(^24) DAILY MIRROR WEDNESDAY 24.07.2019
DM1ST
with Ashleigh Rainbird
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IAN HYLAND
on last night’s telly
While Amanda Holden is
on holiday from the
Heart radio breakfast
show, Kelly Brook has
been keeping her
seat warm for her.
Kelly admits she
laughed so much
during one
segment last week:
“I kinda wet myself
a little bit.”
That’s not
exactly the kind of
warm seat Amanda
will be expecting...
Introducing Love Island – but with
penguins.
Contrary to popular belief,
penguins do not mate for life.
According to the National Sea Life
Centre in Birmingham, their dating
lives are actually similar to humans.
So entrepreneurial marketing folk
have set up video cameras to track
the drama and dumpings within their
colony of 18 gentoo penguins.
Jonny Rudd,
curator at the
aquarium, said:
“Just like Love
Island contestants,
penguins can often
recouple and have
their heads turned.”
Among the
huddle is Arabel, who the Sea Life
Centre say is “devoted to Pablo but
worried he wants to hold flippers with
other birds”. Meanwhile, poor Sniff,
“full of confidence”, is unable to find
a partner – will his persistence pay off
with Tina?
And how will Prince and Hyacinth
cope with the arrival of their first
chick?
Watch Penguin Island at
visitsealife.com to find out.
PPPICK UP..
A PARTNER
I’ve been cooking all
my life. I can sort of
count myself a pro
A confident Joey Essex ahead of his
MasterChef appearance – despite
once making spaghetti Bolognese
with burgers on TOWIE – said while
throwing a party with Desperados.
THE DIARY
through the show without
your waters breaking’.”
Myleene, by her own
admission, was looking “fit to
burst” yesterday afternoon as
she attended the Where
is Peter Rabbit? press
day at London’s
Theatre Royal
Haymarket.
“I look like
I’ve swallowed
a medicine ball,”
she added.
Besides eating
spicy curries “every
day” for the past week
in a bid to induce her labour,
Myleene hasn’t set herself a
birthing plan. “This is my
third, so I know enough to not
have any plan,” she says. “I
haven’t even packed my bag.
“I don’t think I’ve really real-
ised it’s actually happening.”
The 41-year-old presenter,
expecting her first child with
partner Simon Motson, 45,
invited daughters Ava, 11, and
Hero, eight, to come up with
names for their new brother.
Their suggestions included
Snoop Dogg and Sushi.
“I said they can write a list,
but that we’re going to choose
‘together’,” she says. “Though
I’ll probably be too tired to
win that battle.”
We look forward to meeting
little Sushi.
Keeping Faith, BBC1
★★★★
A
head of the return of this
Welsh crime drama last night,
its star Eve Myles said the
story was about to get “more
complicated”.
More complicated? How much
more complicated could a story be?
The first series had so many
twists, turns and tangents it was a
full-time job keeping up, never mind
keeping faith.
Then – to the well-voiced
frustration of some viewers – it
ended on a humdinger of a
cliffhanger.
“How could they leave so many
loose ends?” was the gist of the
many complaints.
Without wishing to state the
obvious, the answer was kind of
obvious. The writer clearly knew
there was another series on the way.
Besides, that air of mystery and
uncertainty and the tantalising
drip-feed of information is what
sucks you in.
That and the performance of
Myles in the lead role, a
small-town lawyer called
Faith Howells who has an
awful lot on her plate.
In the first series,
Faith’s husband Evan
disappeared, leaving her
to cope with a) trying to
find him and b) sorting
out the mess he left behind. The
action has now skipped forward 18
months and Evan is in the middle of a
four-year prison sentence.
However, thanks to flashbacks, we
found out how Faith reacted to his
surprise return.
She head-butted him and left him
writhing on the floor in
agony.
She then pointed out:
“The woman you left is
not the woman sitting in
front of you now.”
Yeah, Faith, I think he
might have worked that
one out for himself.
COMPLICATED
Eve Myles as
Faith Howells
‘‘That air of
uncertainty
and drip-feed
of information
sucks you in
“Here’s a first look at the Gavin
and Stacey cast 10 years on,”
says the show’s creator, James
Corden. “Filming for the new
special is going well. Basically
nothing’s changed.”
Either the make-up department
for this year’s festive special will
have their work cut out – or
James has been having fun with
the ageing feature on FaceApp.
In case you hadn’t
noticed, it’s hot in
Europe at the moment,
as Barbra Streisand
discovered during a jaunt to Lake
Garda in northern Italy.
To avoid Fanny and the two
clones of her late pet Samantha,
Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett,
overheating she hired them their
very own tuk tuk to ferry them
about during their walkies.
Who do we have to blame for
Boris Johnson becoming PM?
None other than Uri Geller.
The “spoon-bender” claimed
he predicted Boris would be PM back in March
- before Theresa May had even resigned.
It comes after Geller claimed he
“telepathically” burst Parliament’s water
pipes to flood the House of Commons in a bid
to stop Brexit happening.
Next week’s lottery numbers would be
more appreciated, Uri.
Orgy!
“Wan***s”
Both contestants
managed to find
this “a bit rude”
seven-letter word
during yesterday’s
(censored) episode
of Countdown.
The pair of wan***s
scored them seven
points each.AWKWARD Rachel Riley and
the ‘rude’ seven-letter wordFancy bumping into
you here, Myleene
SHE’S nine months’
pregnant, due “any day
now”, but Myleene
Klass is still planning to
broadcast a live radio
show over the
weekend – even
if she goes
into labour,
she jokes.
“We just
need towels
and someone
who can catch,”
she quipped
ahead of her
Smooth radio show
this Saturday morning.
“My poor producer. When I
come in he says, ‘Let’s just getMEDICINE BALL
Myleene at theatre yesterdayrchid