JUST when I thought BBC1 had given up on all the telly crotch shots, the
channel is bringing nudity to primetime comedy.
After nakedness in dramas such as The Night Manager, War & Peace and
Undercover proved a huge ratings draw, funnyman BEN MILLER will
become an unlikely on-screen flasher in new sitcom I Want My Wife Back.
The actor plays workaholic husband Murray, who tries to win back wife Bex
after she walks out on him on her 40th birthday.
The programme, which made its debut last night, will be showing steamier
scenes in the coming weeks.
Ben said: “People obviously now choose to watch highbrow shows because there’s
more chance of someone getting their kit off in that than in shows like
Coronation Street.
“I am not going to be competing with TOM HIDDLESTON though. I’ll
be relying on some very grainy images.
“There’s always been a fair bit of nudity on the BBC — well, that’s what I
cottoned on to as a 14-year-old-boy.”
The latest nudity comes in a later episode when Ben gets naked with office
girl Emma, played by SUSANNAH FIELDING.
In an exclusive interview, he said: “I get to the pub thinking everyone is
there but then it’s just Emma. We end up getting pretty drunk and go out
raving.
“I wake up in the morning and I’m naked in bed.
“Her dad arrives so I’m walking round the flat trying to find my clothes. But
when I go into the kitchen I don’t realise her grandparents are sitting
there.”
Ben, who starred alongside ROWAN ATKINSON in 2003 spy comedy Johnny
English, would not turn down a new collaboration with the comic.
He said: “If he asks for a TV reunion with me, there will be one. If Rowan
asks if you’d like to be in something, you say yes pretty quickly — well I
do, anyway!”
You might have to put your clothes back on first, Ben.
Shady lady Jamelia
JAMELIA’s Loose Women colleagues may have a thing or two to say about her
kinky new TV role.
The singer-turned-actress is making an eye-popping soap debut in daytime drama
Doctors.
She plays Helen Wales, a “naughty girl” who chats up a man in a hotel bar then
goes upstairs to his room, where she ties him up.
Jamelia revealed: “It’s a saucy scene with ropes and I couldn’t stop laughing.
I kept apologising for holding up filming.
“It’s not sordid or explicit – it is daytime TV after all. I don’t have to
take my clothes off.”
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, every Doctors
episode this week will be based around one of his sonnets.
Jamelia’s episode tomorrow relates to Sonnet 129, which is all about lust.
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Whaite bakes
JOHN WHAITE is proof that winning Bake Off really does pay.
Since being crowned the show’s champ in 2012, John has created his very own
range of pastries and cakes and designed an afternoon tea for London’s Royal
Horseguards hotel, in celebration of the Queen’s 90th birthday.
John – currently resident chef on TV’s Lorraine show – said: “The hotel is so
quintessentially British and what is more British than the Queen? Throw in
afternoon tea and I am a very happy boy!”
Save me a seat, John.
Windsor wind-up
STAR Stories raised eyebrows when it hit screens ten years ago but have
writers Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie gone too far with their take on
the royals?
Controversial new Channel 4 comedy The
Windsors sees the DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE, played by Louise Ford
contracting Ebola, while PRINCESSES EUGENIE and BEATRICE get
radicalised, as The Sun revealed.
But Bert and George claim they merely exaggerate what the public already think
of the Royal Family – and branded the princesses “dim”.
George said: “The stories are not really drawn from their actual life,
although they might have little hints of their actual life.
“Their characters are big embellishments of what we think of them. We made our
Kate a gypsy, as a play on the real Kate being a commoner married into the
UK’s poshest family.
“With other characters, we may have exaggerated a public perception.
“Beatrice and Eugenie come across as slightly dim girls who have never had a
proper job, so we play on that.”
But George is still a bit nervous about the show airing on May 6.
He said: “I don’t think people will mind too much. I think it’ll be water off
a duck’s back to everyone, really. I may be wrong.”
— ITV studios had to be evacuated after a huge crocodile escaped
from a tank.
It happened during filming for panel show It’s Not Rocket Science.
The experiment saw comedian ROMESH RANGANATHAN hung upside down over a
tank of crocs – held only by a household vacuum cleaner.
The show’s host BEN MILLER revealed: “Romesh was being dangled
over the tank and while everyone was discussing the shot, one of the
crocodiles got out.
“It came crawling out and everyone had to run for cover. This crocodile was
running around the warehouse. It was funny but scary.
“They had a guy who managed to trap it eventually – I mean you wouldn’t
want that guy’s job.”
Nor Romesh’s by the sound of it.