Daily Express - 07.08.2019

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her mind, and producers know she

would make great TV. There have

been some very interesting offers

made.

“But Summer is still getting over

a difficult break-up so it’s unlikely

she will commit to anything so

soon.”

But at the suggestion she might

appear on Love Island or start her

own YouTube show, Summer

insisted: “Neither of those

are attractive to me.”

After Hollywood, 53,

reportedly told her to

“**** off back on that

horse you rode in on”,

his ex-girlfriend joked

that she had “rode into

the sunset with a middle

finger held high”.

As if to prove her point,

Summer was seen happily

tending to her horses as

she enjoys single life.

By Ashleigh Rainbird

Summer

relaxes

with her

horses as

TV offers

flood in

After the bunfight, Paul’s ex-lover flooded with telly offers

PAUL Hollywood’s ex-girlfriend

Summer Monteys-Fullam is being

flooded with offers from reality TV

shows – but insists she will not be

appearing on Love Island.

Summer, 24, has been inundated

with offers for TV work after

splitting with The Great British

Bake Off star.

The glamorous barmaid has

spoken out about feeling

“betrayed” after she was “thrown

under a bus” by her former lover.

Summer claims Paul and his

lawyers pressured her to

sign a non-disclosure

agreement, which

“horrified” her friends.

She moved out of his

Kent home last week,

ending the couple’s

two-year relationship.

A TV industry insider

said: “Summer is hot

property. She clearly

isn’t afraid of

speaking

Summer fools around with horse pal

Body blow... hit shows like the BBC’s Bodyguard couldn’t halt ratings slide

TV a lifeline for

millions despite

the great turn-off

BRITAIN’S TV viewing habits may be

changing rapidly, but older people

still rely on terrestrial channels like

the BBC, a report reveals.

Half of all households subscribe to

streaming services like Netflix, but

the BBC is still the default channel

for millions of OAPs – who will be

forced to pay £154.50 to continue

watching from next year.

The broadcaster and Government

are locked in a bitter war of words

over who is to blame for scrapping

free TV licences for over-75s.

Last week, Age UK handed No 10

a petition signed by 634,789 people

calling on Prime Minister Boris

Johnson to intervene.

The scandal of making 3.75 million

pensioners pay for their TV licences

comes as traditional TV is in decline,

despite broadcasters showing more

than 100 times more original,

UK-made shows than streaming

giants such as Netflix.

Despite the World Cup, Royal

wedding and hit dramas like

Bodyguard, BBC One saw its aver-

age daily viewing time fall by three

minutes to 41 minutes.

ITV is also heavily reliant on

Coronation Street, Emmerdale, The

Chase, Good Morning Britain, I’m A

Celebrity! and The X Factor, accord-

ing to broadcasting regulator Ofcom.

It told how “a few popular drama

and entertainment programmes are

not enough to stem the overall

decline in broadcast TV viewing”. The

regulator also found young people

now spend more than an hour on

YouTube each day while adults surf

the internet channel for half an hour.

Some 38 per cent of online users

also said they can imagine not watch-

ing broadcast TV at all in five years.

This follows a drop in the propor-

tion of shared viewing of live TV –

down to 47 per cent from 51 in 2010.

The number of UK households

signed up to the biggest streaming

platforms – including Netflix, Amazon

Prime Video, Now TV and Disney Life

• rose from 11.2 million in 2018 to
  13.3 million this year.
  Traditional viewing – watching as a
  programme airs or shortly afterwards


• accounts for most TV time [three

hours and 12 minutes a day]. But

viewers now watch 50 minutes less

traditional TV each day than in 2010,

with the shift most pronounced

among younger people.

Ofcom’s report comes as the BBC

and ITV said its streaming subscrip-

tion service BritBox will launch later

this year at £5.99 a month.

Yih-Choung Teh, of Ofcom, said:

“The way we watch TV is changing

faster than ever before.

“In seven years, streaming services

have grown from nothing to reach

nearly half of British homes.

“But traditional broadcasters still

have a role to play, producing the

kind of brilliant UK programmes

overseas giants struggle to match.”

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