Bryony Gordon

What price perfection? It's a question I ask every time I read another tragic story about a woman who's flown abroad for cosmetic surgery, only to be returned in a body bag.

Why is it that celebrities seem to think it's OK for them to simply donate their presence, while the rest of us are expected to donate our money?

I haven't been to a Christmas party for seven years now. It's not that I'm wildly unpopular - well, not entirely that - more that I realised, in my new-found sobriety, that they were no longer for me.

Matt Willis has revealed that he turned to drugs and alcohol after feeling 'less than' in 'pretty much every situation' in his life.

I woke up the other morning thinking about Bonnie Blue - the OnlyFans star who hit the headlines earlier this year by trying to have sex with as many 18-year-old boys as possible.

I woke up the other morning thinking about Bonnie Blue. This might surprise you, given that I'm a peri-menopausal 44-year-old with a husband.

I was having a coffee with a friend when she said she was off to get her 'face done'. I wasn't sure what she meant. Was she going to have a facial? No, it turned out that she was off to get Botox.

I am lying on a sun lounger in 28-degree heat, my best friend Laura to the right of me, hot white sand underfoot. Turquoise waters lap at the Dubai dazzles on the horizon.

Everyone has their limit with Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party, and I think I just reached mine. For some it was the reversal of the winter fuel allowance, for others it was the betrayal of the Waspis.

Like any sane person living on the frozen islands of Britain, I'd been looking forward to the first Sunday roast of the year from the moment my breath had begun to mist up.