OHMYGOSSIP — Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has started filming for the fourth series of ‘Clarkson’s Farm’.
The former ‘Top Gear’ presenter, 64, is back on screen for the third outing of his hit Amazon Prime TV show – which releases today (03.05.24) – but is already looking to the future and has announced that work on the next lot of episodes is already underway.
Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, he said: “We’re doing season four now.
“And every single day when we meet for filming, we have a vague idea about what I need to do, but I can guarantee it will change because the weather has changed, or some fence will have fallen down.
“And you never know what you’re going to end up doing. As long as you get content, it doesn’t matter what it is.”
This comes as Jeremy’s right-hand-man, Kaleb Cooper, 25, revealed he would be playing a slightly different role in the forthcoming series.
During an appearance on ITV’s ‘This Morning’, he said: “I’ve got farm manager above my name now.
“To be honest with you, I think I was probably farm manager before I got the promotion. But we’ll skip past that! I’m very grateful for the promotion anyway!”
‘The Grand Tour’ star’s girlfriend Lisa Hogan admitted his “heart” in his Diddly Squat farm is “as much as his head”.
When asked on ‘Lorraine’ if Jeremy would be showing his “softer side” in the upcoming series, Lisa said: “Yes, originally, it was all about thinking how he could manage the farm, and now his heart is in it as much as his head.”
The ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ presenter previously teased a “heartbreaking” moment where his partner broke down in tears after a piglet they helped rear died.
At a launch event, he said: “It was just a heartbreaking time.
“I’d never, ever seen Lisa cry, not once, until all this started and was unfolding. It was terrible.
“It is weird, because you love them and you help birth them and you feed and nurture and care for them. I mean, you don’t say, ‘Let’s buy some pigs and hope they die’.
“I’ve always liked pigs. My mother used to buy me toy pigs every Christmas and birthday into my twenties, and I thought it would be fun to have them – then they all just died in alarming numbers.”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Prue Leith struggled to get her husband to take direction on the set of her new TV show.
The 84-year-old star – who tied the knot with John Playfair in 2016 – has become a regular face on British television screens thanks to her role as a judge on ‘The Great British Bake Off’ but when teaming up with her husband to film her new ITV show ‘Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen’ at home, she had to explain to her significant other that he was not the one in charge.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Lorraine’, she told stand-in host Ranvir Singh: “When we did the first show together John was not listening to what the director said, so I said to him ‘John, you see that girl? She is the director. The clue is in the name, she directs and you do what you’re told!’
“He doesn’t take direction.”
But the former ‘Great British Menu’ judge has “given up” on the idea that her husband may pay attention to direction and actually thinks his spontaneity works because nothing in real life ever goes as smoothly as it is often portrayed on screen.
She said: “I’ve given up on it, he does what he does. And you know what? It works.
“One of the things that is nice about that show, it was on a pretty tight budget and we only had a day for every programme. So we never, ever refilmed anything.
“If I am making a cake and it doesn’t quite work, well just say ‘Oh,well, it doesn’t quite work but never mind, it’ll taste delicious.’ And we just keep going; in real life, you’d never chuck something just because it wouldn’t be perfect in front of the camera.
“You just think ‘Well, it’s cooking, sometimes it doesn’t work!’
“There was one moment where I’m trying to show you how to take a mango skin off of with a glass, it’s a really good hack, but it didn’t quite work. And I asked John to have a go. It worked perfectly!”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

OHMYGOSSIP — Olly Alexander “tried not to have a breakdown” over the controversy of him signing up for the Eurovision Song Contest.
The 33-year-old star will represent the UK in the grand final of the annual competition on 11 May with the song ‘Dizzy’ but was pressured by a group called Queers for Palestine to boycott the show altogether over the inclusion of Israel amid their war on Gaza.
Just before joining Eurovision, Olly had signed a petition launched by the LGBTQ+ activist group calling for a ceasefire but remained committed to the contest as he declared that he “believes in the unifying power of music”, although he later “struggled” on the day of the Eurovision Party performance in London in early April.
He told The Times: “Yes, I struggled on that day.
“I was holed up in a room trying not to have a breakdown. Normally, you get on stage and turn it on, but I felt really unable to do that. It was tough.”
The ‘It’s a Sin’ actor noted that a “combination” of things had led to his lacklustre performance on that day as he admitted feeling “ashamed and embarrassed” over the controversy.
He said: “A combination. It has been quite tricky — to say the least. I just could not get it together and then I felt ashamed of myself and embarrassed.”
Olly admitted that he knew some of the other signatories on the Queers for Palestine petition but claimed that no one had been in touch with him and wishes things were “different” but has ultimately decided that things are “so much bigger” than his Eurovision entry.
He said: “I know quite a few and nobody reached out to me. It’s quite tough to receive a letter like that. Obviously there are a lot of things I wish were different. And this is so much bigger than me and Eurovision, it really is. But, obviously, I wish there wasn’t a war or this insane humanitarian crisis. I wish for peace and I have found this experience, at times, extremely …I’ve just felt really sad and distressed.
“But I still believe it’s a good thing when people come together for entertainment. That’s why I wanted to do Eurovision.”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

OHMYGOSSIP — Dame Joanna Lumley will act as the UK’s jury spokesperson for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
The 78-year-old actress – who is best known for starring as boozy fashion editor Patsy Stone in ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ but is also a sought-after voice artist noted for her honeyed tones – will reveal scores during the competition’s grand final in Malmo, Sweden on Saturday May 11.
She said: “I am delighted to be announcing the jury vote for the UK at this year’s Eurovision. It’s such a fabulous honour to give the iconic ‘douze points’!”
The news was first announced by Eurovision commentator Graham Norton on his Friday evening chat show, where he joked that she should do it in the fashion of her sitcom alter-ego.
He said: “Glassful of champagne, fistful of cigarettes. Yeah, do it!”
In 2023, when the UK came second-to-last with Mae Muller’s entry ‘I Wrote A Song’, the results were read out by ‘Doctor Who’ star Catherine Tate and others who have had the honour to do so include Nigella Lawson, Mel Giedroyc, former ‘Pointless’ host Richard Osman and Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker.
This year, the UK will be represented by Years and Years singer Olly Alexander with the song ‘Dizzy’, but admitted that he he tried “not to have a breakdown” after he was pressured by a group called Queers for Palestine to boycott the show altogether over the inclusion of Israel amid their war on Gaza.
Just before joining Eurovision, Olly had signed a petition launched by the LGBTQ+ activist group calling for a ceasefire but remained committed to the contest as he declared that he “believes in the unifying power of music”, although he later “struggled” on the day of the Eurovision Party performance in London in early April.
He told The Times: “Yes, I struggled on that day.
“I was holed up in a room trying not to have a breakdown. Normally, you get on stage and turn it on, but I felt really unable to do that. It was tough.”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

OHMYGOSSIP — Gemma Atkinson and Gorka Marquez don’t want any more children.
The 39-year-old actress already has Mia, four, and 10-month-old Thiago with ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Gorka Marquez and while she “already misses the newborn phase”, she admitted that they have been “blessed” with both a boy and a girl so have no plans to have another one.
She told the Daily Mirror’s LoveTV Magazine: “God no, we don’t want more kids than we’ve got hands, You need to be able to grab them. We always wanted two and we’ve been blessed with two, a boy and a girl. Although I do miss the newborn phase already but then I don’t miss being woken up every one and a half hours!”
The former ‘Hollyoaks’ actress – who is giving fans a glimpse into her life with the new UK TV Play show ‘Life Behind the Lens’ – has been engaged to Gorka since Valentine’s Day 2021 but is going to wait “another year or so” before actually walking down the aisle because she wants her youngest to be involved in some way.
She said: “We’d like Thiago to be involved now so we’re going to have to wait another year or so. When we first got engaged we said we’ll get Mia walking down the aisle and then Thiago came along… and there’s no time!”
Gemma also added that while they were considering a small ceremony in a registry office, she now thinks her mother would like to see her actually “walk down the aisle” so will plan something bigger eventually.
“We were toying with just going to a registry office and then having a big party after.
“But I think my mum would like to see me walk down the aisle so no plans yet but one day it will happen.”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

OHMYGOSSIP — Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith think it is the “right time” to end ‘Inside No. 9’ .
The double act has starred in the black comedy anthology show since 2014 but both of them have “no doubt” that the ninth series is the best time to draw things to a close even though it will be “hard” to film the last episode.
Steve told the Daily Mirror’s Love TV Magazine: “We’re not treating it too differently to any of the series really – it’s always manic! People keep asking us how we feel, but we’re just focusing on making this. I think filming the last episode will be hard. We feel really lucky to have got to nine. We don’t have any doubts that it’s the right time to leave it while people are still enjoying it and finding it surprising. The moment a show becomes predictable, it’s dead for us.”
The former ‘Benidorm’ actor, 56, even revealed that they thought an episode about the supposed ‘Curse of the Ninth’ would be “thematically good” for this series, but is just hopeful that neither he nor his co-star actually succumb to it.
He said: “We’ve been talking about one episode called ‘The Curse Of The Ninth’ for a long time – it’s about a superstition in classical music that once you’ve composed your ninth symphony, you’re going to die. We thought it was good thematically to save this one for the ninth series – hopefully we won’t drop dead next week!”
Meanwhile, Reece admitted that neither of them knew they would end up doing the show for a decade and have incorporated a a “lifetime of ideas” into the series over the years.
He said: “We didn’t know we’d be doing it for 10 years.”
Every series was a surprise to us. We’ve done so many different things – a lifetime of ideas. We just wish it was Inside No 2, then we’d have been done years ago!”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

OHMYGOSSIP — James Corden and Ruth Jones turned down a “tempting” offer from Netflix for the ‘Gavin and Stacey’ comeback.
The 45-year-old actor penned the BBC Three sitcom with his former ‘Fat Friends’ co-star and it was recently announced that the show will make a long-awaited return to screens as a Christmas special but insiders have now claimed that even though the writing duo had “conversations” with the streaming giant before deciding that it “belonged” to its original broadcaster.
A source told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column: “They held conversations with Netflix who threw everything at them to land what is seen as a gem of British comedy.
“James, Ruth and the team were effectively offered a multi-million pound one-off deal, and were promised it would open the show up to a whole new international audience.
“Obviously it was tempting, but they felt ‘Gavin and Stacey’ belonged to the BBC — and the nation, really.
“The optics wouldn’t have been great had they ‘sold out’ so they went with their hearts, not the cash.”
The show – which also stars ‘Loose Women’ panellist Joanna Page, former ‘Catherine Tate Show’ actor Mathew Horne alongside TV legends Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb – initially ran from 2007 until 2010 and was last seen in 2019 for a festive one-off but will be back on the box once more for the last episode dubbed ‘Gavin and Stacey: The Finale’.
Taking to Instagram, James wrote: “It’s official! We have finished writing the last ever episode of ‘Gavin and Stacey’.
“See you on Christmas Day, BBC One. Love Ruth and James (sic).”
The news came shortly after it was rumored that the show was making a comeback, but Ruth theorized that the story had come to fruition after she had been spotted with James in the UK after he finished his stint as the host for ‘The Late Late Show’.
She told RTE Radio 1: “Then the next thing is, ‘Oh my god they must be writing more ‘Gavin and Stacey’, which is lovely.
“It’s lovely that people are so desperate for it because imagine if it was the opposite and were like, ‘Oh, god, you’re not bringing that back again.’”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

OHMYGOSSIP — Mel B has reportedly signed a six-figure deal to appear on Bear Grylls’ new Netflix show ‘Bear Hunt’.
The Spice Girls singer, 48, previously appeared with adventurer and survivalist Bear, 49, on his ‘Running Wild’ series in 2016 – with her episode memorably including the moment she weed on his hand after he was stung by a jellyfish.
A source has now told The Sun about how she will take part in his new programme – which will see celebrities dropped in the jungle and chased by Bear: “(Mel) flew to Costa Rica at the weekend to join the ambitious reality series.”
The insider added she told friends she joined up to help pay for her upcoming lavish wedding to hairdresser Rory McPhee, 36, at St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
Twice-divorced Mel got engaged to Rory in November 2022 after the couple spent almost three years together and has told The Sun about her plan to get hitched to the stylist at the iconic church.
She said: “As I have an MBE, I am allowed to marry at St Paul’s.
“They only do a small number of weddings a year so we are on the waiting list.”
“(The rest of the Spice Girls) won’t be bridesmaids though – we are all too old.”
Bear’s show is being hosted by Holly Willoughby, 43, and is said to also feature retired rugby player Danny Cipriani, 36, on the run from the explorer.
Netflix said about the show: “Bear believes there’s an action hero inside us all – even the celebs – but how strong is their will to survive?
“As Bear puts them through their paces, those who fail to impress will face the dreaded ‘Bear Hunt’ — a brutal game of cat and mouse where they’ll be hunted down and, if captured, eliminated from the show.”
Bear has said about the show: “I drop 12 celebrities in the middle of the jungle and I get like 20-odd days to track them down. What can possibly go wrong?”
It is the second major show, following ‘Dancing on Ice’, Holly has fronted since she quit ITV’s ‘This Morning’ in October amid Phillip Schofield’s affair scandal.

Source: VacationHunter.Online

OHMYGOSSIP — George Gilbey told his mum “I love you” in a final phone call hours before he plunged to his death.
Linda McGarry has revealed the 40-year-old ‘Gogglebox’ star rang her for a chat shortly before he fell 80 feet from a warehouse roof he was working on in Shoebury, Essex, on 27 March and he ended it with the poignant words she says will remember forever.
She told The Sun newspaper: “He phoned me at 9.30 on the morning and said he was working… he seemed fine… [he] was happy that he was working. He ended the phone call by saying, ‘I love you’ like he usually did. I treasure those words.”
Linda went on to reveal George took the job fixing a roof at EGL Homecare’s warehouse to make some extra money so he could move closer to his daughter Amelie, who lives with her mum Gemma Conway in South West London.
Linda explained: “George was trying to get money together to get a room. He was going to rent from his friend, Skippy, near to Amelie in Twickenham.
“George was on great terms with Gemma and wanted to do things like pick Amelie up from school.
“He wanted to be with Amelie, who he adored. They were on the third day of a job that was going to last a month, and he was going to get money together from that.”
Earlier this month, an inquest was told George died from traumatic head and torso injuries following the fall. The hearing was suspended following a request from the Essex Police, pending the outcome of a criminal investigation. Proceedings have been adjourned for four months as a result.
A man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter relating to the star’s passing, but he has since been released by police under investigation.
George first appeared in ‘Gogglebox’ in 2013’s second series, but he left the show a year later to enter ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, on which he finished fourth.

Source: VacationHunter.Online