Jenny Johnston

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston |Andy Jehring

Quite how young Bella May Culley is screams out in her carefree – and copious – social media posts. At the start of May, on an earlier leg of her far-flung travels, the 18-year-old from Teesside posted an image from the coral reefs off the famous El Nido beach in the Philippines and captioned it 'swimming with nemo'. It was a reference to the 2003 Pixar film Finding Nemo, which, it is startling to note, is older than she is.

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston

Karen Danson’s father started to sexually abuse her when she was six. It could have been yesterday, so vivid are the memories. ‘The first time, I was dragged downstairs at 1am,’ says Karen, 45. He would watch porn and make me sit on his lap, but on this night, he pushed me to the floor, pulled off my nightie and made me rotate, saying he wanted to have a good look at me. ‘I wanted to be a ballet dancer back then and I closed my eyes and imagined myself dancing. He didn’t like that.

4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston

The sofa is brand new, sumptuous and oh-so strokable. It has a buttery velvet finish, which lends itself beautifully to vacuuming stripes into the fabric, if that’s your thing (and it is most definitely Roo Day’s thing). It’s cream, though. Cream! Who buys a cream velvet sofa just a few weeks away from giving birth? Perched on this lovely sofa with Roo and her massive bump, I’m nervous for her, and for this sofa. If her waters break now, all is doomed.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston

Will they, won’t they? How could they not, given how well they get on, how much she laughs at his jokes, how much they finish each other’s sentences, how much they seem to actually like each other, even when they are both knackered and stuck in a thunderstorm. And the chemistry! It’s there, surely? You don’t need a map to find it. A (soppy) section of the British public has almost been buying confetti over the past few weeks, hoping for a finishing line in Gretna Green, home of happy-ever-afters.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenny Johnston

Dr Charlotte Proudman, leading feminist barrister, remembers the last time she saw her father. It isn’t a happy memory. ‘He was drunk,’ she says. ‘I was at nursery and he turned up, asking to see me. His breath smelled funny, his skin was yellow and his teeth were rotten.’She believes the nursery staff had been warned not to let young Charlotte – whose parents had separated as a result of her father’s abusive and violent behaviour – go with her dad.