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We couldn’t imagine anyone else as Bridget Jones at this point, but Hugh Grant admitted he wasn’t sold on casting Renée Zellweger for the role.

“The Undoing” actor who played caddish Daniel Cleaver alongside Texas-born Zellweger in the hugely popular flick admitted that he was initially skeptical of the unusual casting.“There was a whole scandal about why isn’t this a British actress?” Grant said in a new BBC2 documentary, “Being Bridget Jones.”“I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character? It did seem like a stretch,” he confessed.Grant revealed that the two-time Oscar winner’s first attempt at a British

Being Bridget Jones, now streaming on BBC iPlayer.“I didn’t know Renée Zellweger, and a Texan playing a British character, it did seem like a stretch,” Grant continued.The actor added that Zellweger’s first attempt was “good” but also sounded like Princess Margaret, which he described as “startling”.“She was told to kind of, well she thought she better loosen it up a bit,” he added. “Then she came in and it was Princess Margaret having had a stroke.

Katie Price could be spending Christmas without her kids this year as she faces an anxious wait on a coronavirus test. The 42-year-old jetted off to Turkey for an emergency dental appointment after two of her false teeth fell out, reports the Mirror.

Manchester Evening News reports. Only less than three weeks ago, millions of Brits tuned into the ITV reality TV show every night to watch 12 celebrities in Gwrych Castle.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe Apple spy drama “Slow Horses” has added a quartet of eye-catching names to its cast.Joining Gary Oldman in the lead will be Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Jonathan Pryce and Olivia Cooke. News of the castings comes over a year after the small screen adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slough House books was first announced.“Slow Horses” follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 – Slough House.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+’s Gary Oldman spy drama Slow Horses has rounded out its cast, with Ready Player One star Olivia Cooke and The Two Popes actor Jonathan Pryce joining a lineup that also includes Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden.

Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the cityA further police investigation has been launched over the death of a much-loved young dad from North Manchester.Connor Bond, 22, died as a result of multiple injuries after falling from the 31st floor of an apartment block in Greengate where he was working as a concierge, his family were told at an inquest into his death.During the proceedings, Bolton Coroners Court heard that he had been at work on the

announced in a press conference that Wales was the only area of the UK where COVID-19 numbers were not falling. Speaking to the BBC about the royal tour, Gething said, "I'd rather no one was having unnecessary visits." "Their visit isn't an excuse for people to say they're confused about what they're being asked to do," Gething continued.

direct to your inboxWork has began to build Mayfield Park - the first in Manchester for 100 years, the M.E.N can reveal.Construction is now underway at the 6.5 acre site behind Piccadilly station that has been an industrial wasteland for decades.For years, regeneration plans for the forgotten corner of the city centre have failed to get off the ground.But the breakthrough finally came with the formation of a joint public-private venture in 2016 comprising of Manchester City Council, Transport