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If you like piña coladas, you're not much into health food, and you're really into champagne, your next vacation could be a flat-belly nightmare. While vacations are usually a much-needed, well-deserved break from life at work and home and you may feel you have to treat yourself, the free-spirited high…
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Becoming a mom for the first time is never anything close to easy, but for Khloé Kardashian, it's been especially hard. Bringing baby True into the world the shadow of intense public scrutiny, the 33-year-old has also had to deal with issues of infidelity from baby daddy Tristan Thompson, and…
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If you're lucky enough to be on the guest list for a royal event, you'd be pretty justified in thinking that it would be off the chain. With so many socialites, celebrities and literal royalty present, every wedding or birthday bash from any one of our various princes, princesses and…
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Although I try to resist, protesting that I'm on a diet and that I will not be tempted, the longest I've gone without McDonald's so far in 2018 is a paltry 11 days. I went travelling in Dublin, Lisbon and... uh, Manchester, and at all three of these locations, delicious…
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At this moment in time - June, July or even August of 2018 - is there anybody who gets tongues a-wagging quite like Meghan Markle? I would say definitively not. I mean, there have been pretenders to that throne, and there have been mitigating circumstances thanks to her lavish and…
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While I haven't got any children of my own as yet, I can still recognise the main objective of parenting is to mould your screaming mess of an offspring into something society can accept and assimilate as one of its own. This usually involves teaching your son or daughter right…
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If you could have absolutely anything as your last meal on this mortal plane, what would it be? Personally, as a non-meat-eater, I think I'd go for the best lab-grown steak money could buy, accompanied by an uncomfortably large portion of fries and onion rings (all smothered in cheese and…
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Although a lot of people these days dream of being famous, I don't know if I'd want to be a celebrity in the age of social media. Just by stepping out of your home, as a celebrity, you're constantly mobbed by fans wanting a selfie or a choice quote, and…
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As June turns to July and we can start to look ahead to Wimbledon and Independence Day (depending on where you are), summer is in full flow. Summertime means many different things for different people, but for me, there's nothing that says 'summer' more than slapping some meat on the…
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Although the vast majority of us would probably swap lives with him in a heartbeat, it can't be easy being Prince Charles. Yes, you're the heir to the English throne and have one of the most recognisable faces in the country if not the world, but you're under constant pressure…
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Every time the World Cup rolls around and I get caught up in all the goals, drama and festivities, I wonder how I ever managed to survive four years without it. As the world's most popular sport, the past three weeks or so have seen the world gripped with World…
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I know you'd all be really excited to have dinner with the Royal Family, and in theory it sounds like a great time. But for me, I don't know if I could handle the pressure of sitting down to have a meal with literal queens, princes and princesses. You'd have…
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Most young children are objectively terrible at art. Don't get me wrong, it's not their fault - they're still figuring out how to hold paintbrushes so I'm not exactly expecting Picasso - but when my niece comes to me with her drawings and I tell her they're great, I do…
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In the social media age, people in general are lot more of aware of what's going on in their society. Whereas before, local scandalmakers or serial cheaters could go their entire lives without being exposed, the technology available to us means that people get called on their nonsense a lot…
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By the time you're married to someone for 13 years, you've got a pretty good idea of how your life is going to go. Having committed to someone for so long, you know their fears, their foibles and their weak points, but you also know what it is that attracted…
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If my Instagram feed is anything to go by, then a lot of you out there really love to travel and see the world. Nominally, there's nothing wrong with that; it's a chance to see how other cultures live and try some delicious foreign food but I find that after…
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In the massively-hyped, quadrennial sporting event that grips sports enthusiasts the world over, it's often impossible to predict what'll happen in the World Cup. Who would have thought that the Dutch National team would have got away with a kung-fu kick in the 2010 Final, or that Zinedine Zidane would…
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There have been plenty of diets over the years that have risen and fallen in popularity, being championed by various fitness gurus or celebrities from Hollywood and reality television. There are a few that will come to mind - but one you will likely have heard come up a lot…
