William Hickey

Bringing the gossip since 1933

- By Robert Meakin

AS WE tuck into those turkey sandwiches post-Christmas Day, let's take a nostalgic look back on the contrasting fortunes of celebrity folk gracing the column throughout the year. Be it fallings-out or hissy fits, critical acclaim or blossoming romance, 2025 lived up to its billing...

HAVING regularly reported on the latest showbiz quarrels doing the rounds, I was happy to reveal that Sir Elton John's decades-old feud with Rolling Stone Keith Richards was finally at an end.

Elsewhere, while actor Brian Cox maintained his longstanding reputation for badmouthing fellow thespians, this year he comes runner-up to another veteran, Eric Idle - whose capacity for publicly falling out with former Monty Python colleagues shows no sign of abating.