Helen George reveals how she copes with brutal Call The Midwife scenes

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OHMYGOSSIP — Helen George turned to a cup of tea to get over devastating ‘Call The Midwife’ birth scenes.
The 39-year-old actress has played Trixie Franklin in all 13 series of the BBC period drama, and while she’s used to the practical side of her role, the emotions can be overwhelming.
Asked if she could deliver a baby for real, she told The Lady magazine: “Well, I suppose I wouldn’t be quite as surprised as some people about what goes on. And I would know how to cut the cord.
“But I still get quite emotional in those scenes. In season four there was a particularly difficult birth, and I couldn’t stop crying.
“The emotion was raw and heartfelt. But I just had to embrace it and then have a cup of tea to recover.”
However, Helen still loves the “physical challenge” of the scenes, and how rewarding they are by the end of the shoot.
She added: “Even after all this time I still get the most out of the birth scenes, because they are such a physical challenge.
“There are always so many props to deal with, which really puts you through the wringer.”
She had a very different challenge while touring on stage in ‘The King And I’, as she found herself having to wear a corset and huge dress to fit the 19th century style.
She said: “I call it The Beast. It weighs 10 pounds, and I lost so much weight on tour last year because of it.
“You have to be pretty fit to wear the dress night after night, so you almost have to train like an athlete. I made sure to eat a lot of protein over Christmas.”
The costume was a world away from her outfits as Trixie.
She explained: “Trixie always has lovely coats and outfits because she wants to be someone different every night.
“She’ll dress like Doris Day on one occasion and then Marilyn Monroe on another – or even a bit of a beatnik look with a polo-neck as the show moved into the 1960s.”

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Aisling Bea was ‘sick for a very long time’ after This Way Up

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OHMYGOSSIP — Aisling Bea was “sick for a very long time” after making the second series of ‘This Way Up’ during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 39-year-old actress wrote and starred in two seasons of the Channel 4 comedy and she’s now admitted she “truly regrets” going back to work to make the second series in the middle of lockdown – insisting she wishes they’d waited for winter to be over so the production didn’t seem so “hopeless and dark”.
She told Stylist magazine: “I’m a big believer of regrets. I truly regret making the second series of ‘This Way Up’ in the winter lockdown, when there were no vaccines and it all seemed hopeless and dark.
“I wish we’d waited until the spring, when we were not so broken from the winter of isolation. It left me very sick for a very long time.”
However, in the interview, Aisling also admitted that some alone time is actually healthy for her because she needs some space to unwind.
She explained: “I am an outgoing, social lass 20 per cent of the time, but as I grew up in the middle of nowhere with just my sister and mam, my nervous system needs unobserved alone time to resettle or I become like an old kettle on the hob whistling in a panic.”
In the show, Aisling plays a teacher who’s trying to pull her life back together after a nervous breakdown and she previously insisted she hoped it would help shine a light on mental health issues.
She told Squaremile.com: “Just to show someone funny, struggling, and getting to the other side of it. I wanted to show someone on the other side. It wasn’t about going down hill.
“Even with the title. Someone wanted to do a different version of it and translated it to ‘Be Careful, Fragile’. I was like, ‘No, no, that’s not it.’
“First of all, from just your translation of the title, you don’t get that it’s about going forward and showing that you can go forwards and up. It’s not about being broken, it’s about rebuilding yourself. It’s about going in with that intent with every scene. It’s about recovery.”

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Zendaya reveals why struggled not to cry during shooting of ‘Dune: Part 2’

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OHMYGOSSIP — Zendaya struggled not to cry during emotional scenes in ‘Dune: Part 2’.
The ‘Euphoria’ actress, 27, plays desert-dwelling Chani from the Fremen tribe in the sci-fi sequel, and she says the people are so intent on holding their bodily fluids in to preserve their life they don’t cry when people die.
Zendaya told ‘Collider’ about shooting Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to his ‘Dune’ epic: “Without giving too much away, there’s a ceremony of sorts, and I think for me, obviously, I was always thinking about this thing for the Fremen – you’re not supposed to waste water, and that includes crying.
“And even Stilgar (a Fremen chief played by Javier Bardem), he says, ‘Don’t waste your water on the dead,’ and things like that.
“So, it’s like wanting to evoke emotion but not being able to cry, and what does that mean?
“Because I’m used to just like, ‘’Alright, well, let’s just cry!’ And how do you just hold them right there and not let them fall?”
“And then you have to let them fall in a very specific moment. So you have to hold, and then they can only fall when a specific thing happens – without giving things away, then I’m allowed to let the tear fall.
“So it was, for me, just about holding on to her composure, but also being emotional.”
Zendaya added there was a scene where she “accidentally cried”, and her tears were removed in post-production.
She added: “How do you convey this emotion but also stay true to who the character is, and things that would be very true and honest for them? Those are the seeds.”
‘Dune: Part Two’ sees a rebellion that first began on the Arrakis planet break out after the world is left in the hands of the brutal Harkonnens.
The Fremen people end up uniting to face a war for their homes and way of life in the film, which also stars Austin Butler, Christopher Walken, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Dave Bautista.

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Cillian Murphy backs Christopher Nolan for James Bond: ‘Of course!’

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OHMYGOSSIP — Cillian Murphy has backed Christopher Nolan to direct the next James Bond movie.
The ‘Oppenheimer’ actor – who has worked with the iconic filmmaker several times over the years, starting with ‘Batman Begins’ in 2005 – insisted he was “not going to speak” for his frequent collaborator, but he would love to see him helm one of 007’s action packed adventures.
He told RSVP magazine: “I would. Of course I’d go and see a Chris Nolan Bond movie. I feel though he’s on a journey with his own material.
“I mean, he’s a huge Bond fan. He loves the movies.”
The 47-year-old star suggested there is already a “little bit” of a Bond influence in Nolan’s body of work.
He added: “I think there’s parts of every movie that are a little bit Bond, aren’t there?
“Not consciously, but I think you can kind of see it, particularly in ‘Inception’ and ‘Tenet’. I don’t know.
“Listen, ask him. I’d be interested to hear the answer.”
However, he ruled out the idea of him succeeding Daniel Craig as the next actor to play Ian Fleming’s creation.
He insisted: “I’m not James Bond – that ship has sailed, shall we say.”
Although there could be other roles in a potential Nolan-led blockbuster – including Q, M or even a Bond villain – Murphy refused to be drawn into speculation.
He laughed: “Let’s see what Chris comes up with.”
If Nolan were to take on Bond and bring Murphy on board, the actor’s past experience being cast as Scarecrow in ‘Batman Begins’ suggest the call would come “out of the blue”.
He recalled: “I was prepared for it. For me, just to be directed by Christopher Nolan, I was a young actor and I loved the experience of it.
“But I thought that might be it because I didn’t see myself as [Batman]. Then as he always does, he called me out of the blue.
“He said, ‘Look, it’s not going to work out for Batman.’ I thought, ‘It’s got to be Christian Bale, that makes completed sense.’
“Then he said, ‘But there’s this other character’. And that’s how it started.”

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Louise Jameson rubbishes her Doctor Who exit

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OHMYGOSSIP — Louise Jameson has rubbished her ‘Doctor Who’ exit.
The 72-year-old actress played Leela, the Fourth Time Lord’s (Tom Baker) accomplice from 1977 to 1978, who decided to leave the Doctor and stay on the planet Gallifrey with her newfound love.
And now, Louise has bashed the writers for not giving her character a “great big dramatic” ending.
The ‘Emmerdale’ star said: “It was a c*** ending, wasn’t it? I think she should have died saving the Doctor’s life – something really heroic.
“Or you travel forward, and she’s got a football team of children … something dramatic, anyway. I mean, it’s so cliche, isn’t it, that she’s fallen in love, that’s how we get rid of her.
“Literally the night before we shot my last scene, [producer Graham Williams] came up to me and said, ‘It’s very easy to rewrite your exit … can I ask you one last time, will you please change your mind?’ – very flattering.
“I was already signed to go and play Portia [in ‘The Merchant of Venice’] in Bristol, so there’s no way I could have stayed, but I think it had been written with him thinking, ‘I can change her mind’, which is why it hadn’t been a great big dramatic story.”
Louise previously revealed she was asked to reprise the role to bridge the gap between Tom Baker and Peter Davison’s iteration of the Time Lord but turned it down after deciding she didn’t want to commit to another season of the long-running BBC show.
At a British Film Institute Event in 2020, she said: “I got a phone call from John Nathan-Turner – and I knew he was now a producer at the BBC – to say could he take me out to lunch and discuss ‘a series’ – that’s all he’d say. I thought, ‘Oh, I’m going to get my own series!’
“It turned out that John wanted me to do the last one or two stories of Tom and the whole of the next season, and he told me the [next] Doctor hadn’t been cast yet.
“I said I would do the leaving and the arrival, but I didn’t want to do a whole other season.”

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Downton Abbey returning for seventh series

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Downton Abbey’ is reportedly due to return for a seventh series.
The acclaimed period drama, which stars Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael and Dame Maggie Smith, ran from 2010 to 2015, and received two movie spin-offs in 2019 and 2022.
Now, an industry insider has claimed that the programme is set to come back to screens with a seventh series.
A source told the Daily Mail newspaper: “Filming has been going on for a few weeks now, it is all very, very secret. There are people working on it who have never seen secrecy like it.
“Those working on the set have been made to sign non-disclosure agreements so that they don’t give the game away but there is a lot of excitement at the return of Downton.
“It was such a huge success before and there are so many more stories to be told, it seemed such a shame not to be able to make more of it but they’ve made it happen.”
Although it is unclear which cast members will return for the new series, it is possible that the stars of 2022’s ‘Downtown Abbey: A New Era’ – Hugh, Michelle and Elizabeth McGovern – will be back.
At the time of the movie’s release, Hugh revealed he felt that the franchise had “run its course” and was happy to end ‘Downton Abbey’ with the film.
He told The Hollywood Reporter: “I suspect, on a practical level, it’s run its course now. I think that was a good time to quit.
“I’m never gonna second guess the future, but did think for a while, actually, yeah, why not, let’s keep going. But I do think it could get a bit thin. I
“think the second film was such a joyous one and such a good note on which to end the story. And it does feel like it can end. There’s still open doors in it, but I think it might be the right time to stop.”

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Lorraine Kelly’s mum facing kidney dialysis

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lorraine Kelly’s mum is facing kidney dialysis.
The 64-year-old presenter was left worried last July when her mother Anne, 81, was taken into hospital after having been previously admitted in February 2023.
She suffers nephrotic syndrome, which stops her kidneys functioning properly, and Lorraine has now told Your magazine about her condition: “Mum might need to go on dialysis although she’s doing so well at the moment.
“I would want to go to sessions with her.”
Lorraine was also left devastated last year at the death of ITV digital producer Hannah Hawkins from breast cancer aged 33 – and by the passing of Dame Deborah James in June 2022 aged 40 after her fight with bowel cancer.
She said about how the losses made her re-evaluate her life: “Losing them has made me want to grab my life.
“We have to find some joy when we can.”
Lorraine is on the verge of publishing her first novel, ‘The Island Swimmer’, which she says is about a lonely woman called Evie facing up to past secrets and a traumatic childhood when she returns home and joins a group of cold-water swimmers in Orkney, off the north-eastern coast in Scotland.
She said: “Novelist Marian Keyes once told me that your characters can take you places you don’t expect and I wasn’t sure what she meant, but now I know that they actually do.”
Lorraine added she was only able to finish the book thanks to support from her husband of 31 years, former cameraman Steve Smith.
She said: “I just don’t know what I’d do without him, it would be like cutting my arm off.
“It’s thanks to him I was able to find the time to write my novel. He takes a lot of the burden of the day-to-day running of things and shouldered a lot more last year.”

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AJ Pritchard would love to return to Strictly as a judge

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OHMYGOSSIP — AJ Pritchard would love to return to ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ as a judge.
The 29-year-old dancer was a professional on the BBC One Latin and ballroom show from 2016 until 2019, and he would love to get the opportunity to join the judging panel.
He told Express.co.uk: “As a dancer, I will never turn my back on dancing, it’s what led me to be in the position that I’m in now.”
Quizzed on whether he’d like to pick up a paddle board, he replied: “I would love to be a judge, I could get my judging head on. I’m always doing different judging jobs around the country. I do love being in that position.”
The current judging panel is comprised of former ‘Strictly’ professional Anton du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, and head judge Shirley Ballas.
Since his ‘Strictly’ stint, AJ has competed on several reality shows, including ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!’ and ‘The Challenge UK’.
He made his acting debut in the Channel 4 soap opera ‘Hollyoaks’, alongside his brother, Curtis Pritchard, 28, however, he quit acting after they were widely criticised for their nine-episode run as dancer brothers Marco and Jacob in 2021.
He told the Daily Star newspaper’s Hot TV column: “‘Hollyoaks’ were so happy with everything. That’s all that matters.
“I enjoyed it but I feel like acting isn’t my forte.”
AJ and Curtis’ casting on ‘Hollyoaks’ was slammed by various soap actors, who insisted people should be cast on talent, not social media followers.

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Nick Knowles pays for ‘helicopter extraction cover’ for wild TV adventures

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OHMYGOSSIP — Nick Knowles pays for “helicopter extraction cover” when he’s out filming his wild TV adventures because his antics are so dangerous.
The TV presenter – who has worked on a number of travel shows over the years – says TV bosses will no longer pay for his insurance because he takes part in so many risky activities for his programmes so he has to come up with the money to cover an emergency rescue by helicopter if he ever has a nasty accident.
He told The Sun newspaper: “You can’t get insurance because a lot of the programming I’m doing, they are such big adventures. I actually now pay an enormous amount to ensure I have helicopter extraction cover instead.”
The TV star insists he loves taking part in dangerous stunts even though they’ve left him with numerous injuries. He explained: “They’ve all been dangerous. Climbing out on 200ft towers, swimming in the Arctic circle, jumping in the ice – I love all that stuff. It makes you feel alive.
“My shoulders, neck, back, knees, everything, is knackered because of accidents – but I consider them a badge of honour.”
Nick added: “Every time I get into something hairy, I think, ‘I’ve come all the way here and I’m supposed to be having a go’, so you have to have a go no matter how terrifying it is.”
Nick’s latest exploits have included filming in the US in Death Valley – the hottest place on Earth – and in the Grand Canyon while he’s believed to be working on a new travel show for Channel 5 which will take him to exotic destinations across the world.

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Lashana Lynch reveals reason she would have turned down role in Bob Marley: One Love

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lashana Lynch would have turned down her role in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ if the Jamaican accents were “watered down”.
The 36-year-old actress stars as the wife of the late music reggae legend in the new biopic but explained that in order to portray the “special time” and place that the story is set in, all of the cast had to be allowed to be “authentic” with the way they spoke on screen.
She told Collider: “There’s no other way to tell this story outside of being as authentic as possible to every inch of who Bob is right now, what he was, what he represents. Jamaica, especially Jamaica in the ‘70s, it’s just a special time, and a really important time in my culture’s history. So to have accents that were watered down, I mean, that’s one thing that I wouldn’t have signed up for at all. I’m of Jamaican heritage and it would have been against everything that I believed in if we just had a quote-unquote understandable Jamaican accent.
“I just think that’s wrong in every way. And I think it’s important for audiences to lean in with understanding narratives, understanding cultures and accents. It’s important, and it really doesn’t underestimate what audiences do. We shouldn’t be spoon-feeding them in any way, and the accents being as true as they can be was one way of doing it.”
The ‘ No Time to Die’ star was also asked about her previous roles and what she would recommend to anyone who hasn’t seen her work before and named 2022 film ‘The Woman King’ because of the range of emotions she displayed on the project.
She said: ” I think I would go for ‘The Woman King’ because I got to do strong and vulnerable at the same time in that movie, which I think is hard to do, and I found it very hard to do. I did my own stunts entirely for the first time — probably the last time [laughs] — and it was wonderful. I just love the character and I love Gina [Prince-Bythewood], and just the whole experience was life-changing for me.”

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Christopher Nolan gets family members to deliver scripts

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OHMYGOSSIP — Christopher Nolan enlists members of his family to deliver his movie scripts.
Cillian Murphy – who has worked with the director on six films – has revealed the scripts are always printed on red paper to ensure they can’t be photocopied and the moviemaker ensures secrecy by getting trustworthy relatives to hand-deliver them to his star if he’s unable to do it himself.
The actor told GQ magazine: “So, like, it’s been his mom who’s delivered the script to me before. Or his brother, he’ll go away and come back in three hours.
“Part of it has to do with keeping the story secret before it goes out. But part of it has to do with tradition. They’ve always done it this way, so why stop now? It does add a ritual to it, which I really appreciate. It suits me.”
However, Murphy agreed to take the title role in Nolan’s latest blockbuster ‘Oppenheimer’ without even seeing the script, he explained: “He’d [Nolan] already called me and said he wanted me to play the part. And I had said yes – because I always say yes to him.”
He has no regrets about taking on the part as it’s become the director’s most successful film to date and has landed 13 Oscar nominations including a Best Actor nod for Murphy as well as a shot at the coveted Best Picture gong.
‘Oppenheimer’ hit cinemas last summer at the same time as ‘Barbie’ – and Murphy previously insisted the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon was “wonderful” for the movie industry.
Asked if the two films helped each other at the box office, the 47-year-old actor told the BBC: “Yeah, they did. And it was a great moment for cinema.
“I think they’re both great films which couldn’t be more different. And I think it was wonderful it wasn’t any amazingly designed marketing strategy by the studio.
“It was people, you know, it was the internet and people who made up this Barbenheimer thing and it, yeah, it was a wonderful moment for cinema.”

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Happy Valley wins big at TV Choice Awards 2024

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Happy Valley’ was among the big winners at this year’s TV Choice Awards, after scooping two prizes.
The BBC thriller clinched the Best Drama Series gong at the London Hilton hotel on Park Lane on Monday (12.02.24), and Sarah Lancashire – who plays police sergeant Catherine Cawood in the show – scooped the Best Actress accolade.
Sarah overcome competition from Call The Midwife’s Jenny Agutter, ‘Vera’ legend Brenda Blethyn, and Yasmin Finney, who appears in ‘Heartstopper’.
Netflix’s ‘Heartstopper’ and ITV’s ‘Vera’ also lost out to ‘Happy Valley’ in the Best Drama Series category, as did Channel 5’s ‘All Creatures Great and Small’.
‘Emmerdale’ was another double winner on the night, after the ITV show won the Best Soap prize, and Jeff Hordley clinched the Best Soap Actor accolade, while Coronation Street’s Dame Maureen Lipman winning Best Soap Actress.
Other big TV Choice Awards winners included ‘Doc Martin’ star Martin Clunes, who won Best Actor, while ‘Call The Midwife’ won the Best Family Drama award, and ‘Death in Paradise’ spin-off ‘Beyond Paradise’ won Best New Drama.
Netflix won the Favourite Channel/ Streaming Site accolade, but Channel 4 tasted success with ‘Gogglebox’/ ‘Celebrity Gogglebox’ being named Best Entertainment Show over ‘Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway’, ‘The Graham Norton Show’ and ‘Taskmaster’.
What’s more, Channel 4’s ‘The Great British Bake Off’ won Best Talent Show, defeating ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, ‘Britain’s Got Talent’, and ‘The Masked Singer’.
‘Animal Park’ scooped the Best Daytime Show award, beating off competition from the likes of ‘This Morning’ and ‘Loose Women’.

The TV Choice Awards 2024 Full Winners List:

Best New Drama
Beyond Paradise

Best Drama Series
Happy Valley

Best Family Drama
Call The Midwife

Best Actor
Martin Clunes, Doc Martin

Best Actress
Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley

Best Comedy Show
Mrs Browns Boys

Best Reality Show
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

Best Entertainment Show
Gogglebox/ Celebrity Gogglebox

Best Lifestyle Show
The Martin Lewis Money Show Live

Best Daytime Show
Animal Park

Best Food Show
James Martin’s Saturday Morning

Best Factual Show
Winter on the Farm/ Springtime on the Farm

Favourite Channel/ Streaming Site
Netflix

Best Game Show
The Chase

Best Talent Show
The Great British Bake Off

Best Soap Actor
Jeff Hordley, Emmerdale

Best Soap Actress
Dame Maureen Lipman, Coronation Street

Best Soap
Emmerdale

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Coronation Street legend Bill Roache owes ‘6-figure tax bill’

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Coronation Street’ legend Bill Roache owes more than £546,000 in tax, according to new documents.
The 91-year-old actor – who has played Ken Barlow on the ITV soap since the first episode in 1960 – agreed in 2018 to clear his £588,015.18 HMRC bill, but latest documents reveal he still owes £546,348.53, after paying off £41,666.65.
According to High Court papers obtained by The Sun newspaper, HMRC said: “The debtor is justly and truly indebted to us in the aggregate sum of £546,348.53 being the sum of £588,015.18 claimed in a statutory demand less the sum of £41,666.65 paid since the date of issue of the said demand.”
Bill – who is said to earn around £250,000 a year for playing Ken – was declared bankrupt in 1999.
He is now facing bankruptcy for a second time, but is set to fight the case in the High Court next month.
A ‘Coronation Street’ spokeswoman previously said bosses were “really sorry to hear of Bill’s financial situation and he remains a much-loved member of the cast”.
HMRC previously said: “We take a supportive approach to dealing with customers who have tax debts, and do everything we can to help those who engage with us to get out of debt.
“We only petition for bankruptcy as a last resort.”
In December, Bill penned a new deal to remain on ‘Corrie’, signing up for a 64th year on the cobbles.
An insider told The Sun newspaper at the time: “There are big plans for the Barlows over the next 12 months.”
In 2022, Bill admitted he wants to still be working in Weatherfield when he is 100 years old.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Someone said to me, ‘Look, Bill, you’re in the Guinness Book of Records, you’ve got the MBE, you’ve been in ­ Coronation Street for over 60 years, what else is there?
“I said to him, ‘I would like to be the first centenarian who is still cast in an ongoing drama’.
“That’s my aim, to be 100 and still working on ­Coronation Street.
“While they want me and while I can do it I’ll continue to do it.”

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Dakota Johnson reveals what she was most ‘excited’ to do in Madame Web

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dakota Johnson was “excited” to do stunt driving for ‘Madame Web’.
The 34-year-old actress takes on the leading role of a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance in the new thriller film and revealed that she was really looking forward to getting behind the wheel for the action scenes and then surprised herself with how much she enjoyed filming special effects with the blue screen.
She told Collider: “I was excited for the action in the movie because it’s not your typical superhero movie where there’s, like, insane fighting. It feels, for Cassie, a little bit more grounded and scrappy, so I was looking forward to that. And then the stunt driving, I was really excited about. And then, weirdly the blue screen work at first was something I had to get used to. There wasn’t very much of it, but I ended up having a really good time because you just kind of let your imagination go nuts and I found it really fun.
” I was so excited. I mean, I like driving and I’m okay at it, but when I learned how to do that, it was just like, ‘Oh, great!'”
The ‘Persuasion ‘ star also explained that some of the more recent “smaller” films have struck a chord with her as she named Oscar nominees ‘Past Lives’ and ‘Poor Things’ as movies that have stood out in what she calls a “hardcore battle” in the industry.
She said: ” I mean, there’s so many films that I love. ‘Poor Things’ I think is an incredible film, ‘Past Lives’ is an incredible film. I think the movies that I’ve made recently that are smaller, I think because you don’t have to answer to studio executives you get to have a little bit more creative license and agency.
“Like ‘Daddio’ was a really important experience in that way. But I don’t know, it’s possible for artists to make what they want to make, it’s just kind of a hardcore battle right now.”

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Isabela Merced is ‘really excited’ for ‘disgusting’ Alien: Romulus

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OHMYGOSSIP — Isabela Merced is “really excited” to see the finished version of ‘Alien: Romulus’ because crew members struggled to watch one particularly “disgusting” scene.
She is part of a cast of young rising stars – including ‘Priscilla’ actress Cailee Spaeny – who are joining the ‘Alien’ franchise for the new installment which is set between the first and second movies and will see them do battle with the terrifying xenomorphs – and Isabela has revealed she’s been enjoying all the gore – but it was a bit much for some of her colleagues.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: “When we were doing reshoots, Fede Alvarez gave me the iPad where he watches playback, and he had the movie pulled up.
“So I told him I wanted to see parts of it, and he showed it to me. I was the one holding the iPad, and there were 10 people around me watching it on the iPad.
“So there’s a scene that I’m in, and they all had to turn away. Not one person stayed looking at that iPad because it was so disgusting. And I was watching it like this … (looking mesmerised)
“I was so excited. I love sci-fi, I do. So he let me watch half the movie on the iPad. I said [to Fede]: ‘If the iPad is heavy, I can carry it for you. I can hold it’.”
She added of the film: “So I’m really, really excited for that one. Again, I’m lucky enough to be a part of these projects with the best of the best. I can’t believe it. I’m so in shock, and I don’t know when I’m going to wake up.”
‘Alien: Romulus’ has been described as a standalone story in the aliens universe set after the events of Sir Ridley Scott’s 1979 original ‘Alien’ – which ends with Sigourney Weaver’s heroine Ellen Ripley hurling a xenomorph out of her escape pod and putting herself into cryogenic sleep for a voyage back to humanity.
However, the events of the new film will occur prior to James Cameron’s 1986 sequel ‘Aliens’ showed Ripley being rescued from deep sleep before accompanying a military mission to investigate a potential xenomorph attack on a space colony.
Cailee Spaeny – whose character in ‘Alien: Romulus’ has been compared to Ripley – gave more details during an appearance at the Gotham film awards, telling Variety: “It’s supposed to slot in between the first movie and the second movie. They brought the same team from ‘Aliens,’ the James Cameron film.
“The same people who built those xenomorphs actually came on and built ours. So getting to see the original design with the original people who have been working on these films for 45-plus years and has been so much of their life has been really incredible.”
‘Alien: Romulus’ is due out in August.

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BGT auditions chaos continues! Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden’s kids push golden buzzer

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OHMYGOSSIP — Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden’s children pushed the ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ golden buzzer to send an act through to the show’s semi-finals.
The music mogul’s nine-year-old son Eric – who turns 10 on Wednesday (14.02.24) – and ‘BGT’ judge Amanda’s 12-year-old daughter Hollie hit the buzzer for Japanese act Haribo during auditions in Salford.
Simon is quoted by The Sun newspaper’s TV Biz column as saying: “That was my son and Amanda’s daughter, egged on by the audience.
“It’s like father, like son and like mother, like daughter. More rules have been broken this year than any other year.
“This has never happened before – I might get fired.”
This comes after Amanda broke a ‘BGT’ rule when she hit her golden buzzer for a second time during the auditions recently, repeating Bruno Tonioli’s trick from last year when he was making his debut as a judge on the show.
The 52-year-old star loved an outrageous comedy act in Manchester so much she hit her buzzer to send him straight through to the ITV talent show’s semi-finals, after pressing it for a musical theatre singer during a previous audition.
There has been some chaos with the ‘BGT’ golden buzzers this year, after Simon, Bruno and Amanda sent three acts through to the live shows within the first 20 auditions.
A source told the newspaper: “Bruno was almost moved to tears watching his golden buzzer dance act – and was first to slam down on the button so hard that it cracked.
“He was shortly followed by Simon, who sent a Japanese dance act through to the live shows.
“And finally, Amanda was impressed by a female theatre singer that she was keen to give a shot in the live rounds and was last to press the buzzer.”
Simon previously suggested the one-buzzer rule may have to be scrapped.
He told the crowd at auditions: “I’m very excited, we don’t know who is going to come on and we’ll meet people together.
“This year there’s just one rule: be as naughty as you want.”

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