Paris Lees: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has revealed the cast and first-look images of What It Feels Like For A Girl, the adaptation of the memoir by transgender trailblazer Paris Lees.

K.J. Yossman Riccardo Vannuccini has set a sequel to his feature “Commedia.” Titled “Tarzan,” the project will see him again team up with “This England” star Greta Bellamacina, with whom he starred in “Commedia.” The duo will reprise their roles as Rocco and Irene, this time in a post-industrial landscape. Manolo Cinti is on board as DP. “Tarzan,” which begins shooting in Italy this November, is co-produced by Artestudio in Rome and Sulk Youth in the U.K. “Commedia” is set to be released on Prime Video in the U.K. and U.S. this month. “Our heroes have managed to mysteriously escape from where they were – but where were they?” says Vannuccini. “They are busy doing nothing, making small acts, to leave imaginative traces of their passage, imagined signs of being in the world. Scratches, noises, silences, poses, runs, drinks, wounds, escapes, kisses, stealing. The world they inhabit is our own post-industrial landscape, a world scarred by the industry and sadness of the twentieth century, but in it they find beauty, and they create beauty. They are the archetypal romantic runaways.”

The BBC has commissioned an adaptation of journalist and campaigner Paris Lees’ memoirs.

It all came to an end in May 2018, when the popular presenter announced live on the air that he was stepping back from the show."There is not a lot to say really, other than the fact – you know better than most – the demands of getting up for a daytime show," he explained to panelist Anne Diamond, who hosted the original version of Good Morning Britain."I'm not going to equate it with digging roads, which is hard as well, but the old brain! I'm up at three o'clock in the morning these days. I go to bed at half seven.