Status Quo rocker sparked up spliff on children's TV show with 'kids everywhere'

Christopher Vourlias Gravel Road Distribution Group has acquired world sales rights with producer Rani Sitaram to “Greytown Girl,” a romantic drama set in Apartheid-era South Africa from Oscar-nominated director Darrell Roodt (“Yesterday”).The film tells the true story of a small-town South African girl, Meena, who was born with physical limitations and abandoned as a baby. Through her personal bravery she’s able to build a better life, even as her journey of self-realization and self-love unspools against the dramatic backdrop of Apartheid South Africa’s journey toward its first democratic elections.“What I love most about ‘Greytown Girl’ is its authenticity.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticA slight but satisfying choice to open Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, Pietro Marcello’s “Scarlet” isn’t quite a fairy tale, although it certainly feels like one at times. For example, roughly midway through the movie, a woman who might be a witch meets the film’s fanciful young heroine, Juliette (Juliette Jouan), in the woods and predicts her fortune, explaining that one day this girl — who’s destined for greater things than the provincial Normandy farm where she’s dutifully passed her adolescence — will be whisked away by a ship flying scarlet sails.Set in the years just after the Great War, this charming French-language fable — which hails from the celebrated Italian doc maker whose epic narrative debut, “Martin Eden,” was a critical success on the festival circuit just pre-COVID — is smaller, sweeter and more sensitive than Marcello’s earlier work.

Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith and Pearl Jam‘s Matt Cameron have apologised for comments they made in a recent Rolling Stone article about the time leading up to the death of Foo Fighters‘ Taylor Hawkins, distancing themselves from the piece.The Rolling Stone story, citing Hawkins’ friends – including Smith and Cameron – asserts that Hawkins had grown increasingly uncomfortable with the band’s touring schedule. The drummer allegedly told the band that he was struggling to keep up with the physical demands of three-hour concerts night after night.Cameron, who played with Hawkins in the side project Nighttime Boogie Association, is quoted in the story as saying: “He had a heart-to-heart with Dave [Grohl] and, yeah, he told me that he ‘couldn’t fucking do it anymore’ — those were his words.”“So, I guess they did come to some understanding, but it just seems like the touring schedule got even crazier after that”.

Katie Price celebrated her friend’s birthday abroad this year and was pictured having a ball aboard a yacht with her boyfriend and friends.She wore a sea blue matching shirt and shorts set from her collaboration with JYY London and took photos of herself sipping on oysters and flashing her huge engagement ring.Katie was joined by her partner Carl Woods and his manager Chad Teixeira with a group of their friends.They celebrated her mate Ross Mackenzie Fraser’s birthday aboard the boat, in an undisclosed location.Katie, 43, and fiancé Carl, 32, enjoyed their fifth holiday of this year after travelling to Portugal, Thailand, The New Forest and Belgium.The group slurped oysters and soaked up the sun aboard the mini yacht, named Dolly, which Carl treated his followers to a tour of.He jokingly told his followers: “It’s the b******* isn’t it?”Carl also took a selfie aboard the boat as it jetted along the ocean, posing in a backwards cap and slick aviator sunglasses as he flashed his pearly whites at the camera.He captioned the picture: “Whatever makes you happy. Do that.”Katie and her beau Karl are rumoured trying to start a family together, after The Sun revealed that they were planning on starting IVF treatments to have a baby.She has five children already and is hoping for a sixth fathered by her current partner, and they were spotted visiting a fertility clinic together in London.Carl opened up about how he was worried he wouldn’t be able to have children after using steroids.He spoke on Steph’s Packed Lunch, saying: “I’ve got a history of using steroids when I was younger.

Paolo Nutini has announced details of a new UK and European tour – get your tickets here and see the full list of dates below.The Scottish artist returned last week with two new songs and news of his fourth studio album ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’, the follow-up to 2014’s ‘Caustic Love’.Nutini has now announced a UK and European tour in support of the LP, with a pair of live dates in Ireland in August joining a run of dates that run from September through to November.The tour will visit the UK from October 22-November 1, with gigs in Manchester, London, Birmingham, Hull, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.Fans who pre-order ‘Last Night In The Bittersweet’ by 3pm on Monday (May 23) will receive exclusive access to a pre-sale for tour tickets, which opens at 9am on Tuesday (May 24).

Kim Kardashian has been accused by fans of changing her California accent to sound more like that of her Staten Island-raised boyfriend, Pete Davidson. In a clip from a recent episode of her family’s new Hulu show, The Kardashians, Kim, 41, can be heard speaking to her mother, Kris Jenner and friends (and partners), Simon Huck and Phil Riportella.The group were discussing Kim’s sister Kourtney’s upcoming wedding to Blink-182 drummer, Travis Barker, and Kim joked about her own experience with marriage after she's been wed three times.

Angela Scanlon has revealed that she and her friend had to spend a night in a Mexican prison when they were younger.The One Show presenter, 38, and her friend had travelled to Mexico for a relaxing holiday, but things took a left turn after a passport mishap. Angela had used her sister's passport to get into the country, but had issues when she was trying to leave. Speaking to Alan Carr on his Life's A Beach podcast, she said: "I was in a Mexican prison.That's a whole other story.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker tied the knot at a small ceremony over the weekend.The loved-up couple had an intimate wedding in Santa Barbara on Sunday, before a lavish event set to take place in Italy in the coming weeks. The 43 year old reality TV star said "I do" to the 46 year old rocker, in front of just two witnesses – Kourtney's maternal grandmother, and occasional Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, Mary Jo 'MJ' Campbell and Travis's father, Randy.

Johnny Depp allegedly said he could "punch Amber Heard in the face" after they married in February 2015.The Pirates of the Caribbean star is in the middle of a court battle against his ex-wife after an op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post about experiencing domestic violence. While she didn't name the alleged perpetrator, Johnny launched a £40.29m ($50m) libel lawsuit against her, claiming the article damaged his career and prevented him from getting roles.

bear cub sinking its teeth onto a woman with a "death grip". The baby brown bear was used as a real-life prop to entice people to pay for a photo-op with the beast inside a main park in Grozny, Russia.Medina and her sister sat down at the bench and paid £185 to take photos with the bear cub.In the video, the bear clambers over Medina and goes closer to her face, sniffing around her mouth.Medina hugs the cub and smiles for a photo but the animal could smell the salmon salad she had just eaten, and suddenly sinks teeth into her chin.She said: "It has a death grip.

EXCLUSIVE: French industry execs Naomi Denamur and Julie Billy are launching Paris-based independent production company June Films with a bustling film and TV slate. Scroll down for the company’s current lineup.

EXCLUSIVE: Berenice Bejo (The Artist) agreed that making Cannes opening-night film  Final Cut (Coupez!) with filmmaker husband Michel Hazanavicius (The Players) had been a family affair.

Lorraine Kelly, 62, has spoken about her ITV co-star Kate Garraway’s husband, Derek Draper and given an update on his health in a new interview.The presenter described the news surrounding Covid as “dire,” but said that she tried to include light-hearted features on her show with a focus on kindness during the pandemic.“There weren’t many bits of light in this whole terrible time.”Speaking on the Spinning Plates podcast with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, she discussed how the heartbreaking news of Derek’s hospitalisation really “impacted” her.The daytime TV show presenter explained: “Kate Garraway’s husband was one of the first to get really sick.

football match at Devonport Strikers Soccer Club.The nation's leader, who was still dressed in his suit and tie, seemed eager to get involved but while attempting to pull off a tackle, he ended off ploughing into one of the boys, knocking him down. Morrison also took a tumble, however, the pair seemed to be okay after the incident as they both got up and high-fived when the PM asked the ginger-haired young sportsman if he was alright.

Raymond van Barneveld rolled back the years by defeating fellow darts icons Phil Taylor and Michael van Gerwen in one night.The legendary trio were part of a star-studded line-up at the Hungarian Darts Show exhibition event in Budapest on Tuesday night. Gerwyn Price, Fallon Sherrock and Devon Petersen were also in action.Van Barneveld action won two events on the night, first claiming a pairs tournament alongside a local celebrity.

alien craft", a court has heard. Timothy Wilsdon, 62, from Blockley, Cotswolds, pleaded not guilty to shining the lights at the pilot and said that he was delusional at the time due to a medical condition.

TikTok user who claims to be a time traveller from 2236 has issued a warning that humans will make contact with an alien race this summer before Europe is struck by a 'deadly meteor' in autumn.The user, who posts under the name @realtiktoktimetraveller also claimed a hacker is coming to close down millions of social media accounts because they are against the platform. In the clip, which has gained over 4,000 likes since it was posted at 1am on May 18, the warnings read: "Many people still don't believe me.

Drivers could face a fee of up to £500 and receive penalty points if they ignore child safety warnings, according to the updated Highway Code. The fixed penalty for a driver or passenger failing to wear a seat belt is a £100 fine, although if the case is taken to court, fines could increase to £500.

Now that we’ve had it confirmed and N-Dubz are 100% getting back together, we’re seriously excited. We were also excited to reminisce about the icon that is Tulisa.

“I remember once somebody said ‘I saw a child crying on their show’, well yeah go to a kids party, kids cry you know, they fall over and stuff.He added: “We had this famous incident where, I decided we would have a celebrity cage, instead of normal members of the public we pelted with rubbish, let’s get celebrities in there.“We had Status Quo, a rock band from America called Goldie and the Gingerbreads, Lemmy from Motorhead and the late splendid John Peel, the cage was rammed.“We pelted them with whatever and then I’m doing a sketch with Lenny and I suddenly thought that’s marijuana, I, a producer of a children’s show and somebody is smoking a spliff.”When asked “Did you find out who it was?”, Chris said: ”Yes, basically Lenny and I were doing the sketch, he was dressed up as a waiter and Lenny was like ‘where are you going’ and I said forget it and just pelted the cage with water and the offending item was put out.“I can’t tell you who it was… Rick Parfitt.”Tiswas, which stood for Today Is Saturday: Watch And Smile, ran between 1974 and 1982 with Chris at the helm for seven of those years.Featuring a stitch-together of competitions, film clips, pop promos and comedy sketches, the show left kids howling with laughter across eight series.Chris was joined by co-host Sally James as well as a young Sir Lenny Henry and occasional appearances from comedians such as Jim Davidson.Chris believes censors would pour cold water all over Tiswas today because of how some of the guests were treated.A popular segment on the show was “The Cage”, where, usually, a child in the audience who had applied, would be locked up and periodically doused in water.It became so popular that the 100th show featured several hundred fans lining the

cash prizes on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, wasted their winnings on plastic surgery over fears of being murdered in Colombia. According to broadcaster Chris Tarrant, winners from the South American version splashed the cash on disguises to prevent themselves from being kidnapped, robbed or killed.He claims that contestants took extreme lengths to protect themselves because their chances of leaving the studio alive were incredibly slim.The makeovers would allow punters to live their lives as they pleased, without fearing whether they were going to be attacked.Speaking about the life-or-death situation, Chris said: "In Colombia, many contestants are very wary of appearing in the millionaire hot seat, understandably, in this very volatile, dangerous country.“They are terrified that having won a huge amount of money in public, their chances of getting out of the studio alive are considerably reduced.“Those who have been brave enough, or perhaps foolish enough, to go on the show, and have won big money, have been known to change their name.“Some have even had plastic surgery after their appearance to off-set the very real danger that they could be murdered or kidnapped for their winnings.”In his new book, It’s Not a Proper Job, he also claimed that in other countries the ‘ask the audience’ lifeline was a disaster for contestants.