OHMYGOSSIP — Jinkx Monsoon says they are “honoured” and “utterly excited” to join ‘Doctor Who’ in a “major role”.
It emerged on Monday (03.04.23) the 35-year-old drag performer, comic and two-time ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ winner – who goes by they/them pronouns – is joining the show, and has now confirmed they will join the BBC One show after finishing their debut run as Matron ‘Mama’ Morton in Broadway’s longest-running show ‘Chicago’.
Jinkx – real name is Jerick Roman Lamar Hoffer – said: “I’m honoured, thrilled, and utterly excited to join Doctor Who!
“Russell T Davies is a visionary and a brilliant writer – I can’t wait to get into the weeds with him and the crew! I hope there’s room in the TARDIS for my luggage.”
‘Doctor Who’ showrunner Russell T Davies, 59, had excitedly announced about Jinkx joining the series: “In a galaxy of comets and supernovas, here comes the biggest star of all.
“Jinkx Monsoon is on a collision course with the TARDIS, and Doctor Who will never be the same again!”
Jinkx was the first drag queen to play the role of Mama Morton, breaking box office records in her extended eight-week run.
They were also crowned ‘Queen of Queens’ in an All Stars season of ‘Drag Race’ while competing against other show winners.
Doctor Who returns in November 2023 with three special episodes, starring David Tennant, 51, as the fourteenth Doctor to coincide with the show’s 60th anniversary.
Actor Ncuti Gatwa, 30, will make his first episode as the fifteenth Doctor will then air over the festive period.
A source told the Daily Mirror about Russell’s plans for the upcoming series: “Russell’s on a mission to make ‘Doctor Who’ great again – event television not to be missed.”
‘Doctor Who’ will premiere exclusively on the BBC for Britain and Ireland and Disney+ will be the exclusive home for new seasons of the series outside the UK and Ireland.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Paul O’Grady was “so disappointed” when BBC Radio 2 axed his long-running programme.
The late TV legend – who passed away suddenly last Tuesday (28.03.23) at the age of 67 – had been hosting ‘Paul O’Grady on the Wireless’ for 14 years when it was axed by the radio station in August 2022 after he refused to share the slot with Rob Beckett and now his producer Malcolm Prince has revealed how the broadcaster let Paul go without any form of a parting gift.
He told Radio Times: “When Radio 2 told us the show was coming to an end, he was so disappointed with the way he was treated. There was no hamper or leaving party, or any of that. He told me recently that Radio 2 wasn’t what it was when he joined.”
Just weeks before his tragic death, Paul – who shot to fame as drag queen Lily Savage in the 1980s and just days before his death had been playing Miss Hannigan in a touring production of the musical ‘Annie’ – explained that he was so “disappointed” in the way things had ended with the broadcaster.
He told Metro newspaper’s Sixty Seconds Column: “I was [disappointed], because I’m a great believer in continuity. If you go off for 13 weeks and somebody else comes on, the listeners don’t know when you’re back on. Radio 2 has changed, it’s not what it was. They’re trying to aim for a much younger audience, which doesn’t make sense because you’ve got Radio 1. Radio 2 was always for an older audience.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Olivia Attwood is tackling trolls in a new documentary.
The ‘Love Island’ star has spent four months filming a new one-off special in which she will hunt down online bullies and speak to victims of abuse after previously suffering at the hands of trolls who bombarded her with vile messages.
A source told The Sun newspaper: “Olivia is really passionate about this documentary, given that she’s been targeted by sexist and body-shaming internet bullies ever since finding fame.
“It’s been fascinating for her to see what makes these trolls tick and why they feel the need to be so mean.”
The documentary comes two years after Olivia addressed trolls on her own Instagram page, recording a video in which she called them out for sending her abuse over her appearance.
In the 2020 clip, Olivia ranted: “‘I’m not gonna sit here and pretend that I am someone that suffers with trolling, because I actually feel like, compared to a lot of people, I’m very lucky in that sense.
But this s*** grinds my gears so f****** bad. I must see these kind of messages more than anything. And they’re so good, because there’s always a backhanded compliment in there.
“And it’s always unfortunately a middle-aged woman. I hate to stereotype, but it always, always, always, is. And maybe the reason I don’t get that much trolling is because I always will message people back.
“You don’t know what I need, and also it’s none of your f****** business! If I want my mouth to look like a swollen b***hole, that is my choice. Don’t tell me: ‘You’re pretty, you don’t need [it]’ …”
Olivia previously made a documentary series called ‘Getting Filthy Rich’ for ITV2 in which she delved into the world of selling sexual content online. The show won the Best Factual Programme prize at the Broadcast Awards last year.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Craig Revel Horwood got “choked up” as he paid tribute to Paul O’Grady following a performance of ‘Annie’ on Monday night.
The late TV legend died suddenly last week at the age of 67 just days after completing a run as tyrannical orphanage proprietress Miss Hannigan in a nationwide touring production of the musical ‘Annie’.
On Monday (03.04.23), ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ judge Craig – who is also sharing the role on a rotational basis with ‘Coronation Street’ star Jodie Prenger and ‘Two Doors Down’ actress Elaine C. Smith – moved the audience to tears with his words during the curtain call at The Alexandra in Birmingham as he vowed to dedicate the rest of the run to the tragic star.
Audience member David Jack told Metro.co.uk: “After the final bows, Craig Revel Horwood addressed the audience and said they would like to dedicate this and every performance to the legend Paul O’Grady. There were people in the audience in tears and shouts of, ‘We love you, Paul!’ You could see him choking up while saying what he did. I think he found it difficult to say anything due to his emotion. ”
Following the news that Paul – who shot to fame as drag queen Lily Savage in the 1980s before becoming a regular on the small screen as himself with his self-titled teatime chatshow in the mid-2000s – had passed away, Craig admitted he was “in a state of shock” as he remembered Paul as a “wonderful human being.”
He tweeted: “I’m in a state of shock this morning, waking up to the news that my gorgeous colleague and friend, Paul O’Grady has passed away. I’m actually reeling in disbelief. He was such a wonderful human being, funny and to the point. Paul, legend, RIP darling.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Vicky Pattison says that “women can’t win” when it comes to body image.
The ‘Geordie Shore’ legend, 35, explained that while she is “very content” being a woman, she is “frustrated” that when it comes to body image there is a “discrepancy” between the sexes, citing reactions to actor Christian Bale and reality superstar Kim Kardashian’s respective weight losses as examples.
Speaking on the ‘This Is Not What I Asked For’ podcast, she told host Jonathan Andrew: “It often feels like women can’t win. Not that I want to sound in any way ungrateful about my gender, like, I love being a woman. I think we’re powerful beyond measure. I think we have this incredible mix of being able to be super strong but also really vulnerable and our support structure, our friends, our mothers or whatever, I think the way we talk and support one another and the way we are able to share our feelings is something men don’t have.
“I’m very content in my gender but I will say that is the one discrepancy that frustrates me constantly. Christian Bale loses loads of weight for ‘The Machinist’, he is an actor, he is dedicated to his craft. He is incredible. Let’s laud him, let’s applaud him. However – and I know this is going to be controversial because of who she is – Kim Kardashian, her job is to look good on red carpets. Her job is to look good to influence people. Kim Kardashian loses weight to fit in a dress, that’s problematic. And those are extremes. It’s very unfair that we quite often get the raw end of the deal when it comes to our image. ”
The former ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’ winner went on to claim that women are fed contradictory messages when it comes to what their appearance should be and wondered what on earth she is “supposed” to look like.
She added: “We’re encouraged to be healthy and strong but not too strong.
“You don’t wanna look muscly, you’ll put men off but don’t get fat, boys won’t like that either! So be health conscious but not too health conscious because then you’ll get too skinny. And nobody wants you when you’re too skinny because you won’t look a woman. What the f*** am I meant to look like then?!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jennifer Saunders thinks an afterlife would be “too complicated.”
The 64-year-old comedienne prefers to think that death is simply akin to the “clicking off of a light” as she mused that life “loses its libido” with age and was shocked to realise she had become someone who has “no clue” about the latest music stars.
Speaking on the ‘Where There’s a Will There’s a Wake’ podcast, she said: “It would be too complicated to have an afterlife. Do people stay the age they are? The old people aren’t gonna make it! I think it will just be a click off of the light, I think. I think that’s more – as you get older, a lot of things click off gradually. When I was in my thirties, I thought ‘Imagine if I just become a person who only listens to Radio 4.’ And then it happened. I only listen to Radio 4.
“You can’t in your head imagine that. Now, I can only have music on a little bit of the time but if it’s on all the time, I can’t think. I haven’t got a clue about rappers! I never thought that would happen. But it just goes and I think that’s what happens as you get older. It’s not that life becomes less important but things become less important until you can just slide away happily. It’s almost that life loses its libido, there’s not as much as there was.”
The ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ star – who has daughters Ella, 37, Beattie, 35, and 32-year-old Freya with husband Ade Edmondson – went on to add that she would like to die in her sleep surrounded by loved ones whilst on drugs as she explained at her wish for a “dramatic” exit has waned over the years.
When asked by host Kathy Burke to imagine a future where she had died, she said: “I think in the olden days there was a set funeral you knew you were going to get but nowadays because people aren’t so religious you can sort of make it up as you go along. [In the future], I died in my sleep.
“I think that’s how I’d like to go. When you’re young you think ‘I want to jump out of an aeroplane without a parachute or something – splat!’ I think as you get older and you’re crumbling back into the earth anyway, it doesn’t seem to matter so much. I’d like to die having said goodbye, that’s quite important. I’d like to die in a way that’s not messy for other people! I’d have liked to have said goodbye and just go to sleep on a lovely cloud of morphine. Drugs? Yes please! But not in hospital! At home, on morphine.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Gordon Ramsay never watches himself on TV.
The celebrity cook, 56, is best known for his foul-mouthed persona on shows like ‘Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ and ‘The F Word’ but admitted has no interest in self-ridicule and refuses to watch his own shows.
He told My Weekly magazine: “I never watch myself on TV. Even when I’m doing a voiceover, I ask them to remove footage of myself from the screen because it’s a bit weird to go back and watch yourself.”
Gordon’s latest venture saw him back behind the kitchen to front ‘Future Food Stars’ which returned for a second season on BBC One on Thursday (30.03.23).
He added: “I am really excited about the return of ‘Future Food Stars’/ It’s a competition to find food and drinks lifestyle business for me to invest £150k of my own money in. But it isn’t just about money. It’s also about being able to tap into my infrastructure and the amazing team that I’ve spent two and a half decades working with. This year’s contestants are very go-getting, competitive, and a little disruptive.”
The show, which has been likened to ‘The Apprentice’ with a culinary twist, sees amateur cooks being put through their paces as they aim to whip up a recipe for success. Ramsay is ready to give away £150k of his own money as he hunts for the next entrepreneur.
He said: “Describing this series as ‘The Apprentice for food’ is b*****ks! They are cast for their businesses, and not the way they behave in front of Lord Sugar! The aim is to showcase and shine a light on some of the amazing places, people, and their businesses making the UK food and drink industry so exciting right now. We start and end the series in my homeland Scotland, and travel all over the UK.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Graham Norton is returning to his Irish roots for a new comedy show.
The 60-year-old star was born in County Dublin but moved to London in the 1980s to pursue a career in entertainment and is “thrilled” to be returning to his homeland as he takes on hosting duties for a new show that will see 10 Irish comedy stars try not to make each other laugh in what will become Amazon Prime’s first original Irish production.
He said: “I’m thrilled to be the host for the first Irish Original, LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland on Prime Video, and to be working on home ground for the first time in many, many years. I’m so proud of our comedy culture and it’s wonderful to have a platform to showcase Irish talent to a global audience. I can’t wait to see what our comedy masterminds do to get the laughter going!”
‘LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland’ is the latest adaptation of the successful Amazon Original series in Japan entitled ‘Documental’, following on from adaptations in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, India, and Brazil and Dan Grabiner, head of Originals for UK Northern Europe, Amazon Studios, thinks that chat show favourite Graham is the perfect one to host the series.
He said: “Graham Norton and Last One Laughing is a match made in heaven. Ireland is home to world-class comedy and a booming television scene; we can’t wait to celebrate and be part of that with our first Irish Original production.”
‘LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland’ will be filmed in the spring and will air as a six-part series later this year.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Harry Hill has hailed the late Paul O’Grady as a “one-off.”
The TV legend – who died suddenly at the age of 67 last Tuesday (28.03.023) – shot to fame as pioneering drag queen Lily Savage in the 1980s and made regular appearances as her right up until the early 2000s, when he abandoned his alter ego completely in favour of carving out a career on screen as himself with his own self-titled chat show.
Following his passing, fellow TV star Harry Hill remarked that he was “full of admiration” for Paul over the career move and noted that his death came as such a “shock” because he was so loved for “being himself.”
Speaking on ITV’s ‘This Morning’, he said: “He was his own thing. And then he rested his own thing. He created a whole scene, he didn’t come up through the comedy clubs that I came up in. He created a new thing and he was…I was full of admiration for him because he killed off that Lily Savage thing that everyone loved.
“I don’t know what he thought about it but maybe he realised it didn’t have the long-term [appeal]. And the fact about Paul O’Grady…what people loved about him, and what I loved about him, is that not just that he was funny but you loved him being himself which you probably never would have got with Lily Savage. This is why everyone is so kind of shocked and upset about it. He was a one-off, there’s no other word for it.”
Meanwhile, the former ‘TV Burp’ host has written ‘Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera’ musical about the former Prime Minister – which is set open in London on April 15 before embarking on a UK tour – but initially worked as a doctor before breaking onto the comedy circuit in the early 1990s and reflected that his 30 years in show business have been “great.”
He said: “It’s been great. I always feel, because I used to be a doctor and I always feel that I escaped. I escaped that and joined the circus!”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Stacey Dooley has become more “dramatic” than ever since becoming a mum.
The 36-year-old documentary maker has been dating ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ professional Kevin Clifton since they won the BBC ballroom competition together in 2018 and went on to welcome daughter Minnie with him in January this year but joked that she often feels as if she is the only woman to have ever had a child.
Reflecting on motherhood, Stacey revealed that becoming a mum for the first time has changed her as she’s more dramatic than ever.
Speaking on ‘The One Show’ on Monday (03.04.23), she told hosts Emma Willis and Jermaine Jenas: “Honestly, it’s like I’m the first woman to ever have a child, I’m that dramatic.
“I’m just completely obsessed, I’m head over heels. She’s magic.”
Meanwhile, Stacey also spoke about her latest documentary ‘Ready For War’ which is set to debut on April 13.
The one-off programme will see Stacey follow a group of Ukrainian civilians arriving in the UK as they embark on a gruelling five weeks of intensive army training in preparation to fight the war against Putin.
She said: “These raw recruits go through one of the most relentless training programmes the British Army has ever devised. The Ukrainian men I came to know over a few short weeks were incredibly impressive. I think of them every day and hope their training will keep them alive.”
Clare Sillery, BBC Head of Commissioning, Documentaries added: “This film delivers first time access to the British army’s intense training programme for Ukrainian civilians and offers a unique insight into how young people prepare to be frontline soldiers. Stacey’s ability to grapple with the emotional and psychological challenges they face during this process is why she continues to be so popular with viewers.”

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