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HISTORICAL FACTS: 6 - The Untold Story

Channel 4 Great British Bake Off fans can't help but think Matt Lucas looks like another familiar face

They were distracted by the show's host during the opening Star Wars sketch and afterwards

Manchester Evening News

Allelujah review – Judi Dench stars in sweet but slight Alan Bennett hospital drama

Toronto film festival: A-listers are tended to by formidable nurse Jennifer Saunders in Richard Eyre’s adaptation of the 2018 play about a struggling geriatric hospital

The Guardian - UK

Channel 4 announces musical about Andrew and revival of Friday Night Live

The slate of programmes are part of Channel 4’s newly announced Truth and Dare season.

The Independent UK

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Jennifer Saunders on starring in Sister Act, her pick for PM and why ‘wokeness’ should take over

Saunders has only previously sung in sketches and Shrek 2 but her live technique is “getting better”

Evening Standard

Sister Act review – Beverley Knight and Jennifer Saunders bring the laughs as rebel nuns

Knight and Saunders are full-throated and bristling in the hit musical-from-a-film, with a sprawling cast and hip flasks aplenty

The Guardian - UK

Londoner’s Diary: ‘Repair Parliament now before it costs fortune’

In today’s Diary: Parliament repairs costs keep going up / Lisa Nandy’s No 10 jokes / Gok Wan wishes for “feel good” TV / Prue Leith wishes to block Truss / Sister Act musical... with a dog

Evening Standard

Sister Act the Musical at the Eventim Apollo review: Beverley Knight’s star power lifts hodgepodge of a show

This musical adaptation has warmth, joyous moments and flashes of wit, but there are multiple compromises beneath the happy-clappy surface glitz

Evening Standard

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‘I put my trauma on display’ – Keala Settle on hating her signature song This Is Me

Her rendition of the bearded lady’s number from The Greatest Showman caused a sensation. But, as the Hawaiian-born star joins Sister Act, she reveals how the reaction may have contributed to her mini-stroke

The Guardian - UK

Review: Sister Act is a sparkling spectacle at the Palace Theatre

But it's not the sing-a-long classic some might expect

Manchester Evening News

BBC The One Show fans floored by Matt Lucas's tragic story

The comedian appeared on the popular show alongside mum Diana

Liverpool Echo

BBC The One Show viewers stunned at Matt Lucas' appearance

The Bake Off host also had an important family story to share on the BBC One show

Manchester Evening News

The One Show: Matt Lucas gives Jennifer Saunders unusual singing advice for Sister Act The Musical

The Bake Off presenter revealed that he steams his voice before musical performances

Wales Online

Celebrities who've snubbed honours from the Queen - and why they turned them down

A large number of famous faces have been listen in theQueen’s birthday honours - but here is a look at the famous faces who refused or sent them back

Daily Mirror

AbFab's Adrian Edmondson, 65, says he has lived with 'suicidal thoughts all my life'

Adrian Edmondson, best known for The Young Ones and Bottom, has spoken out about his battle with depression in a candid interview

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The Pentaverate review – Mike Myers is back, and he’s still an accomplished idiot

The Austin Powers star plays almost every character in this sweet, silly, charmingly harmless comedy about a secret society – when he’s not joined by the likes of Rob Lowe and Jennifer Saunders

Nottingham Post

What happened to the cast of The Vicar of Dibley - from Harry Potter to a tragic death at just 53

Warmly remembered sitcom had us all tittering along for more than 10 years

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?; The Superhero Complex; Hear Her Voice; Cheat!

French and Saunders front an old-school gagfest, while podcasting’s obsession with egotistical frauds and con artists continues

Daily Mirror

French and Saunders 'set to save Repair Shop's Jay Blades from Dame Judi Dench'

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have once again brought in an A-lister for Comic Relief as they couldn't resist a sketch about The Repair Shop

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The Independent UK

Dawn French admits she didn’t like Jennifer Saunders at first because she was ‘posh’

Comedy duo originally met in the 1970s

Daily Mirror

Dawn French says she didn't like 'posh' Jennifer Saunders when they first met

Ahead of their latest sketch airing on Comic Relief, Dawn French has been reflecting on her friendship with long-time comedy partner Jennifer Saunders - admitting she initially judged her 'posh' pal when they first met

Daily Mirror

French and Saunders reunite for The Repair shop spoof for Comic Relief

Comedy double act Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have teamed up once again for another hilarious Comic Relief sketch. The Repair Shop host Jay Blades - who stars alongside the duo next month - says the two stars caused 'chaos' during the hilarious spoof

Wales Online

BBC Graham Norton Show: Dawn French's 'amazing' lasting friendship with ex Lenny Henry, her links to Wales and Strictly Come Dancing rumours

We take a look into the life and career of one of Britain's much-loved comedians

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