Linda Bellingham appeared on The One Show to talk about her stage role in Calendar Girls, the stage show currently enjoying huge success round the country. Linda Bellingham is famous for the Oxo ads and she also appears on ITV daytime show Loose Women. She is now turning her hand to the stage production of Calendar Girls, based on the hit film of the same name and based on a true story.

Linda Bellingham was quizzed on Calendar Girls the play by The One Show presenters Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley. Linda said that Calendar Girls was a very good British story, a real joyous attitude to the whole business. She said it was so nice to be in a play with seven older women, as older women often ‘become invisible’ as far as casting is concerned once they reach a certain age.

Calendar Girls starring Linda Bellingham stars on 3 April at the Noel Coward Theatre. You can order tickets online.

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Phil Daniels was on The One Show today to promote his new DVD, Phil Daniels’ Football Match Day Madness, released on 1st December. Phil, who played Kevin Wicks on Eastenders, described the DVD to One Show presenters Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley as lots of clips of Chopper Harris fouling people and Norman Hunter kicking people. Phil is taken to an amateur match by his mates, and he talks about the things they do, accompanied by clips of things the professionals do.

Phil Daniels’ Football Match Day Madness is a selection of football’s best, worst and funniest clips ever. According to the cover, it is ‘Strictly the number one footie gift this Xmas’

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Dawn French appeared on The One Show today for a chat about her new autobiography ‘Dear Fatty’ amongst other things. The book takes the form of a series of letters. The One Show presenter Adrian Chiles described it as ‘fantastically moving’. Dawn, most famous for her comedy double-act French and Saunders with Jennifer Saunders and classic British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, talks candidly about her life, her early years as an RAF child, her rise to fame, her relationship with Jennifer Saunders and her marriage to comedian Lenny Henry.

Dear Fatty is already topping the Amazon best-sellers chart, and is an autobiography not to be missed.

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On Thursday night England rugby ace Johnny Wilkinson popped into The One Show for a chat with Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley about his new autobiography entitled Johnny Wilkinson: Tackling Life.

Johnny revealed that playing guitar was one of the things he did to keep himself busy, and also revealed he has an ‘obsessive side’ which is revealed in his book. In Tackling Life, Johnny Wilkinson also talks frankly about his misery that came hand in hand with his success in English rugby, including feelings of misery the morning after kicking the winning goal for England in the Rugby World Cup Final.

Tackling Life by Johnny Wilkinson is a remarkable insight into England’s best known rugby player, as well as being a must-read for Johnny Wilkinson fans, this book will also entertain both rugby and non-rugby fans alike.

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Jamie Oliver appeared on BBC’s The One Show to discuss his new book Jamie’s Ministry of Food: Anyone can learn to cook in 24 hours. One Show presenters Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles quizzed Jamie on whether it is really possible for anyone to learn to cook in 24 hours. Jamie Oliver thought it was definitely possible.

Jamie said there was research out today (6th October 2008) which predicted that in the next 12 years, 75% of us are going to be either overweight or obese, a frightening prospect. Jamie Oliver thought that the future doesn’t look that bright unless something quite radical happens.

Put simply by Adrian Chiles, there are too many people eating too much rubbish. Jamie Oliver’s documentary Jamie’s Ministry of Food focused on a five year old girl who had never eaten a home cooked meal. There was some controversy over whether Jamie Oliver had portrayed the town of Rotherham in a bad light – Rotherham features in the documentary, but Jamie refuted those accusations.

Jamie Oliver’s new book attempts to teach the nation how to cook, especially those who have no real interest in food. It is available to buy online now and would make a great gift for anyone who wants to learn how to cook wholesome, tasty, healthy food.

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Yesterday’s The One Show presented by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley (currently strutting her stuff on Strictly Come Dancing) featured a new book called Pop Goes The Weasel: The secret meanings of nursery rhymes. Giles Brandreth reported on the book’s premise – that many of Britain’s best loved nursery rhymes, such as Three Blind Mice, Ring-a-ring o’ Roses and Baa Baa Black Sheep originally had serious and sometimes rather sinister meanings.

Giles reported back to Adrian and Christine in The One Show studio that the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep developed as a mnemonic for tax collectors back in 1272. The tax was a wool tax on farmers to fund Edward I’s crusades. Of ‘three bags full’, one had to go to the Master (the King), one to the Dame (the Church and the Monasteries) and one for the little boy who lives down the lane (the farmer was allowed to keep the third bag for themselves). That was effectively a 66% tax rate!

Other nursery rhymes featured on The One Show included Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses, which originated from the Black Death plague which spread through England from the 14th to the 18th century killing approximately one third of the population. Ring a ring o roses, a pocket full of poses and ‘atishoo’ represented the symptoms of the plague and ‘we all fall down’ represents the number of fatalities from the deadly disease.

Three Blind Mice purportedly originated from a true story about Mary I, ‘Bloody Mary’ having three Protestant Bishops tied up to stakes, blinded and then executed. Queen Mary was also known as the ‘farmer’s wife’.

Pop Goes The Weasel: The secret meanings of nursery rhymes is an absolutely fascinating book and one throroughly endorsed by The One Show’s Giles Brandreth.

Click here to purchase Pop Goes The Weasel: The secret meanings of nursery rhymes by Albert Jack as seen on The One Show