The comedian Jerry Seinfeld once said that the best thing about being a relationship is when you're sick and the best thing about being sick is when you're in a relationship.  Which I think- not withstanding the cast of Seinfeld's well documented ability to make the occasional misstep in their stand up routines, which tends…

Appearing in ITV's preview for Fulham's cup game at Swansea last season, Danny Murphy was asked about his role in Liverpool's 2001 FA cup win. "I used to get the medal out to show friends," he said, "but you can't do that…

You may remember Lauren Budd as the aspiring model once romantically involved with David Walliams, the pair splitting following reports that Budd had been cheating on him. Perturbed at being two timed like this, Walliams fled and Budd could hardly have expected any less.  For…

International based career disappointment for Jermaine Defoe in the week, only a substitute in England's impressive win against Croatia; less disappointment in his personal life, where his campaign to commemorate the end of Big Brother next year by sleeping with, or having already slept with,…

In the summer of 2007, the unusual alliance of Charley out of Big Brother and Roy Keane joined brief forces to question the WAG pulling capabilities of Sunderland.  Charley expressed dismay that her cousin had chosen to relocate there from Manchester and Keane, speaking from his…

Penned in 1929, Virginia Woolf's seminal essay ‘A room of one's own'- a stinging, eloquently argued and brilliantly crafted piece, weaving deftly between concise thesis and neatly placed humour, sombre truth and heightened fiction- suggests how different literature would look if females were afforded the…

Using Wikipedia as a quoted resource is frowned upon at the country's more esteemed universities, largely because the standard mark scheme at these institutions doesn't account for references attributed to seventeen year old Emo kids from Wisconsin using Immanuel Kant's page to flaunt their limited understanding of philosophy. You'd probably get away with it at…

Conducting the type of thorough research one would associate with writing a three hundred word piece on Dimitar Berbatov's Bulgarian girlfriend I stumbled across one aggrieved sounding blogger's damning assessment:  "Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch".  We appreciate the neat symmetry and wordplay of the sentiment, but can't help thinking the frames of references are helping show our age.  If…

Cast your mind back with me, if you will, to July 2007 and an ill at ease nation facing up to the disquieting notion that one of its brightest stars was sacrificing a prodigious career in the name of avarice, advancement of commercial opportunities…

As we ready ourselves for the tenth season of Big Brother, which begins on Thursday, it is only natural to allow our minds to drift back to some of the show's previous luminaries.  The fly on the wall TV format has provided fertile ground for…