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THE heat is on for contestants on Celebrity Masterchef as the semi-finals kick off.
First they’re tasked with catering for 120 people at an event for Guide Dogs. And there is plenty of pressure because the charity is marking
SURANNE Jones has to give up her social life when she’s filming
The actress is in almost every scene as pioneer Anne Lister in the hit drama, so she has loads of lines to learn.
In fact, she needs to memorise even more than she did on Corrie years ago.
She said: “I think Gentleman Jack is just a very different beast.
“I haven’t worked on anything this tough before… the amount of lines.
“You work Monday to Friday, you finish on Friday night, I’ll come home and spend time with my four-year-old and then on Sunday I might have breakfast and then get into learning lines again for the next week.
“It’s tough, it’s a sevenand-a-half month shoot. It’s a lot.”
Despite the
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the 90th anniversary of its first UK partnership in one of its biggest events yet.
A show insider said: “It’s a race against the clock as the celebrities must design and create four mouthwatering dishes each.” The celebs, including Olympian Sam Quek and Welsh television presenter Gethin Jones, will then compete in another challenge back in the Masterchef kitchen.
● Watch it tonight at 9pm on BBC One. workload, Suranne jumped chance to reprise the role second series.
The actress and writer Sally Wainwright have fallen in love with the character, who was a lesbian at a time when it wasn’t socially acceptable. Suranne added: “What Sally and me had was just this love for Anne Lister and this deep passion of wanting to dive into every aspect of her and get as much as we possibly could.
“We fell in love with each other, we fell in love with Anne Lister!” Suranne is nominated for the best actress gong at this week’s Baftas, which are sponsored by Virgin Media.
● See who wins on Friday at 7pm on BBC One. at the for a
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JODIE Comer has revealed playing an assassin on Killing Eve means her outfits can’t be too outrageous.
Stylists have to make sure her character Villanelle looks agile enough that she’d be able to murder someone.
Jodie said: “A big thing for Villanelle is, yes, it’s fashion, but it’s got to be comfortable, it’s got to be practical.
“I remember talking to our writer Phoebe Waller-bridge early on saying: ‘She’s not going to scale a wall in six-inch heels. OK, that happens in Hollywood but it’s not happening here.’”
MICHAEL Portillo has been fronting Great Continental Railway Journeys for eight years.
But the former MP reckons his latest series, which starts at 8pm on BBC Two tonight, is one of his “most compelling journeys yet”.
He said: “Using my 1936 Bradshaw’s guidebook it takes me through the causes of the Second World War. In Spain, I’m confronted with my family’s tragic history during the civil war.”