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Share The maths guru finished the look with simple cream trainers with her essentials in a black wheeled suitcase. It comes as Rachel remains in the midst of a libel battle against a pro-Jeremy Corbyn blogger who called her a serial abuser and blamed her for the death threats sent to a 16-year-old girl on Twitter.  Looking good: The presenter looked radiant in the comfy ensemble as she donned a face shield to make her exit after a day of filming Rachel sued Mike Sivier, who published an art...

Tom Allen It’s easy to forget that Tom Allen is first and foremost a comedian. The Bromley-born entertainer, who turns 38 next month, won the So You Think You’re Funny contest as well as the BBC New Comedy Award in 2005. Then, for the next decade he plied his trade on the stand-up circuit, supporting Sarah Millican, Josh Widdicombe, Romesh Ranganathan and Michael McIntyre on their tours, and making a splash at the Edinburgh Fringe with his shows Indeed and Absolutely, before embarking on hi...

A TOWN theatre has teamed up with a country park to host a series of outdoor events this May. The Point Eastleigh has joined forces with Itchen Valley Country Park to put together the "Comedy at the Park" series of events. Kicking off with two consecutive nights of live comedy, a barbecue and drinks from the park’s Woodland Cafe, the occasion is aimed at letting residents "laugh under the stars" as restrictions are eased. On May 21, Eryn Tett, Matt Rees and MC Leroy Brito will be on s...

Laugh yourself out of lockdown with the county’s biggest comedy evening of the year.

Review: Bill Bailey’s talents are wasted, but Patriot Brains still brings the laughs Review After a nationwide tour, British comedian Bill Bailey is now fronting a new show for TVNZ. Stewart Sowman-Lund tunes in. It’s been hard to avoid British comic Bill Bailey over the last few weeks. He’s been on tour seemingly everywhere seemingly forever, wrapping up a 17-date series of shows in Auckland on Monday. Since leaving managed isolation back in February, he’s been on The Project, traded d...

Countdown presenter Rachel Riley loves being a mum to baby Maven but tells Lisa Salmon she thinks parenting will be different in a post-Covid world. Mathematician and Countdown presenter Rachel Riley has loved her first year of being a mum - despite the pandemic restrictions. Riley, 35, had baby Maven Aria in December 2019, a few months before the pandemic started, and after a brief maternity leave has successfully combined motherhood with presenting Countdown and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Co...

DID you know all these famous faces had connections to Salisbury and Wiltshire? If the county had its own wall of fame, these television, film and novelists would definitely top the list: 1 - Mark Labbett Many of us know him as The Beast on the ITV game show The Chase, but some may not realise he attended Bishop Wordsworths School in Salisbury. Born in Tiverton, Devon, Mark went to Wordsworths from 1976 to 1983. After bagging 10 GCSEs and five A-Levels, Mark studied maths at Oxford, l...

New UK sitcom Out Of Her Mind featuring Sara Pascoe, Juliet Stevenson and Fiona Button will screen on BBC First from next week. The cast includes Cariad Lloyd, Adrian Edmondson, Navin Chowdhry and Sean Gilder. This will screen as double episodes. It aired in the UK in October. Sara Pascoe (The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Twenty Twelve), Juliet Stevenson (Bend It Like Beckham, Truly Madly Deeply) and Fiona Button (The Split, Lip Service) star in Out of Her Mind, a hilarious, q...

Although currently we are all still involved in a national lockdown, talk has well and truly begun about when ‘normality’ is set to return. With that in mind, below are five acts that are set to perform in at the Queen’s Hall in Hexham once restrictions ease over the next few months. 1) Jason Manford -  Like Me – Scheduled date: 3 September 2021 The Manchester comedian is set to play Queens Hall later this year. The Manchester comedian is one of the most well-known acts on the c...

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