News about Jenny Seagrove

Heroism of the first class on the Channel Islands. Untold accounts of the brave World War Two postal workers who risked death – or worse – are among the many of the survivors of the war against the Nazis on the Channel Islands

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 7, 2024
He waited for the tea urn to soften the edges of the envelope before leading the door to the empty canteen. As his heart throbbed, he delicately escorted the letter. Its treacherous contents tripped poison. 'I have a legitimate reason to believe that Mr Dark hears the English news very often,' it says. Watch him go. 'Yours, Helpful.' The letter had been written on flimsy tomato packing paper and daubed in kidish capitals, but it was enough to condemn Mr Dark of 9 Belmont Gardens, St Helier, Jersey, to the deadliest of deaths in a Nazi concentration camp. Fortunately, he was spared from this fate due to the tenacity of a patriotic wartime postman. The brave journalist was able to warn Mr Dark that he should not have to get rid of his forbidden wireless by steaming open the letter sent by an informant stationed on the island.

Bill Kenwright dies aged 78: Everton chairman and legendary West End theatre impresario behind Blood Brothers, Joseph and Fame passes away days after returning home from surgery on cancerous liver tumour

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 24, 2023
In August, Kenwright underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his liver. Because of complications during surgery, he spent a lengthy time in intensive care before returning home two weeks ago. He was one of the country's top theatre designers and starred in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar. However, the Scouser was perhaps best known for the long-running West End hit Blood Brothers, which lasted 24 years in the West End before playing for three years at the Music Box Theatre in Broadway. In 2022 (left), he was seen with Gareth Southgate (left); with his partner Jenny Seagrove (top right); and posing with Andrew Lloyd Webber at a party (bottom right).

In Falkland Sound, bringing back the years... to a 'Argy-bargy' bit

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 18, 2023
GEORGINA BROWN: Forty years after that unforgettable headline 'Gotcha! Brad Birch's latest play revisits the Falklands War, which is best known for its reconstruction of a financially struggling Mrs Thatcher's family. Birch was only six when his uncle, who was serving in the Navy, survived a sinking ship. The playwright went on the 8,000-mile journey to interview people in Port Stanley, the capital, with a close-knit population of 800 in 1982. It's no wonder that it seems like Ambridge. 'Gossip is a form of exercise,' says nice old Mrs H, who raises chickens and tomatoes.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: According to Beatrice's mother, Britain defeats gun-mad US as a place to grow up

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 28, 2022
RICHARD EDEN: Her son was welcomed so warmly into the Royal Family that he joined the King and Queen on their walk to church in Sandringham on Christmas Day. Dara Huang (right), a retired architect, has expressed her admiration for Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi's (left with Princess Beatrice and Edolfie) education in this region rather than her native America. She is concerned that the six-year-old may have become yet another victim of a school shooting in the United States.