All Creatures Great And Small’s Nicholas Ralph so impressed as James Herriot (pictured) that he was offered a job by the Channel 5 show’s vet advisor Andy Barrett. Says Nicholas, ‘I’ll take the praise, but not the job – I’m an actor, not a vet!’
n Vernon Kay wants another go on I’m A Celebrity – down under! ‘I loved every second of it and lost a lot of weight,’ says Vernon (pictured), who finished third in November. ‘Why wouldn’t I do it again – especially if it was in Australia?’
Susan Penhaligon (pictured), famous as Prue in 70s series A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire, is set to play a patient with Parkinson’s, dementia and cancer in BBC1’S Doctors. ‘The family of the patient, Alice, face agonising decisions over her treatment,’ says a BBC insider.
A mystery accident before filming meant Victoria’s Tom Hughes (pictured) had to perform his scenes as Christopher Marlowe in Sky’s A Discovery Of Witches with two broken ribs. ‘I was OK for the most part, but a scene where Marlowe is in a scuffle and I was pinned against a wall really hurt.’