TALK OF THE TOWN: Jessie Buckley’s long march to success

TALK OF THE TOWN: Jessie Buckley cringes over one memory from her teenage years as Irish actress recalls her long march to success

Following her huge success in hit TV drama Chernobyl, Jessie Buckley has little to be embarrassed about now – but the 30-year-old Irish actress cringes at one memory of her teenage years growing up in Co Kerry.

‘I was in the Gleneagle marching band, which was the social suicidal point in my life,’ Jessie recalls.

‘Every Sunday with my clarinet, which had some apparatus missing, I would march around car parks in Killarney with a band. Please laugh – it is incredibly laughable.’

Jessie Buckley pictured attending the EE British Academy Film Awards 2020 at Royal Albert Hall on February 2, 2020, in London, England

The Irish actress playing Lyudmilla Ignatenko, the young wife of a firefighter who suffers from exposure to radiation, in the hit TV drama Chernobyl

The Irish actress playing Lyudmilla Ignatenko, the young wife of a firefighter who suffers from exposure to radiation, in the hit TV drama Chernobyl

David Walliams jokes that he wanted to write a children’s book about an evil music boss – but gave up when he realised his pal, fellow Britain’s Got Talent judge Simon Cowell, was a better villain than anything he could create.

Walliams says: ‘I had an idea for a story where there was a boy band and one by one they were replaced by robots. There was an evil genius behind it based on Simon. 

‘He was turning them into robots as he himself had a metal heart and he did not have any feelings. But then I thought there is no point as it is all true.’ 

Perhaps the next thing David could write is his own P45 from BGT…