Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has broken his silence about disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, with whom he worked on his ITV drama, Doctor Thorne. Speaking for the first time since the Hollywood producer was accused of sexual harassment last year, Lord Fellowes admits he deliberately overlooked rumours about Weinstein's behaviour because he wanted his show to be successful. I knew the rumours and I think the reality exceeded the rumours — if what everyone's saying happened, happened,' says Fellowes. 'But in the end Harvey was a very talented producer and he marketed the show in America very well. When the Queen's bridesmaid Lady Pamela Hicks contracted life-threatening pneumonia last month, she was kept waiting on an NHS hospital trolley for 20 hours.

Source: Daily Mail February 12, 2018 01:11 UTC