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    Oct 16

    "Fans or readers, or even critics, who really want to learn more about my life should read my lyrics." In an exclusive extract from his new book, reveals the stories behind the music.

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  2. 14 hours ago

    “Drag is a form of activism,” says Bimini Bon Boulash. “Until it’s fully mainstream and fully accepted by everyone, it’s always going to be political.”

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  3. 15 hours ago

    "Double dates are like a week clubbing in Ibiza or making a fondue at home. You do it once to say you’ve done it. Congratulations! Now you never have to do it again," says .

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    She has been in the public eye for almost three decades — yet for years wouldn’t go to the supermarket alone. We sit down with Elizabeth Hurley.

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    Oct 21

    The best hotels are in the right location, have incredible facilities and are nice-looking to boot. Here’s our pick of the UK’s most stylish hotels.

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  6. Oct 20

    “Non-binary is a new term, but the idea has been around for a long time.” sits down with — non-binary star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and Great Yarmouth’s most fabulous export.

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  7. Oct 20

    "If a woman ever magnanimously offers up an ex or a man she rejected as a romantic interest for you, think very carefully," says .

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  8. Oct 19

    “I’ve been to enough parties to last anyone a lifetime,” says . “Frankly I could stay home and deadhead my roses for ever and it would be fine.”

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  9. Oct 19

    For 50 years the gas boiler has been the mainstay of central heating. Its days, however, are numbered

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  10. Oct 19

    A London private school has started teaching pupils about “white privilege”, with discussion of topics such as how Meghan may have faced more adversity than Kate when joining the royal family

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    Oct 17

    Voting is now open for the Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year awards (in association with Sky Sports). Head to to cast your votes.

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  12. Oct 19

    A scheme that offers a cash incentive to use public transport (or Uber) may be a blueprint for the future

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  13. Oct 18

    “Do I want a f***ing Oscar? Obviously, yes. Let’s be real. But I can’t emotionally and spiritually invest in the need for that to validate me.” Read the full interview here:

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  14. Oct 18

    So what are his future ambitions? The elephant in the room is that he is an Oscar away from being accepted into the exclusive EGOT club (an elite winners’ circle of those who’ve bagged an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) He isn’t holding his breath.

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  15. Oct 18

    "I’m not dragging Harry Styles, but he is the one you’re going to try and use to represent this new conversation? He doesn’t care, he’s just doing it because it’s the thing to do. This is politics for me. This is my life."

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  16. Oct 18

    Asked whether he feels that he has been fully accepted by the fashion community now, and he is in two minds. “I feel like the fashion industry has accepted me because they have to. I’m not necessarily convinced"

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  17. Oct 18

    Several attempts to make it in the music business flopped due to lack of promotional support from his label, and he was repeatedly told he wasn’t “masculine enough” to land leading roles in the theatre or on the screen.

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  18. Oct 18

    Porter’s childhood was marred by bullying and sexual abuse, but despite that he went on to make his Broadway debut aged 21 in Miss Saigon. However, his career went into free fall in the mid-Noughties.

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  19. Oct 18

    When he was a little five-year-old boy growing up in Pittsburgh, and dreaming of stardom, did he ever imagine his career would have ascended to its present heights. “No, because I’m gay,” he says, without hesitation.

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  20. Oct 18

    After years of chasing fame, the actor had almost given up, until an award-winning role in the cult TV series came along. Now he’s also a pop star and a red carpet favourite aged 52 — and yes, he was wearing skirts way before Harry Styles

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  21. Oct 18

    "I created the conversation [about non-binary fashion] and yet Vogue still put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a dress on their cover for the first time." Billy Porter speaks to The Sunday Times

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