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www.gq-magazine.co.uk Great Expectations star Jeremy Irvine is wowing Hollywood-If not women (yet) When Jeremy Irvine returned to Britain after riding the celebrity carousel of last year's Golden Globe awards- his film, War Horse, was up for two - the actor's friends were somewhat taken aback. "I was raving to them about all the amazing people who were there," recalls the 22-year-old. "And one of them finally went, 'Yeah, OK. But you're not a paramedic.'" Irvine's character in this month's big-screen adaptation of Great Expectations, Pip, has a similar reality check. Thrust up the social hierarchy by a mysterious benefactor, he realises he has alienated the people who care about him. "One of the first questions [director Mike Newell] asked me was, 'Why is Pip such a little s***?'" says Irvine. "I'd seen so many wide-eyed, innocent Pips, but I wanted to get far away from that: Pip's ambition of becoming a gentleman is dark and consumes him. It's his way out of a life as a blacksmith." Irvine's early ambitions were rather more sparing, but no less compulsive - he, too, was looking for an exit strategy. "I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd. I was asked to stop history two weeks before my GCSE exams because my results were so bad," he says. "When I left school I tried to join the army but I'm diabetic and lied about it. I didn't pass the medical tests." Acting, instead, became the destination. So did he encounter his own Estella along the way? "Who hasn't when they're a teenager? That's why Great Expectations is really magical." He didn't get the girl, he says. Still, GQ proffers, surely he's more successful now? "Everyone keeps saying that to me and it annoys me because I'm like, 'That would be nice!'" Even so, casting agents seem enamoured. Next up is The Railway Man with Nicole Kidman, about a WWII torture victim, for which Irvine had to get skeletal. "I'd walk all day through the Cambridgeshire countryside with my script to burn calories," he says. "I think I scared my mum a bit." Not that his all-in approach has rendered him po-faced: "Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!'"

ANDREW IS THE NEW "DIET COKE" HUNK www.mostbeautifulman.com Blue-eyed British, Andrew Cooper, is the newest ‘Diet Coke’ hunk. With his ripped abs and chiselled features, Cooper is in the new ‘Diet Coke’ break ad, titled “Gardener,” in which he is seen taking off his shirt after being soaked with a can of the fizzy drink, much to the delight of a watching group of women. http://youtu.be/HuHV4gwSXn4

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Vampire Diaries Spinoff Being Developed for Series Star Joseph Morgan The CW is looking for franchise opportunities -- and the network believes it's finally found one, courtesy of beloved Vampire Diaries villain Klaus Mikaelson. The proposed spinoff will follow Joseph Morgan's character as he returns to New Orleans to reunite with his protege. Tentatively titled The Originals, the pilot episode will air April 25. Vampire Diaries' executive producer Julie Plec, who will write the episode, is overseeing the project. Actress Phoebe Tonkin, who joined The Vampire Diaries in season 4, is also attached to the spinoff. Claire Holt and Daniel Gillies -- who play Klaus' siblings -- will "hopefully" join the cast, CW president Mark Pedowitz said during the Winter TCA Tour in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 13. Klaus is just a great character, and the Original family has such great dysfunctional family dynamic," Pedowitz said. "We thought that would be a great way to go and take the show." "I'm a big believer if you have something that's working find a way to get it on the air, this is a good way to get a pilot done," Pedowitz added.

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TELEVISION www.en.wikipedia.org 2000 David Copperfield (David Cooperfield) 2000 Madame Bovary (Leon) 2002 Daniel Deronda (Daniel Deronda) 2006 Elizabeth I (Earl of Essex) Nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a miniseries or movie 2011 The Big C (Lee) 2013 Hannibal (Will Graham)

FILMOGRAPHY UPDATE www.enwikipedia.org 2010 Down and Dirty Pictures 2010 The Wildest Dream (Andrew Irvine) 2011 Our Idiot Brother (Christian) 2011 Martha Mary Macy Marlene (Ted) 2011 Hysteria (Dr. Mortimer Granville