Aidan Turner

The issue of the gender pay gap in the entertainment industry has now focussed on the BBC’s flagship drama ‘Poldark’, with its star Eleanor Tomlinson calling for equal pay with the show’s lead, Aidan Turner.

In a new interview with Red magazine this week, the 26 year old English star, who plays Turner’s on-screen wife Demelza Poldark in the highly successful drama, said she’d be “pretty upset” if she discovered she was being paid less than Turner.

Asked whether she thought she was paid the same as Turner, Tomlinson told Red magazine: “My guess is no. And while at the beginning that might have been okay, he was a bigger star than me, now I don't think so. We're equal leads of the show, so I'd be pretty upset if the gap hadn't closed.”

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‘Poldark’ star Aidan Turner is set to make his stage debut in the West End in a revival of Martin McDonagh’s controversial play ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore’ next year.

The 34 year old Irish actor will play Mad Padraic, a terrorist who is deemed to be too violent for the IRA, in a newly revived version of former Oscar-winner McDonagh’s rarely performed and divisive play, which will run from June 23rd to September 8th 2018 at the Noel Coward Theatre.

Set in Ireland in 1993, ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore’ is a violent and dark comedy that tells of a paramilitary soldier who exacts bloody revenge after his cat is killed.

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It’s the role that’s made him famous, rising to national heartthrob status after standing around in fields of wheat with his shirt off, but Aidan Turner has suggested that his days in ‘Poldark’ are numbered, with the show set to end after its fifth season.

The 34 year old star spoke to Women’s Wear Daily, and suggested that the BBC series would remain faithful to the number of books written by the author and series creator Winston Graham and end after a putative fifth series.

“I think we run out of things to do after series five, I think that would be our last one,” Turner told the magazine, in an article published on Wednesday (August 2nd). “Four was green-lit, five hasn't been yet, and it wouldn't be fair of me to green-light it, but it's probably looking like it may happen.”

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Get in line, ladies – ‘Poldark’ super-hunk Aidan Turner is back on the market! The actor and his girlfriend of six months, Nettie Wakefield, have split up according to new reports.

The 33 year old Irish actor had been dating Wakefield, an artist, since the end of 2016, but an insider to the situation says that the couple have gone their separate ways after they were unable to spend enough time together because of their busy schedules.

“Things were great for a time and they were getting serious - but it just wasn’t to be and busy schedules drove them apart,” a source told The Sun on Thursday (June 8th).

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‘Poldark’ viewers on Sunday evening were left confused by a new character in the BBC drama who came with a rather unusual Scottish accent. On Twitter fans mocked Captain McNeil, played by actor Henry Garrett, saying they couldn't understand his attempt at a Scottish brogue.

Henry Garrett appeared as Captain McNeil on Sunday night’s ‘Poldark’

‘Loose Women’ panelist Kaye Adams tweeted: 'This is weird . I can't understand the Scottish accent on #Poldark . I thought I was Scottish.' Another viewer added: 'The actor playing McNeil's attempt at a Scottish accent is beyond excruciating #Poldark.'

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‘Poldark’ actress Heida Reed has said she was instrumental in the decision to not feature a controversial rape scene in the BBC drama’s second series. Reed, who was to play the rape victim Elizabeth, says she wanted the scene, which appears in Winston Graham’s original text, removed from the BBC adaptation.

Heida Reed plays Elizabeth in ‘Poldark’

Instead series two will feature a ‘consensual seduction’ of Elizabeth by Aidan Turner’s character, Ross Poldark. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Reed explained: “Actually, it did change, as we had conversations. It was a collaborative decision."

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TV viewers had a difficult choice to make on Sunday evening as ITV’s ‘Victoria’ went head-to-head with the return of the BBC’s ‘Poldark’ in the 9pm slot. Both period dramas were a big hit with viewers, but somewhat surprisingly ‘Victoria’ managed to win the ratings war, narrowly beating Aidan Turner’s return.

Aidan Turner is back as Captain Ross Poldark

According to early viewing figures from Overnight TV, 'Poldark' scored 5.1 million viewers on the BBC, taking 22.7% of the audience share. But ‘Victoria’ managed slightly better on ITV, with 5.3 million viewers and a 23.5% audience share.

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The second series of hit BBC drama ‘Poldark’ will not feature a controversial rape scene which occurs in Winston Graham’s original novel, Aidan Turner has confirmed. In the third book of the series 'hero' Ross Poldark rapes his ex Elizabeth, after she leaves him for his cousin Frances.

The new series of ‘Poldark’ will not feature a controversial rape scene that appears in the novels.

Speaking to The Sun Turner said: “It seems consensual, and it just seems right. He goes to talk. He doesn’t go to commit a crime. They talk and it seems like there is still this spark between them, this unfinished business emotionally."

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'Poldark' star Aidan Turner plays Philip Lombard in the upcoming 3-part BBC mini-series 'And Then There Were None', of which the first episode is set to air on Boxing Day. It's a gritty murder mystery with an impressive cast, rounding off a day of comfort and joy with tension and thrills.

Aidan Turner stars in 'And Then There Were None'

Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie, the series follows a group of ten people - none of whom know each other - who get invited to a mysterious island anonymously, but find themselves under attack from a vicious murderer who plans to kill them all of one by one. It's not clear who the killer is, and all they know for sure is that they can't trust anyone.

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