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Christopher Walken: ‘I’ve been married for over 50 years. I live in a house. I’m a very normal person’

Peter Gabriel at 75: His legacy shows he is the greatest, most underrated shape-shifter in the history of modern music

Cyndi Lauper on Sinead O’Connor: ‘I always thought she was really brilliant. She had a beautiful voice, a wonderful mind and lots of demons from real life’

Becoming ­Madonna review: A pop culture supernova and the ‘plain girl’s revenge’ beautifully captured

Rupert Everett: ‘I was asked to be in A Room with a View, and I didn’t... I didn’t want to go on being a upper-class floppy head. It was a big mistake’

Madonna fans divided as AI images with Pope Francis labelled ‘funny’ and ‘pathetic’

My favourite room: Former fashion magazine editor Yseult Williams’ elegant Paris apartment honours her fascinating family heritage

‘The most brilliant thing I’ve ever done’ – Britney Spears stuns fans with ‘marriage’ revelation

Luke O’Neill: I’d give you a kidney but I’d kill you, too. The science behind feuding siblings

Streaming review: The Greatest Love Story Never Told – Bennifer’s romance takes a dark turn, and we are witnesses to the mess

‘I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who doesn’t like Kylie’ — why we can’t get the pop queen out of our heads

Triona McCarthy: Wanna know how to recreate Ariana Grande’s high ponytail look? Check out these hair essentials

Johnny Marr: ‘As a child in Manchester, it was ages before I heard an English accent’

Ciara Kelly: At Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour I witnessed a celebration of the rich, mad tapestry of highs and lows of young womanhood

Adrian Weckler: Could the US probe of Elon Musk’s boosterism knock down his entire house of cards?

Madonna wraps up Celebration tour, performing to history-making 1.6 million fans at Rio’s Copacabana beach

Obituary: Roberto Cavalli, fashion designer nicknamed the ‘Leopard King’ who embodied 2000s bling

‘Cillian Murphy is humble and a great guy. I couldn’t be happier for him,’ says star’s stylist

Sinéad Ryan: Madonna ought to know being habitually unpunctual is a choice – and it’s downright rude

From Taylor Swift to Dua Lipa and Kylie Minogue, female-dominated Grammys prove men are music’s new underdogs

‘Never stop believing in your ability to change’ – Woman escapes political unrest in Mozambique to pursue a better life in Wexford

‘It caters for everyone’ – how Hyrox became Ireland’s biggest fitness craze and many think it’s safer than Crossfit

Healthy eating: Chill out with Susan Jane White’s beetroot gazpacho – it’s your five-a-day in one bowl of goodness

The Irish Independent’s View: Why, when compared to London, Dublin is way behind in terms of its management

‘Being diagnosed with coeliac disease wasn’t the end of the world – it’s worth it to feel well’