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Scottish Sun
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Tim Lovejoy replaced on Sunday Brunch by reality star as he takes a break from show
She has appeared as a guest many times over the years sunday shake-up Tim Lovejoy replaced on Sunday Brunch by reality star as he takes a break from show Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) TIM Lovejoy is to be replaced by a former Geordie Shore star after taking a break from Sunday Brunch. The TV host has hosted the programme alongside Simon Rimmer since 2012 but it has been revealed that he will be stepping down from hosting this week's edition of the programme. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 6 Tim Lovejoy is being replaced by a former Geordie Shore star as he takes a break from Sunday Brunch Credit: Rex 6 Vicky Pattison has confirmed that she is stepping in to replace him temporarily Credit: Instagram 6 The TV regular has been a guest on the show many times (pictured with Ella Henderson) Credit: Instagram It means that a rather unlikely face has been brought in to co-host alongside Simon and she is one of Britain's most prominent reality stars. Vicky Pattison has confirmed that she will be stepping into Tim's shoes as he takes some leave from the show and will step up to the plate to be Simon's co-host. The star confirmed the news on Instagram as she begged her millions of followers to "wish me luck" as she shared a collection of images from her times on the show as a guest in previous years. Vicky said: "I HAVE SOME EXCITING NEWS!!!! "As a long time friend of @sundaybrunchc4 it is an absolute HONOUR to be wearing a slightly different hat this week! "I will be joining my good pal @rimmersimon as his co-host while the lovely @timlovejoy_official has a very well deserved break!!! "I am buzzing like an old fridge to chat to all of our gorgeous guests, eat some delicious food and hopefully give anyone watching and nursing a hangover a bit of light comedy reprieve. "See you bright and early Sunday my loves... and wish me luck." The TV personality was soon inundated with a whole host of supportive comments from fans who shared their excitement at her major new role. One wrote: "Looking forward to this." Channel 4's Sunday Brunch host in very awkward blunder as he forgets star's name and hosting a show with her As another added: "Check you out Mrs! You're going to smash it!" It is Vicky's first venture back into daytime TV since her nine-month hosting stint on Loose Women in 2016. A synopsis for Vicky's debut episode as host, reads: "Simon Rimmer and guest presenter Vicky Pattison host the food and chat show. Rosie Jones tells us about her new Channel 4 sitcom, Pushers. "Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale gives us the lowdown on the band's new album. "Fleur East chats about the Hits Radio Breakfast Show." 6 Vicky will make her first hosting appearance this Sunday Credit: Instagram 6 She has appeared as a guest many times over the years Credit: Rex Features
The Irish Sun
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Tim Lovejoy replaced on Sunday Brunch by reality star as he takes a break from show
TIM Lovejoy is to be replaced by a former Geordie Shore star after taking a break from Sunday Brunch. The TV host has hosted the programme alongside 6 Tim Lovejoy is being replaced by a former Geordie Shore star as he takes a break from Sunday Brunch Credit: Rex 6 Vicky Pattison has confirmed that she is stepping in to replace him temporarily Credit: Instagram 6 The TV regular has been a guest on the show many times (pictured with Ella Henderson) Credit: Instagram It means that a rather unlikely face has been brought in to co-host alongside Simon and she is one of Britain's most prominent reality stars. Vicky Pattison has confirmed that she will be stepping into The star confirmed the news on Instagram as she begged her millions of followers to "wish me luck" as she shared a collection of images from her times on the show as a guest in previous years. Vicky said: "I HAVE SOME EXCITING NEWS!!!! Read More on Sunday Brunch "As a long time friend of @sundaybrunchc4 it is an absolute HONOUR to be wearing a slightly different hat this week! "I will be joining my good pal @rimmersimon as his co-host while the lovely @timlovejoy_official has a very well deserved break!!! "I am buzzing like an old fridge to chat to all of our gorgeous guests, eat some delicious food and hopefully give anyone watching and nursing a hangover a bit of light comedy reprieve. "See you bright and early Sunday my loves... and wish me luck." Most read in News TV The TV personality was soon inundated with a whole host of supportive comments from fans who shared their excitement at her major new role. One wrote: "Looking forward to this." Channel 4's Sunday Brunch host in very awkward blunder as he forgets star's name and hosting a show with her As another added: "Check you out Mrs! You're going to smash it!" It is Vicky's first venture back into daytime TV since her nine-month hosting stint on Loose Women in 2016. A synopsis for Vicky's debut episode as host, reads: "Simon Rimmer and guest presenter Vicky Pattison host the food and chat show. Rosie Jones tells us about her new Channel 4 sitcom, Pushers. "Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale gives us the lowdown on the band's new album. " Radio Breakfast Show." 6 Vicky will make her first hosting appearance this Sunday Credit: Instagram 6 She has appeared as a guest many times over the years Credit: Rex Features 6 Tim is having a well-deserved break from the show Credit: Rex Features
The Guardian
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Pushers review – Rosie Jones's hilarious disability drug sitcom is pure silliness
Disabled people are routinely ignored, underestimated, overlooked and patronised. The perfect drug dealers, in other words. This is the gratifyingly sardonic concept behind comedian Rosie Jones's new sitcom – co-written with Veep's Peter Fellows – in which she stars as Emily Dawkins, a woman with cerebral palsy whose benefits are senselessly cut by the DWP. After a humiliating work capability assessment, she runs into old school mate Ewen in the loos. Once he remembers who she is (no, not the woman he shagged in the Co-op store room), Ewen is delighted to see her again – 'I thought you died!' – and is soon offering Emily 50 quid to deliver a mysterious package for him. Initially Emily declines; too dodgy. But with the prospect of an actual paycheck from her charity work dwindling, she reluctantly gets on with the job – and is pleasantly surprised to find that her disability allows her to get away with murder. Well, distributing cocaine, at any rate. Such a premise – impoverished disabled woman cornered into dealing drugs to survive contemporary Britain – could have produced an incredibly bleak show; criminal gangs do regularly exploit disabled people for financial gain. Yet Pushers comprehensively swerves sincere social commentary. Rather than being used by Ewen, Emily quickly becomes the enterprise's driving force. While her childhood pal wants to shift the £500k worth of cocaine he has somehow acquired, then bow out of the game for good, his new employee opts to diversify into the heinous synthetic street drug spice behind his back. She also insists on recruiting a team to distribute the drugs faster. Two are sourced from Wee CU, the disabled-toilet-monitoring charity Emily volunteers for: Harry (Ruben Reuter), a dance lover with Down's syndrome, and the stern, ruthless and neurodiverse-coded Hope (a brilliant performance from Libby Mai), who is keen to get stuck in (her qualifications include being 'the treasurer of the official The Bill fanclub' and spending '42% of my spare time playing drug dealer simulations'). Emily also brings in local alcoholic Sean (Jon Furlong), who passes his days scaring the public by ranting to himself in the street. After Ewen insists his tough-as-old-boots mum be involved too, their crack team is complete. The other thing that prevents Pushers from straying into seriousness is Ewen himself (Ryan McParland), whose astonishing stupidity suffuses the entire series. Physically, McParland bears more than a passing resemblance to the American comedian Tim Robinson, whose unhinged performances in his Netflix series I Think You Should Leave breathed new life into the sketch genre. The actor seems to be channelling a similar comic vibe too: Ewen is loud, weird and unpredictably intense. The individual jokes designed to demonstrate his idiocy might seem hacky on paper – 'name me one person who has ever died from drugs?!' – but McParland's exaggerated gormlessness makes such lines giddily funny. As Emily, Jones tones down her natural exuberance slightly – she is the straight woman to Ewen and his bonkers malapropisms and misapprehensions. Yet she's still an agent of farce; in all the many, many TV shows about drug dealing I have watched over the years, I can safely say I have never seen so much spilt cocaine in my life. And as hinted by the flash forward at the start of episode one – in which Emily is pursued through a hospital by a glowering gangster, before running straight into a doctor holding an open blood bag – no matter how dark things get, silliness still dominates. The first couple of episodes of Pushers are absorbing and frequently hilarious. Jones's ability to joke about disability is unparalleled ('I didn't breathe for 17 minutes' is how she explains the origin of her cerebral palsy to her benefits assessor. 'I really wouldn't recommend it'). And she is careful to ensure Emily's responses to Ewen are priceless in themselves. Yet as the series progresses, the comedy is overshadowed by a narrative that becomes increasingly hard to make sense of. Alongside the antics of Emily's unwieldy criminal crew, both she and Ewen have romantic subplots, with the former developing a confusingly chaste entanglement with Jo, her Insta-glam boss at Wee CU, who dangles payment and sex in front of Emily like two ghostly carrots. What's more, our hero's sudden switch from reluctant dealer to gang mastermind is never fully explained: did her conscience just evaporate? Meanwhile, the slapstick and cartoonish inanity do start to wear thin after a while. Although its lack of sentimentality and commitment to hard comedy is admirable, Pushers still could have done with leaning a little further into the scathing satire promised by its setup. Instead, what we ultimately get is a gag-strewn, generally lighthearted portrayal of small-town turf wars. Jones's action-sitcom certainly has its moments, but it could have had slightly more bite. Pushers is on Channel 4 now
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'I still get patronised on a daily basis...' Rosie Jones still feels 'underestimated in society due to her cerebral palsy
Rosie Jones feels "underestimated" every day due to her having cerebral palsy. The 34-year-old comedian-and-writer also admits she still feels demeaned within society - all of which is reflected in her new Channel 4 sitcom Pushers, which highlights how society underestimates disabled people. The show sees Rosie play Emily Jones, a woman who builds an illegal drug empire after her state benefits are cut due after an assessment of her disability. Rosie admits her own real life experiences influenced her writing. Speaking in the new UK issue of Closer magazine, Rosie said: "I am underestimated every single day - but I've never dealt cocaine in my life! "As a 34-year-old woman, I am still infantilised by people who don't know me. I still get patronised on a daily basis, and it's annoying. "We wanted to see how far we could push the fact that society underestimates disabled people and don't think they're capable. "And from my experience, from the disabled people that I know and love, this isn't the case at all." Rosie has said creating Pushers is the "pinnacle" of her career. She admitted: "Getting my own sitcom is everything I've ever wanted - it is the pinnacle of my career. "I thought, 'If I have this opportunity I'm going to put everything into it,' and I have." Speaking about her pride in the project, Rosie added: "I'm so happy with it and I pride myself on never putting my name to something I don't wholeheartedly believe in. "Some people in this industry will show up on set, do their job, then never think about it ever again - that's not me. "Am I a control freak? Yes! I was a creator, co-writer, executive producer and actor so that meant I could have a say from early through the audition process, filming, then onto the editing." Rosie felt nervous about acting in the programme, but her castmates - who include Ryan McParland, Lynn Hunter and Jon Furlong, among others - helped her each day on set. She explained: "I have acted a little bit but I've never been to drama school - I don't know what I'm doing - so to be able to act with so many brilliant actors made me a better actor." And Rosie wanted a fully disabled cast to reflect the world we live in. "We were very passionate from the beginning that even though I was a main character, we cannot pick only one disabled character then surround them with non-disabled people because that isn't really realistic to the world we live in. "I think it's incredibly damaging when you have one disabled character because are they meant to represent 24 per cent of the country? No! And being disabled is not a personality type. "We really wanted a core group in Pushers who were predominantly disabled."
Irish Independent
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Today's top TV and streaming choices: Pushers, The Wedding Singer and Yolanthe
Heston: My Life with Bipolar BBC Two, 8pm In 2023, innovative chef Heston Blumenthal began having hallucinations and suicidal thoughts, leading to him being sectioned. Here, he discusses his experiences, as well as the impact that being diagnosed as bipolar has had on him. Capaillíní TG4, 8pm The final episode of this gentle series features pony enthusiast Mike Frank Ó Confhaola, who explains his passion for travelling by cart. Plus, there's a trip to the farm in Léim where famous pony Cannonball once lived and worked. Fíorscéal TG4, 10.50pm As concerns continue to grow about climate change, this programme offers insights into ways in which agriculture could become more sustainable. Pushers Channel 4, 10pm & 10.30pm If you have a good memory, you may remember that, back in 2022, Channel 4 broadcast Comedy Blaps, a series of short sitcoms of varying quality. Easily the best of them was Disability Benefits, co-written by comedian Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows, a screenwriter whose CV features The Death of Stalin, Veep, Avenue 5 and Fantastic Friends. Jones also played the lead role of Emily, a young woman facing a financial nightmare after losing her job and having the titular payments cut by the government, forcing her into a life of crime. That one-off won the Best Newform Drama Series trophy at the C21 International Drama awards, so it came as no surprise when Sharon Horgan's Merman Television was commissioned to turn it into a full series by Channel 4. 'Rosie has a truly unique voice and storytelling ability, alongside impeccable comedic timing, and we are proud to be working with her on her first scripted TV project,' says Merman's co-founder, Clelia Mountford. Jones herself adds: 'I am incredibly excited. It has always been my dream to have my own sitcom and now it is coming true! Bring it on!' ADVERTISEMENT Learn more The series, now titled Pushers, continues Emily's story, following her as she builds an illegal drugs empire, right under the noses of the authorities who underestimate her abilities. Clive Russell, Ryan McPartland, Lynn Hunter and Rhiannon Clements are also among the cast. The Wedding Singer RTÉ2, 9.35pm Charming romantic comedy with Adam Sandler as a popular wedding performer whose life takes a downward turn when his fiancée jilts him. However, things start looking up after he meets a perky waitress (Drew Barrymore) — sadly, she happens to be engaged to someone else. Yolanthe Prime Video, streaming now Some eyeball bubblegum in the form of Netflix's 'first Dutch reality series'. It follows Yolanthe Cabau as she builds a life in LA with Wesley Sneijder's son. America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Netflix, streaming now Expect gussets galore and grinning faces all over your Netflix landing page for the foreseeable. The creators of Cheer and Last Chance U bring you season two of the auditions. We Were Liars Prime Video, streaming now Based on E Lockhart's YA 2014 book. You can guess the rest. Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem Netflix, streaming now Initially dismissed as a joke by politicians and the media alike, Rob Ford's unexpected 2010 Toronto mayoral election bid defied expectations with a stunning landslide victory. However, his administration soon spiralled into chaos, marred by scandals and allegations of hard drug use, igniting an international media frenzy. Rob was 15 years too early; no one would bat an eyelid nowadays. Sally Disney+, streaming now Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space, but behind her serene exterior lay a deeply personal story. For 27 years, she shared her life with writer and professional tennis player Tam O'Shaughnessy, who now unveils the untold journey of their relationship in this Cristina Costantini-directed film. American Thunder Prime Video, streaming now Celebrating its 100th anniversary in June 2023, the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans — one of motorsports' most prestigious endurance races — introduced an unexpected competitor: stock car aficionados Nascar. As for what they brought to proceedings? A Chevrolet Camaro to compete against cutting-edge Ferrari and Porsche prototypes in this almost fabled, gruelling test of long-distance racing. Competing at Le Mans was the lifelong dream of Nascar chairman and CEO Jim France. As such, he brought in Hendrick Motorsports, the most successful team in Nascar history, to build and race the car (which, again, was a Camaro). On the plus side, he also enlisted the help of elite drivers Jenson Button, Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller. Over the course of 18 months, this team transformed a car built for (at most) three-hour oval track races in the US into one capable of surviving the relentless 24-hour challenge. Deep Cover Prime Video, streaming now Not to be mistaken for the 1990s movie starring Fishburne and Goldblum, this film is about an improv teacher and her two students posing as criminals to slip into London's underworld. Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed and Sean Bean have their work cut out for them to make this fly. Return to the Wild Disney+, streaming now Famed as 'the greatest living explorer', Sir Ranulph 'Ran' Fiennes joins his cousin, actor Joseph Fiennes (no sign of brother Ralph, unfortunately), on a breathtaking journey through British Columbia. As they navigate its rugged terrain, they reflect on Ran's legendary expeditions, his battle with Parkinson's, and the deepening bond forged through their shared adventure. Echo Valley AppleTV+, streaming now Julianne Moore and Domhnall Gleeson are getting all the work of late. Both co-star in this thriller about a mother who will do anything to keep her drug-addled daughter 'safe' (including body disposal). Written by Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown), this moody (if a tad predictable) number stars Sydney Sweeney alongside 'dad' Kyle MacLachlan and Fiona Shaw.
