Les Dennis's on-screen character in 'Coronation Street' has the same life threatening heart condition that killed his father. The 61-year-old entertainer - who plays Michael Rodwell on the ITV soap - has revealed that cardiomyopathy is also the condition that killed his long-standing comedy partner, Dustin Gee. He reflected: ''The parallels with this storyline are quite freaky. Michael has been diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - Dustin had dilated cardiomyopathy, while my dad died from a heart condition. ''Because of this, it is something I obviously relate to. Dustin was in his prime and doing really well at 43, then he was suddenly taken...
- 12/24/2014
- Virgin Media - TV
Les Dennis isn't exactly in our day-to-day thoughts, truth be told, but the news yesterday (January 23) that the light entertainment legend would be joining Coronation Street still managed to put a massive smile on our face. Les on the cobbles! Amazing!
To celebrate Les's biggest gig in quite some time, we look back at the celebrity good egg's life and career in order, and come up with eight reasons why we absolutely love him...
He's a talent show king!
Way back before Britain's Got Talent, The X Factor et al, there was New Faces, a notoriously tough competition where a panel of judges - including a youthful Noel Edmonds - marked variety acts on their "star quality", usually without chucking water over each other or trying to get into the papers with a particularly daring dress, as all that palaver is a modern talent show invention.
After doing the rounds...
To celebrate Les's biggest gig in quite some time, we look back at the celebrity good egg's life and career in order, and come up with eight reasons why we absolutely love him...
He's a talent show king!
Way back before Britain's Got Talent, The X Factor et al, there was New Faces, a notoriously tough competition where a panel of judges - including a youthful Noel Edmonds - marked variety acts on their "star quality", usually without chucking water over each other or trying to get into the papers with a particularly daring dress, as all that palaver is a modern talent show invention.
After doing the rounds...
- 1/24/2014
- Digital Spy
Climbing Kilimanjaro. Getting a cat to speak English. Finding any merit in hideous squealathon Glee. All impossible, and all rank alongside having to follow Tom Baker as the Doctor.
To accomplish this daunting task was Peter Davison, a familiar actor whose career spans over 30 years and several roles. Familiar to many people who watch At Home With The Braithwaites, Campion or All Creatures Great And Small, Davison was a brave choice for the role back in 1981. For one thing, at the time, he was only 29 when announced as the new Tardis incumbent, which - until Matt Smith - was the youngest age for an actor to play the Doctor. Davison was also the most familiar face to take on the role - at the time, he was well known from sitcoms such as Holding The Fort and Sink Or Swim (featuring Robert 'Salateen' Glenister), and also as Tristan Farnon, the...
To accomplish this daunting task was Peter Davison, a familiar actor whose career spans over 30 years and several roles. Familiar to many people who watch At Home With The Braithwaites, Campion or All Creatures Great And Small, Davison was a brave choice for the role back in 1981. For one thing, at the time, he was only 29 when announced as the new Tardis incumbent, which - until Matt Smith - was the youngest age for an actor to play the Doctor. Davison was also the most familiar face to take on the role - at the time, he was well known from sitcoms such as Holding The Fort and Sink Or Swim (featuring Robert 'Salateen' Glenister), and also as Tristan Farnon, the...
- 12/17/2010
- Shadowlocked
'You understand the scope and what he meant to the world,' one fan says of crowd gathered in New York.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Akshay Bhansali
Michael Jackson fans in Times Square as they watch the Jackson memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday
Photo: Timothy A. Clary/Afp/Getty Images
In the center of the city that never stops, Michael Jackson's fans gathered in Times Square to watch screens playing Jackson's memorial service live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The crowd proved that Jackson's music transcended race, gender and age, as fans from across the world carried signs and posters as a tribute to the late singer. There was a sense of community in a group as diverse as the music that Jackson made over the span of his 40-plus-year career.
And although these fans couldn't be in Los...
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Akshay Bhansali
Michael Jackson fans in Times Square as they watch the Jackson memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday
Photo: Timothy A. Clary/Afp/Getty Images
In the center of the city that never stops, Michael Jackson's fans gathered in Times Square to watch screens playing Jackson's memorial service live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The crowd proved that Jackson's music transcended race, gender and age, as fans from across the world carried signs and posters as a tribute to the late singer. There was a sense of community in a group as diverse as the music that Jackson made over the span of his 40-plus-year career.
And although these fans couldn't be in Los...
- 7/7/2009
- MTV Music News
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