Danielle Harold is leaving EastEnders. The 23-year-old actress - who plays the young mother Lola Pierce - has been written out of story lines on the popular BBC One soap opera and admitted ''I'll miss everyone.'' She said: ''I've had the most amazing time at EastEnders having been involved in some exciting story lines, including giving birth in a live scene.'' The TV babe first joined the soap four years ago as Billie Mitchel's loud-mouthed but lovable teenage granddaughter. Before entering in to acting, the young star was featured on the television series Jamie's Dream School in 2011. She added: ''I'll miss...
- 6/14/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
Danielle Harold is leaving EastEnders. The 23-year-old actress - who plays the young mother Lola Pierce - has been written out of story lines on the popular BBC One soap opera and admitted ''I'll miss everyone.'' She said: ''I've had the most amazing time at EastEnders having been involved in some exciting story lines, including giving birth in a live scene.'' The TV babe first joined the soap four years ago as Billie Mitchel's loud-mouthed but lovable teenage granddaughter. Before entering in to acting, the young star was featured on the television series Jamie's Dream School in 2011. She added: ''I'll miss...
- 6/11/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
Oliver Stone got so sick of always reading the sanitised version of Us history that he decided to write his own. He talks about the real reason America dropped the atom bomb, how Kennedy is a hero and why he can't stand Hillary Clinton
Oliver Stone has just agreed to take part in the Us version of Jamie's Dream School, the TV show that explored the interesting notion that famous people might educate kids better than teachers. "It was much criticised in Britain but I still think it's a good idea," says Stone over coffee and bagels in a Soho hotel. He'll be the American equivalent of Jamie's history teacher David Starkey. Only, you'd suspect, more radical.
Stone's TV history class might well be named Us Heresies 101. "We're going to take these texts from regular history and compare them to what we think happened." He will teach that the bombing...
Oliver Stone has just agreed to take part in the Us version of Jamie's Dream School, the TV show that explored the interesting notion that famous people might educate kids better than teachers. "It was much criticised in Britain but I still think it's a good idea," says Stone over coffee and bagels in a Soho hotel. He'll be the American equivalent of Jamie's history teacher David Starkey. Only, you'd suspect, more radical.
Stone's TV history class might well be named Us Heresies 101. "We're going to take these texts from regular history and compare them to what we think happened." He will teach that the bombing...
- 4/15/2013
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
EastEnders star Danielle Harold has spoken for the first time about her audition for the BBC soap last year. The Lewisham actress, 20, won the part of Lola Pearce shortly after appearing on Jamie's Dream School on Channel 4. She told TV Times: "I was more than terrified! I was really crying after we cut, because it was such a relief to get it out of the way." Due to a long-term bladder illness, Harold only managed to acquire one Gcse during her time at secondary school. The Walford cast member explained of her turning to acting: "Afterwards, I went straight into work and did waitressing (more)...
- 10/5/2012
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
Raindance has hired celebrity photographer Rankin to create its new ad, and continued its tradition of impressive poster art
This year's poster for the Raindance independent film festival in London has been designed by the fashion and celebrity photographer Rankin.
The image shows Rankin's wife, Tuuli Shipster – whom he uses as a model whenever he can – holding up a camera over one eye, with shadows falling over the left side of her face so that only a triangular space taking in her eye and half her mouth is lit. A reflected circle of light in the camera lens replaces her right pupil. The image is overlaid and repeated at least three times, a device that makes the lens of the camera into a series of interlocking circles, something that can be seen more clearly in the portrait version, and produces interesting framing effects throughout.
Shipster's eye make-up, cherry-red lips and swept-back hair,...
This year's poster for the Raindance independent film festival in London has been designed by the fashion and celebrity photographer Rankin.
The image shows Rankin's wife, Tuuli Shipster – whom he uses as a model whenever he can – holding up a camera over one eye, with shadows falling over the left side of her face so that only a triangular space taking in her eye and half her mouth is lit. A reflected circle of light in the camera lens replaces her right pupil. The image is overlaid and repeated at least three times, a device that makes the lens of the camera into a series of interlocking circles, something that can be seen more clearly in the portrait version, and produces interesting framing effects throughout.
Shipster's eye make-up, cherry-red lips and swept-back hair,...
- 9/28/2011
- by Paul Owen
- The Guardian - Film News
Jamie Oliver is releasing a new range of fish fingers. The TV chef is concerned that British people are not eating anywhere near enough fish and has teamed with frozen food brand Young's to launch a new range of fish products, including fingers, fishcakes and fillets. Jamie - who' shows have included 'Jamie's Ministry Of Food', 'Jamie's Dream School' and 'Jamie's School Dinners' hopes the range will get people to embrace more fish. He said: "Fish is definitely an area where people are really nervous. They're over cooking it; they're under cooking it; and don't even mention the word bones.
- 9/1/2011
- Virgin Media - TV
Jamie Oliver is releasing a new range of fish fingers. The TV chef is concerned that British people are not eating anywhere near enough fish and has teamed with frozen food brand Young's to launch a new range of fish products, including fingers, fishcakes and fillets. Jamie - who' shows have included 'Jamie's Ministry Of Food', 'Jamie's Dream School' and 'Jamie's School Dinners' hopes the range will get people to embrace more fish. He said: "Fish is definitely an area where people are really nervous. They're over cooking it; they're under cooking it; and don't even mention the word bones.
- 8/31/2011
- Virgin Media - TV
His school project only proved that most of the pupils didn't deserve the attention they got
Thank the Lord, Jamie's Dream School has finished. That programme was bad for the blood pressure. Can it have been the dodgiest, most dangerous TV series ever broadcast?
I know: we've had Ibiza Uncovered, The James Whale Show and that one where Rebecca Loos whacked off a pig. But at least those programmes never pretended to be anything but awful. This one claimed to be useful and well-meaning. It was a mugger dressed like a man from the gas board.
Here is the evil genius of Jamie's Dream School. It was perfectly devised to attract sappy, middle-class liberals like me. It was a Channel 4 documentary about education. It had Andrew Motion and Robert Winston in it. It had a biosphere and a scene at the Globe. It promised to help unlucky, underprivileged teenagers...
Thank the Lord, Jamie's Dream School has finished. That programme was bad for the blood pressure. Can it have been the dodgiest, most dangerous TV series ever broadcast?
I know: we've had Ibiza Uncovered, The James Whale Show and that one where Rebecca Loos whacked off a pig. But at least those programmes never pretended to be anything but awful. This one claimed to be useful and well-meaning. It was a mugger dressed like a man from the gas board.
Here is the evil genius of Jamie's Dream School. It was perfectly devised to attract sappy, middle-class liberals like me. It was a Channel 4 documentary about education. It had Andrew Motion and Robert Winston in it. It had a biosphere and a scene at the Globe. It promised to help unlucky, underprivileged teenagers...
- 4/16/2011
- by Victoria Coren
- The Guardian - Film News
Wassup, rockers. It's been a poor week for television, and I only have dregs of exisiting programmes to offer you. Is this Recession Britain, at long last? Has everything decent totally disappeared? Where is the effervescent cauldron of creativity that once was? Is the whole country just sitting back, watching DVDs of "The Killing" and waiting for "Doctor Who"'s sexy return? Anyway, here are the remains of the day. Enjoy!
Masterchef
Upon first viewing, I originally dismissed this new season of "Masterchef" -- the show that promises to find the best amateur cook in Britain, even though surely the best amateur cook in Britain wouldn't have waited so many seasons to reveal himself or herself . The early elimination rounds had been souped up into really overheated drama and were somehow not as compelling as they had used to be in past seasons, which often found hapless wannabes cooking inedible...
Masterchef
Upon first viewing, I originally dismissed this new season of "Masterchef" -- the show that promises to find the best amateur cook in Britain, even though surely the best amateur cook in Britain wouldn't have waited so many seasons to reveal himself or herself . The early elimination rounds had been souped up into really overheated drama and were somehow not as compelling as they had used to be in past seasons, which often found hapless wannabes cooking inedible...
- 4/15/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Spoiler alert: I've got a killer segue lined up for the transition from "Jamie's Dream School" to "South Riding"! You're going to love it. That being said, on to the programmes.
Jamie's Dream School
The prog that everyone's talking about right now in Britain is "Jamie's Dream School", a title that puts the 'moron' in 'oxymoron'. Indeed, the weird establishment staffed by celebrities for drop-out students, under the watchful eye of the Naked Chef himself, is so far from being a dream school that I caught myself humming 'Gangsta's Paradise' halfway through the first episode.
So the idea of "Dream School" is that Jamie Oliver, drawing on the experience that saw him revolutionise school dinners for ten minutes back in 2005, gets some cool slebs to sort out the youngsters and inspire them and turn their lives around, or something like that. So he has David Starkey, the famous(ly pompous and creepy) historian,...
Jamie's Dream School
The prog that everyone's talking about right now in Britain is "Jamie's Dream School", a title that puts the 'moron' in 'oxymoron'. Indeed, the weird establishment staffed by celebrities for drop-out students, under the watchful eye of the Naked Chef himself, is so far from being a dream school that I caught myself humming 'Gangsta's Paradise' halfway through the first episode.
So the idea of "Dream School" is that Jamie Oliver, drawing on the experience that saw him revolutionise school dinners for ten minutes back in 2005, gets some cool slebs to sort out the youngsters and inspire them and turn their lives around, or something like that. So he has David Starkey, the famous(ly pompous and creepy) historian,...
- 3/11/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
The fashion designer's outburst is just one example of a growing casual antisemitism
It's interesting that John Galliano could just have got away with his antisemitic ravings, some caught on video in a Paris bar, had it not been for Jewish actress Natalie Portman.
Nicole Kidman and Sharon Stone still wore Dior to the Oscars. It was Portman, the "face" of Dior perfumes, who wore Rodarte. It was Portman who immediately stated she was "shocked and disgusted" and "would not be associated with Mr Galliano". She added: "I hope these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful."
"The opposite of all that is beautiful" – a melodramatic, very actressy statement? Perhaps it was de trop considering this isn't the Middle Eastern conflict, darling, just a sloshed fashion designer, slurring vilely, but also fashion enfant terrible-style, about...
It's interesting that John Galliano could just have got away with his antisemitic ravings, some caught on video in a Paris bar, had it not been for Jewish actress Natalie Portman.
Nicole Kidman and Sharon Stone still wore Dior to the Oscars. It was Portman, the "face" of Dior perfumes, who wore Rodarte. It was Portman who immediately stated she was "shocked and disgusted" and "would not be associated with Mr Galliano". She added: "I hope these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful."
"The opposite of all that is beautiful" – a melodramatic, very actressy statement? Perhaps it was de trop considering this isn't the Middle Eastern conflict, darling, just a sloshed fashion designer, slurring vilely, but also fashion enfant terrible-style, about...
- 3/6/2011
- by Barbara Ellen
- The Guardian - Film News
Jamie's Dream School opened its doors with 2m viewers on Wednesday night, while MasterChef continued to prove popular, the latest audience data has revealed. Jamie Oliver's new project, featuring young people being taught by star teachers such as David Starkey and Robert Winston, averaged 2.1m (8.8%) for Channel 4 in the 9pm hour and 301k (1.8%) on +1. BBC One's MasterChef pulled in a solid 5.09m (21.4%) in the 9pm hour, peaking at 5.53m (24.2%) for the final 15 minutes. The cookery competition beat coverage of Manchester City's Fa Cup victory against Aston Villa, which pulled in 3.46m (14.8%) on ITV1 between 7.30pm. Earlier on BBC One, The One Show and The Boat That Guy Built entertained 4.45m (21%) and 4.85m (22.5%) respectively in the 7pm hour. Waterloo Road mustered 4.8m (20.1%) in the 8pm hour, and (more)...
- 3/3/2011
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
Cherie Blair has revealed how students in Jamie's Dream School tried to embarrass her when she stepped into the role of their teacher. A number of personalities including Rolf Harris, Alastair Campbell and Professor Robert Winston will appear in the new Channel 4 series, in which Jamie Oliver has set up a school for teenagers who have struggled in the education system. "I liked the idea," Blair told ITV's This Morning. "I like Jamie Oliver - I think he does some fantastic work and when he approached me to do this, I thought it is a fantastic idea. Because I'm a judge and I've worked in my legal career with young mums or youths that have been excluded from school, I knew a little bit about what it was like."
Discussing how she was accused of being posh by some of the students in her class, she explained: (more)...
Discussing how she was accused of being posh by some of the students in her class, she explained: (more)...
- 3/2/2011
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
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