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Wales Online
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
ITV This Morning star Sian Welby addresses future on show after landing slot
ITV This Morning star Sian Welby addresses future on show after landing slot Sian Welby has been a regular fixture on This Morning since she made her debut as a co-presenter on the show last year. She has now addressed her television future. Sian Welby is a stand-in host on This Morning (Image: ITV ) This Morning's Sian Welby has opened up about her aspirations in the television industry after securing a presenting role on the popular ITV programme. Sian made her debut as a co-presenter on This Morning last year. Since then she has been a stand-in host and presented a range of different segments on the show. She juggles her TV work alongside her radio career, where she currently presents on Capital Radio with Jordan North and Chris Stark. She has previously appeared on Heart FM and on Channel 5 as a radio presenter. Sian went viral in 2015 with a pun-filled weather forecast to mark the 35th anniversary of the release of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Now on the Turning Points podcast with Scottish singer Lulu, Sian has addressed her future in television. Her candid words were: "I can openly say that I really want something in television that is mine, that I can own, whether it's a chat show or, maybe this comes to the SMTV thing, the Cat Deeley situation, I would love to maybe be able to be the host of something. Sian Welby joined This Morning last year (Image: No credit ) Article continues below "Right now I'm the cover person or I host a segment. But I suppose my own ambition is [to have my own show]. That would be the dream." Despite finding success on ITV, Sian also acknowledged the setbacks experienced along her journey and shared that she occasionally feels disheartened when missing out on opportunities. Reflecting on her spikes of frustration, she admitted: "I have missed out on jobs along the way. There's jobs I've wanted and had moments where I didn't get it. "I had to process that and go, 'It wasn't mine to have'. And I had a lot of those moments and I was like, 'When is it my turn?'" Sian Welby (Image: JMEnternational, Getty Images ) Sian has previously revealed This Morning co-star Cat Deeley was her television idol growing up. The 38-year-old recalls watching Cat star in SMTV: Live alongside Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. During her time working at New Look in Nottinghamshire, Sian decided to chase her dream of becoming a presenter. In an interview with Boots, Shoes and Fashion, she recounted, "I had had this new idea of becoming a presenter as a few mates had likened me to Cat Deely who at the time was a bit of an idol. "Mainly because she wasn't afraid to laugh at herself and be silly. So I literally googled 'how to be a presenter' and a website called came up. Once I had joined that I uploaded a pic, wrote a quick bio and to my surprise instantly got an audition." Sian weighed the option of maintaining her retail position while exploring presenting opportunities for nearly half a decade. Her persistence paid off when she secured a role in a New! Magazine advertisement, which paved the way for her Channel 5 opportunity. Article continues below Capital Breakfast with Jordan North, Chris Stark, and Sian Welby is on air Monday to Fridays from 6am-10am. The show has recently launched a new podcast, Capital Breakfast After the Show, Show.
Daily Record
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Avengers Doomsday star Alan Cumming attributes Scots identity to ‘much of my success'
It's no secret that us Scots are proud of Alan Cumming , who has broken into success far beyond his homeland. Hosting Traitors US and even appearing in the upcoming Avengers film, it's safe to say that the Aberfeldy-born actor has made a significant contribution to the world-wide showbiz scene. And the star has recently shared that his identity as being Scottish is the reason for 'much of my success'. The 60-year-old said growing up in Scotland gave him the opportunity to attend drama school for free, teaching him important values. He believed his free education was responsible for making the star value fairness and kindness, characteristics that he believes to be inherently Scottish. He told singer Lulu on her Turning Points podcast: 'I am an actor because the values I have are completely about Scotland, fairness, thinking there should be a safety net, the kindness that I have is because I was brought up with it. '(Thinking) that you should look after other people, you should be concerned. I went to drama school and Scotland, my mum and dad's taxes, paid for that, it was completely free, I got a grant and everything. 'Then I started off in subsidised theatres, you know, acting and things like that. So when you think about, if that was in America , I would never be an actor, my mum and dad would never be able to afford to send me. 'So I really think that so much of my success is to do with where I was from and both in those terms about education but also in the values that I have as a person, as an artist.' He said Scottish people were 'slightly persecuted', leading to them growing up with 'a little bit of an inferiority complex'. Cumming has starred in Marvel films as Nightcrawler, a role he will reprise in next year's Avengers Doomsday. The actor has also appeared in 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, 2000's Get Carter and 1999's Eyes Wide Shut. He was also a guest star in the first season of US drama The Good Wife, playing PR guru Eli Gold, before appearing in the series until it ended in 2015 with its seventh season. During his time on the programme, he was nominated for three Emmys and two Golden Globes. He has also served as host on The Traitors US, where he has consistently dazzled fans with his bold outfits that often pay homage to his homeland of Scotland. He is often seen sporting bright and bewildering outfits on the US program, wearing a kilt or tartan-printed suits. Fans have consistently applauded his exciting outfits as a staple element of the American TV show. Alan Cumming's full interview on Turning Points can be streamed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Irish Independent
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Actor Alan Cumming says being Scottish is the reason for ‘much of my success'
The 60-year-old said growing up in Scotland gave him the opportunity to attend drama school for free and he believed it was responsible for making him fair-minded. He told singer Lulu on her Turning Points podcast: 'I am an actor because the values I have are completely about Scotland, fairness, thinking there should be a safety net, the kindness that I have is because I was brought up with it. 'I went to drama school and Scotland, my mum and dad's taxes, paid for that, it was completely free, I got a grant and everything. 'Then I started off in subsidised theatres, you know, acting and things like that. 'So when you think about, if that was in America, I would never be an actor, my mum and dad would never be able to afford to send me. 'So I really think that so much of my success is to do with where I was from and both in those terms about education but also in the values that I have as a person, as an artist.' He said Scottish people were 'slightly persecuted', leading to them growing up with 'a little bit of an inferiority complex'. Cumming stars in Marvel films such as Nightcrawler, a role he will reprise in next year's Avengers Doomsday. The actor has also appeared in 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, 2000's Get Carter and 1999's Eyes Wide Shut. He was also a guest star in the first season of US drama The Good Wife, playing PR guru Eli Gold, before appearing in the series until it ended in 2015 with its seventh season. During his time on the programme, he was nominated for three Emmys and two Golden Globes. The full interview on Turning Points can be streamed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Wall Street Journal
03-04-2025
- Health
- Wall Street Journal
Direct Care Is Just What the Patient Ordered
Clare Ansberry's column 'Turning Points: Trust Is Prescription to Heal a Broken Doctor-Patient Bond' (Personal Journal, March 25) raises an increasingly important problem in medical care. The prime reason trust is in short supply is the lack of time physicians have with each patient. When appointments are limited to 15 minutes, there is only 8 to 12 minutes of 'face time.' This is perhaps enough for a simple problem, but certainly inadequate for a patient with several chronic illnesses who is taking multiple prescription medications. This certainly isn't enough time for an older individual with hearing, vision, mobility or cognitive issues. It isn't enough time for the person who has anxiety. The article hints at the resolution, and I'd like to elaborate and advocate for creating more time using direct primary care (DPC). DPC means same- or next-day appointments, visits as long as necessary, direct access to the physician via cellphone, text messages and email. DPC eliminates the insurer or the corporation that forces short visits. The added time leads to a decrease in the use of specialists, tests and imaging. We also see fewer visits to the emergency room and fewer hospital admissions. DPC allows for two-way listening, resulting in less frustration for both the patient and the doctor, and allowing trusting relationships to develop. Stephen C. Schimpff, M.D., MACP Catonsville, Md.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Boy George says he became ‘gay version of his father' in candid Lulu interview
Boy George has opened up about how his parents' behaviour impacted him growing up, admitting that he feels he has become the 'gay version' of his father. The Culture Club star, 63, spoke to singer Lulu on the latest episode of her Turning Points podcast, explaining: 'I did everything I could not to be like my day, but [it] turned out that I was the most like him of anyone – the gay version of my dad.' Born George Alan O'Dowd, the singer was raised in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Eltham, the second of five children born to builder Jerry O'Dowd and Dinah O'Dowd. He has spoken previously about his difficult childhood and the tensions within the household, as his father would be physically and mentally abusive to his mother. In 2007, he wrote the foreword for his mother's memoir, Cry Salty Tears, in which she documented the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her husband. 'I went out of my way not to be like my dad, but turned out that I was the most like him of anyone… the gay version,' he joked to Lulu. 'But I guess I soaked it up because you can't not… you get silenced a lot, which is I think is why we go out and seek so much attention.' He said his dad could also be 'very complimentary' but it was 'always on his terms', whereas his mum was 'a bit more encouraging in terms of being who I wanted to be'. 'I think because my dad stopped her from being who she wanted to be,' he said. 'If my mum put on a nice dress, she was having an affair… 'There was this funny moment I talk about in my book where my dad booked my mum driving lessons, but because she put her best coat on, he chased the driving instructor down the street, which is funny in hindsight, but at the time it wasn't funny at all.' Boy George recently opened up about his childhood in an interview with The Independent, commenting: 'My father beat my mother so badly, and these were girls that could stand up for themselves. Any woman that didn't take s*** was a goddess to me. 'And whether it was Joan Collins or some woman on TV putting out a cigarette in a plate of prawns, I wanted my mum to be that woman; to say, 'I'm leaving.' Of course, there was no escape.' The sense that his mother was trapped fed into his love of drag, he said 'She wasn't allowed to be glamorous, but she was beautiful and stylish and unfortunately, my dad knocked it out of her. When I was a kid, I'd go mental with excitement if my mum was dressed up.'
