maddie31
31/01/2010 … JACK DEE has helped raise £45,000 for the search for Madeleine McCann after acting as auctioneer at a London charity sale.
Sun 31 January 2010
holland31
31/01/2010 … DIANE HOLLAND, who played ballroom dancing instructor Yvonne in Hi-De-Hi!, left £685,563 in her will, most of it to sister Gilda – the wife of Hi-De-Hi! writer…
Frisky and Mannish at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … The Hackney Empire new act final was opened by the ever-glamourous, ever-popular cabaret duo Frisky and Mannish, surprisingly well-established for such a new act…
Luke Benson at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … Luke Benson is a promising new stand-up whose confidence and delivery has improved vastly over his short career.
© Claudia Wass Tatiana Ostrakova at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … Tatiana Ostrakova is a Russian stand-up who claims to have come straight from playing Jongleurs Minsk.
Giacinto Palmieri at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … The audience took a while to warm to Giacinto Palmieri, perhaps trying to work out if his very thick Italian accent meant he was a character act.
Luke Graves at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … Luke Graves is a stand-up without any kind of hook, and while his material and delivery show promise, the routine feels under developed.
Abandonman at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … The shock of the night was that Abandoman, a three-man hip-hop group using a tagline (‘the seventh most popular hip-hop group in Ireland’) that’s very similar…