Oct 4, 2026
Author Spotlight: James Blunt — The Army Captain Who Became a Punchline and Had the Last Laugh
A deep dive on James Blunt — born James Hillier Blount in 1974, a British Army captain who served with NATO in Kosovo, whose 2004 debut Back to Bedlam became the best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK and made 'You're Beautiful' a global number one; winner of two Brit Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards with five Grammy nominations; the self-deprecating author who has spent twenty years answering mockery with comedy; his defining reflections on war, songwriting, perspective and success; and why the Celebrity Traitors series 2 contestant is still far more than the punchline he pretends to be.
James Blunt
Oct 3, 2026
Author Spotlight: Bella Ramsey — The Actor Who Said Out Loud What Most People Keep Inside
A deep dive on Bella Ramsey — the Nottingham-born actor who began professionally at eleven as Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones, won a BAFTA for The Worst Witch, and became the lead of HBO's The Last of Us as Ellie, earning two Emmy, two Golden Globe, two Critics' Choice and BAFTA nominations; the openly non-binary performer who revealed a 'freeing' autism diagnosis and has spoken with unusual calm about identity, fame, and not fitting in; their defining reflections on self-acceptance, belonging, honesty, and taking up space; and the legacy of a young artist who has turned the most private parts of a public life into a language other people can use — back in the spotlight as a contestant on The Celebrity Traitors.
Bella Ramsey
Oct 2, 2026
Author Spotlight: Richard E. Grant — The Actor Who Turned Grief Into a Pocketful of Happiness
A deep dive on Richard E. Grant — the Swazi-English actor born Richard Grant Esterhuysen in Mbabane in 1957, who grew up with an alcoholic father and a fractured home, moved to London in 1982, and became one of the most beloved character actors of his generation as the perpetually drunk Withnail in Withnail and I; the four-decade career that spans Gosford Park, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Star Wars, and the Oscar-, BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me?; the memoirist and lifelong diarist whose A Pocketful of Happiness turned the death of his wife, the dialect coach Joan Washington, into one of the most honest books about love and loss of the decade; his defining reflections on happiness, grief, love and keeping a diary; and the legacy of a man who has made a second career out of teaching the world how to speak the names of the dead — back in the spotlight as a contestant on The Celebrity Traitors.
Richard E. Grant