Actor Tony Rodriguez On Taking Over Voicing Gay ‘Simpsons’ Character From Hank Azaria: ‘This Is A Dream Come True’

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBritain’s Queen Elizabeth has tested positive for COVID-19, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday. Her symptoms are mild, and she will resume her official duties in the next week.“The queen has today tested positive for COVID,” the Palace said.

Queen Elizabeth has tested positive for coronavirus and is "experiencing mild cold symptoms", Buckingham Palace have confirmed.The monarch, 95, is expected to continue to undertake "light duties", palace officials say. Buckingham Palace said in a statement: "Buckingham Palace confirm that The Queen has today tested positive for Covid.

Stars of Gogglebox have endeared themselves to viewers for nearly 10 years with their comical reactions to the nation's biggest TV show. The Channel 4 hit has been making stars of families sat on sofas and armchairs and fans have grown to love the various characters who have now become household names. The potential next generation of Gogglebox stars will soon be getting a new addition too, as Georgia Bell announced she was pregnant last month.The 21 year old star usually appears alongside best pal Abbie Lynn on the hit show, and revealed the news on Instagram with a photo of her ultrasound scan, captioned "Baby Newby" and "Due July 2022".

Former Family Fortunes presenter Vernon Kay, 47, has shared whether he'd return to the hit ITV show and what he said to new host Gino D'Acampo. Vernon had a long stint on the show, after first starting his hosting duties in 2006. And despite his popularity as the host, the star told OK! he has no plans to return to the show.

"Virtually everyone I knew was blown away by the place...it was superb. You could go 200 yards and you may as well be on the other side of the moon...it was just incredible. It was infectious."

Manchester City have been told that splashing out £100million for Jack Grealish was the perfect tonic to spark his teammate Raheem Sterling back into top form.

The Queen has contracted Covid-19, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Kieran Lee will have an operation early this week on a heel spur problem but the Bolton Wanderers midfielder should be back in action before the end of the League One season.

Nadine Dorries’ views on the UK’s beleaguered national broadcasting corporation have been polarising since she was promoted to the role of Culture Secretary in September 2021, but in an interview with the Sunday Times, she emphasised her wish to protect the BBC into the future.

Louise Minchin as one of the main presenters on BBC Breakfast at the end of last year. However, the star has admitted she didn’t follow in the footsteps of her co-presenter Dan Walker over one key piece of advice.Sally and Dan helm the morning news show from Monday to Wednesday every week.Now, the usually private Sally has opened up on her routine for the job.The broadcaster shared what her day in her life generally looks like when presenting.One key aspect is how she arranges her day after waking up so early for the show.Writing in The Sunday Times today, she admitted her alarm goes off at 3.45am.Following filming, she then usually leaves the BBC studios at 10.30am.Sally explained: “The show finishes at 9.13am.

Loose Women star Andrea McLean and husband Nick Feeney showed off their matching inkings.The 52-year-old TV star explained that they'd had the tattoo session scheduled for quite some time to mark their four years of marraige.In the upload, Nick can been seen looking rather happy with his artwork which was covered in bandaid and plastic.He joked while being filmed: "So grown up," after getting his first tattoo.Showing off her results, Andrea had mirrored her husband's same design on her own arm.The TV star captioned the video: "So… yesterday this happened… It’s something Nick has toyed with for a few years, but he’s never known what to get as it had to mean something."Andrea and Nick had replicated each other's artwork which was heartbeats and a feather.Explaining the reasons for the arrangement, the ex ITV panellist added: "Why the heartbeat? To remind us that life is meant to have ups and downs."If there are no highs and lows then you are flatlining, which means you aren't living life to the full. It's about enjoying the journey, the experience, the climb."She continued: "Why three heartbeats? To remind us to Live, to Learn and to Thrive - the cornerstones of This Girl Is On Fire, how we live our life."Why the feather? Because he is my wingman and I am his.

Queen has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing symptoms, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.The 95-year-old monarch is said to be experiencing mild symptoms and continuing with her royal duties from isolation at Windsor Castle.Her Majesty was being closely monitored after news emerged of Charles' had caught the virus just days after the pair had been in close contact earlier this month.At the time, Buckingham Palace refused to confirm the monarch's test results, fuelling fears for her health, but palace sources insisted she was not displaying symptoms.Palace doctors had been testing the Queen frequently since her son tested positive and it has now emerged that she is mildly symptomatic.It is understood that the Queen was in contact with the Prince of Wales on several occasions before he was required to isolate on February 10.The Queen has been triple-vaccinated.

tattoo obsessive with colourful designs all across her head, face and body has opened up about her love of ink. Milana Pulliainen got her first tattoo when she was a teenager and thought she’d stick to one or two – but quickly developed a desire for more body art.The 30-year-old, from a small town in Finland called Pieksämäki, originally worried that too many tatts would affect her employment prospects.But she became inspired by local artists, and luckily, her creative look didn’t stop her from finding a job.Milana, who now works as a practical nurse, told the Daily Star: “At the age of 17 I got my first tattoo.

Police later learned that the member of staff responsible for signing all the children out had left the nursery and locked the doors at around 6.20pm.The case is being investigated by the local child protection agency, police say.

Erika Jayne is looking at new legal troubles as she faces a $2.1million lawsuit that claims she was aware of ex-husband Tom Girardi's alleged embezzlement activities.Filed on Thursday, the complaint accuses The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 50, along with her company EJ Global, LLC, of 'aiding and abetting' Tom, 82, and his law firmGirardi & Keese.It also states she was 'intimately involved in Girardi & Keese's business dealings' and was aware that victims were 'funding her notoriously lavish lifestyle.' Legal troubles: Erika Jayne, 50, is looking at new legal troubles as she faces a $2.1 million lawsuit that claims she was aware of ex-husband Tom Girardi's, 82, alleged embezzlement activities; Pictured September 2021 in Las VegasThe Atlanta-born star's attorney,Evan C. Borges, released a statement to PEOPLE saying: 'The complaint is another misguided effort to blame Erika for the conduct of others in which she had no part.'Borges went on to add, 'Erika has no law degree and never worked at or managed her former husband's law firm.' It was continued: 'Whatever Mr.

A second Simpsons character voiced by actor Hank Azaria, 56, has been recast following criticism of how the iconic cartoon portrays minorities.Marge's gay Cuban hairdresser, Julio, is now being voiced by an actor far closer to the role in real life, Tony Rodriguez, who is both gay and of Cuban descent.Last year Azaria stopped voicing Indian Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu after nearly 30 years after he'd come under fire for being offensively stereotypical. He was also later replaced by actor Alex Désert in the role of Homer's pal Carl Carlson.

faced a reckoning over the diversity of its characters. The re-casting started with Azaria’s Apu, which the white actor agreed perpetuated harmful stereotypes about Indian Americans.“Tonight I make my debut on The Simpsons as gay, Cuban Julio,” Rodriguez, a longtime performer with the Upright Citizens Brigade, wrote on Instagram last month.

The Simpsons has recast another of its characters in an ongoing bid to increase the diversity of its cast to better represent the characters they’re playing.Julio, who many know as Marge Simpson’s hairdresser, has long been a part of the show’s LGBT+ community, having previously dated Waylon Smithers. Previously voiced by Hank Azaria, the character has now been recast.Moving forward, Tony Rodriguez will take on the role of Julio in order to accurately portray the character – both Julio and Rodriguez are gay Cuban men.“Tonight I make my debut on The Simpsons as gay, Cuban Julio,” Rodriguez wrote on Instagram last month, sharing his excitement at being cast.

over his publicly announced regret for voicing “The Simpsons” character Apu — penning his own tongue-in-cheek “apology.”“Not wishing to be left behind by Hank Azaria, I would like to apologise on behalf on Monty Python for all the many sketches we did making fun of white English people,” Cleese tweeted earlier this week. “We’re sorry for any distress we may have caused.”The 81-year-old comedy king’s post came the same day Azaria apologized for his stereotypical portrayal of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon — the fictitious Indian American owner of Springfield’s Kwik-E-Mart.“Part of me feels like I need to go to every single Indian person in this country and personally apologize,” Azaria said in a new interview.

Twitter followers, John sniped: “Not wishing to be left behind by Hank Azaria, I would like to apologise on behalf on Monty Python for all the many sketches we did making fun of white English people.“We're sorry for any distress we may have caused.”In another tweet on Wednesday evening, former Fawlty Towers star John was discussing the so-called 'woke-ism'.He stressed: “Started out as a good idea - ''Let's be nice to people'' - and finished up as a humorless, censorious, literal-minded, posturing idiocy."Hank has played the Indian-American character Apu since 1989 and later went to be the focus of controversy when a documentary aired discussing white actors voicing black, Asian and characters from many other ethnicities."It just didn't feel

Last year, Mr Cleese hit out against "political correctness" and voiced his concerns about "cancel culture" during an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today.He said: "PC stuff started out as a good idea, which is, 'Let’s not be mean to people', and I’m in favour of that despite my age,"The main thing is to try to be kind but that then becomes a sort of indulgence of the most over-sensitive people in your culture, the people who are most easily upset."Cleese continued: "I don’t think we should organise a society around the sensibilities of the most easily upset people because then you have a very neurotic society."From the point of creativity, if you have to keep thinking which words you can use and which you can’t, then that will stifle