Netflix has announced the release date of Black Mirror season six, including the titles of five new episodes.
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A two-part series about Australian TV star and convicted sex offender Rolf Harris is to air on ITVX.
It will look at how the presenter, now 93, became one of the UK's most loved entertainers - but fell from grace after his vile crimes were uncovered. He had been sexually assaulting children and young women for four decades and was eventually jailed in 2014.
The new series will feature rare archive footage and testimony from those closest to the trial. Some of his accusers, who have waived their right to anonymity, will tell their stories and of the pressures that finally forced them to testify against him in court.
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The two films will also tell the story of Rolf's decades-long grooming of his daughter Bindi’s childhood friend from the age of 13, and reveal the unseen evidence that led to his downfall.
In one clip released by ITV, Rolf's former promoter Chris Brsonan, known as Bear, recalls Rolf making lewd comments about underage girls. He said the incident left him 'shocked and furious'. While Chris was driving him from the BBC, two schoolgirls in uniform were walking along.
Chris says: "Rolf out of the blue just says, 'Jesus, couldn't you just f*** the pair of them?'" He added: "It was shocking to hear him say it. And I, and I looked at him, I said,: 'What?' And he said: 'Well, just look at 'em. Aren't they just f***ing lovely?'"
Rolf was a household name by the 1960s, known for his musical endeavours including the song Tie Me Kangaroo Down. He also regularly appeared on the BBC, fronting programmes Animal Hospital and Rolf’s Cartoon Club.
But following his arrest in 2014 and during his eight-week trial at Southwark Crown Court, his dark past
Netflix has announced the release date of Black Mirror season six, including the titles of five new episodes.
Charna Flam Netflix has released the official trailer for the sixth season of “Black Mirror,” which reveals that the critically acclaimed series is returning on June 15. The new season has promised an impressive slew of guest stars, including Aaron Paul, Anjana Vasan, Annie Murphy, Auden Thornton, Ben Barnes, Clara Rugaard, Daniel Portman, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, John Hannah, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Myha’la Herrold, Paapa Essiedu, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel Blenkin and Zazie Beetz. The trailer gives fans a sneak peek at some of this season’s episodes, including one called “Joan Is Awful,” in which an average woman (Annie Murphy) discovers that a global streaming platform — a spoof of Netflix called Streamberry — has launched a prestige drama based on her life, in which she is played by Hayek Pinault.
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Ulrika Jonsson has claimed the late disgraced Australian entertainer Rolf Harris groped her early on in her career when he appeared as a guest on a show she was working on. Harris, who died on the 10th May aged 93, was a family favourite for decades before being convicted of a string of indecent assaults in June 2014. In her column for The Sun newspaper on Saturday, Jonsson, 55, said the incident allegedly occurred on a day when Harris was the showbiz guest on the former ITV breakfast programme TV-am where she worked as a weather presenter at the time.
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The news that disgraced TV star Rolf Harris had passed away at the age of 93 was revealed on Wednesday. Harris died of neck cancer and "frailty of old age" at his home on May 10, according to his death certificate. A registrar at Maidenhead Town Hall confirmed the disgraced TV presenter's death on Tuesday afternoon.
Vanessa Feltz has recalled the horrifying moment when Rolf Harris groped her on live television.The TV presenter, now 61, interviewed the disgraced entertainer back in 1996 for Channel 4's The Big Breakfast Show, while he was at the height of his fame, and has since revealed how he groped her just one foot away from his wife. Rolf, whose death was announced today (May 23), was convicted of a string of indecent assaults in June 2014. Vanessa, who previously opened up about the assault back in 2014, recalled the terrifying experience on her TalkTV Drivetime show, where she shared a photo of the interview.
Rolf Harris died of neck cancer and "frailty of old age" on 10 May, according to a death certificate filed at Maidenhead Town Hall and seen by the PA news agency.The disgraced entertainer and convicted sex offender, 93, was a family favourite for decades before being convicted of a string of indecent assaults in June 2014.These included one on an eight-year-old autograph hunter, two on girls in their early teens and a catalogue of abuse against his daughter's friend over 16 years. His death certificate lists the causes of death as "metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of neck" and "frailty of old age" - he died at home in Bray, Berkshire. A statement from Rolf's family, released through his solicitor, said: "This is to confirm that Rolf Harris recently died peacefully surrounded by family and friends and has now been laid to rest.They ask that you respect their privacy.
arrested during Scotland Yard’s sex crime investigation Operation Yewtree, he was made an officer of the Order of Australia. “I arrived in the UK on a boat in 1952 at the age of 22, with nothing but a load of self confidence,” he wrote in his 2001 autobiography, Can You Tell What It Is Yet?“As a musician, singer and songwriter, I have had No 1 hits and taken pop festivals by storm; as a television presenter, I have been awarded the MBE and voted TV personality of the year; and as an artist I have had pictures exhibited by the Royal Academy. People who are now parents and grandparents grew up watching me on TV singing Jake the Peg, doing vast drawings with a fat felt-tip pen, blowing the didgeridoo and wobbling a piece of hardboard.
Animal Hospital television presenter and entertainer first rose to fame throughout the 1960s, although was later found guilty of using his fame to assault and groom young women, and faced jail time in 2014.His death was confirmed by a registrar at the town hall in Maidenhead, where he was residing. According to reports, he had been seriously ill with neck cancer, and receiving care due to his health complications.In a statement, leading publicist Mark Borkowski discussed the legacy Harris will leave behind.
the BBC reported Tuesday. He was 93.The Australian entertainer was found guilty in 2014 of assaulting four girls between 1968 and 1986 and served three and a half years before being released in 2017.
Convicted paedophile Rolf Harris has died aged 93.
Rolf Harris, the once-beloved BBC presenter and convicted sex offender, has died. He was 93.