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'I'd get death threats in the night'

5 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

As he receives a major award, Zed Nelson explains how he and his photographs made it out of Earth's most hostile zones"I was lucky," says the photographer Zed Nelson, "until I went to Afghanistan." The 57-year-old, who has just won the Sony World Photographer of the Year award for The Anthropocene Illusion, his masterful 2024 series about our relationship to the natural world, is making us tea in his north London kitchen and talking about his early years as a documentary photographer.
Max Beesley: 'Alcoholism is a very quick disease

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

The actor on society's problematic relationship with drinking, growing up with Robbie Williams and his new drama about the London bombingsAt 8.30am, on the morning of 7 July 2005, Max Beesley was at a hotel in Marylebone participating in a read-through for a new BBC drama, Hotel Babylon. The producer had asked everyone to be in early and the actor - star at the time of Jed Mercurio's medical drama Bodies - had been there in good time.
'I decided that drink, drugs, fags and girls were preferable to football training'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

As he prepares to play Liverpool legend Bill Shankly on stage, the Scottish actor looks back on his teenage trial for Manchester United FCIt is August 1974. Bill Shankly leads out his FA Cup-winning Liverpool team for the Charity Shield at Wembley. He walks shoulder to shoulder with Brian Clough, the newly installed manager of the league champions Leeds United. It's a significant moment. One month earlier, Shankly had announced his retirement after 15 years at the Anfield club.
'I'm like the Forth Bridge. The work never stops'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

The controversial stand-up got rich making provocative jokes (and powerful enemies). But what's the secret of his straight face? There's something disconcertingly "too real" about Jimmy Carr in person, as if you're meeting the live-action version of a cartoon. I put it down to the way his on-screen, smart-suited image never changes.
'Chris Packham and Jeremy Clarkson are both provocative silverbacks in their own fields'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

The presenter and Dancing on Ice finalist talks about the feud between her Springwatch co-host and Clarkson, and how to thrive after cancerMichaela Strachan bounces into the room, all upbeat energy, laughter and a big, warm smile.
The White Lotus star Walton Goggins: ‘An older man and a younger woman - why should we care?’

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

Walton Goggins has every reason to be grumpy. The US actor has relocated from paradise to the post-apocalypse when I catch up with him in Los Angeles. More specifically, he’s gone from filming the third series of The White Lotus on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand to shooting the second season of the video-game adaptation Fallout for Amazon.
The Wire’s Clarke Peters on ‘absurd’ colour-blind casting: ‘I wouldn’t want to see Dominic West play Idi Amin’

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

Chris Harvey 27 February 2025 7:15pm GMT Clarke Peters has the sort of career that would be implausible in fiction. He played one of the most crucial characters in one of the greatest TV dramas ever made – the quietly brilliant detective Lester Freamon in The Wire. He wrote the musical Five Guys Named Moe. He’s starred in Guys and Dolls at the National and Chicago on Broadway; he’s played Othello several times. He was the principled police chief in the garlanded Three Billboards Outside...
In Pamela Anderson’s new film the Las Vegas showgirl loses her razzle-dazzle

2 months ago | nzherald.co.nz | Chris Harvey

Review by Chris HarveyCelebration of feminine beauty or ‘stupid nudie show’? Pamela Anderson’s new film captures the dying art of the Sin City spectacular. “But wait, you guys, our show is legendary,” says Pamela Anderson’s character Shelly in The Last Showgirl, after she learns that Las Vegas no longer needs her particular brand of entertainment. “It is, but Le Razzle Dazzle is old,” replies the man bearing news of the show’s imminent closure.
How the Las Vegas showgirl lost her razzle-dazzle

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

Chris Harvey 16 February 2025 3:00pm GMT “But wait, you guys, our show is legendary,” says Pamela Anderson’s character Shelly in The Last Showgirl, after she learns that Las Vegas no longer needs her particular brand of entertainment. “It is, but Le Razzle Dazzle is old,” replies the man bearing news of the show’s imminent closure. “It’s the last show of its kind on the Strip.” With that, this glittering vision of beautiful 10ft-tall women in heels and headdresses fades into history. Played...
Gary Kemp: ‘If you don’t like being famous, you shouldn’t be in the business’

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

Chris Harvey 06 February 2025 5:30pm GMT “I’m playing in a band with a guy who’s 81,” says Gary Kemp.