EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Panto shock for Chipping Norton set

Lord (David) Cameron of Chipping Norton and his household are amongst those that usually benefit from the pantomime at Chipping Norton Theatre, close to the Foreign Secretary‘s retreat within the Cotswolds.

But this 12 months, the drama has taken place off stage on the Oxfordshire theatre the place viewers members have prior to now included Jeremy Clarkson and Amanda Holden.

Cast members of Cinderella have been left upset after one of many ugly sisters, performed by an actress, is claimed to have been touched ‘inappropriately’ by a person within the viewers throughout a efficiency on New Year’s Eve.

‘It appears to have been a ‘Me Too’ incident,’ says somebody current. ‘Adnausea, was groped by an viewers member on the finish of the present. The different ugly sister, Quosimoda, performed by a person, did make an odd comment about unacceptable behaviour. And a person bought up and stroll out of the theatre shortly afterwards. But we thought it was simply a part of the present.’

Cast members of Cinderella have been left upset after one of many ugly sisters, performed by an actress, is claimed to have been touched ‘inappropriately’

Actors carry out a scene from Cinderella staged on the Theatre Chipping Norton

The drama has taken place off stage on the Oxfordshire theatre the place viewers members have prior to now included Jeremy Clarkson and Amanda Holden

The viewers member provides: ‘During the efficiency, two males within the entrance row had been requested to participate within the present and declare their love for the 2 ugly sisters. So, maybe one took this too actually.’

A theatre spokesman confirms the incident. ‘Towards the top of this efficiency, there was a second of inappropriate viewers behaviour involving bodily contact between an viewers member and a performer, which was subsequently known as out by different members of the corporate.

‘We are in communication with the viewers member(s) involved to make it clear that we’ll not settle for such behaviour sooner or later, and that each the performer in query and the broader firm have been grateful for the messages of help they’ve acquired from different members of the viewers.

‘We work arduous to make sure that the theatre is a contented, protected and welcoming place for audiences and performers alike.’

Anne-Sofie backs departing Queen 

She was described because the ‘real-life Cinderella’ after leaving certainly one of her golden stilettos at Copenhagen’s Royal Palace on the finish of Prince Christian of Denmark’s 18th birthday celebration final October.

Now, Anne-Sofie Tornso Olesen has endorsed his grandmother Queen Margrethe’s dramatic determination to step down from the throne in favour of Christian’s father, Crown Prince Frederik.

Anne-Sofie Tornso Olesen (centre) has endorsed his grandmother Queen Margrethe’s dramatic determination to step down from the throne

‘Margrethe took the appropriate determination,’ Anne-Sofie tells me, including: ‘She’s superb, however I do not need her to really feel harassed. I need her to loosen up and stay her greatest life along with her household and associates. She deserves the very best.’

Of Crown Prince Frederik, who will succeed to the throne on January 14, she says: ‘I imagine that he’ll make an incredible king. He appeared good at Christian’s birthday celebration, and he additionally made an incredible speech. His speech was very touching – it even made me cry a bit.’

Kate swaps excessive couture for bikini stylish

Known for her energy dressing in Emily In Paris, Kate Walsh is simply at house on the seashore.

The U.S. actress, 56, who performs Lily Collins’s fashionable boss Madeline within the hit Netflix drama, above, wore a pink and white checked bikini as she went for a dip within the sea Down Under along with her Australian fiance, Andrew Nixon, a farmer.

Walsh, who has starred in U.S. hospital drama Grey’s Anatomy since 2005, says she has no want to look much like how she did firstly of her profession.

‘This concept that we’re supposed to remain the identical or keep how we had been after we had been 20 to after we’re 30, after we’re 40, after we’re 50 — that is only a fallacy,’ she provides.

Known for her energy dressing in Emily In Paris, Kate Walsh is simply at house on the seashore

Love Island narrator Iain Stirling is thought for his soothing Scottish burr, whereas his spouse, the relationship present’s former host Laura Whitmore, is from Dublin. Yet their two-year-old daughter, Stevie Re, is rising as much as communicate the King’s English. Her accent is at the moment ‘a mix’ of Scottish and Irish, says Whitmore, who lives with Stevie Re and Stirling in Camden, North London. ‘It’s type of far and wide. I fairly prefer it now, however we’re most likely going to boost her with a extremely posh English accent.’  

Dame Arlene Phillips is bemused that folks nonetheless inquire about her bed room antics.

‘Everyone has requested about my intercourse life,’ says the previous Strictly Come Dancing decide, who has been in a relationship with Angus Ion, a set builder, since they met through the making of a Freddie Mercury pop video in 1985. ‘What are we alleged to do in our lives? Should I flip round and disappear now that I’ve turned 80 or simply go on the market?

‘Right now, I’m doing all of it. I even went on a bus the opposite day. It will need to have been 20 years since I used to be on the bus.’

Dame Arlene Phillips is bemused that folks nonetheless inquire about her bed room antics

Why Good Life bought Briers’ goat 

As Tom Good in basic sitcom The Good Life, Richard ‘Dickie’ Briers championed self-sufficiency, rising his personal crops in his Surbiton backyard together with his spouse, Barbara (Felicity Kendal), and retaining livestock.

Off display screen, the late actor by no means grew a vegetable in his life and wasn’t an animal lover, in line with his daughters, Lucy and Katy. ‘Lots of our associates in school thought we lived in that home and had that backyard,’ Lucy, an actress, says on forthcoming Channel Five documentary The Good Life: 50 Years Of Laughter. ‘And I believed, ‘I want it was truly.’ Dad was a neat gardener, he favored a pleasant garden. He favored a pleasant dahlia, so long as it behaved itself.’

Patricia, widow of Paul Eddington, who performed Tom’s neighbour Jerry Leadbetter, provides: ‘Paul was all the time good with animals, Dickie wasn’t. Dickie hated that goat [Geraldine] that was within the present.’