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The Sun
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Axed EastEnders star Max Bowden's ‘grows close' to new co-star after relationships with TWO Walford favourites
AXED EastEnders star Max Bowden looks to have found himself another co-star girlfriend following his romances with Shona McGarty and Danielle Harold. The Sun can reveal that Max, 30, has grown close to actress Tori Allen-Martin, 38, after appearing together on stage in the musical Midnight Cowboy. 4 4 4 4 The pair joined the rest of the cast for a boozy celebration on Saturday night following the end of the play's six-week stint at London's Southwark Playhouse. A source said: 'Max and Tori hit it off pretty much straight away. "They have the same sense humour and Max was always making her laugh, they just got each other. "Neither was looking for romance, it just kind of happened. "They're having a lot of fun together.' Glamorous Tori is known for BBC sitcom, Here We go, where she starred alongside Gavin and Stacey's Alison Steadman and Rivals actress Katherine Parkinson, as well as cop drama London Kills, as trainee detective Billie Fitzgerald. in 2023 following a showdown with bosses over his party lifestyle. He has since starred in a number of theatre productions including a tour of Bird Song. His next role will see him star alongside Coronation Street actress Susie Blake in the UK tour of Murder at Midnight, which kicks off in Derby this September. Speaking about his new role Max said: 'I'm excited to begin working on this ambitious new dark comedy from a writer and a team I admire greatly. 'I wasn't me' reveals EastEnders star Max Bowden as he speaks out over controversial Ben Mitchell exit "It's a new challenge and an exciting shift for my career.' Max famously dated his co-star Shona, 33, before moving on with Danielle, 32, who he secretly dated for more than a year before they split. It was recently revealed that the couple were no longer on speaking terms and had unfollowed each other on Instagram. A TV insider said: 'Max just can't help himself when it comes to his co-stars. Real-life soap couples Soaps are renowned for their sweet and scandalous romances – but it's not just in scripted storylines where love is blossoming. A number of our favourite small-screen actors have fallen for co-stars and soapland rivals when the cameras have stopped rolling. Max Parker and Kris Mochrie Despite playing brothers Luke and Lee Posner on Emmerdale, the pair never actually shared any scenes together. But the pair still fell in love after meeting on set. Max and Kris got together in 2020, moving in together later than same year and got engaged in 2022. In a sweet Instagram post, the couple confirmed they're planning a 2025 wedding. Beth Cordingly and Ian Kelsey Beth, who plays Ruby Fox-Miligan, announced her love for her co-star Ian Kelsey, who played Dean Glover, shortly after she joined Emmerdale at the beginning of 2024. 'I am very in love with Ian and very happy. I think it really does work him being an actor too. He has been so fantastic," she gushed. Laura Norton and Mark Jordan Kerry Wyatt and Daz Eden actors Laura and Mark met on the set of Emmerdale in 2014. The couple, who got engaged in 2018, told Loose Women they spent a long time deciding whether they should "just stay as friends." Although it seems they were meant to be and the pair now share two children together. Zoe Henry and Jeff Hordley Emmerdale favourites Zoe and Jeff, who play Rhonda Goskirk and Cain Dingle met at drama college in 1994 and have been together ever since. While working together might be too much for some couples, that's definitely not the case for Zoe and Jeff. Zoe previously told The Sun: "Working on the same show as Jeff also helps because if one of us is having a bad day then the other will completely understand." Lesley Dunlop and Chris Chittell Lesley and Chris are another Dales romantic success story. Unlike some of the other soap stars, the pair who play Brenda Walker and Eric Pollard, are together on and off screen, officially tying the knot in 2016. They also adore working together, but have clear home-work boundaries. "We make a point of not talking about Emmerdale when we're at home, though – that would be just too sad, wouldn't it?" Chris revealed. Sally Carman and Joe Duttine Abi Franklin and Tim Metcalfe actors Sally and Joe got together after meeting on the set of Coronation Street in 2017 and they tied the knot in July 2022. But unlike some of the Emmerdale stars, Sally and Joe prefer that their characters don't interact much. Sally previously admitted it "would be horrendous" to work on a storyline with Joe because "he's too funny." Anthony Cotton and Peter Eccleston Sean Tully may have been unlucky in love on the cobbles, but in real life Antony's met his Prince Charming. The soap star started dating long-term partner Peter in 2005, after they met when he was working as an assistant props buyer on Corrie. Jane Danson and Robert Beck Corrie favourite Jane Danson tied the knot with soap star Robert Beck in 2005. The actress, who plays Leanne Battersby, shares two children, Harry and Sam, with the former Brookside star. During their marriage, Robert has also done a stint in Weatherfield playing criminal Jimmy Dockerson. Caroline Harding and Chris Gascoyne Chris, who played pub landlord Peter Barlow, married soap star Caroline in 2002. Although she is best known as an Emmerdale star, Caroline did visit her husband at work when she did a two-episode stint as doctor on the Manchester soap in 2020. The couple share a daughter called Belle, plus two children, Pip and Freddie from Caroline's previous marriage. Nadine Mulkerrin and Rory Douglas Speed Nadine Mulkerrin, and Rory Doulas Speed are known for their Hollyoaks alter egos Cleo McQueen and Joel Dexter. The loved-up pair got engaged on a December 2018 trip to Amsterdam - just over a year after they announced they were dating. They now share two kids, Reggie and Dougie. Sophie Austin and Shayne Ward Former Hollyoaks star Sophie, whose best known for playing villain Lindsay Butterfield, was introduced to singer and ex-Corrie star Shayne through mutual friends. She gave birth to their daughter Willow in December 2016 and they welcomed a son in 2022. "He has this energetic charm that the ladies seem to love.'
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trent Alexander-Arnold's brother has sent Liverpool fans into a frenzy with latest Instagram post
Liverpool fans have gone into meltdown after seeing what Trent Alexander-Arnold's brother posted on social media. Alexander-Arnold, 26, started during Liverpool's 5-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Sunday, which saw the Reds clinch a record-equalling 20th English top-flight title. The right-back started the match after securing Liverpool's 1-0 win against Leicester on April 20. And despite the reported interest from Real Madrid and uncertainty surrounding his future, the defender was in the thick of his side's celebrations following their victory against Spurs, although he did not speak to the media. On Monday (April 28), Alexander-Arnold took to Instagram to acknowledge his side's achievement and posted several photographs of him and his teammates, accompanied by the caption: 'For the City. For the Fans.' Also on Monday, Trent's brother Marcell posted a photograph of the Liverpool right-back surrounded by what appeared to be friends and family with Drake's '30 for 30 freestyle' playing in the background. One of the lyrics in the song is 'banners are ready in case we need to retire your jersey', and some Liverpool fans think the player's brother is playing games as his contract approaches its end. Several supporters were quick to give their thoughts on social media. One said: "I know it's lyrics to the song but come onnnnn he knows exactly what he's doing lmao." Another added: "He needs to make his own decisions and not listen to these people." A third explained: "Leaving on a free means a huge signing bonus for Trent and his agent brothers btw. The price they're willing paying for irrevocably damage his relationship to the club and it's fans." While a fourth commented: "They know what they're doing posting this." Of course, throughout the 2024/25 campaign, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah's contracts had been the subject of media interest but now that both of them have penned new deals, all eyes are on Alexander-Arnold's decision. In late March, Spanish outlet MARCA claimed a deal between the right-back and Los Blancos was imminent but no further update has emerged from Spain. Although on April 24, The Athletic's David Ornstein maintained that Trent "is expected to join Real Madrid as a free agent". Also speaking last week, journalist Fabrizio Romano told 'Here We Go' podcast: "The deal for Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid is at the final stages. Just waiting for the formal steps, just waiting to sign all the contracts, just waiting to complete all the documents. And so that's the direction of the story. "Real Madrid, at the moment, no changes in the conversation in the situation with Liverpool."
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jarell Quansah faces pivotal moment in Liverpool career as transfer interest remains
Jarell Quansah could have a decision to make on his Liverpool future this summer, with Newcastle, as well as a host of Bundesliga clubs, said to be interested in the youngster. The 22-year-old enjoyed a progressive 2023-24 season under Jurgen Klopp, making 13 starts in the Premier League, including in 10 of the Reds' last 15 games of the campaign. However, under Arne Slot, the youngster has lined up just once in the league since the opening day of the season and is firmly the Dutchman's fourth-choice center-back after Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, and Joe Gomez. Quansah has still made a total of 23 appearances this season, which he may well be sated with at this stage in his career, but conversely he might be willing to move on in order to give himself a better chance of starting games more regularly. READ MORE: Thierry Henry sends classy Mohamed Salah message after losing record to Liverpool star READ MORE: Jamie Carragher predicts new twist for Liverpool in Premier League title run-in Transfer guru Fabrizio Romano addressed Quansah's future on a recent episode of his Here We Go podcast. He said: 'I would keep an eye on Jarell Quansah because he's very good and very talented, but at the same time, sometimes, you want to play. 'You have Virgil Van Dijk [close to] extending his contract, [Ibrahima] Konate is still there, the interest in [Dean] Huijsen, and Liverpool have many players in that position. 'It's true that injuries are part of the game, we have many games as always in modern football, but Jarell Quansah is attracting interest from several clubs – Newcastle, from what I'm hearing, but also German clubs in the Bundesliga. 'I'm told there could be movement. He could be one of the players for Liverpool to consider to cash in on if the player wants to go and try something new.' After quickly deciding that Quansah wasn't ready to be a regular alongside Van Dijk at the start of the season, Slot praised Quansah in February, saying that he was back to his best level after putting in an important performance as a second-half substitute in a win against Wolves. 'I think everybody has seen recently that he did really well and I see in training sessions that he is back to being the same Jarell that he was in pre-season,' Slot said. 'I think he had a bit of a hard time after being taken off at Ipswich [in Liverpool's first game of the season] and the first two or three games after that, when he came in, was also a bit of a struggle. And he's just showing in the last two or three months, on the training pitch but also when he comes in, that he's back to his old level.'
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Can the ‘feel-good' movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island' proves maybe it can
NEW YORK (AP) — By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now. But that's not so easy when your movie is about a handful of people off the coast of Wales brought together by old songs. Yet one of many charms of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is that it has no intentions of timeliness. It has nothing to do with 'now,' which, in a way, might make it all the better suited to today. 'Weirdly, it's not a right-now movie, but that's what makes it a right-now movie. Hopefully it's heartwarming, and everything's falling apart at the moment,' says Tim Key, who co-stars in and co-wrote the film with Tom Basden. 'So I guess that's a good thing.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' which Focus Features released Friday in theaters, stars Basden as Herb McGwyer, a famous folk musician turned pop star who, in the opening scenes, arrives at the rural seaside home of Charles (Key) for a private £500,000 ($647, 408) gig. After his chipper host helps him off the skiff and into the water ('Dame Judi Drenched,' Charles pronounces), Herb learns he'll be performing for 'less than 100' people. Just how significantly less unspools over the gentle, funny and sweetly poignant 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the springtime movie release that may be most likely to leave audiences saying: 'I needed that.' 'Both of us have felt there's a case to be made for stuff that isn't relevant, that isn't satirical, that isn't a comment on the story of the day,' says Basden. 'Those are the films that have meant the most to me over the years. They're the ones that let me escape from the here and now. But it's not always easy to get people to see it that way when you're getting things made.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is, itself, a product of time. It's based on a 2007 short that Key and Basden made together when they, and director James Griffiths, were just starting out in show business. All three have since gone on to their respective, often overlapping careers. Key and Basden began in sketch comedy (their group was called the Cowards) and have been regular presences across offbeat British comedy. Key co-starred in Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge series and hosted a comic poetry hour radio show with Basden providing musical accompaniment. Basden, who created the BBC sitcom 'Here We Go,' has, among other things, written plays, including a riff on Franz Kafka's 'The Trial,' starring Key. When Basden and Key, now in their 40s, made 2007's 'The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,' they knew little of what lay ahead for them, let alone much about how to make a movie. 'I don't have any sort of discernable haircut,' says Key looking back. 'I'm wearing my father's cardigan.' But while the premise — the soggy collision between cynical star and lonely superfan — was thin, the concept of the BAFTA-nominated short stuck with Key, Basden and Griffiths. Griffiths, who moved on to directing series like 'black-ish,' 'Stumptown' and 'Bad Sisters,' wanted to revisit the short during the pandemic. 'Tim and Tom spent a lot of time in nature's makeup chair. They've become the right age for the characters,' says Griffiths. 'When we made the short, it was very much the idea of a sketch – an odd couple on an island. But over time, we've all grown up and as we've expanded on those characters, you start to see you're commenting on your own lived experience.' In the script, Key and Basden decided to only slightly expand the cast, most notably creating the role of Nell Mortimer, the former folk singing partner of Herb's. The arrival of Nell, played by Carey Mulligan, brings up much about Herb's past as part of the duo known as McGwyer Mortimer, who represent an authenticity in music Herb lost long ago. For Charles, a genial pun-happy puppy dog of a man who says things like 'Wowsers in your trousers,' McGwyer Mortimer's music represents something nostalgic from an earlier relationship, too. 'You can probably tell from our characters in the film that Tim has a much more positive energy than me, generally,' says Basden. "And I have absolutely leaned on his optimism over the years to counteract my natural pessimism. I count myself very lucky that I have Tim in my life for that reason alone. Mulligan, an executive producer on the film, didn't hesitate to join despite, as Key says, 'huge question marks over whether or not we could keep our composure with Carey Mulligan.' 'I was a huge Tim Key fan and Tom (fan). We were obsessed with the late-night poetry hour,' says Mulligan, who's married to folk star Marcus Mumford. 'Before I even read it, my husband was like, 'You've got to do it.'' Though Mulligan has starred in many films that speak more directly to their times ('She Said,' 'Promising Young Woman,' 'Suffragette'), she reveled in the the un-timeliness of 'Wallis Island." With it, Mulligan, a co-star in the Coen brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' becomes the rare actor to appear in not one but two movies about dissolved folk duos. 'It's generous and it's compassionate, and a reminder of what generosity can be and compassion can look like,' Mulligan says. 'A big part of my attraction to it was its unseriousness and its lack of quote-unquote 'importance.' I was like, 'I want to make something that's just lovely.'' Griffiths, who grew up enamored of the films of Bill Forsyth, was inspired by the much-adored 1983 'Local Hero,' which likewise centers around an outsider arriving on a far-away United Kingdom coastline. (In 'Local Hero,' it's Scotland.) Griffiths, who divorced in the intervening years, wanted to return to 'Wallis Island' much as its characters are seeking to revive something from their past. 'You look back and go: 'Oh, I got here and I didn't expect to be making this kind of work,'' says Griffiths. 'I wanted to press the reset button a little bit and make something I really wanted to make.' How you make something sincerely heartwarming without tipping into over-sentimentality has bedeviled most Hollywood moviemakers for the better part of a century. In the case of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the key ingredient, perhaps, besides the abiding friendship of Key and Basden, was simply time. 'There's something about going back to a project you made 18 years earlier and then realizing you're making a film about people who are obsessed with their life 15 years earlier,' says Basden. 'You're like: Hang on a minute. I haven't used my imagination at all.'
The Independent
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Can the ‘feel-good' movie exist in 2025? ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island' proves maybe it can
By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now. But that's not so easy when your movie is about a handful of people off the coast of Wales brought together by old songs. Yet one of many charms of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is that it has no intentions of timeliness. It has nothing to do with 'now,' which, in a way, might make it all the better suited to today. 'Weirdly, it's not a right-now movie, but that's what makes it a right-now movie. Hopefully it's heartwarming, and everything's falling apart at the moment,' says Tim Key, who co-stars in and co-wrote the film with Tom Basden. 'So I guess that's a good thing.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' which Focus Features released Friday in theaters, stars Basden as Herb McGwyer, a famous folk musician turned pop star who, in the opening scenes, arrives at the rural seaside home of Charles (Key) for a private £500,000 ($647, 408) gig. After his chipper host helps him off the skiff and into the water ('Dame Judi Drenched,' Charles pronounces), Herb learns he'll be performing for 'less than 100' people. Just how significantly less unspools over the gentle, funny and sweetly poignant 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the springtime movie release that may be most likely to leave audiences saying: 'I needed that.' 'Both of us have felt there's a case to be made for stuff that isn't relevant, that isn't satirical, that isn't a comment on the story of the day,' says Basden. 'Those are the films that have meant the most to me over the years. They're the ones that let me escape from the here and now. But it's not always easy to get people to see it that way when you're getting things made.' 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is, itself, a product of time. It's based on a 2007 short that Key and Basden made together when they, and director James Griffiths, were just starting out in show business. All three have since gone on to their respective, often overlapping careers. Key and Basden began in sketch comedy (their group was called the Cowards) and have been regular presences across offbeat British comedy. Key co-starred in Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge series and hosted a comic poetry hour radio show with Basden providing musical accompaniment. Basden, who created the BBC sitcom 'Here We Go,' has, among other things, written plays, including a riff on Franz Kafka's 'The Trial,' starring Key. When Basden and Key, now in their 40s, made 2007's 'The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,' they knew little of what lay ahead for them, let alone much about how to make a movie. 'I don't have any sort of discernable haircut,' says Key looking back. 'I'm wearing my father's cardigan.' But while the premise — the soggy collision between cynical star and lonely superfan — was thin, the concept of the BAFTA-nominated short stuck with Key, Basden and Griffiths. Griffiths, who moved on to directing series like 'black-ish,' 'Stumptown' and 'Bad Sisters,' wanted to revisit the short during the pandemic. 'Tim and Tom spent a lot of time in nature's makeup chair. They've become the right age for the characters,' says Griffiths. 'When we made the short, it was very much the idea of a sketch – an odd couple on an island. But over time, we've all grown up and as we've expanded on those characters, you start to see you're commenting on your own lived experience.' In the script, Key and Basden decided to only slightly expand the cast, most notably creating the role of Nell Mortimer, the former folk singing partner of Herb's. The arrival of Nell, played by Carey Mulligan, brings up much about Herb's past as part of the duo known as McGwyer Mortimer, who represent an authenticity in music Herb lost long ago. For Charles, a genial pun-happy puppy dog of a man who says things like 'Wowsers in your trousers,' McGwyer Mortimer's music represents something nostalgic from an earlier relationship, too. 'You can probably tell from our characters in the film that Tim has a much more positive energy than me, generally,' says Basden. "And I have absolutely leaned on his optimism over the years to counteract my natural pessimism. I count myself very lucky that I have Tim in my life for that reason alone. Mulligan, an executive producer on the film, didn't hesitate to join despite, as Key says, 'huge question marks over whether or not we could keep our composure with Carey Mulligan.' 'I was a huge Tim Key fan and Tom (fan). We were obsessed with the late-night poetry hour,' says Mulligan, who's married to folk star Marcus Mumford. 'Before I even read it, my husband was like, 'You've got to do it.'' Though Mulligan has starred in many films that speak more directly to their times ('She Said,' 'Promising Young Woman,' 'Suffragette'), she reveled in the the un-timeliness of 'Wallis Island." With it, Mulligan, a co-star in the Coen brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' becomes the rare actor to appear in not one but two movies about dissolved folk duos. 'It's generous and it's compassionate, and a reminder of what generosity can be and compassion can look like,' Mulligan says. 'A big part of my attraction to it was its unseriousness and its lack of quote-unquote 'importance.' I was like, 'I want to make something that's just lovely.'' Griffiths, who grew up enamored of the films of Bill Forsyth, was inspired by the much-adored 1983 'Local Hero,' which likewise centers around an outsider arriving on a far-away United Kingdom coastline. (In 'Local Hero,' it's Scotland.) Griffiths, who divorced in the intervening years, wanted to return to 'Wallis Island' much as its characters are seeking to revive something from their past. 'You look back and go: 'Oh, I got here and I didn't expect to be making this kind of work,'' says Griffiths. 'I wanted to press the reset button a little bit and make something I really wanted to make.' How you make something sincerely heartwarming without tipping into over-sentimentality has bedeviled most Hollywood moviemakers for the better part of a century. In the case of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island,' the key ingredient, perhaps, besides the abiding friendship of Key and Basden, was simply time. 'There's something about going back to a project you made 18 years earlier and then realizing you're making a film about people who are obsessed with their life 15 years earlier,' says Basden. 'You're like: Hang on a minute. I haven't used my imagination at all.'
