Felicity Kendal hails Good Life co-star — however let’s bear in mind what he as soon as mentioned about her | UK | News | EUROtoday

While Felicity Kendal marked the fiftieth anniversary of The Good Life this week with an affectionate tribute to co-star Richard Briers, I’m reminded relations had been awkwardly lower than rosy shortly earlier than the latter’s loss of life over a decade in the past.

Though now hailed “one of the great human beings” by Felicity, Briers surprisingly claimed that he and his display screen spouse had by no means actually been buddies, simply weeks previous to his passing aged 79 in 2013.

“It’s ridiculous,” the actor sadly remarked on the time. “I don’t really know who she is. Never did. She was always an attractive girl…but you know she’s very strange.”

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Taking exception to His Majesty being known as her “King”, Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett cheekily insists: “Not my King, I’m Australian. Colonised.”

The actress’s republican credentials would seem a tad hypocritical: the exact same Ms Blanchett was comfortable to simply accept the Companion of the Order of Australia, courtesy of the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2017…

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Colourful racing automobile boss Eddie Jordan, who has died aged 76, recognized a long-ago Formula 3000 race at Silverstone as his most “frightening” – when trying to hoodwink two main backers.

“We had the ambassador for Kuwait on the outside track and on the inside track the people from Camel [cigarettes],” the Irishman recalled. “One side of the car had ‘Kuwait’ and on the other was ‘Camel’, and both thought they were the main titled sponsors!”

Jordan added: “I was afraid with my life they’d twig what I was doing, but you did these things in total desperation.”

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Back on screens taking part in a gangland chief in new BBC collection This City Is Ours, tough diamond Sean Bean has by no means been in need of feminine admirers down the a long time.

I used to be as soon as reliably informed that Princess Margaret had taken an apparent shine to the then youthful Yorkshireman throughout a post-show encounter. Referring to the royal’s West Indies residence, Sean was heard to joke on the time: “Bloody hell, I’m off to Mustique!”

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Newcastle United’s first home trophy in 70 years wasn’t loudly celebrated by one well-known “fan” of the Toon Army.

Sir Tony Blair’s credibility as a supporter by no means recovered following embarrassing studies in 1997 that he’d claimed to have watched Newcastle nice Jackie Milburn at St James’ Park through the late Fifties – regardless of Blair residing in Australia on the time and being simply 4 when Milburn left the North-East membership.

Unfortunately for the ex-PM, it’s largely forgotten he was the truth is the sufferer of “misreporting” – the favored story at his expense solely being clarified as false over a decade later. It prompted Blair to ruefully replicate: “What a lot of trouble I had over it.”

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Anyone silly sufficient to be contemplating wishing Dame Joan Collins a contented 92nd birthday within the coming weeks is now forewarned. Noting the Dynasty actress’s aversion to age-related references in her presence, shut pal Piers Morgan confirms Joanie will “garotte anyone who reminds her of it”.