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David Morrissey opens up about being a ‘recovering alcoholic’ after father’s death

David Morrissey opens up about being a ‘recovering alcoholic’ after father’s death

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 TV actor and film-maker David Morrissey has candidly revealed he is a “recovering alcoholic” and discussed the “self-destructive” behaviours he adopted following the death of his father. Speaking on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs with Lauren Laverne, the 61-year-old shared how his father died from a haemorrhage at 54 when Morrissey was just 15, having suffered from a long-term and terminal blood disorder. The Sherwood and Gone actor described being in a “terrible state” following the loss, experiencing “trauma responses”, depression, and anxiety. Morrissey recounted leaving school at 16, a year after his father’s passing, to spend six months travelling with a theatre company based in Wolverhampton. Reflecting on his childhood, The Walking Dead star said: “I knew that, academically, I was never going to be able to go to university or anything – that was never going to happen to …

Morrissey cancels Valencia gig because city was too ‘loud’ for him to sleep

Morrissey cancels Valencia gig because city was too ‘loud’ for him to sleep

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Heaven knows he’s sleep-deprived now – a grumpy Morrissey has called off a gig in Valencia after claiming the city is so loud that he’s been unable to rest. The former Smiths frontman, 66, was due to play in the Spanish city on Thursday (12 March), but he pulled the plug after struggling to get any sleep “due to festival noise, loud techno singing and megaphone announcements” through the night, which he said has left him in “a catatonic state”. He wrote on his blog Morrissey Central: “Tonight’s scheduled show in Valencia has been rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation. Morrissey drove from Milan to Valencia but has been unable to rest in Valencia due to noise.” The singer, who said he was experiencing “indescribable hell”, wrote in a follow-up post: “The show is not cancelled. Circumstances render the show impossible,” adding in …

Gone’s David Morrissey breaks down chilling fourth wall break in ep 1

Gone’s David Morrissey breaks down chilling fourth wall break in ep 1

Published by Daniella Wilson

When Michael Polly’s wife Sarah disappears in ITV thriller Gone, scrutiny quickly falls on him. After the headmaster returns home one afternoon with their daughter Alana, who also teaches at the school alongside Sarah, they quickly realise she isn’t there – despite being scheduled to give a music lesson with a pupil. The pair wait, but are eventually left with no choice but to contact the police, and a missing person’s investigation is subsequently launched. Yet the ground shifts beneath them once again when a body is discovered by a dog walker in woodland near their home. But despite the deeply concerning circumstances, Michael’s reaction to the situation at hand – or lack thereof – catches the eye of DS Annie Cassidy, who describes him, somewhat generously, as a “funny fish”. The headmaster appears more concerned with the school and coaching the rugby team than he does with what’s unfolding in his personal life. “He’s not reacting the way that one would expect,” Eve Myles told Radio Times. “And that’s interesting to Annie. There’s a …

Gone review: David Morrissey is bone-chilling in ITV crime thriller

Gone review: David Morrissey is bone-chilling in ITV crime thriller

Published by Daniella Wilson

Only the first episode was made available for review at the time of writing. A star rating of 4 out of 5. David Morrissey last appeared on screen in the second season of Daddy Issues, a BBC comedy in which he plays an incompetent yet well-meaning man trying to rebuild his relationship with his daughter (Aimee Lou Wood) while adapting to life as a first-time granddad. It’s a delightful and inspired departure from the grittier roles he’s come to be recognised for (Sherwood, State of Play, The Walking Dead), although delivered with the same commitment as those performances. But Morrissey returns to his bread and butter in ITV crime thriller Gone. Written by George Kay, who also penned Yorkshire Ripper drama The Long Shadow, it could well be his most unsettling work to date. He plays Michael Polly, the headmaster of a renowned private school in Bristol – the Range Rover and Latin kind – who takes Britain’s stiff upper lip to an entirely new level. He returns home from work one afternoon with his …

Gone review – Did he do it? David Morrissey unravels in clever, nuanced drama

Gone review – Did he do it? David Morrissey unravels in clever, nuanced drama

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 None of us know how we would react to the news of the body of a loved one being found in woodland near our home. But David Morrissey’s painfully uptight headteacher Michael Polly’s first thought is to furiously reprimand Detective Annie Cassidy (Eve Myles), who has just delivered this terrible news, for walking mud into his house. It is, as we’ve already learned by that point, fairly typical behaviour. Polly is, as Cassidy puts it, “a funny fish”. Might he also be a murderer? Let’s just say that on the basis of early impressions, it doesn’t seem impossible. ITV’s new crime thriller Gone is a fiction but one inspired by real-life detective Julie Mackay and crime journalist Robert Murphy’s 2024 book To Hunt a Killer. As such, it has the ring of both practical and narrative veracity. Michael Polly lives for …

Morrissey review, Make-Up is a Lie: Best approached as a minefield

Morrissey review, Make-Up is a Lie: Best approached as a minefield

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This How do you solve a problem like Morrissey? I think there are some pretty decent tunes on his 14th album, Make-Up is a Lie. Over an eclectic jangle of genres – post-punk, chanson, soul-disco bops – the 66-year-old singer is in fine, velvety voice, crooning his classic stock of despair, defiance, devotion, disdain and drollery into a microphone he’s always seemed to love more than his fellow humans. But instead of falling face-first into music as we once did and enjoying a good old wallow in self-pity, we must now approach it as a minefield. Oh, sweetness, was he only joking when he said…? He doesn’t make it easy. Partly out of exhaustion, I thought I might have a go at reviewing this record without getting into Morrissey’s many controversial worldviews. But that’s not what he wants. Quite the opposite: he gets straight …

Robbie Williams live: Buoyant show in need of a little more nostalgia

Robbie Williams live: Buoyant show in need of a little more nostalgia

Published by Sam Flores

Equally, the underrated swagger of Lazy Days truly soared, while the truly timeless Angels was all-but given over to the audience to sing alone, bar a triumphant final chorus. This being a Robbie WIlliams show, the set was peppered with lengthy reminiscences delivered with a side order of self-deprecation. Climbing down to the barrier during a triumphant outing of Old Before I Die, he clambered back onstage clumsily, declaring with a head shake, “I’m 51!” Throughout, there was no doubt every moment meant the world to Williams, even if he did intersperse his sincerity with rehearsed patter, Charlie Chaplin-style walks and the odd burst of Charleston-style choreo. Source link

Morrissey review, Make-Up is a Lie: Best approached as a minefield

Morrissey returns: Former Smiths frontman announces new solo album

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Bigmouth will strike again: Morrissey has returned with the announcement that his new album, Make-Up is a Lie, will be released on 6 March. The controversial former Smiths frontman, 66, has been attempting to release a new record under different iterations for the past few years, while teasing recent updates in a series of online posts. In 2022, the “This Charming Man” singer announced that he had completed a 12-track project titled Without Music the World Dies, and offered it to any record labels or private investors willing to distribute it. Half of the tracks were then scrapped and six new ones recorded, with the new project titled You’re Right, It’s Time confirmed in December 2024. This now appears to be the album Morrissey is releasing under a different name, Make-Up is a Lie. It is being released by Sire/Warner Records, who signed …