Outnumbered’s Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis enjoyed a low-key stroll in Hampstead Heath, London, on Thursday. The pair starred in the BBC family comedy as harassed parents Pete and Sue Brockman and started dating after wrapping up the series in 2017. Claire, 55, who previously called their romance a ‘lovely little life surprise’, cut a casual … Read more
They’ve been dealing with COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. And on Thursday, the cast of Bravo’s Southern Charm, filmed in Charleston, returned in a new sneak peek of the reality show’s upcoming seventh season. The group of South Carolina friends are seen discussing the coronavirus pandemic, dealing with the cultural fall out of the renewed … Read more
A man has told how he had a lucky escape after serial killer Dennis Nilsen befriended him when he missed the last train home. The killer bought him dinner and invited him back to the flat where he murdered 12 men. Nick Barrit, now 66, was 24 in March 1979 when he bumped into Nilsen … Read more
‘There are more’: Detective who found serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s victims believes ‘Des’ murderer got away with others that have never been found Hywel Jones was part of the investigative team who found the victims in 1980s The 59-year-old former officer believes there are other unreported victims Dennis Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment after killing … Read more
‘Was it sponsored by Benson & Hedges?’: Viewers slam Dennis Nilsen serial killer drama… over smoking – after ITV’s three-part drama Des featured cigarettes in 46 scenes Viewers complained about the number of cigarettes smoked by characters Cigarettes being smoked featured in 46 scenes of the three-part ITV drama Des They made up 13 minutes … Read more
ITV serial killer drama Des hit with Ofcom complaints from viewers disturbed by the harrowing details of Dennis Nilsen’s real-life murders By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 22:48 BST, 18 September 2020 | Updated: 23:31 BST, 18 September 2020 ITV drama Des depicts the true story of British serial killer Dennis Nilsen and his murderous … Read more
A forensic psychologist who worked with serial killer Dennis Nilsen has claimed that he was a necrophiliac because of ‘abnormal sexual development’ in childhood. Nilson, known as the Muswell Hill Murderer, died at the age of 74 at HMP Full Sutton in 2018, 34 years into his life sentence for carrying out a murderous spree in … Read more
A dozen young men met their death at the hands of serial killer and necrophile Dennis Nilsen in the late Seventies and early Eighties – but two managed to dramatically escape his clutches. One of them, Carl David Stottor, a drag artist, now in his early sixties and thought to be living in Brighton, was just … Read more
David Tennant is terrifying (and terrific) as a real-life Hannibal Lecter: CLAUDIA CONNELL reviews Des, ITV’s chilling new drama portraying the twisted confessions of serial killer Dennis Nilsen By Claudia Connell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 14 September 2020 | Updated: 23:42 BST, 14 September 2020 Rating: Hannibal Lecter’s declaration in The Silence … Read more
Even before filming started on Des, the three-part ITV mini-series in which Mays plays Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay, the nightmares began The spectre of serial killer Dennis Nilsen haunted Daniel Mays as he tackled the role of a lifetime: the ‘old school copper’ who helped bring the mass murderer to justice. ‘I watched all these … Read more