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17 hours ago
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Javi Guerra shines as Spain's MVP at U21 Euros in Slovakia
ChatGPT said: Javi Guerra, midfielder for Valencia, was named the MVP of the match for Spain U-21 in their 2-1 victory against Romania in the European Championship in Slovakia. In statements collected by Mundo Deportivo, Guerra acknowledged the difficulties of the match and emphasized the importance of the team's faith to achieve a comeback in the final minutes of the game: Advertisement 'We missed some opportunities, but we kept believing and that's what's important.' The Valencian from Gilet, who acted as a true beacon in the midfield, is establishing himself as one of the pillars of the 'Rojita' and a player to watch for the rest of the European tournament. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. 📸 Aitor Alcalde - 2025 Getty Images
Yahoo
10-02-2025
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Don Gilet loves Death in Paradise 'contrast' after EastEnders villain role
Don Gilet has said he loved the chance to have a change from playing the bad guy after swapping EastEnders for Death in Paradise. Gilet, known for his role as soap villain Lucas Johnson which he played on and off for 16 years, is familiar to BBC One viewers as the drug-addict-turned-killer-preacher who menaced Albert Square for nearly two decades. Now, he has taken on a much gentler role in the channel's hit cosy crime drama, set in the Caribbean. However, Gilet joked with ITV's Lorraine that having a job and money was what had really attracted him to the sunsoaked series. Lorraine Kelly pointed out that Gilet must be living a very different life after leaving grey and gritty Walford behind for hot, sunny Saint Marie — as well as exchanging his life of crime for tracking down criminals as a detective. She said of his new Death in Paradise role: "Light years away from EastEnders, of course. I would imagine that's one of the main things that attracted you to the role." Gilet joked: "What, the job? Just money?" Lorraine replied: "No, the fact it was just so different." "Oh sorry, there is that as well, the contrast of rich and poor," he continued to joke. Read more: Death in Paradise 'I binge-watched 100 Death In Paradise episodes and these are my new series predictions' Is Don Gilet good as new Death in Paradise detective? Yahoo readers have their say Death in Paradise viewers deliver same verdict on new detective Gilet added more seriously: "It's always great to play both saints and sinners, every actor wants to do that. Those darker characters, more complex, just to try and make them a rounded person so you're not just going boo, you're going why are they like that." Death in Paradise periodically replaces its lead detective on the series and Gilet opened up on what it was like to step into the main part alongside a cast used to working together over many years. He said: "It was nerve-wracking, because on one hand, I've got the lead role! But on the other hand, I've got the lead role... Argh! But they're a family, they've been doing it for ages, they welcomed me and it's like I just carried on where I left off, really." Shantol Jackson, who plays Sergeant Naomi Thomas, also joined Gilet on Lorraine where she shared how happy she was to bring some "authenticity" to the series. Death in Paradise sees UK detectives swap their usual day job for life in the Caribbean as they join the police department of fictional Saint Marie, but Jackson, who is from Jamaica, shared how important she felt it was to feature local actors, too. She said: "For me, the fact that it's a Caribbean show and I can play a Caribbean character and bring that level of authenticity to the show." Jackson added: "They show it in Jamaica. They showed series one and then we didn't get it for a while. Then last year they started showing series 11 where I came in." Talking about how much she liked working in the Caribbean, Jackson added: "I appreciate the heat, ok. I appreciate the warm. Who doesn't love beaches." Gilet told her: "I like the heat, I just wish they'd turn it down every now and again so that people can sleep. It's holiday heat." She replied: "Working in the heat is different, but then you go to the beach after work." Lorraine airs on ITV1 at 9am on weekdays.
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Don Gilet loves Death in Paradise 'contrast' after EastEnders villain role
Don Gilet has said he loved the chance to have a change from playing the bad guy after swapping EastEnders for Death in Paradise. Gilet, known for his role as soap villain Lucas Johnson which he played on and off for 16 years, is familiar to BBC One viewers as the drug-addict-turned-killer-preacher who menaced Albert Square for nearly two decades. Now, he has taken on a much gentler role in the channel's hit cosy crime drama, set in the Caribbean. However, Gilet joked with ITV's Lorraine that having a job and money was what had really attracted him to the sunsoaked series. Lorraine Kelly pointed out that Gilet must be living a very different life after leaving grey and gritty Walford behind for hot, sunny Saint Marie - as well as exchanging his life of crime for tracking down criminals as a detective. She said of his new Death in Paradise role: "Light years away from EastEnders, of course. I would imagine that's one of the main things that attracted you to the role." Gilet joked: "What, the job? Just money?" as Lorraine replied: "No, the fact it was just so different." "Oh sorry, there is that as well, the contrast of rich and poor," he continued to joke. Read more: Death in Paradise 'I binge-watched 100 Death In Paradise episodes and these are my new series predictions' Is Don Gilet good as new Death in Paradise detective? Yahoo readers have their say Death in Paradise viewers deliver same verdict on new detective Gilet added more seriously: "It's always great to play both saints and sinners, every actor wants to do that. Those darker characters, more complex, just to try and make them a rounded person so you're not just going boo, you're going why are they like that." Death in Paradise periodically replaces its lead detective on the series and Gilet opened up on what it was like to step into the main part alongside a cast used to working together over many years. He said: "It was nerve-wracking, because on one hand, I've got the lead role! But on the other hand, I've got the lead "But they're a family, they've been doing it for ages, they welcomed me and it's like I just carried on where I left off, really." Shantol Jackson, who plays Sergeant Naomi Thomas, also joined Gilet on Lorraine where she shared how happy she was to bring some "authenticity" to the series. Death in Paradise sees UK detectives swap their usual day job for life in the Caribbean as they join the police department of fictional Saint Marie, but Jackson, who is from Jamaica, shared how important she felt it was to feature local actors, too. She said: "For me, the fact that it's a Caribbean show and I can play a Caribbean character and bring that level of authenticity to the show." Jackson added: "They show it in Jamaica. They showed series one and then we didn't get it for a while. Then last year they started showing series 11 where I came in." Talking about how much she liked working in the Caribbean, Jackson added: "I appreciate the heat, ok. I appreciate the warm. Who doesn't love beaches." Gilet told her: "I like the heat, I just wish they'd turn it down every now and again so that people can sleep. It's holiday heat." She replied: "Working in the heat is different, but then you go to the beach after work." Lorraine airs on ITV1 at 9am on weekdays.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
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Death in Paradise's Don Gilet: ‘I don't want to be put up for a character that's there because of his colour'
Don Gilet insists he hates interviews – repeatedly comparing our encounter to an aggressive police grilling. If that is true, he is a brilliant actor, off-screen as well as on. We begin with the 58-year-old giggling as he mock-reprimands me for ordering a black tea. 'You can't say black! Man, what a way to start! You need to say 'tea without milk'.' At the same time, he asks for a glass of water because: 'My mouth gets very dry when I'm being interrogated.' It is all delivered with the wit and warmth that have become trademarks of the BBC's mega-hit, Death in Paradise, whose 14th series begins on Friday. Gilet first appeared as DI Mervin Wilson, the fifth fish-out-of-water UK policeman called to the Caribbean, during the Christmas special, after the departure of Ralf Little's Neville Parker. The abrasive, bucket hat-wearing cop is in fictional Saint Marie on personal business, trying to locate the mother he has never met. The series, which launched in 2011, was the UK's most-watched returning drama last year, across all broadcasters and streamers, and is aired in 230 territories. Gilet says he never reads his own press, and was equally unaware of the snobbery with which critics have treated the show over the years ('Miss Marple with coconuts'; 'That nursing home favourite') as he was of the glowing reviews he received for his December debut. But he laughs when I mention the articles that seemed to regard this as his first lead role, ignoring the fact that he led the cast of another fish-out-of-water BBC drama – 55 Degrees North – way back in 2004. 'You see what I mean. That's why I don't read this stuff,' he says, before changing tack. 'Well, that's a mark on how memorable I was, I suppose.' Was he not frustrated that despite appearing in several prime-time dramas such as Doctor Who and EastEnders – he has had to wait two decades for another star part to come along. 'That way madness lies,' he says. Instead, his ambition is 'to be a good storyteller, because I like that word more than just actor – I'm a storyteller.' On set, Gilet has three priorities: surviving the constant heat, avoiding the mosquitoes and memorising the lengthy scripts for the pivotal final scenes, where the DI meticulously and theatrically unravels the case. What are the tricks for dealing with the first on his list – does he have assistants hosing him down as soon as the director shouts 'Cut!'? 'Haha, this isn't Hollywood,' he says, 'this is Guadeloupe.' Instead, he relies on a rail of identical shirts and, in between scenes, he rushes towards an industrial-size fan. 'It's that kind of Marilyn Monroe moment, or Michael Jackson, you know when he does that waaaaaay,' referencing the King of Pop crying out while being blasted by a typhoon in the video for 1995's Earth Song. Gilet has barely had a chance to chat to the locals, and has banned his loved ones from visiting, because he is too busy holed up in his caravan preparing. (Gilet has a teenage son and earlier this month Happy Valley star Siobhan Finneran described him in an interview as 'my fella'). Regarding those denouements, in the Christmas special, DI Mervin asked if he had to do the stagy setpiece, in which he solved the murder in front of the line-up of suspects, pleading: 'Can't I just write it up in the case file?' But he was told by Don Warrington's Commissioner Patterson: 'Let's say, it's a matter of tradition.' That end sequence, where the up-till-now white boss delivers all the answers to his all-black underlings, is a signature of the series, but led to criticism that the show encompassed, as one TV writer put it: 'The bothersome, colonially tinged idea of the white blow-in solving crimes that are beyond the local police.' When I interviewed Kris Marshall – the series' second DI – last February, I asked him who should replace Ralf Little. Perhaps in response to the 'white saviour' discourse, he told me: 'What I think would be really brilliant for the show now is that they have a person – whether guy or girl – of Caribbean heritage who's grown up in Britain, is completely, for want of a better word, anglicised, has never been to the Caribbean and finds it really hard. Because obviously we've had lots of middle-aged white guys, and the show's been a success, but I think it would really give it another angle.' Gilet is diplomatic in response to Marshall's quotes: 'Well, I mean, nice one, for him to say that.' The problem is he has spent his career trying not to be a token and avoiding, as he puts it, 'getting political'. So would he prefer 'interrogators' like me to skip the question entirely, or is his appointment as the first non-white lead a milestone that should be marked? 'From an audience point of view, I would hope they could put that to one side. I've always said to my agent – I don't want to be put up for a character that's there because of his colour.' He concedes that diversity on TV has been transformed during the course of his career. 'But it's not a thing I want to reflect on because I always like to think, if I get that job, it's because I was right for the job and if I didn't get it, I wasn't. Not to get bitter about, 'Is it because I is black?'' he says, channelling Ali G, 'because then you become defined by that and I don't want to be.' Unlike Babyfather co-star David Harewood – who crossed the Atlantic to star in Homeland – Gilet never made a sustained stab at making it in the US. 'There's a part of me that's almost a naive determination to go, wouldn't it be great if you could establish your foothold here where you were born instead of going somewhere else?' Another thing he does not want to do is breakdance, which is still listed on his CV. He included it way back in his teens and tells me now that he was always 'more of a body-popper, really, than a breakdancer. I had a very good physicality for robotics, so I knew my talent and I just wish I kept it to myself. I think I'd look like David Brent.' He remembers a love of performing 'from the nativity', but felt he 'had to just shelve' it during his adolescence when an interest in drama was not conducive with being 'one of the lads'. One school report said 'if I put the same amount of energy into the lesson as I do into making people laugh, I'd be an asset to society.' His housewife mother and his 'proper go-out-to-work, grafting dad', who worked in public transport in Walsall, were anxious about his decision not to pursue a trade. 'Parents who work hard to bring food on the table and you thinking I just want to be an actor, it's like, get real.' Gilet got real for a short time, toiling at all manner of jobs in factories that no longer exist. 'I worked in a brass foundry making horse bridles – all that machinery, lathes, wearing those industrial gloves and working in heat, grease and listening to Radio 1.' All the while, he says, he was 'just thinking OK, this is good, but I do not want this to be my life. I have ideas away from this station, not above it.' As we conclude our chat, Gilet – a storyteller, not an actor; a body-popper, not a breakdancer – corrects me one final time. I ask if the fact that today he is donning a gilet is intended as any kind of in-joke. Absolutely not, he asserts: his surname is Gill-AY. The garment is pronounced GEE-lay. Anyway, he adds with a smile: 'This is a bodywarmer.' Death in Paradise begins on Friday 31 January at 9pm on BBC One.
Telegraph
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Death in Paradise's Don Gilet: ‘I don't want to be put up for a character that's there because of his colour'
If that is true, he is a brilliant actor, off-screen as well as on. We begin with the 58-year-old giggling as he mock-reprimands me for ordering a black tea. 'You can't say black! Man, what a way to start! You need to say 'tea without milk'.' At the same time, he asks for a glass of water because: 'My mouth gets very dry when I'm being interrogated.' It is all delivered with the wit and warmth that have become trademarks of the BBC's mega-hit, Death in Paradise, whose 14th series begins on Friday. Gilet first appeared as The abrasive, bucket hat-wearing cop is in fictional Saint Marie on personal business, trying to locate the mother he has never met. The series, which launched in 2011, was the UK's most-watched returning drama last year, across all broadcasters and streamers, and is aired in 230 territories. Gilet says he never reads his own press, and was equally unaware of the snobbery with which critics have treated the show over the years ('Miss Marple with coconuts'; 'That nursing home favourite') as he was of the glowing reviews he received for his December debut. But he laughs when I mention the articles that seemed to regard this as his first lead role, ignoring the fact that he led the cast of another fish-out-of-water BBC drama – 55 Degrees North – way back in 2004. 'You see what I mean. That's why I don't read this stuff,' he says, before changing tack. 'Well, that's a mark on how memorable I was, I suppose.' Was he not frustrated that despite appearing in several prime-time dramas such as 'That way madness lies,' he says. Instead, his ambition is 'to be a good storyteller, because I like that word more than just actor – I'm a storyteller.' On set, Gilet has three priorities: surviving the constant heat, avoiding the mosquitoes and memorising the lengthy scripts for the pivotal final scenes, where the DI meticulously and theatrically unravels the case. What are the tricks for dealing with the first on his list – does he have assistants hosing him down as soon as the director shouts 'Cut!'? 'Haha, this isn't Hollywood,' he says, 'this is Guadeloupe.' Instead, he relies on a rail of identical shirts and, in between scenes, he rushes towards an industrial-size fan. 'It's that kind of Marilyn Monroe moment, or Michael Jackson, you know when he does that waaaaaay,' referencing the King of Pop crying out while being blasted by a typhoon in the video for 1995's Earth Song. Gilet has barely had a chance to chat to the locals, and has banned his loved ones from visiting, because he is too busy holed up in his caravan preparing. (Gilet has a teenage son and earlier this month Regarding those denouements, in the Christmas special, DI Mervin asked if he had to do the stagy setpiece, in which he solved the murder in front of the line-up of suspects, pleading: 'Can't I just write it up in the case file?' But he was told by That end sequence, where the up-till-now white boss delivers all the answers to his all-black underlings, is a signature of the series, but led to criticism that the show encompassed, as one TV writer put it: 'The bothersome, colonially tinged idea of the white blow-in solving crimes that are beyond the local police.' When I interviewed Gilet is diplomatic in response to Marshall's quotes: 'Well, I mean, nice one, for him to say that.' The problem is he has spent his career trying not to be a token and avoiding, as he puts it, 'getting political'. So would he prefer 'interrogators' like me to skip the question entirely, or is his appointment as the first non-white lead a milestone that should be marked? 'From an audience point of view, I would hope they could put that to one side. I've always said to my agent – I don't want to be put up for a character that's there because of his colour.' He concedes that diversity on TV has been transformed during the course of his career. 'But it's not a thing I want to reflect on because I always like to think, if I get that job, it's because I was right for the job and if I didn't get it, I wasn't. Not to get bitter about, 'Is it because I is black?' ' he says, channelling Unlike Babyfather co-star Another thing he does not want to do is breakdance, which is still listed on his CV. He included it way back in his teens and tells me now that he was always 'more of a body-popper, really, than a breakdancer. I had a very good physicality for robotics, so I knew my talent and I just wish I kept it to myself. I think I'd look like David Brent.' He remembers a love of performing 'from the nativity', but felt he 'had to just shelve' it during his adolescence when an interest in drama was not conducive with being 'one of the lads'. One school report said 'if I put the same amount of energy into the lesson as I do into making people laugh, I'd be an asset to society.' His housewife mother and his 'proper go-out-to-work, grafting dad', who worked in public transport in Walsall, were anxious about his decision not to pursue a trade. 'Parents who work hard to bring food on the table and you thinking I just want to be an actor, it's like, get real.' Gilet got real for a short time, toiling at all manner of jobs in factories that no longer exist. 'I worked in a brass foundry making horse bridles – all that machinery, lathes, wearing those industrial gloves and working in heat, grease and listening to All the while, he says, he was 'just thinking OK, this is good, but I do not want this to be my life. I have ideas away from this station, not above it.' As we conclude our chat, Gilet – a storyteller, not an actor; a body-popper, not a breakdancer – corrects me one final time. I ask if the fact that today he is donning a gilet is intended as any kind of in-joke. Absolutely not, he asserts: his surname is Gill-AY. The garment is pronounced GEE-lay. Anyway, he adds with a smile: 'This is a bodywarmer.' Death in Paradise begins on Friday January 31 at 9pm on BBC One.
