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  10 Things That Filled Us With Joy During This Week's 'Real Marigold Hotel'

  Wednesday evening saw another visit to ‘The Real Marigold Hotel’, where it’s clear already that all this year’s residents - Dennis Taylor, Amanda Barrie, Miriam Stoppard, Rustie Lee, Paul Nicholas, Sheila Ferguson, Lionel Blair and Bill Oddie - each have their individual hopes and fears about the prospect of old age. 1. The shock of realising that Amanda Barrie is celebrating her 81st birthday!!! marked by her generously donating all her body parts to her companions.

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  'The Real Marigold Hotel' Review: 10 Things That Delighted Us About Episode 2

  Wednesday evening saw another visit to ‘The Real Marigold Hotel’, where it’s clear already that all this year’s residents - Dennis Taylor, Amanda Barrie, Miriam Stoppard, Rustie Lee, Paul Nicholas, Sheila Ferguson, Lionel Blair and Bill Oddie - each have their individual hopes and fears about the prospect of old age. 1. The shock of realising that Amanda Barrie is celebrating her 81st birthday!!! marked by her generously donating all her body parts to her companions.

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  'The Real Marigold Hotel' Returns: 7 Things That Filled Us With Joy In Episode 1

  ’The Real Marigold Hotel’ took in eight more guests this week, with the debut of Series 2 seeing a group of celebrity pensioners embarking on an experiment in overseas retirement. Sheila Ferguson, Bill Oddie, Rustie Lee, Paul Nicholas, Dennis Taylor, Lionel Blair, Miriam Stoppard and Amanda Barrie set off for Cochin in Southern India, and it was immediately clear it was a harmonious group, full of laughter and shared confidences, as they set about finding out what life in southern India had to o

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  The Real Marigold Hotel was gentle and decidedly winning – series 2 review

  Inspired, as last time, by John Madden’s light-hearted 2012 feature film of similar name, The Real Marigold Hotel (BBC One) took eight veteran showbiz types and plonked them together in a full-board guest-house in India to see if they might consider the region a nice place to retire to. Lionel Blair (87), Amanda Barrie (80), Bill Oddie (75), Miriam Stoppard (79) et al proved a remarkably engaging – not to mention startlingly well-preserved – lot, and little character arcs were already appearing

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  ''The Real Marigold Hotel' Opens Its Doors To 8 More Famous Faces For Series 2 Of Hit BBC Show

  Series 1 was the highest-rating BBC factual show of the year.

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  EastEnders: Ross Kemp Set To Return As Grant Mitchell?

  Try not to get too excited, but you might want to dust off your leather biker jacket because word on the street is that Ross Kemp is pretty much set to reprise his role of Grant Mitchell in BBC soap opera EastEnders. The actor hasn’t featured in the show for almost a decade, but apparently ‘Enders producer, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, is in the process of persuading him to bring Grant back to our screens next year. Apparently the hardman will return to Albert Square after he catches wind that h

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