{"id":11997,"date":"2023-10-27T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/if-gemma-collins-is-a-diva-she-gets-blocked-the-secrets-of-tv-stars-whatsapp-groups\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T12:37:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:37:48","slug":"if-gemma-collins-is-a-diva-she-gets-blocked-the-secrets-of-tv-stars-whatsapp-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/if-gemma-collins-is-a-diva-she-gets-blocked-the-secrets-of-tv-stars-whatsapp-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If Gemma Collins is a diva she gets blocked\u2019: the secrets of TV stars\u2019 WhatsApp groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s never off The Crown group chat? Who sings whole songs in the Game of Thrones one? And who dropped a bombshell on the Bridgerton bunch? TV talent tell all about their WhatsApp groups<\/p>\n

Behind every big TV series there is now a buzzing WhatsApp group. From spitballing ideas for great plotlines to arranging sweepstakes, and those dramatic \u201chas left the chat\u201d notifications, the action-packed groups used by people in television shows are constantly ablaze.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you put nine show-offs in a group, it becomes lively pretty quickly,\u201d laughs Ghosts<\/a> co-creator Larry Rickard \u2013 who plays caveman Robin and the head of Tudor spectre Humphrey. To manage the wildness while making the hit BBC comedy, he set up multiple group chats. There is one for all the lead actors called \u201cGhosts\u201d (\u201cwhich \u2013 out of the goodness of our hearts \u2013 we also let \u2018livings\u2019 Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Charlotte Ritchie into\u201d), with another named \u201cIdiot News\u201d specifically for the writers \u2013 and not the cast (\u201cThey already know we\u2019re massive nerds; they don\u2019t need to see proof\u201d). They\u2019re packed with impersonations delivered via voice note (\u201cJim Howick does a helium-voiced cockney and Martha Howe-Douglas sounds like Noddy Holder\u201d), but not everybody is always fully engaged. \u201cYou might wait a month to get a reply from Simon Farnaby \u2013 it\u2019s like a visit from the Queen. In fact, one time he didn\u2019t reply because he was actually with<\/em> the Queen!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nWho\u2019s never off The Crown group chat? Who sings whole songs in the Game of Thrones one? And who dropped a bombshell on the Bridgerton bunch? TV talent tell all about their WhatsApp groups
\nBehind every big TV series there is now a buzzing WhatsApp group. From spitballing ideas for great plotlines to arranging sweepstakes, and those dramatic \u201chas left the chat\u201d notifications, the action-packed groups used by people in television shows are constantly ablaze.
\n\u201cIf you put nine show-offs in a group, it becomes lively pretty quickly,\u201d laughs Ghosts co-creator Larry Rickard \u2013 who plays caveman Robin and the head of Tudor spectre Humphrey. To manage the wildness while making the hit BBC comedy, he set up multiple group chats. There is one for all the lead actors called \u201cGhosts\u201d (\u201cwhich \u2013 out of the goodness of our hearts \u2013 we also let \u2018livings\u2019 Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Charlotte Ritchie into\u201d), with another named \u201cIdiot News\u201d specifically for the writers \u2013 and not the cast (\u201cThey already know we\u2019re massive nerds; they don\u2019t need to see proof\u201d). They\u2019re packed with impersonations delivered via voice note (\u201cJim Howick does a helium-voiced cockney and Martha Howe-Douglas sounds like Noddy Holder\u201d), but not everybody is always fully engaged. \u201cYou might wait a month to get a reply from Simon Farnaby \u2013 it\u2019s like a visit from the Queen. In fact, one time he didn\u2019t reply because he was actually with the Queen!\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who\u2019s never off The Crown group chat? Who sings whole songs in the Game of Thrones one? And who dropped a bombshell on the Bridgerton bunch? TV talent tell all about their WhatsApp groups Behind every big TV series there is now a buzzing WhatsApp group. From spitballing ideas for great plotlines to arranging sweepstakes, …<\/p>\n

\u2018If Gemma Collins is a diva she gets blocked\u2019: the secrets of TV stars\u2019 WhatsApp groups<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}