Dame Helen’s bear-faced eek
Brave actress sees off food-stealing beast at US retreat
It’s amazing that the Celebrity Gogglebox producers managed to get This Country’s Daisy May Cooper and her on and off-screen dad Paul to watch telly together for the new series.
Daisy May revealed this week that the pair had a fallout, after she ribbed him when she discovered the twins from Pat Sharp’s Fun House were charging more for personalised video messages on a celebrity website than he could command.
Daisy May admitted she found the spat hilarious: “Who does he think he is, Mariah Carey? Flouncing around in his dressing gown eating Pringles.
“Don’t worry, we’ve since made up,” she added.
Daisy May and Paul appear tonight on C4 at 9pm – and Paul charges £30 [€33.50], if you’re interested.
Dame Helen Mirren chased a North American black bear out of her US home after it broke into her garden and stole her bird feed.
The 74-year-old actress has been locked down at her new base in Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, where she had been enjoying the “endless entertainment by wildlife”... until the pesky intruder stole her nuts.
“I went out and I said: ‘Bad bear, very naughty bear’,” says the feisty actress – which saw him take heed and retreat. “He looked at me and lumbered off,” she laughs.
Black bears can grow to 6ft and weigh up to 30 stone but they rarely attack humans. “I was
just reading a book – a little pamphlet about wildlife up here, and it said what to do if you encounter a bear and it’s looking aggressively at you and hunching its back and looking like it’s about to charge,” explains Dame Helen.
Unfazed by the incident, she chuckled over how the incident resembled Shakespeare’s famous stage direction: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” Meanwhile, Dame Helen praised the Queen, who she portrayed in a 2006 film, because she “never got fat, she never got thin, she never became addicted to anything – she just steadily went on”.
“She is like this amazing ship that just carries on through all the storms,” the star told the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. him of.
“Tough talking no-nonsense New York cop, or Ned Flanders?” he asked his social media followers, referencing the Simpsons character.
But he was forgetting just one more thing...
“Columbo,” quipped TV star Trisha Goddard.
I have to work so hard at not being the size of a bus. Maybe I was thin and mean in a past life.
Hollywood actress Drew
Barrymore, 45, believes it’s “karma” that she has to eat “clean and healthy” and do hours of Pilates to stay in shape.