Normal People scoops three TV Choice Awards nominations but faces stiff competition

Normal People actor and absolute FITLORD Paul Mescal is looking for love and has reportedly signed up to a dating app in the hope of finding The One.But don’t fire up Tinder just yet as he’s apparently signed up for exclusive celebrity dating app Raya, which requires members to be referred by other A-listers before they can get swiping.According to reports, the 24-year-old has set up his profile with a number of arty snaps and a song by US singer Phoebe Bridgers, who he was spotted with in a

Paul Mescal has admitted that he felt nervous stepping off the set of Normal People and onto the set of The Deceived.

Strictly Come Dancing's Stacey Dooley, Normal People's Paul Mescal, Line of Duty's Adrian Lester, Taskmaster's Greg Davies, Gangs of London's Joe Cole and Sope Dirisu, Years and Years' Jessica Hynes, Motherland's Himesh Patel and His Dark Materials' Nina Sosanya all popping into the studio (at a distance, of course).Meanwhile, Pose starBilly Porter, David Tennant, Ruth Madeley, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, Jeff Goldblum, Chris O'Dowd and Michael Sheen will all be beamed in via video link.Tim

those James Bond rumours.Now the Maynooth actor has teased a new major film project.Could Paul be set to make a major movie once lockdown restrictions are lifted?In a new interview with Closer Magazine, as reported by RTÉ, Paul has revealed that he could be ready for the big screen.‘I kind of half know, although I’m definitely not allowed to say, but hopefully at the end of the summer I’ll be going and working with people that I absolutely adore and have adored for quite a number of years.‘I’ll

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed British actress Daisy Edgar-Jones in all areas.Edgar-Jones has been getting attention for her breakout role as the female lead of Hulu/BBC’s buzzy new drama series Normal People.Based on Sally Rooney’s best-seller, Normal People follows the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell (Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal) from the end of their school days in small town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity

IFTA bosses.Why? Well, because the production simply missed the submission deadline.While we won’t see Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones pick up any well-deserved awards at this year’s ceremony, we expect they’ll clean up in 2021.Áine Moriarty, Chief Executive of the Irish Film and Television Academy agrees, telling Morning Ireland that ‘next year will be the year for Normal People’ calling the show a ‘fantastic success.’While our Trinity College star-crossed lovers didn’t make the cut this side

Grazia, she revealed that it would be amazing to see the two dysfunctional lovers in the Love Island villa.She admitted that they would have an incredible journey just like other beloved couples, including season three winners Kem and Amber. They had their ups and downs, yet viewers were still rooting for them.‘If he went to Casa Amor, he’d definitely come back with someone else and then she’s heartbroken again all over again.

Fans of Normal People and Fleabag — of which there are more than a few around the world — were offered something of an unexpected treat late last month. A second season of Normal People — arguably the most talked about TV drama of 2020 so far — may not yet be much more than a twinkle in a Hulu commissioner’s (or, more probably, writer Sally Rooney’s) eye, while Phoebe Waller-Bridge has repeatedly confirmed that her smash-hit comedy won’t be returning.

Normal People is the frontrunner at this year’s TV Choice Awards, where it is up for three prizes.

Normal People star Paul Mescal has taken part in Florence + The Machine‘s new book club – hear him read a passage from the Sally Rooney novel below.Mescal plays Connell Waldron in the recent BBC adaptation of the book, which gave BBC Three its biggest iPlayer viewing figures ever upon its release.As part of Florence Welch’s Between Two Books book club, Mescal has read an iconic passage from the 2018 book, the scene where Connell and Marianne reconnect at a house party at Dublin’s Trinity College