Dame Esther Rantzen’s daughter has said the cancer drug her mother was put on last year is no longer working. The Childline founder and broadcaster, 84, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2023, and at one point was told she had just weeks to live. Last year the star raved about an ‘amazing’ new drug
Getty Images Childline founder Esther Rantzen wants assisted dying to be legalised Dame Esther Rantzen has said she thought she would be “long gone” by the time MPs debated assisted dying. The broadcaster previously revealed she had joined Dignitas, the assisted dying clinic in Switzerland, after a terminal lung cancer diagnosis. The Terminally Ill Adults
Rafe Spall and his partner Esther Smith have been pictured with their new baby for the first time on Thursday as they enjoyed a family day out in London. The couple, who starred together on Apple TV+ series Trying, looked every inch the doting parents during the low-key autumnal outing, with Esther carrying their child in
Esther Perel’s trajectory from private practice psychotherapist to internationally renowned relationship expert is deeply entwined with technology. It was her publisher’s printing presses that distributed her 2006 breakout bestselling book, “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence” (HarperCollins), in more than 30 languages. The videos of her subsequent hit TED talks that brought her theories on
Dame Esther Rantzen has spent a lifetime campaigning. She founded Childline – the counselling service for children – in 1986, launched The Silver Line to help older people combat loneliness in 2013 and has battled numerous causes in between. But none has been as controversial as her latest cause. Nor as personal. Esther is at
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Conservative MP Esther McVey has been branded “repugnant” for using a poem about the Holocaust to criticise the government’s proposals for tougher rules on outdoor smoking. The MP for Tatton shared a section of Martin Niemoller’s 1946 poem, “First They Came”, on social media, adding: “Pertinent words re Starmer’s smoking ban.” The Board of