BBC One is making dreams come true as part of a brand new, six-part Saturday night entertainment show. Hosted by Torchwood and West End star John Barrowman, Tonight’s The Night combines show-stopping acts from world class artists with once-in-a-lifetime performances that make people’s dreams come true.

It doesn’t matter how young or old, or how big, small or bizarre the wish. Tonight’s The Night will end up being the night ordinary people live out their performing fantasy for real and become the most unlikely stars that Saturday evenings have ever seen.

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In a recent interview with The Mirror Torchwood star, John Barrowman has said that he thinks Laura White was the right person to go home on Saturday night.

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I’d Do Anything judge John Barrowman tells Jonathan Ross tonight that he has a favourite Nancy – just a day before the grand final of the contest to find the West End’s newest star.

John and Andrew Lloyd Webber pop in for a chat on this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One and discuss which of the three finalists should land the lead role in Cameron Mackintosh’s revival of Oliver!

“Andrew has a specific favourite, we all do,” admits John. “The three girls all have a great amount of talent, how I look at this now is, this is going to be life-changing, who can handle it?” Read more & comment »

Denise Van Outen has revealed that her fellow ‘I’d Do Anything’ judge, John Barrowman once tried to drag her into Andrew Lloyd Webber’s swimming pool for a spot of skinny dipping.

Denise told the Radio Times: “John went skinny-dipping in Andrew’s pool when we were at his house but I remained clothed. He tried dragging me in, but I resisted by clinging for dear life to the wall. Andrew wasn’t there but John told him he’d been in his pool naked and he just laughed.”

Van Outen also revealed that ALW is one heck of a mover on the dance floor! Read more & comment »

Here’s a clip of this Saturday night’s BBC One show, The Kids Are Alright with John Barrowman.

I must admit that with all the great TV this weekend I managed to miss this show, so if anyone has an opinion on how it went, I’d love to hear it!

I’d Do Anything judge, John Barrowman has admitted to getting regular botox injections in order to keep his youthful looks.

The star of BBC’s Torchwood told new! magazine: I don’t swear by it (botox), but I think it’s quite good. The key is to not do the forehead. Men need forehead lines and doing the forehead makes you look like Nicole Kidman!

“If you’re going to do anything, just do it round the eyes, that’s all men need.”

I’d Do Anything judge, John Barrowman has hit out at actor Kevin Spacey who last week criticised the show.

When asked to comment on Spacey’s remarks John told Capital Radio in true Barrowman style: “You know what, shut up! It’s promoting theatre. Maybe he’s a bit upset because his plays just aren’t hits.”

Any Dream Will Do judge and former leading man, John Barrowman has tipped the two Scottish contestants, Craig Chalmers and Keith Jack, as contenders for the shows final.

“I think the standard of talent is excellent, particularly Craig and Keith, who are both good Scottish boys. All the other boys in general are all of a very good standard and high quality,” Barrowman told the Daily Record.

“I always remain impartial but I’m thrilled that two Scottish boys are getting close to the final. But it’s Scotland, you know what I mean. They’re the two cans of Irn Bru up on stage.

“I can see a leading man in some of them. I can see careers in some of them, but none has gone, wow. They don’t have that showbiz factor yet.”

There are now 10 finalists left as legendary composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber and his panel continue their quest to find a new Joseph. In the third live show, the remaining hopefuls take to the stage to prove that they have the drive, determination and sheer, unadulterated talent to land one of the best-loved roles in musical theatre.

In the presence of Lloyd Webber and his esteemed panel of experts – Broadway and West End leading lady Denise van Outen, celebrated theatre producer Bill Kenwright, Torchwood star John Barrowman and outspoken vocal coach Zoe Tyler – the West End wannabes battle it out to prove that they have the charisma and star quality worthy of the Technicolor™ Dreamcoat.

Graham Norton hosts as the Josephs give it everything they’ve got to win this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to star in the West End. Once the panel have given their expert opinion, viewers are able to vote for their favourite. Whose dreams will be shattered? And who will still have the chance to be the public’s Joseph?

Later this evening at 9.45pm on BBC One, viewers can find out which Joseph has been voted off by the public, and which Josephs survive to perform in next week’s live show.

Saturday 28 April
7.30-8.35pm BBC ONE
9.45-10.10pm BBC ONE

John Barrowman has been accused of being ‘fattist’ this week after comments he made about applicants to the BBC’s new reality show, Any Dream Will Do.

John will appear on the Charlotte Church show tonight, and Charlotte confronts him saying:

“You were quoted last week in the press saying that fatties need not apply”.

To which John replies: “That was a mis-quote and what I actually said was that you have to be physically fit in order to perform in eight shows a week, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a size 0.

“It doesn’t mean you have to be thin to be physically fit … you can still be full figured”.

Do you believe him?

John Barrowman – the leading man

John has become a household name in recent months following his role as Captain Jack in BBC One’s Doctor Who and its hugely successful spin off Torchwood. However TV is just one side to John’s acting talent as he has been a stalwart leading actor in musical theatre throughout his long and busy career.

Born in Glasgow but raised in Illinois, John initially returned to the UK to study drama but a career as a leading man in musical theatre accidentally got in the way.

His big break came when he starred opposite Elaine Paige in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. Since his stage debut he has appeared in almost every major musical of the last 30 years including Miss Saigon, Chicago, Beauty And The Beast, Sunset Boulevard, Stephen Sondheim’s Company, Evita, Hair and The Phantom Of The Opera to name just a few.

His experience as a leading man on the stage gives him perfect insight into what someone will need to bring to the role of Joseph. By his own admission John is “tough but generous” as a leading man and with his vast experience of leading roles across many shows he will be trying to bring out the leading man in the ten Josephs.

A new TV talent search to find the next stars of the musical Oliver! will begin this week on BBC One.

I’d Do Anything will be looking to find an actress for the role of Nancy and three young actors who will take turns as Oliver in the Lionel Bart musical.

Graham Norton will again host the show after leading previous searches for the stars of Joseph and The Sound of Music.

Auditions will begin in early 2008 and the programme will be broadcast on BBC One later in the year.

Norton will be joined by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the programme along with Barry Humphries, John Barrowman and Denise Van Outen. Read more & comment »

Ice Skating is a beautiful sport and a joy to watch but it doesn’t come without its dangers and thats what the celebrity contestants on ITV’s Dancing On Ice have come to realise.

It seems as though every one has been injured in some way

• Kelly Holmes has suffered from groin strain
• John Barrowman put his back out and injured his ankle. He also sliced partner Olga ’s hand open with his blades
• Stefan Booth has dislocated his shoulder and is suffering from tendonitis in both knees
• Bonnie Langford has taken to wearing a safety helmet after bashing her head and she slashed her partner Matt Evers’ face with her boot blade during a spin
• Andi Peters dislocated his left wrist
• Andrea McLean broke a rib, knocked herself out and pulled a muscle in her bum!
• David Seaman has so far avoided injury but managed to fall on his partner and cause injury to her shoulder leaving her unable to skate this week.

  This lot would make a fortune in personal injury claims once the show ends….the unofficial sponsor of the show could be Claims Direct or some other seedy legal firm!

Last night saw A Las Vegas theme take over the Dancing on Ice show, and the celebrities took to the ice alongside Torvill and Dean to open the Las Vegas show with a breath-taking full company spectacle.

But the night did not end on such a happy note with the shock eviction of John Barrowman and his partner Olga Sharutenko.

Many of the shows fans seem upset by this decision and where better to vent your frustration and rage than through your very own blog!

Mia Francis said “I was aghast on Saturday when John Barrowman was left in the bottom two by the public vote……. [John] I’m gonna miss ya big cheesy smile but you did well. The night was just not your night!”

Savage believes that John should have been kept in, even if only so that he could be allowed to regain his confidence on the ice.

And Miss Skittles is enraged and says she won’t be watching the show anymore, but instead will be sticking to BBC1s Sound of Musicals.

But Mia Francis and Alistair Kennedy blame YOU the great (?) British public!

10th Doctor Fan says “I now feel like strangling Joe Public, because they LET it happen. John was absolutely loving the skating too so I’m really gutted for him and Olga most of all – he really should’ve won the whole thing.”

While Al believes “Of course, Barrowman wouldn’t have been in the skate-off at all were it not for the votes of the great British public. So thanks, great British public, for reaffirming what we all suspected about your intelligence levels.”