Ed Balls has put himself forward for a “middle-aged” Love Island.
The ITV2 reality dating show iw currently airing its winter season in South Africa. Reports have now emerged that it could be rebooted into a spin-off for contestants who are “middle-aged” parents.
Metro.co.uk has obtained what appears to be an ITV casting call aimed at parents. The advertisement reportedly read: “ITV1 are looking for vibrant single parents from across the UK who are in search of love, for a brand new dating show!”
The Independent has contacted ITV for comment.
The original format of the reality series features contestants between the age of 18 and their late twenties, with few stars from past series being over the age of 30. Now, celebrities and viewers are calling for those who are aged 40 and above to be given an opportunity to enter the villa.
Speaking on Monday’s episode of Good Morning Britain...
The ITV2 reality dating show iw currently airing its winter season in South Africa. Reports have now emerged that it could be rebooted into a spin-off for contestants who are “middle-aged” parents.
Metro.co.uk has obtained what appears to be an ITV casting call aimed at parents. The advertisement reportedly read: “ITV1 are looking for vibrant single parents from across the UK who are in search of love, for a brand new dating show!”
The Independent has contacted ITV for comment.
The original format of the reality series features contestants between the age of 18 and their late twenties, with few stars from past series being over the age of 30. Now, celebrities and viewers are calling for those who are aged 40 and above to be given an opportunity to enter the villa.
Speaking on Monday’s episode of Good Morning Britain...
- 1/24/2023
- by Ellie Muir
- The Independent - TV
Exclusive: Following a public backlash and the UK government’s pledge to financially support businesses impacted by the coronavirus, Cineworld has backtracked on widespread staff redundancies and now promised that all of its workers paid by the hour will be offered the government-backed furlough option.
In a letter sent to Cineworld and Picturehouse staff last night and seen by Deadline, Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger said:
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“Dear All,
Thank you for your continued patience while we have been waiting for further guidance from Government regarding the people measures.
I know it is a very worrying time for many, and for this reason I would like to share with...
In a letter sent to Cineworld and Picturehouse staff last night and seen by Deadline, Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger said:
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“Dear All,
Thank you for your continued patience while we have been waiting for further guidance from Government regarding the people measures.
I know it is a very worrying time for many, and for this reason I would like to share with...
- 3/26/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Cineworld has responded to yesterday’s letter from fired staff calling for the company to reconsider the mass redundancies it made this week due to the impact of the coronavirus.
As we revealed yesterday, more than 240 UK workers who were let go by the exhibition giant wrote to group CEO Mooky Greidinger calling for the exhibitor to reinstate staff, especially in light of the government’s new plans to help companies pay employees during the crisis.
A spokesperson for Cineworld told us today, “We made a number of offers to our employees earlier this week including partial payments until we are able to re-open cinemas. Following the...
As we revealed yesterday, more than 240 UK workers who were let go by the exhibition giant wrote to group CEO Mooky Greidinger calling for the exhibitor to reinstate staff, especially in light of the government’s new plans to help companies pay employees during the crisis.
A spokesperson for Cineworld told us today, “We made a number of offers to our employees earlier this week including partial payments until we are able to re-open cinemas. Following the...
- 3/21/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Chris Bryant has been replaced as shadow culture secretary by Michael Dugher after Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader on Saturday.
Bryant said he would be sorry to be leaving the culture brief, but will serve in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet as leader of the house of commons. Bryant had backed Yvette Cooper’s leadership bid.
Dugher is the Labour MP for Barnsley East and was the former shadow transport secretary. He has served in the shadow cabinet since 2010.
Dugher lists his interests as history, music, films and sport, and has served as the vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary groups for brass bands.
Bryant’s final act
One of Bryant’s final acts as shadow culture secretary was to call for an investigation into communication between the Dcms and The Sunday Times after the paper reported details of the green paper on the BBC’s future ahead of its publication.
Bryant believes...
Bryant said he would be sorry to be leaving the culture brief, but will serve in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet as leader of the house of commons. Bryant had backed Yvette Cooper’s leadership bid.
Dugher is the Labour MP for Barnsley East and was the former shadow transport secretary. He has served in the shadow cabinet since 2010.
Dugher lists his interests as history, music, films and sport, and has served as the vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary groups for brass bands.
Bryant’s final act
One of Bryant’s final acts as shadow culture secretary was to call for an investigation into communication between the Dcms and The Sunday Times after the paper reported details of the green paper on the BBC’s future ahead of its publication.
Bryant believes...
- 9/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
Strictly Come Dancing is still months away, but the rumours about which celebrities could be taking part this year are really starting to heat up now - and they've been going since January. So it felt like a good time to start to put together all the speculation we've heard to see if we can figure out who'll be hitting the ballroom in the new series.
Strictly Come Dancing: This is how they keep the celebrities taking part a secret
Strictly Come Dancing 2015 winner: We rank the celebrities' changes of topping BBC One's dance-off
With all the contestants now confirmed, check out the lineup below - and lament what could have been with the rumours that didn't become a reality. Oh well, there's always the Christmas special...
Confirmed
Rumoured
Confirmed contestants
Jeremy Vine
King of the swingometer Jeremy became the first celebrity confirmed for Strictly on August 10.
The...
Strictly Come Dancing: This is how they keep the celebrities taking part a secret
Strictly Come Dancing 2015 winner: We rank the celebrities' changes of topping BBC One's dance-off
With all the contestants now confirmed, check out the lineup below - and lament what could have been with the rumours that didn't become a reality. Oh well, there's always the Christmas special...
Confirmed
Rumoured
Confirmed contestants
Jeremy Vine
King of the swingometer Jeremy became the first celebrity confirmed for Strictly on August 10.
The...
- 8/28/2015
- Digital Spy
Ed Balls has no plans to swap the House of Commons for the jungle, after confirming he will not be taking part in this year's I'm a Celebrity.
The former Labour shadow chancellor was asked to take part in the ITV show, but he wasn't temped.
He told The Telegraph: "I wrote back [to ITV] to say that I'd already subjected myself to one high-profile public vote this year, and I wasn't really sure that I wanted a second one.
"At least having to eat bugs and crickets wasn't part of the election process. I'm not tough enough for that."
He was one of the many celebrities linked with Strictly Come Dancing this year as well.
He turned down the chance to don sequins, glitter and fake tan on Strictly, despite his wife, Labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper, joking that it was simply because it clashed with filming in the jungle.
'...
The former Labour shadow chancellor was asked to take part in the ITV show, but he wasn't temped.
He told The Telegraph: "I wrote back [to ITV] to say that I'd already subjected myself to one high-profile public vote this year, and I wasn't really sure that I wanted a second one.
"At least having to eat bugs and crickets wasn't part of the election process. I'm not tough enough for that."
He was one of the many celebrities linked with Strictly Come Dancing this year as well.
He turned down the chance to don sequins, glitter and fake tan on Strictly, despite his wife, Labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper, joking that it was simply because it clashed with filming in the jungle.
'...
- 8/1/2015
- Digital Spy
Ed Balls won't be swapping the lobby floor for the dance floor, as Yvette Cooper has confirmed her husband won't be taking part in Strictly Come Dancing.
The former Labour shadow chancellor had been linked with the BBC One show in recent weeks, after losing his House of Commons seat at the May 2015 general election.
Labour Party leadership candidate Cooper told journalists at a press gallery lunch that Balls will not be showing off his fancy footwork on primetime television this autumn, joking that it would "conflict with filming in the jungle".
However, before you assume that Ed will be getting acquainted with kangaroo balls on I'm a Celebrity instead, that's probably not likely either.
The former MP for Morley and Outwood confirmed yesterday that he's accepted a senior fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Centre for Business and Government.
'Ed Balls will not be doing Strictly Come Dancing...
The former Labour shadow chancellor had been linked with the BBC One show in recent weeks, after losing his House of Commons seat at the May 2015 general election.
Labour Party leadership candidate Cooper told journalists at a press gallery lunch that Balls will not be showing off his fancy footwork on primetime television this autumn, joking that it would "conflict with filming in the jungle".
However, before you assume that Ed will be getting acquainted with kangaroo balls on I'm a Celebrity instead, that's probably not likely either.
The former MP for Morley and Outwood confirmed yesterday that he's accepted a senior fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Centre for Business and Government.
'Ed Balls will not be doing Strictly Come Dancing...
- 6/18/2015
- Digital Spy
Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson have made their names with their impressions of the famous faces all around us - and now they're back to provide more familiar voices in ITV's new satirical, topical puppet show Newzoids.
But how is it different from the classic series Spitting Image? Who is the best political leader to impersonate? And why did Michael McIntyre freak out at his impression? Digital Spy sat down with Jon and Debra to find out the answers to all those questions and more...
So how is this not Spitting Image?
Jon: "It's got a 21st century feel to it. It's a different rack of characters which generates a different style of joke. It's faster, somehow. And it just sort of reflects the whole coalition, social media generation. Nowadays, the puppets have got more of a spikiness, more of an edgy exaggeration to them. And of course, the comedy...
But how is it different from the classic series Spitting Image? Who is the best political leader to impersonate? And why did Michael McIntyre freak out at his impression? Digital Spy sat down with Jon and Debra to find out the answers to all those questions and more...
So how is this not Spitting Image?
Jon: "It's got a 21st century feel to it. It's a different rack of characters which generates a different style of joke. It's faster, somehow. And it just sort of reflects the whole coalition, social media generation. Nowadays, the puppets have got more of a spikiness, more of an edgy exaggeration to them. And of course, the comedy...
- 4/15/2015
- Digital Spy
There can be far worse situations for a woman than a man committing to their child but not (conventionally) to her
Would Hugh Grant be hacked off if I called him a tart? Oh, I'd better not then. Joking apart, it's been interesting watching the reaction in some quarters to Grant fathering three children, two by the same woman, and the two youngest within months of each other. Some have been shocked by what could be termed Grant's procreative ubiquity, damning him as a kind of A-list baby-papa, who needs to grow up.
Despite the homes and generous financial provision that Grant is said to have supplied, the children and their mothers have been duly fretted over. Arguably, the real worry is how easy it is to fall into the traps of judgment, envy and presumption.
Far from this being an example of double standards, men getting away with behaviour women wouldn't,...
Would Hugh Grant be hacked off if I called him a tart? Oh, I'd better not then. Joking apart, it's been interesting watching the reaction in some quarters to Grant fathering three children, two by the same woman, and the two youngest within months of each other. Some have been shocked by what could be termed Grant's procreative ubiquity, damning him as a kind of A-list baby-papa, who needs to grow up.
Despite the homes and generous financial provision that Grant is said to have supplied, the children and their mothers have been duly fretted over. Arguably, the real worry is how easy it is to fall into the traps of judgment, envy and presumption.
Far from this being an example of double standards, men getting away with behaviour women wouldn't,...
- 2/2/2014
- by Barbara Ellen
- The Guardian - Film News
Emily Watson's raw performances have made her one of Britain's most spellbinding actors. Now she's playing a woman running for prime minister – against her husband. She talks to Carole Cadwalladr about marriage, sexuality and the joy of viscose blouses
The plots of TV dramas are often so preposterous and far-fetched. And then sometimes they're not. The latest three-parter from the BBC, The Politician's Husband, stars David Tennant and Emily Watson as two senior politicians who are married to one another and whose domestic life starts to unravel when the husband's career begins to be eclipsed by that of his more talented wife. If this is a fantasy (and none too flattering) version of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper's lives, then at least they can be happy with the cast.
It's a mark of how much the star of TV drama has risen that an actor of Emily Watson's stature is involved.
The plots of TV dramas are often so preposterous and far-fetched. And then sometimes they're not. The latest three-parter from the BBC, The Politician's Husband, stars David Tennant and Emily Watson as two senior politicians who are married to one another and whose domestic life starts to unravel when the husband's career begins to be eclipsed by that of his more talented wife. If this is a fantasy (and none too flattering) version of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper's lives, then at least they can be happy with the cast.
It's a mark of how much the star of TV drama has risen that an actor of Emily Watson's stature is involved.
- 4/13/2013
- by Carole Cadwalladr
- The Guardian - Film News
Emily Watson's raw performances have made her one of Britain's most spellbinding actors. Now she's playing a woman running for prime minister – against her husband. She talks to Carole Cadwalladr about marriage, sexuality and the joy of viscose blouses
The plots of TV dramas are often so preposterous and far-fetched. And then sometimes they're not. The latest three-parter from the BBC, The Politician's Husband, stars David Tennant and Emily Watson as two senior politicians who are married to one another and whose domestic life starts to unravel when the husband's career begins to be eclipsed by that of his more talented wife. If this is a fantasy (and none too flattering) version of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper's lives, then at least they can be happy with the cast.
It's a mark of how much the star of TV drama has risen that an actor of Emily Watson's stature is involved.
The plots of TV dramas are often so preposterous and far-fetched. And then sometimes they're not. The latest three-parter from the BBC, The Politician's Husband, stars David Tennant and Emily Watson as two senior politicians who are married to one another and whose domestic life starts to unravel when the husband's career begins to be eclipsed by that of his more talented wife. If this is a fantasy (and none too flattering) version of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper's lives, then at least they can be happy with the cast.
It's a mark of how much the star of TV drama has risen that an actor of Emily Watson's stature is involved.
- 4/13/2013
- by Carole Cadwalladr
- The Guardian - Film News
Women from Fords Dagenham meet Theresa May to mark release of film about struggle for equal pay
The quartet of women reminiscing over tea, coffee and lemonade in a central London cafe did not look like hardened veterans of the struggle for sexual equality, nor, it has to be said, did they much resemble the usual stuff of the silver screen.
With their neatly set hair and smart-casual clothes, they could have been mistaken for old friends on a weekday jaunt to the capital in search of lunch, a show and perhaps some shopping.
But Sheila Douglass, Gwen Davis, Eileen Pullan and Vera Sime are not only indisputable pioneers in the field of employment equality, they are now the heroes of their own film.
Forty-two years ago, they were among a group of women at the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham who walked out after discovering that their male...
The quartet of women reminiscing over tea, coffee and lemonade in a central London cafe did not look like hardened veterans of the struggle for sexual equality, nor, it has to be said, did they much resemble the usual stuff of the silver screen.
With their neatly set hair and smart-casual clothes, they could have been mistaken for old friends on a weekday jaunt to the capital in search of lunch, a show and perhaps some shopping.
But Sheila Douglass, Gwen Davis, Eileen Pullan and Vera Sime are not only indisputable pioneers in the field of employment equality, they are now the heroes of their own film.
Forty-two years ago, they were among a group of women at the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham who walked out after discovering that their male...
- 9/23/2010
- by Sam Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Children's TV character Peppa Pig has withdrawn from attending a Labour party election event. E1 Entertainment, which licenses the show, said that it did not want its creation to attend the latest Labour manifesto launch because it wants to avoid controversy. The show, which airs on Five, has been used previously to promote the government's Sure Start scheme. Peppa was expected to join work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper and cabinet office minister Tessa Jowell on a visit to a children's centre today. However, Five claimed that it knew nothing about the plans. "Peppa Pig is a well known fan of Sure Start children's centres but, in the interests of avoiding any controversy or misunderstanding, we have agreed she (more)...
- 4/27/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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