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James Blunt reveals hilarious reason he couldn't meet Elizabeth Taylor during a bizarre visit to her home She is 33 now, and her new book Behind These Doors is a riveting account of prison life from a woman’s perspective. Christina Aguilera transforms into her Burlesque costar Cher while Justin and Hailey Bieber are Flintstones as they join stars on Halloween eve The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison have taught me strength, compassion, courage, and fundamentally, the need to talk, the need to share and the need to tell these stories. These are the stories of lives lived, lost and taken, behind walls so high we can pretend they hide another world entirely. But at what cost? The View host Sara Haines reveals the touching note Matthew Perry wrote to her brother to support him through his own alcoholism struggles

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Sophia Bush recalls TERRIFYING paranormal experience while living with Austin Nichols in 'creepy haunted apartment': 'We both started to scream!' This is nonsense!': Grouchy Robert De Niro can't keep silent in first day of trial brought by ex-assistant accusing him of being an abusive boss What kept her going? ‘There are lots of really resilient POs and I wanted to be one of them,’ she says. It transpired that Simpson had robbed Knowles’s cousin on the outside. He was terrified; Knowles knew that if he didn’t do something vengeful to Simpson Furthermore, South’s experiences have taken an emotional toll on her. She candidly discusses the nightmares and moral dilemmas she has faced, grappling with the nature of her work and its impact on her own well-being. This raw honesty adds depth and authenticity to her narrative, allowing readers to empathize with the emotional challenges faced by prison officers.

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Viewers say graphic violence on post-watershed TV is now the 'norm'... but portrayal of sex has become fairer to women Behind These Doors is a vividly honest interrogation of what it is like to live and work in the UK prison system. The individuals Alex South introduces us to are, for the most part, living on the margins of society and the impact of the cycles of violence that so often accompany those lives is clear to see.Life is sweets! Jamie Laing says building his Candy Kittens brand has brought his boyhood dreams to life - and that making them 100 per cent vegan was a 'no-brainer' After Alex resigned from the prison service in 2020, she won first place in the Beechmore Life Writing Competition. She is a hugely gifted writer. And she is one with a powerful and important story to tell. Selling Sunset's Chrishell Stause defends herself after slamming Jason Oppenheim's ex for misgendering her partner G Flip There’s that inverse logic – it’s human nature to run from danger but if an alarm went off in here, I’d be expected to run towards it. I’m not a fighter. What if I froze? I just remember feeling really small and very scared.’ Simpson was taken to hospital and South interviewed his cellmate, a first-time prisoner named Knowles. He admitted to everything immediately.

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Rebekah Vardy 'is rushed to hospital after horror accident on her horse where she was dragged along the ground by her stirrup' At her second prison, Wormwood Scrubs, a prisoner on suicide watch told South that he hated himself for the pleasure he felt on seeing women afraid of him. But South was savvy to the convoluted psychology of sex offenders. She knew that he might be getting yet further gratification from sharing his shame with her and passed his case on to another officer. Later, when meeting a rapist for whom she felt prison was neither sufficiently punishing nor rehabilitating, she wondered if, in looking after him, she was “betraying the women he’s hurt”. Friends star Matthew Perry's body 'was not in his hot tub for long' before he was found dead by assistant at his LA home Amanda Abbington slam trolls after Strictly exit and hints at being 'pushed over the edge' as she says 'you never know what someone's going through' She had to find deep reserves of courage and resilience. But she also found she had a rare skill to get inmates to talk to her and share their vulnerabilities and struggles. She discovered that prisons can be places of hope, humour and strength – as well as places of darkness.

Memoirs written by inmates often include a reassuring dose of comic relief. By contrast, South comes across as a professional, committed to her duty. She offers sober exposition of rules, risk assessment and protocol. Perhaps prisoners need humour more than officers do. Inmates use irony to taunt their jailer. Laughing at the gallows is a substitute for redemption. Or perhaps South’s position required her to remain so vigilant that there was no time for funny business. As I went long stretches reading Behind These Doors without laughing, I wondered if it is in fact easier to hold on to your humanity as a prisoner than as a prison officer. South explains how austerity cuts led to violence and mental health problems on the wing; one week she cut three men down from ligatures Peter Andre, 50, reveals the one major thing he and pregnant wife, Emily, 33, fit into their schedule ahead of the birth of their new baby

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