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Angelina Jolie Covers Up At Women In The World Summit After Leggy Oscars Pose (PHOTOS)

March 9, 2012, 2:59 am
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Angelina Jolie covered up the leg, which became an internet sensation after her Oscars night red carpet posing, as she arrived at the Women in the World Summit in New York yesterday.

Jolie's slender right leg, which became the breakout star of this year's Academy Awards, seemed to have a life of its own as it poked out from her heavy, dark Versace dress. And soon enough, it did.

The limb had its own Twitter account, @AngiesRightLeg, with thousands of followers by the time Jolie had finished extending her leg on the red carpet and as she presented awards.

Avoiding any more red carpet ridicule, yesterday she opted for a slim-fitting pair of tailored trousers and a chic blazer, seen in the photos below.

Speaking on the red carpet at the Summit to highlight issues that affect women around the globe, Jolie told The Telegraph: "I think what are we in this world if we can't give back to others - it's a happier life.

"I had a wonderful mother I learned a lot about women through her, I have great daughters who teach me a lot about the strength of women and little girls. And I've met amazing people around the world who have inspired me and taught me to be better."

SLIDESHOW: Jolie at the Women in the World Summit and on the Oscars red carpet
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'Britain's Got Talent' Flashmob Dance To 'Don't Stop Me Now' Takes Over Trafalgar Square (PHOTOS)

March 9, 2012, 6:31 am
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The sound of Queen's iconic hit Don't Stop Me Now rang out in London's Trafalgar Square today as hundreds of Britain's Got Talent fans and professional dancers took part in a flashmob.

The show's hosts Ant and Dec also turned up for the event, which will form part of the reality hit's opening titles when it returns to ITV1 on 24th March.

However, the talent show's new judging line-up, Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, comedian David Walliams and Strictly Come Dancing defector Alesha Dixon, didn't attend to join in on the celebrations.

Dancers dressed as cheerleaders, flapper girls, carnival party goers and a marching band led the synchronised routine, which involved plenty of clapping and spins at the foot of Nelson's Column.

Yesterday Alesha Dixon revealed Britain's Got Talent, boasting an alumni that includes singing sensation Susan Boyle and dance troupe Diversity, will start on the same day as the BBC launches its new singing contest The Voice.

SLIDESHOW: Check out photos from the flashmob below...
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The Voice: Will.i.am 'Proud' To Be Part Of The Show With 'Legend' Tom Jones

March 9, 2012, 9:03 am
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"I'm proud of being part of this show with a person like Tom Jones - you don't usually get a chance to hang out with legends like him," says Will.i.am about his fellow coach on The Voice.

The American singer, producer and Black Eyed Peas member took a risk when he decided to cross the pond to be part of the BBC's new reality TV show.

After all, we already have a well-established singing contest, complete with feuding judges and millions of followers.

So what made Will.i.am, whose celebrity hardly needs boosting, decide to take part in The Voice UK?

"I think The Voice in America is a big success, but the difference between this show and the American one is Tom Jones. He just grounds it in so much authenticity and I'm honoured to go back to America and when I see Cee Lo say 'I was hanging with Tom.' " (continued beneath)

SLIDESHOW: The Voice's coaches and presenters


Will.i.am, who has already worked with some of music's biggest names, such as Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, U2 and Rihanna, is clearly a fan of the Sex Bomb singer:

"We went from a time where the music industry was really only about one thing - the voice - and half the time you didn't even know what the person looked like, you didn't know if they were black or white, or short or fat or skinny and that’s why I appreciate Tom because he was a part of that.

"He witnessed the music industry in America when it was feuding black and white and how music brought the two cultures together."

He continues: "He saw the seventies and the eighties and then the nineties, where we were selling millions of CDs in a week, and then in 2000 that all disappeared because of the internet."

There's a different dynamic between the coaches on The Voice from the one between the judges on the X Factor. They all genuinely appear to like and respect each other.

There is bickering among the coaches during the show, however, it's all in good nature and borne out of passion rather than a thirst for airtime.

Will.i.am regales his fondness for Jessie J, saying: "I travel back and forth, I'll be in LA and come here and then go to Korea tomorrow and I'm drained, and just being around Jessie for a second she’s like a real pick-me-up, like a thousand volts of electricity."

He continues laughing: "I was tired this morning and she was like 'your glasses look like tea strainers'."

He's also bonded with The Script's frontman Danny O'Donoghue who he says is "super cool".

He added: "I never thought I was going to meet somebody that could talk about music every second. We’re sitting eating a sandwich and he's like 'dude, I wanna write a song about this sandwich.' That is exactly how I am in my group." (Continued below)

During the programme, the coaches have to pick voices that they like during 'blind' auditions. If more than one coach picks the same voice, then they have to compete and explain to that 'voice' why they should be picked to coach them.

This leads to lots of funny anecdotes and brags, Will.i.am inevitably plays the "when I was with Michael Jackson" card numerous times, while Tom Jones competes with his stories of jamming with Elvis Presley in the sixties.

It's this reversal of power from the judges to the contestants that also sets the show apart form the likes of X Factor and one of the reasons why it might just work, like Will.i.am, here and across the pond...

The Voice's stars swang into action for yesterday's launch, ahead of the show's debut on Saturday 24 March:
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Loose Women: Ruby Wax Brands Presenters 'Grotesque' And 'Obsessed With Toy Boys' - Is She Right? (VOTE)

March 12, 2012, 3:55 am
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Ruby Wax has slammed Loose Women's presenters for their apparent 'obsession' with younger men.

The People reports the comedienne commenting "That show is abhorrent" at a conference for female equality last week.

Talking about the ITV1 daytime show's regular presenters such as Denise Welch, Carol McGiffin, Sherrie Hewson and Carol Voderman, who often talk about their love lives on the show, Wax added: "All the ­presenters do is go on about their toyboys like old cronies and I am like, 'You are grotesque.' I’m sorry, but it is."

Welch recently made the headlines when she announced the end of her 23-year marriage via the programme. The 53-year-old then went public with her 39-year-old boyfriend Lincoln Tawney.

The presenters' openness and frankness are reasons why the show is once again drawing strong viewing figures. The line-up had a shake-up last year in a bid to boost the show's ratings, following a significant drop which saw it lose nearly two thirds of its lunchtime audience.



However, the show has been criticised for its lack of intelligent conversation and for reinforcing negative female stereotypes.

Wax has made her views on the show quite clear, but the show's own presenters are also reportedly in locked in conflict.

According to The Mirror, Welch has told TV bosses that she never wants to appear on the show alongside fellow panelist Janet Street Porter.

The paper quotes an industry insider saying: "Janet considers herself to be a feminist intellectual while Denise is a salt-of-the-earth northern lass who really enjoys letting her hair down. They have got absolutely nothing in common and would rather have nothing to do with each other."

The fall out is said to be causing a ­scheduling headache for production staff, who have a pool of only nine women to fill the four-person panel.
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Top TV For The Week Ahead: Love Life, Reverse Missionaries, The Hairy Bikers' Bakeation, Natural World

March 12, 2012, 5:22 am
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Here's a look at the best things on the box this week...

Monday

Bang Goes The Theory - 7.30pm, BBC1

The science magazine BBC One show Bang Goes The Theory, presented by Dallas Campbell, Liz Bonnin, Jem Stansfield and Dr Yan Wong, is back for a sixth series tonight to investigate the price of petrol, and whether science can be used to make fuel for free.

Campbell recently explained the programme to the Press Association, saying: "Basically, we tell the stories of science. Science is sometimes a word that can send people running for the hills,

"They often associate it with that thing they did at school, which is a shame, because ultimately science is what underpins the world around us - and you certainly don't need to be a scientist to be interested in that."

Riots and Revolutions: My Arab Journey - 9pm, BBC3

In last week's episode, brilliant young presenter Nel Hedayat visited Egypt one year on from the uprising, got caught up in further conflict, and learned first-hand how painful tear gas can be as the military turned on protesters in Bahrain.

This week Nel travels to Libya, where she witnesses the aftermath of the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi and talks to supporters of the old regime who are living in ruins and fearful for their future. She also visits Lebanon to meet Syrians who have recently fled from violence, and journeys to the border to get personal accounts of the horror unfolding beyond. Riots and Revolutions is one of those two-part series that should be rewarded with many more episodes.

Tuesday

The Hairy Bikers' Bakeation - 8pm, BBC2

Si King and Dave Myers don their leather jackets and ride from north to south through Europe, searching for the best baked treats on offer. The lucky fellas discover a 95-year-old who still makes waffles on her 65-year-old waffle iron, and make Scandinavian rye bread, cardamom and lemon cookies, and ham and cheese-filled pastries in Norway.

The Biggest Loser - 9pm, ITV1

Who's going to be crowned the easily-misinterpreted title of 'The Biggest Loser 2012'? The final of this weight loss show, fronted by Davina McCall, will reveal who - after weeks of gruelling training sessions, alongside tears, temptations and shocking revelations - has scooped the £25,000 prize money.

Wednesday

Rights Gone Wrong? - 9pm, BBC2

Andrew Neil searches for the best way to protect human rights while restoring public faith in a justice system that some feel has lost touch with common sense - a perfectly timed documentary in light of the controversy over the inability to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada and the banning of prayers before council meetings.

10 O'Clock Live - 10pm, Channel 4

David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Brooker and Lauren Laverne have another stab at getting a laugh from the week's news. This is a current affairs show that, one series on, still feels like it's finding its feet, but there are spots of quality satire within it every now and again.

Thursday

Natural World - 8pm, BBC2

An hour's worth of gorgeous silky sifakas grace our screens in this documentary, which follows a scientist who has joined forces with an undercover detective in Madagascar to try and save the white lemurs from extinction.

Love Life - 9pm, ITV1

Downton's evil gay footman (real name Rob James-Collier) steps into an entirely more likeable character for this intimate, soft-centred romantic drama. The first episode of this three-part series sees cheerful Jack-the-lad Joe return from a year abroad to discover his former partner Lucy (Andrea Lowe) is pregnant and will not say who the father is. Joe learns it is her married boss Dominic (Alexander Armstrong), whose wife is having trouble conceiving, and confronts him about it.

Friday

The Graham Norton Show - BBC1, 10.35pm

Ronnie Corbett, who recently received a CBE, and Hugh Grant, recently in the spotlight for his phone-hacking allegations and appearance at the Leveson Inquiry, but who now needs to promote his latest film The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, will join Graham Norton on the red sofa.

Reverse Missionaries - BBC2, 9PM

Britain's 19th-century missionaries carried Christianity around the world. But now, as we supposedly become a 'godless society', missionaries from countries where religion is thriving come to help Brits rediscover their faith. First is Jamaican baptist and ex-street gang member Pastor Franklin Small, who arrives in a small village in the Cotswolds where his hero Thomas Burchell - a missionary at the forefront of the anti-slavery movement in the Caribbean - lived 200 years earlier. He faces an uphill struggle.

WATCH: Some silky sifakas in action...

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Jake Gyllenhaal Turns Murderous Psycho In The Shoes' 'Time To Dance' Video

March 12, 2012, 8:48 am
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Jake Gyllenhaal has gone all American Psycho in The Shoes' latest music video.

The 31-year-old actor goes on a murderous rampage, stabbing and slicing people with a fencing sword. Wearing a white fencing suit and protective mask, the Love And Other Drugs star appears in the video for the French electro band's new single Time To Dance.

The gruesome piece was directed by Daniel Wolfe and includes scenes in which the Hollywood hottie batters a person in a park and strangles a man in an elevator.

The Shoes said Gyllenhaal is one of their "favourite actors".

Watch the video at the top of the page. (WARNING: contains violent images)
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Alcatraz: JJ Abrams Brings His Latest Conspiracy Theory To The UK (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

March 12, 2012, 9:37 am
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An island, a conspiracy theory, Hurley, and JJ Abrams… you'd be forgiven for thinking you're back in the TV phenomenon that was Lost.

In fact, there's a new mystery about to unravel on an island. However, it's not same old, same old from the Lost creator, this time there's a whole load more convicts and guns, with the addition of detectives, and this time the island is far from tropical.

Alcatraz is Abrams' latest conspiratorial masterpiece and it has all the makings of the next big cult hit.

Take Lost with its mystery and intrigue, its isolated location and throw in years of associated preconceptions, horror stories and tales of murderous inhabitants and there you have Alcatraz.

Fringe co-creator Abrams has teamed up with his old Lost producer Elizabeth Sarnoff to bring on the small screen a chilling twist to the tale of America's most infamous prison and one-time home to the nation's most notorious murderers, rapists, kidnappers and thieves.

Based on the premise that The Rock prison didn't retire as quietly to the tourist industry in 1963 as history would have us believe, the thriller tells the story of what really happened when it closed down.

From the outset of Abrams' latest excellently-crafted hyper-reality, set in the middle of the cold, swirling waters of San Francisco Bay - from where no one was ever meant to have been able to escape - we learn the 302 inmates, who were supposed to be transferred when Alcatraz shut down, actually disappeared.

However, no one ever just disappears, especially in Abrams' work, and as the plot unfolds he explores the idea that not only did these prisoners escape, but they are coming back in the present day and committing horrific crimes.

The show, which has already begun to air in the US and gained itself the title of Most Exciting New Series at the Critics' Choice Television Awards, stars Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) as government agent Emerson Hauser, who seems to know more about the mystery than he's letting on.

Sarah Jones (Big Love) stars as the instantly-likeable Detective Rebecca Madsen, a feisty kick-ass agent who's driven to get to the bottom of what happened on Alcatraz by the death of her partner. She's paired up with Jorge Garcia (Lost) who plays Dr Diego Soto, an expert on all things Alcatraz and admittedly "smarter than he looks", to help embark on the surreal investigation.

The first episode introduces us to the key characters and hints at the way the series may play out - every week it will focus on one convict from the 302.

First we follow the story of Jack Sylvane, a (very good looking) Alcatraz inmate who was supposed to have died 30 years ago, but hasn't aged at all, as he escapes The Rock and goes on a mission for justice.

Conspiracy theories are already whirling around my head - who's in on it? Why hasn't he aged? Where have they been hiding? And why are they escaping now? Needless to say, I'm on tenterhooks for episode two.

Alcatraz starts on Watch Tuesday 13th March at 9pm.

SLIDESHOW: The show's main characters...
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The Apprentice: Lord Sugar's 16 Candidates Revealed (PHOTOS)

March 13, 2012, 12:54 am
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Lord Sugar has unveiled the 16 contestants hoping to become The Apprentice 2012 champion.

The entrepreneurial show will return to BBC One on Wednesday 21st March at 9pm, as Lord Sugar's aides Nick Hewer and Karren Brady help him whittle down the tough from the weak, dynamic and brainy from the ridiculous.

This year's ambitious 16 contestants will compete to earn an investment from the straight-talking businessman. They are: Michael Copp, Azhar Siddique, Nick Hozherr, Tom Gearing, Duane Bryan, Adam Corbally, Ricky Martin, Stephen Brady, Laura Hogg, Maria O'Connor, Jenna Whittingham, Jane McEvoy, Bilyana Apostolova, Gabrielle Omar, Katie Wright and Jade Nash.

Last series Tom Pellereau won The Apprentice after pitching a business which aimed to reduce the financial and personal costs of employee back pain through specialist chairs.

This week he is due to launch his first product since he won the hit BBC show last year, which Lord Sugar says he has "been working on day and night".

Previously winners were given a job at Sugar's Amstrad company but, since Yasmina Siadatan quit last month, no Apprentice victors remain under the entrepreneur's employment.

Meet this year's contestants in the slideshow below...
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Tonight's TV Pick: 'The Hairy Bikers' Bakeation' & 'The Biggest Loser'

March 13, 2012, 5:15 am
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The Hairy Bikers' Bakeation - 8pm, BBC2

Oh, to have the life of the Hairy Bikers - isn't a 'bakeation' just the perfect sounding holiday? This new series sees Dave Myers and Simon King make an epic 5000-mile journey across Europe, combining their two loves - baking and biking.

Their odyssey begins on the West coast of Norway and takes them through some of Europe’s most dramatic scenery as they cook and eat their way across 12 countries, ending in Spain.

In episode one, the lucky fellas discover a 95-year-old who still makes waffles on her 65-year-old waffle iron, while the pair themselves make Scandinavian rye bread, cardamom and lemon cookies, and ham and cheese-filled pastries in Norway.

Speaking about the show, Dave recently told The Press And Journal: “Our attitude to daily bread is different in Britain. There’s a proliferation of corner bakers in Italy, France and Spain, and across Europe, but there isn’t right across this country.

“One side of the Norwegian baker’s factory was glass, looking out over a waterfall. His quality of life was amazing. He wasn’t supplying supermarkets, but people’s daily bread." And the boys bring viewers a bit of that life in this series, to enjoy from their armchairs.

The Biggest Loser - 9pm, ITV1

Who's going to be crowned the easily-misinterpreted title of 'The Biggest Loser 2012'? Amy McLernon from South Shields, Sarah Partridge from Haverfordwest in Wales and Kevin McLernon from Sunderland have made it to the final of the weight loss show, fronted by Davina McCall, after weeks of gruelling training sessions, alongside tears, temptations and shocking revelations.

Now, one of them will scoop the £25,000 prize money and aim to keep the weight, which has caused such distress and health problems, off for good.

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Downton Abbey's Rob James-Collier In Love Life: 'Not Just The Evil Gay Footman' (PHOTOS)

March 13, 2012, 8:31 am
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"It's nice to be given the chance to show that you're not just the evil gay footman from Downton Abbey," says Rob James-Collier, best known for playing the very same in the ITV hit.

In between series one and two of Julian Fellowes' Golden Globe-winning period-drama, James-Collier has taken on a nice guy role in Love Life - worlds away from Thomas - as cheerful Jack-the-lad Joe, who returns from a year abroad to discover his former partner Lucy (Andrea Lowe) is pregnant and will not say who the father is.

Builder Joe is much more like James-Collier's first big TV character, puppy-eyed Liam Connor on Coronation Street, however, he says: "There are no edges to Joe, there may have been a darker side to Liam but there isn't with Joe; he's just a nice guy who's been caught in this awful predicament of trying to do the right thing."

In this case "nice guy" shouldn't read boring. The premise of the show might sound a bit like an unimaginative rom-com - Joe soon learns it is Lucy's married boss Dominic (Alexander Armstrong), whose wife is having trouble conceiving, who is the father of his ex-girlfriend's baby - but it is an intimate, soft-centred romantic drama that will tug at the the heartstrings of many viewers.

James-Collier admits there are funny parts to the programme, saying: "Sometimes comedy derives out of a dramatic situation, like it does in life. That's when I think you've got a good bit of drama."

And Lowe, who plays Lucy, explains: "The characters are so real and believable and you can relate to their situations.



"I think that they're normal people who make bad choices, like we all do daily, and it was such a beautiful script. It has got lots of light beautiful moments full of love but also sadness. I didn't realise how much sadness until I saw the storyline between Sophie (Thompson) and Alexander (Armstrong), it's heartbreaking really."

Lowe, who found out she was pregnant while going for the role of pregnant Lucy, jokes: "I’ve always been very method."

She adds: "But seriously, the truth is, it was just a very fortunate coincidence. I didn’t know I was expecting when I first auditioned, although by the time I was offered the role I did.

"That’s when I told the producers, just to make sure they still wanted me. I didn’t tell the rest of the cast and crew until I’d had my 12-week scan, partly so I knew the baby was all right and partly because I didn’t want the pregnancy to get in the way of work. People think pregnant women are really delicate and I didn’t want any special treatment. I just wanted to be treated normally."

Although there's a serious dilemma at the heart of this drama, Lowe confesses there was a lot of fooling around on set: "We had fun with the prosthetic baby, which looked very life-like. We played tricks on passers-by by juggling it. When we were in the Lake District, Rob grabbed it by its legs and the extra in the scene didn't realise it wasn't a real baby - we almost gave her a heart attack."

For James-Collier, it's now time to head back to the Downton estate for filming of the third series. He remains grateful to the show, saying: "It's brilliant to be part of something that long-running and secure, it's quite rare that you get that as an actor and there's no question that it's helped. I think if I wasn't in Downton then I wouldn't be in Love Life. "

Love Life starts on ITV1 on Thursday 15 March at 9pm.

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Tonight's TV Pick: Rights Gone Wrong? & 10 O'Clock Live

March 14, 2012, 4:31 am
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Rights Gone Wrong? - 9pm, BBC2

Journalist Andrew Neil searches for the best way to protect human rights while restoring public faith in a justice system that some feel has lost touch with common sense - a perfectly-timed documentary in light of the controversy over the inability to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada and the banning of prayers before council meetings.

This morning on BBC Breakfast, Neil gave his view on the debate, saying: "The European convention of human rights is not a foreign concept - it was created by Winston Churchill, you can't get more British than that. It's made lots of rulings that have been beneficial and ahead of the game when gay rights were not at the head of the queue. It got rid of corporal punishment in schools and I used the European Court once when the Thatcher government tried to put me in jail...

"But there have been a couple of rulings recently where the court has become more active and extended itself into areas it wasn't involved in before, and where its rulings are out of kilter with public moods and with politicians on the left and the right."

Neil tries to cut through the raging and misleading headlines the court has attracted, to get to the truth of why we follow Brussels’ lead – though there are still cases featured here that will ruffle even the most liberal feathers.

One of those cases pops up during the show when Neil speaks to John Hurst who campaigned for prisoners to have the right to vote. Hurst tells him, "Murderers, rapists, people convicted of manslaughter are entitled to human rights."

It's a provocative subject matter that makes for a fascinating documentary.

10 O'Clock Live - 10pm, Channel 4

David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Brooker and Lauren Laverne have another stab at getting a laugh from the week's news. This is a current affairs show that, one series on, still feels like it's finding its feet, but there are spots of quality satire within it every now and again.
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Top Gear Confesses To Staging Traffic Jam Scene With James May

March 14, 2012, 6:53 am
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Top Gear has confessed to staging a traffic jam in which James May was stuck in Chris Evans' £5.6m Ferrari California Spider behind three learner vehicles.

The latest episode of the BBC TV series showed May forced to reverse on a tight road in the Radio 2 host's pride and joy after being hemmed in.

A BBC spokesperson said the set up was "a light-hearted take on the perils of driving one of the rarest and most valuable cars on the road."

"It is not a documentary," they added.



Fortunately for Evans the drivers of the learner cars were actually driving instructors. An instructor for the Clearway Driving School told the Evening Standard: "We were told not to bring learner drivers because of the value of the car, so it was the instructors who were really doing the driving.

"Their remit was to get in his way and make life awkward for him. We were there for comic effect."

Sounding relaxed on Twitter, Evans tweeted before Sunday's show:



The hit car-obsessed programme is applauded for its entertainment value, with eight million viewers often tuning in, so should it really be criticised for staging scenes?



In 2009, Top Gear bosses also admitted setting up a stunt involving a caravan attached to an airship straying over Norwich airport, provoking police to intervene.

At the time, a BBC spokesperson said: "As an entertainment programme, Top Gear prides itself on making silly films that don't pretend to represent real life. Any suggestion it deliberately misled viewers is patently ludicrous."
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The Voice Coach Tom Jones: 'I Thought I Better Put My Money Where My Mouth Is'

March 14, 2012, 9:03 am
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"When I first came to London in 1963 and tried to get a record contract they said 'you look too macho'," reveals Tom Jones.

Observers have questioned why Jones, with his five decades of success on both sides of the Atlantic, with no reliance on dodgy reality TV stints, has decided to sign up as a coach on the BBC's new singing contest, The Voice.

As we speak to him at the launch of the show in London, it soon becomes clear it has a lot to do with his own experiences in the music industry…

"The Beatles had just come out and the record companies said to me 'you don't look young enough'… they were looking at me before they were listening to me. So that hasn't really changed, but then when I opened my mouth they said 'you sound too macho' - they said I needed to sound more boyish."

Since then, the legendary Welsh crooner has sold over 100m records, proving all those original naysayers wrong, but he is still only too aware of how much image affects the music industry…

"You've got to put it out to the public but you need to be able to get it to the public. So then, when they finally played me on the radio, all of a sudden there it was. That's why I think The Voice is very important because you're not restricted by a preconceived image, there's room for all kinds of people."

Now he's held in such high esteem, Jones confesses: "I thought I better put my money where my mouth is," which has seen him wind up next to Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am, Price Tag singer Jessie J and The Script's frontman Danny O'Donoghue on a search for the next big 'voice'.

"When I was asked to do this show, the first thing I wanted to know was - who are the other three coaches going to be? Where are you going to get these people from? And will they be qualified?"

Jones makes it clear he wouldn't join just any singing contest - X Factor and American Idol can forget it. He explains why it's only The Voice he's interested in: "I saw the American version and I thought 'thank God! This is the first time you've had four singers on the panel.' "

"We’ve been through it, we know what it's like to get up and perform - to put yourself in a song and what emotions to put forward.

"Some judges on some talent shows don't know because they've never done it (no names named, note) and some that have are not very good anyway."

However, Jones confesses that his singing experience hasn't made the task of making or breaking people's dreams any easier: "Decisions have to be made, even though you pick ten, you then have to put two people head-to-head and some of those are very close.

"I've seen people get emotional and when you get to know these people you think 'Jesus Christ, how am I going to decide who's going to stay and who's going to go?'… I was starting to choke up."

For Jones "the exciting thing is that you don't know who's going to step forward" and he reveals he may have already found someone with that special something…

"I've been looking for something I can feel and listen to. I think I've found one person who has something different."

Possibly referring to The X Factor and its obsession with 'transformations', 'make-overs' and comedy contestants, Jones adds: "We have people who have come on this show who would not go on another show because they might be feeling a little intimidated about the way they look, but that is something that we can help them with. The basic thing is the voice, that's where it all starts.

"The blind auditions are a great idea and that's what attracted me to the show, to hear people sing first and then see what they look like."

Jones might think he's already found a winner but the decision of who takes home a recording contract with Universal Music will ultimately lie with the public once the show reaches its live final stage and the coaches' final artists compete against each other.

Let us know what type of singer you would like to see win The Voice below and read our interview with Jones' fellow The Voice coach Will.i.am here.

The Voice begins on BBC One on 24 March.

PHOTOS: The Voice's coaches...

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This Week In Entertainment: The Apprentice, Bill Roache, MasterChef, Britain's Got Talent & Bear Grylls

March 16, 2012, 7:59 am
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Tonight's TV Pick: Hit The Road Jack & Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me

March 20, 2012, 2:59 am
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The Voice: Holly Willoughby & Reggie Yates Say It's Not The Contestants That Cry

March 20, 2012, 9:39 am
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The Voice: Tom Jones Reveals Jessie J Puts Contestants 'Through Their Paces'

March 22, 2012, 8:33 am
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The Voice: 5 Reasons To Watch The BBC's New Talent Show

March 23, 2012, 5:50 am
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Happy Feet Two: Real-Life Dancing Penguins Take Over Pineapple Dance Studios (VIDEO)

March 23, 2012, 9:27 am
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Real-life dancing penguins took over London's Pineapple Dance Studios this week to celebrate the launch of Happy Feet Two on DVD.

Leading the group of Humboldt penguins was Charlie, the most experienced British penguin in showbusiness. His impressive CV includes appearances on Blue Peter, The Jonathan Ross Show and a Tatler photoshoot. He even has his own passport due to international travel.

I went down to the studios to meet the penguins and check out if they could move as well as the film's famed tap-dancing penguin Mumble.

The penguins' trainer told me: "You can get some moves the same, depending on the song that's playing of course."

And she seemed to think Happy Feet 2's story was fairly realistic, adding: "Penguins are such good fun. They are all individual characters and they're all dying to express their characters at all times.

"Some are real divas like Charlie the hero penguin, and then you have Ferrari who has a split personality so one minute he can be all lovey-dovey and the next minute he can draw blood.

"And then there are the backup guys who are really cute. The thing with penguins is they know their names and they're all very very smart while they are hungry, and once they're full it's all over and they can't remember their name."

WATCH: Charlie teach the Pineapple Dance Studio dancers how to move in the video above.

Happy Feet Two is out on DVD 26th March.
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