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Evening Standard
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Romesh Ranganathan reveals plans to 'take a step back' from his career
But it was his dry comedy style and deadpan delivery that saw him make the leap from clubs to television, with appearances on Have I Got News For You, 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Would I Lie To You.
Daily Mirror
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Comedy star gets emotional in Alison Hammond's chat show airing on TV tonight
In a surprisingly emotional episode, comedian Jimmy Carr opens up about how his beloved late mum inspired his love of laughter What happens when two iconic laughs collide? A lot of noise... In the second instalment of Alison Hammond's Big Weekend, airing tonight (Friday 23 May) on BBC1 at 8.30pm, Alison spends time with comedian Jimmy Carr. You can expect a particularly loud instalment of celebrity grilling with these two, but more surprising is how emotional it is. Jimmy keeps Alison on her toes as she joins him on tour, heading to his gig in Kendal. Alison accidentally calls him Alan Carr at one point, but otherwise they get on like a house on fire. Jimmy opens up about fatherhood, revealing how having a daughter has unlocked new emotional depths, talks about his love of cosmetic surgery as well as his controversial tax scandal and his grief when comedian and 8 Out Of 10 Cats co-star Sean Lock died. Jimmy shares how a bout of depression in his twenties prompted him to pursue stand-up, starting with gigs above a pub. He credits his love of laughter to his late mother, whose contagious, narcoleptic laugh inspired him. He says: "I was a bit depressed in my mid twenties. I didn't like my life, I didn't like where it was going. I left everything to become a comedian to tell jokes above a pub." 'My mother would have loved you,' he tells Alison. 'She was larger than life in every sense. She was very funny in a way that I'm not. She just had that magic, it made laughter the most important thing in my life. She had narcolepsy and the narcoleptic laugh where you make no noise, she'd just rock and fully melt when she laughed. So the game growing up was to make her laugh in the car." Later on a boat ride, when Alison mentions that she misses her mum Maria, who died when she was 47, Jimmy recalls that he was around 25 when his mum Nora died. He says: "I was very close to my mother so her dying was the worst thing I could imagine. When I was a kid I had this separation anxiety of something happening to her. "So when it happens there's a weird freedom, where that's happened and I'm still here. It got across to me what mortality really is. This is it, this is your life, you don't get another go, so do want you want to do. "She was depressed for a lot of my childhood, which is pretty sad. Making her happy made me happy so the compulsion to be funny came from that. I don't believe in an after life but I carry her with me. There is an after life - the kids are the after life." *Alison Hammond's Big Weekend continues tonight on BBC1 at 8.30pm There's plenty more on TV tonight - here's the best of the rest.. JOANNA LUMLEY'S DANUBE, ITV1, 9pm rom beer-brewing nuns to Lederhosen-wearing dancers, a Eurovision winner and a Granny cafe, Joanna Lumley certainly has an eclectic experience on her latest travel show. The 79-year-old actor cements her status as iconic travel presenter on this journey down the Danube. During the three-parter she follows the most international river in the world across the heart of Europe, tracking the river from its origins beneath the pines of Germany's Black Forest all the way to the Black Sea. A seasoned traveller, she says: 'I'd love people to realise the world is marvellous. You've only got one life, you must live it to the full. Get up before dawn and go somewhere odd. Go on a local bus, don't just lie by the pool.' On her journey she encounters Slovakia's stunning snow-capped peaks, Hungary's Great Plain and its distinctive cowboys, the majesty of Vienna and Budapest, the raw beauty of Transylvania and unique wilderness that is the Danube Delta. She also meets the Vienna Boys Choir, Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst and visits a Granny Cafe, set up to help combat loneliness for the elderly. Joanna says: 'I met a coven of witches who were also Romani travellers. They did this great ceremony with masses of candles, the camera boys nearly died from the heat. And I can't forget the brewing nuns. When I asked the sister if she thought God would approve of alcohol, she said 'I think God wants us to be happy and alcohol makes us happy'. That was the sweetest answer I've ever heard.' HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL TRUST, BBC2, 9pm A risqué statue of a Georgian playboy's mistress needs a beauty session as the experts restore more treasures at stately homes. The life-size plaster statue shows a naked Italian ballet dancer lying in a seductive pose. The piece was commissioned by the ballerina's lover John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, and lay in pride of place at Knole House in Kent for years before being banished to the attics after he married someone else. Now she's back on display and conservator Ana Logreira is attempting to restore her legendary looks. In another family story at the Lake District farmhouse, Townend, there's a hugely valuable archive covering 400 years of Cumbrian history. Now a key part of the archive needs saving: a bound volume of letters from Ben Browne, who went to seek his fortune in London in the 18th century and wrote home to his family. House manager Emma Wright reads them and discovers family drama worthy of any soap opera. EMMERDALE, ITV1, 7.30pm Cain struggles to digest the information that Nate never made it to the Shetland isles. John does his best to convince Belle that Nate doesn't want to be found and prevents her from calling the police to report Nate as a missing person. Belle reluctantly agrees not to get the police involved. Sarah feels sad and isolated as she awaits the results of her biopsy. Mack and Ross realise they don't have enough cannabis plants so Mack devises an alternative scheme. CORONATION STREET, ITV1, 8pm Bernie tells Mick that if he thinks he can use her as a bargaining chip, he's mistaken as Kit doesn't care about her. Mick gets Kit on the phone and summons him, making it clear he's to come alone. When Lisa takes a call from Jess from the hospital, she's desperate for any news on Craig. Tim, Sally, Gemma and Chesney rake over the horrors of the day. With Tim still looking after Shanice and Joanie, what has happened to Lou?
Daily Mail
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
This Morning star sparks frenzied guessing game as she details rude encounter with A-list 't**t'- so can YOU figure out who it is?
Journalist Camilla Tominey sent X/ Twitter into meltdown on Tuesday as she asked followers to guess the British celebrity she had a rude encounter with that evening. The presenter, 46 - who regularly appears on This Morning and has her own GB News show - took to social media to reveal she had bumped into a star she'd interviewed before he was famous, but he had proceeded to give her the brush off. She penned: 'Guesses please. Which well known British celebrity, when I approached him tonight in a genial manner to reminisce over interviewing him, over lunch, before he was famous, responded curtly: 'I don't remember anything before I was famous'?' Camilla clarified that it was not done in jest, as a follower asked: 'Was that said in a *I'm a star now so leave me alone' way, or in a humorous way? If its humour it's quite smart', to which she responded: 'The former'. Several celebrities were put forward as the possible culprit, with Camilla confirming it was not Nigel Havers, Michael Sheen, Ed Sheeran, Benedict Cumberbatch or a politician. As one follower revealed the answer, Camilla warned: 'Stop spoiling it for new entrants. This is 8 out of 10 T**ts'. So have you guessed who it is yet? Journalist Camilla Tominey sent X/Twitter into meltdown on Tuesday as she asked followers to guess the British celebrity she had a rude encounter with that evening Camilla revealed she was referring to Jimmy Carr - one of Britain's best known and richest comedians - and host of 8 Out Of 10 Cats. When asked if it was 'the one with the annoying laugh and surname is something you drive?', she responded: 'Possibly', to which the fan followed up: 'Yes, I've heard the same hence the guess.' Another then guessed: 'Jimmy Carr'? to which she responded: 'Bingo! Advance to Mayfair'. One questioned: 'I've just been through Google but I can't find an interview with a beloved British celebrity', to which Camilla explained: 'It never ran- he wasn't famous enough.' She concluded by tweeting: 'What a Carr-y on. Night night x'. MailOnline has contacted Jimmy's representative for comment. It's not the first time Jimmy has been accused of rubbing up a This Morning presenter the wrong way. Last year, he was branded 'rude' by viewers after he continuously interrupted chef Clodagh McKenna's cooking segment. He was due to chat with hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary but before his segment, he watched the Irish chef and author in the kitchen and couldn't help make a series of quips. Clodagh put on a polite grin following a series of barbed comment as Dermot wrapped an arm around the TV chef to comfort her and said: 'It's hard work when your being heckled by one of the UK's comedian'. Jimmy recently hit back at critics as he insisted that 'there's a real functionality' to making jokes about 'terrible' events. He was found himself embroiled in controversy several times over the years for making quips about 9/11 and the Holocaust, previously admitting he was 'a dab hand at [being cancelled] now.' But speaking to The Times in March, he insisted with comedy where it is today that 'it feels like you can do whatever you want now'. Jimmy admitted that his edgier jokes were 'slightly playing with fire', but that his 'intention' behind them was the most important thing, believing that they could be used as a way to 'make sense of' difficult topics. He said: 'Intention is important. With me, it's clear what the intention of the evening is. But the way it can get reported is as if you're shouting jokes through someone's letterbox at 9am. 'I subscribe to the benign violation theory — that jokes are benign violations. You take a violation, no matter how extreme, but make it benign by joking about it. 'Jokes can be a way to make sense of stuff. Think about how we use humour in our lives when something terrible happens, never mind on stage. There is a lot of laughter around grief, death and disease. There's a real functionality to it. It makes something OK.' The host went on: 'It's slightly playing with fire, but you don't choose your sense of humour. It chooses you. It's like sexual taste. Some like it spicy, others prefer milder stuff. But you don't fake a laugh.' He added that he felt that 'it's slightly a golden age, at the moment, for comedy', referencing Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960s, before the abolition of theatre censorship in 1968.
Yahoo
26-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dancing On Ice contestant forced to quit ITV show after rehearsal injury
Comedian Josh Jones has had to leave Dancing On Ice following an injury he sustained during rehearsals. The 32-year-old was due to perform in the third episode of the ITV reality skating show on Sunday but will leave the competition early alongside his skating partner Tippy Packard. A message on the official Dancing On Ice Instagram page said on Sunday: 'Josh Jones sustained an injury during rehearsals and has had to withdraw from Dancing on Ice. 'Josh and Tippy's partnership will be greatly missed. We will be helping to support Josh and wish him well with his recovery.' The comedian has appeared on shows including Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club and 8 Out Of 10 Cats and has hosted the BBC Three competition Fast Food Face-Off. Dancing On Ice's social media account said Jones and Packard's 'partnership will be greatly missed' and wished him a 'speedy recovery'. Mancunian Jones hosts the historical gossip podcast Dead Drama and is a co-presenter of the comedy podcast Chatting With Cherubs with Morgan Rees. He has also appeared on Channel 4's Married At First Sight: Unveiled; Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled on Dave; BBC Two's The Apprentice spin-off programme The Apprentice: You're Fired; and Comedy Central's Undeniable. RECOMMENDED READING Full Dancing on Ice 2025 line-up from Olympic Gold medallist to The Traitors star When is Dancing on Ice on TV? All to know for 2025 series What is Holly Willoughby's net worth ahead of Dancing On Ice return? Jones has been nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and has been a finalist for the BBC New Comedy Award. His first skate on Dancing On Ice was a dramatic and silly performance to the Scissor Sisters hit I Don't Feel Like Dancing, which landed him in the bottom two last week. However, he beat soap star Chelsee Healey, who was the first celebrity to be voted off the 2025 series.
BBC News
26-01-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Dancing on Ice: Comedian Josh Jones out after rehearsal injury
Comedian Josh Jones has been forced to withdraw from Dancing On Ice after being injured during 32-year-old was due to perform alongside partner Tippy Packard in the third episode of the ITV reality skating show on Sunday, but will now leave the competition early.A message on the official Dancing On Ice social media channels said: "Josh and Tippy's partnership will be greatly missed. We will be helping to support Josh and wish him well with his recovery."The Mancunian comic had never ice skated before entering Dancing On Ice, telling viewers his experience was "as the say in Eurovision... nuls points". Jones hosts the historical gossip podcast Dead Drama and is a co-presenter of the comedy podcast Chatting With Cherubs alongside Morgan has also appeared on shows including Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club and 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and has hosted the BBC Three competition Fast Food was partnered with professional figure skater Tippy Packard, who joined the show in 2022. The pair's first skate on Dancing On Ice was a light-hearted performance to the Scissor Sisters hit I Don't Feel Like Dancing, which landed them in the bottom two last narrowly survived elimination, with the Hollyoaks actress Chelsee Healey becoming the first celebrity to be voted off the 2025 series. Following Jones and Packard's exit from the show, fans took to social media calling for Healey to be allowed to return to the has been no announcement on whether the couple will be is not the first time a contestant on the show has been forced to withdraw because of injury. In 2024, former Olympic athlete Greg Rutherford was forced to pull out of the final after sustaining an injury in last year's series had begun, former Gogglebox star Stephen Lustig-Webb withdrew because of an ankle have sustained injuries but continued to Street star Antony Cotton fractured two ribs in 2018 when his partner, Brandee Malto, landed on top of him - but vowed that "the show must go on". And in the 2012 series, the former Brookside actor Jennifer Ellison attempted to impress the judges with a fierce "scorpion kick" - extending her leg towards the back of her head and cutting her head open with her continued until the semi-final before being eliminated.
