‘The levels of attack are extraordinary’: Gary Lineker on punditry, podcasts – and why he won’t stop speaking his mind

The football broadcaster and podcast mogul keeps tweeting about the Israel-Gaza war, despite arguing with friends and getting into hot water with the BBC. What drives him?

Richard Osman: ‘I would have been terrible in MI6. I’m too tall, spill secrets and can’t lie’.

After getting ‘the tap’ at Cambridge, he went from a behind-the-scenes TV ideas man to a fixture in front of the camera. Then the Pointless star’s Thursday Murder Club books became the biggest thing in fiction since Harry Potter

She came to fame grabbing women’s bits in dressing rooms and 20 years later, she is still determined to make people feel more body confident. The beauty entrepreneur talks about addiction, breakups and the hell of pitching to finance bros in your 50s

Heartstopper’s Kit Connor: ‘I wasn’t used to the idea of millions of people being interested in my private life’

Cillian Murphy on Oppenheimer, sex scenes and self-doubt: ‘I’m stubborn and lacking in confidence – a terrible combination’

If Peaky Blinders made the Irish actor a household name, will Christopher Nolan’s nuclear blockbuster send him into the stratosphere? He talks about extreme weight loss, hating school and why his next character won’t be a smoker

The footballer and presenter escaped a tough start to become an England legend and one of the BBC’s faces of football. As the Women’s World Cup approaches she talks finding her voice – and why she’s no victim

‘So many people don’t believe anything – only what makes them money’: Ruth Wilson on being a Hollywood outsider

The Mike Leigh favourite has become an Oscar-nominated A-lister. She talks about her glamorous mother, her on-stage stamina and being left holding the baby by Gary Oldman

‘If I’d had a therapist, do you think any of this would have happened?’