Sophie Heawood
Sophie Heawood is a feature writer and commentator
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Aidan Turner: ‘You take a top off, and then it’s madness’That topless scene in Poldark turned him into a national heart-throb, but Aidan Turner doesn’t know what all the fuss is about. He talks about lies, laziness, and why his hair has its own Twitter account
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Holidaying with Helena Christensen: can a package resort do supermodel glamour?Package holidays at Negril’s new resort come with glamour as part of the package
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Delete fast: when celebrities get it wrong on social mediaWe are living through tumultuous times, offering celebrities a chance to express their deepest feelings to millions of followers through social media. Sometimes they get the tone all wrong, says Sophie Heawood
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Chris Martin: ‘Coldplay are saying the opposite of walls and Brexit’The Glastonbury Sunday headliners get emotional about the power of music and their quest for the perfect hook
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Former Spice Girl Geri: ‘I like myself a bit better now’Geri Horner (nee Halliwell) says she was emotionally stunted until her 30s. Now married with a daughter, she talks about why she is championing Barbie as a role model for young girls
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Jessica Chastain: ‘It’s a myth that women don’t get along’The Oscar-nominated actor gets fired up about equal pay, refusing to play the damsel – and the truth about her ‘fight’ with Jennifer Lawrence
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Juno Temple: 'I’ve finally hit puberty on camera. Woo-hoo!'She played a child in Atonement, a rebel in St Trinian’s – and has now finally come of age in Martin Scorsese’s Vinyl. She talks about famous friends, on-screen nudity and being a ‘quirky weirdo’
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Ellen Page: ‘Being out became more important than any movie’The Oscar-nominated Juno star talks about child stardom, her Vice TV show and why she had to stop living a lie
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3D-printed foetuses: the next big thing for expectant parents?Forget framing an ultrasound of your unborn baby – you can now purchase an eight-inch cast of your developing infant to take home, among other apparent trends for soon-to-be mums and dads
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‘I always play extreme characters’: Zawe Ashton on life after Fresh MeatAs Vod in the hit Channel 4 show she shocked even her own parents. What’s next for the actor-writer-director-producer?
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Gael García Bernal: ‘Donald Trump calls Mexicans rapists and drug dealers. It’s hate discourse’From Che Guevara to the iconoclastic conductor of Mozart in the Jungle, the Mexican star is no stranger to playing fiery revolutionaries. Now he’s ready to rise up against a certain ‘ignorant’ US presidential candidate
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Let’s move to Tadcaster, north YorkshireThis friendly little market town is dominated by the Sam Smith’s brewery
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Sophie Heawood: inspired by Marty McFly, I’m heading back to my future‘What we really need to think about, when imagining how things are going to pan out, is how to leave our own past behind, gracefully’
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Sophie Heawood: how hard is it to raise a kid on your own? Where do I begin…‘Living outside the nuclear narrative will create so many jarring moments with others that soon you won’t speak, only nod’
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Christian Slater: ‘When you're drinking and doing drugs, you’re going to be lying’Once the cool kid in Heathers and True Romance, Christian Slater has done time in the wilderness. Now he’s back – but has he learned anything?
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Sophie Heawood: At 83, my dad is travelling solo across the US. Should I worry?‘For the past three weeks I haven’t fully exhaled, a low-rent horror film playing in the back of my mind at all times’
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Sophie Heawood: Drugs and pigs? Oxford has been underselling itself‘Had I known that Oxford offered something called a Piers Gaveston party, I’d have reworked my life plans accordingly
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Sophie Heawood: my life as a trainwreck‘Unconsciously, trainwrecks get in their own way, complicating life in its immediate presentations, because they fear what they will find out when they stop’
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Sophie Heawood: how the rating game suddenly got personalWe’ve long rated online retailers on service, in much the same way as we used to rate each other on fanciability, but the tables are turning: now they are rating us
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Liar, liar: in a post-truth world, writers reveal their biggest fib