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Dec122018 by adminNo Comments

Screen Actors Guild Awards: Two nominations for Emily Blunt

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Emily Blunt is up for two prizes at next month's Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, the nominations for which have just been announced.The British star is up for the guild's best film actress prize for Mary Poppins Returns, which is having its European premiere later in London.She is also up for a supporting actor award for horror film A Quiet Place, which husband John Krasinski directed.Christian Bale and Olivia Colman are among the other British nominees.The former is shortlisted for his role as former US vice president Dick Cheney in the political satire Vice.The latter is up for the best actress award for The Favourite, for which Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are also recognised. ...

Sep112017 by adminNo Comments

James Blunt crowd-surfs in a dinghy – and other things we learned at Radio 2's Hyde Park show

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Media playback is unsupported on your deviceJames Blunt set sail over the audience at Radio 2's Hyde Park festival on Sunday - perched precariously inside a rubber dinghy.The star's take on crowd-surfing came at the end of a mid-afternoon set, which featured the hits You're Beautiful, Bonfire Heart and 1973.But he came to a sticky end when the Union Jack dinghy capsized about 30 rows back from the stage."Can we have him back, please?" compere Ken Bruce asked the crowd.Blunt later emerged unscathed, after posing for selfies with (some of) the 35,000-strong audience.Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park: Full coverageRadio 2's rain-soaked "festival in a day" also saw performances from Stereophonics, Rick Astley, Emeli Sande and Blondie.And country star Shania Twain gave her first UK performance in 13 ye...