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Swearing at Olivia was Bucking great

JESSIE REUNITED WITH COLMAN IN ‘WICKED’ FILM

- ■■Sandra MALLON Showbiz Editor

UNA Healy’s ex Ben Foden and his wife Jackie have welcomed their second child, a daughter named Olympia.

The couple, who married in 2019 just two months after they started dating, revealed the baby sister to three-yearold Farrah arrived on January 9.

Former rugby star Ben (38), who works in real estate in the US, said: “Pia is her mum’s double. I’m incredibly lucky.”

Now a dad of four, he explained how he co-parents his two other children with

Irish singer Una. The Saturdays star lives with Aoife (11) and Tadgh (8) in Tipperary.

“We’ve been co-parenting for the last five years and I think we’re pretty good at it now,” he said. “For us, it’s all about communicat­ion.”

ACTRESS Jessie Buckley has told of her delight at swearing at Olivia Colman in their new project.

Jessie stars in Wicked Little Letters and reunites with her The Lost Daughter co-star Colman in Thea Sharrock’s black comedy, which was inspired by a real-life 1920s feud between neighbours Edith Swan (Colman) and Rose Gooding (Buckley).

She said Colman personally sent her the script to look at.

She said: “I realised there was no one who would have been better at swearing in this way. As soon as Olivia mentioned it, I was like ‘Yes, I’ll do it!’.

“I haven’t read the script yet, but if you want me to play a sheep and swear at you, I’ll be happy to oblige.

“All of the swear words were pretty much there in the script….Rose swears thick and fast and she is a free, uncompromi­sing life force; but she’s not just doing it for herself; she’s doing it for Nancy.

Embody

“She doesn’t want her daughter to be brought up in a world where she feels she has to be any smaller than the mighty little woman that she is destined to become.

“To have chance to embody that message and also get to scream profanitie­s, the including every F-word that I’ve ever wanted to, in the face of Olivia Colman, was just way too delicious an opportunit­y to pass up. “I really wanted to have fun with this one and I definitely did,” she told the RTE Guide.

Speaking to Digital Spy, Jessie looked back on the improvised moment in which she flashes her bum, explaining she had the idea of taking her underwear off.

“And then I realised that I had to do it like 10 more times.

“And I was, ‘Oh God, my poor ass’.”

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FUN ROLE: Jessie and Olivia in Wicked Little Letters
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