Get the latest gossip

Richard E Grant surprises fans at the Edinburgh Fringe as he arrives to support his old friend Miriam Margolyes at her sex-fuelled Shakespeare show


Miriam and Richard first met when they filmed Academy Award winning film Martin Scorsese's Age of Innocence in 1993.

Miriam, who is currently starring in the Edinburgh fringe production of Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits, was thrilled to see her old pal Richard and after her naughty Q and A where she talked about difficult costars, politics and her best sex, at the show, chatted with him at the Pleasance EICC venue. Saltburn star Richard said afterwards: 'I saw my pal Miriam Margolyes in her wonderful show Dicken's Women by Fane Productions in Edinburgh today. Withnail and I actor Richard recently joined Billy Magnussen and Isaac Powell on set at the Leaderfoot Viaduct, near Melrose, where filming began on new HBO series The Franchise.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Daily Mail

Read more on:

Photo of Richard E Grant

Richard E Grant

Photo of Edinburgh Fringe

Edinburgh Fringe

Photo of Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

Related news:

News photo

Jake Roche apologises to mum Coleen Nolan as he re-enacts racy sex scene with ex Jesy Nelson during his Edinburgh Fringe show

News photo

Love is in the air! The four bittersweet theatre romances we recommend at the Edinburgh Fringe, writes PATRICK MARMION

News photo

Miriam Margolyes leaves viewers in hysterics as they brand her 'a national treasure' after she inspects SEX TOYS in her Australian travel show