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Why Bryan Adams became a Big Issue Ambassador (opens the original)
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Wake up the neighbours - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is joining Big Issue as an ambassador! In September 1991, when Big Issue launched, Bryan Adams was at the top of the charts in the UK with his hit single, (Everything I Do) I Do It for You – as he was for most of that year, or so it seemed. “My friends were calling me up saying, ‘Your damn song is still number one,” he recalls, laughing. “But it was a great time.” Now, as Big Issue celebrates its 35th birthday, superstar Canadian rocker Adams
Trainspotting star Kelly Macdonald: 'I still know anti-poll tax songs (opens the original)
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A chance open casting changed her life forever. But even before Trainspotting, she always knew she was destined for a life far beyond the shopping centre Kelly Macdonald. Image: Ali Smith/Redux/eyevine Kelly Macdonald was born and raised in Glasgow. She discovered a love of acting through local theatrical groups and, aged 19, secured her breakthrough role – as Diane in Danny Boyle’s classic Trainspotting – through an open-casting audition. High-profile roles in Gosford Park (2001), No Country Fo
The Odyssey star Himesh Patel: ‘Child poverty is inexcusable' (opens the original)
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A new film, made by Save The Children and voiced by Patel, highlights how inequality plays out over the summer holidays Actor Himesh Patel has been voicing Save The Children’s summer campaign film. Image: Save The Children You’ve probably seen Himesh Patel on a giant screen this summer. The Odyssey, in which he plays Eurylochus, right-hand man to Matt Damon’s Odysseus, has been the box office sensation of 2026, Christopher Nolan’s epic bringing huge audiences to cinemas across the world. It’s fa
Paul Heaton: ‘My mum liked me sticking fingers up at the world' (opens the original)
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With new album Jenius on the way, the British music icon talks charts, flags and politics with Big Issue Paul Heaton has sold more than 15 million records, had top five albums in five different decades, and won the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection in 2022. His rare talent has been evident since his early days with The Housemartins, through bigger success with The Beautiful South, and since 2007 as a solo artist or alongside Jacqui Abbott. An evening of programming on BBC Two ce
Comedian Shane Torres: I helped my father into a homeless shelter at 14 (opens the original)
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Comedian Shane Torres has a new show in Edinburgh – here he writes about having to help his father into a homeless shelter as a teenager Comedian Shane Torres. Image: Mindy Tucker I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas – a place locals call Cowtown because of the city’s masculine cowboy culture and its history in the beef industry. It’s a nice place to be from. But it has every Texas cliche you can imagine. Friday night high school football games (our definition of football, not the rest of the world’s)
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