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HOW two seemingly unrelated figures in the news are joined by a series of unexpected connections.

KATE McCANN

… collapsed while chairing a live TV debate between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss last week. Other stars who have fainted on air include…

GILLIAN McKEITH

… although many thought the nutritionist faked her collapse on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity…

Get Me Out Of Here! in 2010 to get out of a stomach-turning Bushtucker Trial. McKeith agreed to stop calling herself ‘Dr’ when flogging health plans as her PhD came from an unrecognised (and now defunct) US college. Speaking of dubious doctorates…

DR DRE

… is not a real doctor, you might be shocked to hear.

The rapper and producer made far more money from selling his Beats headphones firm to Apple for £2.5 billion than he ever did from music. So it was small change to buy a £33million LA mansion from quarterback Tom Brady and his wife…

GISELE BUNDCHEN

… one of the world’s richest supermodels, below, who was rejected 42 times before landing her first major job. Agencies always said her nose was too big for her to make it – the same demoralising comment levelled at a young...

MERYL STREEP

… who has amassed a record 21 Academy Awards nominations. She left the first Oscar she won – Best Supporting Actress for Kramer Vs Kramer in 1979 – in the toilet. Thankfully someone shouted ‘Hey, someone left their Oscar in here!’ and she reclaimed it. The same thing happened to…

COLIN FIRTH

… as he partied after his

2011 Best Actor win for The King’s Speech. Luckily, a cloakroom attendant spotted it on the cistern. Firth loves archery, a passion he shares with actress Geena Davis – who almost made the 2000 Olympics in the sport – and…

WILLIAM SHATNER

… who once killed a bear with an arrow on a TV show. The 91-year-old was back in the news last week, laying into all the Star Trek spin-offs, saying they would have creator Gene Roddenberry ‘spinning in his grave’.