Actors’ union Equity slams London’s new Tier 3 lockdown as dealing another hammer blow to struggling theatre workers who will face a ‘winter in the cold due to a government in chaos’ Equity union leader said performers are facing a ‘winter in the cold’ due to Tier 3 Out-of-work actors usually find jobs in hospitality … Read more
‘The most Hampstead thing I’ve seen’: Actors perform One More Day from Les Mis to a socially-distanced audience on a London street A group of singers gave an impromptu performance of One More Day in London The singers started with the famous song from the hit West End show Les Mis The performers moved seamlessly … Read more
Dame Helen Mirren has warned that people in the theatre industry could be facing homelessness as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The actress, 75, said many in the sector need financial support because they normally live ‘wage packet to wage packet’ and their work has dried up. She told the PA news agency that … Read more
Sir Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman and John Rhys-Davies are among The Lord of the Rings stars who have joined forces to purchase author J.R.R. Tolkien’s £4.5million famed home in Oxfordshire. The stars, including singer Annie Lennox and actor Sir Derek Jacobi, have joined the award-winning author Julia Golding to launch a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to … Read more
A rapper who was jailed after filming the daughter of a Holby City actor dying from a party drugs overdose has been pictured grinning in his first Instagram picture after being released from jail. Drug dealer Ceon Broughton, 31, supplied John Michie’s daughter Louella Fletcher-Michie with the hallucinogenic 2-CP at Bestival in Dorset in 2017. … Read more
A top casting agent has banned British boys from auditioning to play a young Prince William in an upcoming film about his mother Diana because of Brexit. Amy Hubbard is seeking an 11-year-old boy to play Prince William in Spencer, a new biopic made by a German firm about the late Princess, played by Kristen … Read more
Bridie Carter and Myles Pollard announce new project together – over a decade after their characters Tess and Nick left fans swooning on McLeod’s Daughters By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 13:52 GMT, 20 November 2020 | Updated: 13:58 GMT, 20 November 2020 Over 16 years after they last appeared on McLeod’s Daughters, … Read more
Demand for non-binary child actors is on the rise as casting directors push for more diversity on screen, talent agent claims Mark Jermin is a talent manager who represents child actors across the UK Explained there are starting to be more opportunities for non-binary children Added casting directors are also more interested in seeing people … Read more
Two NCIS: New Orleans actors and a jewelry store owner have launched a lawsuit against CBS after the filming of a heist scene in 2017 ended with real police officers holding them at gunpoint, believing an actual armed robbery was in progress. The suit, filed in Los Angeles, accuses the network of orchestrating the ‘guerilla-style’ … Read more
Sisters Elly and Becky Miles have confirmed they’ve both found love on The Bachelorette. But there’s talk the season was ‘fixed’ as Elly, 26, was already close with one of the rumoured front-runners before the show began filming in Sydney. Newcastle-based rugby player Joe Woodbury, 25, has been Instagram friends with the former Bachelor star for a … Read more