RICHARD MADDEN
JANUARY 2019
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Friday
25 January 2019 |
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Happy Burns Night!
For the
first time ever, I’ve received a message to say I’ve used up 80% of my mobile
phone inclusive data. This wouldn’t be
so bad, except I still have a couple of weeks to go until my personal month
end! It’s another symptom of ‘Maddenitis’!!! And I
still haven’t finished my crochet project ... my problem is, in the words of
Bodyguard character Julia Montague, “I’m
emotionally distracted”!!! |
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Thursday
24 January 2019 |
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Richard Madden has already flown back to Los Angeles, where he
is due to be a presenter at this coming Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards
(27 January). With
regards to his career he said: “Nobody knows what’s next. I’m still looking
and haven’t made any decisions. I have
meetings in LA but I don’t think you’ve lost me to Hollywood just yet!” He said
the accolades he had received for his Bodyguard role had “certainly given me
a lot more confidence in my career”. He added “It’s been like a mad dream
that I haven’t woken up from.” In the
meantime, Rocketman is due for release in May, in
which he plays the role of John Reid.
Perhaps he’ll be around for the publicity tour, along with Taron Egerton, and will
presumably receive a nomination for his role in Bodyguard from the British TV
BAFTAS; the ceremony of which takes place on Sunday 12 May. |
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Wednesday
23 January 2019 |
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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
Richard Madden won the award for Best Drama
Performance at
yesterday evening’s National Television Awards, with Bodyguard winner of the Best New Drama too. J Here is Richard’s winner’s speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQ88AgbQ7A And his post-award interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z7C-QPj7L4 If Richard
gets the opportunity to play Willy Loman in Death
of a Salesman on stage, when he reaches his sixties, I’ll just have to hope
I’m still around and fit enough to attend it!
That’s the drawback of liking a very much younger man! I was
running so late by the time I’d watched, and re-watched the NTA highlights,
last evening, that I didn’t have time to write a racing blog yesterday. But perhaps that’s not a bad thing,
considering today’s fixtures at Hereford and Catterick
were abandoned and it would have been a waste of my time listing the runners! I still
haven’t made much progress on my crochet project ... I’ve been prevented from
doing so due to a bad bout of ‘Maddenitis’! |
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Saturday
19 January 2019 |
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I’ve
completed and uploaded my Kempton Park Boxing Day diary. J That
means I can concentrate 100% on my crafting ... Richard Madden ... and of
course my blogs, until I next go on a racing-related outing! |
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Friday
18 January 2019 |
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All of my plans are ‘home-based’ this weekend.
I need to collate, proof-read and upload my Kempton Park diary, also
transfer some recordings to DVD, plus complete my current crocheting project
which is 2/3rds finished; I estimate the latter is going to take a further 8
hours, so this may be optimist! You’ll also not be surprised to learn that I have
some Richard Madden-related DVDs to watch too; I’m currently viewing Hope
Springs, a TV drama series, released in 2009.
This certainly wasn’t Richard’s first appearance
in a TV series, as way back in 1999 he appeared in CBBC’s Barmy Aunt
Boomerang, alongside Toyah Willcox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AFsaz7WXg Richard
was born on 18 June 1986, so is currently 32 years old. |
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Monday
14 January 2019 |
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Richard Madden was nominated for a Critics’
Choice Award and the awards ceremony took place in Santa Monica yesterday
evening, but unfortunately on this occasion he didn’t win. But we were treated to him making an appearance,
and here he is on the red carpet: |
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Sunday
13 January 2019 |
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Today it was reported that Richard Madden and his
girlfriend Ellie Bamber have split up due to his
recent high-profile career success: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6585661/Richard-Madden-Ellie-Bamber-SPLIT.html That’s the price of fame I guess. He’s certainly been very busy recently,
filming Rocketman, appearing on various shows in
the US to publicise Bodyguard, not to mention attending awards shows and
other events, and making himself available for press and magazine interviews
and photo-shoots. Today I rescued a third copy of the current issue
of GQ! I just couldn’t help myself; it
was sitting there all alone on the shelf at the local supermarket and needed
a good home!!! I’ve been
productive this weekend, with regards to drafting race notes; I’ve now
completed those for Kempton Park, with the aim of uploading the diary next
weekend. J But I’ve not been so productive on the
crochet front! L Maybe I’ll get some done this evening … |
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Friday
11 January 2019 |
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Typically,
there are too many good programmes on TV tonight ... The Victorian House of
Arts and Crafts (BBC2) clashes with Grantchester
(ITV), and a new series of two-hour Most Haunted editions (Really) clashes
with them both if I watch BBC2 at 21:00 followed by ITV on plus one! I need to
catch up on some sleep this weekend, but also make a start of my Kempton Park
Boxing Day diary race notes. Hopefully
I’ll find time to do some crochet too ... and binge on DVDs featuring young
Mr Madden (he’s 32!). I refuse to
crochet and watch the DVDs at the same time; Richard needs my undivided
attention ... although I do have a habit of dozing off to sleep and having to
replay the lost moments!!! |
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Thursday
10 January 2019 |
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The
National Television Awards take place on Tuesday 22 January 2019, with both
Bodyguard (New Drama) and Richard Madden (Drama Performance) nominated in
their respective categories. And it’s
the general public who vote for their favourites ... it’s free to vote online
and categories can be skipped if you don’t have a clue regarding the
nominees!!! https://www.nationaltvawards.com/vote It would
have been great to go but tickets went on sale following last year’s
ceremony, so there’s very little choice now ... just seats over the back of
beyond! It’s a pity I don’t have a
crystal ball, otherwise I might have seen Mr Madden within it!!! Never mind, it’s being shown live on
ITV. The Bafta TV Awards take place on Sunday 12 May ... so I’ve
made a note in my diary! Evidently
Richard is heading back to California at the end of this month, to sit in the
warm sunshine beside a pool and read scripts in search of his next
project! Next up for him for release
is Rocketman, a musical drama based on the life of
Elton John. It is due to premier in
May; he plays the role of John Reid, Elton’s first boyfriend. There
won’t be a second series of Bodyguard until at least 2020. I like to think that his character Sgt
David Budd, having received extensive counselling for his PTSD, has now moved
with his family to a remote Scottish island where they live on a croft, and
raise a few sheep too. His wife Vicky
will be working as the district nurse and there they will remain until
Richard re-inhabits the character and his services are needed once more!!! Bearing in mind his fictional daughter Ella
will probably have headed off to the mainland to attend secondary school, as
a boarder, whilst fictional son Charlie, who has special educational needs,
will attend the small island school. |
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Monday
07 January 2019 |
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner!!! There was wonderful news overnight; Richard
Madden won the Golden Globe for ‘Best
Performance by an Actor in a Television Series Drama.’ I’m so pleased for him; he’s such a talented
actor. His portrayal of Police
Sergeant David Budd, who is assigned to act as the Home Secretary’s
bodyguard, is amazing. His character
was also an army veteran endeavouring to overcome the PTSD resulting from
time served in Afghanistan. Not to
mention terrorism and organised crime! I wish I could report that I saw him accept his
prize live; but unfortunately there was trouble with my facebook
feed … it kept freezing and large-scale messages popped up intermittently
too, thus obscuring the screen! And,
for the sake of my laptop security, I didn’t want to sign-up with any of the
broadcasting websites suggested. I gave up at around 02:40; then, as I was logging
off, I saw newsfeed which informed me Richard had won his nominated category
around an hour previously! I had watched the Red Carpet pre-show arrivals,
broadcast live on satellite TV, but I didn’t spot him there either. L Fortunately there is a lot of post-event coverage
on the internet J: So here he is, in all of his glory, looking
gorgeous of course … his face is so expressive and he’s extremely photogenic
too: https://celebrity.nine.com.au/2019/01/07/08/21/golden-globes-2019-winners-list The ceremony was held in LA and his mum and dad
flew in especially to attend too. An interesting fact – Richard is paranoid about
fire risks and always checks the fire escape routes when visiting unfamiliar
locations; his dad was a fireman, so he’s well aware of the tragic
consequences posed by fire. And here are a number of interviews I found on Youtube; the first two appear to be Red Carpet ones,
before the ceremony: Interviewed on Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wt16CPHKew Interviewed on IMDb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-RcaI68Hc8 The announcement of the winner; he is
congratulated by Julianne Moore, and Idris Elba
(his co-star in The Take aka Bastille Day), who were sitting at the same
table and the award was presented by cast members from The Big Bang Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLyD_RsU4jc The post award press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFm-0LDk2LI On Access ... Richard tells the interviewer that
his dad told him to write some victory speech notes, just in case he won! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1_3ykpoxcM On E News too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3WY87OcspI I’ve also joined the ‘Richard Madden Appreciation Society’ closed group on Facebook ... as I feel I’m appreciating him rather a
lot!!! That’s all
of the news from ‘Richard Madden
Central’ for now ... |
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Friday 04
January 2019 |
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Sorry ...
but I’m going ‘off piste’
again ... with further Youtube video links,
featuring the very attractive Richard Madden: Firstly
his appearance on the Graham Norton Show, publicising Cinderella, and The
Take (aka Bastille Day) – this is the show in almost its entirety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6JRf6L5WSY I shall
refer to this one as the Netflix ‘water
story’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0MPXo_Q7F0 Richard appeared on Access Live, speaking about
Bodyguard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO0dV8ITQjU And on the IMDb Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYYOhI3Y72A The Golden Globes take place in LA on Sunday
evening and Richard has been nominated as Best Actor in a TV Series – Drama,
for Bodyguard ... so he was interviewed via videolink
following the nomination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS1Ed31nyz4 Richard is actually a redhead
... his hair is often dyed for his roles! |
