A tight 5: November 10

Joel Dommett is the least well-paid talent in the I’m A Celebrity jungle, according to The Sun. The tabloid reports that the comic and Diversity dancer Jordan Banjo were paid around £25,000 for the series, compared to top-earner Carol Vorderman at £200,000. But the main value will be in the publicity the primetime ITV exposure brings.

THE Weirdos annual alternative comedy pantomime is moving to the Leicester Square Theatre this year. The collective of offbeat acts including Ben Target, Harriet Kemsley and Jon Brittain, will be staging My Big Fat Weirdos Christmas Wedding there from December 7 to 9 with proceeds going to the Great Ormond Street Hospital. Tickets are available here.

AMY POEHLER is working on a US sitcom billed as a gay take on The Odd Couple. Family Style, which the network ABC is piloting, is described as ‘a multigenerational half-hour about two mismatched men from different cultures who find love in a family-run restaurant in Miami.

SOME of the cast of Channel 5’s semi-improvised sitcom Borderline are to stage the first live version of the show, set among airport immigration staff. Graham Dickson, Mike Orton-Toliver, Liz Smith and David Elms are among those improvising around audience suggestions at the Free Association Theatre in London on November 27, as part of the venue’s charity weekender featuring two full days of improv shows.

SIR Timothy O’Shea – vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh – has been appointed to serve a second four-year term as chairman of the board running the Edinburgh Fringe Society, The university is one of the major beneficiaries of the festival because of the rent it charges venues to use its spaces. Pleasance artistic director Anthony Alderson has been reappointed as deputy chair, serving a one-year term.

Published: 10 Nov 2016