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MAXINE Peake has slammed television bosses for typecasting northern actors, in particular women, and says they are still being discriminated against because of their accents. Maxine, 45, made the comments during an appearance on poet laureate Simon Armitage's BBC podcast, and said Downton Abbey was a good example - where Northerners take on the 'downstairs' roles.

Rebecca Long-Bailey has deleted the tweet which led to her being sacked from the shadow cabinet.Last week, the Salford and Eccles MP shared an interview with actress Maxine Peake which Labour leader Keir Starmer said included 'an anti-semitic conspiracy theory'.Ms Long-Bailey was asked to step down from her post and has since been replaced by Stretford and Urmston MP Kate Green.In a statement released after losing her position, she said her re-tweet was 'in no way' an intention to endorse every part of that article and that the Labour Party's head office had asked her to remove both the original re-tweet and a subsequent attempt at clarification.The post was not deleted until yesterday when it was removed from Ms Long-Bailey's Twitter feed

Stretford and Urmston MP Kate Green has been appointed shadow education secretary after Rebecca Long-Bailey was sacked from the post.The Salford MP was removed from Labour's front bench for sharing a controversial interview with Salford actor Maxine Peake.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the newspaper interview 'contained an anti-semitic conspiracy theory'.He appointed Ms Green to the shadow cabinet on Saturday.In a statement, Ms Green said: "It’s a privilege to have been asked to serve as shadow education secretary.“The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on children’s education.“I look forward to working with teachers, unions, parents and councils to help ensure we get our children back in school as soon as possible.”Sir

contained an 'antisemitic conspiracy theory'.Now the actress has responded to the storm that has ensued following the interview and the MP's sacking, saying that she 'finds racism and anti-Semitism abhorrent'.During the interview, Maxine Peake claimed that police in America who knelt on George Floyd's neck had learned the tactic from 'seminars with Israeli secret services'.Ms Peake also said that Labour supporters who didn't back Jeremy Corbyn should 'hang their heads in shame'.Mrs Long-Bailey, a longtime Corbyn ally, tweeted a link to the interview, calling the Bolton-born actress an 'absolute diamond'.

Maxine Peake has broken her silence after Rebecca Long-Bailey was sacked from the shadow cabinet today.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had asked Rebecca Long-Bailey to step down from the shadow cabinet after she shared an article from Maxine Peake. Maxine has since said: ‘I feel it’s important for me to clarify that, when talking to The Independent, I was inaccurate in my assumption of American Police training & its sources.

Funny Cow, biographical play The Nico Project, Black Mirror and now Fanny Lye Deliver’d – a survivor’s story set against the English Civil War – often tries to use her parts as a platform for telling a broader story about issues she is passionate about. In the case of Fanny Lye Deliver’d, in which she plays the dutiful wife to Charles Dance’s prim Puritan, Peake embodies a woman emancipated from a violent past with the same emotional strength that has typified her 25 year career.Thanks to a strong political voice of her own, Peake isn’t one to shy away from telling it as she sees it.

Rebecca Long-Bailey has today been sacked from the shadow cabinet for sharing an article with an "anti-Semitic conspiracy theory".

MP Rebecca Long-Bailey has been sacked as shadow education secretary.A spokesman for Sir Keir Starmer said in a statement the Labour leader has asked the Salford and Eccles MP to step down from the shadow cabinet.He said an article she shared on social media today, a newspaper interview with Salford actress Maxine Peake, 'contained an anti-semitic conspiracy theory'.Ms Long-Bailey, writing on Twitter after the news was confirmed, said her re-tweet was 'in no way' an intention to endorse every part of that article.She said she had asked to discuss the matter further with the Labour leader, 'but sadly he had already made his decision'.A spokesman for Sir Keir Starmer said: "This afternoon Keir Starmer asked Rebecca Long-Bailey to step down

The Independent, where she shared her thoughts on society today and called for a change to the way the country is run. Peake, a firm Labour supporter, hit out at Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Conservative party and vented: ‘We’re being ruled by capitalist, fascist dictators.

The breadth of accents in the UK is so diverse that travelling just a few miles can make a massive difference to how a person's voice sounds.The rich burrs of a Lancashire dialect differ from the stresses and cadences of Manchester voices - synonymous with Coronation Street or the Gallagher brothers - or the guttural sing-song of the Liverpool dialect, a riff on the Irish and Welsh accents of immigrants.Even within the city of Manchester, different suburbs can have different accents.But one thing people from across the North have in common is the risk of being judged for the way they speak in London-dominated industries.Maxine Peake recently described how Northern actors end up being cast as servants because they are seen as uneducated.But

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Jake Kanter International TV EditorThe BBC has released first-look images of the cast of Talking Heads, a coronavirus-inspired reimagining of Alan Bennett’s BAFTA-winning series of dramatic monologues.Killing Eve actress Jodie Comer, Sherlock star Martin Freeman and the soon-to-be star of The Crown Imelda Staunton are among those attached to the project, which premieres June 23 before the full series is dropped on iPlayer.The 12-part season was produced by the London Theatre Company on ready-made sets at Elstree Studios. Kristin Scott Thomas, Maxine Peake, Rochenda Sandall and Lucian Msamati are also among the cast for the monologues, which center on themes including death, isolation and illness.