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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Strictly couple 'sign up for Celebrity Race Across The World and have secretly already filmed popular BBC show'
The EastEnders actress, 24, and the broadcaster, 29, who met during BBC 's Strictly Come Dancing in 2022, have taken on the travel challenge show together. A source told The Sun: 'Molly and Tyler are a huge coup for the show. 'They're popular with millions of viewers from their stints on Strictly, and Molly will bring in loads of EastEnders fans too. 'They are a very adventurous pair and have brilliant chemistry, so bosses are confident they will become huge fan favourites.' 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. MailOnline has contacted Molly and Tyler's representatives for comment, along with the BBC. Last year, Molly and Tyler moved into their first home together and began sharing their home improvements journey with their followers. Alongside a clip of the couple inside their new home and in the 'Strictly' ballroom doing a clapping routine, Molly wrote on Instagram: 'Well guys, it was only right that we let you into our little home, the next part of our journey starts now @homewithmolty.' At the end of the clip, Tyler quipped: 'We've got a lot of cleaning up to do babe.' After previously denying speculation they were dating, the pair posted a TikTok with Tyler seen placing his hand on Molly's leg as they recited lines from 'Friends'. The audio they used was of Rachel Green and Joey Tribbiani telling each other they knew Monica Geller and Chandler Bing were dating in secret. The clip was captioned: 'Did you know? @MollyRainford,' with Tyler adding a red love heart and a crying with laughter emoji. It comes after EastEnders fans took to social media to react after discovering that Molly Rainford has a secret famous family member. The actress has played Anna Knight in the soap since 2023, after starting her career on the CBBC, presenting Friday Download and starring as the titular character in sci-fi series Nova Jones. While she first came to fame after getting to the finals of Britain's Got Talent in 2012 and made new fans with her appearance on Strictly Come Dancing in 2022. However, it appears many were unaware that the talented star was also the daughter of a former football player. Molly's father is David Rainford, who used to play Chelmsford City and now works at The Premier League. Dave started at Colchester United and returned to the team during his senior career in 1997, going onto play for Slough Town, Heybridge Swifts, Bishop's Stortford and AFC Hornchurch. During his stint as Dagenham & Redbridge's midfielder, he chose to play part-time while also working as teacher at a local school, telling BBC Essex in 2008: 'I've got the perfect balance in my life and am really enjoying it.' He added: It's nice at the moment because a lot of the publicity I'm getting is about my football, and the combination my life has got is fantastic, if not eventful and hard work.' He was then midfielder for Chelmsford City FC and later became the club's assistant football manager from 2012 to 2013. Dave now enjoys a top job for the Premier League, as Head of Education & Academy Player Care. After discovering the identity of Molly's dad, EastEnders fans took to Reddit to debate over whether she deserved the 'nepo baby' label. Some insisted that the singer's success was 'helped' by her dad's own career, saying: 'That's a lot of nepotism'; 'you're telling me she got into eastenders for her acting talent?! Everyone knows it's her dad that helped.' However, many came to Molly's defence, arguing that she was in an entirely different industry to her dad and that his success wouldn't have been able to open any doors to her in TV or music. They wrote: 'I don't see how she's a nepo baby when neither of her parents have any connection to TV or film.' 'None of it is nepotism - it isn't family connections that have helped her out she was just lucky enough to have been given a massive opportunity at a young age.' 'It's a buzz word now and people just don't know what nepotism actually means. Anyone born to remotely affluent parents is now called a 'nepo baby'. Privileged and silver spooned? Yes. Nepo baby? No.' While Molly has previously credited a famous star for 'changing my life', she was referring to Simon Cowell, rather than her dad. After failing to win BGT when she was 11 years old, Simon and his record label sponsored her to go to the coveted Sylvia Young Theatre School. The prestigious London school has been a hotbed of talent for decades, producing singers including Adele, Dua Lipa, Amy Winehouse, Rita Ora, and Emma Bunton, plus actors Keeley Hawes, Nicholas Hoult and Daniel Kaluuya. Molly previously explained: 'I did Britain's Got Talent in 2012 when I was 11 years old. That definitely changed my life because after getting to the finals, I was sponsored by Sony Music and Simon Cowell to go to the Sylvia Young theatre school. From those auditions throughout school, I got into the CBBC world.' Music mogul Simon agreeing to sponsor her stage-schooling when Molly's family turned down his offer of a record deal, determined their daughter would not become a one-hit wonder. Molly voiced her gratitude to the Daily Mail in 2022, gushing: 'Simon is Mr BGT and he made that happen, I will always be grateful. It meant I could do what I love.' While she said the biggest thing her dad Dave has done to help her with her career is to raise her with the understanding of the important of a real work ethic.
South China Morning Post
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
HBO Max travel show Conan O'Brien Must Go ‘makes me really happy', says star. Here's why
US television host and comedian Conan O'Brien's new show on HBO Max plays like a video postcard of silly and enlightening adventures, as he and his crew travel around the world to meet fans and experience different cultures. Advertisement Season two of Conan O'Brien Must Go lands him in Spain, where the high jinks included cuddling with actor Javier Bardem and doing Spanish voice-overs; and New Zealand, where he got lessons from one of the country's leading cultural advisers and attempted to break a haka world record with filmmaker and actor Taika Waititi The three-episode season ends in Austria. Here, O'Brien discusses stand-out moments from this season of Conan O'Brien Must Go, which has been renewed for a third season. You cuddled with Javier Bardem. You did Spanish voice-overs. You dressed as [Austrian neurologist Sigmund] Freud. You went to the snow globe museum. What moment stood out for you from these trips?
Car and Driver
18-05-2025
- Automotive
- Car and Driver
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman Hit the Road on Vintage Motorcycles in 'Long Way Home'
Good buddies going on a road-trip adventure is such a regular television offering that it can be hard to remember that there was a time when a reality-TV travel show was rare new ground. Sure, there was On the Road with Charles Kuralt, and Huell Howser's California's Gold, but for the most part, the actual journey in those shows was edited out. It was the destination that got the air time. Then, in 2004, actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman showed viewers that the way one traveled could be as entertaining as where one ended up. In Long Way Round, McGregor and Boorman rode BMW motorcycles across 12 countries, from England through Asia to end in America. The footage seems quaint now, some of it fuzzy and low-res by today's standards, but it brought the idea of dual sport and adventure bikes to a more mainstream audience. It feels sort of silly to say LWR popularized road trips, when stories of on-the-road adventures go back to Homer's Odyssey, but McGregor and Boorman's obvious enjoyment of their time on the road inspired viewers to take their own trips—and certainly led to many more reality travel shows. AppleTv+ AppleTv+ 1974 Moto Guzzi El Dorado. AppleTv+ 1973 BMW R75/5. AppleTv+ AppleTv+ AppleTv+ AppleTv+ Elana Scherr Senior Editor, Features Like a sleeper agent activated late in the game, Elana Scherr didn't know her calling at a young age. Like many girls, she planned to be a vet-astronaut-artist, and came closest to that last one by attending UCLA art school. She painted images of cars, but did not own one. Elana reluctantly got a driver's license at age 21 and discovered that she not only loved cars and wanted to drive them, but that other people loved cars and wanted to read about them, which meant somebody had to write about them. Since receiving activation codes, Elana has written for numerous car magazines and websites, covering classics, car culture, technology, motorsports, and new-car reviews. In 2020, she received a Best Feature award from the Motor Press Guild for the C/D story "A Drive through Classic Americana in a Polestar 2." In 2023, her Car and Driver feature story "In Washington, D.C.'s Secret Carpool Cabal, It's a Daily Slug Fest" was awarded 1st place in the 16th Annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards by the Los Angeles Press Club. Read full bio
