Best

Best delivers a varied and lively mix of ideas and inspiration to inform and entertain real women and help them get more out of every aspect of their busy lives. Best is topical, practical, offering more variety than any other weekly by embracing traditional topics in a modern way.

Contents • The right to choose...

START YOUR WEEK with a smile

Strictly awful! • Strictly’s sparkling new era has got off to a decidedly rocky start

Claudia's ready for chaos! • If you've not already caught up with the new Celebrity Traitors series, look away now to avoid spoilers!

Meghan's WhatsApp nightmare! • As Prince Harry returned to America to issue a stark warning about the dangers of technology, his wife Meghan experienced it first-hand

'Ozzy lives on in my son' • Ozzy Osbourne's daughter Kelly opens up about navigating life without her famous father, and seeing his spirit in her little boy...

Is it ever too early?? • While most of us are easing into Autumn, Laura Burford has untangled the fairy lights and tinsel. She doesn't care if people think she's crackers...

Trust your memory, not your phone • THE WAY I SEE IT... Wise words from our feisty, fearless and funny columnist

We're all talking about • Trouble finding the off switch?

We’re on a never-ending honeymoon • Instead of a fortnight in the sun, Louise Lambert and her husband Ray used their wedding gift to buy a yacht to sail into the sunset…

Face VALUE! • Need a quick perk up? Sophie Cooper from the Harley Street Skin Clinic shares her budget homemade mask recipes

6 Autumn skincare upgrades

Elsa McAlonan • BEST BEAUTY BARGAINS UNDER £10

STEP AWAY FROM THE SAUVIGNON! • Embrace Sober October and drop up to 7lbs

Would you track your partner? • Jamie and Jools Oliver use phone location apps to see each other’s every move. Does couple tracking make your marriage stronger - or destroy the trust? best investigates...

Harvest feast! • These delicious recipes make the most of seasonal ingredients

Wine of the week! • Sharing his passion for wine for 20 years, Olly’s a regular on Saturday Kitchen, a food hero for P&O Cruises and award-winning author of nine books. His first novel, Death by Noir is out now. With his extensive knowledge of all things booze, the only thing Olly is more enthusiastic about than a glass of the good stuff, is sharing it as widely as possible. Here’s his boozy bargain find for this week...

What would Vanessa say?

Fergie? Is she behind your plant pot? • Glamorous presenter Lizzie Cundy is back to talk high heels, fake tan, celeb mates - and takes a wild guess at where her former friend, Sarah Ferguson, is hiding...

My daughter is my superpower • This Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Meena Taggar-Mall tells us why being Anoushka's mum is the best...

'The King said Hi-de-Hi wrong to me!' • She's won Rear of the Year and had a number one hit! Here, Su Pollard spills the beans on her half-century in showbusiness...

See the world from HELEN'S HILARIOUS VIEWPOINT... • Our fabulous and funny columnist, comedian Helen Lederer is here to tell it like it is, in her own witty way...

Dupe of the week!

Jamie's 20-minute miracle! • Short on time? Not big on cooking? Love food? Jamie Oliver has whipped up the perfect formula for fuss-free dinners...

This week's must-see TV • best GIRLS' NIGHT IN...

Convictions Gone Bad with Will Mellor • BEHIND THE SCENES WITH best 'We need to stop these wrongs from happening again'

The best soap update

'Love and marriage? I'm a huge fan of divorce' • Relationship expert and TV star Paul C. Brunson on re-falling in...