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03.03.03

Gareth Gates bathes in baked beans and French and Saunders parody Harry Potter


This week's Comic Relief-themed Radio Times features two exclusive photo covers; picture and interview specials with Gareth Gates and French and Saunders; a peek behind the scenes with the charity's mastermind, Richard Curtis; an original Comic Relief recipe by Jamie Oliver; and even the chance to win a Harry Potter car.


Smothered in a bath of cold baked beans on one of the special covers (recreating a famous album cover by The Who 36 years earlier!) is Gareth Gates, who tells Radio Times that his music is moving away from pop, that he's fed up being seen as just a pretty boy, and admits to not having a girlfriend. "When people say I'm just a pretty face, it really hurts me," he confesses. "I don't have a girlfriend and there's not much I can write about past experiences."


Meanwhile, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are almost unrecognisable as Harry Potter and Ron Weasely on Radio Times other exclusive cover (and inside on-set) as they film a hilarious parody of the boy-wizard movies. Even they admit that playing the child stars of such a successful franchise is stretching things. "It's one of our more affectionate satires," Dawn French tells Radio Times. "But as soon as you have fatty Saunders and me playing children, it reduces it all to our usual stupid level."


Richard Curtis, Comic Relief's creator, exclusively reveals his favourite behind-the-scenes moments from Red Nose Days gone by. "In the dressing room, Posh and Becks, and even Brooklyn looked a bit nervous. But Sacha Baron Cohen was even more nervous in his," Curtis says of the famous Ali G interview with the Beckhams in 2001.


Radio Times also has a J K Rowling-signed Harry Potter car to give away in a special competition to raise money for Red Nose Day 2003.


The two-cover Radio Times, detailing programmes from 8-14 March is on sale this Tuesday, March 4.




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