Hucknall bingo hall welcomes Hollywood star Rupert Everett for a numbers game session.
Rupert Everett took part in a numbers game session at the Byron Bingo Club in Hucknall while filming his recent documentary on Lord Bryon.The Nottinghamshire town is the final resting place of the great Romantic poet and therefore featured in Channel 4's The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron, in which Everett retraced the literary icon's famous journey around Europe.
After visiting Byron's former haunts in Lisbon, Istanbul and Albania, the actor travelled to Hucknall and enjoyed a few games of bingo with local people while discussing the poet's life.
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A review in the Hucknall Dispatch noted that this section of the programme "could not have been a bigger contrast to visits Everett made to palatial and cultural buildings in different parts of Europe as he followed in Byron's footsteps".
Byron was buried in the parish church at Hucknall after his death in Greece in 1824.
As one of Britain's foremost poets of the Romantic movement, he is remembered for his decadent and frequently chaotic lifestyle, as well as poems such as She Walks in Beauty, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
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