Danny CiprianiThis London born rugby player’s mum learnt ‘The Knowledge’ and worked as a taxi driver so she could send him to a private school. Cipriani has no connection to the restaurant and hotel empire of the same name, but his model girlfriend, Kelly Brook, “sent a message” to him by dining at the London outpost when they split in 2010. After the pair were reunited in the spring of 2013, he was injured after being hit by a bus during a drunken pub crawl in Leeds. Of the incident, he commented: “I can’t believe I am not dead… I am a very lucky boy”.

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Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb
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Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb

This glamorous Oxford educated historian, writer and broadcaster is best known for her expertise on the 16th century. A blonde bombshell, Lipscomb was the research curator at Hampton Court Palace between 2007 and 2010 and became a senior lecturer and convenor for history at the New College of the Humanities in 2011. Bloody Tales of […]

Brian Shaffer (AKA “The Man Who Vanished Into Thin Air)
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Brian Shaffer (AKA “The Man Who Vanished Into Thin Air)

A medical student at the Ohio State University, 27-year old Brian Shaffer went into the Ugly Tuna Saloona bar in Columbus on the evening of 31st March 2006 and has never been seen again. His father, Randy, orchestrated a mammoth campaign to raise awareness of the case but was killed when a tree hit him […]