Siobhán Norton

inews.co.uk • 17th June 2019

The Viking Method: meet the fitness trainer who doesn’t take any prisoners

The world of fitness can be an annoyingly chirpy one, increasingly saturated with 20-year-old former reality TV stars offering vague platitudes about “motivation Mondays” and “fitspo” – fitness inspiration. It’s a world Svava Sigbertsdottir has...

inews.co.uk • 24th May 2019

Ryan Riley: Meet the food therapist treating a loss of taste

Ryan Riley has a contacts book that most culinary professionals would give their eye teeth for. The 25-year-old rubs shoulders with Nigella Lawson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver, all of whom are championing his new cookery school. Yet...

inews.co.uk • 19th May 2019

Parents’ fury at NHS failure to prescribe life-saving cannabis for children

An executive at one of the world’s biggest medical cannabis companies has said he will fund treatment for a British child with epilepsy, as the NHS continues to fail to prescribe the potentially life-saving treatment. It comes as parents increasingly...

inews.co.uk • 12th March 2019

Meet the tech CEO who lost five stone thanks to his own app

Many of us would never dream of darkening the door of a gym when travelling for work or pleasure. Fritz Lanman isn’t one of those people. “I went to Sweat It yesterday, do you know it? Pretty tough. I landed from Bangkok into Heathrow and I just knew...

inews.co.uk • 1st March 2019

This 88-year-old fitness instructor who qualified in her 70s believes everyone can keep fit

Alacia Elliott doesn’t fit the mould of the stereotypical fitness instructor – no bulging muscles, menacing stance or “push through the pain” mantra. But she’s made of tough stuff. And, at 88, is older than most of her clients. “When I retired at the...

inews.co.uk • 21st February 2019

The man who gave Margot Robbie a Hollywood body – and can reboot yours in just 21 days

On the morning I meet David Higgins, bloated as I am from a weekend of excess and struggling with a frozen shoulder, I don’t exactly feel that I fit the mould of his typical clientele. The personal trainer and physiotherapist has worked with Colin...

inews.co.uk • 29th January 2019

Dr Michael Mosley: the man behind the 5:2 diet on why he now wants you to eat just 800 calories a day

He is the man who got Britons to lose weight, has written a slew of best-selling diet books and fronted dozens of health documentaries. But don’t leave the biscuit tin unattended when Dr Michael Mosley’s around. “I have no willpower. If there’s a bar...

I • 4th September 2018

How to cut down on household rubbish for Zero Waste Week

Douglas McMaster launches into his spiel before we’ve even taken a seat. The sofa we’re about to sit on has been upcycled from waste materials, he tells me, as has all the furniture in his industrial-chic restaurant, Silo. Some very decent coffee...

I • 31st July 2018

Mothers of Invention: Mary Robinson on why climate change is a feminist issue

Forging a double act can be powerful, but risky. The chemistry needs to be just right, with no one person dominating. And, importantly, they have to at least appear to get on. So the podcast producer who came up with the brainwave of pairing the...

I • 26th July 2018

How to make your food look good enough to Instagram

A decade ago, telling someone that you were a “food stylist” would have been met with a blank stare, if not an eye-roll. And some people might still react like that now – after all, purely worrying about what food looks like in photographs, beyond how...

iNews • 11th June 2018

The surgeon who fell in love with broken hearts

As an organ, the heart has been rather unloved in recent years. Column inches and bestselling books are dedicated to the brain and even the hitherto unglamorous gut, while the heart soldiers on unnoticed. Heart surgeon Nikki Stamp, though, is...

iNews • 18th April 2018

From bullied schoolboy to running addict: the man who ran 401 marathons

This week, thousands of people are putting the final touches to their London Marathon preparations: easing off on training, having a last-minute sports massage, getting their gorilla suit dry-cleaned. For first-timers, or even those with several races...

iNews • 11th April 2017

Meet the food blogger that has chefs eating out of his hand

Steve Plotnicki doesn’t seem like your typical food blogger – after all, he isn’t 22, female or snapchatting love-heart inscribed pictures of avocado toast. “I guess I’m a blogger with a capital B,” he says, laughing. Plotnicki, the creator of...

iNews • 24th June 2016

OITNB's Lea DeLaria: 'Hard for me to get roles? Have you seen me?' - The i newspaper online

Lea DeLaria is not what you’d call a shrinking violet. The actress, comedian and jazz singer holds the title of being the first openly gay comic to appear on a late-night talk show – The Arsenio Hall Show, in 1993. And what a way to break a barrier –...

iNews • 1st February 2017

Deliciously Ella: I serve veggie curries, I'm not the devil

Castigated for her part in the clean-eating trend, Ella Mills bites back, telling Siobhan Norton she’s just a businesswoman who want people to celebrate good food It’s not every day I find myself sitting across the table from public enemy number one...

iNews • 9th June 2017

Ben Fogle: I thought I was too young to get pneumonia

Ben Fogle is not someone who tends to shy away from a challenge. The 43-year-old broadcaster and adventurer has run across the Sahara, rowed across the Atlantic and trekked across Antarctica. So a nagging cough didn’t trouble him much – until he...

iNews • 30th June 2017

Jasmine Hemsley on why her cookbook is drawing on Eastern philosophies

We’re suckers for a double act in Britain: the Two Ronnies, Fry and Laurie, hell, even Mel and Sue. They are so united as a duo, it is often difficult to think of them as individuals. So when I told friends I was interviewing Jasmine Hemsley, the...

iNews • 11th July 2017

Good Life actor Richard Briers worked through lung disease

Richard Briers may have cut a laid-back, affable figure on screen, but just like The Good Life’s Tom Good, beneath the jovial front was a steely determination. His daughter, Lucy Briers, says his dogged attitude was an inspiration, not least when he...

iNews • 22nd July 2017

Chef Chris Denney: 'Michelin stars? I'm just keeping my head down'

The fickle British food scene is always crying out for the hottest new thing – and there was quite a buzz when 108 Garage landed in West London last October. Sticking out like a sore thumb in frou frou Westbourne Grove with its stripped-back decor...

iNews • 29th August 2017

Denise Lewis: 'One in five kids is obese - that's worrying'

Saturday afternoons must be a logistical nightmare in Denise Lewis’s house, ferrying her daughter and two sons to various sporting activities. “I struggle to keep my children still,” she laughs. “I’m someone who has dedicated my life to sport, and my...