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Blimey his co presenter is gorgeous!
Loki has dated Susannah Fielding
Blimey his co presenter is gorgeous!
Ditto, but then just as well it would never have lasted when she found my heart really belongs fo Famke.Blows my chances then
Ah, but does it include any shots of German U-boat captains?Warning animal killed in video.
The invitation last May had been an unusual one. Would I like to spend five hours going up and down in a lift at the BBC on a bank holiday Monday?
On every level that would be a no. Until I read the small print. I am being invited to play myself in Alan Partridge’s new BBC One series. And my love for him knows no bounds. Alan has been the third person in my marriage – from the early days of The Day Today, when I realised he had already satirised to perfection the career I was painfully trying to forge, to the long car journeys where we played the audio book of his guileless memoir, I Partridge, to the kids, gazing on their delight with fulsome parental pride through the rear-view mirror.
This invitation, then, is my professional and emotional coming of age. I will not only get to meet Alan Partridge, I will get to star – YES, STAR AS MYSELF – in a script lasting a good 17 seconds. Alan, you will remember, was last seen on the BBC in the Christmas special (Knowing Me Knowing Yule) before an unfortunate assault involving the commissioning editor Tony Hayers and a stuffed bird.
It was an altercation that ended Partridge’s career with the British broadcaster, led to a nervous breakdown, and sent him off into the North Norfolk Digital wilderness, like Jesus, for 40 days and 40 nights (roughly), halfway between the Linton Travel Tavern and a static caravan. But now, Hayers is long dead, and Alan is back.
GMB tweeted this pic of Alan on the left and some clunt on the right ...Adam Cumiskey, Newsnight’s chief programme producer, is desperately concerned that I shouldn’t let down our own programme with my performance. “Remember,” he says. “You’re not meeting Alan Partridge in this lift. Don’t be all giddy. You’re meeting some creepy old BBC bloke you thought had died a decade ago who’s now asking for your number.”
The Coogan I meet in rehearsals is Partridge throughout. His look is sports casual: Sta-Prest trousers, green blazer and greased-down hair. He is trimmer than in past series. His hair is glossier. He has, for want of another phrase, “bounced back”.
Have to agree, that said there were several moments when I was genuinely ROTFLMAO and others where I was cringing at his gaffs. I think the show has yet to really find its feet, so fingers crossed.I've got to be honest here. Although it wasn't a total calamity it still was nowhere near up to the standards of previous Partridge...
The only bits that I really wasn't impressed with at all were the segment with the plonker who couldn't operate the huge touch screen TV (he needs to be dropped from the show ASAP).
Alpha Papa? Aha...I knew I'd seen him somewhere before. Never seen MMM though.Sidekick Simon. He's good in MMM and in Alpha Papa with the gaffer taped shotgun helmet.
He should interview Ricky Gervais/David Brent.AP has always had loads of cringe moments.
He should interview Ricky Gervais/David Brent.