4:02pm UK, Thursday September 11, 2003

TV soap queen Ann Montini delivers the latest TV news:

:: Following hot on the heels of Rachel Hunter who recently revealed all in a TV documentary, Pamela Anderson is to talk exclusively about her life's loves, inner-most secrets and that infamous red swimsuit.

Pamela Anderson - Her Laid Bare will be screened on Sky One on October 20.

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Amanda's still Cutting It

:: After scoring a UK number one hit with singing partner Jerome Flynn, Robson Green is about to make it big Stateside.

Green's UK TV series Touching Evil has made a big impression with Hollywood ace Bruce Willis who plans to turn it into a big screen adventure.

Willis will take the lead role and Robson will play his sidekick.

:: Amanda Holden is starring in the new musical Thoroughly, Modern Millie in London later this month, but she willstill be appearing as evil hairdresser Mia in TV drama Cutting It.

BBC producers have assured me that although the series is shot in Manchester they plan to shoot around Amanda's busy schedule so she can still star in the show.

:: He's happy to be on his way back to EastEnders but Leslie Grantham is worried about how he'll go down with viewers.

Grantham is booked to appear on the show for three months but he's hoping to stay for at least a year.


However, he revealed: "It could all go like Julie Goodyear's return and the public decide not to like me again."

:: Chart star and Kylie's sister Danni Minogue was secretly fuming that she was not on the guest list of a Home And Away celebration party.

Danni starred as nasty Emma in the Aussie soap in the early 90s.

Danni told a source: "I was never asked, of course I would love to have gone back to say hi but there was no invitation."

:: Shane Ritchie's EastEnders' character, lovable rogue Alfie Moon, has helped push the name Alfie up the list of most popular boys' names.

It reached 49th in a recent poll with lots of new mums citing Ritchie's character as the reason.

:: Security has been stepped up on the latest series of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Members of the guest audience will now have their bags searched, metal detectors are in place and even cough sweets will be offered for anyone with a sniffle.

:: Angus Deayton has landed his first major TV job since he was kicked off Have I Got News For You.

The actor and presenter will interview David and Victoria Beckham about their new life in Madrid in a documentary called The Beckhams Move To Spain.

:: Fame costs, and right here's where you start paying! Not the New York high school but the successful London stage school run by Sylvia Young on which a new series is based.

The school has given us such talents as Denise Van Outen and pop group All Saints. When Will I Be Famous? will be shown over four weeks.

:: Monarch Of The Glen is on its way back this winter.

The BBC cult drama has now been sold to more than 120 countries and my spies tell me it has done wonders for tourist trades.

:: It's news from him - Ronnie Corbett that is. The comedy legend is making his return to the TV screen thanks to Alan Partridge creator Steve Coogan.


Corbett, who was partner to Ronnie Barker for more than 20 years, will play a resident of an OAP home. The show, Home, will be screened at Christmas.

:: Don't miss Coronation Street's Greatest Love Triangle on Sunday at 7pm.

The one-off special looks at all the loves and heartbreaks in the Street over the years. It's is a build-up to this year's big storyline - bigamist Peter Barlow and his two wives, Shelly and Lucy.

The Street will next month launch its first magazine in 20 years, focusing on the 43-year history of the show.

If the mag is a success, more issues will be published in a possible monthly series. A source told me: "We would love it to take off as it would be a direct contact with the fans of the show."

:: Blondie star Debbie Harry has signed up for her first UK TV documentary.

She will present the Alternative Rock & Roll Years on the Discovery channel this winter.

:: Don't miss a new documentary on the missing fortune of 50s sex bomb Diana Dors next week.

Although Diana left this earth with very big sum of cash, the money went astray.

The documentary will reveal just where the cash has gone and there will be some great clips of the sex icon herself.

:: Babs Windsor, the Carry On and EastEnders star, was very close friends with singing legend Frank Sinatra.

She told a source: "He used to go out with a friend of mine in the 60s and was a terrible flirt to be around but with a voice like that who cared."

:: Paul O' Grady's new comedy Eyes Down in which he plays a bingo manager has proved a flop with viewers.

Less than 3 million people are tuning into the Friday night show and with two weeks left bosses are considering its return.

:: Comedian Gareth Hale has just joined the soap Family Affairs - his first straight acting role, but I can reveal that producers of the hit London musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are keen to offer him the role of Mad Baron.

A source told me: "Gareth is thrilled with the offer as he has never done a musical before and it's at the London Palladium."

:: Until next time, Ann.