Soap clears virus
JOHNNY’S TELLY STROPS
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goes out
NORMAL People with a bang tonight.
In the series climax, Connell and Marianne (Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-jones) enjoy one last romp before he drops a bombshell.
He tells her that he has been offered a university place in New York which could mean an end to their relationship.
● Catch the finale on BBC One tonight at 9.05pm.
is going to turn into a right Gigglebox as TV chiefs have signed Johnny Vegas.
The comedian and his long-suffering personal assistant Bev Dixon are the latest stars who have agreed to be couch potatoes for the show.
However, it’s no wonder Channel 4 got him on board as he isn’t shy when it comes to his opinions about things on the box.
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WHO’D have thought it? The Government’s Chief Medical Adviser Prof Chris Whitty is now a cult figure.
And it’s all down to comedian and Sewing Bee host Joe Lycett after he painted a picture of him for Channel 4’s Grayson’s
Art Club.
Artist Grayson Perry joked: “Chris Whitty is hates telly talent shows (“I just cannot get over the manipulation factor”), hates reality shows (“Half the time they’re just laughing at people... they chew people up and spit them out”) and hates shows with celebrities in them (“Who in their right mind would put themselves on camera for 24 hours a day?”).
But the good news is he Under The Hammer Storage Hunters as they “guilty pleasures... but I’m loves and are not
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guilty”. A Gogglebox source “Johnny will be TV gold.”
Johnny and Bev will appear in the new series starting this Friday on Channel 4 at 9pm.
They will be joined by the likes of Love Island’s Iain Stirling and Laura Whitmore, and ex-football manager Harry Redknapp and his wife Sandra.
TV and radio presenter Zoe Ball and her son Woody are also lined up for the series. now a cult figure basically.” Pal Noel Fielding added: “The Government have created their own sort of Netflix series – which is them digging themselves deeper and deeper.
“Bojo and Cummings are in the Earth’s core as we speak digging a bit further.”
● Grayson’s Art Club tonight at 8pm. is said:
NEIGHBOURS will socially distance from coronavirus in future plotlines.
Filming has now re-started on the Aussie soap, with cast members including the veteran Stefan Dennis, above, after a break.
A source said: “Production did debate whether to incorporate the coronavirus into the narrative.
“However, as they are plotting episodes that won’t air until much later in the year, anything they write now might feel very outdated.”