WRITER’S RAP AT SEX-MAD AGENDA
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A LAD manages to keep his cool as a bear lurks just a few yards behind him.
Italian Alessandro Franzoi was out on a stroll in the Alps when he had “the best day of my life”.
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The 12-year-old said: “I didn’t look it in the eye, so the bear understood I was not his enemy.”
TELLY chiefs have been blasted for only wanting “sex-obsessed” female characters following the success of Fleabag and Normal People.
Writer Ellie White – who stars in The Windsors – said producers are fixated on trying to copy the formula.
She revealed that when she pitched an idea for a show, channel bosses asked if the female stars could be sexier.
Ellie said: “I’d be pitching a show and I’d say ‘I’m writing a show based on a 19th-century farm’ and they’d go, ‘OK, but you could be a sex addict and talk to the camera?’ Fleabag was amazing, but we don’t need another one. If you try to recreate something, it’s just going to be s**t”.
BBC series Fleabag – starring Phoebe Wallerbridge – has been a ratings smash and cleaned up at last year’s Emmys.
Saucy Normal People, with Daisy Edgar-jones, was streamed more than 16 million times in its first week on iplayer.
Daisy Haggard, writer and star of BBC’S Back To Life, has previously explained how she is compared to Waller-bridge.
She said: “I look forward to a time when there’s so many women creating shows that we don’t think ‘Oh, a woman’s behind it, they must be from the same mould.’” White, 30, is now starring in femalefronted BBC One sitcom The Other One.
She added: “We mustn’t say, ‘We’ve got the women thing now,’ or ‘the black comedy thing’ or ‘the Asian thing.’
“Now there is this outpouring of great content, we have to keep it coming.”