'Call the Midwife' said goodbye to central character Jenny Lee last night (09.03.14). The main protagonist, played by Jessica Raine, was written out of the hit BBC One period drama in the third series finale as she left Nonnatus House to become a nurs...

Gillian Taylforth is leaving 'Hollyoaks'.
The former 'EastEnders' actress is quitting her role as mother-of-six Sandy Roscoe after just a year in order to spend more time with her family.
Sandy will be written out of the soap in the summer, but producers have vowed not to kill off the character and are leaving the door open for Gillian to return for future storylines.
In a statement released to Digital Spy, Gillian said: "I have loved the role of Sandy Roscoe playing mum to six gorgeous boys, all of whom I will miss desperately, but the time is right for me to spend more time with my own family.
"It has been enormous fun and hugely rewarding to be part of settling in a new 'Hollyoaks' family and it fills me with pride that they have so quickly been taken to viewers' hearts.
"I am really happy that I will still be able to pop back to check on the Roscoe boys but it's now time for them to fend for themselves!"
Gillian was cast in the role of Sandy in early 2013 and has been part of numerous explosive storylines, including the revelation Sandy is soap stalwart Darren Osbourne's (Ashley Taylor-Dawson) biological mother.
The actress famously played Kathy Beale in 'EastEnders' between 1985 and 2000.

Lucy Mecklenburgh is being lined up for her own reality show.
The former 'The Only Way is Essex' star - who quit the show after last year's Christmas special - is expected to front a new ITV2 show which will follow her efforts to help people lose weight using her BootyCamp training regime.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Lucy is a great motivator for real women and producers think there's great scope to film a fly-on-the-wall documentary that charts the progress of fat-fighters at BootyCamp."
The 22-year-old beauty quit 'TOWIE' last year in the aftermath of her on/off relationship with lothario Mario Falcone.
She said recently: "Breaking up with someone on TV was really tough. People forget I started on 'TOWIE' when I was 19 and still living at home. I loved being on the show and don't regret it, but it was tough living my life in public."
Following her split from Mario, Lucy enjoyed brief flings with Tom Pearce and Dan Osborne but insists she is happy being single.
She revealed: "I'm in such a good place in my life and feel mentally strong, so I'm looking forward to the possibility of falling in love again. But I'm not in a rush to have a boyfriend for the sake of it."

Richie Sambora thinks his ex-wife Heather Locklear is "hot".
The Bon Jovi guitarist split from the 52-year-old actress - with who he has 16-year-old daughter Ava - in 2007, but insists they are closer than ever.
He said: "She's doing her thing on Franklin & Bash and she looks better than ever. She's still hot!
"We're better friends now than ever."
Richie believes it was essential for the sake of their daughter for the former couple to keep relations cordial.
He told People: "If you don't get along you are messing the kid up. That's what happens.
"So you have to put that before whatever s**t is going on. Communication has got to come first. There's a cooling off period obviously, as you know - it takes time. It was almost 10 years ago though. So we're fine.
"Thanksgiving or Christmas, we all spend it together."
The 54-year-old musician is very proud of his daughter and thinks she is the person she is today because of her upbringing.
He said: "She's a really good kid. You have to give them the tools to take care of themselves and almost force them when they are small to make decisions on their own so they then get in that groove.
"I never talked down to her, even when she was a kid. [Now] I rarely have to reprimand her. She's fantastic."

Elisabeth Moss thinks acting is like stripping.
The 'Mad Men' star believes her profession is "very strange" and thinks being paid to "pretend" to be someone else is very unlike most other professions.
She said: "Acting is not stupid, but it's a very strange profession, honestly. My job is to get up, and get dressed in someone else's clothes, and go and pretend that I'm someone else. Who does that? Nobody does that. Strippers and actors do that."
The 31-year-old actress - who is best known for playing Peggy Olsen in the advertising drama - admitted she never hangs on to her character and finds it easy to leave her work behind at the end of the day.
She admitted in an interview with New York magazine: "I'm the worst. I barely hang on to it while we're filming. I am totally that person that they yell 'Cut' and I'm making jokes and doing stupid stuff. It's fake to me to be any other way."
Elisabeth married 'Saturday Night Live' star Fred Armisen in October 2009 and they split just eight months later, and though she admits their relationship and subsequent divorce was "awful and horrible", she is pleased she went through the ordeal when she did.
She said: "Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young.
"It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best. I'm glad that I'm not there.
"I'm glad that it didn't happen when I was 50. I'm glad I didn't have kids. And I got that out of the way. Hopefully. Like, that's probably not going to happen again."

Tamara Ecclestone had a "totally perfect" baby shower.
The Formula 1 heiress was thrown a lavish pink-themed party by her younger sister Petra Ecclestone on March 1 to celebrate the impending arrival of her first child with her husband Jay Rutland.
She told the new issue of HELLO! magazine: "It was all pink and totally perfect. There were pink and white sofas, a barman mixing special pink cocktails, a four-tier cake and photos of me as a baby. Petra had thought of absolutely everything - my favourite chocolate crepes, amazing pastries, sweets with the words 'Bun in the oven' written on them, and personalised love hearts saying 'Baby girl'.
"She'd also compiled amazing goodie bags containing a pink nail polish she'd made up for me, called 'Tamara's knocked up'. I loved it all."
Tamara - who is expecting a girl - was joined by her sisters Petra and Slavica, as well as 20 of her closest friends, for the plush party at exclusive venue The Orangery at Kensington Palace, London, which was decked out with roses, cushions, cakes and candles for the occasion and she was thrilled by the effort her sibling made.
The 29-year-old socialite added: "Petra has impeccable taste and is a perfect party planner. She went to so much effort to make sure it would a wonderful occasion and she got everything spot on. Even the baby shower invitations - a gold rattle inside a pink box - that she sent out to my closest family and friends were just right.
"But I had no idea of the details of the day except what time I had to be ready, where I was going and that I had to wear an outfit with a hint of pink. I was so excited the night before, I could hardly sleep."
Guests also took part in a special game of Pin The Tail on The Donkey, which involved blindfolded pals attempting to stick a mock-up image of Tamara's unborn baby on a giant photo of her proudly showing off her bump.

Lindsay Lohan wants to live "with integrity".
The troubled actress - who has endured a string of legal problems in recent years and been to rehab six times - is determined to make a fresh start and wants to put her problems behind her.
Speaking on her new docu-series 'Lindsay', which debuted in the US last night (09.03.14), she said: "Living with integrity and in control of my own self - that's the life I want now...
"I'm excited to start this new chapter, so it's going to be good."
The 'Mean Girls' star was also seen telling programme director Amy Rice that she now has "inner peace".
She said: "I'm in this really good place where I have this inner peace right now. All the distractions and chaos that go on outside just in daily life in general don't really affect me anymore."
The programme also saw Lindsay search for an apartment in New York and left devastated when she found one she liked - but was told it required a $10 million insurance policy.
She exclaimed: "I can't do that. I'm not Oprah!"
The 27-year-old actress stayed in a hotel while apartment hunting, and after a month in the luxury residence, she admitted she was finding the experience upsetting because she associated it with a "crazy phase" in her life.
She said: "It's the first time I'm really getting a place in New York and it's really chaotic.
"I'm trying to figure out how to be sane and live, how to live out of a hotel, which I did when I was in a crazy phase in my life and that brings up a lot of memories and I hate it. ... And now I'm figuring out everything for myself with things being left up in the air constantly."
However, she insisted her housing struggle wouldn't send her out of control again.
She added: "I'm here. I'm showing up. I'm sober. And I'm dealing with it."

Will Smith has signed on to produce a film adaptation of the graphic novel 'Harlem Hellfighters'. The 45-year-old actor will team up with Sony Pictures to bring Max Brooks' upcoming novel - which is inspired by the true story of the all African-Americ...

Kevin Bacon wants '6 Miranda Drive' to be a psychological terror.
The 55-year-old actor has been cast in the forthcoming film which tells the story of a family who bring home a supernatural force when they return from a trip to the Grand Canyon, and he is hoping it'll join the classic horrors which had "deep emotional backdrops".
He told deadline.com: "'Miranda Drive' is a movie that's emotional. I read it and thought, if this came to me and it wasn't a horror movie but a low-budget drama, I would think about doing it anyway.
"It's a really interesting story the perfect American family that is kind of falling apart. To me it's like a really scary 'Ordinary People'. The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers, they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie."
Bacon is rumoured to star alongside Radha Mitchell in the movie which will be helmed by 'Rogue' director Greg McLean.
Jason Blum's Blumhouse banner and Matt Kaplan from Chapter One Films are producing, while Robyn Marshall from Chapter One will co-produce.

Marc Webb thought it was "crazy" when he was first offered the chance to direct 'The Amazing Spider-Man'.
The 39-year-old filmmaker - who was recently confirmed to helm Andrew Garfield in the third instalment of the superhero franchise - was initially surprised when he was approached by Sony boss, Amy Pascal, to make a remake of Sam Raimi's 2002 film 'Spider-Man'.
Talking at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, in Austin, Texas, he told the audience: "I thought it was crazy."
Pascal responded to his hesitations by saying: "Honey, you can't turn down Spider-Man."
Webb wants the film franchise to be "fantastic" and "big", in keeping with how children feel when they read about the Marvel superhero, who was first created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko.
He added: "I'm going to embrace the spectacle. There was a moment deep in the [first film's] post-production process where a giant lizard smashed through a wall chasing a boy-man in a unitard and I said, 'This is not grounded. I'm not going to be beholden to smallness. I want it to be fantastic, to be big, to command and express that feeling when you're a kid and reading the comics.' I didn't want to hide or shy away from that."

Pharrell Williams thinks he'll never be as successful as Jay Z.
The 'Happy' hitmaker thought he could compete with the 'Holy Grail' rapper when he started releasing solo material but admits he was wrong and was trying to be someone he wasn't when he recorded his debut 'In My Mind' in 2006.
He told the Guardian Weekend magazine: "It was in my mind, but not in my heart. It was this caricature that I'd built in my mind, that fitted in with what Snoop and Jay were doing.
"Some of the things I said on that record, all the bragging, it's not necessary. It doesn't say anything about you, apart from how shallow you are."
He went on : "[I thought I was] this competitive guy in the music industry, who admired my peers and felt he needed to compete with the races that they designed. But in life you're meant to race against yourself."
Pharrell, whose second solo record 'G I R L' has hit the number one spot on the UK Album Chart, admits "Jay was never going to race with any of us."
He explained: "That was just my delusion. Because his career runs laps around people. And he runs laps around people, lyrically. He's a philosopher and a poet."
The 40-year-old star feels more comfortable with who he is these days and insists he isn't interested in living a party lifestyle.
When asked if he has ever taken drugs, he replied: "Very rarely - I've had my share of pot brownies - but it's not my thing. I spend most of my time working. Yes [I am a workaholic], lucidity is important to me."

Pet Shop Boys have sampled a gay rights speech for their new single.
The dance duo's new track 'The Best Gay Possible' features all ten minutes of a speech made by drag queen, Panti Bliss, a leading Irish gay rights activist, who rose to fame after his speech condemning homophobia at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in February went viral on Youtube.
In the speech, Panti says: "To grow up in a society that is overwhelmingly homophobic and to escape unscathed would be miraculous. So I don't hate you because you are homophobic. I actually admire you. I admire you because most of you are only a bit homophobic. Which all things considered is pretty good going."
He adds: "But I do sometimes hate myself. I hate myself because I f*****g check myself while standing at pedestrian crossings. And sometimes I hate you for doing that to me."
Panti - real name Rory O'Neil - took to Twitter to give his nod of approval on the track, as he wrote: "Pet Shop Boys made an amazing track out of my Noble Call speech. Seriously, they did."
Meanwhile, Pet Shop Boys - featuring Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe - will embark on a US tour on April 8 and will also take the stage at Coachella Festival in California.