French billionaire buys Patrick Drahi £2bn BT stake: Now ‘king of cost-cutting’ is the telecom giant’s biggest shareholder By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:16 BST, 10 June 2021 | Updated: 22:28 BST, 10 June 2021 Hammering down costs: Patrick Drahi (centre) celebrates his firm Altice’s New York flotation. He has now bought … Read more
Moroccan-born billionaire Patrick Drahi’s cost-cutting measures have not always gone down brilliantly with the company’s he took over. In 2017 Mr Drahi’s personal fortune took a nosedive when he took on dozens of telecoms companies in a short period of time. Altice had a debt burden of £43billion which made it vulnerable and caused investors … Read more
She’s been standing in for Lorraine Kelly on her breakfast show while the regular host takes a break. And Cat Deeley revealed on Friday’s episode of Lorraine that she bought her Alexander McQueen wedding dress before she’d even met her husband of nine years, Patrick Kielty. The beloved TV presenter, 44, explained: ‘It was so … Read more
Naomi Osaka, 23, on Sunday at Roland Garros. She refused to take part in the press conference afterwards, saying she didn’t want to ‘subject’ herself to journalists because they ‘doubt’ her and she wanted to protect her mental health Tennis veterans Patrick McEnroe and Billie Jean King weighed into the row over Naomi Osaka’s decision … Read more
The Mousetrap (St Martin’s, London) Rating: Verdict: Creaky but kind of fun Love Letters (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Rating: Verdict: Touching romance April in Paris (touring) Rating: Verdict: Good Godber The first show to open in London this week was also the first to close in March last year: The Mousetrap. And in the intervening period, … Read more
The Mousetrap (St Martin’s, London) Rating: Verdict: Creaky but kind of fun Love Letters (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Rating: Verdict: Touching romance April in Paris (touring) Rating: Verdict: Good Godber The first show to open in London this week was also the first to close in March last year: The Mousetrap. And in the intervening period, … Read more
So where WAS Patrick Vallance? Government says he ‘does not attend every press conference’ after questions were raised over why he was missing from Downing Street briefing Chief Scientific Adviser’s absence from press conference did not go unnoticed Sir Patrick is usually a fixture alongside Prof Chris Whitty and Boris Johnson His department, the Government … Read more
So where WAS Patrick Vallance? Government says he ‘does not attend every press conference’ after questions were raised over why he was missing from Downing Street briefing Chief Scientific Adviser’s absence from press conference did not go unnoticed Sir Patrick is usually a fixture alongside Prof Chris Whitty and Boris Johnson His department, the Government … Read more
The Visiting Hour Rating: Verdict: A game of cat and mouse Faith Healer Rating: Verdict: Lyrical healing We have the Irish to thank for keeping the music in the English language alive on stage over the past century. Two of the greatest exponents of this are Frank McGuinness and Brian Friel. McGuinness has a new … Read more
Married At First Sight’s Patrick Dwyer becomes the latest star to sign with a talent agency… just a day after it was revealed his ‘wife’ Belinda Vickers had done the same By Demeter Stamell and Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:13 BST, 7 May 2021 | Updated: 05:13 BST, 7 May 2021 Patrick … Read more