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BBC programme, which sees famous faces - including Kate Winslet, Charles Dance, Daniel Radcliffe and Danny Dyer - trace their ancestry with the help of experts. Ricky was full of disdain for the celebrities who have appeared on the show, and have wept over distant relatives they have never met. “I like the way the actors cry.

Wilson Chapman editorMichaela Jaé Rodriguez will be honored with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards, the organization announced Wednesday.Now in its 33rd year, the GLAAD Media Awards honor film, TV and media that advance the representation of LGBTQ+ people and topics.

Kristen Stewart is now an Oscar-nominated actor. On Tuesday, the star landed an Academy Award nomination for best actress for her spot-on portrayal of a jazzy tone poem about the late royal. The nod also reportedly makes , along with West Side Story nominee Ariana DeBose, one of the first openly queer actors to be nominated in a major acting category since Ian McKellen was nominated for Lord of the Rings in 2002.

As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the nominees for the 2022 Oscars on Tuesday (Feb. 8), the LGBTQ+ community was greeted with some good news: for the first time since Sir Ian McKellen was nominated in 2002 for Best Supporting Actor in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, an openly queer-identifying performer was nominated in an action role. Actually, twomembers of the Alphabet Mafia were nominated Tuesday morning: Ariana DeBose, who scored a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role of Anita in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story; and Kristen Stewart, who was nominated for Best Lead Actress for her turn as Princess Diana in the historical fiction drama, Spencer.

Bolton has been named as one of the worst places to live in England.

After conquering the stage and screen, Sir Ian McKellen still has a few things left to do.

Sir Ian McKellen has said the last major professional achievement he would like to conquer is starring in a musical.

Greater Manchester has produced its fair share of famous faces.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAfter concluding his sixth Middle-earth film, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” Ian McKellen praised Peter Jackson, telling Variety, “He’s invented technology to match his imagination.”Jackson’s first “Lord of the Rings” film, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” premiered in December, 2001, and celebrates its 20th anniversary this month.Jackson oversees five companies in Wellington, New Zealand, that were each started to fill the films’ needs:— Weta Workshop w

Tom Hiddleston made a surprise guest appearance in a U.K. stage play on Monday night.

ABBA’s revival is being topped with their first ever Christmas song.

Fans are blown away after learning an interesting fact about Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, and their movie The Lord of the Rings.

Sir Ian McKellen has joined forces with ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus for one of the weirdest pairings in recent memory.

Ian McKellen and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus have collaborated for a bizarre Christmas video.Shared on the McKellen’s Instagram page on Sunday (November 21), the video shows the pair knitting ABBA-branded Christmas jumpers surrounded by sewing material.As the camera pans out, the duo are shown to be sat under a massive ABBA banner, before the closing text reads: “Merry Christmas from ABBA and Ian McKellen.”McKellen captioned the clip: “The most exciting (mostly) silent clip you’ll see this season.”A

Sir Ian McKellen made the day of 17-year-old Millie Anna Prelogar when he got in touch and asked her to show him around her hometown of Windsor, England.

Sir Ian McKellen made the day of 17-year-old Millie Anna Prelogar when he got in touch and asked her to show him around her hometown of Windsor, England.

The Graham Norton ShowRating: 3/5The Jonathan Ross ShowRating: 2/5The 80s: Music's Greatest Decade?Rating: 2/5What was Sir Ian McKellen thinking? For a couple of minutes on a prime-time chat show, he started talking seriously — and held everyone mesmerised. The 82-year-old, currently playing the doddery family retainer Firs in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, told The Graham Norton Show (BBC1) how he captured the octogenarian servant's gait, with one palsied hand and a crooked back.

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David Benedict There are two reasons that, among recent Hamlets, Cush Jumbo (“The Good Fight”) is right up there alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Ian McKellen.

When director Christopher Amos, came up with the idea to do a documentary about Peter Tatchell he was surprised to discover how many people hated the Australian-born activist “When researching the film, the director was astonished to discover the intense abuse and vitriol that had been directed against me over the last five decades. That’s how he came up with the title ‘Hating Peter Tatchell’.

David Benedict Skeptics puzzling over the logic of watching 82-year-old Ian McKellen playing student prince Hamlet need only look as far as the play’s second scene in which Hamlet rebukes his mother. “I have that within which passeth show.” It’s an amplification of the line Shakespeare gave his chorus character ten years earlier in “Henry V”: “Let us … on your imaginary forces work.” Thus an age-blind, color-blind and gender-blind “Hamlet” is, in theory, perfectly valid.

Hugh Jackman gives a thumbs up as he arrives to tape his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in New York City on .

Sir Ian McKellen is bringing a unique perspective to a Shakespeare classic.

Sir Ian McKellen thinks death is "certainly coming" for him. The 82-year-old actor doesn't believe in the afterlife but he's curious as to how his life will end as he's aware he's unlikely to have many years left.

Fleabag is set to stream on Amazon Prime Video next month.Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s one-woman show, which she performed at Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End, provided the origins for the hit BBC series which ran for two seasons.Four of the National Theatre’s highest-profile recorded stage shows will stream on Amazon from June 11, including Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller and Ian McKellen On Stage.Martin Backlund, head of content, UK, Ireland and

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorB Good Picture Company has wrapped filming on documentary “The Good Drug,” which delves into our historical, societal and scientific relationship with psychedelic substances.

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Ian McKellen has said his work improved after he came out as gay in the Eighties. The actor, 81, talked about coming out during an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show.

Graham Norton has revealed which celebrities he would most love to host on his famous red sofa. The Irish chat show host and TV presenter has welcomed some of the world’s biggest stars to his ITV programme, The Graham Norton Show.

Time is the final frontier in the new trailer for season 2 of the Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Picard” — and one that brings back one of Picard’s famous foes.

COVID-19 jab.The comedian took to Twitter to share a pic getting the vaccine with the caption: “Take that you COVID C***!”.Gervais is among a number of celebrities who have recently received the COVID vaccine including Sir Ian McKellen, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton.Take that, you COVID Cunt! pic.twitter.com/gkxH5bxTwC— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) March 11, 2021It comes after Gervais previously spoke out against those “complaining” from privileged positions while the NHS fought the virus in

The Lord Of The Rings are set to reunite for a series of fundraisers to help cinemas struggling due to COVID-19.Across three weeks in March and April, the stars of the iconic trilogy will join Stephen Colbert for special editions of his late-night TV show in the US to reminisce about Peter Jackson’s legendary films.Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis and Liv Tyler will all take part in the

Huzzah! The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will revisit Middle Earth alongside cast members of the epic film trilogy Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, and Elijah Wood.

Ronald Pickup, the British actor who starred inThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel filmsand played the Archbishop of Canterbury in The Crown, has died. He was 80.

Perthshire Pride have been accepted into the collection at Perth Museum and Art Gallery to celebrate LGBT History Month.Among the items was the original Perthshire Pride flag which was created in 2018 for the first Pride event and held by Sir Ian McKellen during Perthshire Pride’s first-ever Pride march attended by over 7500 people in 2019.Items also include the Pride Western Australia flag, donated by local celebrity drag queen Scarlet Skylar Rae.This flag was signed by the entire Pride Western

The Brexit visa crisis, which is preventing British film and TV employees from working in the European Union without filling out reams of costly paperwork, is now starting to cause issues for spring shoots on the continent, according to The Production Guild of Great Britain.