Actress Lysette Anthony – hailed as the ‘face of the 1980s’ by photographer David Bailey – has found love with a handsome former co-star who she first kissed on screen 33 years ago.
In a romantic twist which could have come straight from one of the romances in which she made her name, twice-divorced Lysette has fallen ‘head over heels’ for actor Marcus Gilbert, most famous for playing the swoonsome Rupert Campbell-Black in a 1993 TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Riders.
A friend of the actress, 59, whose last divorce was back in 2003, tells me: ‘It’s a serious romance and has been going on for some time. They make an adorable couple. Lysette is head over heels with him.’
On social media Lysette has been posting pictures of the two of them together. In May she intercut stills of them kissing in the 1990 film A Ghost In Monte Carlo – based on a 1951 Barbara Cartland potboiler which she starred in when she was 26 – with pictures of them together now. She captioned the Instagram post: ‘My Forever Love.’
Pals are delighted with her good fortune at finding romance, particularly as she has been bravely enduring health issues.
On social media Lysette has been posting pictures of the two of them together. Pals are delighted with her good fortune at finding romance, particularly as she has been bravely enduring health issues
In May she intercut stills of them kissing in the 1990 film A Ghost In Monte Carlo — based on a 1951 Barbara Cartland potboiler which she starred in when she was 26
Her new love, 65-year-old Marcus, has starred in the likes of Rambo III and Doctor Who, and was even considered for the role of James Bond in the late 1980s, but lost out to Timothy Dalton
His most well-known role, Rupert Campbell-Black, is set to be reprised by Alex Hassell in the Disney+ TV series Rivals – the sequel to Riders – which will also feature David Tennant and Aidan Turner
In a heartbreaking recent interview she revealed how, in 2015, when she told a former lover that she’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he left her.
‘He stood up, kissed me on the head and walked out. Later he sent me a text in which he said he obviously didn’t love me enough. It’s hard to believe people can be so cruel,’ she said.
Her first marriage was to Dutch artist Luc Leestemaker in 1990. Following their divorce, she wed American film director David Price in 1999.
Next came her relationship with composer Simon Boswell. They had a son, Jimi, in 2004 but split acrimoniously in 2010.
Her new love, 65-year-old Marcus, has starred in the likes of Rambo III and Doctor Who, and was even considered for the role of James Bond in the late 1980s, but lost out to Timothy Dalton.
His most well-known role, Rupert Campbell-Black, is set to be reprised by Alex Hassell in the Disney+ TV series Rivals – the sequel to Riders – which will also feature David Tennant and Aidan Turner.
Lysette was first discovered as a model aged 16, before finding fame in the 1980s sitcom Three Up, Two Down. She was a household name by her early 20s.
One career highlight was being cast by Woody Allen in his 1992 film Husbands And Wives. More recently she starred in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, but was written out in January last year.
Meghan’s Suits are back in fashion
The Harry & Meghan documentary was a global hit for Netflix. Now, with the couple working on a romcom film for the streaming platform, too, it has been surprised by the pulling power of Meghan’s old show, Suits.
The legal drama has become one of the moststreamed shows in the U.S. – more than a decade since it was first broadcast in 2011.
It arrived on Netflix on June 17 and has been breaking records ever since, with series one and two going straight into the streamer’s top ten list of popular shows – and staying there for eight weeks.
With the couple working on a romcom film for Netflix, too, it has been surprised by the pulling power of Meghan’s old show, Suits
However – for reasons which we may guess at – it has not proven to be quite such a hit in the UK, and hasn’t made the top ten here.
Meanwhile, Endeavor, the owner of Meghan’s talent agency WME, is expected to lose $25million a month during the writers’ and actors’ strikes, according to her agent Ari Emanuel.
Mark Shapiro, Endeavor’s president, warns of likely layoffs. ‘Never waste a crisis,’ he said last week. Some folks are all heart!
Why Barbie’s laughing all the way to the bank
Hollywood Bible Variety reckons that actress and producer Margot Robbie may net around £39million in pay and bonuses thanks to the stellar performance of Barbie.
However, talk of Warner Bros pressing ahead with plans for Barbie 2 ignores the fact that neither Robbie (right), her co-star Ryan Gosling nor the director Greta Gerwig agreed to make a sequel when they signed on the dotted line for Barbie – an oversight which could prove very expensive.
Hollywood Bible Variety reckons that actress and producer Margot Robbie may net around £39million in pay and bonuses thanks to the stellar performance of Barbie
He was mesmerisingly venal and shallow as Tom Wambsgans in Succession, but actor Matthew Macfadyen is an absolute softie in real life
He was mesmerisingly venal and shallow as Tom Wambsgans in Succession, but actor Matthew Macfadyen is an absolute softie in real life. He tells W magazine: ‘I’ve cried a lot watching Pixar films, to the disgust of my kids. Like in Ratatouille, when Peter O’Toole’s character, the critic Anton Ego, does that speech, I’m in bits. ‘And the kids are all like: “Daddy’s gone again.”‘
That weight I lost? I found it…
Radio broadcaster Chris Moyles lost more than 5st after signing up to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief in 2009 – aided by an exercise regime supervised by boxer David Haye’s old trainer.
He overhauled his eating habits, too, and a spell in the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! jungle last year saw his waistline shrink even further.
But on being congratulated for his weight loss on an episode of his Radio X podcast, Chris (right) quipped: ‘Don’t worry, I’ve found most of it since I got back!’
Radio broadcaster Chris Moyles lost more than 5st after signing up to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief in 2009
Following the revelation that Amanda Holden’s husband Chris Hughes has stepped down as a director of YMU talent agency comes more bad news for the firm, whose clients include Ant and Dec and Simon Cowell.
I hear Holly Bott, the global MD of YMU Entertainment, is also off. YMU represented This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield, but dropped him amid the scandal over his fling with a young runner on the show.
Latest accounts reveal that YMU made a loss after tax of £4.8million and has net liabilities of £74.7 million. An independent business review will be carried out by AlixPartners.
Nothing comes between Joanna Lumley and her cigarettes. Filmmaker Mika Simmons was taken aback when the actress disappeared from set to smoke
Nothing comes between Joanna Lumley and her cigarettes. Filmmaker Mika Simmons was taken aback when the actress – who is playing a cancer patient in the forthcoming short film My Week With Maisy – disappeared from set… for a crafty smoke.
Simmons said: Joanna was beyond professional, but she did absent herself from the location in Paddington to have a cigarette.
‘I didn’t know where she was when I wanted to get her into her character’s clothes, and I found her out in the street, in rush-hour traffic, smoking!’
