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HE’S one of the world’s most natural and gifted actors but as a chat show guest, Robert De Niro is awkward and wooden. Try as he might to raise a laugh from the Godfather of acting, host Graham Norton’s (pictured) wisecracks consistently fall flat with De Niro, whose responses vary between nonchalant shrugs to noncommittal responses. De Niro loosens up somewhat when his old mate Bruce Springsteen joins them on the couch to talk about breaking into Graceland. But as far as providing any entertainment himself, the most animated De Niro gets is when he sees an opportunity to stick the boot into US president Donald Trump. But there’s nothing new in that. Thankfully though, Sienna Miller, Paul Rudd and James Blunt seem far more relaxed in the chat show environment.

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ONCE upon a time, Paula Duncan (pictured) was one half of one of TV’s most popular married couples. But since divorcing her spouse and former Cop

Shop co-star John Orcsik in 2001, the actress has grown lonely and eager for some intimacy. So, what is a Logie-winner to do to find love? Rather than trying Tinder or online dating, Duncan turns to this Channel 7 dating show. Remarkably though, it appears to have been a winning move as Duncan finds herself sitting across the table from a handsome man with three failed marriages under his belt. Across the restaurant, Scarlet also appeared to have met her match in Colby. After a tongue-tied start to their blind date, the pair bond over their preference for chicken nuggets over fine dining. “What’s an artichoke, is it a kind of fish?” she asks the bemused waitress before then querying whether a spatchcock was the private part of an animal.