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Bridgerton and White Lotus stars Nicola Coughlan and Aimee Lou Wood next SNL UK hosts

Bridgerton and White Lotus stars Nicola Coughlan and Aimee Lou Wood next SNL UK hosts

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Saturday Night Live UK has announced its next hosts ahead of the sketch show’s return from a mid-season hiatus. Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan will present the series on 25 April, with musical guests Foo Fighters, while Aimee Lou Wood, known for her roles in Sex Education and The White Lotus, will guest host on 2 May. She’ll be joined by the singer Meek. Since the launch of SNL UK on Sky last month, Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Riz Ahmed and Jack Whitehall have fronted the comedy series. The show is taking a break this weekend, but will be back the following week with Coughlan, who made a brief appearance in the show’s debut episode. Nicola Coughlan and Aimee Lou Wood are hosting ‘SNL UK’ (Getty Images) Musical guests so far have included Wet Leg, Wolf Alice, Kasabian and Jorja Smith. The …

Nicola Coughlan Auditioned To Play Robin In Stranger Things Season 3

Nicola Coughlan Auditioned To Play Robin In Stranger Things Season 3

Published by Sam Flores

As Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan has been a major part of one of Netflix’s biggest and most popular original series ever. However, the Derry Girls star has revealed that she almost appeared in another of the streaming giant’s most iconic shows. During a recent interview on the Capital breakfast show, the Bafta nominee was asked if there’d been any near-miss roles earlier in her career, before opening up about auditioning for Stranger Things in the lead-up to its third season. “It would be generous to myself to say I narrowly missed out on it,” she claimed. “But I did a first-round audition for Stranger Things.” Nicola then shared that the audition was “to play Robin”, the character eventually brought to life on screen by Maya Hawke in what proved to be her break-out role. Maya Hawke as Robin in the final season of Stranger Things “You know when you watch a show and you go, ‘oh well, thank God I didn’t get that, because I would have been way worse!’,” she joked. The …

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan says body positivity discussions about her size are ‘boring’

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan says body positivity discussions about her size are ‘boring’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has voiced her profound disinterest in the concept of “body positivity,” labelling discussions about her size as “boring” and a distraction from her craft. The 39-year-old Irish actor, celebrated for her role as Penelope Featherington in the Netflix regency drama and Clare Devlin in Channel 4’s Derry Girls, shared her candid views in an interview with Elle UK. “The thing I say sometimes that pisses people off is I have no interest in body positivity,” Coughlan stated. “When I was a kid growing up, I never thought about that. I didn’t look at actors and think about their bodies. So, I actually don’t care.” She added, “There’s a lot of things I’m passionate about, it’s not one of them… That’s someone else’s thing. It’s not mine.” Coughlan highlighted the absurdity of being praised as a “plus-size” actress …

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan says body positivity discussions about her size are ‘boring’

Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan says body positivity discussions are ‘boring’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has voiced her profound disinterest in the concept of “body positivity,” labelling discussions about her size as “boring” and a distraction from her craft. The 39-year-old Irish actor, celebrated for her role as Penelope Featherington in the Netflix regency drama and Clare Devlin in Channel 4’s Derry Girls, shared her candid views in an interview with Elle UK. “The thing I say sometimes that pisses people off is I have no interest in body positivity,” Coughlan stated. “When I was a kid growing up, I never thought about that. I didn’t look at actors and think about their bodies. So, I actually don’t care.” She added, “There’s a lot of things I’m passionate about, it’s not one of them… That’s someone else’s thing. It’s not mine.” Coughlan highlighted the absurdity of being praised as a “plus-size” actress …