JONNY LEE MILLER NEWS 2001

Trainspotting star in running for Billy Liar remake. Tuesday 20th November 2001

Jonny Lee Miller is being tipped to claim the role of Billy Liar in a remake of the '60s classic. Charlize Theron is wanted to play the role which originally starred Julie Christie. The new version of Keith Waterhouse's novel is being backed by the Canadian company Bell Globe Media. Tom Courtenay starred in the 1963 original as Billy Fisher, who invents the faraway land of Ambrosia to escape his daily tedium. An insider told Ananova: "The timing for a new Billy Liar couldn't be better. So many youngsters are disillusioned and in search of excitement."

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Jonny Lee Miller and Lisa Faulkner let their romance shine at London's Light bar.

In the past, actress Lisa Faulkner and British heart-throb Jonny Lee Miller have often spoken publicly of their admiration for each other. And judging by the look of delight on their faces as they left London's Light Bar, it's obvious that the couple's budding romance has already started to develop into something much more stable.

Joining a host of stars at actress Sadie Frost's London fashion week party, held to launch her new FrenchFrost fashion line with business partner and designer Jemima French, the couple put paid to the are-they-aren't-they? But it's only now - after being accepted into the Primrose Hill party set of Jude Law and wife Sadie - that lovely Lisa seems to have found her perfect match.

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Jonny Lee Miller's Brushes With The Dead

Jonny Lee Miller has been chatting with his grandfather - from beyond the grave. Miller says that he's had his fair share of interactions with the other side, and actually met his grandfather on a Ouija board. Miller recalls, "It spelled out both my mother's name and my grandfather's name and then delivered a message to my mother. I can't tell you what the message was but it was very nice." And that wasn't his only experience with the supernatural. Miller adds, "I used to work at the Drury Lane theatre and there are lots of ghosts there, including one that smells. It's the ghost of a performer called Dan Leno who used lavender oil to cover up the stench of his bladder problems. You'd be walking around a corridor and you'd suddenly smell lavender."

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Jonny Lee Miller skipped Tomb Raider role

JONNY LEE MILLER turned down a supporting role in the cyberflick TOMB RAIDER. The DRACULA 2000 actor, who shot to fame with his junkie-character Sick-Boy in TRAINSPOTTING, reveals his ex-wife ANGELINA JOLIE offered him a small part in her latest flick. "I saw Angelina a lot when she was in England shooting Tomb Raider. Of course we met the very first week her shoots started. Angie asked director SIMON WEST if I could have a part in the movie, but unfortunately I was too busy. " He couldn't say which part he was in the running for, but rumours have it that the DRACULA 2000-star was tipped for the role of LARA CROFT's computer friend BRYCE, a character which is now played by NOAH TAYLOR. (ED/WENN/KMW)

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Alone in London Celebrity T-shirt Auction, Savoy Hotel April 2nd 2001

£20,000 raised to help vulnerable young people. On April 2nd 2001 the crowds gathered at The Savoy Hotel to see the hammer come down on some unique celebrity memorabilia. Alone in London patron Emma Thompson had written to many fellow celebrities and asked them to design a T-shirt. The results were auctioned at London's famous Savoy Hotel with Cracker star Robbie Coltrane and BBC's changing rooms personality Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen joining Emma Thompson and Greg Wise.

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It's all back Jon again for Lisa. Dail Mirror July 27th 2001

Fun loving Lisa Faulkner has fallen back into the arms of old flame Jonny Lee Miller - again. The pair, who have given a new meaning to 'on - off affair', reunited after Lisa's split with South Park creator Trey Parker. A week ago Trainspotting star Jonny, 27 and Lisa spent the evening joined at the lips at the Kaberet Club in front of the likes of Kate Moss. Despite this display, we heard them hatching a plan to leave five minutes apart to avoid being photographed together. This weekend they were touchy feely again in the beer garden of a wimbledon pub. So it looks like the ex-holby beauty Lisa, 26, and Jonny are an item again after she told us last week that her year-long transatlantic romance with Trey was finally over. "I've finally left the cartoon hero," she said. Lisa and Jonny originally had a fling a year ago when the actor was on a break from All saint Natalie Appleton.

Three's a crowd, Daily Mirror june 15th 2001

We like nothing better than to see girls enjoying themselves. So here are TV pals Lisa Faulkner and holby city stars Angela Griffin and Nichola Stephenson enjoying a girls night out at Sugar reef on thursday. But by the time the trio hit attica, Lisa had ditched her mates when she spotted old flame Jonny Lee Miller, who she had a brief flig with in October last year. A loved up looking Lisa then sped off in a taxi with the 27-year-old Trainspotting star. Our kinda girl!

Stars come out for Bora Bora. Monday 4th June 2001

While the Space opening attracted hordes of clubbers and industry hangers on, across the road at Bora Bora it was a Night Of The Stars. While DJ Gee whipped up the party-goers on the beach at Playa d’en Bossa with uplifting house, footballers, film stars and models danced along at the island’s greatest free night out. Brit Pack actors Johnny Lee Miller and Sean Pertwee sashayed in the corner with a bevy of beauties including model Jade Jagger. Over the other side of the bar, Leeds and Scotland soccer star Dominic Matteo was enjoying a night out during a short stay on the White Isle before he returns to England for a knee op. Sean Pertwee revealed to ministryofsound.com that he’d been visiting Ibiza all his life as his father Jon — aka Dr Who and Worzel Gummidge — had a villa on the island from the 1960s. Both he and Miller — who at one stage nabbed a pair of high heels from one ministryofsound.com employee and strutted around the patio — had recently completed movies and were now enjoying a well-earned break.

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Jonny Seeks Revenge

24/04/2001 Jonny Lee Miller has just begun shooting a feature film in Ireland that reunites him with Regeneration director Gilles Mackinnon. The Escapist, which also stars Jodhi May and Gary Lewis (last seen in Billy Elliot) features Miller as Denis - a victim who changes his life in order to avenge the brutal death of his pregnant wife. When the man responsible is jailed - Denis has to transform himself into a master escapist in order to break into the high security prison to kill him. The production will be shooting for the next couple of months in Ireland, in and around Dublin and Dalkey.

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Trainspotting stars in running to play Rolling Stone Jones

Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller are hot favourites to play Rolling Stones star Brian Jones in a £10 million biopic, according to reports. Sources say the film will throw new light on Jones' mysterious death in the swimming pool of his Sussex home in 1969. The new movie, which may be titled Stoned, will go into production next year. Shortly before his death Jones had quit the Rolling Stones to pursue a solo career. An insider told Ananova: "The story focuses almost entirely on Jones as a morality story rather than the emergence of the Rolling Stones. "It certainly raises some interesting questions about his relationships with other members of the band." The source added: "Mick Jagger is not involved and is not collaborating on the screenplay."

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Jonny filming 'The escapist'

Leon Forde in London March 09, 2001 UGC International has boarded Gillies Mackinnon’s The Escapist as worldwide sales agent.The film, currently in pre-production prior to shooting later this month, tells the story of a man who reinvents himself as a ruthless criminal so that he can get incarcerated in the same prison as the man who killed his wife, in order to seek revenge.Starring Jonny Lee Miller, whose credits include Trainspotting and Plunkett And Macleane, the film is produced by Sky Pictures. Director Mackinnon’s credits include Small Faces and Hideous Kinky. The Escapist is produced by Jolyon Symonds, and co-produced by Peter MacAleese. The screenplay is written by Nick Perry and Eitan Arrusi. Delivery is set for winter this year. Many thanks to Barbie who alerted us to this news.

INSTYLE magazine UK edition. April 2001

Gilda's club dinner at Isola. Hosted by Sadie Frost, her business partner Jemima French and jewellery designer Solange Azagury Partridge, the party was held at Isola in Knightsbridge. Guests, including Harry Enfield, Tara Newley, designer Tara Boyd and DJ Pete Tong, chowed down on a feast o italian food and wine, admired flowers by Nikki Tibbles, and drooled over raffle prizes. Ruby Wax picked out the winning tickets and Jonny Lee Miller became the proud owner of a Samantha Heskia handbag (making him even more irresistable to his female admirers) The evening raised £20,000 for the charity. And, much to the fan clubs disappointment, Jonny went home with the bag.

HEAT Magazine 24th March 2001

SPOTTED - Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller giving autographs at london resaurant Nobu while Sadie Frost looked on

St Martins Lane Hotel, WC2 Monday 26 February 2001

Burberry and Tina Brown teamed up to throw a pre-Bafta party on Saturday night. Together they created such a hotspot that the traffic on St Martin's Lane was brought to a standstill. Mick Jagger had a sudden attack of camera-shyness, and snuck in the back entrance to avoid the paparazzi. Caprice was also shielded from the flashbulbs - her agent saw to it that she was not snapped, much to the model's chagrin. Davina McCall and Cat Deeley seemed magnetically drawn towards Jonny Lee Miller and his turquoise Richard James shirt. Normandie Keith talked of her excitement at being lent 14 Valentino dresses to choose from for her Bafta outing. Claudia Winkleman was crowing over her luck at cheating London's waiting lists and securing a pair of the new, much-coveted Chloe horse-picture trousers. Once through the crowds of actors, producers, writers, models and society babes, guests refuelled at the Asia de Cuba buffet, before racing to nab a Burberry-check goodie bag with a pass to the Sanderson's agua spa.

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Thursday 1 February 2001

Some people would go to the opening of a block of flats. Nicholson Estates has converted the 22-storey former MI6 headquarters near Waterloo station into luxury apartments, and last night they threw themselves a little party to celebrate. In keeping with the building's former use, the party had a James Bond theme. Gilberto Pretti from Dukes Hotel and Peter Dorelli from The American Bar in The Savoy shook Dry Martinis in the chalet room, and a cabaret singer belted out a couple of Shirley Bassey numbers and other Bond theme tunes. Goldie seemed reluctant to be snapped with Lady Victoria Hervey, despite her photogenic new hairdo. Fran Cutler had been drafted in to do the guest list and invited her goddaughter, Devon Aoki, who came with her look-a-like sister. Other guests, including Bob Geldof and Jonny Lee Miller, enjoyed bowls of polenta and glasses of chocolate sundaes and brownies.

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All Saints sisters to write book Appletons to come clean about rock'n'roll lifestyle

The Appleton sisters, Nicole and Natalie, are to write a no-holds-barred book about their lives in All Saints. The pair, both notoriously hard-living, are likley to spill the beans on all of their high-profile celebrity romances; for Nicole, now expecting Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher's child, these have included Robbie Williams and Leonardo DiCaprio; for Natalie, TV presenter Jamie Theakston and Trainspotting actor Jonny Lee Miller. The book, which the siblings will begin after the band's summer tour, will also include all the rifts and tiffs that have plagued the band since they formed in 1995.

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Complicity US release date

Complicity was released under the new title 'Retribution' in the US on the 6th of february on video and 20th of February on dvd (special features include commentary track, trailer, optional spanish subtitles, 20 chapters with motion images and biographies of cast and crew. The dvd is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen ratio)

Jonny and ewan to star in movie?

Jonny Lee Miller and Ewan McGregor will team up again in the new comedy film On The Line. The Trainspotting duo play buddies searching for a character played by Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar. They stick posters up all over town begging her to make contact after Miller falls for her on a train journey. It is due to start filming in the spring. An insider told Ananova: "Miller and Ewan are a great combination. They spark off each other. "Miller's role is basically American but Ewan will be American Italian. "The accent is on comedy but there is also a dramatic twist in the tale."

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