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Jilly Cooper ‘thrilled to bits’ that Rishi Sunak reads her bonkbusters

PM spoke in some detail about how he enjoys the novels as they help him ‘get away from the day to day’

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak says racy Jilly Cooper novels offer him ‘escapism’

The Prime Minister is a fan of the raunchy Rutshire Chronicles series of books.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak’s football video is a political own goal

The PM’s scattergun attempts at image projection tell us nothing about who he really is

The Guardian - UK

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Danny Dyer spotted taking cigarette break with Rivals co-star outside glitzy BAFTAs ceremony

Danny Dyer caught up with his Rivals co-star Lisa McGrillis outside the BAFTAs in London on Sunday sporting a smart black suit, slicked back hair and a rather dapper moustache

Daily Mirror

Does Rishi Sunak really love reading Jilly Cooper – and what does that say about him?

The racy novels hit on a winning formula: our fascination with the intimate lives of the wealthy

The Guardian - UK

Downing Street downtime: how prime ministers like to relax

When not reading Jilly Cooper, Sunak enjoys cricket. Truss is a karaoke fan and Johnson claims to make model buses

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak ‘ranks racy Jilly Cooper novel among his favourite books’

McDonald’s-loving, sliders-wearing, Bublé-listening PM is also a reader of Riders, according to Spectator

The Guardian - UK

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King Charles' long list of celebrity friends from Ant and Dec to the late Joan Rivers

King Charles III's Coronation is nearly here, but how many of his close celebrity chums will be there? Here we take a look inside the monarch's circle of famous friends

Daily Mirror

Disney+ Rivals: Pub near Bristol used as film location for racy new TV drama

Filming is expected to last throughout the summer

Bristol Post

Rivals: release date, recaps, cast, plot, trailer and everything we know about the Jilly Cooper adaptation

Rivals on Disney Plus is an adaptation of the famous Jilly Cooper novel with David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Alex Hassell, Katherine Parkinson and Danny Dyer among the cast.

WhatToWatch

Disney+ confirms David Tennant and Danny Dyer for new series being filmed in Bristol

The series is one of the first bookings for Bristol's new high-end studio

Bristol Post

Disney+ announces new series based on Jilly Cooper's raunchy novel Rivals

The series will star a host of famous faces including David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Danny Dyer and Emily Atack.

Wales Online

Danny Dyer unrecognisable with long hair and moustache as he films with David Tennant

Danny Dyer and David Tennant have been spotted on the set of the upcoming Disney+ series Rivals, which is based on the Jilly Cooper novel of the same name that was released in 1988

Daily Mirror

Doctor Who and Alex Rider among TV shows being filmed in Bristol this year - full list

We take a look at all of the big productions that have been spotted in Bristol this year

Bristol Post

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Prince Harry has done first royal 'kiss and tell' with virginity story, says expert

In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry details losing his virginity - and royal expert Duncan Larcombe has likened the story to "a chapter in a Jilly Cooper novel" due to its description

The Guardian - UK

Gabrielle Beaumont obituary

Television director who made her mark with US series such as Dynasty, M*A*S*H and The Waltons, and adapted Jilly Cooper’s Riders for British TV

Bristol Post

Disney+ series Rivals based on Jilly Cooper novel to be shot at new high-end studio in Bristol

The new studio promises to be 'Hollywood in Hengrove'

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Ghosts from the Library; How to Live When You Could Be Dead; Between the Covers – review

‘Lost’ tales of witches from golden age crime writers; the late Deborah James’s irrepressible guide to life; and Jilly Cooper’s old newspaper columns

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Jilly Cooper bestseller Rivals set for eight-part TV adaptation

The second novel in Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles – following Britain’s sex and power-mad elites of the 1980s – will have a ‘2020s lens’ in a new Disney+ series

Daily Mirror

Jilly Cooper's bonkbuster Rivals transformed into eight-part Disney+ TV series

Her bestselling book series is described as “drama, sex and good social comedy” and now Jilly Cooper’s Rivals is set to be transformed into an eight-part TV drama by Disney+

The Guardian - UK

Sadie Jones: ‘As a teenager I thought Jilly Cooper’s novels beneath contempt’

The author on dreams of Narnia, the joy of Cold Comfort Farm, and finally finishing War and Peace after an 18-year break

The Guardian - UK

England: A Class of Its Own by Detlev Piltz review – an outsider applauds the status quo

The German author updates Jilly Cooper and The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook in a provocative celebration of the English class system

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