Michelle Ryan played the role of Zoe Slater in Eastenders until she left the TV soap in 2005 after 5years. She has now confirmed that she decided to leave the soap due to boredom and that she won’t return.
Speaking to thisisbristol, she said: “I just got quite bored in the end, to be honest. Doing the same thing day in, day out. It’s just so boring. I like to jump from different things.”
She added: “Money doesn’t drive me. You couldn’t get me back.”
The 24-year-old actress went from eastenders to starring BBC One drama Jekyll and then moved further a field to the US for the re-make of The Bionic Women which has now been axed. You will now catch her for the BBC’s new fantasy drama Merlin.
Dannii Minogue is very unhappy over her lack of screen time during this years season on ’The X Factor’ and has even threatened to quit the show because of it.
Dannii has made her dissatisfaction clear to the shows boss Simon Cowell as she feels that she has barely been seen on the ITV1 show this year and all the on screen attention is being soaked up by the new judge Cheryl Cole who has been featured heavily.
“Simon somehow wants to keep the peace between Cheryl and Dannii and avoid the feud turning into a full-blown crisis,” a source told the Sunday Mirror. “He wants Dannii to stay and is desperate for the show and the judges to remain as they are.
“He’s been absolutely thrilled with the impact that Cheryl has had though. It’s been nothing short of sensational. She has the perfect face for TV and is loved by the camera, the viewers and the contestants.”
The Krypton factor is ready to start another series on ITV after 13 years away from our TV sets according to ITV bosses.
It was axed in 1995 after a massive 18 years on Monday night TV and saw contestants put through mental and physical challenges and an assault course.
A TV return poll was conducted at the beginning of the year and The Krypton Factor was voted one of the top 10 TV programs to return.
An insider described the original show as “terrific”, adding that “everything eventually comes back into fashion”.
An ITV spokeswoman said the broadcaster is “always looking for the best possible programmes for all of its channels”.
Michael Parkinson has come clean with the ‘real’ reason as to why the long running chat show ended last November after 30 years! It would seem that ITV bosses regarded him as “too expensive” so therefore decided to end the show.
The 73 year old ledgend, Michael Parkinson, said that ITV’s Chairman Michael Grade thought he was costing too much and decided to pull the plug ont he show
“Michael Grade told me with a straight face that I was too expensive,” he said.
“Shortly after, we were talking about guests for the final show and someone at ITV mentioned Liz Taylor. They said they would go up to £250,000. Barmy idea - and I was too expensive?
“But I don’t want it to seem as though we left in an acrimonious fashion, because we didn’t. I would have liked one more series, to be frank, but my time had come to leave. I knew that.”
Parkinson began his BBC One chatshow in 1971 before switching to ITV in 2004 following a row with the corporation over scheduling.
After the final Parkinson aired, the host claimed that it had been the last remaining example of a true TV chatshow.
Comedian Bill Bailey has been one of the team captains on Never Mind The Buzzcocks since 2002 but has decided to leave the show after the 11 series.
He has had to step down because of other work commitments.
The show’s producer, talkbackThames, told The Press Association: “After 11 series selflessly, heroically and hilariously captaining one side on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, other commitments have sadly led to Bill Bailey being unable to take part in the forthcoming series of the hit comedy pop quiz.”
Never Mind The Buzzcocks was lauched in 1996 and is one of the BBC’s longest running shows.
Richard Hammond is going to be presenting our version of an Australian game show called Wipeout, re-branded as Total Wipeout for the British version to be shown on Saturday nights.
BBC controller of entertainment commissioning Elaine Bedell told Broadcast: “We were very keen to put Richard firstly on a BBC One show and secondly on Saturday nights, so it was a case of making sure we found the right [show] for him.”
The show sees 24 contestants competing to complete an assault course, the first four to finish the course than battle out by tackling a huge obstacle course to win of winning a cash prize.
Andrew Lloyd Webber he has been enlisted to help find the song to sing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
The TV show will be hosted by Graham Norton with the sole purpose to find the song to put forward in the competition which has now been made fairer.
An insider said: “Millions of Brits watch the Eurovision but always leave disappointed that we’ve done so badly.
“So next year we’re going all out. Graham’s been drafted in to host and Lord Andrew will give his important input, possibly as part of a panel or as a mentor.
“There is likely to be a public voting element to it as well. Next year really could be the year Britain comes out on top.”
Eurovision bosses are now introducing judges to make voting fair so this year Britain have a good chance of actually gaining more than ‘0′ for a change.
A big thank you goes out to Sir Terry Wogan who voiced the fact that ‘The Eurovision Song Contest’ isn’t fair as its full of countries voting not for the best act but for their closest friends!
With this in mind, ‘the powers that be’ who run the contest have decided to bring back juries as an attempt to stamp out tactical voting.
This was all brought about after Terry Wogan decided to leave his commentating post as he felt (and the rest of us) that most of the countries vote together.
Terry demanded a return for juries after Russia won this year, gaining the maximum 12 points from all the former Soviet states Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia, as well as Israel. Now the 2009 show in Moscow will have a jury and viewers voting.
Eurovision executive supervisor Svante Stockselius said: “Nothing is more democratic than the vote of the public. But a jury takes the opportunity to listen to the songs several times before they make up their minds.
“In Belgrade, we saw a difference in judgment of the public and the back-up juries, and we believe a combination will make the show more interesting.”
Gordon Ramsay was in trouble again after eating a puffin on his TV show on channel 4 ‘The F Word’ however, Ofcom have stuck up for Gordon saying he has done nothing wrong.
Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications. They received 42 complaints over the show but they have disregarded them, as they don’t think Gordon did breach any regulations. This is because the act of killing and eating the puffins was conducted in Iceland where Puffins are part of the natural diet.
Ofcom defending the TV show further by saying the animals were killed in a humane way and sustained minimal suffering.
There have been rumours that Paul McGann who used to play Dr Who in the 1996 movie may be making a return as the doctor for a special addition however, these claims have been rejected by the BBC.
McGann was the eighth incarnation of ‘The Doctor’ who not only played him in the movie but also in spin off audio adventures. The speculation that he will be returning to the show started with The Sun .
The Sun wrote an article stating that McGann is expected to start filming in Oct or Nov, the scene he will be shooting will be set around the ‘Time War’.
Whether there is any truth in this claim is yet to be confirmed!