Disney + have released first look teaser for Rivals, due to be released in cinemas soon. Rivals', based on the celebrated novel by Dame Jilly Cooper and produced by Happy Prince, part of ITV Studios.
Jilly Cooper has been open about men who inspired super-stud Rupert Campbell Black - who featured in all her Rutshire Chronicles. READ MORE:Disney+ has unleashed Rivals today...and along with it, one of literature's most notorious lotharios.
Alex Hassell plays the role of dashing ex-Olympian, Member of Parliament, incorrigible rake, and dangerously charismatic Rupert Campbell Black Cooper, now 87, has always been frank about the many men - rich and dashing in their youth - who moulded Rupert's looks and characters. Cooper has revealed that Mr Parker Bowles was one of several high society characters who helped her created Rupert Campbell Black
Known as ‘The Brigadier’ in reference to his former career as an army officer who served with the Blues and Royals and was awarded a Queen’s Commendation for Bravery in Zimbabwe, Parker Bowles, now 84, has moved in royal circles for decades - and remains good friends with his ex-wife Queen Camilla. The now 84-year-old was a guest at Charles and Camilla’s wedding in April 2005, attending their service of blessing at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.The Marchioness of Lansdowne, one of Camilla’s Queen’s Companions, has said of Cooper's muse: ‘Everybody loves Andrew. He’s a real charmer but he’s always terribly misbehaving.'Tailor to the stars, Rupert Lycett Green became one of London's biggest movers and shakers in the 1960s and 70s thanks to his London shop Blades.
Lycett Green married Candida Betjeman on 25th May 1963 in Wantage, Berkshire. She died in 2014 aged 71 after a 15-year battle with cancer Five-and-a-half years after the death of his wife, Candida - daughter of Sir John Betjeman - Lycett Green married again at the age of 81, four years ago.'THE BEST OF RUPERT...WITHOUT THE AWFUL PARTS' MICHAEL HOWARD, 21ST EARL OF SUFFOLK
The racy eight-part series is based on Jilly Cooper's raunchy 1988 novel, and follows the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986. Right: Hello Rupert: Alex Hassell is set to introduce a whole new audience to Cooper's main man‘I first met him when I moved to Gloucester in 1982. Whenever he used to phone, he’d say, “It’s Rupert here”.
As owner of the 52,000-acre Badminton Estate in Gloucestershire - home of the famous horse trials, and the place where the game of Badminton was invented in 1863, the Duke could count many of the royal family as close friends.Speaking about the making of Rivals for TV, the author reveals she also draws on her father and late husband to inform her male leads.
The show, which boasts a stellar cast, officially landed on the streamer today and has already earned rave reviews from critics. 'Bosses at the streamer can see there is a huge amount of anticipation for this show, and having seen the episodes, they know it won't disappoint. The cast includes Poldark heartthrob Aidan Turner, ex-Doctor Who David Tennant, Sex Education actress Bella Maclean and Alex Hassell, from BBC fantasy series His Dark Materials.The racy eight-part series is based on Dame Jilly's raunchy 1988 novel, and follows the cutthroat world of independent television in 1986.
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