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The Sun
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Channel 5 bosses in crisis talks about future of Vanessa Feltz's show – just two months after launch
CHANNEL 5 bosses have been locked in crisis talks over the future of Vanessa Feltz's afternoon show. The veteran broadcaster was handed her own self-titled programme on the network two months ago but it has so far failed to deliver the ratings that Channel 5 were hoping for throwing the entire future in jeopardy. 2 The Sun understands that head honchos of the programme have held crunch talks about what to do with the show and if there is even a future for Vanessa on Channel 5. It had been hoped that fans who tuned in for Jeremy Vine on the channel would stick around to see Vanessa and her celebrity guests but the ratings have tumbled. An insider told The Sun: "The future of Vanessa's show is very much uncertain for the time being. "Bosses have been locked in crisis talks and have been planning ways to immediately revamp the programme if there is to be a chance that it could be saved. "Only 62,000 viewers tuned into Monday's episode and there is feeling that it has been a total disaster behind-the-scenes. "Jeremy regularly gets 200,000 watching his show but they all seem to reach for the remote and switch off when Vanessa comes on." The insider revealed that staff working on the programme have been further thrown by ITV 's recent announcement of cuts across the daytime sector. Knowing that Vanessa brings in far less viewers than Lorraine and Loose Women, who are under threat, they fear it is only a matter of time until the plug is pulled for good. They added: "Everyone is worried and they all feel bitterly disappointed that Vanessa's show hasn't taken off as planned." Despite this, another insider admitted to The Sun that Vanessa's timeslot has always typically received less viewers than Jeremy's on-air slot and at present, was still performing in-line with what is expected of early afternoons on Channel 5. Vanessa Feltz issues HUGE update on her new Channel 5 show as she's set to welcome Corrie legend When contacted by The Sun, a Channel 5 spokesperson said: "There are no current plans for any changes. As with all live shows, we continue to evolve with our audience.' Vanessa's programme launched to much fanfare earlier this year as she made her return to daytime TV hosting. She first hosted Vanessa for ITV between 1994 and 1998 before it came to a halt amid a pay row which allegedly saw Vanessa demand a £2.75million salary. A year later, she hosted a similar show, titled The Vanessa Show, for BBC One, but that was axed after one series. In 2011, The Vanessa Show was revived for the first time by Channel 5 but was eventually pushed to a late afternoon slot amid poor ratings before being cancelled altogether. 14 years on and it seems that Channel 5 are suffering the same fate after choosing to reboot her original ITV show - Vanessa. Vanessa Feltz on 5 Vanessa Feltz is set to host her own brand new daytime show on 5, but what can viewers expect? The commercial network have promised the show will be open, honest, and full of fun discussions. Topics that will be covered include relationships, parenting, gossip or fashion. Speaking about her self-titled programme, she said: "I cannot wait to get started on this sparkling adventure with Channel 5. "This show is all about YOU – your stories, your opinions, your emotions, and your triumphs. Television's never been so real, honest, or unpredictable. "Life isn't perfect, so let's not pretend it is – let's help each other out, have a giggle, and make every show a conversation worth having so kick off your shoes and come and join me for lunch, relax with a bit of me time and let's have a ball!"
Times
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Jeremy Vine: The Cornish beach we'll never forget — for the wrong reasons
Jeremy Vine, 60, is one of the country's most acclaimed broadcasters with his own shows on Radio 2 and Channel 5. He grew up in Cheam, Surrey, with his brother, Tim, a comedian, and his sister, Sonya. After completing a journalism training course he quickly became a regular on TV and radio, hosting everything from election coverage to Crimewatch. Vine has been married to the journalist Rachel Schofield since 2002. They have two daughters and live in west London. After we turned 18, some of my mates and I decided to go on a Club 18-30 holiday in Sitges, Spain. Your 18th birthday was a big deal in the early Eighties, because it meant you could go on one of these fabled party holidays. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out quite as we'd planned, because when we got there we discovered that we'd booked a gay resort. But, c'mon, four lads on their first holiday away from their parents — sun, sea and all that. And the really strong memory I have from that holiday is how brilliant the music was in the bars and on the radio. After 1976 and the start of punk, my generation really was spoilt. Looking out over the Mediterranean, listening to Elvis Costello with a cold beer … I didn't imagine life would get any better. Soon after that trip I became a journalist and ended up working for the BBC's Today programme. That was in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down, and one morning I got a call from the office saying, 'Grab your passport and go to Heathrow.' The Soviet Union was collapsing and I was sent into the Russian heartland to interview ordinary people. I ended up flying to Tomsk, a city in Siberia. Tomsk had been the site of a nuclear arms factory and a lot of it looked like the surface of the moon. Everything I saw seemed to be falling apart, but nobody there was allowed to say things were 'broken'. It was always remont, the Russian for 'being repaired', but the economy was literally unravelling in real time. I remember going for a haircut and the ruble had lost 10 per cent of its value by the time I got up to pay. But there, among all the chaos, was our very clean, very grand-looking hotel, surrounded by luxury cars and Zil limousines. The food was great, and service was wonderful. I said to our guide, 'How come nothing's happened to the hotel?' He explained that it was the government hotel where all the local dignitaries and politicians stayed. And me! • 24 of the best holiday villas in Spain When you become a foreign correspondent it gets hard to distinguish between work and travel. I was the BBC's Africa Correspondent from 1997 to 2000 and ended up visiting 18 countries. I used to call it a high-speed holiday: Gabon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, sleeping under the stars in Congo-Brazzaville … and spending an afternoon with Robert Mugabe in Harare. It was one of the last interviews he ever did with the BBC because he decided that we were all gay gangsters or something, but he came across as a surprisingly intelligent, sophisticated man. Very cultured, quoting Shakespeare and telling me how often he went to the theatre. Sadly, things weren't going quite so well for ordinary Zimbabweans. The phrase I kept hearing was, 'We are suffering.' In fact, you heard that throughout most of Africa. At times, there were revolutions taking place before our eyes. In Lesotho we came under fire as we drove past the barracks and one of the cameramen had to hide in a field for the night while the soldiers looked for him. It's at moments like that when you realise just how pale our own news agenda is, compared with what's happening around the world. • Read our full guide to South Africa Despite all that, I fell in love with Africa and was actually back in South Africa recently for a holiday with my wife and youngest daughter. The culture is fascinating, the people are amazing and the drive from Franschhoek to Cape Town will take you through some of the most beautiful landscapes you will ever see in your life. We stayed at the Mont Rochelle Hotel in Franschhoek and came across a rather incongruous tourist attraction called the Franschhoek Motor Museum. Over 200 vehicles, dating from the late-1800s, including a fleet of high-end sports cars lined up in the middle of the mountainous winelands. I'm not a petrolhead, but I would recommend it to anyone. I've seen more of this planet than I ever thought I'd get to see, but my heart is still drawn to the West Country, where I occasionally potter about on my electric bike — and am very grateful for the assistance on some of those 45-degree hills. Every one of my childhood holidays was spent at a self-catering place near Lusty Glaze Beach in Newquay. These days, most stories about Newquay involve teenagers getting hammered on ketamine, but back then all we had was the Radio 1 Roadshow. I must mention the seagulls. Lusty Glaze Beach and the Vine family all stretched out in the sunshine, listening to the gentle lap of the waves. Suddenly this flock comes dive-bombing in, aiming for us. The only people that got hit were me, my brother Tim, my sister Sonya, and Mum and Dad. I can still hear the splat as I looked up and saw a direct hit on my mum's head. For a 13-year-old, there is not much funnier than seeing your mum's new hairdo ruined by seagull poo. Murder on Line One by Jeremy Vine (HarperCollins £20) is out now. To order a copy go to Free UK standard P&P on orders over £25. Special discount available for Times+ members
Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Peter Andre accuses critics of 'not knowing what they're offended by' after they condemned his Jamaican accent in 'profoundly disrespectful' new movie - as it goes on release in the UK
Peter Andre has slammed critics of his new film for 'not knowing what they're offended by' after it was dubbed 'profoundly disrespectful'. In Jafaican, the Australian singer, 52, sport dreadlocked hair typically favoured by Rastafarians while starring as Gary Buckle, a con artist pretending to be a Jamaican gangster. While faking a West Indian accent, the character must master Jamaican culture in 21 days in order to execute a fraud which will help him pay the £35,000 he needs for his grandmother's care. But the film, which Peter believes is 'funny', was not met with anything like the reception its producers would have hoped for as fans branded it 'tone-deaf' and 'disrespectful'. In his first interview since the film's UK release on Wednesday, Peter has defended his first starring role and accused critics of 'not knowing what they're offended by.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The 52-year-old told Judge Rob Rinder and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on the Jeremy Vine show: 'I think there are three types of people. 'There are people that get offended about anything. There are people genuinely offended and their voices should definitely be heard - I always think that - but you've also got an area of people that are offended, but when you ask them what they're offended about, they don't know.' Peter too mentioned the fact that he suffered racism during his younger years as a Greek boy emigrating Down Under. 'I'm a Greek kid that grew up in Australia in the late seventies,' he said. 'We were picked on, we were called greasy s**t. I mean, even our teachers used to call us that. We went through horrific racism. 'Now when I watch a film about someone playing a Greek guy with the curly hair, the big nose, the medallion, the hairy chest, and he's coming up and he's doing the Greek accent, I find that hilarious. 'If someone is saying something horrific about our culture, I find that racist. So for me, I feel things are a bit muddied. You know, this is comedy. I'm acting in a film. I loved it. It's the kind of films that I loved watching when I was growing up.' Peter attended Jafaican's trailer at the Gold Coast Film Festival on May 9 along with his co-stars looking suave in a black tux. The film released in the UK on Wednesday exclusively at Odeon, with Peter arriving for its London premiere supported by his family. Attending the VIP private screening at Genesis Cinema, Junior, 19, and Princess, 17, walked beside Peter and posed for photos on the red carpet. He looked smart in a beige linen blazer, which he teamed with a matching pair of trousers and and a white shirt. After watching the movie, or its trailer, a number of fans took to X to express their views about Jafaican. They wrote: 'Peter Andre pretends to be a Jamaican in his new film Jafaican? Lost for words', 'Peter Andre starring as the lead character of a film called JAFAICAN where he's pretending to be a Jamaican and wearing a dreadlock wig is not something I was expecting to see in the year of our Lord 2025 but here we are...', 'Jafaican is one of them films that is soo bad that is unintentionally can be funny. There was one or two moments that were funny but it was so c**p that it actually landed. The acting was ridiculously awful. Wasn't boring tho. He did it for his dear old man', 'The film was really entertaining funny, well-paced, and most importantly, it respected the culture. No forced clichés, just an authentic vibe. It felt like the team behind it actually cared about getting things right.'
Irish Daily Mirror
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Son of music legend admits BBC star caused him to lose driving licence
Cycling enthusiast and BBC star Jeremy Vine caused the son of a British punk rock legend to lose his driving licence after catching him engaging in a bad habit while behind the wheel. The son of Ian Dury, Baxter Dury, revealed the embarrassing information while being interviewed on BBC 6 Music by Huw Stephens. He explained that he had been looking at his phone in a traffic jam when Jeremy Vine cycled past and caught him red-handed, reports The Mirror. Ian Dury was an innovator in the late '70s and early '80s' burgeoning punk rock and new wave genres, frequently troubling government censors with countercultural and suggestive imagery, such as in his UK Number One chart topper, Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick. Baxter Dury has followed in his father's footsteps. He was driving to his home in West London from producer Paul Epworth's studio, where they had been working on his latest album, Albarone, when the BBC star recorded him. Dury, 53, told Huw Stephens: "Do you know what? This is a tragic story, but I drove there for the first half (of making the record) and then lost my licence." However, Baxter did not blame Jeremy Vine for reporting him, telling the BBC that he probably deserved it. Baxter went on to explain: "I got caught in a traffic jam, and Jeremy Vine took a film of me looking at Instagram, which he deserves to, I'm not arguing about (it)." Jokingly suggesting that Vine could catch him once again, he added: "Shouldn't probably say that publicly, he's probably in the other room, isn't he?" When the BBC Radio 2 presenter heard that he'd caught Ian Dury's son red-handed, he shared his love of his father's work, but did not apologise. He told the Mail: "This is very unfortunate. I would like Baxter to know that I love his dad's music. "I'm afraid mobile phone use in cars in London, particularly the posher parts, is an absolute curse. So I am quite tunnel-visioned about it. "We have 1,700 road deaths a year. Sorry to be serious about it. Best wishes to Baxter." Jeremy Vine has recorded countless numbers of drivers flouting road rules over the years, often posting examples on social media to raise awareness of what cyclists face every day. However, last month, he made the surprising decision to stop posting videos after receiving abuse. The TV presenter has racked up hundreds of millions of views across various social media platforms, which has also brought with it huge waves of online hate. He said on X: "I'm stopping my cycling videos. The trolling just got too bad. They have had well over 100 million views but in the end the anger they generate has genuinely upset me." Vine also shared the serious death threats made against him for sharing videos of drivers breaking the rules, with online trolls branding him "England's biggest ***hole" and calling for the Channel 5 debate host to be crushed by a lorry. After making the decision to quit, the TV star said he would miss the conversations sparked by the videos, which could be about relatively small infractions. "Some of the biggest videos were actually about the smallest incidents, like someone turning left in front of me," he said. "People are happy to discuss it and I actually think that we'd all be safer if we all understood each other. People are going to drive 4x4s in Kensington and whatnot but they need to have a bit of care for me on a bicycle. "You might be in total control when you pass close by but the person on a bicycle doesn't know that. I just hope I was part of a dialogue about it."
Daily Mirror
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Jeremy Vine says 'best wishes' after making music legend's son lose his licence
Ian Dury's son admitted in an interview that he had lost his driving licence after being reported to the authorities by BBC presenter Jeremy Vine Cycling champion and BBC star Jeremy Vine caused the son of a British punk rock legend to lose his driving licence after snapping him engaging in a bad habit while behind the wheel, it has emerged. The son of Ian Dury, Baxter, revealed the embarrassing information while being interviewed on BBC 6 Music by Huw Stephens. He explained that he had been looking at his phone in a traffic jam when Jeremy Vine cycled past and caught him red-handed. Ian Dury was an innovator in the late 70s and early 80s' burgeoning punk rock and new wave genres, frequently troubling government censors with countercultural and suggestive imagery, such as in his UK Number One chart topper 'Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick.' Baxter Dury has followed in his father's footsteps. He was driving to his home in West London from producer Paul Epworth's studio, where they had been working on his latest album, Albarone, when the BBC star recorded him. Dury, 53, told Huw Stephens: "Do you know what? This is a tragic story, but I drove there for the first half (of making the record) and then lost my license." However, Baxter did not blame Jeremy Vine for reporting him, telling the BBC that he probably deserved it. Baxter went on to explain: "I got caught in a traffic jam, and Jeremy Vine took a film of me looking at Instagram, which he deserves to, I'm not arguing about (it). " Realising that Vine could catch him once again, he added: "Shouldn't probably say that publicly, he's probably in the other room, isn't he?" When the BBC Radio 2 presenter heard that he'd caught Ian Dury's son red-handed, he shared his love of his father's work, but did not apologise. He told the Mail: 'This is very unfortunate. I would like Baxter to know that I love his dad's music. 'I'm afraid mobile phone use in cars in London, particularly the posher parts, is an absolute curse. So I am quite tunnel-visioned about it. 'We have 1700 road deaths a year. Sorry to be serious about it. Best wishes to Baxter.' Jeremy Vine has recorded countless numbers of drivers flouting road rules over the years, often posting examples on social media to raise awareness of what cyclists face every day. However, last month, he made the surprising decision to stop posting videos after receiving abuse. The TV presenter has racked up hundreds of millions of views, without making a penny, across various social media platforms, which has also brought with it huge waves of online hate. He said on X: "I'm stopping my cycling videos. The trolling just got too bad. They have had well over 100 million views but in the end the anger they generate has genuinely upset me." Vine also shared the serious death threats made against him for sharing videos of drivers breaking the rules, with online trolls branding him "England's biggest ***hole" and calling for the Channel 5 debate host to be crushed by a lorry. After making the decision to quit, the TV star said he would miss the conversations sparked by the videos, which could be about relatively small infractions. "Some of the biggest videos were actually about the smallest incidents, like someone turning left in front of me," he said. "People are happy to discuss it and I actually think that we'd all be safer if we all understood each other. People are going to drive 4x4s in Kensington and whatnot but they need to have a bit of care for me on a bicycle. "You might be in total control when you pass close by but the person on a bicycle doesn't know that. I just hope I was part of a dialogue about it."
