In 2016 the novelist Jilly Cooper was cast away by Kirsty Young. In 2016 the novelist Jilly Cooper was cast away by Kirsty ...

Atwell will be playing Helen Gordon, Rupert Campbell-Black’s ex-wife and mother of his two children, Marcus and Tabitha.

The first season of the Disney+ adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper's hit 1988 novel of the same name was a unanimous hit — ...

Rivals, part of Cooper’s “ Rutshire Chronicles ,” focuses primarily on the sociopolitical competitive antics of politician Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell) and TV director Lord Tony Baddingham ...

Rivals is coming back for a second season — but is every cast member returning? Based on Jilly Cooper's novel of the same ...

Hayley Atwell and Rupert Everett join the cast as Emily Atack says she loved playing sexy Sarah Stratton: 'I am her. I'm a ...

Disney+ is nearly halfway through the Season 2 shoot on Rivals — and the racy Jilly Cooper adaptation has added two new cast ...

Also joining the ensemble of the Hulu and Disney+ series are Maxim Ays, Holly Cattle, Oliver Dench, Amanda Lawrence, Bobby ...

Lee Mason, executive director of scripted originals, EMEA Disney+, added: “It’s been phenomenal seeing the reaction to Dame Jilly Cooper’s Rivals — this autumn’s most talked about series.

Jilly had married military book publisher Leo Cooper at the age of 24 in 1961. The pair knew each other as children and reunited in their twenties. Unable to have their own children, they adopted two.

When Jilly married Leo Cooper, in 1961, she never balked at being expected henceforward to be ‘the ministering angel that soothed away the pain and restored his faith in human nature’ after a ...