STAND BY AT XMAS
THIS year’s exciting Royal Variety Performance is set to be practically perfect in every way as the cast of the West End production of Mary Poppins are on the bill.
Its leading lady Zizi Strallen was joined by co-stars Charlie Stemp and Petula Clark for filming of the big night at the London Palladium.
And after wowing the crowd they met
TELLY vet Julian Norton has revealed he won’t be getting a break over the festive period.
Even when the cameras he’ll be on stand-by.
He said: “I am on call on Christmas Day this year, actually. I have done the last few years.
“Animals don’t know it’s Christmas so if a cow needs to be calved then it doesn’t matter to the cow if it’s Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
“The good thing is if you do get called out you usually get a glass of sherry or a mince pie at the farm, so it is quite nice sometimes to have that bit of Christmassy goodwill.
“The first ever one I got called to was a calf that was poorly early in the day, at about 6.30am. I was lucky enough to see the sun rise on Christmas Day, which was beautiful.
“Another year I calved a cow. It was in the middle of the night and it was about 5am when I got back and cleaned up.
“I thought, I’ve done my work and I’ll get aren’t rolling,
Prince William backstage. The show is currently playing to capacity crowds at the Prince Edward Theatre.
The Royal Variety will air next Tuesday at 7.30pm on ITV. to help the kids open their Christmas presents. But I got back and, kids being kids, they had woken up at about 4.30am and opened all the presents while I was with the cow so I missed that too!”
Julian’s popular programme The Yorkshire Vet is back tonight at 8pm on Channel 5 for a special as part of the Help The Animals appeal.
CHARLOTTE Dawson owes her telly career to the late Sir Bruce Forsyth.
The daughter of comic Les Dawson wasn’t sure what to do when she was offered a spot on
Ex On The Beach in 2014.
Her family decided entertainment legend
Brucie would be the best person to get advice from.
Charlotte mum’s
Tracy said: “When she was offered Ex On The
Beach I wasn’t very happy. I thought: ‘Oh my
God, we can’t go down that route’. I didn’t know what her dad would have thought of it.
“So I phoned Bruce Forsyth to ask his advice. He’d always been a big friend of Les and he knew Charlotte when she was a baby.
“I called Bruce and he said to me: ‘It can’t do any harm, there will be something that will come of it. It’s not mine and Les’s idea of showbusiness but you’ve got to start somewhere.
“I’ve done some things in my career and thought: ‘Oh my God I shouldn’t have done that’. But you never know who’s watching.”
Tracy added: “After speaking to him I told Charlotte to go for it and it worked out really well for her. Bruce was right with his advice.” Charlotte went on to land lots of telly work on shows including Celebs On The Farm and Celebs Go Dating. told that disease.
Around 145,000 people Parkinson’s in the UK alone.
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