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Presenter Cat Deeley models her Knit by Cat Deeley for Winser London collection. Picture: Joseph Sinclair/Winser London IN a world where it seems like everyone in the public eye is media-trained to within an inch of their life, Cat Deeley is still old school. Deeley, 44, who found fame co-presenting Saturday morning children’s show SM:TV Live with Ant and Dec in the late 1990s and has spent the past 14 years hosting the popular US reality competition So You Think You Can Dance, isn’t one for trite soundbites. There are no guarded pauses. Or checking with her publicist that she is sa...

Billie Piper with co-star Leila Farzad in the Sky Atlantic drama series I Hate Suzie. Picture: PA/Sky UK Limited/Ollie Upton WHAT makes a good sex scene? Vanessa Coffey is the woman to ask. Her job as a TV, film and theatre intimacy coordinator means that she is often in the thick of the action, so to speak. The lawyer-turned-actor says she “fell into” her line of work after being asked by former students (Coffey is also an acting lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) if she would cast an eye over their contracts and go on set to ensure that any agreed nudity clauses were a...

David Macpherson, writer of The Rig. Picture: Mark Mainz/Amazon Prime Video WHEN he was growing up near Alness on the Cromarty Firth, David Macpherson would often gaze in awe at the oil rigs that loomed high above the water, watching as these mighty beasts were towed into the bay for repair. A seed was planted that, some decades later, would germinate into the idea for a TV series. Macpherson’s scriptwriting debut will arrive on our screens in the not-too-distant future with The Rig, a sci-fi thriller set off Scotland’s north-east coast, destined for Amazon Prime Video. “Oil rigs ...