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Justin Lee Collins’ Five Deal

28th August 2009

Justin Lee Collins’ Five Deal

Justin Lee Collins is the new face of Five.The ‘Sunday Night Project’ presenter has singed a two-year deal to represent the station, said to worth other £1 million.Justin said: “I am thrilled to bits to be working exclusively with Five and to be making shows that I’m really passionate about.”Five controller Richard Woolfe said: “Justin is undoubte…

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28th August 2009

Dannii Minogue’s Kylie Help

Kylie Minogue is to judge contestants on ‘The X Factor’.The ‘2 Hearts’ singer has been drafted in by her sister Dannii Minogue to help her choose three finalists from the six contestants she is mentoring in this year’s competition.A source said: “It’s nerve-wracking enough to face Dannii but having Kylie as well really piles on the pressure.”Dannii…

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28th August 2009

Joe Calzaghe’s Weight Order

Joe Calzaghe has been ordered to lose 28lbs to compete in ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.The Welsh boxing ace’s professional partner Kristina Rihanoff is convinced the pair can win the BBC talent show if Joe sheds the weight.Kristina - who competed with overweight journalist John Sergeant last year - told Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “It’s fantastic to be…

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28th August 2009

Nina Wadia’s Labour Laughs

Nina Wadia admits she couldn’t stop laughing during the birth of her first baby.The ‘EastEnders’ actress - whose alter-ego Zainab Ahmed is devastated to discover she’s pregnant with her fourth child - says she found the whole process funny, even though her life was put at risk with a complicated Caesarean section. She said: “My first child was a Ca…

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28th August 2009

Craig Kelly’s Not A Soap Star

Craig Kelly doesn’t think he’s a soap star.The ‘Coronation Street’ actor - who is about to finish filming his role as factory boss Luke Strong - regards himself as a versatile actor because he has appeared in many shows and not just a soap.The actor - who is taking part in this year’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ - said: “I don’t see myself as a soap st…

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28th August 2009

A Prophet

From the acclaimed director of The Beat That My Heart Skipped one of the most heralded films from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Grand Prix.Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djbena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the others convicts. He is 19 years old. C…

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28th August 2009

Vengeance

In a Hong Kong hospital, a French woman lies in critical condition after a gangland hit that killed her Chinese husband and two small children.Her father Costello (Johnny Hallyday) arrives from France and is immediately warned by police not to get involved, even as his daughter wordlessly pleads for his help. A stranger in a strange land and plague…

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28th August 2009

Studio News

It’s Friday again, it keeps coming round at an incredible speed, so it’s that time of the week where we take a look at the studio news.Who has signed on to what film? Who is releasing what? Let’s find out.- A movie about Brian Epstein, the man who discovered the Beatles and died of an overdose at the age of thirty two, is about to go into productio…

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28th August 2009

Director’s Chair: Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodovar is a Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who returns to the big screen this week with Broken Embraces.In recent years the director has enjoyed success with actress Penelope Cruz and it’s with Cruz he returns for their new movie.Born in Calzada de Calatrava in Spain the Almodovar was sent away to a religious boarding school …

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28th August 2009

Big River Man

Over weight and over 50 years old, Martin Strel breaks the Guinness Book of Records with what can only be described as the longest, most dangerous swim in history.Strel battles through gangs, unexposed tribes, crocodiles, toxic waste, lethal whirlpools and deadly piranhas during his historic 3,375 mile swim through the Amazon -  drinking no le…

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