Strictly Come Dancing Viewers Overjoyed To See Amy Dowden Back In The Ballroom

Posted on 16/12/2023 by Boris Clair

Amy has been unable to compete in the current series of Strictly as she was undergoing treatment for cancer, but has made repeated appearances in the studio.

In the lead-up to the finale, the Welsh star revealed she’d intended to perform a surprise routine on the show, but these plans were scuppered when she broke her foot.

However, she did appear in Saturday’s opening group number, dancing with her fellow professionals to welcome this year’s finalists and serving up some fabulous fan-ography.

Strictly viewers were delighted with Amy’s surprise appearance, with many writing they’d been moved to tears seeing her back where she belongs…

Amy first joined Strictly’s team of professional dancers in 2017.

“An afternoon of chemo and then I’m so lucky and grateful to be able to ring that bell!” she wrote on Instagram. “[I] will never take it for granted! Thank you to the incredible Sheldon Unit! You are all amazing.”

Netflix’s Most-Watched Show Of 2023 So Far Probably Isn’t What You’re Expecting

Posted on 13/12/2023 by Boris Clair

While Netflix has famously been guarded in the past when it comes to viewing figures for its most popular shows, the streaming service has decided to give its users a small peek behind the curtain.

These newly-released figures show that, perhaps surprisingly, the action thriller The Night Agent accrued the most minutes watched among Netflix subscribers between January and June.

According to this data, viewers spent 812.1 million hours watching the US show, which began streaming in March, with a second season being commissioned shortly after its debut.

In runner-up position was the second season of Ginny & Georgia (665.1 million hours), followed by the South Korean revenge thriller The Glory (622.8 million hours) and the first season of Wednesday (507.7 million hours, particularly impressive given that the Addams Family spin-off actually debuted on Netflix in 2022).

Next on the list was the Bridgerton prequel Queen Charlotte (503 million hours) and the latest season of You (440.6 million hours), which will come to an end next year with its fifth and final season.

More recently, Netflix has had hits with original shows like Squid Game: The Challenge, David Beckham’s self-titled documentary and the final season of The Crown, although these all began streaming in the second half of 2023, and therefore aren’t yet counted in this data.

If you’ve still not watched The Night Agent for yourself, but this news has got you feeling intrigued, give the trailer a quick watch below:

People Are Just Noticing This Sneaky ‘Matt Smith Cameo’ In The Latest Doctor Who Special

Posted on 12/12/2023 by Boris Clair

While the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate to the Doctor Who franchise got everyone talking, viewers have also spotted another nod to the show’s past during the recent anniversary specials.

On Saturday night, the third and final instalment in Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary specials, titled The Giggle, aired on BBC One.

During the episode, the Time Lord came face-to-face with The Toymaker, played by Neil Patrick Harris.

Towards the end of the episode, the two characters played a card game using a split deck, with the US actor’s character drawing a King Of Hearts that Whovians couldn’t help but notice looked a little familiar…

We all screamed in our house and had to rewind to check that the king was in fact Matt Smith and we weren’t going mad 😂👑

— sarkydalek (@SarkyDalek) December 11, 2023

Matt Smith previously played the Eleventh Doctor between 2010 and 2013, and shared the screen with David in the 50th anniversary special Day Of The Doctor.

In the decade since, he’s notably played Prince Philip in the first two seasons of The Crown and Daemon Targaryen in the Game Of Thrones prequel House Of The Dragon.

As well as David, Catherine and Neil, Doctor Who’s recent anniversary specials also featured Heartstopper’s Yasmin Finney, as well as posthumous appearance from Bernard Cribbins, reprising his role as Wilfred Mott.

Years And Years star Ruth Madeley also joined the cast, while Miriam Margolyes lent her voice to the adorable (albeit terrifying) Meep.

At the end of The Giggle, The Doctor “bi-generated”, with Sex Education and Barbie star Ncuti Gatwa set to take over at the helm of the Tardis when the new season of Doctor Who launches in 2024.

Before that, though, there’s one more stand-alone episode, with Ncuti taking the lead in the sci-fi show’s upcoming festive special, which will air on Christmas Day.

Here’s The Emotional Moment The New Reigning Queen Of Drag Race UK Was Crowned

Posted on 01/12/2023 by Boris Clair

After ten weeks of the fiercest competition around, a new queen has taken the crown of Drag Race UK.

Ginger Johnson, Michael Marouli and Tomara Thomas – the ‘Angels of the North’, so called because of all three of the trio’s North-Eastern background – made it to the finale of Drag Race UK season five, with one of them superseding Danny Beard, who won season four a year ago.

In the queens’ final challenge, they had to write and perform a verse on RuPaul’s song ‘Spotlight’, and appear in a sexy, cat burglar themed video.

Elsewhere in the episode, the queens had sit down with RuPaul and Michelle Visage, got to enjoy a visit from their biggest supporters and reflected on the season as a whole.

Beware: spoilers below.

After a stellar season, the top three were rejoined on the main stage by six eliminated queens of the season, including the recently fallen Dede Licious and the iconic Kate Butch; Cara Melle was absent due to illness.

With the badge count stacked against her, Tomara Thomas and her single challenge win were told to sashay away from the competition, with the star leaving the stage with a signature cackle and good humour.

It was then up to Ginger Johnson and Michael Marouli, with three challenge wins apiece, to lip sync for the crown to ‘A Little Respect’ by Erasure.

After a fierce battle (and a cameo from Danny Beard), the winner of season five of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK was announced as… Ginger Johnson!

Now, a bit of behind-the-scenes tea; at the end of a Drag Race season, multiple endings are filmed, so not even the queens know who’s won before it airs on TV – so here’s the moment Ginger actually found out she’d snatched the crown.

In the clip, season five’s top two (Ginger and Michael) can be seen reacting to the announcement with an appropriate amount of tears and celebration. Tomara, to her credit, looks thrilled to be there.

And here’s the moment we at HuffPost UK found out during the finale screening!

Drag Race UK Seasons 1-5 and Drag Race UK Vs. The World are available to stream on BBC iPlayer.

24 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets You Probably Didn’t Know About The Crown

Posted on 17/11/2023 by Boris Clair

The sixth season of The Crown upon us, drawing to a close one of the most internationally successful British dramas of all time.

Three casts of actors have played Queen Elizabeth II and her family since the show debuted in 2016, covering some of the most significant moments in recent history through the lens of the British monarchy.

As the Emmy-winning show returns to screens for the final time, we’ve looked back at The Crown’s seven year legacy to bring you the behind-the-scenes facts you never knew about the show…

1. It costs a lot to make

In January this year, Forbes reported that season five of The Crown became the most expensive instalment in the history of the show, with production costs reaching $143.3 million (£115.7 million) according to financial statements.

That brought Sony’s Left Bank Pictures (LBP) division, which makes The Crown, to a total of $504 million (£407.1 million) spent on royal drama since it premiered in 2016.

2. Olivia Colman really struggled with one detail when it came to playing The Queen

Queen Elizabeth II was famously stoic. Olivia Colman, on the other hand, is not. That meant she struggled to maintain a stiff upper lip in the more emotional scenes.

“My problem is, I emote,” Olivia told Variety. “The Queen is not meant to do it. She’s got to be a rock for everyone, and [has] been trained not to. We’ve discovered that I can’t do it. But I’ve come up with a little trick. It’s sort of shameful.”

But the team found a way around this so that, whenever Olivia had to react to a sad scene, they would give her an earpiece and play the shipping forecast – a BBC Radio broadcast of the weather and seas around the British Isles.

“I’m sort of not listening to what [the other actors are] saying. I’m trying so hard to tune into the shipping forecast and not cry,” she said.

3. Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin had very simple tactics to get into character

The two actors portrayed younger versions of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, respectively, in season four of the crown. They revealed some effective strategies to snap into character while on The Graham Norton Show. Josh noted that he would replicate a body language sequence that he claimed the now King still did as of three years ago. He noticed when emerging from a car, Charles would touch both cufflinks of his sleeves, check his pocket square, then wave.

Emma’s trick to get into Diana’s voice was to speak with a certain rhythm where the tone always went down at the end. The specific word to help them get into the character was “alright”.

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4. Claire Foy, Matt Smith and Vanessa Kirby sometimes stayed in the accents on set

They may all have British accents, but speaking in the Queen’s English was a much more challenging task for Claire Foy, Matt Smith (Prince Philip) and Vanessa Kirby (Princess Margaret). To help ensure their voices remained accurate and convincing, the cast sometimes chose to just speak in the dialect on the set, as revealed by Vanessa in an interview with MTV.

5. Actors would watch silent clips of the royals to capture their mannerisms

As part of their preparations to step into their roles, the cast were instructed by supervising dialect coach William Conacher to watch video clips with no volume, in order to focus on their body language. “First thing I say is nobody needs to do an impression and I don’t believe anybody ever has on this show,” he told Reuters.

“It’s more about analysing what the face does, what the mouth does, what the head does, and then letting your voice come through that shape.”

6. Claire Foy was able to get into character with a single word

Claire Foy getting final touches before the scene

When Claire Foy needed to nail the cut glass English accent of a young Queen Elizabeth II, she would simply utter “one” with her lips turned down, she shared to MTV. It clearly worked, as the actor went on to win two Emmys and Golden Globe for her performance.

7. But she initially feared she’d made a terrible mistake joining the show

It’s no secret that The Crown features a huge variety of filming locations, including the royals’ Balmoral home in the Scottish highlands. It turns out this was a huge undertaking for new mum Claire Foy, who was still breastfeeding during filming.

“On the first day of filming, I found myself halfway up a Scottish mountain with engorged boobs and no way of getting down to feed my baby,” she told British Vogue. “I had to ring my husband and tell him to give her formula… as I sat in a Land Rover trying to get my broken breast pump to work, I felt I’d made the worst mistake of my life.”

The actor said it felt like someone had “stamped on my heart” when she realised she couldn’t properly feed her child. She also shared on the The Graham Norton Show that she felt she was “such a huge idiot” and a “lunatic” for going back to work four months after giving birth.

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8. She was almost overlooked for the role altogether

It’s hard to imagine anyone else playing the first Queen Elizabeth, but Claire Foy apparently didn’t make too much of an impression early on in the cast process.

Writer Peter Morgan told Variety that it was only after four read-throughs – during which he’d only attended to watch “actress A or B” – that he noticed Claire. “This one is sensational, who’s this?” he asked, before being told, “Pete, she’s been in four times. And you’ve gone for a better-known actress.”

9. Felicity Jones reportedly auditioned to play The Queen

Back in 2014 (The Crown came out in 2016), the Mirror reported that Rogue One star Felicity Jones portrayed a young Queen Elizabeth in a special reading of early scripts for the show.

Apparently actors were hand picked to read for executives from Netflix. An executive told The Mirror at the time that they were “just beginning the process”.

10. Elizabeth Debicki auditioned for much smaller role in season two before landing Princess Diana

Princess Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown

While Elizabeth Debicki’s casting as the people’s princess in season five and six of The Crown feels spot on, but Elizabeth Debicki originally had her sights set on a much smaller role.

The actor didn’t reveal what role it was she auditioned for, but told Glamour that “it was not anything you would imagine. When my agent said, “Go and audition for this,” I was like, “Really? Okay.”

She explained: “I auditioned for a small role in season two. I went in for the part, and the people in the room saw something in that audition that was wrong for the role I was auditioning for and right for Diana. So it was very unexpected for me. And then over the few years that followed that, I had hoped that it would come around, but I didn’t know for sure. And then it did.”

11. Some of the cast have already played royals

The royal family are some of the most challenging roles any actor could play. But some in The Crown cast had already played royals. Claire Foy, for example, played Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall.

Olivia Colman, who took over as an older Queen Elizabeth in season three, played the 18th century Queen Anne in The Favourite 2018, which won her an Oscar. She also played the Queen Mother in Hyde Park on Hudson.

12. Claire Foy was originally paid less than Matt Smith

The gender pay gap was very present in the first season of The Crown. During the INTV Conference in Jerusalem in 2018, producers Suzanne Mackie and Andy Harries were asked if Claire Foy was paid more than Matt Smith. They acknowledged that he did make more due to his Doctor Who fame, according to Variety, but said they would rectify that in the future. “Going forward, no one gets paid more than the Queen,” said Mackie.

It seemed the show did address this in future seasons, with Tobias Menzies telling Harper’s Bazaar in 2019 that “my understanding is, that this time round, I’m paid less than Olivia”.

13. Dominic West almost quit a charity role over his casting as Prince Charles

Dominic West as Prince Charles in The Crown

It’s no easy feat to portray such an important and recognisable public figure – one who would go on to become the king, no less. In a bid to keep things professional, Dominic West offered to quit his position as an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust in case there was a conflict of interest. But his request was turned down by Charles’ private secretary. The letter essentially said, per Radio Times: “You do what you like, you’re an actor. It’s nothing to do with us.”

West added: “I think that’s probably how [Charles] regards it. I’ve been in a line to shake his hand a few times and it’s fascinating. It’s very useful to meet the character you’re playing, obviously.”

14. Elizabeth Debicki found the fake paparazzi “incredibly invasive”

Princess Diana was infamously hounded by paparazzi after her divorce from Prince Charles, and it turns out even Elizabeth Debicki struggled with reenacting that.

“It was difficult to recreate,” she told Netflix (via Variety). “It was heavy and very manic, and incredibly invasive. And it had a kind of pressure to it,” she added, describing it as a “really unpleasant experience”

15. The portrayal of Diana’s death was approached very carefully

There are many shocking moments throughout The Crown, but Diana’s death was the episode that creators faced the most pressure with when it came to striking the right tone.

Season six depicts her 1997 trip to Paris with boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed, which ended in tragedy when they were involved in a fatal car crash after being chased by paparazzi.

This part of the series was approached “delicately” and “thoughtfully”, according to executive producer Suzanne Mackie. Creator Peter Morgan also insisted they were “never” going to show the crash itself.

16. Production paused after the Queen’s death

When Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022, filming on the show was temporarily paused. “As a mark of respect, filming on The Crown was suspended today. Filming will also be suspended on the day of Her Majesty The Queen’s funeral,” Netflix said in a statement.

17. Imelda Staunton struggled to return to work after the Queen’s death

Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth during the penultimate series of The Crown

Imelda Staunton portrays the Queen in her later years, which means she struggled to get back into character after the monarch died. “It was quite difficult, to be honest,” Imelda told Radio Times.

“We carried on with as much dignity and grace as they have always had on The Crown, but obviously there was a very different temperature in the world, in England and even more so on set.”

She added: “We couldn’t do anything differently; I had to carry on. But we were all a wee bit sad.”

18. There was one character the show’s costume designer really wanted to get right

The Crown’s fourth season may have got through 400 different costumes, but the one designer that Amy Roberts struggled with most didn’t belong to a royal. Rather, it was palace intruder Michael Fagan, who makes his way into the Queen’s bedroom and laments about his economic and social hopelessness.

“I so wanted to get the character of him right,” Amy told Glamour. “I didn’t want to fail what he was about and what a broken Britain was about.”

19. A heist on the set in 2022 saw over 350 props stolen from the show

It turns out that even the props used on The Crown are worth a lot. Back in February 2022, over $200,000 worth of props from the set were stolen while the production was shooting nearby. Among the 350 items stolen were a replica Fabergé egg, a grandfather clock clockface and crystal glassware. It occurred when three vehicles were broken into in a lorry park in Mexborough in Yorkshire, according to Variety.

20. Prince Harry actually fact checks the show

It’s the question everyone wants to know the answer to. Do the real royal family watch The Crown? It turns out that not only has Prince Harry watched the show, but he even fact checks it. “Yes, I have actually watched The Crown,” he told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, clarifying, “the older stuff and the more recent stuff.”

When asked if he does any “fact-checking” while watching the series, he replied, “Yes, I do, actually. Which, by the way, is another reason why it’s so important that history has it right.”

Prince Harry even addressed Matt Smith as “grandad” once, according to the actor, who plays a young Prince Philip. “He’d watched the show,” Matt said on The Today Show.

Harry also admitted to James Corden that he watched the series. “I’m way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife or myself… They don’t pretend to be news, it’s fictional,” he said.

“But it’s loosely based on the truth. Of course it’s not strictly accurate, but… it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.”

21. The Queen watched it too, apparently

While Buckingham Palace has never officially confirmed it, the late Queen Elizabeth II also reportedly enjoyed watching the series. “I heard the Queen had watched it,” Matt Smith told Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb on the Today Show. “And she used to watch it on a projector on Sunday night, apparently.”

However the actor said he knew that “Philip definitely didn’t” after a friend asked the late royal during a dinner party if he had watched the show. “Don’t be ridiculous,” the Duke Of Edinburgh apparently replied.

Royal commentator George Jobson made the same claim during the ABC broadcast of the Queen’s Elizabeth’s funeral coverage.

Actor Matt Smith, who famously played Prince Philip in the Netflix series “The Crown,” talks about his real-life interactions with members of the royal family.

He also opens up about his most-recent role as Daemon Targaryen on #HouseOfTheDragon pic.twitter.com/U10MJArXL5

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 15, 2022

22. Camilla joked about The Crown when she met Dominic West

Prince Harry isn’t the only one to have addressed an actor from the crown with their on screen names. Dominic West told Radio Times that when the now Queen Consort met him at a party in 2021, she jokingly called him “Your Majesty”, seemingly in a nod of approval at the casting.

23. Paul Bettany was almost cast as Prince Philip for Seasons 3 and 4

The Avengers star was reportedly nearing a deal to replace Matt Smith as Prince Philip back in 2018. However, just days after the news emerged, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that sources said the actor had a scheduling conflict and was no longer able to take over the role.

24. The first language of the new Prince Harry actor is Welsh

14-year-old Fflyn Edwards, who plays a young Prince Harry in the final season of The Crown, experienced a bigger learning curve on set than most – having to speak English all day. The young actor is from Carmarthenshire and his first language is Welsh.

“Talking in English for a long time does make me miss the language, and speaking to someone [in Welsh] does feel like home,” he told the BBC.

The Crown season six part one is streaming on Netflix now, with part two dropping on 14 December.

Here’s Everything Fans Of The Crown Need To Know About The Sixth And Final Season

Posted on 11/11/2023 by Boris Clair

The first half of The Crown’s final series will be arriving on our screens within a matter of days, marking the royal Netflix drama’s penultimate outing.

After seven years, and three casts of actors taking on the monumental roles of Queen Elizabeth II and her family, season six of the Emmy-winning drama is set to include some of the most significant moments in royal history.

Most notably, it will cover the death of Princess Diana and its aftermath, before Kate Middleton will be introduced to the series for the first time as the show crosses into the 21st century.

Here’s everything we know about the final season of the award-winning show…

What is season six about?

Season six will pick back up with Diana and Prince Charles, after they’ve spent their first summer apart as a divorced couple, showing both parties on their respective holidays with sons Prince William and Prince Harry.

“I don’t really understand how I ended up here. Dashing around, and losing sight of myself in the process,” Diana says in the trailer’s voiceover. “You know I think that’s been the story of my whole life.”

Elizabeth Debicki plays Princess Diana in her final days in the new season of The Crown

“We’re very much in the beginning of the Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed story,” said executive producer Suzanne Mackie.

“From the second she steps onto that boat and [you begin to see] some of those iconic images of her on the yacht, it does take you immediately to the whirlwind that was the press speculation around that romance.”

Season six will cover the period leading up to Diana’s death along with the aftermath and long-term impact of her passing.

The trailer includes a clip of the so-called “people’s princess” reassuring her young sons that she is doing well, before receiving an invitation to Paris, the city where she tragically died in a car accident in 1997 after being chased by paparazzi.

Season six will later go on to explore the early years of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s romance – played by newcomers Ed McVey and Meg Bellamy, respectively – after they meet at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Netflix has previously revealed that the 2005 wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles will also be covered in season six. It will not, however, go as far as depicting the weddings of either Prince William and Kate Middleton or Prince Harry and Megan Markle.

Meg Bellamy as Kate Middleton and Ed McVey as Prince William

How does The Crown plan to handle Princess Diana’s death?

There was understandably a lot of press speculation about how exactly Princess Diana’s tragic death would be approached.

The main thing to note is that the car crash that killed Diana alongside her then-boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed and their driver Henri Paul, will not be portrayed on screen.

A source previously told Deadline: “It’s the run-up: the car leaving The Ritz after midnight with paparazzi in pursuit and then the aftermath with the British Ambassador to France swinging into action with the Foreign Office and then the subsequent constitutional aftermath.”

Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana and Salim Daw as Mohamed al-Fayed

The Crown creator Peter Morgan insisted that they would “never” show the crash itself, and recently addressed rumours of Princess Diana appearing as a ghost in the upcoming season. The Daily Mail revealed that a ghost would emerge before a grieving Prince Charles as well as Queen Elizabeth, but Peter has since said that Diana deserved “special treatment” in her depiction. “I never imagined it as Diana’s ‘ghost’ in the traditional sense,” he told Variety .

“It was her continuing to live vividly in the minds of those she has left behind. Diana was unique, and I suppose that’s what inspired me to find a unique way of representing her. She deserved special treatment narratively,” he added.

Producer Suzanne has also previously assured concerned viewers that the handling of Diana’s death will be “sensitive” and “thoughtful”. Elizabeth Debicki, who took over the role of Diana for season five, opened up herself about this aspect of the series, sharing: “For me, one of the things that felt so important – because we know where the story is going – is to make sure that there was real joy and happiness and lightness and genuine fun on the screen.

“That was really the piece I felt that I could control in a way, and that became a real focus.”

Who stars in it?

Imelda Staunton is returning as Queen Elizabeth alongside Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip. Elizabeth Debicki and Dominic West will also be reprising their roles as the now divorced as Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Bertie Carvel will also be back as Prime Minister Tony Blair.

New cast members include Rufus Kampa playing Prince William in his early teen years and Fflyn Edwards as a young Prince Harry.

Other returning cast members include Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret, Olivia Williams as Camilla Parker Bowles, Claudia Harrison as Princess Anne, Khalid Abdalla as Dodi Fayed and Salim Daw as Mohamed al-Fayed.

A first look at Prince William (Ed McVey) and Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy) from the sixth and final season of The Crown, coming 2023. pic.twitter.com/hputORVqGt

— The Crown (@TheCrownNetflix) April 27, 2023

How many episodes are there?

There are two parts to season six of The Crown, which consists of 10 episodes total.

Part one is made up of the first four episodes, while the remaining six are included in Part Two. The titles of the first four episodes have already been revealed: Persona Non Grata, Two Photographs, Dis-Moi Oui and Aftermath.

When is it out?

All four episodes in Part One come out Thursday 16 November, before the remaining Part Two episodes drop just shy of a month later, on Thursday 14 December.

Is there a trailer?

Yes, you can watch the trailer for part one below. A selection of first-look pictures have also been released.

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Seasons one to five of The Crown are streaming on Netflix now.

Here’s Everything Selling Sunset Fans Will Want To Know About The Drama Of Season 7

Posted on 28/10/2023 by Boris Clair

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Everyone’s favourite reality series about luxury real estate (and fashion) in Los Angeles, Selling Sunset is heading back to Netflix next week.

Season seven will dive straight back into the lives, careers and drama of the team at the Oppenheim Group – and it’s safe to say we’re hoping it will address some of the unanswered questions from the end of the last series.

What’s guaranteed, however, is another season of fallouts, new friendships, great fashion and you guessed it, some bell-ringing for those all-important house sales too.

Ahead of it’s release, here’s everything you need to know about season seven of Selling Sunset…

Mary Fitzgerald, Nicole Young, Chrishell Stause and Chelsea Lazkani in season seven of Selling Sunset

What happens in season 7 of Selling Sunset?

First of all, if you need a season six recap, we’ve got you covered.

But in the six months since it aired, a lot has happened. Heather welcomed her first child, Chrishell got married to G-Flip in Vegas, and there’s rumours of a surprising feud between Amanza and Chrishell (which the former teased season seven would touch on).

The explosive teaser for season seven sees threats of the gloves coming off at the OG, as bosses Jason and Brett warn the agents that they need to step up after becoming “complacent.”

The twins even compare them to their Selling the OC counterparts, who are seen at the table in a reality series crossover, as Gio tells them he doesn’t want their office to be paying for the new LA one. Ouch.

After some time in Australia with her partner G-Flip, Chrishell attempts to find a balance between her professional life and personal one, though it seems she isn’t quite on board with Jason’s new girlfriend, Marie-Lou. As she tells her: “I’m losing braincells over this conversation.”

Bre and Chelsea still seem to be at odds, while it’s unclear if Nicole and Chrishell have resolved their legal drama from the previous season.

Chrishell also doesn’t turn up to a dinner and Amanza seems to document it and call it “ridiculous” that she doesn’t attend. Could this be the beginning of the feud that led to Amanza blocking her friend on Instagram? Guess we’ll have to tune in to find out.

Who is returning for Selling Sunset season 7?

From the trailer it seems to safe to say most of the show’s main cast will be returning this season including Chrishell, Jason, Brett, Mary and her husband Romaine, Amanza, Emma, Chelsea, Nicole and Bre. It’s unclear if Davina will appear again after she had less screen time in season six, and isn’t seen in the trailer either.

Many of the show's favourites are back for season seven — Many of the show’s favourites are back for season seven

Heather Rae El Moussa will also return, though it’s likely that she’ll pop up throughout the season as the star was heavily pregnant and went onto maternity with her baby boy during filming.

There’s no sign of Christine’s return, though, which isn’t surprising as she said she wouldn’t come back “in a million years.”

When will season 7 be released?

All 11 episodes of Selling Sunset season seven will be available to stream on Netflix on 3 November 2023.

1. It costs a lot to make

2. Olivia Colman really struggled with one detail when it came to playing The Queen

3. Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin had very simple tactics to get into character

4. Claire Foy, Matt Smith and Vanessa Kirby sometimes stayed in the accents on set

5. Actors would watch silent clips of the royals to capture their mannerisms

6. Claire Foy was able to get into character with a single word

7. But she initially feared she’d made a terrible mistake joining the show

8. She was almost overlooked for the role altogether

9. Felicity Jones reportedly auditioned to play The Queen

10. Elizabeth Debicki auditioned for much smaller role in season two before landing Princess Diana

11. Some of the cast have already played royals

12. Claire Foy was originally paid less than Matt Smith

13. Dominic West almost quit a charity role over his casting as Prince Charles

14. Elizabeth Debicki found the fake paparazzi “incredibly invasive”

15. The portrayal of Diana’s death was approached very carefully

16. Production paused after the Queen’s death

17. Imelda Staunton struggled to return to work after the Queen’s death

18. There was one character the show’s costume designer really wanted to get right

19. A heist on the set in 2022 saw over 350 props stolen from the show

20. Prince Harry actually fact checks the show

21. The Queen watched it too, apparently

22. Camilla joked about The Crown when she met Dominic West

23. Paul Bettany was almost cast as Prince Philip for Seasons 3 and 4

24. The first language of the new Prince Harry actor is Welsh

What is season six about?

How does The Crown plan to handle Princess Diana’s death?

Who stars in it?

How many episodes are there?

When is it out?

Is there a trailer?

Deadpool 3

The Boys

Stranger Things

Gladiator 2

Mission: Impossible

Wicked

The White Lotus

What happens in season 7 of Selling Sunset?

Who is returning for Selling Sunset season 7?

When will season 7 be released?