The Real Full Monty: Ashley Banjo admits celebrities still haven’t learned their strip routine

The Real Full Monty: ‘There’s so many obstacles in the way’: Ashley Banjo admits celebrities still haven’t learned their strip routine with just 24 hours to go until show By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 15:55 GMT, 15 December 2020 | Updated: 17:04 GMT, 15 December 2020 Ashley Banjo admitted this year’s crop of The … Read more

Linda Lusardi joins Hayley Tamaddon and Chris Hughes in Blackpool for The Real Full Monty On Ice

Linda Lusardi joins Hayley Tamaddon and Chris Hughes in chilly Blackpool as they prepare to film scenes for The Real Full Monty On Ice By Jason Chester for MailOnline Published: 12:08 GMT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 12:17 GMT, 4 December 2020 Linda Lusardi led the arrivals in Blackpool on Friday as the stars of … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Graham Chapman? Not even the third funniest in Monty Python!

New Elizabethans With Andrew Marr Rating: Celebrity Crystal Maze Rating: Right, class, today we’re going to have an end-of-term quiz, to see what you’ve learned about 20th century British history. First, hands up if you know who the most inflential pop band was. Yes, Marr Minor? ‘Please sir, it was Oasis, sir!’ Oasis? Have you … Read more

‘Tis but an inspiration! Famous Monty Python Black Knight sketch is depicted in text from 1400 

‘Tis but an inspiration! Famous Monty Python Black Knight sketch is depicted in text from 1400 British Library curators told Radio 4’s Moving Pictures they discovered the joke    Famous liturgical text was echoing 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail  Image in margin of Sherborn Missal shows two mythical men fighting each other By Elliot … Read more

Watching birds at work can brighten up winter, says MONTY DON

Monty revisits one of his classic books, Gardening at Longmeadow, in an occasional series.  Throughout my whole life I’ve kept chickens, and apart from the wonderful flavour of the steady supply of fresh eggs, I value the birds highly as a useful and pretty addition to the garden. They spend their day scratching around the … Read more

The Real Full Monty On Ice’s Chris Hughes joins co-stars Jamie Lomas and Ashley Banjo at rehearsals

They’re set to strip off for charity as part of the line-up for The Real Full Monty On Ice. But for the time being, stars including Chris Hughes, Ashley Banjo and Jamie Lomas kept themselves firmly covered up as they arrived for rehearsals at Riverside Ice Rink in Chelmsford Essex on Tuesday. The trio bundled up against … Read more

Tricky celery and knobbly celeriac are well worth the effort, says Monty Don

When I was growing up, celery was served almost invariably as a summer salad vegetable – and it is very good like this. But cooked celery enriches almost any soup or stew, as well as being tasty in its own right. Celery and its close relative celeriac are both delicious now. Celeriac is cultivated for … Read more

Love Island’s Shaughna Phillips leaves rehearsals for The Real Full Monty On Ice

She shared the first snap of The Real Full Monty on Ice class of 2020 late last month.  And Shaughna Phillips was pictured leaving rehearsals at the Riverside Ice Rink in Chelmsford Essex on Friday alongside the likes of Linda Lusardi and Chris Hughes, are also stripping off for charity.  The Love Island star, 25, … Read more

Falling leaves aren’t the only things that add glorious autumn colour to your garden, says Monty Don

Berries are the surprise gifts that light up autumn. A berry is defined as a fruit with the seeds wrapped in pulpy flesh, which attracts birds and animals to eat them, thus spreading the seeds. Grapes are berries, as are tomatoes, bananas, cucumbers and watermelons, while – technically – raspberries, strawberries and blackberries are not. … Read more

Monty Don slams garden centres for selling compost made from peat

Monty Don slams garden centres for ‘actively choosing to do harm’ by selling compost made from peat Peat has adverse effects on climate and is most damaging fuel of global warming  Intensive peat mining is also a known threat to rare and endangered species Gardeners urged to stop ‘sticking their head in the sand’ and … Read more