Emily Watkins

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

Cold plunges and hot yoga. Meditation sessions and mindful crafting. While mere mention of these activities is generally enough to strike fear in my heart, I’m normally content to just avoid them. But as wellness-mania encroaches onto the previously purely feral territory of hen-dos, I can keep silent no longer. Keep your well-manicured hands off our shots and 2am kebabs, or else… and we all know who would win in a fight between a vodka’d up bridesmaid in a tacky sash and a Pilates princess.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

When married couple Carol and Steven Baxter are found dead at their home in Mersea, Essex, by their adult daughter Ellena, police are puzzled. “It was almost like they were asleep in their chairs,” notes DI Lydia George, in episode one of The Essex Millionaire Murders, ITV’s latest (and compulsively watchable) true crime offering.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

Everyone’s favourite reality travel show, BBC One’s Race Across the World, is back for its fifth series. And if the first episode is anything to go by, its irresistible combination of emotional intensity with the thrill of adventure is as compelling as ever. This series’ route stretches 14,000km – from the village of Huanghuacheng, near Beijing in China, to Kanyakumari in southernmost India.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

People go weird when someone dies. Whether it’s an uncharacteristic outburst, griping about inheritance, or suddenly behaving as though the deceased was their closest confidant when they’d only visited twice in the past decade, there’s nothing like a death to make someone act in ways you’d never have expected – and nothing like a funeral to shove several dozen erratic mourners into the same room.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

The most awarded artist in Grammy history, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has changed not only music but culture. So, where does such a person spring from? Are they born or made? Her mother Tina Knowles’ memoir Matriarch tackles precisely these questions; while Beyoncé’s father’s involvement in her career is well-known, her mum’s has been less visible — until now. Music fans looking for insider gossip will be largely disappointed, because that’s not the subject of Matriarch.