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MARION McMULLEN looks at the stars with stories to tell in new memoirs
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U2 singer Bono recalls his childhood in Dublin, his music career and his philanthropic work in his new memoir Surrender. He told the Graham Norton Show: “I wanted to explain to my friends and family what I had done with their lives.
They gave me permission to be an artist and an
activist.”
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What Not To Wear TV presenter Susannah Constantine partied with Elton John and Mick Jagger and dated Princess Margaret’s son Viscount Linley. Her memoir, Ready For Absolutely Nothing, also charts her battle with alcoholism. She says: “My life has been a bit like Forrest Gump’s. I was always the girl at the back of the room, but witness to some amazing situations.”
Hollywood film star Geena Davis looks at her life and acting fame in Dying Of Politeness: A Memoir. In it the 66-year-old talks about her eccentric childhood; her roles in movies like Thelma & Louise and A League Of Their Own, her marriages – including to Jeff Goldblum – and how she has become a tireless advocate for women and girls.
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International gymnast-turnedsports presenter Gabby Logan began writing memoir The First Half in lockdown. She recollects how her 15-year-old brother Daniel died while he was playing football with their father. 2
The late Hollywood star Paul Newman began working on a memoir before his death in 2008. Now his children have published his candid memories in The Extraordinary Life Of An Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman. It covers both his alcoholism and the tragic death of his son Scott.
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To Hurt writer Adam Kay’s hilarious and heartbreaking diaries of his time as a junior doctor, were adapted for TV starring Ben Whishaw. He offers more cutting humour and humbling stories in his follow-up memoir Undoctored. The hilarious anecdotes include revelations about a sperm bank, the passing of a painful bladder stone and how he rid himself of a social media stalker. 3 4
Comedian and TV Harry Potter presenter Tom Allen actor Tom Felton pays homage to his reflects on his late father in his second time as Draco Malfoy in memoir the magical films and
Too Much. his life since then in his He says: autobiography Beyond “There’s a The Wand. He joined catharsis the movie putting series as a things on the child and grew page, and up making the you come to eight films understand your own over a 10-year emotions by relating them period, ending like that.” in 2011. 9 10 Spice Girl Mel C is Richard E Grant the last of the praises King Charles group to publish in his memoir A her autobiography. Who Pocketful Of Happiness. The
I Am: My Story follows actor, who is an ambassador the journey for The Prince’s Trust, says from her Charles arranged to visit his bedroom in wife Joan Washington before north-west she died from lung cancer last England to year. Richard global stardom and Joan were with the group, together for 38 as she recalls playing at years and Wembley, conquering Richard says the Brit awards and the memoir closing the Olympics. details the “love
story of my life”.