LOUIS HONOURS MUM A YEAR AFTER LOSS
New League of Gentlemen reflects Brexit says star CULT THAT SPAWNED POOL OF TALENT
LEAGUE of Gentlemen star Mark Gatiss says their most famous characters’ distrust of outsiders was perfectly reflected in the Brexit referendum result.
As the cult TV classic returns for three Christmas specials, Mark said: “We were right. This country has become a local country for local people.”
The hit comedy will be back on the BBC with characters “who are not unaware that times have changed” – hinting it will reflect Brexit-era Britain.
The specials will reunite Sherlock actor Mark with Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson, who created the League for the stage in 1995.
They will take viewers back to the fictional town of Royston Vasey to catch up on the bizarre lives of the weird inhabitants... such as Edward Tattsyrup and his “local shop for local people”.
The show portrays small village mentality LOUIS Tomlinson paid a moving tribute to his beloved mum on the first anniversary of her death.
Posting a photo of himself as a child with Johannah, the One – and Mark says the EU referendum result is a reflection of that. Talking about shop owner Edward, who hates outsiders, Mark said: “He just gets cross. He’s permanently cross.”
Speaking at the Winq magazine Men of the Year Awards, he said: “We are doing the show again because we want to, not because we have to. We are just having fun. It’s 15 years since the last series ended, 12 years since the film. It’s given us a real perspective on it and given a lot of people a chance to miss it.
“It was a very smooth process writing and shooting it. It was like we never THE cast of The League of Gentlemen shot to fame when the show became an instant cult classic in the late 90s. Mark Gatiss played a series of characters but most famous famously portrayed the Tattsyrups’ son David. He went on to write and appear in b both Doctor Who and Sherlo Sherlock. St Steve Pemberton pl played David’s mother Tubbs, alongside Reece Shearsmith, who Direction star wrote rote on Facebook: “A year has gone by since I lost my best st friend.
“Always in my thoughts houghts and forever in my y heart. Love you. Always x.” .”
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The League of Gentlemen men stars play nearly a hundred dred characters, many created in n the early stage shows, others during uring the course of the series, and some specially for a 2005 05 was her husband Edward Tattsyrup. Pemberton also appeared in Doctor Who, ITV sitcom Benidorm, BBC crime comedy Blackpool and Channel 4’s Shameless.
In 2007 Pemberton showed up as the vicar in the film Mr Bean’s Holiday.
Meanwhile Shearsmith went on to play Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in Space and Time, a docu- drama about the conception and making of Doctor Who, which was written by Gatiss.
He also worked with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in House of Fools as Martin the ghost and in the Christmas special as behind he her husband Dan and seven chi children. Louis’s sister Lottie, 1 19, wrote: “1 year today. We were meant to have forever to together but even that wouldn’t have been long enoug enough. Thank you for b being my angel in the s sky and showing me film. Edward, played by Reece, and Tubbs, played by Steve, run the Local Shop. T The married brother and sister detest strangers and run them out of their shop with a men menacing “there’s nothing for you here”. Other favourites include pe pen- obsessed Jobcentre wor worker Pauline, who hates “dol dole scum”, creepy Papa Laza Lazarou, nasty Herr Lipp, toad toad-loving Harvey and transs sexual taxi driver Barbara. Santa. And he made two appearances in Psychobitches, directed and co-written by his League co-star Jeremy Dyson.
Pemberton and Shearsmith co-wrote and appeared in the sitcom Psychoville – with its troubling clown Mr Jelly – and the comedy-drama Inside No9.
Dyson, who played various characters on the show, had success as co-creator of hit West End play Ghost Stories.
He was one of the masterminds behind Bafta-nominated BBC Three series Funland, and wrote the Billy Goats Gruff episode of the BBC’s 2008 series Fairy Tales. how it feels to have been loved by you.” Louis, 25, whose son Freddie with partner Briana Jungwirth will be two next month, honoured Johannah by singing his debut single Just Hold On live during the X Factor final, days after her death.
His new single Miss You reached 39 in the charts this week.