Chicken chic: Poultry returns for all Chickens are the new garden residents of the decade. I realised poultry had become glamorous when I sat next to the actors Keeley Hawes and her husband Matthew Macfadyen at a lunch and she showed me pictures of their hens on her iPhone. Modern chooks will love a recyclable…Continue readingThe Independent: Noughty by nature
Keeley’s Canny Manny They are fast becoming the accessory of choice for busy working mothers. And Ashes to Ashes star Keeley Hawes is more than happy that, when it comes to child care, a ‘manny’ — not a nanny — is best. The actress and mother-of-three has employed her male nanny for the past year.…Continue readingThe Daily Mail: Keeley’s Canny Manny
A young man (Adam Rayner) calls at an hotel for Keeley Hawes and brings a present of No 7 Extravagant Lashes mascara. He explains how the product will give her a wide-eyed dramatic look, and the narrator introduces the product as being available exclusively at Boots. It was filmed at Freemason’s Hall, 60 Great Queens…Continue readingAdvert: Boots No7 Extravagant Lashes Mascara
Hero or Villain? Keeley Hawes You have to admire her. This time last year Keeley Hawes was being called “woefully wooden”, “clunking” and “a screeching toff” in her role as DI Alex Drake in the first series Ashes to Ashes. Did she mind? A bit. But it didn’t stop her from getting straight back on…Continue reading*The Independent on Sunday: The accidental actress who takes on the big boys
Critics panned his co-star’s performances but DCI Hunt’s not having it FOR the most part, Phil Glenister is as polite and mild-mannered as his famous TV character is rude and aggressive. But as a new series of Ashes To Ashes reaches our screens and Phil’s alter-ego, DCI Gene Hunt, once again fires up the Quattro…Continue reading**The Daily Record: Don’t bash Ashes (Philip Glenister)
Ad A TV ad, for No7 Extreme Length mascara, featured the actress Keeley Hawes; she appeared to be in a dressing room and was holding a mascara wand. On-screen text stated “Styled using lash inserts”. She said “New No7 Extreme Length mascara. So it will make my lashes look a little bit longer then?”. A…Continue readingASA Adjudication on Boots UK Ltd (No7 Extreme Length Mascara)
Keeley Hawes Mutual Friends 9pm Tuesday BBC1 Mutual Friends is billed as a comedy, but in its opening scenes the new six-part series starring Keeley Hawes, Marc Warren and Alexander Armstrong, isn’t exactly a laugh a minute. We see Carl, a middle-aged father of three, saying goodbye to his wife and children, picking up his…Continue readingThe Independent on Sunday: Mutual Friends interview
Keeley Hawes travels back to the Eighties in the BBC 1 hit Ashes to Ashes, which ended on Thursday but at her home in Twickenham, South West London, she is bang up to date. Keeley, 32, who lives with actor husband Matthew Macfadyen and children Myles, Maggie and Ralph, has just installed a new kitchen,…Continue readingThe Mail on Sunday: Hothouse Property Gossip
At the Ashes to Ashes story conference we talk about 1982, the Falklands and the IRA bomb in Hyde Park. How will Gene Hunt survive in a post-Scarman London? Off to South Africa for a week’s holiday, escaping the chill of Somerset for some beating heat. A four-hour journey from Cape Town, across vast agricultural…Continue readingNew Statesman: Ra-ra skirts and Glenn Hoddle’s mullet (by Ashley Pharoah)
