Wales on Sunday

'I Want Czj's Success'

W HEN your aunty's Bonnie Langford, your godfather's Christopher Biggins and your parents starred in the original West End musical Cats, there's a good chance you'll find yourself in the "biz". So it comes as little surprise to hear that Summer Strallen made her dancing debut at the ripe old age of 18 months.

5 Minutes with ... Loyd Grossman

Have you had a busy week? No, I'm on holiday - I don't think that counts as busy! Do your travels inspire your sauces? I think if you're interested in food, which I am, when you travel that's often when you get the inspiration because you try new things, or things that are done in different ways, and the flavours and the smells are very different.

Soapbox Coming This Week

POBOL Y CWM (S4C): A SHAMEFUL Izzy faces her first day back in the sixth form so that she can re-sit her A levels. To add to her problems, Jinx's ex-girlfriend has arrived back in Cwmderi and makes Izzy look like a schoolgirl in comparison. EASTENDERS (BBC One): LUCAS may like to think of himself as a reformed character and a pillar of the community, but there's one person who still has the ability to remind him that he hasn't always been squeaky clean - his estranged wife Trina, who turns up...

Nowt Funny About, These Folk

FUNNY PEOPLE (15, 145 mins) Starring: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman, Jonah Hill, Aubrey Plaza. Director: Judd Apatow.

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Angela&Tony

Keeping it Real! Tony - Great, a bank holiday weekend Angela - I know and I am so looking forward to it.

Books

DREAM MACHINE by Will Davis (Bloomsbury, pounds 11.99) WILL Davis follows in the footsteps of Ben Elton's 2006 novel Chart Throb as he jumps on the talent show bandwagon with his second book. Think Popstars, throw in a dash of X Factor, add a pinch of Big Brother - and you've got the telly programme at the centre of this book. Girl band Purrfect is looking for a new member, and wannabes from all over the country audition before a chosen few are put through their paces on live TV. It's a tried...

Open Doors Means Open Invitation

THIS year there are more sites than ever before taking part in the Open Doors scheme. New entries include Penderyn Distillery, a Royal Institute of British Architects award-winning building where the history of whisky-making in Wales is unfolded.

Best of the Rest

Tiny Vipers@Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (Friday) This Seattle songstress - who is in the same winsome, depressive vein as Cat Power - does her thing. Call: 029 2030 4400 Michael Janisch @ St James Club, Swansea (Wednesday) Ex-pat US jazz man considered one of the leading and most versatile acoustic/electric bass players in the country.

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best gig Bear Hands @Barfly, Cardiff (Friday) OK, let's start with the fact that this much-hyped Brooklyn four-piece have been billed 'funk-folk'. Now, right there's two words that should never be uttered in the same sentence together.

Tv Choice

best drama Wuthering Heights (ITV1 Wales, Tonight, 9pm) IF you've recently watched Tom Hardy busting heads, taking drugs and being bang out of order in the likes of Bronson and The Take, you might find it a little difficult to imagine him as the romantic hero in Emily Bronte's classic petticoat ruffling drama, featuring Charlotte Riley. However, it's unlikely we'll see his Heathcliff coming home ratted from the boozer to kick in Cathy's front door, call her a "silly bleedin' mare," before wha...

Switchedon What Are Your Favourite Tv Stars Up To?

FORMER EastEnders actress Tracy-Ann Oberman is to appear in Doctors. The 40-year-old takes on the role of a woman known to locals as "Letherbridge's Black Widow" as her previous two husbands have died in suspicious circumstances. KIM Woodburn has claimed that she is quitting How Clean Is Your House? when the current series ends. The 67-year-old, who has presented it with Aggie McKenzie since 2003, said that she worries viewers will start to find all that cleaning rather boring.

Cotton On to Corrie

ORONATION Street star Antony Cotton is destined for more disappointment on the romantic front - and he couldn't be happier. The award-winning actor's character Sean Tully is one of the most popular characters on the soap, but he has a long history of being unlucky in love.

Truckloads of Fun in Village

TORCHWOOD star Eve Myles returns to the small screen in a Bank Holiday Monday drama - alongside silver fox Trevor Eve. They are appearing in the one-off comedy drama based on Frank Cottrell Boyce's best-selling children's novel.

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