I'd only been to Portugal once before, and that was an Easter weekend in Lisbon a couple of years ago. On that trip I was traveling with my ex-boyfriend, another of his ex-boyfriends, and his new boyfriend at the time – a strange combination but it worked surprisingly well.

This expedition was to Porto in the country’s north and I was on my own.

Charlie Sheen's personal chef, Khristianne Uy, was crowned the inaugural champion this week of the new ABC cooking competition show The Taste.

But Uy, known simply as Chef K, tells Gay Star News she had to contend with more than just cooking challenges on her way to the first prize of $100,000 and a 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid.

During a break from a career in human rights work, Mark Allison made the spontaneous decision to buy a restaurant in Pai, a small town in the mountains in northern Thailand, with his partner. That decision led him to Reiki healing, a greater sense of fulfillment and and a new career as a personal coach.

I first fell in love with Paul A Young’s sea salted caramel chocolates while I was living in Islington, dangerously close to the London chef’s first chocolate shop.

Walking past the sleek and inviting store each day, it was almost impossible to resist the small dark igloos of chocolate filled with salty sweet caramel that oozes across your tongue as you bite through the crisp casing.

Several years later, and with the offer of an interview, I was excited to be meeting the man behind the chocolate.

Lindsay Lohan was arrested on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident early Wednesday by New York City police after a man claimed the actress struck him with her Porsche SUV.

A chef named Jose Rodriguez, 34, was treated for torn knee tendons at Bellvue Hospital after the alleged incident in an ally by New York's Dream Hotel.

She may be the daughter of a top French chef, but Christina Novelli’s recipe for success is more about cooking up smoking tunes than serving up the perfect soufflé.

The openly bisexual singer-songwriter from Southampton in England cites Motown, Johnny Cash, Elvis and Tina Turner, along with contemporary names such as Paramore, Pink and Dashboard Confessional, as her music muses.

She started fronting her own bands from the tender age of 17 and her vocal abilities range from R&B to rock pop.

With at least one gay man and one transgendered man making up the 16 contestants, Big Brother 2012 is underway.

Big Brother was one of the first reality shows in the UK, first broadcast by Channel 4 in 2000. Now moved to Channel 5, the format is much the same with the housemates being given tasks to complete and then punished or rewarded.

Viewers of The Food Network have become familiar with chef Anne Burrell through her appearances on a wide array of the channel's most popular shows including Iron Chef America, Best Thing I Ever Ate and Chopped.

The spiky, platinum blond-haired host of Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and Worst Cooks in America confirmed publicly on Friday (25 May) that she is a lesbian. This comes after a fellow Food Network personality, Ted Allen, mentioned Burrell having a girlfriend during a radio interview.