THEY’VE competed towards one another on Strictly and spent most of this 12 months treading the boards as a duo.
Now Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice are even occurring vacation collectively.
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The completed consequence will kind a travelogue for BBC1, which will probably be filmed this summer time and air simply after the dance contest returns within the autumn.
Referred to as Giovanni And Anton: Adventures In Sicily, it sees the Italian stallion take Strictly’s new choose again to the place he was born and raised.
A TV insider stated: “Telly travelogues appear to be all the fashion proper now, however producers know they solely work if their hosts have the fitting dynamic.
“With Giovanni they’ve the sleek intercourse enchantment and in Anton they’ve his self-deprecating humour.
“Collectively they’re a no brainer for execs.
“And naturally they couldn’t be outdone by fellow Strictly stars Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli, whose jaunt around the UK proved a success on ITV final 12 months.”
A second sequence of Bruno And Craig’s Nice British Highway Journeys is deliberate, so Giovanni and Anton may have some direct competitors.
They aren’t their solely rivals both.
Different celeb duos hitting the highway embrace Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming, who will probably be touring LA and San Francisco of their present for Channel 4, and EastEnders star Danny Dyer and daughter Dani even have a travelogue within the pipeline, once more for C4.
Nevertheless, Anton and Gio will probably be hoping the Italian ingredient will give their present the sting.
Plus they know they may get together with one another on the highway as a result of they’re presently touring with their Him And Me tour.
Right here’s hoping they don’t get caught up in any airport chaos — in any other case they may not be again in time for Strictly’s September begin.
OWEN LABEL
THEY say that a military marches on its abdomen.
However within the Love Island villa, the battle rests on their skimpy swimwear.
And in what I’m certain you’ll agree is essential analysis, Gemma Owen has been revealed because the bikini bank-buster of the sequence.
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Michael Owen’s daughter has sported a whopping £500-worth of cossies – nearly double the worth of the opposite women’ collections together with Ekin-Su’s £245-worth and Danica’s £230.
However Gem’s not been splurging on her England legend dad’s bank card, as the highest notch togs are literally from her personal swimwear model.
Additionally working laborious final evening was Dami Hope, who begged Indiyah Polack for a second likelihood after ditching her throughout Casa Amor.
He gushed: “There was a potential connection there with Summer season however I don’t really feel like the best way I really feel like after we’re collectively.
“It’s incomparable to what I really feel we have now.”
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BRISTOL has launched a bid to host the Eurovision Tune Contest subsequent 12 months after 2022 winners Ukraine stepped down.
Town’s mayor Marvin Rees stated of welcoming the present, which is able to air on the BBC: “As a metropolis of sanctuary, Bristol might be the caretaker subsequent 12 months.”
KATE: I’LL LIVE MY OWN LIFE
KATE GARRAWAY has revealed that she has been laborious at work planning her second sequence of Life Tales.
The telly host took over the reins of the ITV speak present from Piers Morgan when he left the channel.
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And Kate has confessed she is happy for the primetime programme to lastly really feel like her personal.
She stated: “Life Tales is coming again, in order that’s good.
“Piers is Piers, and he’s superb, however I believe will probably be fascinating with one other sequence to see if it feels extra like mine – somewhat than like I’m borrowing it from Piers.”
The casting exec for Life Tales promised Kate’s wishlist of company was “thrilling” and will make for an ideal sequence.
One way or the other Kate has managed to slot in this work alongside her duties on Good Morning Britain and caring for her stricken hubby, Derek.
What an incredible lady.
HUGH’S A BEAVER BELIEVER
HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL’S return to telly has been precisely what all of us wanted in these troubling occasions.
And the telly chef has extra healthful tales for us on this week’s River Cottage Reunited.
This week Hugh discovers that beavers have returned to the River Brit due to a rewilding venture.
In tonight’s present, at 9pm on More4, he says: “That is the unique gate that I walked by 23 years in the past and I had no thought my life was altering without end.
“I wished to flee metropolis life, learn to dwell off the land sustainably, rising my very own veg and preserving my very own livestock.
“With a hammock between these two bushes, the thought I could be in there and a beaver swim straight previous me, that’s thrilling.”
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CORONATION Avenue followers will probably be rocked this week as Kelly Neelan finds herself imprisoned in a darkish cellar.
Effectively-meaning Kelly tried to proper her legal father’s wrongs however results in huge hassle.
Actress Millie Gibson stated: “Kelly is distraught. She has hit all-time low.”
KIDS ARE TAKING MY BUSH
THERE’S not been a TV sequence as universally liked as Stranger Issues in a very good whereas, with audiences throughout the globe lapping up its barnstorming finale sequence.
Effectively, everybody besides Marvel director Taika Waititi, that’s.
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He’s taken actual umbrage at Netflix bosses’ alternative of music for the sci-fi romp – Kate Bush particularly.
Within the sort of rant I count on from my very own dad, Taika stated: “I really like that present, however as somebody who feels an actual possession of Kate Bush music . . . I’m actually aggravated.
“I’ve turn out to be a kind of previous a***holes who’s like, ‘These youngsters by no means listened to Kate Bush, they’ve heard one tune on a TV present!
“They don’t know Kate Bush! I do know Kate Bush!’ ”
The place was Taika when Peter Kay and Matt Lucas lined The Proclaimers’ tune I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) for Comedian Reduction, eh?
BBC FINDS FACEBOOK DATA SALE
IT TURNS out there’s a less-savoury aspect to all of the birthday messages, photos of cats and reversion reminiscences on Fb.
A BBC investigation by Morning Reside has discovered that the social media large has allowed the sale of hundreds of individuals’s private information for as little as 16p a time.
Matt Allwright and his crew purchased particulars of 1,000 Brits, together with their residence addresses, emails, estimated internet value, and an estimated earnings bracket.
Matt stated: “We have been so shocked to be taught Fb was permitting a lot of these gross sales.
“That is invaluable to scammers and cyber criminals, and there’s no approach it must be obtainable on-line.”
Study extra on Morning Reside as we speak at 9.15am on BBC1 or atone for BBC iPlayer.
