Hilary Bonner
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Crime novelist & playwright. Spouse Amanda Barrie. 2nd significant other, much loved pooch Coco. Debut play Dead Lies just completed its first national tour.
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Annibirthary weekend in Paris. Ten years married. Amanda’s 89th birthday! Went to Versailles. Eaten too much. Drunk too much. Lost our heads completely! So what’s new in Paris?
@amandabarrie11
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We said goodbye to our darling Coco yesterday, 16 days after her 16th birthday. She gave us so much joy and love for so long. There are no words to describe the enormity of her loss.
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Lost in deep water on Corrie, now about to find himself in very hot water in my political thriller Dead Lies. Welcome
@RichardHawley1
You are going to be a truly wonderful Peter George.
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Great to see my
@amandabarrie11
and her newly discovered cuz
@SallyAnMatthews
on TV last night. Love ‘em both.
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@amandabarrie11
tap dancing in our kitchen. Her lockdown fitness routine, she says. Showing off, I say. Will she never act her age? I do hope not. See her on ITV tonight. Coronavirus Q & A. 8pm.
@ITN
#lockdown
@StevieDawson
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@amandabarrie11
Coco Barrie-Bonner -around whom our world revolves, obviously - and her mums.
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It’s a miracle in these tough times for
#live
-theatre.
@amandabarrie11
and I at the premiere of the thriller Dead Lies, a brand new play, by me a brand new playwright, now embarking on a nationwide tour. Thankyou
@RedEntsUK
@JoeHarmston
@QueensBstaple
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Miss Barrie and I will be on Loose Women tomorrow Wednesday to talk about ‘us’. But we may just sneak in a mention or two of Dead Lies, Dead Lies, Dead Lies… Tour details and tickets
@Deadlies
.co.uk
@jqedwards
@JoeHarmston
@RedEntsUK
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@amandabarrie11
#cbb
HUGE thanks to all who've supported
#CBBAmanda
tonight. She's never known prejudice - except when she's had to fight it
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On way back from watching my wonderful Amanda enter the Big Brother house with her usual humour & style. Won the first task too. Go Amanda.
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For almost a year and a half I have been living with the niggling anxiety that this play might not go on. Now I find myself living with the niggling anxiety that it might…
#DeadLies
UK tour begins Sept 14
@QueensBstaple
@YvonneArnaud
@RedEntsUK
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After a roller coaster ride the day has finally come. My debut play Dead Lies begins a national tour in Barnstaple tonight. I am excited, but also nervous wreck. For venues see
@JoeHarmston
@RedEntsUK
@amandabarrie11
@QueensBstaple
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Took this pic this evening as we stepped outside to clap the NHS. Light just perfect. A timely reminder of how privileged Amanda and I are to be in isolation together in our Somerset home. Also thinking tonight of all key workers putting themselves at risk in these scary times.
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With
@amandabarrie11
and Coco
@AppledoreBkFest
last year promoting my latest Deadly Dance. Our little family.
#CBB
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It’s official -
@RedEntsUK
announced today that my first play Dead Lies will tour the UK next year. See Theatre Weekly Thrilled to be working with a stunning team, including director
@JoeHarmston
#theatreneverstops
@amandabarrie11
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@amandabarrie11
awaiting kick-off with trepidation. C’mon
@ManCity
Blooooooo Mooooooon.
#premiership
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@amandabarrie11
& I with
@lorraine
behind us, as it were. She is such an accomplished interviewer. The missus is an old hand, moi a tad nervous.
@lorraine
put me almost (!) at ease.
@KateLyallGrant
@blackthornbks
@holly_domney
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So proud of my
@amandabarrie11
for her part in saving
#CoventGarden
. See
@BBC
doc The People’s Piazza. ‘We’re not bloody going,’ she yells at a 1972 protest meeting in The Sun - still there along with most of the Garden only thanks to campaigners like her.
#peoplepower
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And here is the swimming creature herself. Coco paddling away.
@amandabarrie11
and I just watch, wonder, and occasionally throw that ball! The English Channel next. Obviously. Maybe not four times...
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Light snow was falling on our Somerset garden this afternoon. When I walked out and picked this.
@amandabarrie11
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Me & my trio of October publications. Brand new Vogel mystery Dreams of Fear out today - also Wheel of Fire large format p/b. Deadly Dance paperback, Oct 4th.
@amandabarrie11
@severnhouse
@blackthornbks
@Normantweets
@holly_domney
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And here’s my brand new paperback out October 4th thanks to
@blackthornbks
@canongatebooks
It’s pretty dark and scary - hence my attempt to look moody in my new profile pic. Fear I may just have achieved haggard...
More on
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Still buzzing from watching my wonderful Amanda wow 'em on CBB last night. I am sooooo going to miss her though.
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And as the curtain comes down on the last performance of the 2022 tour of Dead Lies, the play wot I wrote, I am just so grateful to everyone who made it happen.
@rede
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Wheel of Fire, out Friday
@severnhouse
@amandabarrie11
A tale of dastardly international financial intrigue leading to arson and murder deep in the English countryside. Cripes! Did I write that?
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@amandabarrie11
and I used
#fortheloveofdogs
to divert Coco from firework fear last night. It worked thanks
#pogdogs
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Would like to thank all new friends following me. Due of course to
#CBBAmanda
on
@bbuk
.So grateful to you all, and so so proud of her.
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@amandabarrie11
and I off to the launch of
@blackthornbks
tonight - who are publishing
#DeadlyDance
in mass market paperback in October
@WaterstonesCovG
Whoopee
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So
@severnhouse
, all 3 of us off to
@AppledoreBkFest
weekend of Sept 23/24. My two fans, Coco and
@amandabarrie11
.
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So, Coco still feeling a tad sorry for herself after injuring her foot in the garden yesterday. Horrid, but she’s on the mend thanks to wonderful service from Christian and all the staff
@MountVets
, Wellington.
@amandabarrie11
and I are very grateful. As is Coco!
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On Wheel of Fire publication day
@severnhouse
I pose with book before a blazing inferno. Desperate? Moi? Never!
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Dominic Cummings is a disgraceful hypocrite. Everybody in the country knows that now, if they didn’t before his pathetic unapologetic ramblings this afternoon - everybody except our PM, it seems. Shame on you too,
@BorisJohnson
Stay alert, won’t you..
@amandabarrie11
@NHSuk
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We are social distancing! Here's
@AmandaBarrie11
sharing in the
@DailyMirror
what life's been like stuck with me in isolation:
#SocialDistancingUK
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OMG it’s the producer! Me and
@amandabarrie11
with
@mattbrinkler
boss of
@RedEntsUK
at the premiere of my debut play
#DeadLies
#thriller
#live
-theatre
@QueensBstaple
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And so we’re off!!! Murder, mayhem, sex and scandal at a theatre near you! The new Dead Lies national tour, with a belting cast, begins an 11 week national tour next month. Book tickets on .
@JoeHarmston
@RedEntsUK
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#verybravedog
Coco Barrie-Bonner dropped her ball in my G & T tonight. Clearly likes to live dangerously
@amandabarrie11
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It’s my 21st on New Years Eve. Actually publication of my 21st book. Cry Darkness. Wonder if there’s a chance I might come of age at last???
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@SherrieHewson
@bbuk
@amandabarrie11
millions of thanks for your fab support for
#CBBAmanda
on BBBOTS. We both love you lots. Go Amanda.
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@EamonnHolmes
@amandabarrie11
Thankyou so much Eamonn for your support for
#CBBAmanda
She will be so touched Adores you & Ruth. The missus X
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@amandabarrie11
@bbuk
@MelanieBlakeUK
@SherrieHewson
Bathing burkas for the golden girls tomorrow night then...
#AmandaToWin
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The Deadliest Legacy, my 23rd book, is out today. I find myself remembering how my primary school teacher told my dad I would never learn to read. He rollicked her rotten, bless him, then, still furious, told me all
about it.
'You'll show her maid,' he said.
I guess I kinda did
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Thanks
@DevonLiveNews
for this. Scroll down for the latest books
@amandabarrie11
@severnhouse
@KateLyallGrant
Author wife of Corrie actress pens crime novel set in North Devon
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Clearly my rabbit-hugging octogenarian superwoman
@amandabarrie11
has yet to grow up! I’m glad to say. That’s Pinky and Whitey (not so white anymore) and her follically-challenged childhood faves Loppy and Lena, who has sadly mislaid her ears, all tucked up in bed. Aw.
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@amandabarrie11
@OldieMagazine
@GylesB1
@WhoLionel
And I was honoured to be there with the missus. Unique awards lunch, proceedings conducted with his usual wit and aplomb by
@GylesB1
Thankyou all at
@OldieMagazine
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Thrilled to see this review of Cinderella
@QueensBstaple
@NDJournal
A brilliant job by all & a triumph in troubled times. In awe of everyone concerned
@RedEntsUK
@Leewaddingham
@
@mattbrinkler
@amandabarrie11
@NickiFrenchie
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@amandabarrie11
still buzzing from watching my wonderful Amanda wow 'em on CBB last night. I am sooooooo going to miss her though.
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Celebrating today the end of 2020 - the toast is Good Riddance - and my 21st. Publication of my 21st book, Cry Darkness. May the glorious Somerset sunshine herald in a New Year of hope, and a way through the awful mess we are all in.
@severnhouse
@amandabarrie11
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With Coco on local moor today. Just glorious. Weather, moor & dog
@amandabarrie11
recovering by log fire from
#CBBUK
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So enjoyed
#Celebrity5GoBarging
on
@channel5_tv
tonight. Congratulations to my
@amandabarrie11
@johnprescott
@TheAnitaHarris
@ShaunWilliamson
@MichaelBuerk
You were all GREAT. And to Ricochet
@WBITVP
for producing proper fab TV, entertaining, informative, and such fun.
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And so, as I sit in my office looking out at torrential rain, I think back just four days. Instow beach in gloriously warm sunshine, with
@amandabarrie11
and a bedraggled Coco who has been swimming for England. Already seems like another world.
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@severnhouse
@amandabarrie11
my fans - both of them - with Deadly Dance on publication day. What discerning readers.
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My latest The Danger Within is published today. There’s a review in the Oct edition of prestigious US libraries magazine Booklist so effusive
@severnhouse
must surely have paid them a load of money. Undoubtedly more than they pay me
@katelyallgrant
Watch this space.
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View from my office this morning. Sun rising over the Blackdown’s.
@amandabarrie11
thinks I’m writing... It’s just toooo beautiful. Sorry
@severnhouse
@KateLyallGrant
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@DerrenLitten
@TVChoice
@BenidormTVshow
Oh wow. HUGE CONGRATULATIONS from moi and
@amandabarrie11
who loves you ALL!!!! XXX
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Legendary TV newsman Adam Boulton appears as himself in my play Dead Lies, touring the UK, and at the New Theatre Peterborough this week. Today he writes about it in his
@thesundaytimescolumn
. Thankyou
@adamboultonTABB
@RedEntsUK
@PboroTheatre
@Leewaddingham
@JoeHarmston
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@DaranLittle
Hello Daran,
@amandabarrie11
and I dream of a day when the fact that you are gay, particularly in her case as a person who is quite well known, is not even mentioned. Might be a long time coming though…
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@wdbrookbond
@PanMacPublicity
Friends to Die For T shirt FTDF cocktail &
@amandabarrie11
at
@JoeAllenWC2
FTDF launch
http://t.co/TFzUOaSJs9
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Curtain up imminent in Barnstaple tonight for
#ChristmasCracker
#GarethGates
. An amazing triumph over adversity for
@Leewaddingham
@RedEntsUK
@mattbrinkler
@QueensBstaple
Congratulations in advance. You’ve brought theatre back.
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@EamonnHolmes
@amandabarrie11
Am overwhelmed Eamonn. So will Amanda be. Also outraged but didn't like to say. Amanda has no prejudice
#cbb
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It’s coming home! Horrible day in Somerset so
@amandabarrie11
and I lit the sitting room fire as part of England’s warm-up.
#footie
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@amandabarrie11
fab walk over moors with Coco on glorious day. Forgot about
#cbb
for bit. Not
#amanda
. Miss her so.
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And yes it is as cold as it looks. This is West Somerset. Think may have been unknowingly beamed to West Scotland...
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@amandabarrie11
@bbuk
go
#cbbAmanda
go baby. Get that India. I who knows you best don't think you've finished yet...
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@amandabarrie11
A huge THANKYOU to all who supported
#CBBAmanda
so brilliantly. You were fab. She was fab. But so good to have her home.
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My new DI Vogel mystery, The Danger Within, is out this month.
A seeming straightforward domestic tragedy reveals a deeply buried dark secret.
I'll be telling (nearly) all at the splendid Appledore Book Festival on September 17th
@appledoreBkFest
@severnhouse
@KateLyallGrant
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Thanks to
@GylesB1
and
@OscarWildeUK
for inviting
@amandabarrie11
and me to a wonderful cocktail party
@Grosvenor_House
celebrating Oscar’s birthday. We loved every minute of it - as Oscar would have done.
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Just arrived
@NewsUK
for
@Matthew_Wright
show on
@talk
radio to talk about my novel
#DeadlyDance
& being a woman
@TheSun
in 1972! Building also houses The Sun now. Back then we were in 30 Bouverie Street, which used to shake when the presses started!!
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@MHARRISON_ENT
is producing the Palladium Panto 2020 with National Lottery buying obligatory empty seats. Hope? Let’s push for this in theatres nationwide.
@mattbrinkler
@Leewaddingham
@davidsoho1
@amandabarrie11
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Huge congratulations to
@jqedwards
star of my brand new thriller Dead Lies, a scandalous murder mystery touring UK theatres from April 14. He only won Celebrity Mastermind last night. Is there no end to Jeremy Edward’s talents?
@RedEntsUK
@BBC1
#Mastermind
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Oh joy me and Madonna with the big boobies,
@vickimichelle
etc at Heritage lunch for Allo Allo writer Jeremy Lloyd.
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@amandabarrie11
@bbuk
She's too nice. But my spies say the other housemates love her. & her humour! Lack of screen time but NO nominations
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@RedEntsUK
Amazing indeed. Whilst so many touring productions have fallen in these troubled times, Dead Lies has made it through. A triumph really. Thanks to all concerned.
@mattbrinkler
@JoeHarmston
@Leewaddingham
@BelgradeTheatre
@YvonneArnaud
@QueensBstaple
& all venues
#theatre
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@amandabarrie11
#cbb
thanks a million again to all for WONDERFUL support. Just can't reply individually to all. New book due March. Eek! XX
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@ARTandHUE
@CarryOnJoan
@amandabarrie11
And Amanda will be introducing
#Cleo
before a special
@BFI
screening in London on Saturday.
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Wishing huge good fortune to all involved in
#ChristmasCracker
opening at the Barnstaple theatre tomorrow.
@RedEntsUK
@Gareth_Gates
@QueensBstaple
Blood sweat tears & a lot of love have gone into staging this cracking show in such tough times. God speed, says I &
@amandabarrie11
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Grown outdoors and picked today from our Somerset garden. How did they ripen in this weather. Dec 13. A record?
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@amandabarrie11
#cbb
anyone except me noticed how
#CBBAmanda
's laugh gets filthier and filthier ...
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It's turning out to be quite the Bonner book month!
#DreamsOfFear
is out tomorrow, here's my Blog:
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Great to see
@SherrieHewson
&
@THERussellGrant
on ITV's
#100YearsYounger
. But could they ever get any more beautiful?
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Thanks to all involved with
@AppledoreBkFest
, & of course our wonderful audience, for a fab event yesterday. Talking about new book The Danger Within & first play Dead Lies -with John Lyons and Susan Sandon.
@RedEntsUK
@severnhouse
@KateLyallGrant
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As the snow melts (again) in our garden, still able to forage for chives, parsley & baby spinach. Brave little things
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@The_Open_Circle
@amandabarrie11
Thanks. Don't forget to vote 090204424 01 land 64424 01 mobile to get
#CBBAmanda
to the final
#AmandaToWin
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@andrewrobley
@amandabarrie11
we thought so, that's for sure. And your singing just wonderful.
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@ChrisClarkePR
@Conservatives
@BorisJohnson
@Number10press
@DominicCumins
From when Coronavirus hit the UK, I believed we should all support our government regardless of politics. Nobody knew how to deal with it, mistakes should be forgiven. The disgraceful Cummings debacle can never be forgiven. So disappointed in Boris.
@amandabarrie11
#restoretrust
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@willturnerroden
@amandabarrie11
@collectiveurban
I really like
#amandaforthewin
. Go
#cbbamanda
#teamamanda
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Feeling guilty as I set off for the Appledore Book Festival to talk about my my latest, The Deadliest Legacy, which is set at the festival. Think I may be responsible for the terrible weather, as the book begins with Appledore being hit by a fierce storm. Sorry everybody.
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@TonyMaudsley1
@EamonnHolmes
@amandabarrie11
thanks Tony. So much support tonight. V grateful. Only wish she knew cos think she's bit upset
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@THERussellGrant
@amandabarrie11
I call
#cbbamanda
my octogenarian superwoman. Sometimes I call her bloody octogenarian superwoman...
#cbb
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@Jonesy__boy
@21olijas
@amandabarrie11
#cbbamanda
is always sincere. And has no prejudices at all against anyone.
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@JoanFanForever
It was a real treat. Interviewed her twice, in Barbados on set of A Caribbean Mystery, and at her home. The best ever Miss Marple in my opinion.
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@amandabarrie11
@UrbanCoIIective
Last
#realmarigoldhotel
tonight. The missus falls in love with the cutest dog. And she found it a home.
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