New TV show Penny Dreadful starts tonight at 9pm on Sky Atlantic – and Billy Piper’s involved, so sign me up.
She plays a hooker – we know she’s good at that after watching Secret Diaries of a Call Girl (if you haven’t seen it, I’d highly recommend it)
It’s about terrors that attack London in the 19th century and the cast also includes Timothy Dalton and Josh Hartnett. Hookers and Hartnett - what's not to love.
Michael D Higgins is minding the ashes of Peter O’Toole. Weird but sweet – read on...
Peter O’Toole’s daughter Kate made the revelation at a memorial held in London in honour of the actor who died last December, aged 81.
To the audience, which included Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, and Stephen Fry, she said:
"I brought my father's ashes home to Ireland where they are currently in safe deposit with the president who is minding them for me at Áras an Uachtaráin until I get a chance to return home and fulfil his wishes and scatter them in the west of Ireland".
Lana Del Ray has been signed up to sing at the wedding of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. She's apparently been offered a six figure sum to appear. It's thought she'll be flown out to Paris this week, ahead of the nuptials on Saturday. Even though the wedding is now supposed to be taking place in Florence, Italy.
