Olivia Cooke: I hope people wouldn t tune into a TV drama just to watch sex
The British star on how ITV s Vanity Fair was bound to fail – and why her Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, makes her nervous
7 March 2021 • 5:00am I ve read the script, and it has changed a lot from the first few seasons : Olivia Cooke will star in the new Game of Thrones prequel
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Olivia Cooke is proof that it’s not only posh actors who make it these days. The 27-year-old is the daughter of a police officer and a sales rep, went to state school in Oldham, left before her A-levels, and never attended drama school. Yet as the star of ITV’s Vanity Fair, Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One and the forthcoming Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, she is fast becoming one of Britain’s most in-demand young actors.
Dementia: The Brains Trust, Episode 2 - Warwick and Pummy Hickling
8 Mar, 2021 03:53 PM
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He fell for her as a lusty 13-year-old.
Now Warwick Hickling, 83, is his wife s full-time carer. All the boys were dead keen on the girls who were fully developed, Warwick told the Herald cheekily. The girls who were flat-chested never got a look in. I ll be completely honest, with Pummy, that was the number one attraction.
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Pamela (Pummy) Hickling suffers from severe Alzheimer s. Photo / Mike Scott
On their wedding day, March 28, 1959, Warwick made a commitment to look after Pummy (Pam) in sickness and health.
Dementia: The Brains Trust, Episode 1- Deborah and Anne Pead
7 Mar, 2021 06:58 PM
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The Brains Trust: Episode 1. Made with funding from NZ On Air. Video / Mike Scott
She doesn t know her name or what day it is. Anne Pead has lost her mind.
Her daughter Deborah, an accomplished PR maven, says dementia has robbed her mother of her personality.
It began with Anne squirrelling away jars of honey, writing herself maps so she wouldn t get lost on the way home and withdrawing large amounts of money from her bank account.
Anne Pead, who suffers from advanced dementia, is flanked by her granddaughter Brittany Eb, left, and daughter Deborah Pead. Photo / Mike Scott
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