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Actor. He/Him @theRSC associate artist. Still living The High Life. Duncan Muir in @TheCrownNetflix @Netflixuk NEXT Laughing Boy @JSTheatre

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@forbesmasson
Forbes Masson 💙
5 years
The High Life is back!!! This Saturday 21.50 on @BBCScotland channel and then on @BBCiPlayer
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This is an unexpected surprise... by popular demand #TheHighLife is back AGAIN! #ohdearieme ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 it’s on @bbciplayer too!
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The Falkirk Town Hall. Instead of renovating, Falkirk Council has closed it and it’s going to be demolished, leaving the town with no large scale performance venue or arts centre. There are no plans for a replacement. As a Falkirk Bairn, I am so angry about this.
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Yes, I had to go and agree to being the bearded lady at my kid’s school’s The Greatest Showman singalong.....
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2 years
Tonight. 23.30. BBC 4. @bbciplayer #TheHighLife #feart ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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2 years
Was fantastic catching up with this wonderful man in Glasgow recently. His show, Burn, was beautiful ❤️
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3 years
Happy #LoveTheatreDay from ⁦ @victorandbarry ⁩ ❤️
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Look who came to see me in @newsies_uk today. Shona Spurtle! The one and only, wonderful Siobhán Redmond! #ohdearieme #thehighlife ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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1 year
My home town of Falkirk, with a thriving artistic community, has lost its only large scale performing space and arts venue. Falkirk Town Hall has closed and is set to be demolished without a replacement being built. The local council should be ashamed.
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2 years
It’s #Eurovision so here is the traditional retweet of Scotland’s one and only entry #pifpafpof #haveitoff #cough #thehighlife #airscotia ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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5 years
OMG OMG you guys! @RandyRainbow and @Alancumming on the same album? What’s not to love? ❤️
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Tonight at 23.30. BBC 4 and @BBCiPlayer #TheHighLife episode 1 #feart #ohdearieme #airscotia #youfucoffee ALSO whole series streaming NOW on @BritBox_UK ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BBC100
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hey #thehighlife fans, tonight’s episode is Dunk, (what you do with a biscuit) It’s the last and arguably the most surreal of the series. It stars legendary Molly Weir (flash cleans baths, without scratching) Enjoy! @bbcscotland @bbciplayer
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Totally heartbroken to hear that beautiful Andy Gray has left us. A true comic wonder, brilliant actor and gorgeous man. I had so many laughs with him, onstage and off. A devastating loss to us all. Love and thoughts to his family and close friends 💔 #RIPAndyGray
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Is it #PifPafPof ? Scotland’s only ever entry to @Eurovision @bbceurovision from #TheHighLife @BBC with Alan Cumming, Siobhàn Redmond as Shona Spurtle and @patryecart as Captain Duff and me. #OhDearieMe
@LivEchonews
Liverpool Echo
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Eurovision bosses are keeping a secret Grand Final performance hidden with rehearsals carried out under closed sets
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Forbes Masson 💙
5 years
Oh dearie me!
@BBCScotComms
BBC Scotland Comms
5 years
📣 Today we announced @BBCScotland will be time-travelling on Saturday nights with our 90s season Classics will include The High Life starring @Alancumming & @forbesmasson and Your Cheatin' Heart with Tilda Swinton The season kicks off with Orphans this Saturday at 10PM
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Forbes Masson 💙
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Happy Anniversary to my wonderful wife Melanie. 16 years! ❤️
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We had a visit from our playwright @Beathhigh last night @QueensTheatreH #agamecalledmalice
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6 years
Happy High Life Day everyone. Oh Dearie Me!
@BritComSociety
BritishComedySociety
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The High Life, the cult hit airline sitcom by @Alancumming and @forbesmasson , was first broadcast on this day in 1994.
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Pif Paf Pof My heart goes Pif Paf Pof Pif Paf Pof I want to have it off Pif Paf Pof My heart goes Pif Paf Pof I want to have it off Till I cough #thehighlife ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Dear @eurovision @bbceurovision @grahnort it's customary for me to tweet Scotland's only ever entry - Pif Paf Pof- but it's been deleted from @YouTube #OhDearieMe Here's a pic of #thehighlife Sebastian Flight, Captain Duff, Shona Spurtle and Steve McCracken instead. #Eurovision
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I look so glaikit!😀 ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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9 years ago, I played the Fool to Pete Postlethwaite's King Lear @youngvictheatre After the show, one night in March, my son Ramsay was born. Watching his first preview of #FunHome tonight at same theatre. I saw the dress run today. I was in bits. It's phenomenal. #prouddadda
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5 years
The news is out. So excited to be going back to @thersc with this fabulous new musical!
@TheRSC
The RSC
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RSC Associate Artist @ForbesMasson completes our announcement in his role as Mr Hawtrey, the school headmaster! #RSCBoyinDress
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Wishing my son, Ramsay Robertson, all the best for his first performance as Young Jacob, tonight in Tom Stoppard’s @LeopoldstadtLDN @SFP_London Gutted I cannot be there ❤️
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Oh Dearie Me! #thehighlife ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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#thehighlife Saturday 18th May 21.50 @BBCScotland then @bbciplayer for a limited period only #ohdearieme
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🎶Air Scotia, Air Scotia for you we’ll do or die Dinnae Fash yersel Dae it awfy well We are yours aye in the sky🎶 Episode 2 of #TheHighLife #Birl on @bbcscotland tonight at 21.45 then @bbciplayer
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Very exciting and quite moving to be back rehearsing on RST stage @TheRSC 🎩🐘
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Forbes Masson 💙
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#RutgerHauerRIP I did a film acting class with him at @edinburghfest many years ago. He told me and other students to remember that every one of us is unique and that we bring something extraordinary, that noone else can bring to a role- our lives, our experiences, ourselves. ❤️
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A tear in my eye this morning as my son, Ramsay, has his first day at secondary school. Where does the time go? 😥
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Happy New Year to all!
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Happy 18th Anniversary to my beautiful missus @MelanieMasson1 What a lucky man I am!
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5 years
Tonight at 9.50. You fucoffee? ✈️
@BBCScotComms
BBC Scotland Comms
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Our 90s season continues on @BBCScotland Your Cheatin' Heart with Tilda Swinton is on at 9PM: The High Life featuring @forbesmasson and @Alancumming is on at 9.50PM: And Chewin' the Fat is on at 10.20PM:
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I cannot believe my home town of Falkirk are going to lose their only large scale performance space. As a young boy, I made my first onstage appearance there. Please Help Save The Falkirk Town Hall. #falkirktownhall
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🎵🎶I’m living The High Life, I’m loving this gif!🎵🎶 ❤️
@dronegc
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@forbesmasson @Alancumming Series 2? We can hope!
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My son, Ramsay Robertson, has his first ever #Pressnight tonight @youngvictheatre #FunHome #prouddadda
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Forbes Masson 💙
4 years
It’s Wash your Palms Sunday
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Forbes Masson 💙
3 years
These arrived in the post today. Thank you ⁦ @bigfinish ⁩ Such a dream and a thrill to be part of a ⁦ @bbcdoctorwho ⁩ adventure with Christopher Eccleston
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The house is now open in the RST! @TheRSC ❤️🎩🐘 #firstpreview #themagicianselephant
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High Life Pilot Pic
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Excited to be starting on #theboyinthedress today @TheRSC !!!
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Thanks for all the Twitter love for #thehighlife @bbcscotland @bbciplayer Special mention to two people who did such amazing work on the series, the fantastic director @StuntTeddy and the brilliant cinematographer John Record. Here they are with me @The_Globe recently
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1 year
Next! So excited to be joining the sensational @OlivierAwards winning show @Newsies
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4 years
I don’t think Friday the thirteenth has ever been so thirteenthy
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#thehighlife continues tonight on @bbcscotland at 21.50 and @bbciplayer with episode 4 Choob (a Scottish word for idiot or numpty) Look out for legendary Scottish Actor Ronnie Letham and the wonderful genius Jenny McCrindle, both sadly no longer with us.
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Forbes Exotic
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Here are @victorandbarry singing about wonderful Glasgow in 1988!
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5 years
Took my kids to see #awinterstale @NationalTheatre tonight. They loved it so much, when we got home they ran upstairs to write about it. #seewhatartcando
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So lovely to catch up with wonderful @Alancumming last week ❤️
@TheRSC
The RSC
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We were thrilled to welcome @Alancumming to the RSC last week. Alan, pictured here with @forbesmasson , watched a performance of The Magician's Elephant in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. #MagiciansElephant 🐘
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Attention #thehighlife fans episode 5 Dug (a Scottish word for Dog) featuring Scotland’s Eurovision entry #pifpafpof is now on @bbciplayer #ohdearieme ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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I am concerned and upset for friends and colleagues who have resigned from @EquityUK Scottish Council over compulsory redundancy of Lorne Boswell. He and Scottish Equity were very supportive to me and my work in Scotland. I am dismayed at how my union, @EquityUK has handled this
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Just spent some fantastic days of fun and boos @The_Globe as nasty Duke Frederick in @CBeebiesHQ As You Like It. My kids grew up with cbeebies, so it was an honour and a joy to join this extraordinary team of talented, beautiful, legendary people. Coming to @BBC in Spring #baa
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5 years
Here is episode one of The High Life available on @BBCiPlayer for 28 days Oh Dearie Me!
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4 years
Happy 11th Birthday to my beautiful son Ramsay! Dadda loves you so much! ❤️❤️❤️🎂🎂🎂🎮🎮🎮
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4 years
Me and the missus @MelanieMasson1 went a bit loco in lockdown today #tigerking 🐯
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A proud Dadda today, as father and son went into town together today to both go to work in musicals. My son Ramsay in #FunHome @youngvictheatre and me in #littleshopofhorrors @OpenAirTheatre Here we are with missus @MelanieMasson1 and daughter Rua at opening night.
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@Alancumming In space no one can hear you say “oh dearie me” ❤️
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5 years
WE WON!!!!!!!
@WhatsOnStage
WhatsOnStage
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The WhatsOnStage Award for Best Musical Revival goes to Little Shop of Horrors #WOSAwards
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Oh dearie me!
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When I was a wee boy in the early 70’s, the Monkees were repeated on Saturday morning tv and I recorded the episodes on my cassette recorder and played the music as I danced down the streets with my pals in the summer holidays. I have loved them ever since. #ripPeterTork
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#thehighlife geek facts The plane interior set was so big, those scenes were filmed in the old BBC studios in Queen Margaret Drive Glasgow, because it was then the largest BBC studio in UK @bbcscotland @bbciplayer episode 3 is being screened tonight ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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5 years
Press Night tonight for #BartholemewFair @The_Globe Here’s Mister Humphrey Wasp and his fluffy Pokemon pal
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When I co-wrote #thehighlife I was introduced to Galton and Simpson in an office in the comedy corridor of the old BBC in White City. It was such an amazing experience to meet and talk to such legends. This is a great opportunity for aspiring writers.
@SYoungAgency
Sylvia Young Agency
4 years
Great opportunity for aspiring writers #bbccomedy #bursary #opportunity
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Oh dearie me!
@DidymusBrush
Didymus Holmes
5 years
Following @AlanCumming 's Drag Brunch sketch with @JinkxMonsoon @sasha_velour and more, and @forbesmasson doing Little Shop with @TheVickyVox , maybe it's time to revisit the sublime sitcom they wrote and starred in together, The High Life? Go find a copy. Six episodes to treasure!
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Tonight at 8.30 @WeAreSTV
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#TheHighLife is now available on @BritBox_UK Oh Dearie Me! ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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2 years
Excited to announce I will be playing Robobanquo in my new musical, Moonbase Macbeth. Space 1999 meets Shakespeare’s tragedy. Weightless witches by Kirby’s Flying Ballet, laser sword dances, holographic tartan and a retro 80’s soundtrack. “In Space no one can hear you sing”
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last @TrafTransformed #rulingclass between shows egg and chips at the breadline cafe http://t.co/9QJPDeY2v2
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Here’s me at the Glorious @The_Globe as Master Page having a right good laugh with the magnificent and brilliantly funny Falstaff (Pearce Quigley) in #MerryWivesofWindsor
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Press Night! @TheRSC
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Congratulations to my beautiful daughter Rua for passing all 10 of her GCSEs, including a distinction for English Language. I am such a proud Dadda! ❤️ @MelanieMasson1
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Next!
@WhatsOnStage
WhatsOnStage
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Casts announced for The Merry Wives of Windsor and Bartholomew Fair at Shakespeare's Globe
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After all the furore over the brutal demolition of Falkirk Town Hall without a replacement, I now understand that the beautiful Falkirk Library is under threat. What the actual Falkirk is going on in my hometown. The Arts are being obliterated by @falkirkcouncil @falkirk_herald
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It’s our 100th show today! #theboyinthedress @TheRSC
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4 years
It’s a Man in a Dress!
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Forbes Masson 💙
1 year
Enjoying working @QueensTheatreH Such a friendly and welcoming theatre. Well used and valued by the community, with an exciting programme of events. An integral part of the local economy. Wish my hometown Falkirk valued their theatre as much as Hornchurch value theirs.
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First preview tonight at 7.30 of @Beathhigh ’s Rebus: A Game Called Malice at the fabulous @QueensTheatreH #whodunnit #notexactlyGlassOnionmoreCrystalThistle
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If you missed #TheHighLife on BBC4 last night, fret not. It’s still available on @BBCiPlayer and the entire series is streaming on @BritBox_UK . As a consolation prize, here are Steve and Sebastian’s alter egos, the Kelvinside Men @victorandbarry
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3 years
A long lost treasure has been unearthed! Victor and Barry. Where it all began. At RSAMD. I haven’t seen this for nearly 40 years!!!
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I think my lockdown hair needs a bit of a trim! It was fun, clowning about and singing along with my amazing missus @MelanieMasson1 at our Socially Distanced Singalong Disco today. Our #stayingsafe neighbours had a right laugh and a good boogie, dancing on their doorsteps!
@BBCRadioLondon
BBC Radio London
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Something tells us they've got that #FridayFeeling in Bounds Green 🕺🎤 @MelanieMasson1 & @forbesmasson are bringing the disco fever to their neighbours on this gorgeous afternoon!
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#ohdearieme ✈️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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@Alancumming @edfringe So much love back to you, Alan ❤️ What a fantastic blast we had, from Harry Younger Hall, through McNally’s with @KarenKoren , and oh those Assembly Rooms shows! The best of times. Happy @edfringe to all. X
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So long @lyceumedinburgh thank you for having me. Hope it’s not another 20 years before I step on your beautiful stage again ❤️
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Thanks to @simonwebbphoto for this amazing photo
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5 years
Sad to say goodbye to Master Page, Humphrey Wasp, Stacey the Pear Lady and Sharkwell the leafletter in #merrywivesofwindsor and #bartholemewfair @The_Globe yesterday. What fun it all was. #vapours
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Tonight’s episode 3 of #thehighlife is “Winch” (a Scottish word for snog or court...eg. .”are youse winchin’?” ) It’s being screened at 21.50 on @BBCScotland and then on @bbciplayer
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I am sad, owing to tech issues, I won’t be able to be in the celebration of beautiful, generous, genius @AndyGray59 on the @TheRossOwenShow tonight. I loved Andy so so much and I feel so blessed to have had fun with him onstage/screen and off. What joy he gave us all! A legend.💔
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So excited to be asked to be part of this.
@WhatsOnStage
WhatsOnStage
6 years
Tom Hiddleston, Kristin Scott Thomas and Indira Varma among all-star line-up for Pinter gala performance in the West End
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