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Criticism of the Mrs Doubtfire-like sculpture of the late Queen at Antrim Citadel focuses consideration on Rolf Harris’s eightieth birthday portray of the monarch in 2005. The place is the BBC-commissioned Harris canvas?
Initially hung within the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace for six months, it was later displayed at Liverpool’s Walker Artwork Gallery in 2012. After Rolf’s 2013 arrest, it vanished.
It is not within the Royal Assortment and the Beeb insist they do not have it.
The portrait has been acknowledged as mediocre and described by artwork critic Richard Dorment as uninspired and lacklustre… who would need to admit possession of disgraced Harris’s daubs?
Rolf Harris poses together with his portrait of Queen Elizabeth II at The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace in 2006
A statue put in in Antrim Citadel Gardens to commemorate the late Queen has been described as Mrs Doubtfire-esque
Walsh in a huff on the NTAs
Bitter grapes from The Chase’s Bradley Walsh at Ant and Dec’s twenty third annual triumph as finest TV presenters at Wednesday night time’s Nationwide Tv Awards.
Bradley, nominated in the identical class, could not disguise his fury. He and the victorious gurning duo declined to take publish present questions from journalists.
Bradley Walsh watches on on the NTAs on the O2 Area on September 11, 2024
ITV executives have been equally aggravated that none of their stars was chosen to current an award on the present, regardless of it being transmitted by ITV. The place was the long-time anchor of the awards ceremony, Sir Trevor?
Winslet’s Grammy-winning favour for Thompson
Kate Winslet did a favour for mate Emma Thompson by standing in when she misplaced her voice and could not narrate a brief story in youngsters’s audiobook Hear To The Storyteller.
The Titanic star received a Grammy for it.
‘It’s very bonkers,’ wails Kate, pictured. ‘One thousand per cent I should not have this Grammy in any respect.’
That is showbiz, Kate!
Emma Thompson and Kate Wimslet pose collectively on the BAFTA awards
Starmer’s pet Prince
Author Julie Burchill shall be tickled to study that Sir Keir Starmer supposed to put in a German Shepherd canine seemingly referred to as Prince for his two youngsters in No 10.
Within the occasion, he has been persuaded to make do with a cat of the identical identify.
Julie’s 1991 BBC movie Prince featured Sean Bean taking part in her communist father who’s besotted together with his German Shepherd by the identify of Prince.
What does this inform us about our new Prime Minister?
Larry the cat sits exterior 10 Downing Avenue in March this yr. The Chief Mouser has now been joined by a cat referred to as Prince
Woe for Wilcox at her first BBC job
Dame Esther Rantzen’s TV presenter daughter Rebecca Wilcox reveals resentment on the BBC when she began her first job there as a researcher. ‘One of many editors was so nasty to me and I could not fairly work it out,’ she recollects.
‘It is since you used to f*** up my edits,’ he informed me.
‘You used to come back in as a baby and also you used to get white pencils – as a result of it was all movie – and also you used to rub them over all the pieces. You’d chop all of the movie. And your mum thought it was nice.’
That is life, Rebecca!
Rebecca Wilcox (left) is joined by her mom Dame Esther Rantzen (proper) on the Good Morning Britain sofa in 2018
Lord Kirkhope seems to be again in anger
Conservative peer Lord Kirkhope, 79, complains within the Home of Lords that he was ‘very disillusioned’ at failing to safe a ticket to see Oasis.
Absolutely the outdated booby ought to be queuing for the Proms?
