Vicky Jessop
Vicky Jessop is a Commissioning Editor and Culture Writer at Evening Standard. She writes and commissions pieces on TV, covers gaming and (when she has time) also contributes to music, features, film, tech and travel.
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Vicky Jessop is a Commissioning Editor and Culture Writer at Evening Standard. She writes and commissions pieces on TV, covers gaming and (when she has time) also contributes to music, features, film, tech and travel.
Thieves steal banana from $6.2m art piece in French museum
A banana taped to a wall, part of Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2m 'Comedian' artwork, has been stolen from France's Centre Pompidou-Metz
The Pink Ball: what to know about the society event of the year
Boasting a glittering guest list and an all-pink colour scheme, it’s set to be a night to remember
Keeper review: oddly tranquil for a game about a sentient lighthouse
This delightfully bonkers puzzler from Double Fine treads the line between creepy and sweet
Sam Fender’s six best songs, ranked: from The Borders to Will We Talk?
With news that the Geordie artist has won the Mercury Prize, we rank his best songs
The Celebrity Traitors episode 4: the worst bunch of Faithfuls ever?
Jonathan Ross gets away by the skin of his teeth... again. Spoilers ahead
Why it's time you became au fait with TikTok micro-dramas
Meet the content creators drawing in millions of viewers with their am-dram soap operas
Virginia Giuffre: everything we know about her life and death
Virginia Giuffre's upcoming memoir details her experiences with Jeffrey Epstein and alleged interactions with Prince Andrew
The Celebrity Traitors episode 3: is Joe Marler a master detective?
This tense episode saw heat fall on Jonathan Ross and the Faithfuls bid farewell to one of their big stars — spoilers ahead
My night in London's smallest and cheapest hotel room
Zedwell’s newest London property only costs £30 a night and lets guests sleep in dedicated pods. Vicky Jessop squeezes in
Asus ROG Ally X: Power Unleashed
Asus’s latest collab with Xbox and Windows is a love letter to the gamers
How the women's game finally came to Football Manager
It’s taken four years, but women are finally making their debut in the massively popular franchise. But it wasn’t all plain sailing
Frankenstein at the LFF review: a vampy, campy Gothic fever-dream
The moody vibes are turned up to 100 in this more-or-less faithful adaptation of the book
Vivienne Westwood's last-ever collection of t-shirts to go on sale
The designer, who passed away in 2022, left behind a series of designs that can now be bought by the public
Katherine Devlin: 'We get up to badness on the Blue Lights group chat'
Told to teach, Katherine Devlin followed her dream instead — now she’s the breakout star of hit BBC drama Blue Lights
Riot Women on BBC One review: a glorious, feminist roar
To hell with ageing gracefully; Wainwright’s latest work is an ode to the power of rock and smashing the patriarchy
Jodie Whittaker's guide to Tenerife
The actor fell in love with the black sand beaches, the Canarian wine and spending all day zooming down waterslides — she even came home with the T-shirt
The Celebrity Traitors’ secret weapon? Turns out, it's Alan Carr
The Chatty Man’s inability to chill has elevated the series to a hysterical delight. Long may it continue
Most shocking revelations from Victoria Beckham's Netflix documentary
From burying her boobs in Baden-Baden to spending £70,000 on office plants, Vicky Jessop runs through the most interesting tidbits
Wake Up Dead Man review – Daniel Craig is predictably excellent
His turn as Benoit Blanc is the ballast that keeps Rian Johnson’s horror-tinged murder mystery on course
Who is Ruth Codd? All about the Irish actress on Celebrity Traitors
She started her career on TikTok and lost a leg after a footballing accident aged 15
From Palau to Phnom Penh — where to travel in 2026
Next year, Brits will be heading to Italy, Japan and Iceland