January 28th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
Fresh from the cobbles of Coronation Street, actress Zaraah Abrahams joined Dancing on Ice this week, to replace GMTV’s Michael Underwood who crashed out of the competition after breaking his ankle during training.
Platinum selling group Westlife performed on the show as Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean danced to their hit song “World of Our Own”. The compulsory manoeuvre for all the contestants this week was the pairs spin.
It was an emotional night, and Michael and his skating partner Melanie came back onto the show to be interviewed and both of them as well as Jayne Torvill broke down in tears when they watched the tape of Michael’s accident.
Meanwhile, after doing the splits during her routine, Samantha aggravated a hamstring injury she already had and was taken off the rink after her routine for immediate physio treatment. Read more & comment »
January 28th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
Coronation Street star Zaraah Abrahams is the latest contestant in ITV1’s Dancing on Ice, replacing GMTV’s Michael Underwood who was forced to pull out of the competition earlier this week after breaking his ankle.
Twenty year old Zaraah is best known for playing factory girl Joanna Jackson on the Street and has now taken up a role as school girl Michaela in the BBC1 drama Waterloo Road.
Having been practicing on the ice as a stand-in since November, Zaraah nevertheless had mixed feelings when she took the call and heard she was in the competition.
“I always said I’d only ever want to go in if someone couldn’t take the pressure of the competition not if someone hurt themselves. I really loved watching Michael and ironically he is the only one of the contestants I knew already, so I couldn’t believe it when I heard I would be replacing him.” Read more & comment »
January 27th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
Hell hath no fury like an angry chef, and no chef has a sharper temper than Gordon Ramsay when things go wrong in the kitchen. Now Gordon has taken Kitchen Nightmares across America, giving some of the worst restaurants Stateside a wake-up call they’ll never forget.
The venue for this week’s programme is the Seascape restaurant in the seaside village of Islip in Long Island, New York. Owner Peter Matthews has been struggling for seven years to make the business viable and now – nearly $1,000,000 in debt – he’s nearly reached the end of the line. Meanwhile head chef Doug presides over a kitchen where unprotected meat and fish sit next to mouldy pesto jars, all surrounded by walls hidden in layers of grease so thick that they need to be scraped clean. Cue Gordon, whose radical plan to resuscitate Seascape requires an instant shutdown for staff and diners alike. Will his clean sweep bring it back to life, or is Seascape already past saving?
Channel 4, Wednesday 30 January 2008 9PM
January 27th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
With two terms of transforming some of Britain’s most extreme ladettes into respectable ladies under their belt, the revered tutors at Eggleston Hall thought they had seen it all. But a third intake is set to be – by their own admission – their biggest challenge yet.
The famous finishing school opens its doors for a new term as its indomitable staff attempt to transform the most obnoxious and unrepentant ladettes they have ever seen.
In Programme Two the girls prepare to host a dinner party for their new acquaintances, the eligible bachelors, but a trip to the pub brings disastrous consequences and several of the girls are left questioning if they have what it takes to complete the course. Read more & comment »
January 27th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
BBC Two’s The Restaurant is set to return for a second series later this year.
In the show, world-renowned chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc offers one couple the opportunity of a lifetime – to go into business with him, opening their own restaurant..
The production team are now looking for potential applicants.
Application forms will be available from Tuesday 29 January via bbc.co.uk/restaurant.
Raymond Blanc comments: “I started with nothing, but hard work and passion have got me my dream so it is a privilege for me to be able to give this chance to others. Read more & comment »
January 26th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
Fussy eaters put up a food fight in the feeding clinic as Superskinny Yasmin Smith is forced to swallow a gargantuan diet of snack foods and diet drinks, while Supersize Darryl Weston weighing in at a whopping 33 stone and one pound suffers on Yasmin’s lactose, wheat, sugar and fat free diet.
Dr Christian Jessen referees the match. Journalist Anna Richardson takes the nip and tuck route to slimming by investigating the world of cosmetic treatments, but she meets with unforeseen complications during the procedure. Gillian McKeith is sent to Coventry as part of her nationwide campaign to turn bountiful bottoms into bums of steel. Read more & comment »
January 25th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
Freddie appeared This Morning today, to promote Celebrity Wife Swap with Sam Fox, but gave a confusing and rambling interview, culminating in a bizarre comment about wanting to get Sam pregnant at the final meeting where both couples discuss their experiences from the past week.
“Really?” asked an incredulous Phillip
“Yeah, surrogate father” Freddie replied, in reference to Sam having a female partner.
“There you go, you’ve got an offer” Ruth said to scared Sam
“Myra, help!” Sam joked calling out to her partner
January 24th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
Last summer, after a nation wide search to find a husband, Jodie Marsh married Matt Peacock live on MTV. But the showbiz wedding of the year soon became the scandal of 2007. Dogged by rumours that the couple were already an item before filming for Totally Jodie Marsh had begun, the couple were ‘on a break’ and living apart after only three months together.
Was their marriage a complete sham? Did Matt and Jodie deliberately set out to make a mockery of MTV and its’ viewers? We’ve already heard Jodie’s side of the story. Now it’s time for Matt to hit back and finally speak out, putting the record straight once and for all on Totally Jodie Marsh: Peacock Pulls Out, Sunday 10th February at 9pm on MTV ONE. Read more & comment »
January 24th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
Former page three girl Sam Fox has admitted to feeling broody after taking part in Channel 4 TV show, Wife Swap.
In the show Sam moves in with Comedian, Freedie Starr and helps to care for his baby daughter, Ebony and his two older step children. Her partner Myra lived with Freddie’s wife Donna.
Sam told The Sun: “I’ve always had a maternal instinct. It’s something I’ve always thought about, babies, and that I’d always want a baby.”
Sam admitted that she and her lover and manager Myra Stratton, 53, had been thinking about having children for a while.
She added: “It’ something Myra and I have spoken about, but as for when, and how, and if, it’s something really personal to us. But I know I’d make a good mummy. Read more & comment »
January 24th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry.
Simon Cowell has spoken to UK Star magazine this week about X Factor runner up, Rhydian Roberts.
Cowell believes that although the singer didn’t win the ITV talent show, he still has big potential. I suppose thats why he offered him a £1 million record deal just days after the show finished!
Simon told Star magazine: “He could make £20 million over five years. He has got something about him.
“He has got that look in his eyes, that steel that every good artist needs. He’s a showman.” Read more & comment »
