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Towers Of London's Donny Tourette launches acting career

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Reality TV star set to make his silver screen debut

Towers Of London frontman Donny Tourette has moved into acting, starring in new film 'What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?'.

The former 'Celebrity Big Brother' star appears alongside Siobhan Fahey from Shakespears Sister and Bananarama, Clive Arrindell and Benjamin Jason Reeves in the film, which is based on the life of artist and model Nina Hamnett and set in '50s Soho in central London.

Hamnett, who died in 1956 after falling out her apartment window and being impaled on the fence 40ft below, is famed for her final words: "Why don't they let me die?"

Filming has been completed on the project, which is now in post-production, but no release date has yet been confirmed.

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baronsaladback 

Sep 8, 2008

Whoop. Talentless singer becomes talentless actor. Easy transition. Stop giving this twerp press. It gets him all excited and happy to be alive. No one wants that.

whatawasteoftime 

Sep 8, 2008

What a pointless, talentless prick. Why can't he just fuck off back to the obscurity he so clearly deserves?

mercuriop 

Sep 8, 2008

towers of london, one of the best new band for nme... 2005....I do not forget it!!!!like:fratellis, vines, razorshite, pigeon detectives, the others, the kooks. They all got front page from nme.... and nme is selling less and less...ahahahahaha

vdpGHQ 

Sep 10, 2008

I was present at that film shoot.The man can act indeed!So, please, do keep your vacuous comments to yourself until you've seen the film.

vdpGHQ 

Sep 10, 2008

I was present at this shoot. so keep your brain dead vacuous comments to yourself until you've seen the man act. And Act he can, indeed!

SJC60 

Oct 22, 2008

What I really like about Donny that he always inspires emotion - one way or another which has got to be good, shame some people spend their lives being venomous in an anonymous fashion - life is far too short. Long live The Towers of London - woop woop!

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