COLD CALLER!
Zombie island Em’s dead sexy Telly star Nesbitt reveals he was a bingo host as hit show returns
ED GLEAVE SIZZLING Emily Atack has become a huge box office smash thanks to her amazing curves. Earlier this year she was in the big screen revival of BBC wartime favourite Dad’s Army. Now the blonde is back in the new comedy Ibiza Undead alongside Downton’s Cara Theobald. Emily told us: “It’s a horror set in the clubbing scene on Ibiza. Zombies take over the whole island. “It’s very gory, so if you like that kind of thing mixed with some comedy then go to see it.” Emily, who found fame in The Inbetweeners, had a ball filming on the holiday isle. She added: “I absolutely love Ibiza. I try to go at least once a year. So I was really lucky to go there for work.” COLD Feet star James Nesbitt was a bingo caller before he found fame.
These days he’s known for being one of TV’s biggest names, but James used to entertain crowds of grannies playing the game.
And the actor showed he hadn’t lost his touch when he hosted a bingo session at the wrap party for the new series of Cold Feet.
James said: “I used to call bingo in Northern Ireland at Portrush for a summer when I was 16. So the bingo was a bit of an in-joke between us.
“It was a bit different from the old wrap parties. But we’re all much wiser these days.”
James’ role as Adam Williams on the comedy drama made him a household name in the late 90s. There were TV Editor ED GLEAVE talks about bringing back the show five years ago but filming started again earlier this year.
James, 51, said: “We slipped right back into it and were surprised at how much we were enjoying it.
“We all looked at each other in one of the very first scenes we filmed and just laughed, thinking, ‘Here we are, we’re back’.”
He returned alongside John Thomson, 47, Fay Ripley, 50, Hermione Norris, 49, and Robert Bathurst, 59.
Most of the new series was filmed on location in Manchester, where the first five series were set.
James explained: “Manchester has changed a lot since we filmed the last series but it’s still got soul. And people were so thrilled we were back. Everyone in Manchester feels Cold Feet is theirs.”
ITV expects bumper ratings for the new series, which opens with Adam announcing he is getting hitched.
James said: “We all watched the first episode of this new series and found it very moving. It holds a mirror to your life and the past. There’s a melancholy to it but also there’s excitement.”
And the star said he would be involved in another series “in a heartbeat”, adding: “I think there’s more to do.”
Cold Feet is back tomorrow at 9pm on ITV.