News about Charlie Mitchell

JEFF POWELL, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: As today's top-tier procrastinate throne for months to decide whether or not they will fight each other, the time has come to search for John L Sullivan. Of course, not the great man in person. He died more than a hundred years ago. But first to find the spirit that inspired the last bareknuckle world heavyweight champion, who went on to become the first glove holder of the most coveted of all sporting awards. With his fists, he was punished by millions for the demise of all-comers. Lionized for his lurid escapades outside the arena. Courageous in brutal battles that might go on and on for three to four hours.

After being dropped off with other artwork at an Oxfam branch in Oundle, Northamptonshire, the impressionist piece was taken to auctioneers to be appreciated. Greg Bateman, a senior valuer, was shocked when the painting, which is said to have been created by Henry Tuke in 1915, emerged from a shopping bag. Because the photograph had no signature and no background information, he slapped a modest estimate of between £400 and £600. When it went under the hammer at Batemans Auctioneers in Stamford, Lincolnshire, it smashed its guide price to sell for £24,800 at auction.

After putting on the famous Peggy Mitchell wig to film an EastEnders flashback episode, Jaime Winstone has revealed that she heard the late Barbara Windsor's voice. When playing Dame Barbara's Carry On character for the second time, the actress, 37, had trouble shedding the 'wiggle and giggle' of her character, the first being 2017's BBC biopic Babs. "It's f***ing nerve-wracking," she told The Mirror. You're just playing the most iconic character in British TV history! I tried to convert the tremblings into excitement. I could hear her saying, "You've got this," as soon as I started the wig on.

In the forthcoming flashback episode of the BBC soap, EastEnders viewers get a first glance at the Mitchell family. The special episode, which was announced last month and will air on September 5, is expected to transport viewers back to 1979 as the Walford family's dynamo struggled with British economic turmoil. Jaime Winstone is depicted at the center of a newly released dramatic family portrait, shot in a traditional 1970s dining room, as the family matriarch Peggy Mitchell.