Wales on Sunday

What Vanessa Did Next

ANESSA HUDGENS is determined to keep her eye on the prize. The 20- year-old, known to millions of teens for her breakout role in Disney phenomenon High School Musical, is on a mission to carve out her own niche in Hollywood and she won't be letting the glare of the spotlight get in her way. "It's flattering, you know, but it's hardly something that I tend to gravitate towards, it's just not something I really pay attention to," she says of being a paparazzi darling and finding herself on list...

5 Minutes with ... Lee Mack

What does the week have in store for you? Well, Friday's when my work really begins. That's when I'm spending my time at the little pubs and clubs, trying out material and seeing what works. You're preparing for a major tour next year. How are you enjoying playing smaller venues in preparation? I'm loving it. I just turn up at the little clubs and give things a try. It feels like I haven't done that circuit for a long time. Sometimes it will be just 20 or 30 people in the crowd, and that's go...

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The Female of the Species Is More Calculating Than the Male

HE battle of the sexes turns ugly - rather fittingly - in the new romantic comedy from director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, Monster-In-Law). Uproariously funny in places and politically incorrect to the point of offensiveness in others, The Ugly Truth is as reassuringly predictable as it is unexpectedly potty-mouthed with a voracious appetite for sex talk that marks out the film as distinctly adult fare. While the contrived denouement will surprise no-one, the underlying message of the pi...

Dvds

17 AGAIN (Cert 12, 97 mins) THE 37-year-old Mike O'Donnell (Matthew Perry) feels like fate has dealt him successively bad hands.His long-suffering wife has thrown him out, his children despise him and he has just been passed over for promotion. Tumbling into a whirlpool one night, Mike is magically transformed into his 17-year-old self (Zak Efron). Efron carries the film with his natural charm. Potentially sticky moments like teenage Mike being seduced by his daughter's classmates never come ...

Topmovies

This week's Top 10 films 1 (1) HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (12A) THE sixth film is a big improvement on the disappointing last outing, The Order Of The Phoenix, and rides some of the same dark undercurrents as The Prisoner Of Azkaban. However, the film's most important sequence doesn't deliver the emotional sucker punch we're expecting. 2 (-) G-FORCE 3D FORCE (PG) BLOCKBUSTER producer Jerry Bruckheimer's first 3D film is a light-hearted mix of live action and digital trickery which...

Topgame

Angela& Tony

Keeping it Real! Angela - So, it's official, we remain Wales' biggest commercial radio station.

Books

RING OF FIRE by Rick Broadbent (Bantam Press, pounds 12.99) FANS of motorcycle racing know Valentino Rossi as the colourful champion of MotoGP, but are deprived of evidence of what really makes the Italian tick. What Broadbent has done is give some of that inside information, exposing Rossi's character and those of his fellow racers. From setting fire to race circuits and overturning rivals' cars, the men behind the full-face helmets are exposed in their 'lighter' moments off the race track. ...

No Ordinary Joe

Joe Pasquale @ Pontins Holiday Centre, Prestatyn (Wednesday) HERE have been a number Tof rather memorable comebacks over the years. Even Bruce Forsyth got to show he was still the gameshow daddy when he guest presented

Tvchoice

best comedy Jam & Jerusalem (BBC One Wales, tonight, 8pm) I doubt, after Psychoville, anyone will be able to look at Dawn French in the same cuddly, lovely way again. Her deranged nurse Joy and her sinister fixation doll she with a flea-bitten hospital demonstration called Freddie Fruitcake made for one of the most memorably "wrong" comedy characters of recent times. Here though she's back with longtime writing partner Jennifer Saunders for a new batch of this rather more wholesome sitcom set...

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Falconer Living Her Fantasy

AFTER going on a blind date, it's normal to wonder "will he call me?" But when Jenni Falconer put her love prospects in the hands of Cilla Black on the popular series Blind Date, back in 1994, the question she ended up asking was, "should I change my career plans?" While she may not have found romance on the programme, she did fall in love with television. So, putting her university studies aside, she decided to focus on a career in front of the cameras. "I just went on the programme for fun,...

The City of the Damned

THINK of California and what immediately springs to mind? Probably sun, sea, and the wealth of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. But certainly not poverty. Then again, the streets of the state's Central Valley are not usually seen on TV - unless it's during an episode of COPS or World's Wildest Police Videos.