Julie Walters has revealed she wants to give up acting, believing the stress of it ’caused her cancer’. The Golden Globe-winning star, 70, who was diagnosed with stage-three bowel cancer while filming The Secret Garden in Yorkshire in 2018, said she doesn’t want to perform again after getting the all-clear. She added that finding out … Read more
He has defied the gloomsters. Now Boris Johnson must hold his nerve, writes SIMON WALTERS By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 22:11 BST, 13 October 2020 | Updated: 22:11 BST, 13 October 2020 The image spoke volumes. At Monday’s dramatic press conference, Boris Johnson was flanked by two of the most influential men … Read more
Boris Johnson and Jamie Oliver have rarely seen eye to eye when it comes to food. Back in 2006, the future prime minister denounced the TV chef’s celebrated campaign to improve school meals. A libertarian at heart, Boris loudly backed the mothers who, disgusted by Jamie’s healthier school dinners, passed junk food to their children … Read more
For days Boris Johnson has been warning that a ‘second wave’ is about to hit Britain. I don’t blame him for the second wave of coronavirus that led him to slow down the easing of Covid lockdown measures. But I do hold him responsible for the second wave of Boris cronies handed peerages yesterday, including … Read more
Can you possibly imagine Margaret Thatcher ever having had to reassure her audience that she was ‘not a Communist’? The Iron Lady, after all, made her name by standing up to Communism wherever she encountered it, whether in the Kremlin or the hard Left British trade unions whose leaders she crushed. Yet Boris Johnson, in … Read more
Of the many outraged voices amid the Black Lives Matter protests, few have been more prominent or persistent than The Guardian newspaper. As statues are torn down and long-established companies take to their corporate knees in apology, the paper and its columnists have been vociferous in calling on Britain and its institutions to acknowledge and … Read more
Top Boy actor Ashley Walters broke down on Sunday evening as he recalled being stabbed by racist thugs while furiously addressing claims that he has not been vocal enough following the brutal death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Racial tensions and rioting have escalated across the United States since footage emerged of a handcuffed Floyd … Read more
British pensioner, 72, becomes oldest person to row 3,000 miles solo across Atlantic… but his world record hangs in the balance after he was blown off course and had to call for help just FIVE MILES from the finish Graham Walters, 72, of Leicestershire, attempted to break solo rowing record Previous cross-Atlantic record is held … Read more
Lying on her hospital bed, awaiting a 14-hour, life-threatening operation, mother-of-four Sarah Berry began a mental checklist. She’d made after-school arrangements for her three youngest children, given her husband recipes for their favourite pasta sauce and, of course, written her will. All essential undertakings, given there was a 50 per cent chance she would not survive … Read more
‘I couldn’t bear the thought of everyone worrying’: Julie Walters reveals she kept cancer battle secret from her daughter By Daily Mail Published: 00:56 BST, 6 April 2020 | Updated: 01:59 BST, 6 April 2020 She fought an 18-month cancer battle away from the public eye. And Dame Julie Walters has now revealed she kept it … Read more