeback album Circus. And now he’s opening up about his working relationship with the 39-year-old pop star on the newest episode of the podcast Behind The Velvet Rope With David Yontef. The 40-year-old singer–songwriter said … Read more
Niall Horan has admitted that he felt like a ‘prisoner’ during One Direction’s heyday as fans prevented the boyband from leaving their hotels and going outside. The Irish singer, 27, soared to fame as one fifth of the group – made up of Harry Styles, 27, Liam Payne, 27, Zayn Malik, 28, and Louis Tomlinson, 29, on The X Factor … Read more
A prisoner who has spent more than two years in solitary confinement since being accused of murdering mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger has insisted he is innocent and begged to be allowed back into the general population. Sean McKinnon, 35, speaking for the first time, insisted he ‘knows nothing’ about who killed the infamous Boston … Read more
A Banksy-inspired artwork has appeared overnight on the walls of a Grade-II listed Victorian jail where Oscar Wilde was famously held. The artwork, which depicts a prisoner attempting to escape over the wall with a typewriter in his hand, has been etched onto the side of HMP Reading. Irish poet Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol … Read more
Katy Perry cried listening to a former prisoner sing his heart out on Sunday’s episode of American Idol. The 36-year-old Grammy winner and new mom grew emotional as Calvin Upshaw, 26, delivered a beautiful, broken rendition of the Calvin Richardson song Falling Out Of Love. Katy has just learned along with viewers that the printer … Read more
Prison officer Liz Cunico can handle all the wolf whistles from sexually frustrated and disrespectful male inmates – they just better not touch her dog Alice. The 27-year-old and her kelpie-border collie cross are part of a new breed in the K9 unit of the New South Wales prison system’s Security Operations Group. Ms Cunico … Read more
Escaped British prisoner, 31, is caught by FRENCH police after trying to run through the Channel Tunnel The 31-year-old was seen going into the tunnel in Folkestone, Kent, a week ago Man, who has not been formally identified, was found by French police today Estimated that the disruption to traffic cost Eurotunnel £45,000 in lost … Read more
‘It’s a horror from which I’ll never escape’: Prisoner star Maggie Kirkpatrick ‘still suffers from PTSD’ after being falsely accused of sexually assaulting a minor Maggie Kirkpatrick, 79, is famous for her role as guard Joan ‘The Freak’ Ferguson in Prisoner She was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl in 1985 In August 2015, … Read more
Australian actress and ‘Prisoner’ star Betty Bobbitt dies at 81 following a ‘major stroke’ By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:58 GMT, 1 December 2020 | Updated: 02:03 GMT, 1 December 2020 Beloved Australian actress Betty Bobbitt has died at the age of 81 following a ‘major stroke’. The actress, who was a … Read more
British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is released by Iran in prisoner swap, two years after she was jailed By Associated Press Published: 15:54 GMT, 25 November 2020 | Updated: 16:18 GMT, 25 November 2020 Iran has freed Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a British-Australian academic who has been detained in Iran for more than two years, in exchange for … Read more