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On last night’s The Biggest Loser , Bob Harper publicly revealed he’s gay for the first time, though it’s long been well-known, and not just because he’s the trainer on the Queer Abs workout DVD or said he’s been out since he was 17. It’s just never something he’s talked about on the NBC reality competition. As TODAY.com notes, Bob came out to his team member Bobby Saleem, who was struggling with coming out to his father, who was visiting the ranch. Bob first told the cameras, “I haven’t talked about my sexuality on this show EVER. … I really do believe this is the right time. I want to show Bobby that he doesn’t have to live in shame.” He told Bobby, “I totally get it — I’m gay. I knew a very long time ago that I was gay, and the family that I grew up around was very much the same in that way — you know, there was so much repression there. I think that when I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those kind of things where I realized there were so many obstacles. But being...

Home > Factual > The Secret War On Terror comes to BBC March 14th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against Al Qaeda over the last decade, since 9/11. With unparalleled access to Western intelligence and law-enforcement agencies and with a host of exclusive interviews with those who have been at the sharp end of fighting the terrorists – from the CIA and the FBI to MI5 – Peter Taylor asks whether the West is winning and whether we are any safer from attack. The series includes the first television interview with the former Director General of MI5, Baroness Manningham-Buller, and an extensive interview with the recent Director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden. The documentaries are set against the backdrop of the major events of the period – the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Bali, Madrid and London; the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; and the scandal...

January 27th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Gary’s Army Diaries was initially produced in three, 5 minute short films for itv.com/corrie just last month and following their huge success, shall now be re-cut and made in to a 30 minute programme exclusively for ITV2. Corrie Extra: Gary’s Army Diaries will TX Monday 31st January 2200, 0100 and Sunday 6th February 0830, 1415 and tells the story of Gary’s time at war with best mate, and the late, Quinny as they served together in Afghanistan, filling in the gaps on Gary’s current state of mind in scenes which viewers have already seen unfold on screen. Gary has just moved in with Izzy. Unpacking his things, Izzy stumbles across the camcorder Gary and Quinny used to film their diaries of life in the army out in Afghanistan. Gary reacts badly, he doesn’t want anyone touching it, but after some gentle coaxing he offers to show her the films. Gary and Quinny take it in turns to introduce Anna and Eddie to the camp and the other guys in the...

Home > Factual > MARY PORTAS: SECRET SHOPPER COMES TO CHANNEL 4 January 17th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments In this brand new series, Mary Portas has changed sides – rather than helping businesses to maximise profits, she’s now championing the shopper and battling to get Britain’s biggest chains to put customers first. Mary believes that Britain is cowering under a cloud of poor customer service and that we’ve never had it so bad. By using the stealth weapon of secret shopping, she exposes shoddy customer service and uses the evidence to give company bosses a wake-up call. And, with the help of her covert cameras, she’s planning to start a retail revolution. Wednesday 19 January 2011 9:00pm Follow us on Twitter ! Get the latest news and chat with @ unrealitytv Categories: Factual Tags: Channel-4 , Mary Portas Secret Shopper View the original article here

Home > Factual > The Joy Of Teen Sex comes to Channel 4 January 17th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments This new series offers a frank exploration of the love and sex lives of today’s teenagers – presenting solutions to the emotional and physical problems many of them experience. Fronted by Dr Rachael Jones, social worker Ruth Corden, and resident sex coach Joanna Wierzbicka, the series revolves around visitors to the Sex Advice Shop walk-in clinic, where the team are on hand to offer young people, and sometimes their parents, support and professional advice. No subject is off limits, from teen pregnancy to sexual performance and genital health, as the series shines a spotlight on issues that young people care about. Wednesday 19 January 2011 10:00pm Follow us on Twitter ! Get the latest news and chat with @ unrealitytv Categories: Factual Tags: Channel-4 , The Joy Of Teen Sex View the original article here

Home > Entertainment > 10 O’CLOCK LIVE COMES TO CHANNEL 4 January 17th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments A new weekly, live comedy and current affairs show hosted by David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Brooker and Lauren Laverne. Each week the hosts present an intelligent, informative and – most importantly – funny take on the world of current affairs, via a mix of debates, interviews, topical comedy, investigations and opinion pieces. They are joined by the finest and sharpest minds from comedy, politics, science and culture – live, in front of a studio audience. Thursday 20 January 2011 10:00pm Follow us on Twitter ! Get the latest news and chat with @ unrealitytv Categories: Entertainment View the original article here

January 7th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments The Sinking Of The Laconia is a new two-part drama for BBC Two by Alan Bleasdale. It marks Bleasdale’s (Boys From The Blackstuff, GBH, Jake’s Progress, Oliver Twist) return to British television after 10 years. It is inspired by the true story of unexpected gallantry and inexplicable stupidity in the fog of war. It’s a story in which one man’s instinctive humanity really does make a difference. Andrew Buchan (Party Animals), Franka Potente (Bourne Supremacy) and rising German star Ken Duken (Inglorious Basterds) are joined by Brian Cox (The Day Of The Triffids), Thomas Kretschmann (Downfall, Eichmann, King Kong) and Lindsay Duncan (GBH, Rome, Oliver Twist). On the night of 12 September 1942, the RMS Laconia, a converted liner on its way back to Britain from Egypt, was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat 156. The Laconia was 600 miles from the coast of Africa, and on board were a mixture of English civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian pr...

December 29th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Helena Bonham Carter plays the stepmother of renowned food writer and chef Nigel Slater in Toast, a film based on his bestselling autobiography of the same name, with Freddie Highmore as a 15-year-old Slater. The film is a major highlight of the BBC One Christmas schedule and is also shown in HD. Toast is the ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in Sixties Britain. Based on the heart-wrenching, bittersweet story of Nigel Slater’s childhood, Toast is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood. Highmore is best known for his role in Tim Burton’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Bonham Carter has most recently starred in the visionary director’s big-screen adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech and BBC Four’s Enid. Toast is written by Billy Elliot and War Horse scribe Lee Hall and is directed by SJ Clarkson, best k...

December 24th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Matt Lucas and David Walliams return to BBC One in a brand-new comedy series. After watching this mock documentary, viewers’ opinions of airports and the people who work there will never be the same again… The BBC’s cameras have been given unprecedented access to one of Britain’s busiest airport terminals. For months, the producers have followed anyone and everyone to produce this portrait of life at the cutting edge of aviation. From check-in staff to cabin crew, from pilots to paparazzi, and from low-cost airline owners to their passengers, all human life is here – and all played by Lucas and Walliams. This week, 92-year-old Hetty Wolf takes her first-ever flight with Great British Air; husband and wife pilots Simon and Jackie sort out their marriage at 35,000 feet above Sweden; and Omar Baba, owner of low-cost carrier FlyLo, is forced to do something about the lack of life-jackets on his planes. Meanwhile, Omar’s most junior employee...

December 15th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Britain’s Got Talent star Paul Burling has alnded his own ITV show. Airing next week, It’s Paul Burling takes a comical look at the showbiz characters that have shaped 2010. Paul Burling, Jess Robinson, Eve Webster and Anthony Spargo present their impressions in sketches including The Two Rooneys, Downtown Abbey, Poirot and the Missing X Factor judges, Roy and Hayley’s Fashion Fix, Misery Come Dancing and Bless This Scouse. Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 8:00PM – 9:00PM Follow us on Twitter ! Get the latest news and chat with @ unrealitytv Categories: Entertainment Tags: Britain's Got Talent , ITV , Paul Burling View the original article here

Thanks to AfterEllen.com reader Anna, we now know that one of the favorites in this year's Sweden Idol competition is 26-year-old Mariette Hansson from Harpline outside Halmstad. She has performed songs like Pink 's "Dear Mr. President," singing and playing the guitar and, just this week, she came out to Sweden's gay newspaper, QX . I've roughly translated the interview, in which she talks about finding herself and why she chose Piper Perabo as one of the actresses she'd love to play her in a movie of her life. QX: How gay are you on a scale from 1-10? Mariette Hansson: Wow, what shall I answer it? I live with a girl so it's at least 10 then. I'm completely open and you are actually the first I'm telling ... You should stand up for who you are and that we now have a responsibility towards young people who are confused — as confused as you were when you were younger. QX: What fun, because there are so very few girls who like girls who are...

December 1st, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Imagine a world without adults. That is the world facing the children in The Sparticle Mystery. When a science experiment goes wrong and all the world’s adults are spun into a parallel dimension the children begin the adventure of a lifetime – life without parents and carers! The Sparticle Mystery is a new 13-part sci-fi adventure series for CBBC from the team behind the Bafta award winning drama Summerhill. Filmed entirely on location with an ensemble cast of children, it is written and created by Alison Hume (Summerhill, Rocket Man) and produced by Stephen Smallwood (Summerhill, Day of the Triffids, Murphy’s Law). At first a world governed by children is a fun place to be but then the fight for survival begins and this leads our heroes on a quest to discover what has happened to the grown-ups and find out how they can bring them back. As the children split into tribes they attempt to build a society for themselves from scratch. Which i...

Thanks to AfterEllen.com reader Anna, we now know that one of the favorites in this year's Sweden Idol competition is 26-year-old Mariette Hansson from Harpline outside Halmstad. She has performed songs like Pink 's "Dear Mr. President," singing and playing the guitar and, just this week, she came out to Sweden's gay newspaper, QX . I've roughly translated the interview, in which she talks about finding herself and why she chose Piper Perabo as one of the actresses she'd love to play her in a movie of her life. QX: How gay are you on a scale from 1-10? Mariette Hansson: Wow, what shall I answer it? I live with a girl so it's at least 10 then. I'm completely open and you are actually the first I'm telling ... You should stand up for who you are and that we now have a responsibility towards young people who are confused — as confused as you were when you were younger. QX: What fun, because there are so very few girls who like girls who are...

Thanks to AfterEllen.com reader Anna, we now know that one of the favorites in this year's Sweden Idol competition is 26-year-old Mariette Hansson from Harpline outside Halmstad. She has performed songs like Pink 's "Dear Mr. President," singing and playing the guitar and, just this week, she came out to Sweden's gay newspaper, QX . I've roughly translated the interview, in which she talks about finding herself and why she chose Piper Perabo as one of the actresses she'd love to play her in a movie of her life. QX: How gay are you on a scale from 1-10? Mariette Hansson: Wow, what shall I answer it? I live with a girl so it's at least 10 then. I'm completely open and you are actually the first I'm telling ... You should stand up for who you are and that we now have a responsibility towards young people who are confused — as confused as you were when you were younger. QX: What fun, because there are so very few girls who like girls who are...

November 11th, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Fish Hooks is the new Disney animation TV show featuring the voices of celebs Kyle Massey (“Cory in the House”) Chelsea Staub (“JONAS L.A.” and “Bratz”) and Justin Roiland (“The Sarah Silverman Program”). The show features 3 fish who live in a fish tank and try to navigate their way through the choppy waters of Freshwater High School, dealing with typical teenage problems like friendships, crushes and acne etc! First there’s Milo (voiced by Kyle Massey) – a cool, fish who’s loud and energetic. Then there’s Milo’s brother Oscar (voiced by Justin Roiland) who’s nervous and high-strung, and, finally, there’s Bea the goldfish (voiced by Chelsea Staub) the drama queen of Freshwater High who SO wants to be a star! In the next episode, which broadcasts on Disney Channel this Saturday 13th November at 9.25am (and continues every Saturday at 9.25am), Milo shoots himself outside of the fish tank. Now the three of them are stranded in the pet stor...

Thanks to AfterEllen.com reader Anna, we now know that one of the favorites in this year's Sweden Idol competition is 26-year-old Mariette Hansson from Harpline outside Halmstad. She has performed songs like Pink 's "Dear Mr. President," singing and playing the guitar and, just this week, she came out to Sweden's gay newspaper, QX . I've roughly translated the interview, in which she talks about finding herself and why she chose Piper Perabo as one of the actresses she'd love to play her in a movie of her life. QX: How gay are you on a scale from 1-10? Mariette Hansson: Wow, what shall I answer it? I live with a girl so it's at least 10 then. I'm completely open and you are actually the first I'm telling ... You should stand up for who you are and that we now have a responsibility towards young people who are confused — as confused as you were when you were younger. QX: What fun, because there are so very few girls who like girls who are...