OHMYGOSSIP — ‘The Suspect’ director James Strong has admitted the opening scene was “reminiscent” of a scene he worked on for ‘Doctor Who’.
The filmmaker at the helm of the new ITV thriller – which started on Monday night (29.08.22) – has discussed the first scene, which saw psychologist Dr. Joe O’Loughlin (Aidan Turner) on a high window ledge trying to stop 17-year-old Malcolm (Gabin Kongolo) from taking his own life.
Reflecting on the logistics of shooting such a tense scene, he admitted it was “an incredibly complicated process”.
He told RadioTimes.com: “I’ve been fortunate enough to do a couple of those sorts of things – there was actually an episode of ‘Doctor Who’ called ‘Partners in Crime’, where David [Tennant] and Catherine Tate are hanging out a window, so that was kind of reminiscent of this.”
Joe was strapped into a harness, but he dropped a second one meant for Malcolm – which viewers learned was due to early onset Parkinson’s disease – and had to remove his own equipment and give it to the teenager.
However, Malcolm lost his footing and they both fell from the ledge, with them both hanging on for dear life until the emergency services arrived and helped them to safety.
Further going into the shoot, Strong added: “Firstly, you’ve got to work out what shots you want, so you do storyboards or shot lists – a bit of both – and you kind of imagine a sequence in your head, and then you work out how to get each one of those shots …
“It then breaks down to what we could do at a real location – and then obviously working with the constraints of that location, and what the insurance will let you do, and what you can do with visual effects.
“So all those things are considerations – time, money, all that stuff.”
Meanwhile, he was determined to film practically as much as possible, with stunt doubles shot high on a ledge of a real London hospital, and the two actors shot on a “quite high” ledge created for the scene.
He said: “VFX is so good these days, I probably didn’t really need to have have people on a ledge. But psychologically I felt you would know, and you can tell.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jaime Winstone agreed to play Peggy Mitchell after getting a “sign” from Dame Barbara Windsor.
The 37-year-old star – who will play the iconic ‘EastEnders’ character in a flashback episode set in 1979 showing the unravelling of the Mitchell family’s chequered past – feels like she has the approval of the late actress, who played the character from 1994 until 2016.
Jaime said: “I have such a deep connection with her and respect for her. I did have my own sort of question to her.
“I did actually have a little word with Barbara up above, and I got my signs, and I just felt like it was written for me.
“So I felt like I got the go ahead and Scott [Mitchell, Barbara’s husband] approved it and everything.”
Jaime – who previously worked with Barbara when she portrayed the actress in BBC drama ‘Babs’ – revealed the key sign was a butterfly in her garden.
She told Metro.co.uk: “It’s quite private, but…it was a butterfly, actually. It was days before I was deciding, and it’s an opportunity of a lifetime [but] I still had to think about it.
“It was a little blonde butterfly that kept coming in my garden and I was thinking…we don’t normally get too many butterflies.
“So that was my sign, ‘that’s her’. You know when you know.”
Jaime admits she had “a deep chat” with her agent before accepting the job.
Revealing her response when the call came in to play the iconic character, Jaime confessed: “It was scary. I had to think about it properly, I had a deep chat with my agents about it but when it’s an opportunity like this – Peggy Mitchell, the landlady of our nation – it’s an honour for me.”
Jaime has admitted the flashback episode is “turbulent” and “fast paced”.
She explained: “It’s really about the family before the Mitchells became the Mitchells … and also see why Phil is who he is.
“It’s set in 1979, the backdrop is London, grim, quite skint, there’s rubbish on the streets … and it was different for women then, women knew their place and did the cooking, the cleaning and were very proud home keepers.
“It’s a turbulent episode – there’s lots to take in. It’s fast paced … you’ll see a more vulnerable side to her. It’s the making of how Peggy Mitchell became Peggy Mitchell.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Angela Lonsdale has joined the ‘Hollyoaks’ cast.
The former ‘Coronation Street’ actress will play Gill, the mother of killer Joseph Holmes (Olly Rhodes), who recently stabbed PC Saul Reeves (Chris Charles) to death as part of the soap’s ongoing knife crime plot.
Ex-‘Our Girl’ star Angela said: “I can’t wait for the viewers to see this important storyline unfold over the next few months.”
Gill will first appear on screen on Tuesday (30.08.22) on E4 – and again on Channel 4 on Wednesday (31.08.22) – when Felix Westwood (Richard Blackwood) and Scott Drinkwell (Ross Adams) arrive at her family home to try to find evidence that proves Joseph was involved in Saul’s murder, after he framed Felix’s son DeMarcus Westwood (Tomi Ade) for the crime.
In the coming weeks, viewers will see Gill go to great lengths to defend her son.
Angela is no stranger to appearing in a soap, having portrayed police officer Emma Taylor in ‘Coronation Street’ from 2000 to 2003.
Emma went on to marry Curly Watts (Kevin Kennedy) and the pair fled Weatherfield to start a new life in Newcastle in 2003 after she was promoted to an inspector.
But the pair later went their separate ways off screen, as in the soap’s 2010 DVD spin-off ‘Coronation Street – A Knight’s Tale’, Curly confessed he and Emma were no longer still together.
Angela went on to star as another police officer, DI Eva Moore, in ‘Doctors’ from 2006 to 2008 and again in 2011.
Beforehand, she appeared in now-defunct serial dramas ‘Holby City’ and ‘The Bill’ in 2005 and 2006 respectively, and she returned to ‘Holby’ again in 2018.
Angela’s most notable TV role of late has seen her play Grace Lane – the mother of ex-‘Corrie’ star Michelle Keegan’s character Georgie Lane – in BBC drama ‘Our Girl’ from 2016 to 2020.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Amy Hart has told her boyfriend to order her a large McDonald’s Coke “as soon” as she gives birth.
The former ‘Love Island’ star – who is between 13 and 14 weeks pregnant – revealed this week she and her boyfriend Sam Rason are expecting their first child together, and the 30-year-old ex-Islander is already missing her fix of the soft drink amid her pregnancy.
She wrote on her Instagram Stories: “I don’t drink tea and coffee but am a full fat Coke fiend and one has not passed my lips since 1st July.
“I’ve told Sam that literally as soon as I’ve given birth I need a large McDonald’s Coke asap. Ginger ale and Appletiser have been an OK substitute though.”
Amy also admitted she has struggled with insomnia and found it hard not being able to take sleeping tablets because of her pregnancy, but insists it is “all for a good reason”.
She added: “Re ff [full fat] Coke. I was advised by a HCP [healthcare professional] that even though you *can* have 200mg of caffeine a day, if I *could* cut it out it would be good!
“Luckily, my main home slice Rio is caff free.
“It’s just personal choice and as it’s not like I wake up every morning and have a Coke like everyone else has a coffee. It’s easier to give up as if I don’t buy it I can’t have it.
“The other thing I’ve struggled with is having insomnia. Having a drawer full of American sleeping tablets and not being able to take them [crying emoji] All sacrifices for a good reason! (sic)”
Amy appeared on ITV’s ‘Loose Women’ on Monday (29.08.22) to announce her pregnancy, and admitted it was “very unexpected”.
She said: “I felt the only place to announce that I’m pregnant is ‘Loose Women’.
“It was very unexpected, we weren’t going to start trying until next year … I had my 30th completely sober – Amesfest. Stacey’s sister made me a cup so no one could see what I was drinking and everyone kept coming up to me and saying, ‘You don’t seem very drunk?’
“And I said to my best friend, ‘People are beginning to ask,’ and she said, ‘Well, you’re going to have to do something then!’ So the Abba tribute band was playing ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’ and I started crawling across the dancefloor, and nobody asked again!”
Sam later joined the ladies at the desk, and he said: “It was just such a shock, it was so unplanned, it just happened – disbelief really.”
Amy has previously spoken out about freezing her eggs, which she did aged 27 because early menopause runs in her family.
Earlier this year, the star said she would donate her frozen eggs if she couldn’t use them.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Phillip Schofield says ‘This Morning’ is like a “support group”.
The 60-year-old presenter – who will be returning to the sofa with co-host Holly Willoughby, 41, on Monday (05.09.22) after their summer break – compared the backstage mood on the ITV show to a trip to Las Vegas, with everyone trusting each other to keep anything they talk about under wraps.
He said: “We just have such fun. I mean, in the make-up room in the mornings, everyone’s chatting – it’s like ‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!’ Everyone knows everything about everybody, and that’s nice…so I always miss that friendship group.
“But we all stay in touch outside of the show anyway, WhatsApping stuff and keeping up with everyone’s news. This Morning is more than just a show, it’s such a lovely group of people to come to work with and you do miss that – it’s not really a job!
“It’s more than a job, it’s much much more than that… and I’m not gonna lie, ‘This Morning’ is one of my support groups and that’s a lovely thing to have.”
When it comes to the WhatsApp group chats, the team have a few different ones set up, all with their own tone and level of decency.
He explained: “We definitely have a boxset-watching group! If someone is watching something and they like it, it’s a place for recommendations…
“And there are other ones where we are being a little more outrageous where we tell each other stories and update on things that we’ve done and send pictures of where we are.
“We have lots of different WhatsApp groups. We’ve got one with Martin our editor too – but nothing outrageous gets sent to him!”
Meanwhile, Holly explained how it helps having a co-star to settle back into work with after a break.
She said: “You know what, I sometimes forget what I’m doing after a long weekend! But you soon get back into the swing of things and that’s nice when there’s two of you because if I was on my own I’d be much more worried about that … we’ve always got each other to fall back on.”
Phillip and Holly return to ‘This Morning’ from Monday, September 5 at 10am on ITV.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Maisie Smith lost “clumps” of her hair during filming for ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’.
The 21-year-old star has revealed how she coped with Channel 4’s grueling armed forces reality show, which saw her swap the UK for the Jordanian desert.
She told OK! magazine: “At the start, I was trying to look in the coffee cups just to see if I had spots – and my hair fell out! For a good few showers, clump after clump.
“I think it was just from having it in that tight bun and all the mud and sand stuck in it. But as the days went on, you just tend to stop caring at all.”
The ‘EastEnders’ actress admitted her outlook on life – including the way she thinks about her appearance – shifted due to her experience on the show.
She explained: “It was the first time I’ve ever not cared and it was very refreshing. I found that when I came back, when I was at home, that sort of feeling stayed.
“I was like, ‘You know what, I’ve just done something that’s made me the strongest I’ve ever felt mentally and physically’.
“So when I came back, I just felt incredible. It was quite nice that we weren’t allowed to see ourselves.”
On the new series, Maisie will be joined by the likes of reality TV stars Calum Best and Amber Gill, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ brothers AJ and Curtis Pritchard, TOWIE’s Fern McCann and more.
She’s hoping to inspire people through her own growth on the show, particularly as viewers will see “a lot of vulnerable sides”.
She added: “I like pushing myself out of my comfort zone and seeing how strong I can be physically and mentally,” Maisie discloses.
“I think as well, being a young woman in the world, I wanted to be that empowering, strong woman who could go out there and say, “Look, I’m pushing myself to the limit, and I definitely left feeling pretty strong.’ ”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jenny Newby has paid tribute to ‘Gogglebox’ co-star Lee Riley after she missed most of the last series due to illness.
The two friends have become fan favourites on the Channel 4 show, and the hit series won a BAFTA earlier this year in the Best Reality and Constructive Factual category.
Jenny, 66, had to miss the ceremony due to surgery, but she finally has her trophy and she delivered a belated acceptance speech from her back garden.
In a video shared by Lee on their joint Instagram account, she said: “Hiya, Lee. It’s only me. I’ve got my BAFTA.
“I know I couldn’t be there with you on the night. I swapped my evening gown for my theatre gown, and my black stocking for surgical stockings and my silver clutch bag for a catheter bag.
“But all in all, I never got to say thank you for the support you gave me through the pandemic when we were filming.
“The things that you did for me. Like, giving me that 9ft by 5ft bedroom, wall to wall walls, and enough room under the bed for my Pot Noodle and a packet of fags.
“And the one shelf you gave me in the kitchen. And I had to stand on a step to get to it.
“But I just want to say, all in all, Lee, thank you very much for being my bezzie mate and I’m hoping to see you soon.”
And Lee hinted they’ll be filming very soon, as he shared the video over the weekend with a promising caption.
He wrote: “This is why I love this woman. Thank you for your kind words Jenny. See you next week”.
He added a camera and TV emoji, suggesting they could be getting ready to do some filming.
‘Gogglebox’ is set to return to Channel 4 for a new series on September 9.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘The Masked Singer’ is to return with an ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ special.
Two of the biggest shows on TV will join forces for a one-off special later this year that centres around ‘I’m A Celebrity’ returning to the Australian jungle after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
In celebration of the iconic ITV series, celebrities will not be facing a Bushtucker Trial but will instead compete whilst dressed head to toe in extravagant and completely bonkers outfits as the panel and viewers at home try and guess who is behind the mask.
Jonathan Ross, Rita Ora, Davina McCall and Mo Gilligan will hope they can win all of the stars and will be joined by special guest star panellists as they try and find out who could be masquerading in costumes such as Witchetty grub or a kangaroo.
Former ‘I’m A Celebrity’ campmate Joel Dommett will return to host the special, which will air on ITV this autumn.
In a show-blending twist, Joel will be tasked with hunting down those all-important mind-bending clues for the panel.
Katie Rawcliffe, ITV’s Head of Entertainment Commissioning, said: “What a perfect way to celebrate the return of ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ than with a unique mash up of two hugely successful series.
“Viewers will get to enjoy all things Jungle with a wonderfully bonkers Masked Singer twist. With flamboyant costumes that pay homage to the iconic series as it returns to Australia, families will be able to play alongside our panel in TV’s favourite guessing game.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Shania Twain has been confirmed as Sheridan Smith’s ‘Starstruck’ replacement.
The global music icon will join Adam Lambert, Beverley Knight and Jason Manford on the panel of the ITV show – which is a revamped version of ‘Stars in their Eyes’ which saw hopefuls impersonate various music icons – after ‘Four Lives’ star Sheridan was unable to sign up for any further episodes because of her commitments to filming a new acting project.
In a video announcement on the ‘Starstruck’ Instagram page, Shania said: “Hi everyone, I’m here in Las Vegas I’m about to get on the stage to do a show, but I wanted to take a quick minute to say that I’m so excited about heading to the UK soon to join [the] ‘Starstruck’ panel. It’s a real honour I am such a fan of the other artists on the panel, the judges, Adam, Beverly and Jason, I love all of you and I just look forward to being able to tell you that in person when I get there.
“I can’t wait to see all the amazing talent there. All I can say is, let’s go ITV.”
Katie Rawcliffe, Head of Entertainment Commissioning, ITV said: “Shania is one of the all time music greats, not to mention a fabulous personality, so it’s an honour to welcome her to the Starstruck panel alongside Adam, Beverley, Jason and of course Olly at the helm.”
Cat Lawson, Creative Director, Remarkable Entertainment added: “We are over the moon to welcome music legend Shania Twain to our fantastic Starstruck panel. She is an absolute trailblazer who has collaborated with everyone from Elton John to Harry Styles. Shania will bring so much fun to our Saturday nights we simply cannot wait.”
The show returns to ITV and ITVX in 2023.

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ will be back with a new mini-series next year.
The popular BBC sitcom has become a firm fixture in the festive schedules but there hasn’t been a full series in nearly 10 years, and now actress Fiona O’Carroll – who is the daughter of creator and lead star Brendan O’Carroll – has revealed filming will begin soon on a number of new episodes.
Fiona – who plays Maria Brown, the wife of Brendan’s titular character’s son Dermot – told the RTE Guide: “In October we’ll be filming ‘Mrs Brown’: two Christmas specials and the first of a mini-series of four episodes, the other three early next year.
“We’ve the live show in November at the SSE Arena in Belfast and 3Arena in Dublin. And we’re planning more theatre dates for next year.”
Fiona previously revealed a planned mini-series for this year was halted because of the impact of COVID-19.
She said: “There is lots of talk and lots of talk and until it is happening you will never really know. Yes, there is talk.
“We were supposed to be doing a mini series this year but, unfortunately, due to various different reasons it didn’t happen.
“So, there is talk of it happening next year, a possible mini series. It is not just down to us, it is down to studio time, it is down to crew and it is down to cast.”
Brendan – who plays Agnes Brown – previously revealed he would love to get U2 on the show, even though he isn’t a fan of celebrity cameos.
He said: “Normally we would never have famous people as guest stars on ‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys’. It’s not something we do.
“But the one thing I would love to do is have Bono and U2 on. I would get them to play Foley’s at the end of the episode.”
Brendan admitted he has the dream plot all figured out.
He said: “I’d have Agnes go up to them on the stage just as they start playing one of their hits and go, ‘I don’t want to hear any of that s***’.
“And then she gets them to play crooner songs. That’s my one wish so let’s see if that ever works out.”

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