This week, the singer Cheryl Cole was photographed looking even more slender than usual. “Making one of her first public appearances since her split from cheating husband Ashley, Cheryl Cole could not hide the fact she looks worrying thin,” commented one newspaper.   more »

What a week it’s been for the crumbling of “nice guy” celebrity marriages. First we heard the news that popular cheeky-chappy Mark Owen from boy band Take That had cheated on his long-term partner, now wife, with no fewer than ten women; then we learned the personable, down-to-earth Kate Winslet had split up from her second husband, Sam Mendes.   more »

A friend of a friend, who’s a single parent, has just taken the plunge and, for the first time since her husband died three-and-a-half years ago, booked a summer holiday abroad for her and her two young children. It was a brave step, not least because she was worried about being the only single mum on the beach, surrounded by happy families.   more »