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Metro
02-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Vicky McClure kisses rockstar husband after epic One Show performance
If finding bent coppers in Line of Duty wasn't thrilling enough, Vicky McClure has found the next best thing after her rock star performance onThe One Show. The 42-year-old, who played Detective Inspector Kate Fleming, shared a tender moment with her husband Jonny Owen after performing her new single Haircut live. Vicky was on vocals for the new track by the Reverend and the Makers, with Jonny even playing bass guitar. The Line of Duty star teamed up with the band, which is fronted by Jon McClure, to release their single in July and is featured on their upcoming album 'Is This How Happiness Feels?'. It's not Vicky's first venture into music after she previously led Our Dementia Choir in 2018 in a BBC documentary. Elsewhere on The One Show, Sam Claflin, who played Billy Dunne in Daisy Jones and The Six, was asked whether viewers might anticipate another series. The star responded: 'I can't speak for everyone, I can speak for myself. I think we'd love to. It's just not in my hands! It's not my decision unfortunately. 'I think getting six actors together with our schedules-obviously, if we were a band, our schedules would be aligned. 'But, we're all actors, we all have families, we're all from different parts of the world. The desire is there, but it's out of my hands.' Vicky's performance comes after her Line of Duty co-star Adrian Dunbar recently confirmed the beloved crime drama is set to return to screens very soon. In a recent interview with The Telegraph, he was asked point-blank if a seventh season was on the cards. 'Oh, it's definitely coming back,' he said. 'Some time next year. We're just waiting for the BBC to announce it.' Although the actor, 66, has announced the show's return several times in the past few years, only for nothing to eventuate, he is certain this time. 'I know Jed is writing. And Martin and Vicky are very keen,' he added. Vicky first met her husband Jonny, who is a director, after he casted her in the comedy film Svengali, alongside Boy George, Martin Freeman, and Maxine Peake. From there, they ended up moving in together after just one week from meeting each other. More Trending Talking on the How to Fail podcast with Elizabeth Day, Vicky said: 'We literally lived together from a week of meeting. We have basically stayed together from that time until now. We've never lived apart. I am not sure about fate but I couldn't see my life without him. 'When you finally meet someone who gets you, lets you fly, loves you for who you are and you can have that genuine laughter, it's amazing.' After four years of romance, Jonny proposed on Christmas morning, hiding the engagement ring in tea bags. View More » The One Show is available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: 'One of the smartest shows on television': Your favourite TV spy thrillers MORE: 'I'm a TV critic – I'm convinced Netflix's August thriller will blow me away' MORE: The 'worst TV show of all time' returns to BBC One tonight
Sunday World
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Why Bed by 10pm is the hottest new trend on the social scene
'Customers of that age group can feel confident going out that they won't be surrounded by young people.' Belfast is getting its first Bed by 10pm event next month with a strictly over-30s clientele. The brand has taken hold across the world with partygoers who used to dance the night away now dancing away the early evening and getting home in time for the news. And the Tipsy Bird summer party may be the first opportunity in years for anyone over the age of 30 to be ID'd says event co-ordinator for Like It Love It Louis Williamson. 'With the state of the world at the moment people need somewhere to escape, and there are not a lot of places where people of a certain age group can feel they're not the oldest person in the room,' he says. Bed by 10pm launches in Belfast this summer 'Customers of that age group can feel confident going out that they won't be surrounded by young people.' The Bed by 10pm brand, launched last August, is part of the Like It Love It party group which hires venues and provides entertainment. Its slogan for the over-30s parties is 'because adults have stuff to do tomorrow'. Last year saw an explosion in entertainment aimed at ravers who aren't ready to hang up their glow sticks. Line of Duty star Vicky McClure had previously probed the power of music in TV documentary Our Dementia Choir when her husband, filmmaker Jonny Owen suggested daytime raves for a 30-plus audience. Their Day Fever events have now toured the UK and are currently on the road again. Vicky McClure "We've had some really memorable pivotal moments, we have had wedding proposals, we've had people facing really tough times, like a woman in Dublin facing a brain tumour and she wanted to immerse herself and forget what she was going through for a bit,' says Vicky. Dublin nightclub SoHo started hosting over-35s Saturday afternoons last August, which finish at 10pm, and have been a huge success. In Belfast an over-35s rave in Custom House Square last summer sold out in less than an hour. The Bed by 10pm brand is launching in Northern Ireland with a 1pm to 5pm summer party spin-off at the venue in Ann Street in Belfast on May 17, and Louis promises there will be more to come. Usually the parties start at 4pm and run until 9pm, promising patrons can be at home and tucked up in bed by ten. Bed by 10pm is coming to Belfast 'This event in Belfast is a spin-off with a rooftop vibe for a summer audience to catch the sun,' says Louis. 'Our plan is to bring a longer Bed by 10pm event to Belfast.' The daytime party for the over-30s has been one of the biggest successes for the international events company. 'Our first run of events launched in Australia back in August. We're now operating in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, we've just launched in America and we're looking at South Africa,' he says. 'The feedback has been great. Everyone loves it and the sales speak for themselves. 'We'll be back with a lot more dates and we constantly have people from cities we haven't been to asking us to come. 'The growth has been crazy and in less than a year we are operating globally. 'We're also launching a spin-off Bed by 10pm Festival, and the first event will be held this year in London.' While there is a minimum age he assures party fans there is no maximum age. One reveller in Australia got in touch to ask if having a bus pass made her past it. 'We had a message from a lady in her late seventies asking if she was too old. 'Anyone is welcome above the age of 30,' he says. And the coordinator says you're never too young to feel old. 'As someone who is not 30 yet I get it myself. I'll go into a club and feel like an old man, and I'm not,' he says.
