Simon is Mangold Parva's local vicar. Adrian sends him the manuscript for his new village play, Plague!. Simon promises to show the manuscript to his wife, once she has finished reading the complete works of Iris Murdoch. He has a legion of famous fans. Following Sue Townsend’s death in April last year, JK Rowling led the numerous celebrity tributes, revealing that the author “gave me so many laughs”. David Walliams gushed about Mole that “people will want to read this book forever”, and on television, Adrian’s Mum Pauline was played by a trio of national treasures; Julie Walters, Lulu and Alison Steadman. Mangan's breakthrough television performance was as Adrian Mole in the six-part BBC TV show series Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years in 2001. [13] That same year he appeared in Sword of Honour on Channel 4, alongside Daniel Craig. There’s no other place to start than with Adrian himself. Played by Northampton-born Giancarlo - Gian - Sammarco, the awkward teen was played with perfection by Gian who captured the world of Adrian, even if his glasses and ties were not part of the source material. Amanda is Susan Mole's wife and Adrian's aunt by marriage. It is stated that she and Susan married shortly before the beginning of Cappuccino Years and that Adrian attended their wedding reception in the officers' social club at Holloway Prison.

Production of sequels was interrupted by Townsend's declining health. At the time Adrian Mole – The Weapons of Mass Destruction was published in 2004, Townsend stated it would be the last Adrian Mole volume. However, in an interview on Leicester hospital station Radio Fox on 5 June 2008, Townsend said that she was in fact writing a new Mole book entitled The Prostrate Years, which was released in 2009. In October 2009 the Leicester Mercury featured an interview with Townsend where she discussed the new Mole book and her plans for future works. [2] Mr. Cherry is the owner of the local newsagents shop. He takes Adrian on as paper boy and gives him the morning round on Pandora's street, much to his delight. Adrian turned down the evening round on Corporation Row; Barry Kent lives there for a start. Mr. Cherry gave him a pornographic magazine, Big & Bouncy, but Adrian later resigned from his post as paperboy and it states in his cv: "Paperboy at Cherry's Newsagents: resigned after Mr. Cherry tried to pervert me with issues of Big & Bouncy".

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This is the story of two sisters: Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell. Jessica is married to Chester and Mary is married to Burt…. Mangan starred as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's Theatre [11] alongside Matthew Macfadyen as Jeeves from October 2013 until they were replaced by Mark Heap and Robert Webb in April 2014. [12] The production won the 2014 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. [3] Television [ edit ] In 2002, he appeared as Dan Moody in the I'm Alan Partridge episode "Bravealan". A scene where Alan repeatedly shouts "Dan!" at Dan from a distance in a car park, while Dan seems not to notice him, was named the second best moment from the series by Metro, [14] and in 2014 Mangan said that he has "Dan!" shouted at him by passers-by almost every day. [15]

Netta Flowers is the ex-wife of Michael Flowers. She, like her husband, does not want to waste fossil fuels, and makes foul-tasting foods as a result. She helps her husband at his shop in Leicester High Street. Netta starts having an affair with a man named Roger Middleton, and it is debated whether she and Michael should divorce so Netta can marry Roger or have an open marriage; the eventual outcome is divorce. Michael and Netta had two daughters together, Poppy and Marigold. Adrian describes her as having unnaturally red cheeks. Wayne Drabble is an arsonist who burnt down the local Scout hut. In what Adrian describes as "a daring social experiment", Wayne is put in charge of the fireworks display on the common. In 2020, it was announced Mangan is to write his first film, an adaptation of the children's novel Harry And The Wrinklies. [54] Other [ edit ] Voice-over: Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before.Gay, Verne (28 June 2012). " 'Episodes' review: Matt LeBlanc's a star". Newsday . Retrieved 29 December 2013.