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Richard Osman has opened up about his “absolutely ever-present” struggles with food addiction.

During a chat on Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail podcast, the 53-year-old TV star and bestselling author described his addiction as “running away from your pain”.

“Alcoholics will tell you the same, like it’s absurd that there’s a bottle of vodka in front of you or there’s a packet of crisps in front of you and it’s more powerful than you,” he said. “It makes no sense.”

Osman, who stepped down from the BBC gameshow Pointless in 2022, went on to describe his addiction as the “drumbeat” of his life.

“We’ve all got human minds and we’re all crazy in slightly different ways. That’s my version of it since I was probably nine years old. It’s been absolutely ever-present in my life – weight, food, where I am in relation to it, where I am in relation to happiness because of it, hiding it. All of that stuff, it’s been absolutely like the drumbeat of my life.”

During a previous appearance on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, the author opened up about his father leaving when Osman was nine years old.

Describing it as “the end of that innocence”, he told Day about the judgement he has received from others, having struggled with food ever since.

“People are very judgmental in this world. I think, ‘How can you judge anyone in this world and how they behave, or how they act, or what their instant reaction to something is when you are less powerful many times in your life than, like, a big bar of chocolate in front of you?’”

Since leaving Pointless in 2022, Osman has gone on to achieve huge success as an author. In 2020 he published The Thursday Murder Club, which is currently being developed into a film by Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus.

He has since gone on to write a further three books in the series, with the third, The Bullet That Missed, selling over a million copies in the UK alone.

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Richard Osman has opened up about his “absolutely ever-present” struggles with food addiction.

During a chat on Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail podcast, the 53-year-old TV star and bestselling author described his addiction as “running away from your pain”.

“Alcoholics will tell you the same, like it’s absurd that there’s a bottle of vodka in front of you or there’s a packet of crisps in front of you and it’s more powerful than you,” he said. “It makes no sense.”

Osman, who stepped down from the BBC gameshow Pointless in 2022, went on to describe his addiction as the “drumbeat” of his life.

“We’ve all got human minds and we’re all crazy in slightly different ways. That’s my version of it since I was probably nine years old. It’s been absolutely ever-present in my life – weight, food, where I am in relation to it, where I am in relation to happiness because of it, hiding it. All of that stuff, it’s been absolutely like the drumbeat of my life.”

During a previous appearance on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, the author opened up about his father leaving when Osman was nine years old.

Describing it as “the end of that innocence”, he told Day about the judgement he has received from others, having struggled with food ever since.

“People are very judgmental in this world. I think, ‘How can you judge anyone in this world and how they behave, or how they act, or what their instant reaction to something is when you are less powerful many times in your life than, like, a big bar of chocolate in front of you?’”

Since leaving Pointless in 2022, Osman has gone on to achieve huge success as an author. In 2020 he published The Thursday Murder Club, which is currently being developed into a film by Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus.

He has since gone on to write a further three books in the series, with the third, The Bullet That Missed, selling over a million copies in the UK alone.

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Richard Osman has opened up about his “absolutely ever-present” struggles with food addiction.

During a chat on Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail podcast, the 53-year-old TV star and bestselling author described his addiction as “running away from your pain”.

“Alcoholics will tell you the same, like it’s absurd that there’s a bottle of vodka in front of you or there’s a packet of crisps in front of you and it’s more powerful than you,” he said. “It makes no sense.”

Osman, who stepped down from the BBC gameshow Pointless in 2022, went on to describe his addiction as the “drumbeat” of his life.

“We’ve all got human minds and we’re all crazy in slightly different ways. That’s my version of it since I was probably nine years old. It’s been absolutely ever-present in my life – weight, food, where I am in relation to it, where I am in relation to happiness because of it, hiding it. All of that stuff, it’s been absolutely like the drumbeat of my life.”

During a previous appearance on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, the author opened up about his father leaving when Osman was nine years old.

Describing it as “the end of that innocence”, he told Day about the judgement he has received from others, having struggled with food ever since.

“People are very judgmental in this world. I think, ‘How can you judge anyone in this world and how they behave, or how they act, or what their instant reaction to something is when you are less powerful many times in your life than, like, a big bar of chocolate in front of you?’”

Since leaving Pointless in 2022, Osman has gone on to achieve huge success as an author. In 2020 he published The Thursday Murder Club, which is currently being developed into a film by Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus.

He has since gone on to write a further three books in the series, with the third, The Bullet That Missed, selling over a million copies in the UK alone.

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Ade Edmondson has revealed that his relationship with comedy partner Rik Mayall was “strained” before his death.

Edmondson opened up about his friendship with his Young Ones co-star during a one-off TV special celebrating the sitcom Bottom, which the pair created in 1991.

Edmondson said “it’s very weird being in a world without” Mayall, who died aged 56 in June 2014 after suffering a sudden heart attack. He added: “It’s weird thinking that he didn’t know anything about Brexit, didn’t know about Covid.”

The comedian and actor then went on to confess that he was not on the best of terms with Mayall at the time of his death.

“I mean, our relationship was strained towards the end,” Edmondson said: “And when I do things like this, and I remember the absolute joy of sitting in that little office in Richmond opposite the Hole in the wall pub, it was absolute, you know, the distilled joy – the most joy I’ve ever had in my life, I think.”

He continued: “Making each other laugh, Properly laugh. Big belly laugh, laughs, you know. Proper can’t stop laughing, laughing. Very rarely you get a relationship like that with someone.”

Edmondson became emotional when he recalled the passion the pair had for each other’s characters and writing alongside each other.

“I mentioned…. the way we used to write each other’s characters and were in love with each other’s characters – I miss that love. Yeah, I miss that other opinion of me. A very loving opinion.”

Those watching the special, which aired on Gold, soon took to social media to heap praise on Edmondson’s honesty about his relationship with Mayall.

“Despite their relationship being somewhat strained by the end, the love Ade Edmondson had and still has, for Rik Mayall is bursting through….” posted one viewer, while another wrote: “God bless Ade Edmondson and God bless Rik Mayall. There’s a lot of love going on in this clip. They were absolutely brilliant.”

Another Bottom fan added on Twitter/X: “Ade Edmondson really lost a huge part of himself when Rik died. It’s always really bittersweet to hear him talk about their times together and it’s very sad to hear that their relationship was strained towards the end.”

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Despite their relationship being somewhat strained by the end, the love Ade Edmondson had and still has, for Rik Mayall is bursting through….#BottomExposed

— StaceSpurs_1975 (@StaceSpurs1975) April 18, 2024

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God bless Ade Edmondson and God bless Rik Mayall. There's a lot of love going on in this clip. They were absolutely brilliant. https://t.co/YHcXlMQhbc

— SamB (@nevernot2gether) April 18, 2024

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Ade Edmondson really lost a huge part of himself when Rik died. It’s always really bittersweet to hear him talk about their times together and it’s very sad to hear that their relationship was strained towards the end. It’s definitely a less funny world without Rik Mayall in it! https://t.co/xwD7SNnsXw

— Graham Woodward (@GOWoodward) April 18, 2024

This isn’t the first time Edmondson has opened up about his relationship with Mayall. In a 2023 memoir, he revealed that their comedic partnership endured difficulties when they reunited for a Bottom project in 2012, with Mayall becoming annoyed at the distribution of jokes between them.

Edmondson wrote: “And I realise that the double act is properly over. There’s no trust left. It was glorious when it was alive, I’m immensely proud of everything we did together, it still makes me laugh, but I’m glad we didn’t do a dodgy final series.”

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Sir Michael Palin has revealed that his fellow Monty Python star Terry Jones once threw a typewriter at John Cleese during a row.

In a new interview with the Radio Times, Palin opened up about the “huge” arguments that occurred within the comedy group, which consisted of himself, Cleese, Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Graham Chapman.

“Since Python split up, and even in our time together, we have all had huge arguments,” said Palin.

“The great thing is that we don’t all agree. I remember Terry Jones once threw a typewriter across the room at John.”

The troupe split up in 1999 before briefly reuniting in 2014 for the variety show Monty Python Live (Mostly).  However, a row between Idle and Cleese and Gilliam over the way the group’s finances have been handled emerged earlier this year.

Palin, who has become known for his various travel programmes, said he wasn’t surprised to see the remaining group members fight over finances.

“What’s happening with Python now doesn’t surprise me greatly. It’s just a pity it’s not to do with comedy any more. It’s to do with people’s lifestyles,” he said.

In February, Idle claimed on X (formerly Twitter) that the finances of the troupe, founded in 1969, were still a “disaster”.

He blamed their financial issues on Holly Gilliam, daughter of fellow Python Terry and manager of the troupe, saying: “We own everything we ever made in Python and I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously.

“But I guess if you put a Gilliam child in as your manager you should not be so surprised. One Gilliam is bad enough. Two can take out any company.”

In a series of subsequent posts, the actor and comedian said he had to keep working into his 80s to make up for his losses, and that his fellow Pythons have had to do the same. Cleese is currently working on a reboot of Fawlty Towers, Palin continues to make travel shows, and Gilliam is directing films.

The group made their debut on television with the BBC sketch series Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which ran from 1969 to 1974. They later turned their attention to the big screen, making Monty Python and the Holy Grail in 1975, Monty Python’s Life of Brian in 1979, and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life in 1983.

Elsewhere in the Radio Times interview, Palin dismissed the idea of another Python reunion, saying that the one they did in 2014 allowed them to “bow out gracefully”.

Jones passed away in January 2020, with Palin leading the tributes. Chapman died in 1989 at the age of 48.

Palin is currently appearing in a new travel show, a three-part series on Channel 5 about Nigeria. Episodes air every Tuesday and Saturday.

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The hit BBC series The Night Manager is to return for two new seasons, with Tom Hiddleston set to reprise his leading role.

As revealed by Deadline, the John Le Carré adaptation has been re-commissioned, with the BBC and Amazon Prime Video co-producing the two new seasons of the show.

David Farr wrote the original run of episodes, and he will return as the showrunner, alongside lead producer Stephen Garrett, who also worked on the original. Hugh Laurie, who played arms dealer Dicky Roper, is set to be an executive producer this time around.

Georgi Banks-Davies, known for her work on Sky Atlantic comedy I Hate Suzie, has been tapped to direct the new seasons.

The first season, directed by Susanne Bier, followed Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston), the night manager of a luxury Cairo hotel and an ex-British soldier, who is hired by an intelligence officer to infiltrate Roper’s inner circle.

Speaking about the return, Hiddleston has said: “The first series of The Night Manager was one of the most creatively fulfilling projects I have ever worked on. The depth, range and complexity of Jonathan Pine was, and remains, a thrilling prospect.”

Amazon MGM Studios’ head of television Vernon Sanders added: “We are elated to bring additional seasons of The Night Manager to our Prime Video customers. The combination of terrific source material, the wonderful team at The Ink Factory, a great writer in David Farr, an award-winning director in Georgi Banks-Davies, as well as the talented cast truly make the series the full package.”

The first series was a smash hit in the UK, and subsequently around the globe in the US and beyond. Indeed, The Night Manager went on to win two Emmys and three Golden Globes. Such was its success, that the original show even spawned a Hindi adaptation, which starred Aditya Roy Kapur and Anil Kooper.

In early 2023, it was reported that the show would be making a return, and that it was being developed under the codename Steelworks.

Details were thin on the ground at the time, but it was thought that BBC and Amazon would be teaming up on the project, and that Hiddleston would be returning to the franchise.

It has now been confirmed that filming will begin later this year, with the new episodes picking up with Hiddleston’s Pine, eight years after the season one finale.

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The BBC has officially revived The Night Manager for two more seasons, as Deadline reports. Tom Hiddleston will return to star in The Night Manager Season 2 and Season 3, with Amazon signing on as a new production partner. Season 2 is set to start filming later this year, reportedly picking…

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Martin Compston has revealed that he was rejected after auditioning for a role in Game Of Thrones.

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Compston, who is best-known for playing DS Steve Arnott in hit BBC series Line Of Duty spoke recently on his podcast, Restless Natives, with Daniel Portman, who played Podrick Payne in Game Of Thrones.

Speaking on the hit HBO series, Compston said: “I auditioned for the pilot and not only did I never get that, I never got an audition again.”

He continued: “That character died fairly quickly and I thought, ‘That’s good, maybe I’ll get in later’, [but] no.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Compston spoke about the finale of Line Of Duty. He began: “I remember that final night. I went for a walk when that final episode was on.

“I wanted it to be done by that point, but also I just felt somebody was not going to be happy, and the negative voices are always the largest on social media.”

He continued: “I was getting people texting me,[(saying] ‘Who’s H? I’m going to put a bet on’. I’m like ‘I can’t tell you that’. That’s how stupid it gets.”

Portman empathised with Compston, after the finale of Game Of Thrones received widespread criticism from disappointed fans.

Portman said: “You’re never going to please everybody. I think they maybe could have extended it. They maybe could have given a wee bit more time for people after such a long, epic thing. It maybe felt a wee bit rushed.”

The eighth and final season of Game Of Thrones wrapped up the story in just six episodes, whereas the first six seasons had consisted of ten episodes, and the seventh, seven episodes.

“I remember after (the finale) there were petitions, and millions of signatures on these petitions, to re-do the final series. Good luck getting us all back together in Belfast for another nine months. There’s no chance.”

In 2019, director Neil Marshall admitted that the closure of the series was “really rushed” following the criticism. He said: “I kind of agree with a lot of the criticism that it was really rushed. Everyone ended up where they were meant to end up but they got there in a little bit of a rush in the end.”

Meanwhile, the official trailer for the second series of Game Of Thrones spin-off, House Of The Dragon has been released

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Radio 1’s Dance Weekend Ibiza has announced the first line-up for its 2024 edition, with CamelPhat and Armand Van Helden among the names.

The event is due to take place in Ibiza on Friday, August 2, continuing the BBC station’s legacy on the party island.

Joining the aforementioned acts on the bill are Alex Mills, Gorgon City, Ben Hemsley, Jazzy & Belters Only, Azzecca, sim0ne, Kelli-Leigh, D.O.D, Dom Dolla, Shermanology, LF System, Oden & Fatzo and Jess Bays.

The performances will be held at music venue 528 Ibiza across two stages: Radio 1 Main Stage and Radio 1 Dance Stage.

According to organisers, more huge artists are to be announced in the coming months.

CamelPhat said in a statement: “Last year the vibe of the open air in a unique location alongside the energy of the crowd made for one of our favourite moments of 2023 and this year will be even better as we team up with R1 as the cherry on top.”

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— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) April 8, 2024

Jazzy added: “Buzzing to get back to the party island for Radio 1 with my day 1’s. Let’s goooo!”

Belters Only wrote: “We’re so humbled and blessed to play the Radio 1 Dance Weekend, anyone in Ireland or across the UK knows this is THE weekend to be at, so we’re excited to showcase ourselves and have a smasher!”

Radio 1’s Danny Howard said: “I can’t believe it’s time to get excited for Radio 1 in Ibiza again. It’s been a staple in the summer calendar for years and not only does it showcase the world’s biggest & best DJs but it’s been known to create the most iconic moments in dance on the white isle that are remembered for a lifetime!

“It’s a special place that started a new chapter at our new home, 528, the stunning outdoor venue up in the Ibiza Hills to which we return this year to make more memories together. Book those flights, get that time off work, pack the suitcase because we’re raving in the sunshine!”

Tickets for this year’s Radio 1’s Dance Weekend Ibiza are on sale now – you can buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can tune in to the event on BBC Radio 1 and listen on-demand via BBC Sounds. Visit here for more information.

Meanwhile, Radio 1’s Big Weekend is set to take place at Stockwood Park in Luton next month. The 2024 edition of the annual festival will be headlined by Chase & Status, Raye and Coldplay.

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