STRICTLY stars AJ Odudu and Jamie Laing know only too well how dangerous dancing on TV can be – and now Billie Piper has also found this out the hard way.
The actress ended up in hospital last week after injuring her back performing a routine as she made the second series of her comedy drama, I Hate Suzie.
Ironically the Sky Max show sees Billie’s character, a celeb called Suzie Pickles, appear in a telly series called Dance Crazee.
Although the fictional show is inspired by Strictly — which often has contestants suffer sprains and tears — Billie injuring herself certainly wasn’t in the script.
A TV insider said: “It was a case of life imitating art as she found out just how challenging taking part in a contest like this can be.
"Billie hurt herself quite badly trying to master some challenging moves and it was decided it would be best if she went to hospital to get checked out properly.
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“In the end she was fine but the setback will have some impact on filming.
"That will be a double blow for Billie as she’s not just the lead star but also co-created the show.”
The second series of I Hate Suzie has been filming for several months and is expected to be released later this year, if production now concludes in time.
It follows the success of the debut eight-parter which aired in 2020 on Sky Atlantic and kicked off with Suzie having explicit images stolen.
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By the fourth episode she was seen in one of the longest solo sex scenes on UK telly at seven minutes and four seconds.
I’m surprised she didn’t do herself an injury then too.
Sky and Billie’s representatives declined to comment.
SUPER IDEA FOR A FILM, YAS
SHE was in the Netflix hit Heartstopper and has a big role in the next series of Doctor Who, but Yasmin Finney’s next stop is the movies.
Asked if she is going to Hollywood, she teased: “I can’t go into it, but there are things in the pipeline.”
On her dream role, she added: “I would love to be a superhero. The first trans superhero, killing people with the power to stun and look gorgeous.”
Yasmin was photographed at the Attitude Pride Awards in London yesterday, where the trans actor won the Attitude Pride Icon gong.
Discussing her role as sidekick Rose in Doctor Who, she told us: “She’s very sweet, humble and confident. She is finding herself through aliens.
“I won’t spoil anything, but the wardrobe is iconic. My character pulls looks.”
BLAZE AT DOWNTON LOCATION
A STRING of telly shows and movies could be thrown into chaos after one of the country’s most popular filming locations went up in flames.
A blaze at Hertfordshire’s Wrotham Park this week is said to have severely damaged many of the outbuildings although luckily the main country house managed to avoid the fire.
The full extent of the destruction remains to be seen but it could throw a serious spanner in the works of productions set to take place later this year.
Wrotham Park has been used as a location for some of telly’s biggest shows. In the past it has been the backdrop for Bridgerton, The Crown and even Downton Abbey.
I hope they get things up and running soon.
CBEEBIES and the Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London are making a version of the Bard’s play As You Like It for little ’uns.
Channel faves including Andy Day and Rebecca Keatley will perform it in front of a live audience on August 9 and 10.
It will air on CBeebies at a later date.
KEVIN’S SO HOT AND BOTHERED
TELLY property guru Kevin McCloud has slammed sweltering homeowners for using the “heatwave hack” of lining bifold doors with tin foil.
Which is hypocritical, really, given it was his show Grand Designs that partly inspired the trend for glass box-style extensions in the first place.
People who had installed floor-to-ceiling glass found themselves melting in the UK’s recent 40-degree temperature high.
After seeing their rants online, Kevin hit back: “Adding a glass extension or bifolds with no overhanging shade is like buying a car with no brakes.”
And he moaned: “People were building with glass a long time before I was around.
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“I think the patented method of producing large sheets of pure float glass was perfected in the 50s and 60s. I was one year old then, don’t blame me.”
Cool down, Kevin.
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