Tag Archives: Cheryl Cole

News Roundup: Bodice-Ripping Sex Scenes In ‘Downton Abbey’?

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 29th, 2011

The great British period drama has been many things, haughty, educational, dignified, but it’s never been particularly explicit, has it? Colin Firth might have smouldered around in his wet shirt for Pride and Prejudice, but he ...

News Roundup: Lily Allen Broke James Corden’s Heart

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 22nd, 2011

It’s horrible being infatuated, isn’t it? Trying to cross a cavernous divide using only hope and misread clues as a bridge, and all the time wondering whether it’s going to be worth it, whether you’ll get all the ...

News Roundup: It’s Definitely ‘Downton Abbey’s Week

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 19th, 2011

It was always a high-risk strategy, putting two of Britain’s best drama series up against each other on a Sunday night, especially given the plethora of means people can use to catch up with whichever one they didn’t watch ...

News Roundup: Hugh Grant And JK Rowling Tackle Phone-Hacking

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 14th, 2011

Hugh Grant has already proved himself to be something of a have-a-go hero in the phone-tapping scandal which overwhelmed UK tabloid journalism.

News Roundup: Colin Firth’s Kids Take His Oscar To School

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 13th, 2011

Can I begin with a question? If you had won an Academy Award for being the best actor in the world, where would you keep the trophy? On the mantelpiece? On the hood of your car? On a chain around your neck at all times?

News Roundup: Russell Brand – ‘The Paralympics Have Novelty Value’

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 12th, 2011

Russell Brand appears to be the target of another attempted tabloid bashing, after on-stage comments he made about the Olympics were seized upon as proof of some kind of disability prejudice.

News Roundup: Inbetweeners Joe Thomas & Simon Bird’s New Sitcom

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 6th, 2011

There’s a slight chance that you are reading about something that you will never get to see, so forgive us.

News Roundup: Many Harry Returns, Brooklyn

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 2nd, 2011

It’s not often that there’s a crossing of the streams of Brit gossip we like to provide you with, but today appears to be an exception, today everyone appears to be relevent to everyone else, and it all revolves around the ...

News Roundup: Robert Pattinson Gives A Tramp The Gift Of Music

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 1st, 2011

Guitar shops are magical places. There are all of these beautiful, shiny instruments on the walls, and they’re all slightly different – Gretsches, Gibsons, Rickenbackers, Fenders – so any self-respecting string-twiddler will ...