MISSING LINKS

HOW seemingly unrelated figures in the news just might be connected to each other after all…

KATE WINSLET

... has paid the energy bills of the Hunter family whose daughter Freya is on life support. While filming the new Avatar movie The Way Of Water, Winslet held her breath underwater for 7min 15sec, breaking Tom Cruise’s on-set record of 6min on Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. The actress also has a block of flats named in her honour in her native Reading. Ironically, a cinema was demolished to build them.

PETER CUSHING

… also has a housing block named after him in Purley, South London, where he was born. Though intimidating in countless horror films, Cushing was a vegetarian and toy soldier collector who was afraid of the dark. And he owned ‘at least 27’ toothbrushes at any time. Also obsessed with dental hygiene is…

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY

… who keeps toothbrushes in his car, bedroom and kitchen, just in case. His first job was to shoot armadillos that ruined the greens at a Texan golf course. Infamously, the actor was arrested in 1999 while playing bongos naked at his home. Other celebrity bongo enthusiasts include…

DANIEL RADCLIFFE

… who was photographed bashing away during a wild night out when he was 24. After his Harry Potter success, the star took roles in indie films including Swiss Army Man, where he played a flatulent corpse. Another big star to have played a dead body is…

JOHN WAYNE

… who was forced to be a cadaver in The Deceiver after angering studio head Harry Cohn by flirting with a woman Cohn had his eye on. Wayne once parodied himself in

The Beverly Hillbillies and was paid a bottle of bourbon. Also paid in whisky was…

ED SHEERAN

… while playing in pubs. He’s doing slightly better now and this year built his own chapel at his Suffolk estate, joining…

ELTON JOHN

… who is said to have a chapel at his home in Windsor. The Rocket Man is Glastonbury’s 2023 headliner, rounding off his UK farewell tour.