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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Inside Dan Snow's life from ignoring famous dad's advice to wife with royal connections
The TV presenter, historian and former Strictly star is back on Channel 5 with the new series Pompeii: Life in the City with Dan Snow Dan Snow has carved out a career as a much-loved historian and TV presenter - despite going against his famous father's advice to follow in his footsteps. Now 46, Dan - known for Battlefield Britain, Dan Snow 's Norman Walks and Filthy Cities - is back on our TV screens with a new Channel 5 series, Pompeii: Life in the City with Dan Snow. He teams up with fellow historian Dr Kate Lister to reveal what it would've really been like to live in Pompeii - the world's best preserved Roman city. During the opening episode, Dan and Kate take a look at the working lives of Pompeii's people, from the very rich to the very poor. Ahead of the new series, we take a look at Dan's life... Being 'discovered' Born in London in 1978, Dan graduated form Oxford University with first-class honours in Modern History, which seemed inevitable after his childhood. In a previous interview, he said: "I was a pretty average kid at primary school. My parents lifted me with the support they gave me at home: and whenever we went on holiday or days out we were always doing history-related projects. We made video films about wherever we were: the battlefield at Hastings, Bodiam Castle. We'd draw maps, too: and we'd make diaries. Dad still has them," reports MailOnline. "At the weekends my dad didn't go to watch football; he took me to museums. So when I ended up at Oxford University and got a double first in history, it wasn't brilliance – it was all the enthusiasm he had given me." A keen rower, he previously recalled how he was discovered by the BBC during the annual Boat Race between Cambridge University Boat Club and Oxford University Boat Club. He told LBC podcast Full Disclosure With James O'Brien: "The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race can be a bit dull so they sort of spruce it up with videos of students going 'oh, I'm so tired and I've got to do my studies and train'. 'I was one of said whining students and someone at BBC Development said 'what about him doing a show on history' because I was talking about history in this show.' Dan presented his first programme in October 2002 just after graduating from university, co-presenting the BBC's 60th anniversary special on the Battles of El Alamein with his father Peter. Away from documentaries, Dan competed in the 2023 Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing when he admitted to being "absolutely terrified". Famous dad Dan comes from something of a famous family. As well as being the great-great-grandson of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, his father is the famous BBC journalist Peter Snow, famed for his General Election 'swingometer' coverage. Peter presented Newsnight from its launch in 1980 until 1997 and hosted a number of documentaries. Dan has said that his father asked him not to follow in his footsteps and become a broadcaster. He told LBC podcast Full Disclosure With James O'Brien: 'My dad urged me not to go into this industry and now I feel the same way about mine.' A call came into his father trying to get him on board for a history programme with his son. He said that his father 'originally said 'no'' but later changed his mind. Dan said: 'He also took me around Barnes Pond in south-west London and he said 'you're better than this', which I wish was true.' The presenter said his father had 'hoped' he would choose another profession as he admired the people he interviewed. He also said: 'I'd die now if my kids wanted to become broadcasters. I'm like, 'please go and become bioengineers or something exciting'.' 'Royal' wife In November 2010, Dan married the criminologist and philanthropist Lady Edwina Louise Grosvenor, second daughter of The 6th Duke of Westminster. The couple have three children, the eldest and youngest being daughters. Through her mother, she is descended from the Romanov imperial family of Russia and the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. Her godmother was Diana, Princess of Wales. Dan previously said of meeting Edwina: "'I'd like to be able to say we met trekking across a desert, but we met at a wedding, which I'm afraid is very predictable. We were sitting next to one another at the reception: the person who did the seating plan set us up. I knew straight away she was the one for me," reports MailOnline.
The National
4 days ago
- Politics
- The National
David Lammy claims he's shrugged off 'impostor syndrome'
DAVID Lammy has revealed that someone in the UK thinks he is doing a good job as Foreign Secretary – him. In a spectacularly self-indulgent interview with LBC's James O'Brien, Lammy said he had shrugged off the 'impostor syndrome' which had dogged him his whole life until he was made a Cabinet minister. His reign at the Foreign Office has seen a brutal man-made famine sweep across Gaza, while Britain continues to arm Israel, and the White House imposing tariffs on the UK as part of Donald Trump's war on international free trade. READ MORE: 'He belongs in The Hague': Keir Starmer fiercely criticised over Gaza speech Lammy's blunders include referring to Israel's plans to herd Palestinians into a concentration camp in Gaza as a 'sticking point' and referring to members of Benjamin Netanyahu's government as 'extremists' as UK-made arms still flowed to Israel. On the other side, he has been criticised in the right-wing press for accusing Israel of breaking international law – which it obviously is, but that is not the official government line. He had to row that one back and blamed jetlag for speaking out of turn. 'Something just fell off my shoulders. There was this sense that I'm the right guy in the right job at the right time.' @DavidLammy opens up to James O'Brien about having imposter syndrome at every stage of his life, until he became Foreign Secretary. — LBC (@LBC) July 25, 2025 In a statement on the collapse of Bashar Al-Assad's regime in Syria in December, Lammy seemed to reveal that he didn't know where the country was as he referred to the risk of it falling into anarchy 'like Libya next door'. In the same statement, he also referred to Sudan as being 'not far away', which is true if you think that a distance of almost 2000 miles means somewhere is reasonably close. READ MORE: Kemi Badenoch: Pictures of starving children haven't shifted my support for Israel Speaking on O'Brien's profoundly missable Full Disclosure podcast, Lammy said: 'I have, up until relatively recently, impostor syndrome at nearly every critical stage of my life and certainly, on a more personal level, at the moments in nearly every decade of my life struggled with anxiety. He added: 'I literally walked into No 10, the Prime Minister asked me to be Foreign Secretary, I walked into the Foreign Office and – I'm going to get emotional again – and it just fell off my shoulders. 'I had arrived and there was a powerful sense that I was the right guy, in the right job, at the right time to do this and a certain kind of innate confidence in my ability to do this that has carried me through and continues to this day.' Bully for him.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Ugly Truth About Trump's ‘Appalling' Hair: Biographer
Donald Trump's signature hairdo is all about grabbing maximum attention, author Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast this week. Wolff, author of a series of books about Trump in power, said the president viewed his hair as part of a wider strategy to stand out—including from Joe Biden on the 2024 campaign trail. 'He looks gray,' Wolff said of Biden. 'He's washed-out. You know, his hair is—what's left of it—is gray. The skin is gray. The suits are gray.' 'And Trump would point out, 'Look at him,'' he continued. ''Nobody even sees him. Everybody notices me.' Which is absolutely true. And side by side, you know, who do you notice? You notice this guy, this appalling-looking guy who is Donald Trump, and not just the relatively normal old man-looking guy that Biden was.' Wolff said Trump's entire appearance is 'by design.' 'He looks that way because he thinks that's an effective way to look,' he added. The White House did not immediately return a request for comment on the biographer's characterization. Wolff also referenced a passage from Stormy Daniels' book, where the porn star described a conversation she claims to have had with Trump about his locks during their alleged 2006 relationship. (Trump has denied any affair). In Full Disclosure, Daniels wrote that she asked Trump about his hairdo, and he admitted it was 'ridiculous.' Trump claimed that 'every celebrity stylist' had offered to fix it, but he declined, according to the 2019 book. 'Everybody talks about it,' Trump said, per Daniels. 'It's my thing. It's my trademark. Plus, if I let this person do it, it will just piss off all these other people. 'Well, why did you let him do it?' I know a lot of people who would kill to do it. The best. The best of the best.' Daniels' claims are backed up in part by an unexpected source: Seth Rogen. The actor, who appeared alongside her in Knocked Up (2007), says Daniels once told him about a bizarre exchange she claimed to have had with Trump about his hair. In the 2024 documentary Stormy, Rogen recalls Daniels saying that Trump believed his 'power' was tied to his hair, and that if he lost it, he'd lose his 'power and his stature.' 'And that's why, even though he knows it's ridiculous and... objectively not passing all the checkmarks you would want a head of hair to pass, to him that is preferable than cutting it off because he has, like, superstitions about it,' Rogen said. Wolff has been in Trump's firing line after claiming on The Daily Beast Podcast last week that the president's war on Harvard stems, at least in part, from a personal grudge over being rejected by the school. 'That story is totally FALSE, I never applied to Harvard,' Trump fumed on Truth Social Monday. 'I graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He is upset because his book about me was a total 'BOMB.' Nobody wanted it, because his 'reporting' and reputation is so bad!' Wolff's most recent book, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, also drew an angry outburst from the president at the time of its release in February. Trump called the book a 'total FAKE JOB' and 'obviously fictitious.'
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Daily Show' Makes An 'Ass' Out Of Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Using 1 Wild Acronym
'Daily Show' correspondent Ronny Chieng on Thursday revealed why President Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' (or BBB for short) is reminding people of an acronym with a far different meaning. Chieng tossed to a CNN clip of 'Full Disclosure' host Roben Farzad mistakenly referring to the BBB as the 'BBL' (an acronym for Brazilian butt lifts, a procedure to alter the look of a person's buttocks) before catching his gaffe. 'Share your screen right now!' quipped Chieng of Farzad's on-air fumble. Chieng suggested that perhaps BBL was a 'better name' after all. 'Because this bill is thick and mostly ass!' he added. The bill — which the House passed on Thursday —slashes Medicaid funding, cuts $290 billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP) and extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts at a cost of about $4 trillion. 'The only way this could be more cartoonishly mean to poor people is if it said Bob Cratchit has to work on Christmas Day,' said Chieng as a photo from 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' flashed alongside him. He later continued, 'But this vote was very controversial even among Republicans who didn't like how it increased the debt by $4 trillion. Do you realize how much money $4 trillion is? No, you don't, because none of it went to education!' Watch more of Chieng's Thursday monologue on 'The Daily Show.' 'Daily Show' Roasts The 'F**k' Out Of This 'Piece Of Junk' Trump Gift Stephen Colbert Reveals The 1 Thing Trump Has Made Americans Truly 'Horny' For They Won't 'Say A Word': Jimmy Kimmel Nails Republicans On Biggest Trump Hypocrisy
