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  • Mel and Sue to bring back the Generation Game

    Mel and Sue are to present one of the most anticipated reboots of Saturday evening television.

    Bigger and better than ever before, the much-loved family gameshow The Generation Game is returning to our screens for a four episode run with Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins running proceedings.

    This classic show, from BBC Studios, combines elements everyone knows and loves from the original series, whilst being brought up to date with a hilarious selection of brand new games and challenges for families of all ages to play in studio and enjoy watching at home.

    Pairs of family members across generations will battle it out in a series of fun performance and task based games with the ultimate goal of facing the legendary conveyor belt, and taking home an array of fabulous prizes.

    All our family pairs will start the show in the studio audience and only find out which game they’re playing when Mel and Sue get them from their seats. There’s no time for rehearsals in this game show, so anything could happen on the night.

    Mel and Sue are joined by a panel of star judges, there to score our family pairs after each game and ultimately decide which pair faces the conveyor belt.

    Furthermore, special celebrity guests will be getting involved in the action along the way.

    Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins say,

    “It’s a cuddly toy, it’s a toaster, it’s a circular power saw, no it’s MEL AND SUE DOING THE GENERATION GAME! We can’t believe it, we are so excited!”

     

    LGBT PAY GAP at BBC

    There was a remarkable lack of lesbian, bisexual and trans personalities featured when the BBC revealed its annual report, which, in-turn revealed the salaries of 96 of the best-paid talents at the BBC. However, the list only covered talent that is directly paid for by the BBC and not by independent production companies.

    Mel and Sue were hosts of one of the BBC’s most popular formats, Great British Bake Off, but as the show is made by Love Productions the salaries of presenters and contributors like Mary Berry were left off the annual report.

    The Great British Bake Off was sold to Channel 4 earlier this year, but the new show will not be hosted by Mel and Sue. The Channel 4 show will be co-hosted by Sandi Toksvig.

     

    Bringing Back An Icon

    Charlotte Moore, Director of Content, says

    “The Generation Game is an iconic BBC One show, so to be able to bring it back for today’s audience with Mel and Sue overseeing things is a wonderful moment for the channel.”

    Kate Phillips, Controller Entertainment Commissioning, said,

    “We’re so thrilled to be bringing back this much loved show to BBC One. With the marvellous Mel and Sue at the helm, it promises to be a real treat for all generations.”

    Guy Freeman, Editor, Special Events and Formats BBC Studios, says,

    “When asked, this is the TV show that viewers most wanted to see back on their screens and so we are thrilled to be able to make that happen with Mel and Sue, who I know will have just as much fun hosting it as contestants will playing it.”

    The show has been co-commissioned by Charlotte Moore, Director of Content, and Kate Phillips, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning and is made by BBC Studios’, the BBC’s main commercial production arm. Nic McNeilis is the Executive Producer for BBC Studios.

    The Generation Game began on BBC One in 1971 and its longest-serving host was Sir Bruce Forsyth.

     

  • Celebrity Big Brother 2017 has a launch date

    The Channel 5 bods have announced a Celebrity Big Brother launch date and a rather snazzy new eye logo.

    The Big Brother house is undergoing a complete redesign ready for its new star guests. It will become a high-end retreat inspired by celeb hotel hang-outs.

    But while the celebs kick back and let their hair down, Big Brother never takes a day off – after all, he wants to ensure that the celebrities will have an experience that they will NEVER forget!

    Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit On the Side will return weeknights with Rylan Clark-Neal. Joining him will be a variety of celebrity panellists, talking heads and an audience of CBB fans to debate hot topics, reveal exclusives and go behind the scenes of the main show.

    The new show launches on the 1st August at 9PM Channel 5

  • First trans actor in EastEnders sad that the character didn’t get “happy ending”

    Riley Carter Millington is “disappointed” his ‘EastEnders’ character didn’t get a “happy ending” and a chance to lead a “normal life”.

    The 23-year-old actor played Kyle Slater in the BBC soap between 2015 and 2016 and was the first transgender man to play a regular transgender character on a British soap.

    However, Riley felt “frustrated” that his character didn’t get a chance to have a “normal life”.

    He told The Sun,

    “I was disappointed it was not shown that Kyle had a normal life. He had the big coming-out story and it was dramatic and emotional, but we didn’t get to see a happy ending, like a relationship of any sort other than the reunion with his half-sister, Stacey. It was frustrating. I felt I let myself and the fans down as I could have pushed for something. It’s a shame to have gay characters and then you have to say goodbye.”

    When Riley quit EastEnders, he revealed the reason for his departure was because producers believed his character Kyle’s story had reached a “natural end”.

    He said at the time,

    “When I landed a six-month contract at EastEnders it was a dream come true. For that to be extended to a year was something I never expected.

    “However, as the time comes for Kyle to depart Walford I am looking forward to taking on new roles and who knows, Kyle may find his way back to Walford one day.”

    When he was cast in the role, Riley admitted he had achieved his two biggest dreams.

    He shared,

    “I am extremely excited to be joining ‘EastEnders’. I can honestly say that I have now fulfilled my two biggest dreams – to be living my life as a man and to be an actor. I cannot wait to really get stuck in with filming and I look forward to seeing what is in store for my character.”

  • Sinitta has “ridiculous” CBB demands

    Sinitta is approached for Celebrity Big Brother every single year – but bosses swiftly retract their offer when they hear her “ridiculous” demands.

    Sinitta has "ridiculous" CBB demands

    The ‘So Macho’ hitmaker has admitted she’s asked to enter the famous abode every time bosses put the line-up together but, although they’re put off by her terms and conditions, she’s adamant they’ll come round to her way of thinking sometime soon.

    Speaking on ‘Lorraine’ on Thursday (20.07.17), she said,

    ” Well they said my demands were ridiculous – I said they were reasonable.

    “We’ve been talking for years and we’ll go on talking. I’m going to live for a few more years and I think they’ll come around to my way of thinking.”

    However, the 53-year-old singer certainly has her hands full this year as she’s confident that her friend Simon Cowell will ask her to help him with the Judges’ Houses round of the forthcoming series of ‘The X Factor’ after he replaced her with Mel B last year.

    She explained,

    “Remember Simon last year invited me back live on air? So you know we’ve got that, we’ve got that recorded.

    “But I did read recently that he offered Cheryl Tweedy £500,000 to come back to do Judges’ Houses. Rude, just rude. I mean I don’t know – hopefully he’s just being funny.”

    And, although she thinks the 57-year-old music mogul – who has a three-year-old son called Eric with his girlfriend Lauren Silverman – is “sexy”, she doesn’t fancy him.

    She said,

    “They said, ‘do I still think he is attractive now that he has sort of become more cosy and softer’ and I said, ‘he is still a very handsome, sexy man’. Does that mean I still fancy him? … Because I know he is not really that scary but obviously he can be to people he doesn’t know but I’m kind of like sister/mother/daughter. We’ve got a very strange relationship but it is an honest one.”

  • BBUK’s Andrew just got a BACK SACK AND CRACK wax on TV

    So Big Brother newbie Andrew has just got a back, sack and crack wax in front of his housemates…

    If you fancy watching men in tremendous pain then tonight’s episode of Big Brother is for you. Andrew, who is a newbie housemate has had the dubious pleasure of getting his back, crack and sack waxed in front of his fellow housemates.

    We recently sent a brave writer to get his BSC done… read his experience here. 

    Want to know how to do it yourself click here.

     

    Watch the full horror in the clip below…

     

     

    Big Brother continues tonight on Channel 5

  • When two guys shave their initials into their privates

    What a world we live in…

    Love Island‘s Kem and Chris have taken their bromance to new levels after deciding to shave each other’s initials into each other’s pubic hair. As you do.

    Is it us, or is that just weird? I mean, no judgement, obvs. If you want to get into each other’s pants just say it.

    If this is what the kids are into these days, sign us up…

     

  • TV REVIEW | Epidemic: When Britain Fought AIDS, Channel 4

    ★★★★★ | Epidemic: When Britain Fought AIDS, Channel 4

    REVIEW | Epidemic: When Britain Fought AIDS, Channel 4

    To mark the 50 years of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, Channel 4 has commissioned a number of special programmes, in its 50 Shades Of Gay series; Epidemic: When Britain Fought AIDS is just one of these remarkable look backs.

    In the 1980s the UK was gripped by the panic of a destructive disease, which, in the beginning seemingly only affected the gay and bisexual male community. Citizens the world over were starting to exhibit numerous illnesses caused by one of the most destructive diseases known to man. It killed its victims ruthlessly, painfully and indiscriminately.

    It would take the best part of a decade for the government and health industry of the day to get to grips with just the naming and diagnosis of what we now know today as HIV and AIDS. To put it perspective, PrEP and Truvada were still twenty years in the development.

    Epidemic: When Britain Fought AIDS focuses on the main players in a forgotten story, from the landmark moment when Princess Diana publicly held the hand of someone who had AIDS in the UK’s first HIV/AIDS hospital ward to the complete silence on the subject from the UK’s Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

    Paul O’Grady, Jean Paul Gaultier, Andy Bell, Lord Michael Cashman, and Margaret Thatcher’s health secretary Norman Fowler, give personal insight into how the battle against AIDS was fought. It delves into how the language that we used today was born and how the fight against AIDS, forced the UK, as a whole, to face its own intolerance and see LGBT+ people as humans rather than sinners and degenerates.

    Watch it on the Channel 4 website

     

     

     

     

  • Judge Rinder’s show could be heading to the USA

    Judge Rinder Vs Judge Judy – who will be victorious?

    Is Judge Rinder going to the USA?

    It seems as though out and proud Robert Rinder, AKA Judge Rinder could be making his way to the USA as TV execs stateside are eyeing up his show’s success here in the UK.

    Speaking to The Sun Robert revealed that talks about putting Judge Rinder on US televisions are advanced and its overall success could all depend on which network the show lands on.

    He said,

    “The show is in advanced talks to go to America. The difficulty with American television is it’s pot luck.

    “We have a good relationship with a very famous production company but it depends what channel you’re on,”

    The UK judge, however, will have to do some considerable catch up in order to beat US TV’s most successful courtroom shows. With just over 400 episodes, Judge Rinder is going to have to play some serious catch up to Judge Judy’s show which has run for a staggering 21 series with over 5900 episodes and Divorce Court which has over 5700 episodes.

     

  • Channel 4 got a love in for its trans and pan visibility

    Regardless of what you think about Channel 4’s controversial dating show N*ked Attraction, people loved the trans and pan visibility in the last episode.

    In a Naked Attraction first, trans and pansexual dating hopefuls were added to the naked panel. The show’s second season premiere featured self-identified pansexual Lizzy who came out after one year of university and says she is open to all genders saying, “I’m attracted to everyone”.

    Speaking about being transgender, presenter Anna Richardson said,

    “Transgender people identify with a different sex to the one they were assigned at birth. To bring their body in line with how they identify some take hormones to promote physical changes within their bodies.

    “Of the estimated half a million transgender people in the UK, only a third have gender confirmation surgery where their sexual organs are altered”.

    Lizzy had six of naked people to choose from including two trans people.

    Naturally, the good people of Twitter had a lot to say about the programme, but the representation of trans people was generally appreciated, with some pointing out that trans representation on mainstream television was poor and that Naked Attraction’s approach deserved kudos.

    https://twitter.com/imjustboujee/status/880542426246426624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegayuk.com%2Fchannel-4s-naked-attraction-had-trans-and-pan-dating-hopefuls-and-people-loved-it%2F

    https://twitter.com/ChrisChetal73/status/880562849940217856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegayuk.com%2Fchannel-4s-naked-attraction-had-trans-and-pan-dating-hopefuls-and-people-loved-it%2F

    https://twitter.com/W4352/status/880543549514805251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegayuk.com%2Fchannel-4s-naked-attraction-had-trans-and-pan-dating-hopefuls-and-people-loved-it%2F

  • Channel 4’s Naked Attraction had trans and pan dating hopefuls and people loved it!

    Channel 4’s controversial dating show Naked Attraction had naked trans and pansexual people strip off and people loved the inclusivity.

     

    In a Naked Attraction first, trans and pansexual dating hopefuls were added to the naked panel. The show’s second season premiere featured self-identified pansexual Lizzy who came out after one year of university and says she is open to all genders saying, “I’m attracted to everyone”.

    Speaking about being transgender, presenter Anna Richardson said,

    “Transgender people identify with a different sex to the one they were assigned at birth. To bring their body in line with how they identify some take hormones to promote physical changes within their bodies.

    “Of the estimated half a million transgender people in the UK, only a third have gender confirmation surgery where their sexual organs are altered”.

    Lizzy had six of naked people to choose from including two trans people.

    Naturally, the good people of Twitter had a lot to say about the programme, but the representation of trans people was generally appreciated, with some pointing out that trans representation on mainstream television was poor and that Naked Attraction’s approach deserved kudos.

     

    https://twitter.com/imjustboujee/status/880542426246426624

    https://twitter.com/ChrisChetal73/status/880562849940217856

    https://twitter.com/W4352/status/880543549514805251

     

    Watch the entire episode on All4.

  • Watch this 9 YEAR OLD smash a Celine Dion hit

    Okay, so this family named their first daughter Celine and their second daughter Dion… Needless to say, they are CD fans through and through.

     

    Celine Tam just tore up the Celine Dion songbook…

    UK audiences can watch America’s Got Talent on truTV every Tuesday at 8pm.

    (truTV is available Freeview 68, Sky 186, Virgin 212, Freesat 154).