Secret plans to propel Love Island stars onto ITV’s biggest shows including I’m A Celeb and CBB revealed
Which makes her the ideal mentor for the new breed of Islanders.
Last week she met up with villa winner Toni Laites and her gal pals Yasmin Pettet and Shakira Khan at ITV HQ – where I can reveal big some big plans are afoot.
The summer series of Love Island was such a hit, this year’s contestants are to be cast on ITV’s biggest shows. Bookers for Celebrity Big Brother, Gary Lineker’s new project The Box and even I’m A Celebrity are all now busy meeting the gang to talk over opportunities.
A source said: “ITV’s talent team have been actively assessing the Islanders as they take on post-show press to cherry-pick who’d be good on what, as the channel is so keen to build on the success of the latest Love Island series.”
Sounds like the Islanders’ time in the spotlight was no mere summer fling.
OLIVIA ATTWOOD has explored everything from granny porn to financial domination and foot fetishes on her award-winning ITV documentary Getting Filthy Rich.
But until now the former Love Islander has plucked her contributors from ordinary members of the public trying their luck in the sex industry.
That’s all about to change, though, as I can reveal that for her upcoming fourth series on ITV2 she is featuring the increasing number of celebrities turning to OnlyFans to top up their incomes.
There are a surprising number of household names to target — including Bake Off-turned-Strictly Come Dancing hunk John Whaite, former Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jayne Dunn, ex-Towie beauty Chloe Brockett and Geordie Shore’s Marnie Simpson.
The production team are also casting across the Pond, where huge names such as TV personality Blac Chyna and Baywatch star Carmen Electra are on the naughty online site.
A TV source said: “Across the first three series of Getting Filthy Rich, Olivia’s main focus was to show how very normal people were making a living in the sex industry, thanks to the likes of OnlyFans and other platforms.
“Love Island’s Josh Ritchie was in the first episode but nearly all of the contributors since then have been normal people who have used a career, hobby or passion like art or cosplay to make more money by going kinky. It is, though, increasingly hard to ignore the new phenomenon of celebrities now earning a crust by going X-rated — and for many it’s not affected their day-to-day work.
“Olivia saw this as an essential topic for Getting Filthy Rich’s fourth series.”
Her hard-hitting shows have been streamed a mind-boggling 233million times on ITVX.
I’m sure adding filthy celebrities into the mix will see that number continue to soar.
KPOP Demon Hunters has become a monster success for Netflix.
It has pulled in more than 180million views since its June 20 release, which makes it the streamer’s most-watched animated film.
The show has also made quite a dent on the music charts, scoring No1s in the UK and the US.
Now Netflix is cashing in with a string of singalong screenings.
A number of cinemas across London are hosting the events on August 23 and August 24.
The film follows K-pop superstars Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong) and Zoey (Ji-Young Yoo) as they sing to save the day and seal the Honmoon.
Which all means absolutely nothing to me – but 180million people can’t be wrong.
Visit uk.singkpopdemonhunters.com for tickets.
FREDDIE FLINTOFF is set to film the full run of darts show Bullseye.
After rave reviews for the festive special, ITV ordered a series and it films next month.
Teams of two can apply at itv.com/beontv.
One member must be up on general knowledge while the other needs to be nifty at the oche.
FOUR new dramas are coming to Channel 5 as it revives the beloved Play For Today format.
The one-off drama series ran for 14 years from 1970 on the BBC. Confirming my previous story, C5 has announced the first dramas which will launch its version.
Now C5 has announced the first four standalone dramas which will launch its version.
Anita Dobson stars alongside Nigel Havers and Tracy-Ann Obermann in Never Too Late, which follows a rebellious woman who moves into a retirement village.
Jessica Plummer leads the cast in Special Measures about the pressures facing UK schools. Sue Johnston and Paul Copley are a couple who win the lottery in Big Winners.
And Alan Davies leads the cast of Intruder, a real-time psychological thriller.
The first drama is set to air at the end of the year.
JAMES MAY knows plenty about horsepower but will now explore a very different beast – the human body.
The Top Gear and Grand Tour legend will shortly start filming new Channel 5 series James May: The Human Machine, in which he will explore the 30trillion cells that makes us work – or not.
From the engine-room stomach to the nerves’ wiring, the air-pump lungs and the fuel-pump heart, right down to the humble nostril hair and hard-working eyelashes, he examines the lot – and asks what engineering can learn from biology.
James says: “It’s the most remarkable machine we have, and it’s us.
“The human body – billions of components working together to keep us upright, thinking, and moving around without falling over. But it also goes wrong – leaking, aching, and disintegrating.
“As someone who is interested in how things work, I’ll be taking it apart to see how it ticks.”
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES says she has achieved a career first at the age of 55 – by landing a role which uses a Welsh accent.
The actress, filming Prime Video series Kill Jackie, said: “I’m playing a Welsh woman, speaking in my own accent for the first time. As an actor it frees me up.
