News about Omid Djalili

Dame Maggie Smith revealed the impact Harry Potter had on her life in a resurfaced interview as people everywhere started to recognise her.  The beloved actress - who sadly died aged 89 on Friday - starred as Minerva McGonagall in seven of the eight films.  Following her death, Maggie's 2023 appearance on The Graham Norton Show has resurfaced, where the actress and the Irish comedian, 61, discussed how Harry Potter 'changed her life'. 

The comedian and actor, 58, tells Tom Parker Bowles about what he does with profiteroles, his disgrace after eating a chilli and five years of chips with everything

Omid Djalili, a British-Iranian comedian, was set to appear at his show, Omid Djalili and Friends, in Market Drayton, Shropshire, on Saturday. Many who purchased tickets to the performance will be refunded next week, according to the organization. "Due to security threats made against Omid Djalili, the Festival Drayton Centre's manager, Jodie Rudd, told the Shropshire Star: Tonight's performance has had to be cancelled due to security reasons.' All customers are being reached, and we're working really hard.' A spokesperson for West Mercia Police said they had not received any reports regarding the incident from the venue, and they had reached out to Mr Djalili to ask assistance. Mr Djalili, a young Londoner who grew up in Kensington, London, has cancelled his show ahead of his scheduled Irish tour next week, where he will appear in Derry, Belfast, Dublin, and Galway.

Rice, 64, who is best known for her reality show Challenge Anneka, which saw her do extensive trials for charitable causes, made a series of lighthearted quips on X, formerly known as Twitter, as search results for Khalife, 21 (right). On Wednesday, he emerged from HMP Wandsworth, sparking huge hunts for the criminal and suspicion that it had been planned with help from within the jail. The Metropolitan Police said it had been searching Richmond Park in southwest London, about six miles from the jail, as part of the national manhunt, where Rice dodged military experts on Channel 4's Celebrity Hunted in 2017.

Omid Djalili has shared an article about a frightening encounter he had while attending university in Ireland, where he was almost shot and killed. The Iranian-British comedian, 57, who grew up in Kensington and forged his grades to attend higher education, began his adulthood at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, where he studied English and Theatre studies. However, since he was in the middle of the Troubles raging in Northern Ireland, his university years weren't without incident.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: When it opened in New York less than six years ago, Wetherby-Pembridge School in Notting Hill, 'the alma mater of both William and Harry' (pictured). However, the spell has been irretrievably broken. Wetherby-Pembridge, which had been charged with 'a whopping $45,000 [£35,600]-a-year]-a-year' right from the start, has closed and its website has been suspended, according to me.

Sarah Vine, a writer from the United Kingdom, gives Channel 4's The Change, a new six-part drama about the menopause, a great review this week. Lily-Rose Depp's appearance in the Idol was less impressive. Finally, There She Goes, a BBC iPLAYER product, gives a refreshingly realistic glimpse of life with a severely disabled child.

Callum Scott Howells of A Sin appeared unrecognizable during his Royal Variety Performance on Tuesday. EmCee, the actor who is currently playing the role of EmCee in Cabaret, appeared on stage with his fellow cast members to perform the musical's opening number "Welcoming" at the welcome reception. In the award-winning Channel 4 drama, Colin Morris-Jones donned a bizarre make-up for the appearance, looking worlds away from his persona.

On Wednesday night, protests erupted across Iran, with local reports of large crowds descending on a central square in Tehran in a renewed attempt to overthrowrown the government, as the country continued to be rattled by protests three months after Mahsa Amini's death. According to local reports, people marched in Tehran's capital city, congregating in Azadi Square in a massive protest. Strikes and protests have been organized around the region this week as calls to overthrowrown Iran's theocracy have grown.

Just Stop Oil protesters outrage last week after two protesters were jailed for tossing tomato soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery. Phoebe Plummer's activity, despite being strongly condemned, has gone viral on Twitter after defending her behavior. Plummer and Anna Holland arrived in the National Gallery on Friday, wearing Just Stop Oil shirts, and they proceeded to throw Heinz tomato soup over the 1888 painting. A video of the stunt has since been viewed by over 50 million people, as they shouted, "Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?" Both were arrested for criminal harm and aggravated trespass on October 15th, but they were released on bail on the condition that they do not enter galleries or museums and do not have paint or adhesive substances in a public place. A trial is set for December 13th, Dec. The National Gallery said in a tweet that minor damage to the frame had been done, but that the painting had not been affected.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: After he cleaned up the brickwork at his new house without first obtaining authorization, former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was forced to request retrospective planning permission from his local council. For retrospective permission to clean the façade of his early Victorian villa, which he and his wife, Harriet, bought for £1.7 million, Kwarteng had to petition Greenwich council. Two anonymous critics said a'criminal offence' had occurred because council permission had not been sought at the time of the investigation.

Notting Hill boosted Hugh Grant's fame as Britain's top guy and raised property prices in the once run-down corner of West London to those of Mayfair or Belgravia. Nonetheless, comedian Omid Djalili has slammed the 1999 smash-hit romantic comedy, saying that ethnic actors' scenes were cut - and his own role diminished - in order to make it'more white.' Djalili, who supervised the Queen's Jubilee celebrations at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in May, says, "Notting Hill, another film I was excluded from for being too brown."

RIICHARD EDEN: Lady Eliza Manners is used to being the center of attention at parties. However, the 25-year-old interior designer is in danger of merging into the background in this style. In Leicestershire, Belvoir Castle, she is wearing a floral dress that imitates the decor at her family's ancestral home. 'This wallpaper, which predates the castle, has been used in a celebration,' Lady Eliza says. There have been four castles on the site, the new one being built between 1801 and 1832.