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Strictly Speaking: Week 3
You know what I didn’t need during a week where I’ve barely slept, my body now programmed to wake up at 3am, lunge for my phone and frantically check the Philadelphia count? The absolute, unadulterated nightmare fuel that was Strictly … Continue reading
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Tagged ballroom, bbc, bill bailey, blog, celebrity, competition, dance, dancing, dancing times, foxtrot, frozen, grease, jason bell, jive, latin, nicola adams, paso doble, ranvir singh, recap, review, star wars, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, the good the bad and the ugly, tv
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Strictly’s Movie Week: don’t bet against sharpshooter Bill Bailey being the last celebrity standing
Strictly’s messy Movie Week saw dances engulfed by themes – none more so than Jason Bell’s Death Star of a paso doble. In space, no one can hear you “Olé!”. Read my full Telegraph article here
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Tagged ballroom, bbc, bill bailey, celebrity, competition, dance, dancing, dreamgirls, film, grease, jason bell, judges, latin, movie, movie week, nicola adams, ranvir singh, recap, review, scd, scoring, star wars, strictly, strictly come dancing, technique, telegraph, the good the bad and the ugly, tv
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Fleabag, Wyndham’s Theatre
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is big business. She’s a TV superstar, both comedy (Fleabag) and drama (Killing Eve); a Star Wars standout; and, in theory, the feminist saviour of James Bond. But never mind all that. Theatre needs her back. Read my full … Continue reading
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Tagged book tickets, broadwayworld, comedy, find tickets, fleabag, get tickets, hot priest, james bond, killing eve, london, phoebe waller-bridge, play, review, star wars, theatre, west end, wyndhams theatre
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10 things to know about Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Ahead of the final live performance of her hit one-woman show Fleabag, find out more about breakout star Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Read my full TodayTix article here
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Woyzeck leads May’s Top 10 new London shows
From new takes on Brecht and Büchner to Jez Butterworth’s latest and a classic musical. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Strictly Speaking: the final
Never question the commitment of boyband voters. A final that zigzagged between possible winners (well, apart from Katie) ended up feeling somewhat redundant as Jay’s fans carried him over the finishing line regardless of his distinctly underwhelming performance. Aliona’s dubious … Continue reading
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Strictly Speaking: Week 3
Ah, Strictly theme weeks. Regular readers will know I look forward to these about as much as emergency root canal surgery with a rusty saw. We reached a nadir last year with the addition of Donnie (Baby!) Osmond during Movie Week. On … Continue reading
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