GEMMA IS OUT OF THE HABIT
CIRCLE STAR VOW
EMMA Willis is fronting TV’s biggest social media game show The Circle next week but in reality the online world scares her.
Now she and her pop star husband Matt have decided to keep their three children away from Twitter and Instagram for as long as possible.
Emma said: “I think you have to educate them on it from as early as they’ll understand it.
“Let them know the positives and the negatives, be totally realistic. The dangers of it as well. I think you’ve just got to be totally transparent with them.
“Personally, for me I will try and keep them off it for as long as possible because when they’re a little bit older, a little bit more mature, a little bit more understanding of life, I think they’ll be in a much better frame of mind for them to be in going into it.”
Emma says she is wary about chatting to people on the net herself. She says: “I’m too paranoid! I don’t trust anyone.” And she prefers Instagram to Twitter. Emma explained: “It’s a much more positive place.”
But she tries not to analyse why it is that certain photographs might get more “likes” than others.
She added: “I question what is it about that particular post that is liked more than the other.
“I wonder, ‘Is it because Matt’s in that picture that it’s got more likes, rather than the picture of my scones with cream and jam?’ What makes a picture popular? I haven’t got a bloody clue!”
In The Circle, which starts on C4 next Tuesday, contestants live separately in an apartment block, communicate only via social media and compete to be the most popular to win the £100,000 prize money.
But the twist is, the players can choose to be whoever they want on their profile – so they can be themselves or pose as a completely different person.
Emma adds: “The Circle is a glowing beacon to teach people – do not trust who you’re talking to online. Because you just don’t know!” QUANTUM of Solace actress Gemma Arterton will be playing a sexually repressed nun in an erotic new BBC drama. She will star in a re-telling of the 1939 classic novel Black Narcissus.
It’s about a group of nuns led by Sister Clodagh (Arterton) who travel to Nepal to set up a branch of their order in the remote palace of Mopu.
However, the sister finds herself attracted to the handsome land agent Mr Dean (Alessandro Nivola).
Writer Amanda Coe said: “Black Narcissus is a brilliantly unsettling piece of 20th century gothic.”
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