Oct
20
2008
Yikes! Yikes! Yikes! Stop press!
I was watching CBeebies this evening with the Fecklet, when who appears on my screen to read the bedtime story but this man!
I have never seen him before in my life but his name is Tom Ward and he is the hero of the book I am writing right now! Holy cow! Where’d he suddenly spring from?
And does he want to come round for tea?!?!
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He looks familiar…(IMDB to the rescue) Yes! He was in Moll Flanders, about ten years ago on TV, where he was Moll’s unfortunate American husband; and Vanity Fair, where he was the one who dies at Waterloo. Very good at a sexy sneer, as I recall.
…and has just a touch of the David Tennants about him…
Kate, I have totally missed him aside from CBeebies bedtime story. I clearly have to watch many more costume dramas because that is where the hot guys congregate.
Jan, yes. A bit. Seems more sneerier, more alpha, less manic to me. He’s perhaps not forbidding enough to be my current hero, who is a gloomy bastard, but I think he could do it.
I must admit that I completely forgot I had a toddler on my lap while I watched him read the story. Poor Fecklet didn’t have any attention until the segment ended, I yelled “Who is he?” and my little son echoed, “Who he?” Bless him.
Oh, bless.
And I reckon he looks as if he could do forbidding extremely well indeed.
Wonder if I could borrow him for Lord Alexander? He’d have to lose the leather and get himself some superfine, but he might not mind too much.
Why don’t we have these types on kids’ tv in Oz??? Tell me….
Yes he does look like a Julie Cohen type.
Apparently Cbeebies bedtime story gets all sorts of wonderful men. I have heard of Philip Glenister, Richard Armitage and now Tom Ward.
He plays one of the forensic pathologists on Silent Witness. Eminently droolable.
I love it when Silent Witness is on here on Friday nights
(Sorry, I’m not really anonymous).
BTW, he’s in the later Silent Witness series, not the early ones with Amanda Burton. He started when she left. Or therebouts.
Sure, you can borrow him, Jan. Just don’t ask me to lend you Ewan McGregor.
Rachael, I’m sorry. Maybe you can develop irrational crushes on children’s telly presenters like I do, to pass the time.
Michelle, I’m very sorry I missed PG and RA. Maybe they’ll show them again. Usually I take Fecklet upstairs and read to him myself at the time these stories are on, but perhaps I have to be a bad parent more often…
Bronwyn…thanks for that! Much watch Silent Witness. Yum.
I’m with Jan – I can see David Tennant there. (Even after I cleaned my blurry specs…)
As a kid, I loved Jackanory. It made me go to the library and get the books so I could read them myself. So you might not be a bad mum for letting him hear these bedtime stories, too. (Not to mention the hero potential for you
)
Silent Witness has returned to the screen! In the UK at least – Wed/Thurs nights 9pm. I know this because I’m addicted…
Yes, he does look mean and moody and a bit like David Tennant. He certainly doesn’t look the type to read bedtime stories on children’s tv.
Yes, I do tend to have a type I must admit. Sigh.
There are worse things.
I might be watching the bedtime stories all this week, Kate.
Lucy, thanks for the tip! Yay!
Julie, he actually did a very good job. It was a story about a witch and he was a bit forbidding when he had to be, but did a great “Abracadabra!” with a magic wand pulled out from underneath his coat.
“a great “Abracadabra!” with a magic wand pulled out from underneath his coat.”
Oh, snert! You could have much irreverent fun with that, Miss Feckless.
I too see the Tennant, only better, so yum. And he could definitely be Lord Alexander…I bet the breeches would be stunning.
Mmmm, he’s HOT. Must start watching the cbeebies stories, see if I can get Leilani over her Justin Fletcher obsession (he just doesn’t do it for me, but she’s wild for him!)
Wait, Richard Armitage reads bedtime stories? I have got to start watching children’s TV.
I can totally see David Tennant there too. In fact when I first glanced at it, I thought it was him doing one of his sexy scowls.
Nice one Julie, I’ve considered Tom a hottie for some time now. Ooh the joys of telly crushes. My current one is Peter Petrelli on Heroes.
Thanks, Julie, I shall borrow him forthwith. (And I wouldn’t dream of depriving you of Ewan)
Donna – OMG, I hadn’t even thought down as far as the breeches….
Jeez, and I’ve just got to the scene where the heroine’s soothing his fevered brow too. I may be some time.
Donna, I agree, impeccable in breeches. Take note, Jan, I need to read this book!
Ruth, you really do need to get her over Mr Tumble. Alas, Tom wasn’t on tonight, it was some woman instead. I took Fecklet straight upstairs in disgust to read him stories myself.
Kate, watch CBeebies! At its best, it’s like being on a amazing drugs.
Jude, why are you not sending me pictures of these men on a regular basis?!? ggg
Jan, she can go straight from the fevered brow to the breeches!!!!!
No wonder he looks familiar. I love “Silent Witness,” too. I’ve been waiting for it to return on BBC America.
Oh yeah, of course! I was forgetting the rule about loosening tight clothing when the milord in question has been coshed on the head in the pouring rain…
Wonder if the editor will pick it up?
Cyclops8, I haven’t seen it for ages, I’m having a look-see tomorrow night for sure!
Jan, your editor will scream in joy!! As will I.
(P.S. Everybody, Jude has now sent me photos of gorgeous men. Whoooooooooaaaaaaahhhhhhhaaahhh! Life is sweet.)
I keep waiting for the Rupert Penry-Jones one to come up. They keep showing snippets of it in the trailer. One day…! x