News about Michael Sheen

The Monty Python legend, 81, began making travelogues with the Beeb in the 1980s - starting with the incredible Around the World in 80 Days, which saw him attempting to recreate the feat undertaken by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's classic novel. For almost 25 years he hosted a series of travel programmes for the broadcaster - but he has now said the partnership ended after the BBC began to insist too heavily on taking every possible precaution before the cameras rolled. But his unwillingness to kowtow to health and safety has not deterred him from filming shows for other broadcasters.

Fans heaped riotous applause on the 35-year-old comedian and actor after he appeared in off-beat West End play White Rabbit Red Rabbit, where a different star takes to the stage every night with no rehearsal. Fans were desperate to catch Gadd in the solo 'experimental' production after seeing him play himself in the dark TV comedy which won multiple Emmy awards. Georgia Meacham (left) said the play was 'amazing' and described how Gadd gave 100 per cent to the role

When Prince Andrew found himself caught up in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the Royal Family had to quickly respond. Prince Philip, who was 98 years old at the time, had retired from royal duties but was still the head of the family. Advising his son on how to handle the situation was, 'one last family intervention he was keen to execute himself,' royal expert Tina Brown wrote in her 2022 book The Palace Papers. Andrew had been summoned to Sandringham to meet with his father and explain his side of things after his disastrous interview with the BBC 's Emily Maitlis on Newsnight. The meeting resulted in the late Duke of Edinburgh asking his son to 'step down' from his royal duties. Andrew's Newsnight encounter has been dramatised in the new Amazon Prime show A Very Royal Scandal , which stars Michael Sheen as the Prince and Ruth Wilson as Ms Maitlis and was released last Thursday.

Rachel Weisz has said she 'felt terribly for Prince Andrew' while watching the Amazon drama of his Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis. The Oscar-winning actress, 54, also praised Michael Sheen's portrayal of the disgraced royal in A Very Royal Scandal which was released on Thursday. She said: 'What I love so much about the series is the empathy with which Prince Andrew is played, and the pathos and humanity in this character, which is something that the writer and Michael Sheen had to invent.

A Very Royal Scandal shines an uncomfortable spotlight on a time the Royal Family would prefer to forget. From his inaugural 'f*** off' to a hapless flunkey, the latest TV retelling of Prince Andrew's catastrophic Newsnight interview is a brutal portrait of the disgraced Duke. The November 2019 broadcast that he hoped would clear his name torpedoed his royal career, saw him trapped in a transatlantic court battle with his sex abuse accuser, Virginia Giuffre , and eventually stripped of his HRH title by his own mother. As a result the three-part Prime Video series - starring Michael Sheen as the Prince and Ruth Wilson as interviewer Emily Maitlis - has been viewed with dread by some in the royal household, with many former staff seen on screen. But just how accurate is it...

The new series, which is available to stream in the UK from Thursday, recreates Emily Maitlis' journey leading up to her bombshell Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew, 64. Actress Ruth Wilson (pictured right), 42, plays the former journalist, 54, in a retelling of the car crash interview with Prince Andrew, played by Michael Sheen (pictured left), when the royal was quizzed about his friendship with Jefferey Epstein in November 2019, which threatened to damage the reputation of the royal family. (Pictured: Scenes from A Very Royal Scandal)

A Very Royal Scandal viewers complained that their 'skin was crawling' as they watched the new three-part Prime Video series when it came out on Thursday. It follows actress Ruth Wilson, 42, who plays former Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis, 54, in a retelling of the car crash interview involving Prince Andrew back in November 2019. He was quizzed about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein which threatened to damage the reputation of the entire royal family.  

Sources close to Prince Andrew have revealed he knows there is 'no way' for him to curry favour with the public, as a new TV drama raises fresh questions about his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.  The disgraced Duke was forced to step back from public duties in 2019, following a car crash interview with the BBC.  A new Amazon TV show starring Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew will re-examine the allegations that he had sex with then-17-year-old Virginia Giuffre in 2001, after she was trafficked around the world by Epstein and his lover Ghislaine Maxwell. 

If Prince Andrew has any tears left to shed, then he better start shedding them now -because how can he possibly recover from such an onslaught? As portrayed by Michael Sheen in this glossy three-part drama series, Andrew is an unremittingly ghastly person with no redeeming features whatsoever. He is by turns a buffoon, a boor, a bore and a blimp. He lets his personal secretary Amanda Thirsk (Joanna Scanlan) bend down to tie his shoelaces and doesn't even say thank you.

For years, Prince Andrew (left, pictured today) has been fighting to rebuild his image, first because of his relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and then after his car-crash Newsnight interview. A new Amazon Prime Video three-part series, A Very Royal Scandal, dramatising the bombshell interview (right, Michael Sheen as Andrew) will be released tomorrow. Andrew was pilloried for his TV performance because of a lack of contrition for his friendship with the paedophile and his failure to express sympathy for the dozens of women Epstein trafficked and abused over three decades. His alibis for not having sex with Virginia Roberts (inset, with Andrew in 2001 when she was 17) three times, including being in Woking's Pizza Express, have also been widely ridiculed by the public. The Prime Video programme follows the real-life story of how the interview was set up and the famous 2019 BBC One encounter that followed between Prince Andrew and journalist Emily Maitlis.

In a clip from A Very Royal Scandal (pictured) shared exclusively with Femail, the Duke of York, played by Michael Sheen, says he could not have had sex with Virginia Roberts - who claims she slept with the royal in 2001 - because he was out with Princess Beatrice at the pizzeria in Woking. The three-part Amazon Prime Video programme, released tomorrow, follows actress Ruth Wilson, 42, who plays former Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis, 54, in a retelling of the car crash interview involving Prince Andrew back in November 2019. He was quizzed about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein which threatened to damage the reputation of the entire royal family. In an exclusive video ahead of the show's release, actor Michael portrays Prince Andrew during the moment he denied the claim that he had been in the nightclub, Tramps, with a 17-year-old Virginia Roberts, now Giuffre. Andrew has always strenuously denied the claims he sexually assaulted Roberts and in 2022 paid millions to her to settle a civil case out of court, saying he never met her. The three-part show has not claimed to be fully factually accurate.

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The Duke of York (right) was spotted riding his horse in the grounds around Windsor Castle on Wednesday, just one day before his infamous 2019 interview with Emily Maitlis is set to come back into the spotlight - as the subject of Amazon Prime Video's new three-part series, in which Michael Sheen plays the royal (left and inset).

Emily Maitlis reflected on her history-making interview with Prince Andrew in 2019 as she appeared on Wednesday's Good Morning Britain. The former BBC journalist, 54, was on the show to promote the new Prime Video three-part series A Very Royal Scandal which follows the story of setting up the interview and the famous encounter itself. Actress Ruth Wilson, 42, plays Emily in the new drama while Michael Sheen portrays the Duke Of York.

More than 12,000 people signed a petition demanding the Welsh Government change the country's name by abolishing the word 'Wales'. They say the English name has been 'imposed on Cymru' and that by being known by its mother tongue would improve the country's international standing. The move follows Snowdonia officially becoming known as Eryri in 2022 and the Brecon Beacons national park rebranding itself as Bannau Brycheiniog the following year.

The prince, 64, was spotted riding his horse with a groom through a Berkshire village, before driving back to his home on the Windsor Castle estate. The Duke of York wore a dark grey jacket to shield from the plummeting temperatures, dark blue jodhpurs and a pair of thick leather riding gloves. His outing comes as sources claimed Prince Andrew will be forced to pay for the upkeep and security of Royal Lodge himself or consider living elsewhere because King Charles's financial support will shortly stop.

Actor Michael Sheen - who plays Prince Andrew in a new drama about his disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis - says that he has a private view about whether the Royal did or did not sleep with teenager Virginia Roberts . Sheen says that he would do different takes of key scenes playing the Prince as having engaged with Roberts or not, but tried to allow the audience to find it 'ambiguous.' The show, A Very Royal Scandal, will stream on Prime Video from September 19 and was launched last night in London . It hints that Prince Andrew might have slept with Roberts - now known as Virginia Giuffre - but thought it unimportant and forgotten about it. Andrew has always strenuously denies the claims he sexually assaulted Roberts and in 2022 paid millions to her to settle a civil case out of court, saying he never met her.

Michael Sheen has revealed he prepared to play Prince Andrew by looking at 'hot' throwbacks of the Duke of York.  The actor, 55, portrays the disgraced royal, 64, in Prime Video's A Very Royal Scandal - a retelling of Prince Andrew's car crash Newsnight interview in 2019. Understandably, the royal was not involved in the production so Michael revealed that he had an unique method for getting into character. 

The journalist serves as an executive producer on the upcoming Prime Video series A Very Royal Scandal - a retelling of the 2019 interview. The interview was widely branded a 'car crash' for the Duke of York, but Emily has now revealed that he actually wanted to spend more time during the chat on sweating and Pizza Express-gate. Emily - who is portrayed in the series by actress Ruth Wilson - also opened up about the interview's surprising impact on her career opportunities afterwards. Of Prince Andrew's request, she said: 'Once we'd finished the interview, I said as a courtesy, "Is there anything that didn't get included that you wanted to discuss?" and Prince Andrew said, "Well actually, there were a couple of things. You didn't include my alibi".

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles - packing his travelling yeoman for next month's Commonwealth Summit in Samoa for his first face to face meeting with leaders since the publication of Harry's Spare - will also be bracing himself for the fallout from another book, the Dutch version of Sussex mouthpiece Omid Scobie's tome.  Anything that destabilises the Royal Family is seized on by those who want to break the bloc's link with the King. Scobie's tittle-tattle named, without any cited evidence, the King and Kate as the offenders accused of racism by Meghan in her 2021 Oprah interview.  He blamed a translating 'error'. But Scooby Doo's claim will still cause HM much unneeded stress.

Set to retell the story of Prince Andrew's 'car crash' interview the dramatisation stars Michael Sheen as the Duke of York and Ruth Wilson as journalist Emily Maitlis.

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Epstein had won a Tony Award for producing Hairpsray before the age of 30 and received other nominations for his work on revivals of Amadeus and The Crucible. His family said that he had passed away on Tuesday at Adventist Health hospital in Glendale, California .

Amazon Prime released new first-look images of upcoming drama A Very Royal Scandal on Tuesday and announced when it will drop on the streamer.  Set to retell the story of Prince Andrew's 'car crash' interview the dramatisation stars Michael Sheen as the Duke of York and Ruth Wilson as journalist Emily Maitlis. The three part series will premiere on 19 September exclusively on Prime Video in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.