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Time Out
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
London travel disruption this weekend: full list of tube and train closures for May 29-June 1
We've reached yet another weekend, and yet another brand new month. As June rolls in this Sunday, we're sure you've got loads of plans to ring in the summer month in style. We hate to be the bearers of bad news, but there are some TfL train and tube disruptions you should be aware of before you head off on your adventures. If you're still on the lookout for activities to make the most of Saturday and Sunday, you're lucky to be in the country's biggest (and, we think, best) city. The film and media festival SXSW is making its London debut in Shoreditch, Imelda Staunton is currently on a West End stage, and there's an entire exhibition dedicated to sound taking place at the Barbican – basically, you're spoiled for choice. Here's all the planned disruptions on the tube and trains in the capital for this weekend. As always, there may be delays or cancellations which happen last minute, so it's always a good idea to double check TfL's website or app before you travel. Circle line The entire Circle line will be out of action for one day only on Saturday May 31 until 4pm, when it will resume service as normal. District Line The District line will also be entirely closed on Saturday May 31 until 11am. There will be a replacement bus service, and Piccadilly line trains will also make a call at Turnham Green while the disruption is ongoing. DLR On Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1, the DLR will be shut between Beckton and Prince Regent all day long. Replacement buses will run between Prince Regent and Gallions Reach, making stops in Royal Albert, Beckton Park, Cyprus and Beckton. Hammersmith and City line Like the District line, the entire Hammersmith and City line will be closed until 11am on Saturday May 31. Once it opens back up, service will remain halted between Edgware Road and Moorgate until 4pm. Jubilee line The entire Jubilee line will also be closed until 11am on Saturday May 31 . For the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday June 1, it will be part-closed between Waterloo and Stanmore – this includes the night tube on Saturday and early Sunday. Metropolitan line Parts of the Metropolitan line will be closed on both Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1. There will be no trains between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge before 4pm on Saturday. TfL directs those affected to the Piccadilly line where you'll be able to access stations between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. There'll be no service between Aldgate and Watford at all on Saturday or Sunday. During this period, you'll still be able to catch a train between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Amersham/Chesham, although the service will be non-stop between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Moor park. Waterloo and City As always, the Waterloo and City line will be closed this weekend, resuming service at 6am on Monday. Overground Mildmay line A planned closure will mean that there is no service between Camden Road and Stratford on the Mildmay line on Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1. The line is further disrupted by a reduced service between Willesden Junction and Camden Road – trains between these stations will only run once every 15 minutes on Saturday and Sunday. It's also worth noting that on Sunday morning, the first train from Gospel Oak, at 9.15am, to Camden Road will instead run from Shepherd's Bush. The next train, at 9.27am, will run as normal, so TFL advises those affected to wait for that. Windrush There will be a part-closure on the Windrush line between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction all day Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1. A replacement bus service, which runs from Canada Water to Clapham Junction via Surrey Quays, Queens Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road, will be available.
Daily Mail
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Bridgerton actress and her very famous mother hit back against nepo baby claims
Bridgerton star Bessie Carter and her famous mother Imelda Staunton have hit back against ' nepo baby ' claims in a new interview. The actress, 31, is the daughter of The Crown and Harry Potter star Imelda and Downton Abbey icon Jim Carter. The pair have never worked on the same project until now where they are both starring in the theatre production Mrs Warren's Profession in London. But Bessie insists she has made her career happen on her own and 'doesn't really care' about the term 'nepo baby' being used. She told The Independent: 'I have a lot of drive to make stuff happen myself, instead of waiting for the phone to ring. 'Some people might use that phrase (nepo baby), but I don't really care. I believe in myself and my trajectory being what it is, and I've never used my parents, ever, to get any work.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Supporting her statement Imelda added: 'There seem to be about 22 million more actors now. During the time of Maggie [Smith] and Robert Stephens [the late parents of the actor Toby Stephens], you could count actors with that level of celebrity on one hand. 'Now it's not unusual for children to have parents who are also actors, simply because there are so many of them.' A synopsis for Mrs Warren's Profession at the Garrick Theatre reads: 'Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. 'Estranged from her wealthy mother, she delights in a glass of whisky, a good detective story, and is determined to carve herself a sparkling legal career in an age ruled by men. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune and paid for her daughter's expensive education – but at what cost?' Bessie graced the cover of May's Tatler issue recently where she opened up about her acting power couple parents. She is the daughter of Imelda and Jim - though many didn't know this when she rose to fame on the period Netflix show as the obnoxious Prudence Featherington. Now she is starring as Nancy Mitford in new six-episode series Outrageous which follows the lives of the Mitford sisters and is based on Mary S Lovell's biography. Speaking to the publication she was full of praise for her parents and their successful careers - and says she took inspiration from her mother Imelda for her latest role. Imelda famously played The Queen in the later series of The Crown which Bessie says helped her in playing real people too - including her new part as Nancy Mitford. She said of playing real people: 'We're not imitating them, but we're taking the essence of them and trying to regurgitate it as truth. 'It's something my mother had to go to town with given that the Queen was so known by everyone… she smashed it! 'I think that's such a hard line, but really doing the voice and the physicality and then bringing your own proof to it, that's the fun.' She added that she is grateful that her parents 'know what life as an actor is like' and 'what filming days are like'. Bessie explained: 'They know that when I'm on my way home I might not have the energy to talk on the phone because they know how all-consuming it is. We just know the game.' During the Tatler interview she didn't mention her boyfriend Sam Phillips who she met filming the last series of Bridgerton. Last May MailOnline revealed that despite their characters not interacting on the show, the actors began dating after meeting on set of season three. Filming for the series began in July 2022 and wrapped in March 2023, with Bessie moving into Sam's flat in Brighton three months later. Bessie played the role of Prudence Featherington on the hit Netflix show, while Sam, 39, played Nicola Coughlan 's character Penelope's new suitor Lord Debling. The pair have been photographed at several events with her family, including alongside Bessie's famous parents. The furthest back they have been pictured was in May 2023 where they looked cosy at a theatre event - suggesting they could have been together a good while. Last year rumours began to swirl on TikTok that the pair could be an item, with one content creator posting a recent video titled: 'Bridgerton co-stars that are dating in real life'. Many were quick to comment on the rumours as one said: 'Okayyyy featherington sisters bagging the hot ones!' Another said: 'They're so cute!!', while a third penned: 'I love this so much!' Representatives for Bessie and Sam have been contacted by MailOnline for comment. The pair were first pictured together in May 2023 as they attended the Theatrical Consequences: The 5th Annual Platform Presents West End Gala after party at Tequila Mockingbird in London. Then in November 2023 the pair attended the Wonka premiere together with Bessie's famous actress mother Imelda, 68. They posed as a trio with Imelda stood in the middle - suggesting Sam had been introduced to her side of the family some time before. Then in December 2023 Bessie her famous dad Jim, 75, accompanied Sam to The Crown season 6 finale celebration event. He plays the Queen's Equerry Stephen Chambers in season 3 and 4 of Netflix's The Crown.
The Independent
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
‘It feels completely normal': Imelda Staunton reflects on acting with her daughter
Imelda Staunton says acting on stage alongside her daughter Bessie Carter feels 'completely normal.' The pair are working together for the first time in George Bernard Shaw 's Mrs Warren's Profession at the Garrick Theatre, playing a mother and daughter. 'It's weird that it just feels normal,' Staunton told the BBC 's Laura Kuenssberg in an interview aired on Sunday (25 May). 'It's a wonderful play, a difficult play, and so we've had sleepless nights and phone each other,' she said. 'It feels like we've sort of done it before, even though we never have,' Carter added.
Telegraph
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Mrs Warren's Profession: Imelda Staunton and her daughter make a winning double act
This classy, period-dressed production of one of Bernard Shaw's best-known plays brings Imelda Staunton back to the West End as Mrs Warren, a woman of means who harbours the societally unacceptable secret that her wealth derives from prostitution (formerly her own, now that of others in 'hotels' she manages in Europe). What's not to like? Well, at the risk of sounding like an ingrate, I'd say Dominic Cooke's briskly efficient, interval-free revival courts seeming a bit anodyne, especially given the PR promise that Cooke and co are bringing this once contentious, long-banned 1894 work 'crashing into the 21st century' (they don't). That said, few should pass up the opportunity to see Staunton on stage. Even laying aside the fact that she has been the Queen in The Crown, she qualifies as revered acting royalty. A musicals doyenne of late (witness her Olivier-winning turn in Hello, Dolly!), without breaking into song she can still rivet attention with just a glance or a twitch of the shoulders. An added draw is that her daughter, Bessie Carter, has been cast as Mrs W's vivacious, anti-sentimental and recalcitrant offspring Vivie. Though physically dissimilar, Carter (a star of Bridgerton) carries her mater's thespian DNA in her sparkle and subtlety – a smirk, a bemused look, and you're hooked. (Others may spot affinities with her father Jim, Downton's Mr Carson; a game you can play all night.) The big scenes between mother and daughter are quietly tremendous, and crackle with a genuine sense of a familial bond without becoming cosy. When Kitty spells out just what a wretched life she narrowly escaped by going on the game, you see the scales fall from Vivie's eyes and sympathy flower. Staunton gives her character a nicely brittle air, combining defiance and defensiveness, with a residual cockney accent – an obstacle to full respectability which she perforce craves instead for her girl. When that status is spurned, for trading on the exploitation of other women – Vivie resolving to forge her own proto-feminist path of toil – you glimpse how crushed, wounded and lonely Mrs Warren is and the comfortless and possibly childless world Vivie's noble resolve may result in. Despite being of its time, their showdown conveys the age-old tussle between parent and child and crystalises the ethical wrench between improving one's lot and not hurting others. Topical in a way – what hidden agonies fund well-heeled or Western lifestyles today? – but elsewhere a tepidity sets in. The mute, scene-shifting contributions of a female chorus in undergarments, sporting accusatory looks to mournful music, feel reductively decorative and aren't enough to save Chloe Lamford's sparse, black-walled set from visual insufficiency. The male actors handle their polished but sometimes still dusty side of the dialogue with stiff dependability – among them Robert Glenister as a creepily predatory elder businessman, and Kevin Doyle as a comically twitchy, archetypally compromised vicar, with a past of his own. Shaw, the old radical, would be glad to see how his work has endured – but wouldn't he also want it showing a bit more fire in its belly?
Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Mrs Warren's Profession review — Imelda Staunton battles with Bernard Shaw
It's less than a year since we saw Imelda Staunton taking on polite society as the bustling matchmaker in Dominic Cooke's elegant revival of Hello, Dolly! at the London Palladium. Now here she is at the Garrick, back in harness with Cooke and playing a character who makes a much more dubious living out of human frailties. George Bernard Shaw's study of Kitty Warren, a successful brothel keeper who is trying to build a relationship with her bluestocking daughter, caused a scandal in its time. Treating sex as a business like any other put the playwright at odds with the guardians of morals: it wasn't until 1925 that London saw a public performance, three decades after the play was written. The problem now, of course,
