Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interview – Pam Ayres

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Celebrity Interview – Andy Hamilton

June 1, 2022 Alistair Plant

Andy Hamilton is holed up in a hotel in Ireland. A week’s holiday with his wife Libby has turned into a fortnight because both have caught Covid. But he assures everyone he’ll be fine for the start of his new tour in Nottingham. He has managed to avoid the virus for two years and describes […]

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Celebrity Interview – Patrick Kielty

April 26, 2022 Alistair Plant

The future of Britain after Brexit, national identity and political upheaval don’t appear to be subjects that would have you guffawing with mirth. But these are the themes that Northern Ireland comedian and television presenter Patrick Kielty has chosen for his new stand-up show Borderline which will visit Nottingham next month. While he’s primarily known […]

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Celebrity Interview – Steve Backshall

April 1, 2022 Alistair Plant

Explorer, naturalist, television presenter and writer Steve Backshall has dived with sharks, been hunted by a polar bear and gone on expeditions to parts of the globe that have never been explored before. So what is he afraid of? His answer may shock you: “I’m afraid of people. I think we’re far more frightening than […]

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Celebrity Interview – Sara Blizzard

February 27, 2022 Alistair Plant

Getting up at 3am to go to work is enough to bring a deep depression on many people. But not Sara Blizzard – she has a sunny outlook whenever she comes into our living rooms presenting the weather on BBC Television. This month marks the 23rd anniversary of Sarah’s East Midlands Today debut. She breezed […]

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Celebrity Interview – Michelle Collins

January 25, 2022 VickyP

She played Ian Beale’s wife in EastEnders for eight years and the landlady of the Rovers Return in Coronation Street. Now Michelle Collins is taking on what she describes as the role of a lifetime. Michelle will be getting dolled up for the role of Miss Scarlett in Cluedo, a new play based on the […]

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Celebrity Interview – Danny John-Jules

January 9, 2022 VickyP

Danny John-Jules breaks off from trying to learn “a load of very educated and complicated lines” for his part in the stage version of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code to express his delight at securing the role of Sir Leigh Teabing. Some actors might baulk at taking on a role portrayed by one of […]

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Celebrity Interview – Tristan Gemmill

November 27, 2021 Alistair Plant

He’s played cool, confident consultant Adam Trueman in Casualty, complicated bistro owner Robert Preston in Coronation Street and on stage he was hunky Frank Farmer, the title character of the musical The Bodyguard. Now Tristan Gemmill is to play a totally different role in Nottingham. He is hoping to be jeered in the Theatre Royal […]

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Celebrity Interview – Amanda Owen

November 7, 2021 Alistair Plant

Running a 2,000-acre hill farm in one of the most remote parts of the Yorkshire Dales might not be everyone’s cup of tea. But Amanda Owen takes everything as it comes – which you have to do when you’re a shepherdess, writer, photographer, public speaker and mother to nine children! Amanda is known to millions […]

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Celebrity Interview – Adam Buss

October 15, 2021 Alistair Plant

Are we going to spend the rest of our lives bemoaning the fact that something’s not happening or are we as a city going to do something collectively about it? Critics have found it comical that Derby, whose leading entertainment venue has been closed for more than seven years, has submitted a bid to become […]

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Celebrity Interview – Paul Jones of the Manfreds

August 26, 2021 Alistair Plant

Paul Jones laughs a lot as he happily looks forward to the next few months. The singer, harmonica player, actor, radio personality and television presenter has had a stellar career – yet at the age of 79 he’s going on the road again with the band he made his name with, the Manfreds. Not only […]