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  • Croydon Water Palace: RI watery P

    Here’s how you know you need a clearout – when you have a flyer for a water park so old one of the slides is named after Princess Diana. Not sure you’d get many takers for that particular tunnel today. Croydon Water Palace was the No1 place to go in the summer holidays bar none…

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  • Biggest showbiz shocks of the year (the revenge)

    A lot of very important things happened in 2017. Almost none of them are reflected in my Biggest Shocks Of The Year (but the moment Kelly Osbourne wet herself in a Starbucks is examined in some detail…) This article was first published in Star on 19 December 2017.

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  • The crazy try-hard life of Payno

    He’s moody, he’s mean and he’s well on the way to being an embarrassing dad. Meet born-again gangsta Liam Payne – street name: Payno… Don’t mess with Payno. He’s from the streets. Sure, he got famous by singing a Michael Bublé cover to Louis Walsh, but in the wrong hands Michael Bublé covers can take…

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  • Malmaison Oxford: My night in plush prison

    Newspapers are always going on about how prisons these days are like hotels. Well, HMP Oxford is. It was recently converted into a macabre jail-themed Malmaison. As Star’s first (and last) prison correspondent, I can report the porridge was delicious. This article was first published in Star magazine in May 2014. Star-spotting: This place was packed with crims back…

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