Lenny Henry

By Alison Bowyer Last updated at 12:37 AM on 24th June 2010 Posing for the cameras with a leggy blonde soap actress draped provocatively over him at a glitzy showbiz party in London earlier this month, Lenny Henry looked every inch the successful, single man-about-town. As well as hamming it up with 30-year-old Coronation Street actress Katherine Kelly at the Bafta awards, pouting at photographers while the mini-skirted Miss Kelly clung to him, he struck a similar pose with pretty...Read Full Story

Some News: A couple of weeks ago a friend emailed me that he’d seen Tom back in the USA at an airport in Los Angeles. I didn’t want to post that until I got confirmation. Well, today Kat sent me a tweet someone had posted: “Wow legendary singer Tom Jones @neimanmarcus in Beverly Hills. Very cool! Looks great.” (Neiman Marcus is a very high-end department store.) This is not what the journalist in me would call “confirmation,” but it a second independent sighting, so I hope it’s true and that...Read Full Story

Comedian Lenny Henry has done a great deal of work for charity over the years. Through Comic Relief, he has travelled to some of the poorest parts of Africa to help raise money for those living there. This time was different, though. He found himself in Kibera, one of the largest and poorest slums in the world, near Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera houses approximately one million people in a one and a half square miles. Most of these people live in extreme poverty. The slum is appallingly filthy, but...Read Full Story

Lenny Henry in Shakespeare's Othello: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama (BBC Audio) ( Audio CD ) By William Shakespeare Buy new : $24.95 3 used and new from $20.34 First tagged by Ripple Related tags: bbc audiobooks (2), shakespeare (2), othello (2), audio book (2), william shakespeare (2), bbc Review & Description Love, racism, jealousy and desire are at the emotional core of Shakespeare's monumental tragedy, a tender love story shattered by one man's obsessive hatred of another. Othello is noble...Read Full Story

Lenny Henry - CBE recently shed so much tears over the conditions in a Kenyan slum. Our sources inform us Henry was inconsolable to point even his favourite fry up for the big kid that he is couldn't cheer him up. It was reported Henry, Reggie Yates & the mentally deranged baby stealing woman from Eastenders were on a trip for Comic Relief in the slums of Kibera. They had to sleep in an open air rat infested shack by a sewer and for once actually did some real work. So what exactly reduced...Read Full Story