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Dennis Waterman paid tribute to George Cole at his funeral.
A service was held today (13.08.15) for the 'Minder' star, who passed away last week at the age of 90, with his co-star giving the 30-minute eulogy.
During the service, he said: "People are always asking me for anecdotes. Working with George was an anecdote. It was non-stop. It's a wonderful day I suppose, but a horrible one. Personally I would rather be doing Hamlet with no rehearsals than this."
After the funeral, he added: "He was just the most popular person in showbiz and the nicest and the best.
"He was happiest when he was at home, when he was getting a few winners, and with his family and in his garden."
The star's widow Penny also paid tribute to the star, reading a poem titled 'He Is Gone' in front of a packed congregation which included the likes of 'Game of Thrones' star Patrick Malahide.
George's death was confirmed by his agent last week, who said in a statement: "It is with deep regret that I have to announce the sad death of one of our most loved and respected actors.
"George Cole passed away yesterday at the Royal Berkshire hospital after a short illness. His wife Penny and his son Toby were with him at his bedside."
Dennis Waterman gives eulogy at George Cole’s funeral
Dennis Waterman paid tribute to George Cole at his funeral.
A service was held today (13.08.15) for the 'Minder' star, who passed away last week at the age of 90, with his co-star giving the 30-minute eulogy.
During the service, he said: "People are always asking me for anecdotes. Working with George was an anecdote. It was non-stop. It's a wonderful day I suppose, but a horrible one. Personally I would rather be doing Hamlet with no rehearsals than this."
After the funeral, he added: "He was just the most popular person in showbiz and the nicest and the best.
"He was happiest when he was at home, when he was getting a few winners, and with his family and in his garden."
The star's widow Penny also paid tribute to the star, reading a poem titled 'He Is Gone' in front of a packed congregation which included the likes of 'Game of Thrones' star Patrick Malahide.
George's death was confirmed by his agent last week, who said in a statement: "It is with deep regret that I have to announce the sad death of one of our most loved and respected actors.
"George Cole passed away yesterday at the Royal Berkshire hospital after a short illness. His wife Penny and his son Toby were with him at his bedside."
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The 'Coronation Street' set was hit by a swarm of flying ants.
Filming for the ITV show was thrown into chaos by the bugs, which are coming out of their nests due to the hot weather.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "The actresses in particular didn't like last week.
"It wasn't pleasant having ants flying at their hair during filming but everyone was professional.
"The ants were in danger of stopping filming though as they were everywhere."
Tina O'Brien, who plays Sarah-Louise Platt on the soap, recently tweeted about the plight.
She wrote: "12hr work day, attacked by flying ants at @itvcorrie. (sic)"
Meanwhile, Lucy Fallon and Jack P. Shepherd have teased the dark times ahead for the Platt family.
Lucy - who plays Bethany Platt said: "What's coming up for Bethany is very intense. Some really scary things are going to happen involving her and the Platts - and it's quite a brave storyline, so I think viewers will be surprised. This could be the wake-up call she needs to straighten herself out."
Whilst Jack - who plays her uncle David Platt - added: "We're gearing up for the live episode - and there's lots of action involving the Platts. It's all building towards David being out for revenge - but only time will tell as to whether he's finally met his match in Callum."
Coronation Street swarmed by flying ants
The 'Coronation Street' set was hit by a swarm of flying ants.
Filming for the ITV show was thrown into chaos by the bugs, which are coming out of their nests due to the hot weather.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "The actresses in particular didn't like last week.
"It wasn't pleasant having ants flying at their hair during filming but everyone was professional.
"The ants were in danger of stopping filming though as they were everywhere."
Tina O'Brien, who plays Sarah-Louise Platt on the soap, recently tweeted about the plight.
She wrote: "12hr work day, attacked by flying ants at @itvcorrie. (sic)"
Meanwhile, Lucy Fallon and Jack P. Shepherd have teased the dark times ahead for the Platt family.
Lucy - who plays Bethany Platt said: "What's coming up for Bethany is very intense. Some really scary things are going to happen involving her and the Platts - and it's quite a brave storyline, so I think viewers will be surprised. This could be the wake-up call she needs to straighten herself out."
Whilst Jack - who plays her uncle David Platt - added: "We're gearing up for the live episode - and there's lots of action involving the Platts. It's all building towards David being out for revenge - but only time will tell as to whether he's finally met his match in Callum."
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Cilla Black's funeral will be held in Liverpool.
The late showbiz legend - who passed away earlier this month, aged 72, at her holiday villa in Spain - will be laid to rest in her hometown, following a service at the church where she married Bobby Willis in 1969.
The funeral will be conducted by the Right Reverend Thomas Williams, Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool, at St Mary's Church next Thursday (20.08.15).
It was previously thought the 'Anyone Who Had A Heart' hitmaker's service would be held at St Mary the Virgin Church in Denham, Buckinghamshire, where Bobby's funeral was held.
The star will be laid to rest next to her parents at the nearby Allerton Cemetery.
Meanwhile, Cilla's friends have called for a statue to be erected in her honour.
Close friend Jimmy Tarbuck said: "I would certainly like to see a statue of her in Liverpool. She ranks alongside people like Ken Dodd and The Beatles.
"She was a wonderful ambassador for our city and very proud of Liverpool - and Liverpool was very proud of her."
Whilst Christopher Biggins added: "As the Cinderella of Liverpool it is important her life and career is remembered forever."
Cilla Black’s funeral to be held in Liverpool
Cilla Black's funeral will be held in Liverpool.
The late showbiz legend - who passed away earlier this month, aged 72, at her holiday villa in Spain - will be laid to rest in her hometown, following a service at the church where she married Bobby Willis in 1969.
The funeral will be conducted by the Right Reverend Thomas Williams, Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool, at St Mary's Church next Thursday (20.08.15).
It was previously thought the 'Anyone Who Had A Heart' hitmaker's service would be held at St Mary the Virgin Church in Denham, Buckinghamshire, where Bobby's funeral was held.
The star will be laid to rest next to her parents at the nearby Allerton Cemetery.
Meanwhile, Cilla's friends have called for a statue to be erected in her honour.
Close friend Jimmy Tarbuck said: "I would certainly like to see a statue of her in Liverpool. She ranks alongside people like Ken Dodd and The Beatles.
"She was a wonderful ambassador for our city and very proud of Liverpool - and Liverpool was very proud of her."
Whilst Christopher Biggins added: "As the Cinderella of Liverpool it is important her life and career is remembered forever."
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Sue Perkins cracked a biscuit bowl on the 'Great British Bake Off'.
The host of the BBC One show nearly scuppered the chances of contestant Nadiya Hussain after she cracked the bowl-shaped biscuit only minutes before the Showstopper challenge ended.
Admitting to the mishap, she told judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood: "I just wrecked it. I literally can't believe I did that and I'm mortified."
Last night's (12.08.15) episode saw favourite Marie Campbell sent home, only a week after she received the 'Star Baker' award.
Speaking after leaving the competition, she said: "Every moment was a fabulous experience for me. Some grannies want to bungee jump, but for me it was always to get on Bake Off.
"The show has given me more confidence in my baking, and where Paul said my Madeira cake was perfect on the show, I just have to keep rewinding that bit on the tape! It has been a fantastic experience for me, and I have enjoyed it from beginning to end.
"I live in a small village and I am only now getting used to being recognised. It is a bit surreal, but I just have a bit of a giggle about it. The family are really proud."
And Marie - who came under fire for having professional training in patisserie - also admitted she was looking forward to watching the rest of the series.
She added: "Bakers are lovely people. I have made great friends with all the bakers and I will be watching them every Wednesday with a slice of my Madeira cake and a cup of tea in my hand."
Sue Perkins cracks biscuit bowl
Sue Perkins cracked a biscuit bowl on the 'Great British Bake Off'.
The host of the BBC One show nearly scuppered the chances of contestant Nadiya Hussain after she cracked the bowl-shaped biscuit only minutes before the Showstopper challenge ended.
Admitting to the mishap, she told judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood: "I just wrecked it. I literally can't believe I did that and I'm mortified."
Last night's (12.08.15) episode saw favourite Marie Campbell sent home, only a week after she received the 'Star Baker' award.
Speaking after leaving the competition, she said: "Every moment was a fabulous experience for me. Some grannies want to bungee jump, but for me it was always to get on Bake Off.
"The show has given me more confidence in my baking, and where Paul said my Madeira cake was perfect on the show, I just have to keep rewinding that bit on the tape! It has been a fantastic experience for me, and I have enjoyed it from beginning to end.
"I live in a small village and I am only now getting used to being recognised. It is a bit surreal, but I just have a bit of a giggle about it. The family are really proud."
And Marie - who came under fire for having professional training in patisserie - also admitted she was looking forward to watching the rest of the series.
She added: "Bakers are lovely people. I have made great friends with all the bakers and I will be watching them every Wednesday with a slice of my Madeira cake and a cup of tea in my hand."
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Georgia May Foote has been signed up for 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
The former 'Coronation Street' beauty has revealed she will be competing in the new series of the BBC One show alongside fellow stars Ainsley Harriott, Jeremy Vine and Kellie Bright.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said: "It's such a relief. I've known since April. So it's great to be able to tell people.
"I did a bit of dancing before I started drama, but it was more free style like hip hop. So it wasn't as technical as ballroom."
The 24-year-old actress also revealed she had been given the code name 'Rapunzel' to avoid her name being leaked ahead of the big reveal, with only her close family being in on the secret.
Meanwhile, 'EastEnders' star Kellie admitted she was looking forward to starring on the show before everything goes "kaput".
She said: "One reason I wanted to do it is because I'm going to be 40 next year. I thought well actually at this point in my life to be the fittest I've ever been, or to certainly give it a good go, is a great thing and it will be challenging.
"I just want to see what my body can still do, you know what I mean, before it all goes kaput."
The thirteenth series of 'Strictly Come Dancing' will begin next month.
Georgia May Foote for Strictly Come Dancing
Georgia May Foote has been signed up for 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
The former 'Coronation Street' beauty has revealed she will be competing in the new series of the BBC One show alongside fellow stars Ainsley Harriott, Jeremy Vine and Kellie Bright.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said: "It's such a relief. I've known since April. So it's great to be able to tell people.
"I did a bit of dancing before I started drama, but it was more free style like hip hop. So it wasn't as technical as ballroom."
The 24-year-old actress also revealed she had been given the code name 'Rapunzel' to avoid her name being leaked ahead of the big reveal, with only her close family being in on the secret.
Meanwhile, 'EastEnders' star Kellie admitted she was looking forward to starring on the show before everything goes "kaput".
She said: "One reason I wanted to do it is because I'm going to be 40 next year. I thought well actually at this point in my life to be the fittest I've ever been, or to certainly give it a good go, is a great thing and it will be challenging.
"I just want to see what my body can still do, you know what I mean, before it all goes kaput."
The thirteenth series of 'Strictly Come Dancing' will begin next month.
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Danniella Westbrook has been axed from 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
The former 'EastEnders' actress has reportedly lost her chance to receive a £200,000 paycheck and the show's producers are disappointed as they were "desperate" to get her in the house because she would "make great TV".
However, 'CBB' bosses found her to be "incredibly incoherent" when they met with the troubled star and worried she was too unfit and would find it difficult being on-screen.
A source said: "The producers were desperate to get Danniella on the show because, let's face it, she'd make great TV.
"She was invited to meet them and alarm bells started ringing straight away. She was incredibly incoherent."
The large sum of money could have helped the drug addict get her life back on track, according to the source, who thinks it would have "got her back on her feet".
The insider told The Sun newspaper: "That money could have got her back on her feet."
The news comes as the 41-year-old actress' ex-toyboy warned the bosses of the show not to put her in the house.
19-year-old model Jude Moore was furious and said she shouldn't be allowed on the show because "she's a complete mess".
He previously said: "They can't have her on their show - she chatters her teeth, she eats the ends of fag-butts, she grunts at night through her weird boxer's nose - she's a complete mess."
'Celebrity Big Brother' has been confirmed to start on 27 August.
Danniella Westbrook axed from Celebrity Big Brother
Danniella Westbrook has been axed from 'Celebrity Big Brother'.
The former 'EastEnders' actress has reportedly lost her chance to receive a £200,000 paycheck and the show's producers are disappointed as they were "desperate" to get her in the house because she would "make great TV".
However, 'CBB' bosses found her to be "incredibly incoherent" when they met with the troubled star and worried she was too unfit and would find it difficult being on-screen.
A source said: "The producers were desperate to get Danniella on the show because, let's face it, she'd make great TV.
"She was invited to meet them and alarm bells started ringing straight away. She was incredibly incoherent."
The large sum of money could have helped the drug addict get her life back on track, according to the source, who thinks it would have "got her back on her feet".
The insider told The Sun newspaper: "That money could have got her back on her feet."
The news comes as the 41-year-old actress' ex-toyboy warned the bosses of the show not to put her in the house.
19-year-old model Jude Moore was furious and said she shouldn't be allowed on the show because "she's a complete mess".
He previously said: "They can't have her on their show - she chatters her teeth, she eats the ends of fag-butts, she grunts at night through her weird boxer's nose - she's a complete mess."
'Celebrity Big Brother' has been confirmed to start on 27 August.
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Jack Whitehall was trained by James Bond's stunt-coordinator in 'Fresh Meat'.
The 27-year-old comedian played the hapless university student J.P. in the popular Channel 4 show set in Manchester and confessed he found it hard to take instructions from the fight expert seriously because he was wearing "fake breasts".
When asked what his favourite scene out of the show's 24 episodes was, he quipped: "Fighting Joe Thomas (who plays Kingsley) dressed as a Hooters waitress and suffocating him with my fake breasts. We had to rehearse it with a stunt coordinator, who had worked on all the James Bond films. He was deadly serious, giving advice on how to sell a punch - all with me in a blonde wig and fake breasts."
The comedic actor - who is set to star in a movie adaptation of his hit TV comedy series 'Bad Education' to be released this summer - has come a long way from his days as a kid playing dress-up at home with the grandparents.
Quizzed on his fifth birthday party, he told The Guardian newspaper: "It was pirate themed and I made my grandparents dress up as sailors. I still have photos of my poor granddad in a tight striped T-shirt, looking like a geriatric waiter at PizzaExpress."
Jack can be seen in cinemas from August 21 as Alfie Wickers in 'Bad Education Movie'.
Jack Whitehall’s ‘James Bond’ lesson
Jack Whitehall was trained by James Bond's stunt-coordinator in 'Fresh Meat'.
The 27-year-old comedian played the hapless university student J.P. in the popular Channel 4 show set in Manchester and confessed he found it hard to take instructions from the fight expert seriously because he was wearing "fake breasts".
When asked what his favourite scene out of the show's 24 episodes was, he quipped: "Fighting Joe Thomas (who plays Kingsley) dressed as a Hooters waitress and suffocating him with my fake breasts. We had to rehearse it with a stunt coordinator, who had worked on all the James Bond films. He was deadly serious, giving advice on how to sell a punch - all with me in a blonde wig and fake breasts."
The comedic actor - who is set to star in a movie adaptation of his hit TV comedy series 'Bad Education' to be released this summer - has come a long way from his days as a kid playing dress-up at home with the grandparents.
Quizzed on his fifth birthday party, he told The Guardian newspaper: "It was pirate themed and I made my grandparents dress up as sailors. I still have photos of my poor granddad in a tight striped T-shirt, looking like a geriatric waiter at PizzaExpress."
Jack can be seen in cinemas from August 21 as Alfie Wickers in 'Bad Education Movie'.
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Simon Cowell is planning to beg for a free dressing room makeover.
The music mogul has had the 'X Factor' budget slashed this year and paid for his own changes to his backstage area, but has now realised there could be ways of capitalising on his fame and getting someone else to pay for it.
He told heat magazine: "I had my dressing room done up and I paid for it. I might tweet to see if we can get interior designers to do them up for free."
All of the judges - Simon, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw - are taking home less money than the panel has done in previous years, while the show chief is also looking at other ways to cut costs.
A source said: "Judges' salaries are less than last year.
"Rita and Nick aren't paid as much as judges have been, Cheryl is being paid less and Simon has even taken a self-imposed pay cut.
"There'll be no budget for judges wardrobes and Simon wants to ban entourages from the backstage bar during live shows."
Instead, the cash will be going on securing high-profile acts to perform during the last shows after Britney Spears' appearance last year saw a ratings surge.
The source said: "The budget is going into star performances.
"Britney will be back and they are after Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Beyonce - a huge name every week.
"They've already approached Britney with an offer of £300,000. There's £500,000 for Gaga if it's a world exclusive and £600k for Beyonce to do the final show.
Simon Cowell wants X Factor freebies
Simon Cowell is planning to beg for a free dressing room makeover.
The music mogul has had the 'X Factor' budget slashed this year and paid for his own changes to his backstage area, but has now realised there could be ways of capitalising on his fame and getting someone else to pay for it.
He told heat magazine: "I had my dressing room done up and I paid for it. I might tweet to see if we can get interior designers to do them up for free."
All of the judges - Simon, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw - are taking home less money than the panel has done in previous years, while the show chief is also looking at other ways to cut costs.
A source said: "Judges' salaries are less than last year.
"Rita and Nick aren't paid as much as judges have been, Cheryl is being paid less and Simon has even taken a self-imposed pay cut.
"There'll be no budget for judges wardrobes and Simon wants to ban entourages from the backstage bar during live shows."
Instead, the cash will be going on securing high-profile acts to perform during the last shows after Britney Spears' appearance last year saw a ratings surge.
The source said: "The budget is going into star performances.
"Britney will be back and they are after Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Beyonce - a huge name every week.
"They've already approached Britney with an offer of £300,000. There's £500,000 for Gaga if it's a world exclusive and £600k for Beyonce to do the final show.
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Julian Fellowes has hinted that a 'Downton Abbey' movie could be a possibility.
The creator of the ITV show insisted that its upcoming Christmas special will be the final TV episode of the period drama but he thinks it could have "some afterlife".
He said: "It wouldn't surprise me if it had some afterlife because it's been such a strong force. But it's definitely finished on television. That's it.
"I think it's right to stop when people are sorry and not when people are relieved."
And if it does become a movie, Julian wants to be involved, explaining: "I'm not sure I could trust my baby to another nurse!"
Producer Gareth Neame recently said making the show into a feature film would be a "wonderful thing".
However, while he confirmed making a film is a prospect, he admitted they "don't have a script or plan as of yet".
He said: "We might - it's something we've talked about," he said. "I think a 'Downton' movie would be a wonderful thing. But we don't have a script or a plan as of yet."
Julian Fellowes hints at Downton Abbey
Julian Fellowes has hinted that a 'Downton Abbey' movie could be a possibility.
The creator of the ITV show insisted that its upcoming Christmas special will be the final TV episode of the period drama but he thinks it could have "some afterlife".
He said: "It wouldn't surprise me if it had some afterlife because it's been such a strong force. But it's definitely finished on television. That's it.
"I think it's right to stop when people are sorry and not when people are relieved."
And if it does become a movie, Julian wants to be involved, explaining: "I'm not sure I could trust my baby to another nurse!"
Producer Gareth Neame recently said making the show into a feature film would be a "wonderful thing".
However, while he confirmed making a film is a prospect, he admitted they "don't have a script or plan as of yet".
He said: "We might - it's something we've talked about," he said. "I think a 'Downton' movie would be a wonderful thing. But we don't have a script or a plan as of yet."
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