Closer

Combining the best celebrity news and gossip with compelling real-life stories, Closer gets close to the heart of the story and brings you the truth behind the headlines. Also includes: TV listings, puzzles, beauty and body advice, destiny and more! Perfect for a coffee-break read, or to download and enjoy on the move...

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‘Harry has developed a close friendship with another woman’ • As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle touchdown in the UK, royal insider Lady Colin Campbell reveals to Closer the real reason for their return...

JESSIE'S SECRET BOND WITH HEARTBROKEN SHANE • Insiders say the EastEnders on-screen golden couple have grown close off-screen amid Shane's divorce

COLEEN'S PANIC OVER WAYNE'S NOSE JOB • Coleen Rooney fears her husband's latest glow-up could spark trouble for their marriage

‘I just love people & never forgot where I came from or who I am’ • Global icon, Queen of country music and dedicated philanthropist, the world lost one of its brightest stars last week when Dolly Parton died in Nashville aged 80, following a brief battle with cancer. For six decades, Dolly was a cultural phenomenon, while remaining fiercely proud of the poor Tennessee childhood that shaped her. But perhaps her greatest gift was making everyone feel that she was one of us. Closer’s Katie Banks was lucky enough to interview her, and meeting Dolly was just as wonderful as she’d hoped...

WILL CERVICAL HOME-TESTING KITS BE THE KEY TO SAVING LIVES? • The NHS is now offering cervical cancer self-testing kits to millions of women for the first time. Closer speaks to one expert who says it's a 'game changer'...

AUTUMNAL TREATS • Get set for cosy nights in with this top TV!

TESS BLASTS VERNON: 'You've broken your promise!' • After months of living cordially under the same roof despite being separated, Tess Daly is having strong feelings about Vernon Kay getting his own place

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11: 'LIFE GOES ON – BUT YOU NEVER FORGET' • For many New Yorkers, Tuesday 11 September 2001 started out like any other day – commuters were rushing to work and parents were taking their children to school. But at 8.46am, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC), and life changed forever. At first, onlookers wondered if there had been a malfunction with the plane, but less than 18 minutes later, Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower, and it became clear that America was under attack. The world stood still as images beamed across every news channel showing horrific scenes, with people jumping out of the crumbling Towers to their deaths. Over 200 miles away in Washington DC, at 9.37am, another plane crashed into The Pentagon, the Headquarters for the US Department of Defence. Then, just after 10am, a fourth and final plane, thought to be intended for the US Capitol Building, crash-landed in a field in Pennsylvania. It was the deadliest terror attack in history, killing 2,996 people and injuring thousands more. Search and rescue efforts at the World Trade Center site continued around the clock for more than two weeks after the attacks. Thousands of firefighters, police officers, construction workers and volunteers searched desperately for survivors in the debris of what became known as 'Ground Zero'. The last person pulled alive from the rubble was found 27 hours after the Towers collapsed. Twenty-five years on, Closer speaks to two women who were hugely impacted that day...

EMILY'S WEDDING BOMBSHELL • The Rivals star is in her wife era after marrying Alistair Garner

LUCY MECKLENBURGH: 'We still want to get married – but we've got so much going on' • TOWIE alumni Lucy Mecklenburgh chats to Closer about being part of a blended family and why she and fiancé Ryan Thomas still...