The Crown's Gillian Anderson had to wear a fat suit to play Margaret Thatcher

Kanye West has drawn an Avengers-themed line in the sand, and ex Kim Kardashian and new boyfriend Pete Davidson are on the wrong side of it.

Kanye West has drawn an Avengers-themed line in the sand, and ex Kim Kardashian and new boyfriend Pete Davidson are on the wrong side of it.

Patrisse Cullors Black History Month has always been about abolition for me.I may not have known the word abolition as a young girl, but I understood abolition in my spirit. At my core, I witnessed a community ravaged and decimated by police and prisons, and I wanted more for us.

Pour one out! After working together for two seasons on Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias, the show’s leading ladies are just as welcoming and friendly as their onscreen counterparts.

Dancing On Ice star Chemmy Alcott has opened up on the no holds barred advice she received from series winner Matthew Wolfenden after she was eliminated from the competition.Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, the former ski racer, 39, detailed the words of wisdom she got from Emmerdale star Matthew, 41, who went on to secure the trophy for the series in 2012.When asked how performing on the popular ITV show compared to skiing, Chemmy admitted that she felt out of her element.She said: "You're performing, there's a start to your performance and a start to your race."I was much more comfortable being a ski racer."She went on to explain that she "froze" up after taking to the ice with late partner Sean Rice, after she learnt of the huge viewing figures the show had.Chemmy said: "Whereas with Dancing On Ice, I remember the first time I spaced out there, like, 'There's, you know, over 10 million people tuning in.'"And I just got dry lips, and I froze," she added.The sportswoman told how she didn't have the same problem when she was hurtling down slopes while skiing.She continued: "You don't think about that at all, because you're not doing it for the cameras in skiing."The cameras are there, but you are racing a clock."Your purpose is not entertainment, it's speed," she explained, before adding: "Whereas this show's all about entertaining people tuning in."Chemmy added that she had no idea where the cameras were until after she got eliminated from the show and her co-star Matt gave her some advice.She said: "I didn't even know where the cameras were and I did 10 weeks!"And when I got knocked out, the guy who won it, Matt Wolfenden, said to me, 'Oh, you would have been so much better if you performed to the cameras!'"And I

In January, Oti and Marius set up a property company named Lionshead Property Investments, officially registered on Companies house.Oti isn’t the only one in her family who has cast her net further than television.Motsi Mabuse originally trained to be a civil engineer.She has her own company named Pure Mabuse Entertainment, and receiving around £500,000 per year.She also got involved in writing children’s picture books, such as Dance With Oti: The Bird Jive, teaching kids to develop their dancing skills.Two more picture books are expected to follow on soon."I moved all the way from Africa so I must make something of myself," Oti told the Mail Online in January."I am really trying to learn and do as much as I can for as long as I can, while I can."

Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire was used as both the interior of Downing Street – where Margaret Thatcher, played by Gillian Anderson, is seen working and holding meetings – and the Queen's Scottish holiday home, Balmoral Castle, where Olivia Colman spends time.That means both Anderson and Colman – along with the cast and crew of The Crown –stayed at Hedsor during filming. And now you can too because the house is available for hire post-lockdown.It's perhaps unsurprising that Morgan chose the beautiful property as a key filming location.

Manori Ravindran International EditorPatient viewers of Netflix’s royal drama “The Crown” are in for a serious pay-off with season 4, which introduces Princess Diana for the first time and delights in the painful tension between the Queen and then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.“Up until [this] point, we had been in deep history. But I do think this is the first of the modern series,” said creator Peter Morgan during a virtual press conference for the show on Thursday.

With London currently in lockdown, the cast of The Crown missed out on a physical premiere for the new season of the hit Netflix show.

The cast of “The Crown” is bringing the season four premiere home, literally.

THE Crown's Gillian Anderson was forced to wear a fat suit to play Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of the hit royal drama. The actress plays Britain's first-ever female Prime Minister in the new series which returns on Sunday and has revealed the physical challenges that came with the role.

“The Crown” stars Olivia Colman and Gillian Anderson spoke about meeting the actual royal family as they chatted to Stephen Colbert on Wednesday’s “The Late Show”.

 Gillian Anderson  is letting fans in on some of the behind-the-scenes work that went into her transformation for a recent role. According to the actress, she went to extreme lengths to play Margaret Thatcher  on the upcoming season of The Crown.

Fans are anxiously awaiting the upcoming fourth season of “The Crown”, and the new season is more anticipated than ever as the story of Britain’s royal family enters the tumultuous 1980s — and the introduction of Emma Corrin as Princess Diana.

Gillian Anderson went to extreme lengths to play Margaret Thatcher on the upcoming season of “The Crown”.

The latest season of The Crown is almost arriving on Netflix and will feature some explosive storylines.

SEX, war, adultery and terror attacks - the eagerley awaited new series of The Crown enters the Eighties and delivers its most explosive storylines yet. With the Queen’s four children grown up, they start making their way in the world just as the country undergoes a revolution under the premiership of Margaret Thatcher.

*WARNING: THE CROWN SEASON FOUR SPOILERS BELOW* In the ninth episode of the fourth series of The Crown, Princess Anne (Erin Doherty) tells The Queen (Olivia Colman): "The Wales' marriage is a rare example of something that is actually worse than the newspapers report." And the few ups and many downs which play out in the doomed marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer take centre-stage in the series four of the popular Netflix drama.

A recurring theme over the first three seasons of Netflix’s Emmy-winning program, “The Crown,” is the familiar old adage that history repeats itself. And, despite the knowledge of their past misfortunes, Britain’s Royal Family continues to fail spectacularly at avoiding embarrassment in the public eye.

After their split, Gillian later welcomed Oscar and Felix with British Businessman Mark Griffiths.In a recent interview with Harper's Bazaar, Gillian opened up on balancing motherhood with work.She told the magazine: "I'm pretty good at compartmentalising in my life, period."I think I learnt that quite young, being a young mother, in a really intense TV series where it was either full on on-set, or I was in my trailer having to shut the door and no longer be that person but be Mum."In 2019, Gillian hit our screens as Jean Milburn in the Netflix series Sex Education which saw her take on the role of a sex therapist.Talking to The Times in January, Gillian spoke of how she sometimes becomes her character in her own life.She explained: "I find

In order to play Margaret Thatcher, Gillian Anderson has revealed she had to put politics aside.