'I've come in for a lot of abuse, threats and taunts in the past few days,' wails the old trouper. 'But... at times like this you do find out who your friends are.' Do tell, Jonners!
Does BBC world affairs editor John Simpson regret getting involved in the Beeb's Hamas coverage? 'I've come in for a lot of abuse, threats and taunts in the past few days,' wails the old trouper. 'I've been yelled at in the street. But there's one good thing – at times like this you do find out who your friends are. And aren't.' Do tell, Jonners!
Dame Helen Mirren admits to getting above herself when she starred in the BBC's 1978 film of Shakespeare's As You Like It. 'Angharad Rees was in it with me,' she tells a BBC4 documentary. 'She taught me how not to be an a***hole. Not that I was particularly bad, but I was a bit lost in my own actory way and she really grounded me.' Adds Helen of the Poldark star who died in 2012: 'She was such a lovely person; she was so sweet-hearted and kind.
Spare a smidgen of compassion for John Cleese, forced to endlessly tour to pay off his £15.5million divorce settlement to wife number three, Alyce-Faye Eichelberger. 'I thought my fans would like to know how I have become so rich,' he wails, ironically listing his meagre royalty payments from ten largely forgettable film parts. He adds: 'I have earned a grand total of $4,085' – £3,347 in real money.
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