December 21, 201311 yr Author BBC Strictly @bbcstrictly 1h Who'll be swinging when someone's winning tonight? Only @robbiewilliams ! Backstage with finalist @keviclifton #scd pic.twitter.com/DQwZhNSGFi http://i42.tinypic.com/16k9guv.jpg
December 23, 201311 yr Author David Walliams's Gangsta Granny: When Robbie Williams met Miss Marple A Christmas adaptation of David Walliams's Gangsta Granny has attracted an all-star cast. James Rampton joins them on set JAMES RAMPTON Tuesday 24 December 2013 http://i42.tinypic.com/2hmq4bm.jpg You're never too old to learn new tricks. Julia McKenzie, 72, proves as much in her latest project. The actress, previously best known as Miss Marple, crosses the criminal divide to play the sprightly title character in Gangsta Granny – and in the process has acquired a heap of new skills. "I was just thinking what wonderfully strange lives we lead as actors", she says. "One day, I was walking through huge sewer pipes – I'm quite nimble and didn't need a stunt double for that. The next, I was riding a mobility scooter across Tower Bridge." To be screened on Boxing Day, BBC1's entertaining family drama is an adaptation of David Walliams's best-selling children's novel. In this script by Walliams, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, 11-year-old Ben, played by Reece Buttery, is bored rigid. His gauche, Strictly Come Dancing-obsessed parents, Mike, played by Walliams, and Linda, played by Miranda Hart, think his chosen career of plumbing is far too dangerous. So they try instead to turn him into a ballroom dancing star by entering him into a competition run by the celebrated Italian dancer, Flavio Flavioli. In quite a coup, Walliams has recruited Robbie Williams to play Flavio and the singer delivers a richly comic turn as the perma-tanned hoofer. According to Jo Sargent, the producer of Gangsta Granny, when casting Flavio, "David said, 'Who's the most camp and flamboyant performer I know? It has to be Robbie Williams.' Robbie was brilliant. He absolutely went for it – his bad Italian accent is perfect. He has such great funny bones. I think the world of music has lost him – he's coming to comedy now. Watching his scenes, you'll think you've died and gone to camp heaven." Things get far worse for Ben when he is sent to stay with his unassuming granny. He thinks that she is tedium personified, believing she is interested only in cabbage and Scrabble, but is delighted to discover that she is an international jewel thief. He duly leaps on the back of her mobility scooter for one last heist: a raid on the Tower of London to nab the Crown Jewels. As well as being good fun, Gangsta Granny has some thoughtful things to say about the way we treat the elderly. "The drama has a lovely simple message at its heart", agrees Hart. "At first Ben thinks he can't learn anything from this boring old person, but he suddenly realises that his granny is the most exciting thing in his life. We all potentially have that snobbery about old people. We should try to be nice to our grandparents. Often we leave it too late before we realise how many stories we should have asked them about." In a society with an increasingly aged population, the message should resonate. "We all talked about our relationship with our grandparents", adds Sargent. "There was a realisation that we can be a bit dismissive of them, but actually those relationships are so important. Grandparents have so much to offer because they have such a wealth of experience. When we're young, we can take that for granted." McKenzie agrees. "It may sound po-faced but the moral of this story is: don't underestimate people just because they're old. They have their own secrets, and they're not as boring as they might at first appear. I do think that we're a youth-obsessed culture. Of course I believe that because I'm old. But I still think it's true." The actress hopes that at least in TV drama we may be moving away from our fixation with youth. Following the success of recent works such as Last Tango in Halifax, starring Anne Reid, 78, and Vicious, with Frances de la Tour, 69, there may be more parts for older actresses now. That can only be a good thing, says McKenzie. "There are good few of us actresses in our seventies who are still walking around unaided." After the popularity of BBC1's version of Mr Stink last Christmas, Gangsta Granny is the latest of Walliams' children's books to be transposed to the screen. His six publications have proved enormously successful. He has sold almost three million copies and earned an estimated £13m, placing him alongside JK Rowling as one of our leading children's authors. "I am at the point where I could be writing children's books all the time", he says. "Would I ever consider doing that? No. I fear that I would really miss being on TV because I'm a dreadful show-off." So what's next for McKenzie? She jokes that, "I'd love a part in the next series of David's sitcom, Big School. I could be the school cook. I work better with a green vest on. I can clean a table and hold a tray very well. When I was training to be an actress, I earned a few quid as a waitress. It's a performance. You bring stuff and make people happy, just like acting." One thing McKenzie does not appear likely to be doing is playing Miss Marple any longer. She sighs that, "Now that Poirot has finished, I'm afraid old Marple is over, too." 'Gangsta Granny' is on Boxing Day at 6.05pm on BBC1 independent.co.uk
December 24, 201311 yr Oh I didn't realise this Gangsta Granny was a children's thing. Thought it was a new adult sitcom. Makes it less cringy then. ^_^
January 24, 201411 yr Author Robbie appears on this video a couple of times, it's the Landmark award won by Ant & Dec . I wonder if the video of Robbie must have been made when he was filming for the video of Dream a little Dream, he looks exactly the same as he does in that video oBm4X-xK8Y8
February 6, 201411 yr Author Robbie Williams Live on Channel 9′s TODAY on 20 Feb Robbie Williams will be appearing live on Channel 9′s Breakfast TODAY show on 20 February 2014 to promote his 10th studio album Swings Both Ways. A select group of fans will also be invited along to watch Williams perform songs from the album and no doubt face a serious grilling from Today’s entertainment king Richard Wilkins. Wilkins himself remarked of the appearance “Robbie is one of the most charismatic artists in the world, and has always had a strong connection/affinity with Australia, TODAY’s Studio 22 will be renamed the “Robbie Williams Ballroom” for the day. http://www.memorabletv.com/tv-news/robbie-...oday-on-20-feb/
February 15, 201411 yr Author Robbie Williams joins Channel 10’s So You Think You Can Dance BRIT pop star Robbie Williams is set to join the top 20 contestants on So You Think You Can Dance Australia next Sunday night. In a superstar coup for the returning series on Channel Ten, the chart-topping crooner has been lured to the show after working alongside judge and choreographer Jason Gilkison on the UK dance series, Strictly Come Dancing. Rehearsals for the show-stopping performance began last week, with Gilkison revealing the young dancers were left dumbstruck by the challenge. “There was just silence when we told them, they were just in awe. They they just threw themselves in. It will be the first time a lot of them will have had to work with a guest artist and they want to create something so special for him. They pulled something together very quickly that is like wow...I can’t wait for him to see it actually.” http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/ro...i-1226828111608
February 17, 201411 yr From http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music...9-1226827917928 Guess who’s coming to town? Five huge superstar singers set to announce Aussie arrivals in next 30 days..... SPECULATION is rife that superstars Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Robbie Williams, Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake are set to announce Australian tours after a ticket agency teaser campaign. Ticket agency Ticketek put a teaser campaign about “five mega announcements” — with silhouettes of the performing giants — on its Facebook page late yesterday. Ticketek’s Facebook post said: “Countdown to the hottest performers — 5 mega announcements in 30 days.” However, clever punters wasted no time tracking down shots to fill silhouettes used in Ticketek’s campaign, with the mystery apparently solved. Ticketek removed the teaser campaign overnight. Robbie Williams will perform an exclusive show for the Today Show in Sydney on February 20. “I’m itching to get to Australia,” he said. “I want to feel the love.” Williams, promoting a swing album, is expected to use his visit to make a tour announcement http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2014/02/15/1226827/917818-c3ed58e4-95c3-11e3-831f-628faee552fc.jpg
February 22, 201411 yr Author Robbie Williams' with Fitzy & Wippa http://www.novafm.com.au/station/national/...e-williams-full
February 27, 201411 yr Author Thanks to Evelyn on rw.com & TRWS http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go...iams_shortfilms Edited February 27, 201411 yr by Sydney
March 26, 201411 yr Author Robbie on Ant & Dec/Saturday Night Takeaway -5.4.2014 :cheer: Robbie returns to your television next week as he joins his pals Ant & Dec on the last show of the hit series Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. He’ll feature in a one-off performance for a very special End of the Show Show that promises its own unique surprises. Robbie’s no stranger to Saturday Night Takeaway, and if you’ve caught his appearances before, you won’t want to miss out. Tune in to ITV from 19:00 GMT on Saturday, 5th April. rw.com
March 26, 201411 yr Robbie on Ant & Dec/Saturday Night Takeaway -5.4.2014 :cheer: Robbie returns to your television next week as he joins his pals Ant & Dec on the last show of the hit series Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. He’ll feature in a one-off performance for a very special End of the Show Show that promises its own unique surprises. Robbie’s no stranger to Saturday Night Takeaway, and if you’ve caught his appearances before, you won’t want to miss out. Tune in to ITV from 19:00 GMT on Saturday, 5th April. rw.com Remind me closer to the time. I'm bound to forget... :rolleyes:
