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Ferne McCann: 'I know who I am now – being a parent definitely teaches you that'

Reality show Ferne McCann: First Time Mum is back for a second series, following the life of the former The Only Way Is Essex star as she brings up her daughter alone. Georgia Humphreys finds out more.

In the first series of First Time Mum, we saw the early stages of Ferne McCann learning to be a mother to daughter Sunday.

The 28-year-old reality star – who appeared in The...

Gary Barlow on parenting: 'Sometimes I'm a good dad, sometimes I'm terrible'

He was only a teenager himself when he first found fame with Take That and now lead singer Gary Barlow has teenage children of his own.

The singer-songwriter has three children – Daniel, 18, Emily, 16, and Daisy, 10 – with his wife Dawn. The couple also had a stillborn daughter, Poppy, in 2012.

Barlow – who was recently announced as the new face of Osiris Eyewear at...

Jamie Oliver: 'About 3/10 of our family meals are idyllic – that's normal'

You might imagine meals in Jamie Oliver's household to be blissful, well-mannered scenes of his picture-perfect family digging into his cookbook classics, so it's nice to know the TV chef and child health campaigner experiences the same problems as most parents when it comes to kids and food.

"What was my last count? A million children?" he laughs. Five actually, in case you've lost...

Pete Townshend: 'I'm not easy to live with ... but we have a good time'

He may be 74, but the creative juices of rock legend Pete Townshend, the songwriting powerhouse and lead guitarist in The Who, are ever-flowing.

The band's founder and rock opera impresario has just wrapped a 29-date symphonic tour in the US, is releasing a new Who album in December – the first in 12 years – and is now working on an opera.

And in between times he has...

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