OHMYGOSSIP — Brian Cox says his acting career has ended up with him being known as “the ‘F*** off’ man”.
Despite spending decades acting on stage and screen, the 77-year-old says his role as sweary media tycoon Logan Roy in HBO’s ‘Succession’ has given him the same potty-mouthed image among fans – but he added the role has also made him a “cultural icon”.
Brian told Emily Blunt in a Variety Actors on Actors interview: “It’s a problem. I’ve been doing this for 60 years – for most of the time people are, ‘Were you in?’
“But now I am the ‘F*** off’ man. I am not knocking it.
“But at the same time it’s not easy to be a cultural icon. As they say in Scotland, it’s an awfully big job for one wee boy.”
Brian added his conflicting emotions about playing Logan may be shared by his kids.
He said: “It’s very hard, because my eldest son is an actor, he’s a very fine actor, actually. And I think it’s difficult.
“Especially now, this whole icon thing… it’s not an easy thing to carry around. I mean, people are always nice, don’t get me wrong, people always come up and they’re very gracious.
“But when they come in swarms, that becomes really tricky… but it’s OK.”
Brian said his fiery performances come naturally “because anger is always very close to me”.
But he added: “Unfortunately, I’ve played a lot of very not pleasant people. I don’t know why. I think I’m perfectly pleasant.”
Brian also admitted he couldn’t put on a brave face meeting his idol Meryl Streep, 73, who he said he wants to work with “before I snuff it”.
He added: “I met her once, and I said, ‘I never liked you.’
“And she went, ‘What?’ I said, ‘I never liked you because I was jealous.’ How can anybody be that good?”

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OHMYGOSSIP — BBC bosses are reportedly already planning more heartbreaking ‘Best Interests’-style TV shows.
The four-part drama currently airing on BBC One is garnering praise from critics and audiences and tells of Nicci, played by Sharon Horgan, 52, and Andrew (Michael Sheen, 54) fighting in the courts to stop their daughter Marnie – who has a life-threatening condition – being allowed to die by doctors who think it is in her “best interests”.
A TV insider told The Sun: “There are so many variations on the topic of court cases concerning what is in the best interests of an individual.
“In the current series, it’s a child, but it could be elderly people, or people with disabilities, or other adults suffering from conditions where a court has to decide what is the best course of action.
“It’s a difficult topic but the BBC feels it in safe hands with Jack.
“It’s early days though, and there are so many parts to put in place.”
Niamh Moriarty, 16, who has a form of cerebral palsy called spastic diplegia, appears as Marnie in ‘Best Interests’ alongside Sharon and Michael.
Many have drawn parallels between the show and the tragic real-life case of Archie Battersbee, whose life support was switched off in 2022 following a battle between his parents and Archie’s medical team.
The Sun added new actors would likely be brought in for future shows on similar themes, but said the show’s writer, Jack Thorne, 44, would stay on.
Sharon told The Guardian how the terror she felt when her daughter contracted meningitis when she was young fed into her performance on the series.
She said: “While we thought we might lose her – as I was watching them trying to find a vein and get some antibiotics into her – I remember thinking, ‘I don’t care what happens – like, take off her limbs, whatever you need to do – just keep her alive.’”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Katherine Ryan and her partner Bobby Koostra don’t have sex “very often”.
The 39-year-old comic, who is set to star alongside Bobby, 40, on the new series of ‘Celebrity Gogglebox’, has daughter Violet, 13, from a previous relationship, as well as Fred, born June 2021 and daughter Fena, who they had in December, and said parenting hinders their bedroom action.
She says on Friday’s (16.06.23) episode of ‘The Chris and Rosie Ramsey Show’ on BBC One: “We’re 40, we’re married and we’re very patient with each other – we communicate and we’ve lived these lives, but we have these f****** infants.
“I think we’re good parents and we’re very privileged but it kicks the living s*** right out of you.”
When asked directly how often she and Bobby have sex she added: “Not very often.
“I log it because I’m always trying to conceive! Day to day we’re back and forth about having more babies.
“I will never allow him to get the snip! I just really love kids. Look, I’m 40 this year, we’ll see!”
Katherine and Bobby were childhood sweethearts from their days living in Canada, but parted ways before reuniting in 2018.
The pair held a civil partnership ceremony in 2019 in Denmark, with Katherine telling ‘The Jonathan Ross Show’: “It was a lovely day. It’s perfect having a civil partner.
“We didn’t have a wedding, I didn’t need to put on a white dress and pretend to be a virgin, that ship has sailed!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dr Alex George wants another series of the controversial Channel 4 show ‘Naked Education’.
The former ‘Love Island’ contestant, 32, joined ‘Naked Attraction’ host Anna Richardson, 52, and presenter Yinki Bokinni, 34, for the six-part show that racked up more than 1,200 complaints to broadcast regulator Ofcom by April after it showed strangers stripped in front of teenagers.
Dr Alex said on his ‘Stompcast’ podcast: “I’d absolutely do a series two. What we did was fantastic. I think it’s been really helpful.
“I think ask this question in 10, 15 years time, would there be a negative reaction? I think society will have moved on so much by that point. People who are angry will go and be angry about something else.”
But his co-presenter on the Channel 4 show Anna said she feared the series could be looked at negatively in future.
She added: “I could equally throw that question back out there and say I did this 15 years ago and it was far more acceptable then than it has been now.
“So I dread to think in 15 years time if we did it again.”
Anna’s long-running Channel 4 dating show ‘Naked Attraction’ is returning for an eighth series in 2024.
The first episode of ‘Naked Education’, which aired on 4 April, racked up 930 complaints from angry viewers and rose to over 1,200.
Despite the backlash, Anna, has defended the educational series as she said it is good for body positivity.
She told TV Mag: “‘Naked Education’ is a body positive, educational series that is basically aiming to normalise all body types and champion everybody’s differences, so that we can accept that with our clothes off we’re all normal.
“I like to make shows that are controversial, that break taboos and that make a difference, and with every single show that I’ve done you can tick one of those boxes.
“‘Naked Education’ is sort of one step further than ‘Naked Attraction’, as it says: ‘Let’s normalise bodies, let’s have the conversation about what we go through and let’s actually educate the nation.’”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Eva Longoria is convinced ‘Desperate Housewives’ would be “cancelled” today.
The 48-year-old played supermodel Gabrielle Solis on the popular ABC television series which ran from 2004 to 2012, but the actress believes its storylines – including murder and Gabrielle’s statutory rape of her 17-year-old gardener John Rowland (played by Jesse Metcalfe) – wouldn’t see the light of day now.
Eva told Entertainment Tonight: “I don’t know if we could do the show today. I think we’d get cancelled.
“I mean, not cancelled on TV but like cancelled in culture because it was so groundbreaking… we said and did so many things that were shocking at the time.”
Eva recently said about being willing to return for a reboot of the show: “I’d be the first one to sign up. I’d probably be the only one.”
She added in a chat with Mario Lopez for Access Hollywood: “I miss Gabby so much! I miss being Gabby Solis.”
But she admitted series creator Marc Cherry, 61, isn’t up for a reboot, saying: “Marc wouldn’t do it, our creator. I’ve talked to him several times. He feels like, ‘Why now?’, like, for the sake of a reboot. He wouldn’t do it.
“He wants to know like, ‘What do I have to say with these characters that we haven’t already fully mined?’”
She added Marc said: “You know, I come from the generation of 24 episodes a year for a decade of our lives. Like, there’s no more six-episode per season stuff that there is now. This was like 24 episodes a year. We fully mined those characters.’”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jim Moir is returning with wife Nancy for a second series of their ‘Painting Birds’ show.
The 64-year-old ‘Shooting Stars’ comic – aka Vic Reeves – is making a comeback with his partner, 31, for another run of the series on Sky Arts, with the pair set to be joined by celebrity guests and conservation experts to create artwork while exploring picturesque locations and their local birdlife.
A teaser for the series, due next year, said: “Jim and Nancy, along with a host of exciting celebrity guests (to be announced at a later date), local artists and conservation experts, will be embarking on their second tour of the UK and Ireland, visiting a range of scenic locations to explore the local birdlife in their natural habitats.
“Once again, they will be taking on the challenge of creating artwork inspired by the regions they visit, the unique species they observe and the friendly faces they meet along the way.
“This series, their adventures will include visiting Chatsworth Estate to learn about the dippers, taking a trip to Battersea Power Station to spot an iconic pair of nesting peregrines and searching for puffins in their wild habitat of the Antrim Coast, plus much more.”
The first series is available to watch now on Sky on Demand and NOW.
Its second series was commissioned by Phil Edgar-Jones, director of Sky Arts and went into production in May.
It’s produced by Drum Studios, part of Omnicom Media Group, headed by Andy Holland, with Danny Carvalho and Sadia Butt as executive producers.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rob Brydon once secretly impersonated Ken Bruce for an entire Radio 2 talk show.
The ‘Gavin and Stacey’ actor, 58, was so convincing during the April Fool’s Day prank for a two-and-a-half-hour slot in 2011 Ken’s sister called him concerned he was drunk.
Rob said in an appearance with Ken, 72, on his ‘Brydon and’ podcast: “I find that sort of thing easy and so enjoyable, that’s the thing.
“Pete Serafinowicz did Terry (Wogan) and then one bit I started drifting towards Terry’s voice and had to try and get back to Bruce.”
During the prank, listeners and PopMaster contestants were treated to a slightly unorthodox version of Ken, with his sister calling to say: “He must be drunk, get him off there.”
The real Ken joined right at the end of the show, introduced by Rob’s fake Ken as his “brother Kenn, with two ns”.
Ken – who recently left his longstanding BBC Radio 2 slot for Greatest Hits Radio – said: “For the entire programme, an act of absolute brilliance if I may say, just real genius.
“Nobody in my family knew, just my wife, because I was home in the beginning of the show.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Love Island’s Jess Harding did her own Botox before appearing on the show because she didn’t want wrinkles on TV.
The 22-year-old aesthetics practitioner was forced to take matters into her own hands because there was no one else available, but she has admitted it was a “horrible” experience.
She told OK! magazine: “The other day I did do my own Botox because no one was available.
“It was horrible but I had to do it, you can’t have wrinkles on telly.”
While Jess is no stranger to the odd enhancement, the Islander insists she doesn’t do anything “extreme” to her body.
She said: “I do have a little bit of Botox and filler. I just got it because when it’s your job it’s quite easy to just say, ‘Go on then.’
“A lot of the practitioners work together. I’ve had so many of my practitioner friends come to me, like, ‘Babe, can you just put it in my face?’
“To us it’s nothing, and people are spending hundreds and thousands.”
However, Jess is afraid of needles.
She added: “It’s easily influenced but I’m quite scared of needles, considering it’s my job.”
Jess is currently coupled up Sammy Root in the villa, after he entered the ITV2 dating show as a bombshell last week.
Prior to entering the villa, Jess insisted she is a “really good girlfriend”.
She said: “I think I’ve got quite a big personality and I’ve got a heart of gold.
“I can stand up for myself if I need to. I’m honest, and I love, love. I’m also a really good girlfriend.”
‘Love Island’ continues tomorrow at 9pm on Virgin Media Two and Virgin Media Player, proudly sponsored by Virgin Media Mobile.
The reality show can also be seen on ITV2.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Lucy Boynton is to star in new ITV drama ‘Ruth’.
The 29-year-old actress will lead the cast of the upcoming four-part series, which will tell the gripping story of Britain’s last woman to hang, Ruth Ellis.
Lucy said: “Ruth Ellis’ story is a fascinating one.
“Both she and this complex case have always evoked a strong reaction, and with Kelly’s insightful scripts I’m looking forward to bringing a new perspective to both familiar audiences as well as those who are unaware of her mark on British history.”
The drama, which has been written by Kelly Jones, is set in 1955 and will premiere on ITV1 and be available for streaming on ITVX.
‘Ruth’ will be told over two parallel timelines, and will pose questions about what really happened in the months before Ruth killed her lover David Blakely.
The drama will see Ellis as a young nightclub manageress, her abusive relationship with Blakely, and her subsequent arrest, trial and the legal fight to reprieve her before she was hanged by infamous hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, in Holloway Prison, aged just 28 in 1955.
‘Ruth’ has been commissioned by ITV’s Head of Drama Polly Hill and Drama Commissioner, Huw Kennair Jones.
Huw said: “There is so much more to the Ruth Ellis story than we think we know. Kelly’s scripts brilliantly explore not only how the emotional and physical abuse she suffered drove her to commit a terrible crime but also the desperate last-minute attempt to save her as she and her supporters battled an unforgiving Establishment.
“We’re thrilled to be working with Lucy Boynton and Silverprint Pictures to bring this compelling story to the ITV and ITVX audience.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Anna Richardson is to front a new Channel 4 documentary about the recent slimming jab phenomenon.
The ‘Naked Attraction’ presenter, 52, will aim to discover the truth behind Semaglutide and Liraglutide – also known as Wegovy and Ozempic – which have been approved for use by the NHS and are soon to be heading to UK high-street chemists.
Anna said: “Much as these drugs have been approved for treatment for those with type 2 diabetes or obesity, the dangerous hype around them, added to by celebrity endorsement, is rapidly going to lead to improper use in those who do not need it.
“This doc will be the first to uncover the myths and facts behind the new ‘magic bullet’ in the fight against obesity.”
Anna – who is collaborating on the film with Betty TV – will explore whether social media is compounding the craze, and see whether the risks are being communicated.
Helen Cooke, Joint Creative Director of Betty TV, added: “It’s time to take a closer look at this slimming jab and dig deeper into the science behind it.
“I’m thrilled to have Anna on board to lead this timely and important documentary.”
Clemency Green, Senior Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 Daytime and Features, added: “Regular users of social media will have been bombarded with people talking about the ‘magic’ effects of the slimming jab.
“This documentary promises to deliver an enlightening exploration of this so-called ‘magic’ jab, backed by rigorous research, medical expertise, and compelling personal anecdotes.
“The show will investigate whether this medicine really could be the answer to obesity, saving the NHS millions, or if we should all be more cautious of quick fixes.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Bill Bailey wants to use his new show to talk about men’s mental health.
The 58-year-old comedian is fronting ‘Perfect Pub Walks’ for More 4 as he heads out for treks around Somerset, Dorset, the Peak District and Suffolk in find the best boozers with a different famous face joining him each week.
Revealing the secret meaning behind the show, he’s quoted by The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column as saying: “There’s a very soft theme, which is male mental health.
“We don’t make a big thing of it, but what happens is I talk to men about things they might not generally want to talk about.
“We have a nice conversation and we discuss how they are or what they are up to.”
The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star is already looking ahead to the next series, and he wants to make sure men and women are both included in the future.
He added: I want it to be everyone. We’re only doing four shows but next series we’ll do [men and women].
“It’s going to be great fun and I am really looking forward to doing more.”
The comic isn’t a stranger to long walks as last summer, he completed a seven-day, 100-mile trek along part of the South West Coast Path and raised around £110,000 in memory of his friend Sean Lock, who died of cancer in August 2021.
Bill walked from Bude in Cornwall to Combe Martin in Devon – which was one of his and Sean’s favourite treks – alongside other friends including fellow comedian Lee Mack.
And he previously revealed his late pal had a passion for the great outdoors, and admitted the pair always tried to make the most of their final years together by going on multiple trips.
He told ‘This Morning’: “He had been diagnosed with lung cancer a few years ago and it was at the time quite a blow, particularly when it was quite advanced.
“We’ve tried to make the most of the last few years. We spent a lot of time together and went on trips together. And he’s continued to work.
“We used to walk for miles. We’d talk about everything. Sean was brilliant company.”

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