Harry: I ran from knife thugs
SINGER Harry Styles says he threw himself in front of a car to escape muggers who had threatened him with a knife.
The One Direction star said his ordeal began when he was approached by a group of men near his home in London.
Harry said he thought he was being followed so he crossed the road but they crossed too.
He said: “I thought, ‘I’m about to get robbed’. The guys are like ‘Hey, can we talk to you for a minute?’ and there is nobody around.”
Harry told Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show in the US: “My heart’s pounding, so I’m like ‘Sure’. And he said ‘What have you got on
“WELCOME to Hollywood,” sing the cast of the brand new Pretty Woman: The Musical.
The stage version of the hit Nineties movie starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts has been sanitised for public consumption.
Although it’s still too sexy and seriously unreconstructed for anyone born after the era of the mullet, which explains the 12+ rating.
Fans of the fairytale love story between the rich, ruthless Edward Lewis with his shrivelled heart and brick-like mobile phone and happy hooker Vivian Ward will totally buy into this high-energy version of the tale as old as time.
Sticking faithfully to the film’s original storyline, the musical practically replicates the script word for word, with
ACTRESS Sheridan Smith returned to the West End last night to welcome the arrival of PrettyWoman to the stage.
The pregnant star, 38, enjoyed a night out in London with fiance Jamie Horn, 28, for the opening night of the theatre version of the Hollywood classic.
She showed off her bump in a black blazer matched with a pair of black loose-fitting leggings and tan designer boots.
Actress and model Kelly Brook, 40, also stepped out on the red carpet for the occasion, along with former Girls Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh, 40, and entertainer John Barrowman, 52.
The curtain went up on the show last night at the Piccadilly
Theatre with
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a few added jokes for big laughs. And if you don’t mind the guitar chords of music by co-writer Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, then you’re in for a treat.
But while Julia Roberts boasted about her 44-inch legs, the teeny-tiny Aimie Atkinson, who plays Vivian, is swallowed up by her black plastic thigh-high boots.
Similarly, leading man Danny Mac is a Gere mini-me – and when the two of them get together, it looks like a couple of cute kids playing stars Aimie Atkinson and Danny Mac as interest Edward.
They take on the characters made famous by Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in the 1990 film of the same name.
The hit movie was the story of a sex worker hired by a wealthy businessman to be his companion for a week.
The show ran for a year on Broadway, New York, with Manchesterborn Samantha Barks taking the lead role. Aimie, 32, has previously insisted she is as Vivian her love dress-up. Saying that, the small-but-perfectly formed Aimie has a voice big enough to fill the Albert Hall, even without those weird forehead microphones.
Surely all that bad hair would be a perfect hiding place for the pesky devices?
However, the beautiful couple are eclipsed by the big stars of the show.
Happy Man (played by Bob Harms) and Vivian’s BFF Kit de Luca (Rachael Wooding) put the pissazz into razzmatazz with their show-stopper numbers.
Of course, the reality is that in these #metoo days, stalky Edward Lewis would be doing time in a correctional facility.
But if you can park your 21st-century sensibilities, Pretty Woman is a guilty pleasure that hits the spot. keen to make the role her own. She said: “We’re paying homage to the movie, but I’m not doing an impression of Julia Roberts.
“It’s got those iconic moments you would want but we’re not really commenting on prostitution.
“It’s more about the love story and the connection that these two people have.
“She isn’t willing to settle for anything less than what she’s worth, and I think that is incredible.
“He offers her what he believes is everything – money and cars and jewellery and people sucking up to you all the time, whatever you want – and she says, ‘No that’s not enough’.
“I think she is a very strong role model because she chooses a better life for herself, and she’s more than what people think of her.”
Pretty Woman: The Musical is scheduled to run at the Piccadilly Theatre until January 2021.