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Rivals' secret royal connection revealed as Rupert based on major socialite
Rupert Campbell Black, the womanising politician at the heart of Disney+ series Rivals, was partly based on a man with a royal connection according to the book’s author, Dame Jilly Cooper
Steamy TV series Rivals, currently streaming on Disney+, has already drawn in a huge audience with its raunchy sex scenes, deliciously camp 1980s-set plot, and a starry cast that includes David Tennant, Emily Atack, Aidan Turner and Danny Dyer. Winning much of the praise and flashing most of the flesh is actor Alex Hassell as playboy ex-Olympian turned Tory politician Rupert Campbell Black, a character who is loosely based on a real life gentleman with a royal connection. She has admitted that a few men inspired the character of Rupert, who in the Rivals TV series we first meet emerging from an X-rated session in a Concorde aeroplane toilet with a gossip columnist, then later playing naked tennis with a married neighbour.
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