You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!
People say actors are sexually incontinent extroverts who would crawl over each other’s dead bodies to get a role. None of that is true. Apart from the incontinence.
Bill Nighy reveals to me at a screening of Their Finest that he does conform to one stereotype.
I think if Victoria was alive today, she would be writing a scuzzy mummy blog, complaining about her darling kids and drinking chardonnay.
Daisy Goodwin, writer of hit TV series Victoria, gives me her idea of how our 19th Century Queen would live today when we met at the Radio Times Festival.
I wish The Archers would get in touch with me. Every year I say I want to be in it, but they never call. BGT’s Amanda
Holden, right, tells me she’s desperate for a role on the iconic BBC Radio 4 soap.
I just can’t imagine ever killing off Maggie Smith. Downton Abbey creator
denies claims by Dame Maggie that her character would be doomed if he wrote a sequel.
I led a perfectly normal life up until Downton Abbey. I used to go to galleries on my own. Now I can’t. It’s awful. But Dame Maggie still isn’t feeling grateful!
Sometimes I put two outf its in front of him and ask him what he thinks I should wear. She may be a clothes guru, but Trinny Woodall admits at the China Exchange to asking boyfriend Charles Saatchi to help her choose her outfits.
I put on weight to play Julie and I’ve still got a load on, but I’m trying to lose it. I just wanted to get into the character. Sheridan Smith confides to me she is struggling to lose the weight she gained to play Julie Bushby in BBC drama Moorside. She still looks gorgeous!