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The Guardian
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: Liane Moriarty's moreish drama about a web of family secrets
9pm, BBC One Cold glass of Chardonnay and wraparound cashmere cardy at the ready: it's another bingeable Liane Moriarty adaptation about wealthy women and family secrets, executive produced by Nicole Kidman. Sophie (Teresa Palmer) is a journalist who inherits the property of an ex-boyfriend's relative. Off she heads to Scribbly Gum Island, where the mystery reason behind why Connie (Angela Punch McGregor) chose her and not one of the women in her own family slowly unravels. Hollie Richardson 6.50pm, BBC One After an entertaining, politicised trip around the cosmos, the penultimate episode means serious franchise-lore business and a grand effort to tie this year's themes and secrets together. The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda (Varada Sethu) come home to a changed world. How quickly will they realise the threat they face? Jack Seale 8pm, BBC Two The show is always a blooming pleasure, but it's best enjoyed in this annual highlights show. Monty Don takes a turn round the Grand Pavilion and he's joined by his fellow Gardeners' World presenters Rachel de Thame and Arit Anderson, who stop by to share their favourites. Ellen E Jones 9pm, BBC Two Liza Minnelli has lived a life straight out of a Hollywood script: she tells it herself with vim, candour and delicious wickedness. It starts with her showbiz parents (she cried for eight days when her mother Judy Garland died), then a life-changing meeting with Bob Fosse that led to Cabaret and an Oscar. HR 9pm, Channel 5 His recent BBC interview was just the latest salvo in the war of words between Prince Harry and Buckingham Palace since their uncoupling in 2020. Have they passed the point of no return? A hastily convened crew of royal-watchers speculate. Graeme Virtue 10.10pm, ITV1 Asher Keddie is too good at straddling the fine line between hope and paranoia as she plays Birdie, a fortysomething journalist in a toxic new relationship. We all know she needs to run a mile from skin-crawling Joe (David Wenham) and his grand idea to buy a mansion called Eldorado. But she just wants to believe him so badly. HR Fountain of Youth, out now, Apple TV+ Guy Ritchie channels his inner Indiana Jones – by way of Lara Croft and The Da Vinci Code – in this light-on-its-feet adventure about the hunt for the mythical wrinkle-banishing spring. John Krasinski brings an amiable charm to Luke Purdue, an art thief with a grand plan that involves the reluctant help of his curator sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman) and the deep pockets of the 'embarrassingly' rich but terminally ill Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson). There are coded messages in old master paintings, the raising of the Lusitania and, inevitably, ancient Egyptian tombs in their action-heavy global quest, with Krasinski and Portman sharp and funny as the bickering siblings. Simon Wardell Through a Glass Darkly, 6.45am, Sky Cinema Greats A family on holiday on a Swedish island find their lives reaching crisis point in Ingmar Bergman's brilliantly brooding 1961 drama. Gunnar Björnstrand's writer David is reunited with his adolescent son Minus (Lars Passgård), grownup daughter Karin (an exceptional Harriet Andersson) and her husband, Max Von Sydow's Martin. Karen is in remission from a schizophrenic episode, but as her mental state deteriorates again, the quartet's private despairs about love, God and creativity surface in traumatic fashion. SW Men's Test Cricket: England v Zimbabwe, 10.15am, Sky Sports Main Event Day three of the one-off Test match at Trent Bridge. Racing: Haydock Park, 1pm, ITV1 Headlined by the Temple Stakes. Championship Football: Sheffield United v Sunderland, 2pm, Sky Sports Main Event The play-off final at Wembley. Women's Champions League Football: Arsenal v Barcelona, 4pm, TNT Sports 1 The final at Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon, with WSL golden boot joint winner Alessia Russo the London side's big threat.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mariska Hargitay was 'living a lie' for 30 years
Mariska Hargitay spent 30 years "living a lie". The 61-year-old actress - whose mother, actress Jayne Mansfield, was killed in a car accident when she was a baby - was raised to believe the late Mickey Hargitay was her biological father but, after always feeling different from her siblings, she realised in her 20s that her dad was actually Italian entertainer Nelson Sardelli, who her mom had dated following a brief split from her spouse. Recalling how she was shown a photo of Nelson and immediately realised he was her dad, she said in new documentary 'My Mom Jayne': 'It was like the floor fell out from underneath me. "Like my infrastructure dissolved.' But when she confronted Mickey - who passed away in 2006 - he denied her suspicion and she never mentioned Nelson to him again. However, she went to see Nelson perform in Atlantic City when she was 30, and he cried when she introduced herself. He told her: 'I've been waiting 30 years for this moment.' But the 'Law and Order: SUV' star wanted to stay "loyal" to Mickey. She recalled: 'I went full Olivia Benson on him. I was like, 'I don't want anything, I don't need anything from you.… I have a dad.' 'There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey.' In the aftermath, Mariska struggled to cope with 'knowing I'm living a lie my entire life" and questioned whether she had been a wanted child or "illegitimate" mistake, and if she was Hungarian or Italian. The actress eventually bonded with Nelson and his daughters and began to understand Jayne had reconciled with Mickey because she knew he would offer them love and stability. She tearfully said: 'I grew up where I was supposed to, and I do know that everyone made the best choice for me,' she says. 'I'm Mickey Hargitay's daughter—that is not a lie. 'This documentary is kind of a love letter to him, because there's no one that I was closer to on this planet.' Mariska was keen to open up about her complex family background in the documentary as a way to "unburden all of us", and she had a private screening of the film with Nelson's daughters in Las Vegas. She said: 'They just wept and wept and wept. These two women that I love so much — I made them secrets! It's so heartbreaking to me.'
