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Dame Judi Dench has revealed the X-rated name that her pet parrot has taken to calling her at home.The legendary actor, who turns 90 on December 9, has spoken about her beloved African grey parrot named Sweetie, which she was given during the COVID pandemic.Explaining that the parrot is capable of producing an array of words, she told the Sunday Times: “We had a long chat just now. You shouldn’t ask what she says.”When pressed, she admitted: “She says, ‘You’re a slut’, ‘you’re a slag’.”Dench has spoken about trying to teach the bird to recite Shakespeare, albeit unsuccessfully.“She has said ‘Boris Johnson’, but she didn’t get that from me,” Dench added.

In the latest episode of BBC One’s Death in Paradise, DI Neville Parker and team are left puzzled when a tourist is stabbed while travelling alone in a hotel lift.The unexpected turn of events gets even more confusing when it's discovered that the victim, who was severely ill, had come to St Marie as it had been on their bucket list - despite a written bucket list proving otherwise. With more digging, the team discovers that there are skeletons lurking in the closet of the victim's family members, while a woman watches their every move as she waits in the shadows.

BBC sketch show The Big Impression which ran between 2000 and 2004, discussed the state of his career during an interview with The Scots magazine (via the Independent).“I still do some live shows but that is drawing to a close now as I am not feeling motivated enough,” McGowan said. “When I have done certain events recently, I have noticed that younger audiences just don’t watch television in the way they used to.“The younger audience particularly has no idea who these people are, so my whole methodology doesn’t really work for a modern audience.

Oscar-winning actress was diagnosed with advanced macular degeneration in 2012 and has been dealing with the loss of her vision.While appearing on The Graham Norton Show, Dench admitted that she has found it harder and harder to read scripts and learn her lines.“It has become impossible and because I have a photographic memory I need to find a machine that not only teaches me my lines but also tells me where they appear on the page,” she said.“I used to find it very easy to learn lines and remember them,” she continued. “I could do the whole of ‘Twelfth Night’ right now.”In 2021 interview with The Guardian, Dench revealed that she asks her friends to help her with lines by reading them out loud to her.“You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” she said at the time.

EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has acquired all North American distribution rights to filmmaker Mark Cousins’ Alfred Hitchcock doc My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock.

By this time, don’t we know just about everything there is to know about Alfred Hitchcock? Few, if any, other filmmakers have had their lives and careers examined, explored and analyzed as much as has the vaunted master of suspense. So unless incontrovertible evidence were to be suddenly found that the director secretly fathered a dozen illegitimate children by as many women and personally supplied Churchill with an untraceable poison powder to drop into Stalin’s tea in Yalta, only to see the prime minister chicken out, it’s quite unlikely that much new will ever be added to his life story that we don’t already know.

Anton Du Beke, 55, married his wife Hannah Summers in 2017 and the couple share two children.The Strictly judge recalled in an interview how the pair met and whether it was love at first sight.Anton will appear on The Chase tonight along with Alistair McGowan, Sarah-Jane Crawford and Adrian Edmondson.The Strictly judge spoke to Steph McGovern back in February about his relationship with Hannah and how the pair first met.He said: "I knew almost immediately that I loved her.She also loved me immediately."She was sitting across a big table at a do and I thought, 'wow she is absolutely gorgeous'."He then spoke about how he built up the courage to talk to Hannah.Anton continued: "She went off to the loo as one does. Outrageously, I followed her!"She went into the ladies and I waited outside for her.