Daily Express Wednesday, April 8, 2020 25HAVING recently appeared in the
critically-panned movie version of musical
Cats, Dame Judi Dench, pictured, has been
steering clear of reviews.
The celebrated actress,
who played feline Old
Deuteronomy,
acknowledges critics were
“probably very unkind”,
but adds: “I don’t read
notices anyway.” While
avoiding uncomplimentary
verdicts, Dame Judi, 85,
explains polite pals are a good indicator
when a film has flopped. She concludes:
“You always know when a friend comes to
see you and says, ‘Well Derek actually quite
liked it’... you always know. ‘Oh hello, I’m
in trouble now’.”WHILE Michael Gove yesterday announced
he was self-isolating after a family member
displayed symptoms of coronavirus, the
politician’s wife Sarah Vine saw the funny
side when their blue-and-white curtains
met with an unflattering verdict from a
TV viewer.
After they were cheekily compared to
stilton cheese, Gove’s spouse jokily
tweeted back: “Rude! Actually, they are
very stylish toile. Or at least I thought they
were. Now they’re just always going to
be stilton.”AFTER the sad news of her death aged 94,
has Bond girl Honor Blackman taken plenty
of secrets to the grave?
On the prospect of writing her memoirs,
the twice-divorced actress had remarked in
recent years: “I’ve been approached a
million times to write a book, but unless
you tell the entire truth there’s no point in
doing it. And I’m not prepared to tell the
entire truth. There’s lots of my life that I
want to keep back because I have children.”BUSINESSMAN Lord Sugar cheerfully
reports from behind closed doors: “Lady
Ann, my wife for 52 years, has not lost her
touch. The last time she gave a haircut
professionally was well over 50 years ago.
Today she did a great job cutting my hair.
She refused a tip.”BIZZARELY-COIFFURED
Tory veteran Michael
Fabricant, long the subject
of wig-wearing rumours,
alarmingly reveals an
attempt at electrical
maintenance met with
frightening results.
“I got a nasty bolt
changing a light switch,” the 69-year-old,
pictured, tweets, after thankfully emerging
unharmed. Mischievous types unkindly
inquire whether Fabricant’s “hair” stood up
on end...DISCUSSING current lockdown life with
husband number five Percy Gibson, Dame
Joan Collins admits her culinary tastes
aren’t always appreciated. She explains:
“I’m a big fan of sardines... although Percy
can’t stand the smell. So I’ve had to eat
them by myself.”FONDLY remembered by more mature fans
for his popular role in hit comedy Men
Behaving Badly, Neil Morrissey, 57, receives
harsh reminders about the passage of time.
“I get parents telling their children in
front of me, ‘This guy was in this great
sitcom in the 1990s’,” he says. “And the
kid’s like, ‘I wasn’t born, Dad’.”HICKEY
By News Reporter
REVIEW
By SARA WALLIS
trying to move on. But she’s
offered a lethally attractive job
by an old enemy, played by
Dame Harriet Walter, spectacu-
larly evil and resplendent in
leopard print. The on-screen
chemistry between 27-year-old
Jodie Comer and 69-year-old
Harriet Walter is electric –watch
out for one scene that surely
needed stunt doubles.
Back at MI6, Fiona Shaw is
hilarious deadpan boss Carolyn,who manages to say “battered
sausage” without so much as a
smirk. She now has to answer to
Steve Pemberton’s odious new
head honcho Paul.
And her son Kenny,
who everyone but
Carolyn wants to
mother, just can’t
leave his own
investigation into
The Twelve alone.
Every character
is in a different
place in life, but
what remains is a
genre-bustingcomedy thriller that has all the
international glamour of a Bond
movie and British sarcasm we
love. From Villanelle’s enviable
wardrobe and language skills, to
the unpredictable female-led plot
and thumping soundtrack,
there is not a boring scene
in sight. And the cliff-
hanger is a belter...
It’s no wonder
it’s already been
renewed for a
fourth season.
●Killing Eve
season three,
episodes weekly
on BBC iPlayer
from April 13
and BBC One
from
April 19.KILLING EVE ★★★★★
iPlayer and BBC OneKILLING Eve fans still reeling from the
end of series two are set to find out
what happened after psychopathic
assassin Villanelle shot ex-MI6 agent
Eve Polastri and left her for dead.
Starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh,
Killing Eve tells the story of two
fiercely intelligent women as they go
head-to-head in an epic game of cat
and mouse.
The series, based on novellas by Luke
Jennings and produced by Fleabag’s
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is back on the
BBC for a third series from April 13.
Here is our reviewer’s assessment
of the first episode of the returning
multi award-winning spy thriller.Jodie
Comer as
clown
VillanelleFRESH, funny and as fashion-
conscious as ever, this explosive
thriller never disappoints.
Heart-stoppingly brilliant,
with plenty of shocking deaths,
new characters and jaw-
dropping, creative murders, the
twist-filled first episode will
make you laugh one minute then
gasp in horror the next – even if
you can see what’s coming.
Of course, millions of loyal
fans knew that Eve couldn’t pos-
sibly have been killed off. And
you can breathe a sigh of relief...
Having been left for dead in
Rome, Eve is very much alive
and trying to rebuild her life. But
she’s definitely lost her mojo.
Meanwhile, a slightly unhinged
Villanelle (isn’t she always?),
believing that Eve is dead, is also
Villanelle of a new
series... Killing Eve
returns to murder
rivals in TV ratings
Comer and Oh are back for
the third season of Killing
Eve, bringing with them
more twists than everbefore they held a
sale. She was
offered the work
by the tor-
mented Dutchgenius, saying: “The painting
looked old, very dirty and
uncared for, and it had a hole in
it, but I still liked it.
“They persuaded me it was notworth having.” Instead she chose
the bell. The painting was sold
for just £4 to a local auction
house and was next seen in a
junk shop in north London.
A buyer snapped it up for £45,
having spotted the faint signa-
ture “Vincent” on the painting.
It sold to an anonymous buyer
in Holland last week.
Gaye, who lives in the
Cotswolds, said: “Oh dear, how
very naive of me. In those days, I
couldn’t argue with them and
ended up with a brass handbell. I
learnt my lesson the hard way.”,VQXEEHGdP9DQ*RJK
A PENSIONER has revealed she
turned down a free Van Gogh
masterpiece – which has just sold
for £13million – and asked for a
£1 brass handbell instead.
Speaking after Peasant Woman
In Front Of A Farmhouse (1885)
sold at an art fair in Holland,
Gaye Horrell said she had been
“very naive” not to take it.
Gaye, 76, said that in 1967
she was asked by her in-laws
if she wanted anything
from their farmhouse
Gaye, below,
said no to
Van Gogh
painting