Craig Newton

Rob Schneider’s public persona has shifted dramatically from SNL comic to political commentator and divorce subject, yet his 30-year friendship with Adam Sandler remains intact. Here is a fact-checked look at the key events shaping his life in 2025. Birth year: 1963 · Number of marriages: 2 · Years on SNL: 1990–1994 · Net worth … Read more

Most people know Luc Besson for The Fifth Element’s colorful chaos or Léon’s perfectly calibrated violence, but fewer realize his visual language was shaped long before he held a camera—by growing up the son of scuba instructors and diving until an accident forced him to look up. He turned to filmmaking after that accident. Born: … Read more

Few British broadcasters have logged as many air miles as Ben Fogle, the man who once rowed the Atlantic and raced to the South Pole for a living. Beyond the extreme expeditions and Sunday Times bestsellers, a tangle of online speculation about his health and marriage doesn’t always match the public record. Born: 3 November … Read more

There’s a certain thrill in discovering that the man who wrote the definitive Cold War spy novels was himself a spy. David John Moore Cornwell, better known as John le Carré, didn’t just imagine the world of double agents and mole hunts — he lived it. That experience left an indelible mark on every page … Read more

When Anna Richardson first landed on British screens, it was as the straight-talking host of The Sex Education Show. She’s since become a bestselling diet author, a libel litigant against Arnold Schwarzenegger, and part of one of TV’s most talked-about breakups. Full name: Anna Clare Richardson · Date of birth: 27 September 1970 · Occupation: … Read more

There’s a bittersweet irony in the way we remember Caroline Aherne. The comedian who brought the Royle Family into our living rooms spent much of her own life battling serious illness out of the public eye. Age at death: 52 · Date of death: 2 July 2016 · Born: 24 December 1963 · Occupation: Comedian, … Read more