About 20 years ago I was sent to interview a little known comedian my editor at the time had been told was one to watch. Off I went to a north London cafe, blissfully unaware of the bizarre spectacle I was about to witness, as a strange man with hair so matted it had turned into dreadlocks bowled in and began to tell me how beautiful I was. He wasn’t a vagrant off the street, but my interviewee. With a flourish, he told me that my eyes were lovely. Could he kiss me, he asked, before I’d even had a chance to sip on my coffee.

For 30 years Miranda Hart suffered from a debilitating mystery illness which, at its worst, left her feeling as if she was ‘wading through treacle’ and even bed-bound. The 51-year-old comedian and actor was initially told that her symptoms – which began when she was a teenager, living in the US state of Virginia – were, among other things, agoraphobia. It was only recently that she was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease, following several blood tests after hitting ‘rock bottom’, as she described it recently.

When I disclosed last month that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had bought a home on the coast of Portugal, the reasons behind the purchase remained shrouded in mystery. Why had the couple bought their first European property after being evicted from Windsor’s Frogmore Cottage by King Charles early last year? Now, things may have become clearer: Prince Harry and Meghan could have been seeking an escape route if Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Liam Payne’s close friend Rogelio Nores last night denied abandoning the former One Direction star in the hours leading up to his death. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline Mr Nores – known a ‘Roger’ – denied being a suspect in the 31-year-old’s death and rubbished claims police had raided his home in his native Buenos Aires. It comes as Argentinian prosecutors probing Liam Payne’s death confirmed the arrests of three suspects who are now under formal investigation, with one being an unnamed ‘friend’ of the late pop star.

Almost one-in-three babies born in England and Wales last year were to women born outside the UK. According to the Office for National Statistics, 31.8 per cent of live births in 2023 were to non-UK born mothers – a slight increase from 30.3 per cent in 2022. The proportion was also an increase from 26.5 per cent a decade earlier, after passing the quarter mark (25.1 per cent) in 2010.

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British supermodel Georgina Cooper – an icon of ‘Cool Britannia’ and a friend of Kate Moss – has tragically died at the age of 46 on a Greek island just months after she married, MailOnline can reveal today. Tributes have poured in from fellow catwalk stars including Jade Parfitt, Erin O’Connor, Jodie Kidd and Helena Christensen, who called her a ‘ray of light’ whose ‘achievements in the industry were huge’. Georgina was staying in Kos at the Marianna hotel apartments with her husband when she was taken ill on October 21 and staff called an ambulance.

Warwick Davis’s beloved wife Samantha left him more than £500,000 after she died in March. The Harry Potter star, 54, was bequeathed the fortune following his film star partner’s death aged 53 earlier this year. Mr Davis, who called ‘Sammy’ his ‘most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter’, was the sole trustee in her will.

Perched high up on a sturdy shelf in her large garden shed, Mari Fraille believed she was about to drown. The flood water was seeping at her toes. A torrent had blasted through the front door and swept through her house, so she hurried to the shed and, using a stepladder, scrambled on to the shelf next to an old suitcase. For 20 long minutes, she screamed for help but no one came. ‘It was the worst part of my life,’ the 67-year-old told me this week. ‘I was alone, everyone else along my row of houses had already fled from the flood.’