Stephen Colbert on Ice: ‘Constantly devising new terrible ways to treat immigrants’

Late-night hosts talked about US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict and how the situation at home should be higher on the priority list.On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about the “tenuous ceasefire” that Donald Trump has been taking credit for after getting involved in the situation between Israel and Iran.The president’s controversial decision to bomb Iran has led some of his most ardent loyalists to claim he deserves the Nobel peace prize.Colbert said he is “not sure if they give an award for bombing people into submission” and anyway, they “kept bombing each other” despite an alleged ceasefire.The ongoing conflict led Trump to lose his cool with press, telling reporters that Israel and Iran “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing”

‘She killed three husbands with this teapot’: Prue Leith, Huw Stephens and more pick their favourite museum

From a stray meteorite to an immersive coal pit, via the chance to sit on a ‘feeding chair’, famous fans tell us how they fell in love with the UK’s Museum of the Year finalistsIt’s rare to hear someone getting this excited over a teapot. But as Terry Deary tells me, with exactly the kind of relish you’d expect from the author of Horrible Histories, this particular drinks vessel belonged to the Victorian-era mass murderer Mary Ann Cotton. Believed to have killed 12 of her children, not to mention three husbands, she was finally caught after poisoning her stepson in 1872 with an arsenic-laced brew. “And in Beamish they’ve got the teapot!” says Deary. “I was blown away to hold it!”He’s talking about Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, an open-air site based in County Durham (just like Cotton herself, who was eventually hanged in Durham Gaol)

Zombie dogs, martial arts and a meet-cute: Resident Evil has it all

In 2009, actor Milla Jovovich married director Paul WS Anderson. Longtime partners and creative collaborators, the two met on the set of 2002’s Resident Evil, an adaptation of the Japanese video game franchise which pushed the limits of the PlayStation in the 90s. Starring the former and written and directed by the latter, the production – which would inaugurate a six-film, billion-dollar franchise – was not without its hiccups.The story goes that Jovovich, unhappy with script revisions which palmed her action scenes off to her co-stars, threatened to walk. But instead of leaving, she and Anderson spent hours amending the script: the genesis of a fruitful partnership, both professional and personal

‘We had therapists on standby’: Chris Tarrant on making Who Wants to Be a Millionnaire?

I was responsible for the schedule. I’d listened to Chris Tarrant doing this game on the radio – Double or Quits – which was brilliant. I was intrigued by its TV version, called Cash Mountain, because it was well known in the industry that various people had turned it down. I invited the producer, Paul Smith, to pitch the full idea to me and Claudia Rosencrantz, ITV’s controller of entertainment.My main worry was: how likely was it to bankrupt the network? Four multiple-choice answers seemed too easy

Is this the antidote to the housing crisis? The YouTube series showcasing chic – and tiny – abodes

I’ve been invited into the homes of architects in Buenos Aires, voguish designers in Hong Kong, community organisers in Sydney and writers in Paris – except that I haven’t, not really.Really what I’m doing is watching episodes of Never Too Small on YouTube. Never Too Small is a media company that makes a magazine and an online documentary series dedicated “to small footprint design
and living”. To me, Never Too Small is “the company that makes my favourite television show, which I watch while eating toast”.Episodes go live weekly and there are more than 100

My cultural awakening: I watched Sleepless in Seattle and realised I had to cancel my wedding

As the big day approached, I tried to brush aside feelings of uncertainty. But the 90s romcom reminded me that I didn’t have to settle for anyoneWhen my boyfriend proposed, I said yes – not because I was madly in love with him, but because it seemed like the correct thing to do. We’d been together for eight years and all of our friends were getting engaged; my life felt like a constant cycle of hen nights. I knew something was wrong but I suppressed it. Sometimes I’d get these flashes of anxiety