Soap operas

Lizzie Cundy has split from nightlife entrepreneur Jeremy Gordeno after a 10-month relationship. The TV personality, 51, was introduced to the businessman, 53, through a mutual friend in a Weybridge wine bar and the romance flourished from there however it was revealed on Friday that the pair had parted ways. Lizzie told MailOnline: 'I ended it. I want nothing more to do with him. I'm shocked and horrified by recent events'. Shock: Lizzie Cundy has split from nightlife entrepreneur Jeremy Gordeno after a 10-month relationship (pictured together at last month's National Reality TV Awards 2019) Lizzie and Jeremy were last pictured together at last month's National Reality TV Awards, in what was thought to have been their final date.    Their tumultuous romance was hurtled into the spotlight in May when his ex, Candice Hodge, locked horns with Lizzie during a photoshoot at Jeremy's home in Hampshire, with the ructions leading to a subsequent police … [Read more...] about EXCLUSIVE ‘I want nothing more to do with him’: Lizzie Cundy ends her 10-month ‘soap opera’ romance with nightlife entrepreneur Jeremy Gordeno

A healthy democracy depends on an active citizenry which is able to make informed decisions. That is, in theory, the role of the fourth estate: to help the public understand their own society and the world around them, to hold the powerful to account and to challenge myths and expose uncomfortable truths. You do not need to be a long-time critic of the British media ecosystem to see those basic functions are not being satisfied when it comes to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. Rather than detailed scrutiny being applied to the most important single political event since the second world war, it has been reduced to a spectacle, a pantomime, all framed on the government’s own terms. Just as Theresa May’s “no deal is better than a bad deal” bluster collided with political reality, Johnson’s demagoguery was followed by his own capitulation to the EU’s red lines. Yet his embrace of a deal first offered by the EU 19 months ago – and rejected by May … [Read more...] about The UK press is reducing Brexit to a crude soap opera, ignoring the real story

Marlena Evans' demonic possession was one of the most controversial, and popular, storylines on Days of Our Lives.  And on Friday, the American soap opera's longtime producer, Ken Corday, revealed it was also his favourite.  Appearing on Today Extra, the 69-year-old was asked to name his most beloved plot on the show, and while he said it was a hard decision, he did have a front-runner.   'I said you're mad, that will never work!' Days of Our Lives producer Ken Corday revealed on Saturday that Marlena's demonic possession is his favourite storyline in the soap's history. Pictured: Deidre Hall as a possessed Marlena Evans Ken told the hosts: 'Actually when we took Deidre Hall, the lovely Marlena Evans, and had her possessed by the devil. It was right out of The Exorcist!' RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Showstopper! Actress Olympia Valance gets playful on the red... Coronation Street's doctor James Burrows struggles to find... It's a … [Read more...] about Days of Our Lives producer reveals Marlena’s demonic possession is his favourite storyline in the soap’s history… even though he thought it would ‘never work’ at the time

Rebecca Ferguson is almost entirely convinced the following ordeal is indicative of her true character, her deep down self, but she struggles with how. The story goes like this. Not long ago, Ferguson happened to see a woman collapse unconscious, and then she watched panic spread across the face of the woman’s husband and ripple on to the faces of the people around him. Though it was not her place, because she is a big-time Hollywood actor and is in no way a medical professional, she waded into the formed crowd, located the woman’s pulse (which she could not properly count) and began barking instructions. A stranger suggested water for the fallen woman, but Ferguson shouted, “No! Orange juice!” a tip she’d picked up watching ER. When the crowd edged closer, Ferguson yelled, “Some space, please!” The instructions tumbled out of her mouth before she could think to recover them, one after the other, an apparently natural act, until the woman came … [Read more...] about Rebecca Ferguson: ‘Not being recognised suits me’

The 35th anniversary of the death of Rainer Werner Fassbinder this year was grimly presaged two weeks ago by the death of his longtime, long-suffering cameraman Michael Ballhaus. Ballhaus was 81 and had forged a second career in Hollywood. Fassbinder, had he lived, would be 71. Having knocked out 40 features, several TV series, countless plays and adaptations in a 13-year career, one can only wonder what he might have done with another 35. Or perhaps not. Fassbinder was of his time, the white-hot 1970s, and very much of his place, the now-vanished Federal Republic of Germany, which he endlessly accused of never having fully exorcised or extirpated the Nazi elements that had lingered in society, politics and business. Fassbinder’s success was dependent upon a government-subsidy system of unparalleled generosity (he got a separate salary for each role he undertook – director, producer, writer, star, cameraman, composer, etc), which supported work likely to be critical of West … [Read more...] about The Fass and the furious: the remarkable career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder