Celebrities love to tell tales of “before they were famous”.
Working as waiters or baristas, driving from audition to audition, almost giving up before that one phone call that changed their life, there’s no denying Hollywood loves a good story of struggle.
A big part of making it on the journey to success and fame is having a celebrity roommate. A fellow would-be or established star to share scripts, give audition tips and get annoyed with when they leave their dirty dishes in the sink.
From Brad Pitt’s Beverly Hills, 90210 roommate, to Jamie Dornan’s duo of famous roomies, here are 20 celebrity roommates…
James Corden and Dominic Cooper
The host of The Late Late Show and the Mamma Mia! actor are long-time friends who used to live together in London. Corden credits Cooper with introducing him to his wife, and the pair have reminisced about their time together in a flat in the British capital, on Corden’s show.
“We only had one piece of cutlery, which was a spatula,” Cooper said. “And I remember a really depressing evening where he caught me. He came home and I was just eating baked beans with the spatula.”
Jamie Dornan and Eddie Redmayne
“Eddie's been one of my best mates for a long time, and now we've got, you know, five kids between us and we're very much more sort of together people and stable people, probably,” said Belfast star Jamie Dornan about his former flatmate Eddie Redmayne. “But we had a lot of fun then.”
The pair shared an apartment in Los Angeles and have revealed how they would often be sent the same scripts for roles.
Justin Long and Jonah Hill
The Die Hard 4.0 actor has spoken about living with the Superbad star in Hollywood during the mid-2000s.
“We're still great friends but it got to be like an old married couple,” said Long. “We started getting in little fights like that he left the bathroom door open, didn't clean up after himself. Little things like that.”
Sienna Miller and Poppy Delevingne
The actress and Cara Delevingne’s socialite sister shared an apartment in New York in 2008 after they both moved from London to the Big Apple.
“She was totally my heroine at the time,” Delevingne has said of the Alfie star. “She doesn't take herself too seriously, which isn't as common as you'd think.”
Jason Segel and Kevin Hart
The two comic actors found themselves living together back in 2001, after writer and director Judd Apatow asked them to be roommates while they shot a TV pilot, in a move aimed at helping the future stars bond.
“None of us had really had that much success yet, and Judd Apatow, in a weird move, made Kevin Hart live with me for like six months,” Segel told Jimmy Kimmel Live!. “I lived in a one-bedroom apartment and all of a sudden, Kevin Hart was living with me, and he'd be like, ‘Hey man, are you making breakfast? I want some, too.’”
Brad Pitt and Jason Priestley
The Ocean’s Thirteen actor and the Beverly Hills, 90210 star were roommates back in the late 1980s.
Priestley has revealed the pair used to have competitions over who could go the longest without showering or shaving, and that Pitt once gave him a monogrammed Bible for Christmas.
Frances McDormand and Holly Hunter
The pair of Oscar winners were roommates in New York in the early 1980s, moving in together after breaking up with their boyfriends.
“Fran’s as fabulous as she seems,” Hunter told Vulture. “We had a blast. We stayed up there for a couple years.”
Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas
The Hollywood stars have been friends for decades, and have starred in three films together. They first met when they moved into an apartment together in New York, back in the 1960s.
“He was a great roommate,” said Douglas about his time spent living with DeVito. “It was a magical time. We were getting paid to act!”
Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow
Before they both made it big, the Happy Gilmore actor shared an apartment in LA with director Apatow.
“Adam always had a rental car. He never bought a car for literally 12 years,” Apatow said, adding the actor’s vehicle was filled with empty Mcdonald's bags.
Sandler moved out after joining the cast of Saturday Night Live and relocating to New York.
Dianna Agron and Lea Michele
They may have been enemies on their hit show Glee, but the actresses were so close off the set, they moved in together during filming.
“We’d have these smackdowns at work and come home and be like, ‘Wasn't it so funny when we were fighting today? Let's make cookies!’” Michele told New York Magazine.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
The Oscar-winning pair’s decades-long friendship is the stuff of Hollywood legend, and as well as being best friends, the pair also used to live together in Venice Beach, California.
“We rented this house on the beach in Venice and 800 people came and stayed with us,” said Affleck. “Then we ran out of money and had to get an apartment.”
Connie Britton and Lauren Graham
The Friday Night Lights actress and Gilmore Girls star lived together in the late 1990s, although perhaps “squatting” is a more appropriate term.
Admitting the pair were living in an “empty house we weren’t supposed to be living in”, Britton said: “We had no furniture and all we ate were Rice Krispies Treats.”
Jamie Dornan and Andrew Garfield
Part of a friendship group of British actors that includes Daredevil’s Charlie Cox and Batman star Robert Pattinson, Dornan also shared an apartment with Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield.
“We've known each other 17 years and there were times when we weren't really working that much and it wasn't happening for us,” Dornan said of his friendship with Garfield.
Raven-Symone and Lindsay Lohan
Back during their Disney days, That’s So Raven actress Raven-Symone and Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan shared an apartment. However, the two actresses didn’t exactly spend that much time together.
“She paid rent, and she was there probably three times,” Symone told Us Weekly. “She had her clothes in the apartment, we were supposed to live in together.”
Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake
Although not roommates in the traditional sense, Ryan Gosling moved in with Justin Timberlake’s family when the tweens were working on Disney’s The Mickey Mouse Club.
“Ryan’s mother had to keep her job in Canada the second year that we were on the television show and my mom was his guardian for like six months," Timberlake told Ellen DeGeneres. “So we actually lived together when we were that age.”
Penn Badgley and Milo Ventimiglia
Gossip Girl and You actor Badgley shared an apartment with This Is Us star Ventimiglia, back when Badgley was 18 and his roommate was 28. And the actor made sure the age gap worked in his favour.
“When I was 18, my roommate was Milo Ventimiglia, who was 28 at the time,” he told Bullett. “I used to borrow his ID to get into bars. I've still got it somewhere.”
Robert Downey Jr and Kiefer Sutherland
After meeting on the set of the movie 1969, the two actors moved in together, sharing an apartment in LA for three years in the 1980s.
Downey Jr has spoken about Sutherland consoling him after he split from Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker. The Iron Man actor also praised his former roommates work ethic, saying: “He is, and remains, a very disciplined guy.”
Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
The quirky pair met in a script writing class at the University of Texas in Austin. The French Dispatch writer and director has said that although he and Wilson didn’t speak to one another in class, they later became friends and roommates.
“I wrote a term paper for Owen,” said Anderson, “although that wasn’t exactly a collaborative effort.”
Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore
The Oscar-winning actor and the former US vice president roomed together for four years during their time at Harvard.
The pair hit of off from the start with Gore calling The Fugitive star “a great guy and a wonderful, lifelong friend”.
Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford
After they both won lead roles on the hit TV show Gossip Girl as Chuck Bass and Nate Archibald, the two actors decided to move in together into an apartment in New York, where the series was being filmed.
“Ed had never lived away from home, let alone in a different country,” said Crawford. “We got along and figured it would be a smart move financially.”
Mercer, the investment consulting arm of US services company Marsh & McLennan, expects its wealth division to at least double its assets under management (AUM) in the Middle East as wealth in the region continues to grow despite economic headwinds, a company official said.
Mercer Wealth, which globally has $160 billion in AUM, plans to boost its AUM in the region to $2-$3bn in the next 2-3 years from the present $1bn, said Yasir AbuShaban, a Dubai-based principal with Mercer Wealth.
“Within the next two to three years, we are looking at reaching $2 to $3 billion as a conservative estimate and we do see an opportunity to do so,” said Mr AbuShaban.
Mercer does not directly make investments, but allocates clients’ money they have discretion to, to professional asset managers. They also provide advice to clients.
“We have buying power. We can negotiate on their (client’s) behalf with asset managers to provide them lower fees than they otherwise would have to get on their own,” he added.
Mercer Wealth’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and insurance companies among others.
From its office in Dubai, Mercer also looks after Africa, India and Turkey, where they also see opportunity for growth.
Wealth creation in Middle East and Africa (MEA) grew 8.5 per cent to $8.1 trillion last year from $7.5tn in 2015, higher than last year’s global average of 6 per cent and the second-highest growth in a region after Asia-Pacific which grew 9.9 per cent, according to consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In the region, where wealth grew just 1.9 per cent in 2015 compared with 2014, a pickup in oil prices has helped in wealth generation.
BCG is forecasting MEA wealth will rise to $12tn by 2021, growing at an annual average of 8 per cent.
Drivers of wealth generation in the region will be split evenly between new wealth creation and growth of performance of existing assets, according to BCG.
Another general trend in the region is clients’ looking for a comprehensive approach to investing, according to Mr AbuShaban.
“Institutional investors or some of the families are seeing a slowdown in the available capital they have to invest and in that sense they are looking at optimizing the way they manage their portfolios and making sure they are not investing haphazardly and different parts of their investment are working together,” said Mr AbuShaban.
Some clients also have a higher appetite for risk, given the low interest-rate environment that does not provide enough yield for some institutional investors. These clients are keen to invest in illiquid assets, such as private equity and infrastructure.
“What we have seen is a desire for higher returns in what has been a low-return environment specifically in various fixed income or bonds,” he said.
“In this environment, we have seen a de facto increase in the risk that clients are taking in things like illiquid investments, private equity investments, infrastructure and private debt, those kind of investments were higher illiquidity results in incrementally higher returns.”
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, said in its 2016 report that has gradually increased its exposure in direct private equity and private credit transactions, mainly in Asian markets and especially in China and India. The authority’s private equity department focused on structured equities owing to “their defensive characteristics.”
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UK’s AI plan
- AI ambassadors such as MIT economist Simon Johnson, Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield and Google DeepMind’s Raia Hadsell
- £10bn AI growth zone in South Wales to create 5,000 jobs
- £100m of government support for startups building AI hardware products
- £250m to train new AI models
Safety 'top priority' for rival hyperloop company
The chief operating officer of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Andres de Leon, said his company's hyperloop technology is “ready” and safe.
He said the company prioritised safety throughout its development and, last year, Munich Re, one of the world's largest reinsurance companies, announced it was ready to insure their technology.
“Our levitation, propulsion, and vacuum technology have all been developed [...] over several decades and have been deployed and tested at full scale,” he said in a statement to The National.
“Only once the system has been certified and approved will it move people,” he said.
HyperloopTT has begun designing and engineering processes for its Abu Dhabi projects and hopes to break ground soon.
With no delivery date yet announced, Mr de Leon said timelines had to be considered carefully, as government approval, permits, and regulations could create necessary delays.
WRESTLING HIGHLIGHTS
COMPANY PROFILE
Name: HyperSpace
Started: 2020
Founders: Alexander Heller, Rama Allen and Desi Gonzalez
Based: Dubai, UAE
Sector: Entertainment
Number of staff: 210
Investment raised: $75 million from investors including Galaxy Interactive, Riyadh Season, Sega Ventures and Apis Venture Partners
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Starring: Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, Ben Kingsley
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Rating: 3/5
Timeline
2012-2015
The company offers payments/bribes to win key contracts in the Middle East
May 2017
The UK SFO officially opens investigation into Petrofac’s use of agents, corruption, and potential bribery to secure contracts
September 2021
Petrofac pleads guilty to seven counts of failing to prevent bribery under the UK Bribery Act
October 2021
Court fines Petrofac £77 million for bribery. Former executive receives a two-year suspended sentence
December 2024
Petrofac enters into comprehensive restructuring to strengthen the financial position of the group
May 2025
The High Court of England and Wales approves the company’s restructuring plan
July 2025
The Court of Appeal issues a judgment challenging parts of the restructuring plan
August 2025
Petrofac issues a business update to execute the restructuring and confirms it will appeal the Court of Appeal decision
October 2025
Petrofac loses a major TenneT offshore wind contract worth €13 billion. Holding company files for administration in the UK. Petrofac delisted from the London Stock Exchange
November 2025
180 Petrofac employees laid off in the UAE
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Trump v Khan
2016: Feud begins after Khan criticised Trump’s proposed Muslim travel ban to US
2017: Trump criticises Khan’s ‘no reason to be alarmed’ response to London Bridge terror attacks
2019: Trump calls Khan a “stone cold loser” before first state visit
2019: Trump tweets about “Khan’s Londonistan”, calling him “a national disgrace”
2022: Khan’s office attributes rise in Islamophobic abuse against the major to hostility stoked during Trump’s presidency
July 2025 During a golfing trip to Scotland, Trump calls Khan “a nasty person”
Sept 2025 Trump blames Khan for London’s “stabbings and the dirt and the filth”.
Dec 2025 Trump suggests migrants got Khan elected, calls him a “horrible, vicious, disgusting mayor”
Quick facts on cancer
- Cancer is the second-leading cause of death worldwide, after cardiovascular diseases
- About one in five men and one in six women will develop cancer in their lifetime
- By 2040, global cancer cases are on track to reach 30 million
- 70 per cent of cancer deaths occur in low and middle-income countries
- This rate is expected to increase to 75 per cent by 2030
- At least one third of common cancers are preventable
- Genetic mutations play a role in 5 per cent to 10 per cent of cancers
- Up to 3.7 million lives could be saved annually by implementing the right health
strategies
- The total annual economic cost of cancer is $1.16 trillion
What vitamins do we know are beneficial for living in the UAE
Vitamin D: Highly relevant in the UAE due to limited sun exposure; supports bone health, immunity and mood.
Vitamin B12: Important for nerve health and energy production, especially for vegetarians, vegans and individuals with absorption issues.
Iron: Useful only when deficiency or anaemia is confirmed; helps reduce fatigue and support immunity.
Omega-3 (EPA/DHA): Supports heart health and reduces inflammation, especially for those who consume little fish.
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RESULTS
Women:
55kg brown-black belt: Amal Amjahid (BEL) bt Amanda Monteiro (BRA) via choke
62kg brown-black belt: Bianca Basilio (BRA) bt Ffion Davies (GBR) via referee’s decision (0-0, 2-2 adv)
70kg brown-black belt: Ana Carolina Vieira (BRA) bt Jessica Swanson (USA), 9-0
90kg brown-black belt: Angelica Galvao (USA) bt Marta Szarecka (POL) 8-2
Men:
62kg black belt: Joao Miyao (BRA) bt Wan Ki-chae (KOR), 7-2
69kg black belt: Paulo Miyao (BRA) bt Gianni Grippo (USA), 2-2 (1-0 adv)
77kg black belt: Espen Mathiesen (NOR) bt Jake Mackenzie (CAN)
85kg black belt: Isaque Braz (BRA) bt Faisal Al Ketbi (UAE), 2-0
94kg black belt: Felipe Pena (BRA) bt Adam Wardzinski (POL), 4-0
110kg black belt final: Erberth Santos (BRA) bt Lucio Rodrigues (GBR) via rear naked choke
