Josie Copson

London

Senior Features Writer at Metro (UK)

👩🏽‍💻 Metro. Previously OK! and Cosmopolitan.

Articles

‘I drove 18,000 treacherous miles from UK to South Africa – here’s why’

1 week ago | msn.com | Josie Copson

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'I attempted Britain's biggest robbery so I could renovate my house'

1 week ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

At the turn of the 21st century, a gang of London criminals spent months carefully crafting a plan to get their mitts on a haul of De Beers diamonds worth £350 million, sitting in the newly-built Millenium Dome Exhibition Centre in Greenwich. It was a dramatic heist set to take place on November 7, 2000, and would involve a JCB, sledgehammer and smoke bombs, along with a speedboat getaway down the Thames.
'I drove 18,000 treacherous miles to South Africa for this touching reason'

2 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

3,650 prescription pills, 25 countries, and 12 months is what it took for Guy Deacon to make it from the UK to South Africa in his VW Transporter. Only a handful of vehicles have ever attempted the tricky route - some never completing the journey - but Guy, 60, who lived and slept in his van, was determined to fulfil his lifelong dream. It was far from easy.
'I went missing 50 times as a teen

2 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

Sat alone in a field, Jade Knight felt like she could breathe for the first time in years - but everybody who loved her felt the exact opposite. With little more than a book or two housed inside a pink floral bag, Jade had run away for the first time. She was around five miles away from the hospital where she was being treated for serious side effects from her type 1 diabetes. Nobody knew where she was and that's what Jade, then 15, wanted.
Who is Will Best?

2 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson |Pierra Willix

When Will Best was announced as one of the hosts of the Big Brother reboot two years ago, he quickly became a household name. At the time the presenter, now 40, was best known for fronting shows including Suck My Pop, Love Shaft and Dance Dance Dance. But in 2023 his career hit a new high being signed as the co-host of ITV's revival of Big Brother and later its spin off Celebrity Big Brother with AJ Odudu.
'I’ve interviewed 250 people about being mixed race — it’s changed my mindset'

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Josie Copson

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Inside Stacey Solomon’s lavish life from marriage to Joe Swash to Pickle Cottage

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Josie Copson

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Inside Stacey Solomon's lavish life from marriage to Joe Swash to Pickle Cottage

3 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash's TV series Stacey & Joe kicks off tonight and shows what the couple is really like behind closed doors. Stacey is known for being a Loose Women panellist and clearing up clutter on BBC 's Sort Your Life Out. Anyone who follows her on Instagram will know that she's qualified after spending the last few years on a one-woman mission to make Pickle Cottage even more beautiful, armed with a paintbrush, a glue gun, and a dream.
BBC fans reveal they 'rushed to cancel TV licence' before April price increase

3 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

Today, the cost of a TV licence has increased in the UK - but before the change came into effect, many people rushed to cancel their subscriptions. It was previously announced that on April 1 2025, the annual fee would be going up by an extra £5 from £169.50 to £174.50. The money is used to pay for eight national TV channels plus regional TV services, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds, 56 radio stations, the BBC website, BBC World Service and BBC apps.
'I've paid my mortgage by the skin of my teeth'

4 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

Joanne Froggatt has spent 28 years perfecting her craft and is now one of Britain's best on-screen talents. It's hard to imagine a world in which talented actress Joanne was struggling to find enough work to pay her bills, but the 44-year-old has recalled a period in her early 20s when things weren't easy.