showbiz, advertising, tv show etc: August 2013

Saturday, 31 August 2013

Cynthia Nixon and wife Christine Marinoni stare lovingly at each other as they cosy up at US Open

By Fay Strang

PUBLISHED: 08:15 GMT, 31 August 2013 | UPDATED: 08:20 GMT, 31 August 2013

It’s one of the oldest tennis championships in the world which sees some of the world’s greatest players take to the court.

But it seems tennis was the last thing on Cynthia Nixon and her wife Christine Marinoni’s mind as they attended the fifth day of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Friday.

The couple, who married in May 2012, could barely keep their eyes off each other as they snuggled up in the stand while the excitement on the court unfolded in front of them.

Courtship: Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni watch tennis in Arthur Ashe Stadium on day five at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York on Friday

Clearly enjoying the atmosphere the Sex And The City actress couldn’t have looked happier holding a beer in one hand and with her other resting on her wife’s lap.

Dressed in a cream blazer with a black and white top with black trousers the 47-year-old looked chic for an afternoon of sport.

Her famous strawberry blonde locks looked sleek styled in a centre parting, while she completed her look with a pair of simple drop earrings.

Close: The married couple couldn't keep their hands off each other as they watched the tennis

Christine meanwhile was more casually dressed opting for jeans and a loose-fitting striped polo shirt.

The couple, who looked like they were still in the honeymoon period, were not joined by their son Max or the actress’s two older children from her relationship with Danny Mozes.

Instead it was an opportunity for the pair to enjoying quality time together and judging by their loved up display – that’s exactly what they did.

Day date: Debra Messing and Will Chase attend the Moet & Chandon Suite where they are seen enjoying a drink or two

You can tell they are actors: The pair pulled some dramatic facial expression as they watched the drama unfold

The gang: Megan Hilty, Brian Gallagher Debra Messing and Will Chase all sat together in the champagne suit

They weren’t the only couple piling on the PDA though, actress Megan Hilty found herself showered with attention from Brian Gallagher, who kissed her shoulder as she kept her eyes on the court.

Also in the Moet & Chandon Suite Debra Messing and Will Chase looked happy to enjoying a date at the tennis.

The actress looked stylish in a navy halterneck dress which she accessorised with gold earrings, bracelets and rings.

Kisses: Brian Gallagher kissed actress Megan Hilty on the shoulder as they watched the match

Messing about: Megan and Debra laughed away as they enjoyed a bite to eat at the event

Intent: The couple seemed engrossed in the game at one point

Double date: The couples looked excited to be at the tennis and posed up for a picture together

Holding a Moet glass in her hand the star looked happy as she sat beside Will, who looked like he had coordinated his outfit, opting for a navy shirt.

The two couple were clearly getting along like a house on fire and as they sat beside each other they chatted and laughed away.

Model Liya Kebede and chef Marcus Samuelsson sat not too far away and showing exactly why she is a model the 35-year-old appeared make-up free.

Game on: Model Liya Kebede (L) and chef Marcus Samuelsson also sat in the Moet & Chandon Suite

Catch up: Liya Kebede, actress Debra Messing and Mary Ellis Stevenson were seen having a good old natter in between matches

Natural: Liya showed how beautiful she is going bare-faced and in simple attire

Meanwhile Kim Sears was also seen in the stands cheering on her boyfriend Andy Murray.

The pretty brunette is no stranger to dressing to impress on the court and made sure her hair looked well styled as she supported her man.

And it seems her woopping paid off as the Scottish tennis star beat Leonardo Mayer in the second round.

He will next face in Germany’s Florian Mayer on Sunday as he tries to go for back to back titles.

Here we go again: Kim Sears continued to root on Andy Murray as he went for back to back titles

On his way: Andy beat Leonardo Mayer in the second round

The many faces of Kim: Devoted Sears showed once again just how into the games she gets

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Downton Abbey, Homeland and X Factor: HURRAH for the return of decent TV!

By Nigel Andrew

PUBLISHED: 23:09 GMT, 29 August 2013 | UPDATED: 23:25 GMT, 29 August 2013

At last — the summer drought is over and suddenly there are great new TV shows and returning favourites coming up. Drama is where it’s happening: with new and original ideas, it’s attracting big talent.

The result is a wealth of choice and quality, with something for everyone.

Here’s a preview of what’s in store in the coming season?.?.?. starting with a few familiar faces

FIRST LOOK DOWNTON ABBEY Lady Mary played by Michelle Dockery with Baby George and Tom Branson played by Allen Leech with baby Sybbie

Downton in the Twenties: Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) and Tom Branson (Allen Leech) with their children - see programme details below

Downton Abbey
(ITV, late September)
The daddy of all big-house dramas returns with a fourth season, set in 1922. There will be another departure and several new arrivals — including an appearance by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa playing real-life Australian singer Dame Nellie Melba. As the series begins, we find Lady Mary in mourning — looking fetching in black. Don’t worry: she’s sure to find new love interests. Tomorrow on ITV you can see the official season-four trailer.

HOMELAND (C4, October 6)

Damian Lewis, Claire Danes (both pictured below) and Mandy Patinkin return for the third, 12-part series of this addictive U.S. drama.

After the terrorist attack at the end of the last series, Brody is one of America’s Most Wanted, and we won’t see him for the first two episodes of the forthcoming series because he’s on the run.

Carrie, separated from Brody and without any medication for her bi-polar condition, is in a dark place. Explosive action, in more ways than one.

Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison and Damian Lewis as Nicholas "Nick" Brody in Homeland (Season 2)

The X Factor
(ITV, 8pm tomorrow)
Back comes the ratings-busting, talent-show juggernaut, with queen bee Sharon Osbourne returning to the judging panel. There’s a tweaked format: contestants have to audition twice — in front of the judges in the audition room on the Saturday show, and in front of an arena audience on the Sunday show.

And in the live shows, there will be the chance for more audience involvement while the programme is going out.

Strictly Come Dancing
(BBC1, September 7)
It's a joy to welcome back this supreme Saturday evening entertainment show. Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly resume their hosting double act, the judges — Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and Darcey Bussell — are back on duty, and an expanded line-up of 15 celebrities will be giving their all, right through to December. Keeeep dancing!

The Guilty
(ITV, September 5)
With a nod to ITV’s earlier hit series Broadchurch, this gripping three-part series gets off to a chilling start when a four-year-old boy disappears.

Fast forward five years and his remains are found in a shallow grave just yards from his home, leaving DC Maggie Brand (a well-deserved straight role for Tamsin Greig) to break the terrible news to his distraught parents. The hunt for the killer is on?.?.?.

Masters Of Sex
(C4, September 29)
The brilliant Michael Sheen makes a welcome return to our screens in this 12-part U.S. drama, in which he plays Dr William Masters, whose research alongside Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) steered the world towards sexual revolution of the Sixties.

It’s compelling and more than a little saucy — the couple’s findings that women like sex as much as men, and sometimes even more so, outraged university chancellor Barton Scully (Beau Bridges). Their research put them on the cover of Time magazine and the couch of chat show king Johnny Carson.

The drama has received critical acclaim in the U.S. — even though it hasn’t been aired there yet.

Peaky Blinders - Episode: 1 - Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy)

DRUMMIE BADLANDS (above): Peaky Blinders (BBC2, September 12). Though set on the streets of Birmingham in 1919, this visually striking series has more than a little something of the Wild West?about it. It's named after a gang whose trademark is a razor blade in the peak of their cap. Their brutal leader is Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy, above). Sam Neill and Helen McCrory also star. For authenticity, the cast were sent tapes of old-style Brummie accents ? including rocker Ozzy Osbourne.

Whitechapel
(ITV, September 4)
The fourth series of the super- natural crime drama set in London’s haunted East End gets off to a deeply unsettling start as a homeless man is crushed to death by a shrouded figure.
As DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) and his team investigate what turns out to be just the first murder, they uncover a chilling link to a 16th century crime.
Soon, even hard-as-nails DS Miles (Phil Davis) is jumping at shadows.

Quirke
(soon on BBC1)
Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Ghost Ship) is on terrific form in an atmospheric three-part thriller set in Fifties Dublin, based on the books by Benjamin Black (pseudonym of John Banville).
Quirke is a hard-drinking, troubled pathologist who stirs up a hornet’s nest when he asks too many questions about a suspicious death.
Scripted by Andrew Davies (whose TV adaptations include Vanity Fair and Little Dorrit) and co-starring Michael Gambon and Geraldine Somerville, it’s a classy production.

Dracula
(soon oN Sky Living)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (who smouldered in The Tudors) is well cast in this ten-part re-imagining of the Bram Stoker tale.

He takes Victorian London by storm as a wealthy American entrepreneur promoting the latest technological breakthroughs — but, being Dracula, his real motive is to avenge himself on his enemies.

Yet his plans go awry when he falls in love with a woman who seems to be the reincarnation of his dead wife.

slot, this family drama has a lot riding on it. Can it fill the gap left by Mer

ATLANTIS (soon on BBC1, pictured above). Heading straight as a flaming arrow towards the prime-time Saturday night slot, this family drama has a lot riding on it. Can it fill the gap left by Merlin and Doctor Who? It's got CGI effects, 13 action-packed parts and a cast topped by Sarah Parish and Juliet Stevenson. Oh, and it's got monsters, cyclops and minotaurs. The story explores the sunken city through the eyes of its heroes (pictured left to right) Pythagoras (Robert Emms), Jason (Jack Donnelly) and Hercules (Mark Addy)

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary
(BBC1, November)
It's not just fan forums that are buzzing ahead of this Steven Moffat-penned special.
With David Tennant returning as the tenth Doctor alongside Matt Smith’s outgoing 11th, as well as Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, not to mention John Hurt as a never-seen-before past incarnation, there’s plenty to be getting excited about.

It’s shrouded in secrecy, but we know that Daleks are involved — big time.

The Tunnel
(soon ON Sky Atlantic)
Remember The Bridge, the Scandi-drama in which a corpse was found on the bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden?

This is the British equivalent, with a body found in the Channel Tunnel — a body that turns out to belong to two victims, one French, one English.

Stephen Dillane and Clemence Poesy play the detectives trying to track down the killer.
Fleming (soon ON Sky Atlantic)

Dominic Cooper stars as the charming, enigmatic Ian Fleming in this four-part drama about the wartime adventures of the James Bond creator.

Having failed as a stockbroker and in the Army, Fleming seems to be caught in a life of idleness, drink and womanising — until he starts to work in the dangerous, hush-hush world of Naval intelligence. The seeds of the future James Bond are sown?.?.?.

Laura Pulver co-stars in this handsome production.

TENNANT'S NEW BRIEF: The Escape Artist (soon ON BBC1). David Tennant (above) - never off our screens for long - returns in this new legal drama series. He plays a defence barrister notorious for taking on hopeless cases and getting his clients acquitted. This time, however, he lives to regret saving a murder suspect from jail. Ashley Jensen and Sophie Okonedo also star in this gripping three-parter

The Great Train Robbery
(soon ON BBC1)
The notorious 1963 crime is the inspiration for two compelling feature-length dramas by Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall.

The first tells the tale from the robbers’ point of view; the second from that of the lead detective, Tommy Butler (Jim Broadbent).

Breathless
(soon ON ITV)
A stylish medical drama set in the Sixties in a London hospital, where the staff’s private lives are every bit as dramatic as their professional ones.
Jack Davenport stars as charismatic surgeon Otto Powell, who, with his glamorous wife Elizabeth (Natasha Little), harbours a devastating dark secret. Iain Glen and Sarah Parish also star.

Additional reporting: Sophie Heath

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Gary Barlow performs at Blackpool's Illuminations: X Factor judge fills in after The Script drop out

By Hanna Flint

PUBLISHED: 00:22 GMT, 31 August 2013 | UPDATED: 12:45 GMT, 31 August 2013

When a headline act drops out at the last minute, it's a good time to panic.

But luckily for Blackpool council, Gary Barlow was there to step in to perform at their Illuminations Switch-On concert, when The Script cancelled due to 'serious family illness'.

Tweeting the organisers, Gary, 42, said he'd fill the Irish band's spot if they donated to Children In Need. And luckily for the people of Blackpool, they certainly did.

Super sub! Gary Barlow performs last minute at the Blackpool Illumination concert after The Script dropped out

Thousand's of fans gathered to watch the X Factor judge perform, who had previously switched on the lights back in 1999.

The city's council said they were grateful to Barlow, who had often visited the seaside town as a child.

'I went there on holiday as a kid and it is a very fond place for me," the Take That star said.

One condition: Gary said he would perform Blackpool council donated to Children In Need

Return: Barlow had previously turned on the Blackpool lights in 1999

Smooth moves: The singer changed into a suit and showed off some of his dance skills

History: Barlow has fond memories of holidaying at the seaside town as a child

He told BBC News: 'When I saw the news that they had lost The Script I thought I am going to see if I can do this. When the council said they would make a donation for BBC Children In Need, I decided I'm there.'

A welcome replacement, Gary Barlow tweeted after the show: 'Thanks to everyone in Blackpool tonight ! Lovely people and a great gig !'

Gary was also joined by TV presenter Jonathan Ross, who chatted to audience and made a few jokes during the 45-minute concert.

Deepest regrets: The Scripts management also confirmed the cancellation of their gig at Leeds Academy on Thursday

Stellar show: The X Factor judge performed during the 45 minute show a selection of his and Take That's greatest hits

Power of social media: Gary tweeted organisers that he would stand in via Twitter

A few laughs: Jonathan Ross also lent his star power to the event

But for The Script, they hadn't just let down the crowd at Blackpool, but also those who had hoped to attend their Leeds Academy gig on Thursday.

In a statement from The Script's management, the band said with 'deepest regret' that they had to cancel both shows 'due to a sudden serious family illness'.

Other acts Eliza Doolittle and Madness would perform as scheduled in Blackpool, but the organisers have reportedly offered a refund on tickets for those who want one.

Dr Doolittle: Eliza wore a long white coat which resembled a doctor's jacket

Monochrome: Eliza wore a short white skirt with black vest top and the strange coat which featured a net detail

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I'm not Les Miserable any more: After that split from Amanda Holden and his meltdown on Big Brother, Les Dennis can smile again - thanks to his new wife

By Richard Barber

PUBLISHED: 00:15 GMT, 30 August 2013 | UPDATED: 00:15 GMT, 30 August 2013

The following vignette should tell you all you need to know about Les Dennis’s state of mind. We are sitting in his rather spartan dressing room at London’s Playhouse Theatre, where he is playing King Arthur in Spamalot, and Les is musing about everything happening for a reason.

For example, he says, if he hadn’t done Celebrity Big Brother, in which he came across as a borderline suicidal emotional wreck, he wouldn’t have been chosen by Ricky Gervais to play a washed-up comedian in a memorable episode of Extras.

Similarly, if his marriage to Amanda Holden hadn’t so publicly imploded in 2002 following the revelation of her affair with actor Neil Morrissey, he wouldn’t have gone on to have a family with third wife Claire, mother of Eleanor, five, and two-year-old Tom. ‘And, truly, they’re a late blessing,’ says Les, ‘a real gift.’

Family fortune: Les with his third wife Claire. The pair have two children, Eleanor, five and Tom, two. The couple met at a charity ball in memory of actress Laura Sadler

As it happens, Amanda has also found great happiness with her second husband, Chris Hughes, the father of her two young children. Is he still in touch with her?

‘I’m not,’ he says. ‘But then there’s no reason to be. With my first wife, Lynne, we stay in contact because we have a child together.’ Their son, Philip Heseltine (Les’s real surname), is about to appear as Malcolm in a production of Macbeth at a pub theatre in London’s Hampstead.

‘I wish Amanda all the best. I can watch her quite easily now on Britain’s Got Talent, you know, and I don’t mind admitting that wasn’t always the case.

‘I can even cope with the fact that my kids like Bob The Builder [voiced by Mr Morrissey]. I have to smile to myself when I put Tom into a Bob The Builder dumper truck for a ride at the shopping mall.’

Amanda is about to publish her autobiography. Is he worried?

‘No, I don’t fear it. Honestly. I wrote my autobiography [2008’s Must The Show Go On?] in which I told my story. She’s perfectly entitled to tell her own.’

It’s evident he’s no longer, as one wag dubbed him at the time, Les Miserable. ‘No, I’m not,’ he says, beaming. He used to have regular therapy sessions. ‘I still go occasionally for a sort of emotional MoT.’

Starring role: Les playing King Arthur in Spamalot

Any day now, he and the family will move to Cheshire, having sold their house in Highgate, North London. ‘I felt the need to get back to my roots.’ He’s a Liverpudlian and his father, also Les, was a footballer.

‘It’s the right thing to do but, while the prospect of change is good for you, it also brings on all sorts of fears. So I find it helpful to talk them through with a professional.’

Comics are given to melancholy, he says. ‘There’s the story of Grock, the king of clowns, who consulted his therapist because he was feeling depressed.

‘To cheer himself up, the therapist told him to go and see Grock. To which the man replied: “But I am Grock.” It makes you wonder who cheers up the people who make you laugh.

‘There’s no doubt I’m a worrier. And yet, as bad as things look at the time, they don’t stay at that pitch. Don’t get me wrong — I absolutely love being with the family — but I’m at my best when I’m busy. Claire understands and she’s unbelievably supportive.’

His other ‘therapy’ is long, solo walks listening to Radio 4 on a headset. ‘I regard that as me-time.’

It takes very little to get Les to eulogise about his wife. ‘She has the ability to pour balm on any tricky situation,’ he says. ‘She looks out for everybody. I call her Claire-in-the-community.’

They met eight years ago when Les was the compere at a Lord’s Taverners ball in memory of Holby City actress Laura Sadler, who died in 2003 after falling from the balcony of her boyfriend’s flat in London’s Holland Park.

‘At one point, everybody on my table and everybody on Claire’s got up to dance. She walked over and asked if I’d like to dance. I was struck by this gorgeous woman in a red dress but also by her confidence.

‘The photographer took a picture of us which Claire’s friends then bought for her at the end of the evening. She came across to show me. It was a lovely shot. We looked as though we’d been together for ever but, for some reason, I switched to default celeb mode and asked if she’d like me to sign it.’

Even now, he cringes at the recollection. ‘The first photo of me and the woman who became my lovely wife has: “To Claire, best wishes, Les Dennis,” written all over her left arm.’

But he did have the gumption to ask if she’d like to go to dinner and saved her number on his mobile.

As it happens, he inadvertently left his phone in a taxi and took three days to get it back when it was posted through the wrong door.

If it's up there, I'll give you the money myself! Les Dennis appears in Family Fortunes, a show that propelled him to fame

In the meantime, Claire thought Les had had a change of heart. Finally, he called her on the Monday. ‘She subsequently told me that she was giving me until the Wednesday.’

They met for dinner and quite quickly, he says, fell in love. At 42, Claire, like Amanda, is 17 years younger than Les. ‘True, but I met Claire,’ he says, a touch pointedly, ‘when she was already a woman, not a 22-year-old girl.’

Now, here he is with a 33-year-old son and two small children. By any stretch, it’s not what you’d call conventional family planning.

How does fatherhood compare with first time around? ‘I can remember when Philip was tiny and I was around quite a lot.

Partners in comedy: Les with Dustin Gee. Dustin died in 1986 and Les says a day doesn't pass where he doesn't think about him

‘But when my comedy partner, Dustin Gee, and I began to take off — Philip must have been about three — I freely admit that I put family life on the back burner. I was young, ambitious and obsessed with my career.

‘The early Eighties was an amazing time for me. I seemed to be on TV almost every week hosting Family Fortunes or with Dustin. He died on January 3, 1986 and there’s not a day when he doesn’t cross my mind.

‘Just this morning, I called Claire and my sister, Mandy, to tell them about meeting Eric Idle. He was in the audience for Spamalot, though luckily I didn’t know that until he came backstage afterwards. Dustin was the biggest Python fan ever and I ached to be able to tell him. I hope that, in some way we don’t understand, he knows about it, too.’

With Eleanor and Tom, says Les, he’s much more hands-on.

‘I had a four-month break earlier this year and I was the one who’d take Eleanor to school and Tom to toddler group. Or I’ll take them both swimming. I’m an early riser, so I don’t mind getting up with them in the morning.’

That apart, it must have crossed his mind that fatherhood in his late 50s wouldn’t be everyone’s choice.

‘Well, yes, I could be enjoying grandchildren and more holidays by now. I could be living somewhere smaller having downsized.

‘But that’s one of the reasons we’re moving north. The house won’t be any smaller, but it’ll be a more relaxed lifestyle than living in London. I’m looking forward to less stress.’

He’ll be 60 in October. ‘I’m really looking forward to it,’ he says. ‘Truly, it’s a coming of age for me.’

There’s also a more pragmatic reason for his good cheer.

Years ago, his manager made him put money into a pension which will mature on his birthday.

‘It’s going to provide something of a financial cushion which will mean I can pick and choose my jobs a bit more. One of my abiding fears is ever being in a situation where I couldn’t provide for my family.’

If this year is anything to go by, he needn’t worry on that score. His run in Spamalot will take him through to November. ‘And it’s great fun. Bonnie Langford is in it and she’s worth the price of the ticket alone.

‘Normally, when you join an existing cast with everyone else so well-established, it’s like jumping on to a speeding train.

Cooking up a treat: Les is appearing in the current series of Celebrity MasterChef. he says the cookery show is of the scariest things he has done

‘But it’s more than that. Playing King Arthur, not only do you have to jump on the train, you then have to drive it. And yet Claire came to see my first performance and said afterwards that she’d never seen me so relaxed. I somehow felt I’d been in it for ever.’

Alongside Spamalot, he is appearing in Celebrity MasterChef with former boxer Joe Calzaghe, ex-England cricketer Matthew Hoggard and rapper Speech Debelle. Tonight, viewers will find out whether Les has made it through to the next round.

Wild horses won’t get him to reveal how he fared — the whole series has already been filmed — but he doesn’t look like a man who fell at the first souffle. ‘I used to be commis chef at my mum Winnie’s, peeling the potatoes, getting the mint from the garden and so on.

‘But it wasn’t until about 20 years ago that I developed a real interest in cooking. My piece de resistance was a skewer of monkfish and scallops with an anchovy and rosemary sauce. I recreated that sauce on MasterChef.’

The contest was the scariest thing he’s ever done. ‘You’re out of your comfort zone, you’re cooking against the clock, sometimes for a hundred people, and you’ve got Gregg Wallace and John Torode, who are both incredibly supportive, nonetheless cranking up the tension. Claire and my friends were my tasters at home as I tried various dishes on them.’

He’s also filmed the Midsomer Murders Christmas special and has a new theatrical challenge after Spamalot, but can’t talk about it yet.

‘I always worry that the current job will be my last. One friend says he sometimes gets snow blindness [from the blank pages] when he opens his diary. No performer wants that.’

It is time to warm up for the evening show. Les pumps my hand as he shows me to the door. One last thing. If he could write his epitaph now, what would it be? A shy smile. ‘He got there in the end.’

SPAMALOT is at the Playhouse Theatre, London, call 0844 871 7627 or visit spamalot2012.co.uk.

Celebrity MasterChef is on BBC1 at 8.30pm tonight.

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Katherine Jenkins steps out in cute 50s dress for Sing-A-Long Grease night

By Sophia Charalambous

PUBLISHED: 07:44 GMT, 31 August 2013 | UPDATED: 09:28 GMT, 31 August 2013

She may be a world-famous mezzo-soprano, but Katherine Jenkins could have easily passed for one of the rebel Pink Ladies as she enjoyed a Grease sing-along night.

The 33-year-old Welsh beauty was spotted leaving Sing-a-Long-a Grease at the Prince Charles Cinema on Friday, for a friend's birthday, dressed in a 50s-inspired outfit for the occasion.

Katherine opted for a light green A-line bandeau dress, printed with blue flowers, and a light denim jacket.

Grease is the word: Katherine Jenkins grooved to a Sing-A-Long-A Grease at the Prince Charles Cinema on Friday night

She teamed the look with a pair of red wedge heels and was clutching onto an obligatory Pink Ladies jacket for the night of song.

The Classic Brit Awards winner even made sure her make-up matched the era with 50s cat eyeliner and bright red lipstick.

The star went all out with the look, scraping her blonde locks into a rockabilly ponytail, whilst her skin looked suitably sun-kissed.

One of the gang: Katherine was seen carrying her Pink Ladies Jacket out of the Prince Charles cinema following the fun evening

Katherine, who is known for her powerful voice, must have enjoyed belting out the classic songs at the Leicester Square venue and was all smiles as she headed home.

The popular evening has entertained a whole host of celebrities including Radio 1's Sarah Cox and Scot Mills.

The evening begins with a Sing-a-Long-a Grease host leading a vocal warm-up before they show you how to use your free fun pack during the film, and they even suggest some appropriate heckles.

Stunner: Katherine Jenkins looked stunning in her 50s-inspired ensemble with obligatory Pink Ladies jacket

Katherine was at the Sing-A-Long to celebrate a friends birthday, who she tweeted following the event.

She wrote: 'Happy Birthday @naomi2122 What a great night #GoGreaseLightning #BusmansHoliday ;).'

The singer has just parted ways with her record label Warner after five years and ?5.8 million deal with the label, but is looking forward to a 'new chapter' and will no doubt be announcing her next move in the next few weeks.

50s girl: Katherine Jenkins made a real effort to look like a 50s girl for her friend's birthday party at the Grease Sing-a-Long-a

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Monster classic returns: Savour the chance to see Jurassic Park on the big screen

By Chris Tookey

PUBLISHED: 21:52 GMT, 22 August 2013 | UPDATED: 22:50 GMT, 22 August 2013

Jurassic Park 3D (PG)

Verdict: All-time-great-monster-movie

Rating:

Forget the 3D. This imax re-release of 1993’s biggest hit is mostly a very welcome memo to Hollywood that blockbusters don’t have to be stupid.

Truly outstanding monster movies turn their monsters into more than special effects. And, Steven Spielberg does just that.

Through a series of telling images, Spielberg makes it clear — as Sam Neill and the children in his care are nearly killed by a falling car, an electrified perimeter fence and a failed computer system — that the real monster is the modern technology which created the dinosaurs but is now out of control.

Audiences should run- not walk- to see Jurassic Park on the big screen

Where Jurassic Park was superior to Spielberg’s previous action films, was that here he shows how adventure can change people.

Sam Neill discovers paternal feelings he never suspected, and the well-intentioned villain of the piece, played by Richard Attenborough, discovers the perils of even benevolent totalitarianism.

If you haven’t seen this on a big screen, treat yourself. It’s awe-inspiring, and John Williams’s sweeping, melodic score is a triumph.

The awe-inspiring epic shows filmmakers that blockbusters can be both heartfelt and clever

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