Hopes of endgame to Nazanin’s ordeal as husband tells Iran: Now let her go
SAM IS FAN FAVE, SO IS HIS DREAM REALLY THAT OUTLAND-ISH?
THE husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe staged a vigil outside the Iranian embassy in London yesterday as hopes were raised of her ordeal reaching an ‘endgame’.
‘We’re going to keep battling until she’s home,’ said Richard Ratcliffe, who was joined by their daughter Gabrielle, six, his wife’s brother Mohamed and members of Amnesty International.
It follows the end of her five-year jail term over spying claims – but she must appear in court to face new charges next week. The British-Iranian, 42, was freed from house arrest on Sunday and had her ankle tag removed.
U UTLANDER hunk Sam Heughan is one actor not playing coy about wanting Daniel Craig’s iconic
B Bond job.
While other th f front-runners including Tom Hardy, Idris Elba and James Norton have played down their chances, Scot
Sam says bring it on after fans voted him their favourite choice to be the next 007.
With this year’s No Time To Die Craig’s final outing, Sam is asking Bond bosses to pick up the phone
Mr Bond... we expect you to aye: Scot Sam, and in Outlander after he tried out once before. ‘I don’t think any actor would ever say no,’ the 40-year-old confessed of his own chances.
‘If I was asked to audition for it, I would be delighted.’ Sharing his previous attempt, when he got as far as meeting Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Martin Campbell, who directed Casino Royale, he added: ‘I did a scene and they had the gun from The Man With The Golden Gun on the table and I remember thinking, “Wow, this is incredible”. It was surreal. He’s a character we’ve all grown up with.’
Sam is already well versed in strange mega-fandom, thanks to his role as Highland warrior Jamie Fraser. He told Radio Times: ‘I’ve had a variety of strange and wonderful things. I got sent a crate of avocados, a blanket with my face all over it. When I take my clothes off [on the show] I wear a modesty pouch and a generous lady crocheted me one.’ See Radio Times, out now.
A BILLIONAIRE politician who set several world airspeed records has been killed in a helicopter crash in northern France.
Olivier Dassault, 69, and the pilot died when the AS350 Squirrel came down in Touques, Normandy, at 5.50pm on Sunday.
‘They had just taken off when the helicopter got into difficulty and came down on private land,’ said an investigating source.
Mr Dassault (pictured), heir to the Dassault Aviation fortune and worth about £6billion, was returning to Paris from the resort of Deauville where he owned a holiday home.
Police and civil aviation safety authorities opened an inquiry into the crash, which took place in good weather conditions.
French president Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to ‘a captain of industry, an MP and a commander in the air force who never ceased to serve our country’.
The Dassault company builds Rafale fighter jets and owns Le Figaro newspaper. Mr Dassault, an MP for the conservative Republicans party since 2002, first set a speed record in a Dassault Falcon 50 flying from New York to Paris in 1977.