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Audience boos as scathing letter from Joe Lycett to Suella Braverman read out at charity event

Stephen Fry gave a rendition, on behalf of Lycett, at the 10th anniversary of Letters Live - an event held in association with Choose Love, a charity that helps refugees and displaced people.

ITV, 17th November 2023

Stephen Fry says childhood sweets like candy cigarettes were a gateway to his cocaine addiction

While appearing as a guest on John Cleese's GB News show Stephen said: 'When I was a teenager, I had this vast empty hole in me that said "Feed me, I need this sugar, I need it". When it wasn't sugar, it became tobacco, so I smoked and then in my twenties it became cocaine. I just couldn't sit still. It's that addictive impulse.'

Geraint Llewellyn, Daily Mail, 4th November 2023

Stephen Fry uses a walking stick as he is seen for the first time six weeks after breaking his leg, pelvis and ribs

Stephen Fry was pictured for the first time since he broke his leg, pelvis and ribs after falling 6ft on stage at an AI conference six weeks ago.

Connie Rusk and Neil Chandler, Daily Mail, 3rd November 2023

Stephen Fry says psychiatry 'saved his life' as he backs campaign for profession

Stephen Fry has said psychiatry "saved his life at its lowest moment" as he backed a campaign to attract more people to the profession.

The Sunday Post, 24th October 2023

Blackadder coming to Blu-ray

All original BBC television episodes of Blackadder have been restored and remastered in HD for a new Blu-ray release.

British Comedy Guide, 12th October 2023

Stephen Fry says his agents 'went ballistic' over AI impersonation of his voice: 'It shocked me'.

Stephen Fry has issued a warning against Artificial Intelligence (AI) after discovering that his voice had been impersonated by machine learning.

Tom Murray, The Independent, 20th September 2023

Comedians offer up artwork for National Doodle Day 2023

Joe Lycett, Aisling Bea, Jake Lambert and Jon Pointing have contributed artwork to the National Doodle Day auction run by Epilepsy Action.

British Comedy Guide, 15th September 2023

Why is Stephen Fry still burbling on about Brexit?

Petulant Remainer luvvies are still refusing to accept that they lost.

Julie Burchill, Spiked, 13th September 2023

Stephen Fry: Nine things we learned from his This Cultural Life Interview

It's fair to say he's a national treasure, but, as he tells John Wilson in this episode of This Cultural Life, it took him quite a while to realise that entertaining was his destiny. In typically articulate fashion, he tells Wilson all about his childhood struggles, his spell in prison, and the time he got expelled from school because of Sherlock Holmes.

BBC, 13th August 2023

Stephen Fry says reading about Oscar Wilde made him fear 'a cursed life' as a gay man in Britain

Broadcaster and writer was influenced by learning about the homophobia the 19th-century Irish poet faced.

Nicole Vassell, The Independent, 8th August 2023

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