Michael Parkinson News

STUDENTS took on the role of Michael Parkinson to pose burning questions to panto stars.

The inaugural Cheltenham Film Festival has its first celebrity guest. Talk show host Sir Michael Parkinson says he cannot wait for the new festival to make its debut in October next year.

The story of the creation of the Sydney Opera House is just like a dramatic opera, says Ann Toltz, who is guiding me around the striking building that dominates Sydney Harbour.

Katie Price: Standing Out is not quite an autobiography but her personal approach to fashion.

AS DECORATIVE arts curator at the Walker Art Gallery, Sue Lunt was charged with caring for more than 10,000 valuable and highly precious historical pieces.

He's the UK's biggest jazz artist and releases his fifth album The Pursuit, this week.

Michael Parkinson was just like I thought he'd be. We didn't know him and he certainly didn't know us.

THE supernatural has a long history on British television. Many still recall that early episode of Play School when Jemima was hurled across the studio by an irate poltergeist.

Jamie Cullum's height is the least interesting thing about him. Which is why he'd far rather ignore the tabloid obsession with it and talkabout his parents, his love affair with Sophie Dahl and his new album IF YOU were a visitor from outer space charged with finding out what ails mankind, reading tabloid coverage of the romance between jazz ...

Jazz guitarist Roy Sainsbury has joined Besley Hill Town & Country Homes at Whitchurch Village as a negotiator.

AS a teenager, John Fisher practised magic and it was at a magicians' convention in Eastbourne that the 18-year-old John first met Tommy Cooper back in 1963.

The author of book which a oewill benefit every business from Accountancy to Zoologya is talking in Northwood next month.

She may be nearly 10 years her senior but Liz Hurley managed to outshine Kate Moss at a mutual friend's wedding this weekend.

The award-winning Fron Choir is one of the best-known traditional male vocal groups in Britain - and they hope to stay at the top, finds Matt Thomas SINCE the 75-strong Fron Choir burst onto the classical music scene four years ago, they've racked up an impressive tally of achievements.

Michael Parkinson yesterday saluted his friend and hero Keith Waterhouse. The chat show host said he had only just got round to sending him a letter full of praise before his death last Friday.

SIR MICHAEL PARKINSON was gutted when the BBC decreed his family tree was too boring to feature on Who Do You Think You Are? But the chat show host's ancestry is anything but dull, the Sunday Express can reveal.

In the mid-1960s, Simon Dee, who has died at the age of 74, was one of the biggest stars in the country.

Two to one on: Balthazar Fabricius, left, with Ricky Ponting, the Australian cricket captain, and Michael Parkinson, the TV personality at Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire Howzat! Shane Warne departs after being caught by Michael Vaughan off the bowling of Andrew Flintoff during the final Ashes test at the Oval four years ago.

Chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson has been named as the honorary patron of a new festival to be held in Reading.

A Rodley jazz singer who has Jamie Cullum and Michael Parkinson among her fans will perform at a Leeds festival.