Sun 31 January 2010
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31/01/2010 … IMPROVISED hip-hop act Abandoman won the Hackney Empire new act of the year contest on Saturday, with Inel Tomlinson second, Frisky & Mannish third and Andrew Ryan…
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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.
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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.