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• Grooving around @ Three Mills Studios
• On BBC News 24
• Reporting on the Turner Prize
• The Rosie Millard Calendar 1999

Grooving around @ Three Mills Studios (2/10/1998?)

This is Rosie Millard as we've never seen her before, au naturel, in pure ``sports casual'' mode, on location at the Three Mills film studios in East London. Well, ok, she's still wearing fluorescent magenta lipstick, but, hey it just wouldn't be Rosie otherwise! She can't help being delectable!

Here she interviewed one of the proprietors of the studio, and teased her when she boasted that one of the key advantages of the location is that it is ``only 20 minutes from Soho, by train''!

Rosie takes a shine to Guy Ritchie, director of Two Smoking Barrels.

She then went on to do a classic piece of last minute breakfast-tv style interviewing with Guy Ritchie the director of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. After expressing her admiration for the film, she then, with -- unbeknownst to her -- only seconds left to the interview, asked him if he thought his movie had ``given violence an easy ride?'' He replied, roguishly, that he didn't know what she meant ... so Rosie re-worded the question slightly (I mean, come on, it's obvious what she meant, isn't it?), and Ritchie replied flippantly, ``No.'' But then, realising that the Millard isn't someone to be trifled with, he looked about to give a more serious answer when the interview time ran out, Rosie cut him off, said thank-you, and handed back to the studio... leaving Ritchie looking ever-so slightly put-out and somewhat repentant! Hehehehe... nice one Rosie!

Here we see Guy Ritchie trying to out-nonchalance the Millard. Needless to say, he fails by trying too hard. DO NOT attempt to copy the Millard's level of coolness at home, Guy Ritchie is an experienced director of violent action cinema.

Incidently, I actually wrote one of the plot synopses of Lock, Stock on the Internet Movie Database, and yes, I know, I've got a crucial detail completely wrong... what an idiot. Suffice to say, not a mistake the Millard would ever make. Lesson: leave it to the professionals! Also, this was actually the last TV appearance that Rosie made prior to being catapulted to fame as the PAGE 3 STUNNER in The Daily Mail! ;-P [Please note we could not find a scanner big enough to accommodate the full length of the Millard's legs!]

On BBC News 24 (20/11/1998)

Don't you just love women in suits? Particularly pin-striped suits. Particularly women with red hair. Particularly women with gorgeous slightly tousled red hair... flame haired goddesses, with perfect bone structure, a cheeky grin, cute nose, and smouldering, deep blue eyes... Don't you just love Rosie Millard? I do!

These great Millardpix were contributed by fellow Millardfan Duncan Lynskey, who writes:

``Rosie is like a box of chocolates that contains nothing but your favourite centres.''

He's not wrong!

Reporting on the Turner Prize (2/12/1998)

Britain's top piece of art this year (oh, and the Turner Prize in the background).

This is Rosie Millard driving all red-blooded males in the country ga-ga with this totally stunning Elizabethan off-the-shoulder (and off-the-wall) number, whilst reporting the award of the Turner Prize to some colourful elephant dung on BBC Breakfast News.

Back in the studio, Sophie Raworth observed,

``never mind the Turner Prize, I think Rosie's dress is a work of art.''

You know it! Such a shame that the camera never panned out so that we could see the full glory of That Dress ... though, perhaps, to be fair, that may have been a little too much for most of us to take in, at that time in the morning!

So, I suppose we shall just have to make do with these pictures of Rosie, the incredible blueness of her eyes, matched only by the redness of her lips and of her delightful heart-shaped earrings, and the delicate peaches and cream complexion of her skin...

Actually, the Millard sounded a bit croaky on the voiceover for her report this morning... which could mean that she has a cold... but, knowing the Millard, I think a more likely explanation is that she'd been partying too hard at the post-awards bash, the night before! Hehehe. ;-)