More than 35 years after his debut hit travel show Around The World In 80 Days, Sir Michael Palin, is bowing out with a final TV adventure across Venezuela. These days working with Channel 5 , globetrotter Palin, now 81, has indicated he expects this to be his “last” major documentary overseas. Having journeyed to Nigeria, Iraq and North Korea in recent years, the star jokes his employers are intent on “taking me to places where I could get killed”.
Michael has a point: the Foreign Office advises against heading to Venezuela ...
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Beginning his UK tour in Norwich tomorrow, when he’ll discuss his life and times, Nigel Havers has come to regret mischievously calling the stage show “Nigel Havers Talking B*ll*cks”. “I’m not sure this was a good idea because in every interview that I have done, I’ve been told that we can’t use this word on air,” the old charmer now concedes. “I seem to hear nothing but four-letter words on the TV these days, so I hadn’t realised that people would mind the b*ll*cks.
..I am obviously not down with the kids.
” ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Rarely off her soapbox, Kirstie Allsopp fumes about seeing "children in prams with phones and iPads,” declaring: “The state needs to step in and help kids and their parents.” The presenter’s own approach has raised eyebrows in the past, mind: short-fused Kirstie once admitted to .
