Today’s Joanna Page: The Real Hustle

In a little bit of a break with tradition, Today’s Joanna Page is a preview of a show she’s appearing in as herself: The Real Hustle. It’s a show where various confidence trickster types try to dupe members of the public – and, for this series, celebrities – with various tricks.

In this trick, there’s an eating challenge, which to be honest, is a bit sh*t and it was pretty obvious what they were doing. But you do get to see

a) Joanna Page
b) the interior of the Trafalgar Studios, as well as the sets of Fat Pig, before it relocated to the Comedy Theatre

The episode will be airing on Thursday 16th October at 10.30pm on BBC3.

Today's Joanna Page

Today’s Joanna Page: What the Butler Saw

What the Butler Saw

Today’s Joanna Page is What the Butler Saw, the last play of Joe Orton, which our Joanna appeared in in 2005. And which I didn’t see, of course, so can’t tell you if it was any good, but here’s a review from The Stage. At some point, I’ll get on to watching some more of JP’s movies and do some proper reviews, but work’s a bit busy at the moment.

In What the Butler Saw, Dr Prentice, a psychiatrist, attempts to seduce his prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay (JP). But his wife is being seduced and blackmailed by Nicholas Beckett. She therefore promises Nicholas the post as secretary, which adds further confusion, including Nicholas and Geraldine dressing as the opposite sex. Dr Prentice’s clinic is then faced by a government inspection. The inspection, led by Dr Rance, reveals the chaos in the clinic.

As you might have guessed, it’s a farce.

The pic above is just about the only pic of JP from the production that I could find (any others gratefully received). So as a special treat, here’s a truly delightful picture of two Ali Larters in Heroes to round it all off nicely.

Ali Larter in Heroes

Theatre

New Fat Pig cast pics, including Kelly Brook and…

Fat Pig‘s cast is changing yet again, as regular readers will know. Joanna Page is heading off to film Gavin & Stacey‘s Christmas special so Kelly Brook’s taking over as Jeannie. I’ve reviewed the play twice already, and maybe (given the rate at which their digital PR person keeps emailing me) I might review it for a third time with the new cast and theatre.

But here’s the just released pics of the new cast including Kelly Brook. I can’t help but notice that despite the caption on the photo as provided, that’s not Ella Smith. Anyone know if the faux-Ella is her understudy or whether Ella’s heading off, too? Cos that’s news if it’s true.

If you’re on Facebook, you can see more pics at the Fat Pig group. Yes, that includes pictures of Kelly in a bikini.

Kelly Brook in Fat Pig

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