ALISON BOSHOFF: Now Coleen Rooney gets to tell HER truth in new Wagatha show
Of mice and men… Of pigeons and chipolatas. We can only talk about Colin Rooney and Rebecca Varda; and starting next Wednesday, the highly anticipated Disney+ documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story will be streaming.
She will tell her side of the story over the course of a three-part series, with me taking part too, explaining the circumstances behind Ms Vardy comparing her fellow VAG to a pigeon pooping on your head.
Colleen told me: “I knew what I believed in from start to finish. The documentary gave me the opportunity to tell my side of the story — how and why it happened, and how I feel about it now. I had never set foot in a courtroom before and I was afraid to appear on that bench.’
She feels relieved that this is finally out in the open and that she can draw a line under the whole crazy business. ‘It’s a weight off my shoulders,’ she admitted. “I can get back to properly focusing on my family and friends.”
“I am a working mother of four children and my youngest started attending school last year.” Now feels like the right time to end all this and is looking forward to new opportunities.’
Colleen added that while many people were following the details of the case fanatically, “I think some people still haven’t heard the whole story.”
Will Becky get involved?
Rooney stars as herself in the show, which will detail her legal battle against Rebecca Vardy
Rebecca Vardy leaves the Royal Courts of Justice after day 7 of the defamation trial against Coleen Rooney
Will Top Gear live on… on Netflix? The omens are not looking good for the BBC series, following an accident last December in which host Freddie Flintoff was seriously injured.
However, I’m told that Netflix has approached BBC Studios with a view to making their own version of the show… and paying the BBC for the privilege.
Despite reports to the contrary, bosses are yet to officially decide whether to turn it down. But this would allow the Beeb to at least continue to make money from his fight shot.
The wheel turns full circle as the Queen of Christmas, Darlene Love, duets with Cher on her upcoming Christmas album.
Sixty years ago, Cher (she was only 17 at the time) was Love’s backing singer on the same track, Baby Please Come Home.
The song appeared on Phil Spector’s holiday compilation A Christmas Gift For You.
Cindy’s girlfriend Kaia starts at the bottom
Look out for Cindy Crawford’s gorgeous daughter, Kaia Gerber (pictured) — who is moving into acting, following in the footsteps of her star boyfriend Austin ‘Elvis’ Butler.
Gerber, 22, is speaking for the first time in a film called Bottoms: a lesbian high school comedy in which she plays cheerleader Brittany (right), who is the object of desire.
Actress Ayo Edibiri from the movie “Medved” is a partner in the movie. The film was released in the United States over the summer and will be released in the UK by Warner Bros. on November 3rd. In an interview given before the current actor’s strike, Gerber said he was thrilled with the whole process. “I’ve never read anything like this script before. It’s the kind of film I wish I could have seen growing up.’
Her next project is The Shell, a dystopian film starring Kate Hudson and Elisabeth Moss.
Boyfriend Butler, meanwhile, appears in The Bikeriders — a film about a 1960s American biker gang, which had its UK premiere at the London Film Festival last week.
Kaia Gerber attends the 2023 TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 26, 2023.
(L-R) Virginia Tucker as Stella Rebecca, Kaia Gerber as Brittany and Havana Rose Liu as Isabel in THE DAYS
Would Peter’s return strike a bad note?
Actor Peter Davison is up for a role in the rebooted All Creatures Great and Small — more than 30 years after he hung up his stethoscope as vet Tristan Farnon in the original BBC version.
“I’d love to make a guest appearance on a new series on Channel 5,” says Peter, who was most recently seen as a curmudgeonly vicar in ITV’s Larkins. “And as a petulant farmer?”
Peter admits he hasn’t seen the new series starring Sam West as senior vet Siegfried Farnon. “I’m sure it’s very good, although I doubt it’s as authentic as our version, because the rules have changed, in relation to the animals.” We used to be able to put our hands on a cow’s bottom—which you’re not allowed to do anymore if you’re just pretending to be a vet,” he sighed—no doubt eliciting a squeal of relief from the vets. animal counterparts.
Hot Fuzz actor Nick Frost has revealed that he goes through a lot of shirts — because when he needs to let off steam, he hides in a room and indulges in a place where he rips clothes off Incredible Hulk-style.
Frost, pictured, was happy to talk about his ADHD diagnosis and is now able to laugh about his unusual habit and how it entertains his children.
The dad-of-three said: “I have ADHD and sometimes I just can’t control myself – I’m getting better at it now that I’ve realized I do. But I’m an excellent shirt ripper. Sometimes, if I get angry, or feel a million emotions, I literally grab my shirt and rip it in half.
“Kids love it when an adult does something really weird.” I think the kids love it.’
Asked on the Parenting Hell podcast if he even destroys the T-shirts he loves, he said: ‘I don’t give a ***… it’s gone!
‘I’ll go into the downstairs toilet clothed and come out shirtless.’
Nick Frost attends the UK premiere of ‘Fighting With My Family’ at BFI Southbank on February 25, 2019.
Marty’s mom made De Niro giggle
Legendary director Martin Scorsese held 2,500 film fans in the palm of his hand at Festival Hall last weekend during a wide-ranging, 90-minute speech at the BFI London Film Festival.
Scorsese was in town for a screening of his new epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
Among other topics, he recalled directing De Niro in Taxi Driver — in the famous ‘You Talkin’ To Me?’ scene. “Bob improvised… “You talking to me?!” I ask him to talk to the mirror, and I say do it again, do it again, and he goes into a rhythm.
‘It was a repetition. He said it so beautifully.’
He also revealed that his late mother, Catherine Scorsese, giggled at De Niro while improvising on another film, The King of Comedy, in a scene where Rupert Pupkin’s (De Niro) mother yells down to her son to ‘Put it down’. while trying to film a reel for chat show host Jerry Langford.
Bob told her, “I’ll take the attack dog if you don’t shut up!” And she says, “One more mouth to feed!” And he starts laughing. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen him do that during improv. He couldn’t help it.’
Catherine also starred in another of her son’s hits, The Good Guys, as Tommy DeWitt’s (Joe Pesci) mom.
A very colorful confession
Sir Tim Rice has admitted that one of his most famous lines from Joseph and the Wonderful Colored Dreamcoat was actually written by a bunch of schoolboys.
“One of the most famous parts is probably the list of colors at the end of Joseph’s poem about his coat. And the horrible truth is that I didn’t write most of those colors. I wrote ‘It was red and yellow and green and brown and blue…’ End of text.
“Every week we would send a new song to the school (Collett Court in London, where a teacher friend asked us to write a musical as a favour). When we sent them a multi-colored coat, they said, ‘Can we add more colors to it?’ Each child in the class named a color and stuck it on the end.
‘When we first went to hear her, they sang: ‘She was red and yellow and green and brown and blue and scarlet and ochre…’ And it went on to this incredible list of colours.
“Someone later wrote a complementary piece saying that one of the great things about the text was that list of colors that Tim Rice had chosen. But I only chose five of them — and they were the least interesting!’
The Hobbit star Richard Armitage (who played Thorin) says plans to play one of the main characters in a TV version of his debut novel could bite the dust if producers don’t go ahead.
Sony is turning Geneva into a six-part series. But Armitage, 52, says: “I might be too old to play Daniel until we get to filming! I’m still young enough to be confident, but I know how long it can take to actually record something.’
In the book, Daniel persuades his wife, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, to come out of retirement to support the revolutionary implant.