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    'RHOA': Porsha Williams and Marlo Hampton Involved in Tense Moment Over Kenya Moore

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    In the Sunday, March 28 episode of the long-running Bravo reality show, Porsha confronts her friend Marlo’s newfound friendship with co-star Kenya Moore.

    Mar 29, 2021

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    “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Porsha Williams and Marlo Hampton had a moment in the Sunday, March 28 episode of the Bravo reality show. In the new outing, Porsha confronted Marlo’s newfound friendship with co-star Kenya Moore.

    It took place when the ladies attended a dancing class in New Orleans. “Well, since this seems like a nice, healing space, I feel like we should talk,” Porsha told Marlo after she pulled her aside following the class. “I feel like your movement has changed being a friend to me.”

    Marlo responded, “It’s been like an elephant in the room and I feel it’s different because of Kenya.” To that, Porsha replied, “This whole thing with Kenya if you want to bring it up. You had your showroom, I didn’t know when the showroom was opening. I knew that you were having it because you had told me about it.”

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    Defending herself, Marlo explained to Porsha, “I didn’t invite anyone to it. She called and asked could she come.” Porsha then replied, “I would love to support my friends, but that opportunity wasn’t there. And then now you’ve been here this whole weekend, you have not called my phone, nothing.”

    That didn’t sit well with Marlo as she said to Porsha, “I am a friend to you and I feel like you don’t trust me being friends with someone who you do not f**k with. Let’s keep it one hundred. I wasn’t here for Kenya at all when y’all was doing playdates.” She referred to when Porsha and Kenya had baby playdates last year, way before the Strippergate this season.

    “Wasn’t I hating on her [then]? You was, ‘No, she’s so sweet,’ ” Marlo said. She then tried to explain why she chose to make up with Kenya earlier this season. However, Porsha insisted, “And as soon as ya’ll met up, that’s when your energy changed.” Clapping back, Marlo said, “I feel like that’s when you changed.”

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    'Nobody' Tops Box Office, 'Godzilla vs Kong' Sets Pandemic-Best Opening Overseas

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    While the Bob Odenkirk-starring action thriller takes the lead domestically, the epic monster movie breaks record for the biggest international box office debut by a Hollywood film during the pandemic era.

    Mar 29, 2021

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    “Nobody” has inked its name on top of the North American box office. Universal’s action genre-defying pic starring Bob Odenkirk takes the lead with approximately $6.7 million domestically on its debut weekend.

    It’s a fairly good start for the low-budget movie, which reportedly only cost $16 million to make. Universal, meanwhile, acquired the film from STX for about $10 million. The movie benefits from New York and Los Angeles theater openings.

    The film’s $6.7 million opening gross makes up one third of the weekend’s $19 million overall total. Internationally, it grossed $5 million for a worldwide total of $11.7 million.

    Another new release this week is “Tom & Jerry”, which opens at No. 3 with an estimated $2.5 million. Last week’s champion “Raya and the Last Dragon” falls one spot to No. 2 with additional $3.5 million. As of Sunday, March 28, the Disney animated movie has grossed $28.4 million domestically and $62.1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $90.5 million, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 2021.

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    “Chaos Walking” also descends from No. 3 to No. 4 with approximately $1.2 million, while “The Courier” takes the first place with an estimated $1 million.

    Meanwhile, “Godzilla vs Kong” made a loud roar overseas as it opened to a pandemic-best $121.8 million at the foreign box office. Previously, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” held the record of the biggest offshore start of the pandemic with $53 million.

    Of the epic monster showdown film’s impressive international debut, China’s markets contributed the most with $70.34 million, with Mexico and Australia coming in at $6.3 million each. Russia also showed strong business with $5.8 million.

    “Godzilla vs Kong”, which is set to open in the U.S. simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max on March 31, launched in a total of 39 markets overseas on March 24. It, however, doesn’t open in Japan, the home of “Godzilla”, until May.

    Top 10 of North America Box Office (Mar. 26-28, 2021)

    “Nobody” – $6.7 million
    “Raya and the Last Dragon” – $3.5 million
    “Tom & Jerry” – $2.5 million
    “Chaos Walking” – $1.2 million
    “The Courier” – $1 million
    “The Croods: A New Age” – $540,000
    “The Marksman” – $375,000
    “Boogie” – $340,000
    “Minari” – $275,000
    “Wonder Woman 1984” – $245,000

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    'SNL' Cast Member Bowen Yang Addresses Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

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    During the ‘Weekend Update’ segment, the first Chinese-American cast member on the series shares about a helpful mantra for himself which is a Mandarin cheer ‘Jiayou’ that roughly translates to ‘Fuel up.’

    Mar 29, 2021

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    “Saturday Night Live” cast member Bowen Yang talked about something that really hit home in the new episode of the NBC comedy show. During the “Weekend Update” segment in the Saturday, March 27 episode, the first Chinese-American cast member on the series addressed anti-Asian hate crime that recently rises in the United States.

    In the segment, Yang shared about a helpful mantra for himself which was a Mandarin cheer “Jiayou” that roughly translates to “Fuel up.” The comedian said, “I don’t know what’s helpful to say to everyone, but that’s what I say to myself. Fuel up. Do more. It’s the Year of the Metal Ox, which basically means a car. So everyone get in, buckle up, it’s no pee breaks. We ride at dawn, grandmas!”

    The “Nora from Queens” actor referred to the 75-year-old Asian American woman named Xiao Zhen Xie. Earlier this month, Xie was punched by a white man in San Francisco, California, but then she used a wooden board to fight back. The suspect, Steve Jenkins, who attacked 83-year-old Ngoc Pham, was arrested at the scene.

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    The attack arrived just one day after Robert Aaron Long killed eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. Of the victims, six were women of Asian descent.

    Back to the show, Yang still attempted to bring laughter as he joked, “Six ways you can check in on your AAPI friends and tell them they’re so hot.”

    “Weekend Update” host Colin Jost then asked Yang if those tips were going to help Asian Americans. To that, Yang responded, “Maybe. I don’t know, Colin… What can I say to help how insanely bad things are?” The 30-year-old went on to say, “If someone’s personality is ‘punch an Asian grandma,’ it’s not a dialogue. I have an Asian grandma, you want to punch her. There ain’t no common ground, mama.”

    “Look, I’m just a comedian, I don’t have the answers. But I’m not just looking for them online, I’m looking around me,” he added. “The GoFundMe for Xiao Zhen Xie, the grandmother who fought back against her attacker, raised $900,000, which she immediately gave back to the community. That’s where we are as Asians. Come meet us there.”

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    2021 NAACP Image Awards: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman Lead Movie Winners

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    The ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ actress and the late ‘Da 5 Bloods’ actor dominate the movie categories on the final night of the 52nd annual NAACP Image Awards.

    Mar 29, 2021

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    DJ D-Nice, Viola Davis, and the late Chadwick Boseman were the big winners as a week of NAACP Image Awards wrapped up on Saturday night (27Mar21)

    D-Nice, who staged a series of livestream events to help keep spirits up throughout the lockdown, picked up the Entertainer of the Year honour while Boseman landed the Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture prize for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and his co-star, Davis, was named Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for “How to Get Away with Murder”.

    There were also Saturday night wins for Issa Rae (Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series), Rege-Jean Page (Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series), LeBron James (Presidents Award), and Eddie Murphy (Hall of Fame Award).

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    The ceremony closed out a series of trophy presentations as the 52nd annual NAACP Image Awards took over the whole week, with short prizegivings every night.

    Beyonce and TV comedy “black-ish” were the overall big winners – Beyonce picked up four honours, including Outstanding Female Artist while “black-ish” hauled in five awards, landing Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for Anthony Anderson, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Deon Cole, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Marsai Martin, who also picked up the Outstanding Performance by a Youth gong.

    The full list of NAACP Image Award winners is:

    Entertainer of the Year: D-Nice
    Outstanding Motion Picture: “Bad Boys for Life”
    Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Chadwick Boseman – “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
    Social Justice Impact: Stacey Abrams
    Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Viola Davis – “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
    Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series: Issa Rae – “Insecure”
    Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series: Viola Davis – “How To Get Away With Murder”
    Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series: Rege-Jean Page – “Bridgerton”
    Presidents Award: LeBron James
    Hall of Fame Award: Eddie Murphy
    Outstanding Comedy Series: “Insecure”
    Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: Anthony Anderson – “black-ish”
    Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Deon Cole – “black-ish”
    Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Marsai Martin – “black-ish”
    Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Chadwick Boseman – “Da 5 Bloods”
    Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Phylicia Rashad – “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey”
    Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
    Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture: Madalen Mills – “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey”
    Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Motion Picture): Nadia Hallgren – “Becoming”
    Outstanding Independent Motion Picture: “The Banker”
    Outstanding International Motion Picture: “Night of the Kings”
    Outstanding Drama Series: “Power Book II: Ghost”
    Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Clifford “Method Man” Smith – “Power Book II: Ghost”
    Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Mary J. Blige – “Power Book II: Ghost”
    Outstanding Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special: “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker”
    Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special: Blair Underwood – “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker”
    Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special: Octavia Spencer – “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker”
    Special Award – Key of Life: Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
    Special Award – Sports Award I: Stephen Curry
    Outstanding New Artist: Doja Cat – “Say So”
    Outstanding Male Artist: Drake – “Laugh Now, Cry Later”
    Outstanding Female Artist: Beyonce – “Black Parade”
    Outstanding Soul/R&B Song: “Do It” – Chloe x Halle
    Outstanding Hip Hop/Rap Song: “Savage Remix” – Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyonce
    Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional): Chloe x Halle – “Wonder What She Thinks Of Me”
    Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Contemporary): Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyonce – “Savage Remix”
    Outstanding Album: “Chilombo” – Jhene Aiko
    Outstanding Producer of the Year: Hit-Boy
    Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album: “Brown Skin Girl” – Beyonce feat WizKid, SAINt JHN, Blue Ivy Carter
    Outstanding Jazz Album – Instrumental: “Music From and Inspired by Soul” – Jon Batiste
    Outstanding Jazz Album – Vocal: “Holy Room – Live at Alte Oper” – Somi
    Outstanding International Song: “Lockdown” – Original Koffee
    Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album: “Soul” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste, and Tom MacDougall
    Outstanding Gospel/Christian Song: “Touch from you” – Tamela Mann
    Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album: “The Return” – The Clark Sisters
    Special Award – Sports Award II: WNBA Player’s Association (Nneka Ogqumike accepting on behalf of WNBA)
    Outstanding Talk Series: “Red Table Talk”
    Outstanding Reality Program/Reality Competition or Game Show: “Celebrity Family Feud”
    Outstanding Variety Show (Series or Special): “VERZUZ”
    Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special): The New York Times Presents “The Killing of Breonna Taylor”
    Outstanding Children’s Program: “Family Reunion”
    Outstanding Performance by a Youth (Series, Special, Television Movie or Limited-Series): Marsai Martin – “black-ish”
    Outstanding Animated Series: “Doc McStuffins”
    Outstanding Animated Motion Picture: “Soul”
    Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance (Television): Laya DeLeon Hayes – “Doc McStuffins”
    Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance – Motion Picture: Jamie Foxx – “Soul”
    Outstanding Host in a Talk or News/Information (Series or Special) – Individual or Ensemble: Trevor Noah – “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”
    Outstanding Host in a Reality/Reality Competition, Game Show or Variety (Series or Special) – Individual or Ensemble: Steve Harvey – “Celebrity Family Feud”
    Outstanding Guest Performance – Comedy or Drama Series: Loretta Devine – “P-Valley”
    Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Television): Raynelle Swilling – “Cherish the Day”
    Special Award – Founder’s Award: Toni Vaz
    Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series: Michaela Coel – “I May Destroy You” (Episode 112 “Ego Death”)
    Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series: Attica Locke – “Little Fires Everywhere” (Episode 104 “The Spider Web”)
    Outstanding Writing in a Television Movie or Special: Geri Cole – “The Power of We: A Sesame Street Special”
    Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture: Radha Blank – “The Forty-Year-Old Version”
    Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series: Anya Adams – “black-ish” (Episode 611 “Hair Day”)
    Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series: Hanelle Culpepper – “Star Trek: Picard” (Episode 101 “Remembrance”)
    Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie or Special: Eugene Ashe – “Sylvie’s Love”
    Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture: Gina Prince-Bythewood – “The Old Guard”
    Outstanding Short Form Series – Comedy or Drama: “#FreeRayshawn”
    Outstanding Performance in a Short Form: Laurence Fishburne – “#FreeRayshawn”
    Outstanding Short Form Series – Reality/Nonfiction: “Between The Scenes” – “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”
    Outstanding Short-Film (Live Action): “Black Boy Joy”
    Outstanding Short-Film (Animated): “Canvas”
    Special Award – Spingarn Medal: Misty Copeland
    Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction: “The Awkward Black Man” – Walter Mosley
    Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction: “A Promised Land” – Barack Obama
    Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author: “We’re Better Than This” – Elijah Cummings
    Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography: “The Dead Are Arising” – Les Payne, Tamara Payne
    Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional: “Vegetable Kingdom” – Bryant Terry
    Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry: “The Age of Phillis” – Honoree Jeffers
    Outstanding Literary Work – Children: “She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm” – Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric Velasquez
    Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens: “Before the Ever After” – Jacqueline Woodson
    Outstanding Directing in a Documentary (Television or Motion Picture): Keith McQuirter – “By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem”
    Outstanding Writing in a Documentary (Television or Motion Picture): Melissa Haizlip – “Mr. SOUL!”
    Outstanding Documentary (Film): “John Lewis: Good Trouble”
    Outstanding Documentary (Television – Series or Special): “The Last Dance”
    Special Award – Youth Activist of the Year: Madison Potts
    Special Award – Activist of the Year: Reverend Dr. Wendell Anthony

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    NEWS: The Roaring 20s: A New artist development programme

    Our wonderful friends at LUNG Theatre have teamed up with Harrow Art Centre to offer 12 young people an opportunity to apply for their new development programme. The programme is packed full of help and guidance from people within the arts industry, and will culminate in a scrtach night where you can showcase your work.

    The full programme will allow the 12 successful applicants to have:

    10 online masterclasses with industry leading creatives and professionals working in the arts. These masterclasses will be in everything from writing, directing, producing and multi-disciplinary arts.Space and support to make their own piece of work for a scratch night at Harrow Arts Centre.£125 to spend on their artistic development.A silver arts award.

    Applications are currently open to anyone aged 18-25 who is not in full time education or employment or training. The deadline for applications is midnight on the 31st of March.

    The Roaring 20s will be facilitated by Qasim Mahmood (Actor with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Birmingham Rep and BBC’s Doctors) and Blanche Fitzgerald (Participation Programmer at Harrow Arts Centre)

    Qasim Mahmood said: What stops people from underrepresented backgrounds achieving in the arts is a lack of opportunity and advice. This project is bridging that gap and opening up the world of theatre to everyone.

    Blanche Fitzgerald added: Harrow Arts Centre is thrilled to be partnering with LUNG in this exciting next stage of theatre making for over 18s. This is a programme centered around making the world of theatre more accessible and opening participants eyes up to the host of opportunities within the industry. If you’ve wanted to try out theatre but haven’t yet taken the plunge, this is the programme for you!

    There is a taster session Monday 29 March at 6pm, details here

    More information is available on LUNG’s website here

    Everything Theatre is always happy to support schemes such as these and we’ll be very excited to see how the successful applicants get on. Maybe we will see you at the scratch night later in the year. More

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    Sophia Bush Announces Partnership to Expand the Reach of Her Podcast Show

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    The ‘One Tree Hill’ star is taking her long-running audio series ‘Work In Progress’ to top podcast platform Wondery as she continues to interview influencers and change makers.

    Mar 28, 2021

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    Actress and activist Sophia Bush has partnered with bosses at top podcast platform Wondery to expand the reach of her long-running audio series.

    The “One Tree Hill” star has been podcasting since long before the COVID pandemic kicked in last year (20) and the audio broadcasting medium exploded.

    Now, Sophia is taking her hit show, “Work In Progress”, to Wondery, where she will continue her interviews with change makers, influencers and politicians.

    Previous guests have included Hillary Clinton, Natalie Portman, designer Diane von Furstenberg, and Spanish chef Jose Andres.

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    It’s not Sophia’s only media news this week (ends26Mar21) – she was also named the co-founder of and advisor for new company Fashionkind, and plans to work to reduce the environmental impact of garment design, manufacture, and sales.

    Writing on Instagram, Bush shares that she and her new partner Nina Farran “will work to do all we can to help change fashion from within and bring real change to the industry at large…”

    “This is a huge endeavor – a moonshot if you will – and we hope you’ll be part of the journey as we grow, and strive to create a more beautiful and more equitable world,” she said.

    In another post, the actress added, “I wanted to see how we might go about creating industry-wide change. For so long, that kind of change felt more like a dream than a reality that I might be able to contribute to. So you can imagine how incredibly excited I was to have the opportunity to work on changing that from within!”

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    Fred Armisen Tapped to Lead New Podcast Series 'The Sketch Factor'

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    The former ‘Saturday Night Live’ regular is set to play a billionaire oddball who judges a comedy sketch in the upcoming podcast series due to debut on Spotify.

    Mar 28, 2021

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    Actor, comedian, and drummer Fred Armisen is taking his unique skills to the crowded audio arena for a new show.

    In the new podcast, “The Sketch Factor”, the “Saturday Night Live” star, who is known for his celebrity impersonations, will play a character called Xandor Szavost.

    Described by Variety as “an inventor, philanthropist and billionaire who’s using his fortune to finance an audio sketch-comedy competition for his own amusement,” the fictional oddball will judge a comedy sketch as part of each short episode.

    Guest comedians will include Kurt Braunholer, Jo Firestone, Maggie Champagne, Tim Robinson, Josh Ruben, Yamanika Saunders, and Seaton Smith.

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    The show will be produced by Radio Point bosses and will debut on 1 April (21), exclusively on Spotify.

    Chiefs at the platform, who are working to expand its podcast division, will also roll out another audio series the same day, “Flameout”, in which a troupe of comedians will tackle famous business failures. Episodes will introduce out-of-control bosses who steered their companies off the rails, to be played by “Wet Hot American Summer” star Michael Ian Black, “Up Early Tonight” ‘s Abbi Crutchfield, “The Other Two” actor Joel Kim Booster, Candice Thompson, Chinedu Unaka, Atsuko Okatsuka, Alison Becker, and Baron Vaughn.

    It’s a busy time for Candice, who has just launched “Nosy Neighbors”, another Spotify original that she co-hosts with “The Mindy Project” ‘s Chinedu Unaka. The two funnywomen analyse bad behaviour and personal disputes, some caught on camera, as well as online neighborhood bickering.

    Every episode will include a real-life comedian telling their own nosy neighbour story.

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    'Coronation Street' Star Bill Roache Written Out of Show to Recover From Covid-19

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    The Ken Barlow depicter has been forced to take a hiatus from the long-running soap opera to enter quarantine and recover after he tested positive for coronavirus.

    Mar 28, 2021

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    Actor Bill Roache was forced to take time off filming U.K. soap opera “Coronation Street” after contracting Covid-19.

    The 88-year-old, who has played Ken Barlow in the show since its 1960 debut, tested positive for the coronavirus and was written out of the soap as he took time to recover.

    However, a spokesperson for the ITV show has confirmed Bill is on the mend and is set to return to the famous cobbles “as soon as possible.”

    “Following recent reports about his health, William Roache has asked us to clarify that he took time off work after testing positive for Covid,” they told the Daily Mirror. “He has recovered well and is looking forward to returning to the cobbles as soon as possible.”

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    A source added that storylines involving Ken were “currently being written,” explaining bosses are “limiting the time we are filming with the more elderly cast during the pandemic.”

    “He is doing really well and is looking forward to returning,” they shared. “Bill is such a well-loved member of the team and everyone is delighted he has recovered so well.”

    “We can’t wait to have him back.”

    Like most projects, “Coronation Street” halted filming when the lockdown was first announced in March 2020. The cast and crew resumed filming in a restricted manner several months later. Due to social distancing guideline, they used real-life couples as body doubles for kissing scenes.

    “Coronation Street” wasn’t the only show employing the clever trick. Another U.K. soap opera “EastEnders” and U.S. daytime series “The Bold and The Beautiful” also recruited real-life partners for intimate scenes.

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