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Strictly Come Dancing 2022, Halloween Week results: EastEnders actor James Bye is out
Bye faced Fleur East in the dance-off – the second for the singer, who is failing to connect with viewers. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged amy dowden, ballroom, bbc, blog, celebrity, charleston, dance, dancing, eastenders, eliminated, fleur east, halloween, james bye, judges, recap, results, review, salsa, strictly, strictly come dancing, telegraph, tv
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Strictly Come Dancing 2022: Celebrating BBC 100 – Helen Skelton is top with a Blue Peter Charleston
The presenter triumphed on a bizarre show overtaken by birthday theming. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged bbc, bbc 100, blog, blue peter, casualty, centenary, dance, dancing, eastenders, grandstand, grange hill, helen skelton, recap, review, strictly, strictly come dancing, telegraph, tony adams
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Harry Reid talks Witness for the Prosecution
As the Agatha Christie play celebrates its fifth birthday, the actor chats about returning to the role of Leonard Vole. Read my full London Theatre interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged agatha christie, book tickets, court room, crime, drama, eastenders, harry reid, interview, leonard vole, london, london county hall, london theatre, play, theatre, whodunit, witness for the prosecution
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Audio memory and good vibrations: how Strictly’s first deaf dancer might take home the glitterball
Deaf choreographer Mark Smith and deaf dancer Billy Read explain how Rose Ayling-Ellis will fare when she makes British TV history. Read my full Telegraph article here
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Tagged ballroom, dancing, deaf, deaf dancer, eastenders, rose ayling ellis, strictly, strictly come dancing, telegraph, tv
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BWW Interview: Leon Lopez
Leon Lopez has had an unusual career trajectory, from pop group A:M and TV soaps like Brookside and EastEnders to musical theatre (including Rent and We Will Rock You) and directing independent films. He’s currently working with the RSC, celebrating … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged aphra behn, bame, black, blanche mcintyre, broadwayworld, brookside, classical, diversity, eastenders, film, fletcher, gay, hermione, interview, jk rowling, leon lopez, liverpool, mixed race, music, musical, Noma Dumezweni, royal shakespeare company, rsc, shakespeare, singer, stratford, swan theatre, the rover, the two noble kinsmen
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Strictly Speaking: Week 6
Bitter experience has obliterated all possible hope for Strictly’s annual fright fest – best watched several dozen drinks in, when the more disturbing details begin to blur round the edges – but this was an abysmal show even by Halloween … Continue reading
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Tagged ballroom, celebrity, charleston, costume, dance, dance off, dancing, danny dyer, dressing up, eastenders, eliminated, georgia may foote, ghost, ghostbusters, halloween, jamelia, jeremy vine, jive, kirsty gallacher, latin, rocky horror picture show, scd, strictly, strictly come dancing, tango, the addams family, thriller
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Warde Street, Park Theatre
The advantage of basing drama on real events, particularly emotive ones like the 2005 London bombings, is that they have inbuilt resonance; the disadvantage, all too apparent in 2013 play Warde Street, is that it can be challenging to articulate a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, 7/7, albion, alecky blythe, attack, bombing, bus, drama, eastenders, killing, london, malcolm tucker, manchester, murder, muslim, park theatre, play, politician, politics, review, shooting, terrorist, the arts desk, the thick of it, the vertical hour, theatre, trial, tube, warde street, widower
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