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Stephen Fry quits Twitter

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Actor Stephen Fry has decided to quit social networking site Twitter, after an argument occurred between him and another user.

Fry, 52, a bipolar disorder sufferer, wrote: “Too much aggression and unkindness. Pity. I’m obviously not good enough. Bye everyone.”

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Stephen Fry ‘Came Out’ on International Coming Out Day

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Stephen Fry shocked no one last night when he “revealed” that he is gay on Twitter.

Stephen wrote: “Oh my, it’s International Coming Out Day – just time to announce that I’m a screaming gaysexual before midnight strikes.”

However, in his eagerness, Fry had posted the message too early and had to add:

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ITV cancels Kingdom

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Stephen Fry has revealed that ITV has dropped his legal drama Kingdom

The actor, let fans in on the secret on his personal blog.

“Our masters at ITV have decided that there shan’t be a fourth series of the television series Kingdom,” he said.

Fry said it was “such a pleasure” making the programme in his “beloved Norfolk”.

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Hugh Laurie Wants Stephen Fry For House

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Hugh Laurie is trying to land his old Jeeves and Wooster buddy, Stephen Fry, a role in his hit TV show House.

Hugh was taking part in a special Q&A with fans at the The Paley Centre for Media in LA when he revealed:

“I can only oil the wheels as much as I can and I keep dropping his name,”

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STEPHEN FRY’S BACK IN BONES

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Sky1’s sexy, sassy and intelligent crime drama Bones, starring David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, has been a perennial favourite with critics and audiences alike. Based on the hugely successful Kathy Reich’s novels the hit show has been described as a sexed up CSI with humour, like Silence of the Lambs mixed with Moonlighting, and possessing that magical Sam and Diane, Mulder and Scully, will they wont they, opposites-attract quality.

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Stephen Fry and Carol Vorderman Top Choices For Celebrity Quiz Team

They are the seemingly simple questions that have become a staple of the popular pub quiz, but for the first time, a new research study has pinpointed the top ten frequently asked general knowledge questions that leave Brits baffled.

The research, which was specially commissioned to launch digital channel Dave’s new website, asked 3,000 adult respondents from across the UK to answer 20 of the most common posed pub quiz questions.

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Stephen Fry In America – The New World

Stephen Fry was very nearly an American. Just before he was born, his father was offered, but turned down, a job at Princeton University. The writer and actor explores the country which he might have called home and which has always fascinated him. Stephen hires a US cab and sets about visiting each and every one of the 50 US States, to experience for himself the variety of people and places that make up the country.

In this first episode, Stephen explores the states that make up New England, before heading south to the nation’s capital and ending up at the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, where Abraham Lincoln made his famous address. Read more & comment »

Stephen Fry – HIV And Me: BBC Two, Epsiode One

Stephen FryFollowing on from his widely acclaimed series The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive, Stephen Fry tackles the world of HIV and Aids in this two-part documentary.

In the early Eighties, little was known about Aids or how to treat it but, in the UK, people were warned of its dangers via the “Don’t Die of Ignorance” campaigns. Twenty years later, however, we are told that we’re “losing the fight against Aids”. Infections are rising, particularly amongst three groups: the young; black African communities; and heterosexuals. The number of new infections amongst straight people now outweighs those in the gay world.

Illustrating the changing face of the virus, Stephen meets a range of people one wouldn’t expect to be affected, including a positive grandmother, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who was born with the virus and HIV-positive couples who set out to have HIV-free children. Read more & comment »

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