Did Colin Farrell have passionate night with Banshees Of Inisherin co-star Kerry Condon?
DID Bafta nominees Colin Farrell and Kerry Condon enjoy a passionate night together after starring on BBC’s Ballykissangel?
The Irish co-stars, up for leading actor and supporting actress for The Banshees Of Inisherin, will be reunited at tonight’s swanky ceremony.
And rumours have gone into overdrive about whether a wild night they had together was a romantic fling.
Speaking about meeting Colin at a wrap party, single Kerry said: “I met Colin Farrell.
“And that’s all I’m going to say about that . . . we had a great time.
“And then he got a plane to America.”
The pair regularly had drunken sessions before Colin went teetotal, with Kerry saying: “I always regret the next morning how drunk I got with him.
“I’m terrible, I only need one person to say, ‘Ah, come on’, and suddenly it’s three o’clock in the morning.”
In Banshees Of Inisherin the pair play brother and sister.
And Kerry admits she found it hard to not think of Colin as “sexual”.
In November, she said: “Colin’s very close with his sister, and I’m very close with my brother.
“I kind of revert to the person I was when we were growing up.
“We just joke with each other, make each other laugh.
“But I also had to think about how when you’re with your brother there’s nothing sexual — and you have to really think about that if you’re in a room with Colin Farrell.
“I can’t be concerned about my appearance or how I look when I say a particular line.”
A source tells me: “Colin and Kerry have a lot of chemistry and after her admission about their night together everyone thinks it was a one-night stand.”
Colin is believed to be in an on/off relationship with Kelly McNamara, PA to U2’s The Edge, since 2017.
But the last time they were spotted together was in 2021.
But he didn’t take Kelly to last week’s Oscar nominee luncheon — instead he was accompanied by his sister Catherine.
Kerry and Colin, whose reps did not return a request for comment about their night together, regularly go on hikes in Los Angeles where they both live, and watch the Oscar nominations in their pyjamas at his house.
Very cosy.
LEWIS KEY FOR LOCKETT
IF anyone can inspire an up-and-coming songwriter to be themselves it is Lewis Capaldi.
The Pointless hitmaker was supported by Northampton singer Billy Lockett while on tour shortly before he found fame with Someone You Loved in 2019.
And Billy, who released his debut album Abington Grove on Friday, revealed how Lewis sharing his experience of Tourette’s syndrome has made him “embrace” himself.
He said: “Lewis was sleeping above me on the tour bus and I could hear his tics going.
“They were setting mine off – it was a domino effect.
“I was so embarrassed about my Tourette’s but Lewis has inspired me to just be open about it.
“It’s made me embrace who I am and not hide behind the artist thing.”
EDWARD IS SEEING STARS
EDWARD ENNINFUL was very en Vogue on Friday night after throwing an exclusive birthday bash.
The fashion editor partied with a string of stars including Liam Payne and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy at posh venue The Maine Mayfair.
Kate looked striking in a tight pink dress.
He was also joined by supermodel Jourdan Dunn, in a brown skin-tight number, actress Lily James in black leather and singer Dua Lipa who seemed to forget her trousers, opting for a blue shirt instead.
But the biggest star of the bash was Edward’s cute Boston terrier puppy Riri, who had her own cocktail named after her . . .
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ORGANISERS ordered 100 crates of alcohol-free Guinness for the Banshees Of Inisherin cast after they guzzled the non-alcoholic black stuff on set.
Nominees Colin Farrell, who starred in Banshees, and Jamie Lee Curtis, who stars in Everything Everywhere All At Once, are both teetotal and love the stuff so party organisers made sure to stock up.
AT LAST ARE HERE TO STAY
HEY have been called TikTok’s answer to One Direction.
But boyband Here At Last have put in the hard yards to be an online sensation – with 2.9million followers.
Pedro Santos said: “People look at us and go, ‘Ah you must be mega famous and mega rich’, but the reality is we’ve slept on floors before.
“So when someone sees 2.9million followers, we have had to literally almost go to every single fan and say thank you 2.9million times.”
Meanwhile, the five-piece – Pedro, Tommy Lyon, Zach Loizou, James Thomas and Ryan Burns – who headlined O2’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Friday, have moved into a huge five-bed pad in Reading and explained the weird habits of the group.
Tommy said: “There are loads of traditions – some of the boys like to eat desserts in the toilet together – I know that is weird but for some reason they do that!”
Yet unlike notorious hellraisers Oasis and Boyzone, Tommy revealed that the lads are very domesticated.
He added: “We are pretty clean, to be fair.
“A lot of people would be stunned at how clean this place is.
“We have spent £60 on a mop and £50 on a houseplant as well!”
Here At Last’s single Bloodshot is out now and upcoming debut EP will be released on May 26.
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EVEN though he wore a fat suit to portray Elvis Presley at his heaviest in the film Elvis, Best Actor nominee Austin Butler still gorged on junk food for the role.
He said: “I heard that Ryan Gosling when he was going to do The Lovely Bones, microwaved Haagen-Dazs and would drink it.
“So I started doing that.
“I would go get two dozen doughnuts and eat them all. I really started to pack on some pounds.
“It’s fun for a week or so, and then you feel awful with yourself,” he told Variety mag.
ANA’S JUST A NORMA-L GIRL
WITH a signature whispery voice and peroxide curls, Ana De Armas transformed from girl next door into Hollywood pin-up Marilyn Monroe for Netflix biopic Blonde.
But the Cuban-born star who is up for leading actress at tonight’s Baftas, has admitted that just like the blonde bombshell – real name Norma Jean Baker – she has found it tough to live up to the moviestar image fans have fallen in love with.
Yet Ana has revealed how it was this imposter syndrome that proved “golden” in allowing her to embody the glamorous movie star, who was found dead at her Los Angeles home aged 36 following a barbiturate overdose in 1962.
Ana said: “Feeling nervous, feeling insecure, feeling at times I was not as good as I wanted to, feeling judged, all of those things that I was feeling worked, so I used them in the same way.
“I don’t think Norma ever felt that she could live up to Marilyn, she didn’t even understand the way people could see Marilyn.
“In a way those were the things that were happening to me.
“I felt that is exactly like she felt her entire life, and I’ve been through that,” she told the Backstage podcast.
And like Marilyn, it is her off-screen relationships which have thrust her into the limelight.
Ana had a year-long lockdown romance with Ben Affleck after starring with him in the thriller Deep Water.
Just months after they split in January 2021, he rekindled his relationship with J-LO.
Ana, who wore a plunging red sequin suit for Vanity Fair’s Hollywood edition, right is now dating Tinder vice-president Paul Boukadakis.
He accompanied her to the Venice International Film Festival last year for the world premiere of Blonde.
Yet that didn’t stop fellow Bafta nominee Colin Farrell trying his luck on stage at the Golden Globes last month.
As he collected his award for best actor for the black tragicomedy, the Irish star said her depiction of Marilyn had left him “crying himself to sleep”.