New non-nude video clip - Pauline McLynn in Shameless

A post in the better late than never series. Pauline is best remembered as Mrs Doyle in Father Ted. In the first episode of the new series of Shameless she played a very different character.



A non-nude clip, I'm afraid - Shameless seems to have more sex-in- underwear scenes with each passing series - but Pauline shows an impressive cleavage and trim rump. Who knew?



Would you like a peak at Pauline's cleavage? Ah, go on. Go on. Go on. Go on go on go on. Go on go on go on go on go on...



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Pauline McLynn (non-nude) - Shameless - via Rapidshare - 23.4 MB - 2m 03s

Pauline McLynn (non-nude) - Shameless - via Sendspace - 23.4 MB - 2m 03s

New video clip - Ashley Madekwe in Secret Diary of a Call Girl

While Billie continues to offer us unconvincingly body-doubled scenes in Secret Diary, co-star Ashley Madekwe has stepped up to the plate in episode 3 with a bare nipple. A brief shadowy nipple, but a nipple nonetheless.



Hopefully this will be of interest to a few international visitors as Ashley recently won a regular role in a new US series, The Beautiful Life, only to see it cancelled after only 3 episodes.

I've done what I can with slo-mo and gamma amendments to make the most of this scene. Enjoy!



Ashley Madekwe - Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Series 3) - via Rapidshare - 12.9 MB - 1m 08s

Ashley Madekwe - Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Series 3) - via Sendspace - 12.9 MB - 1m 08s

Your favourite UK & Ireland nude scenes of 2009

The voting is over and the top ten nude scenes by UK and Irish actresses as chosen by visitors to the blog are: -

1. Alice Eve in Crossing Over - chosen by 36% of all voters
2. Amy Beth Hayes in Misfits - 28% of all voters
3. Charlotte Salt in The Tudors - 20% of all voters
4. Nikki Sanderson in Boogeyman 3 - 15% of all voters
5. Sophie Winkleman in Love Live Long - 14% of all voters
6. Sarah Byrne in Shameless - 12% of all voters
7. Kate Winslet in The Reader - 11% of all voters
   
8. Claire Forlani in False Witness - 11% of all voters
9. Annabelle Apsion in Shameless - 10% of all voters
10. Rebecca Davies in Desperate Romantics - 10% of all voters

Alice Evans ran away with voting from the start for her impressive nude debut in an otherwise little seen film. Personally I find that Nikki Sanderson's high placing for a relatively brief nude scene reflects on her popularity with UK audiences as an ex-Corrie star rather than the scene itself, but let's not argue about matters of taste.

Interestingly, although the instruction was to vote for up to 5 scenes, the average number of scenes voted for by each voter was a measly 2.88. I'm not sure if this is because many voters couldn't find a full five - which seems somewhat unlikely as I had trouble narrowing it down to a top 10! - or because a lot of people didn't read the rules... Nonetheless, thanks to all who voted. I'd be interested to hear other's comments.

My own top 10 - which it took me a long time to decide on - are, in order, Sophie Winkleman, Alice Eve, Amy Beth Hayes, Kate Winslet, Tamzin Merchant, Claire Forlani, Rebecca Davies, Charlotte Riley, Emily Watson & Kristin Scott Thomas. I was in two minds about Sophie as the indisputably nude bits of her appearance in Love Live Long are quite brief. Nonetheless, the very long, erotically charged scene in blatantly transparent underwear was, I decided in the end, as near as damn it nude and it was definitely the scene I most enjoyed this year. Striking that two of the blog top ten and three of my own personal list can only be seen in the UK via the wonders of the web as they have no UK release!

If you missed the chance to vote, you can still check out links to all the clips here.

I'm hoping to get up on the blog in the next few days non-nude clips from Shameless (Joanna Higson & Pauline McLynn) and Skins (Lisa Backwell). Stop back soon.

New video clip - Billie Piper in Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Series 3) - Sort of...

The new series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl started with a nudity bang in its opening scene. Only problem is, the nudity was - I am certain - from a body double.



Unclear exactly what's going on here. Billie seems game enough to shake her stuff and later on in the clip I've produced you'll catch a few frames of nipple during the sex scene.



If I were less of a gentleman I might suggest that Billie is maybe carrying a certain amount of post-partum southward movement that doesn't match the glossy fantasy sheen the show is aiming for.



Anyway, I've included the body-doubled bits in this compilation of the best bits from episodes 1 and 2 so you can be your own judges. The stuff that is Billie is still moderately entertaining and does feature, as stated, a shadowy nipslip and various underwear moments.



There seems to be a whole lot of concentration on Billie's feet. I can't help wondering if someone on the production side doesn't have some sort of fetish...

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Billie Piper - Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Series 3) - via Rapidshare - 53.1 MB - 4m 34s

Billie Piper - Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Series 3) - via Sendspace - 53.1 MB - 4m 34s

Remember - only a few hours left to cast your votes in the poll!

New non-nude video clip - Daisy Haggard in The Persuasionists

Daisy Haggard first caught my eye in comedy sketch show Man Stroke Woman and was recently also in Psychoville.



She's the female lead in the new - and on the strength of its first episode - pretty woeful BBC2 sitcom, The Persuasionists.



It's only redeeming factor was this clip of Daisy in her undies, so it's presented here to save you the trouble of having to sit through the programme.



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Daisy Haggard (non-nude)- The Persuasionists - via Rapidshare - 17.3 MB - 1m 30s

Daisy Haggard (non-nude)- The Persuasionists - via Sendspace - 17.3 MB - 1m 30s

Just a heads up, by the way, that next week sees the return of 3 series that have provided some excellent material in the past - Shameless (C4 Tues 26 Jan 10.00 pm), Skins (E4 Thurs 28 Jan 10.00 pm), and Secret Diary of a Call Girl (ITV2 Thurs 28 Jan 10.00 pm). After the damp squib of Series 2 - when Billie Piper's pregnancy caused all her saucier scenes to be unconvincingly body-doubled - here's hoping the latter show will return to the enjoyable smut of the first series.

And there are just 8 days left to vote for your favourite British & Irish nude scenes of 2009. You can vote for up to 5 scenes in the left-hand sidebar - clips of all the scenes can be found here.

New video clip - Sinéad Keenan in Being Human

Sinéad Keenan gave us some brief rear and (shadowy) breast nudity in the opening episode of the new season of the excellent Being Human.



Sinéad is probably best known to UK viewers as Kelly in Moving Wallpaper, but (if the IMdb is correct!) she also was a regular on the Dublin-based soap Fair City, so I hope this will be of particular interest to Irish visitors.



Let's hope the moon waxes full again in an upcoming episode...



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Sinéad Keenan - Being Human - via Rapidshare - 12.7 MB - 1m 06s

Sinéad Keenan - Being Human - via Sendspace - 12.7 MB - 1m 06s

New Vintage Clip - Rebecca Palmer in Comfortably Numb

Rebecca Palmer is another of those attractive, below-the-radar actresses who's carved out a busy career with regular TV appearances and feature film supporting roles.



More than a few of her roles have involved excellent nudity - her full frontal scene in Intimacy (which BZ Video Clips has) would probably have gathered more attention if she hadn't been upstaged by the lead Kerry Fox's history-making "real sex" scenes in the same movie. This is probably one of her less explicit appearances from Comfortably Numb, a 2004 Channel 4 documentary-style drama set in a rehab centre.



The programme appears to have only been screened once and it doesn't appear to have ever had a DVD release, so I believe this is a rare clip that will be of interest. The capture is from a fairly decent VHS copy although the natural-light shooting and digital video camerawork mean that it will never be an HD-style experience!



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Rebecca Palmer - Comfortably Numb - via Rapidshare - 45.9 MB - 4m 0s

Rebecca Palmer - Comfortably Numb - via Sendspace - 45.9 MB - 4m 0s

By the way, don't forget to vote over in the left-hand sidebar for your Top 5 favourite British or Irish nude scenes of 2009. Links to all the clips are available here. The poll is open until the end of the month.

New video clip - Katie Lightfoot in The Turn of the Screw

The Beeb's Christmas ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, offered us a brief but enjoyable nude moment from Katie Lightfoot as the debauched governess in what appears to be her first TV role. Here's to many more.




(Yes, this was shown right at the end of December so it should have been in the 2009 poll, but I only watched my recording after New Year, so it isn't).

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Katie Lightfoot - The Turn of the Screw - via Rapidshare - 5.98 MB - 0m 34s

Katie Lightfoot - The Turn of the Screw - via Sendspace - 5.98 MB - 0m 34s

Best British & Irish nude scene of 2009 poll

Happy New Year to all. As I trailed last month, I'm running the blog's second annual UK & Ireland nude scene of the year poll for all 2009's nude appearances by British or Irish actresses. (See my previous post if you want to read more details about the qualification for the poll!).

Please vote for up to 5 of what you consider to be the best nude scenes of 2009 in the Blogger poll which you should be able to see in the left side bar.

Here are links to clips of almost all the competitors. I've added a few extra links for nude scenes I discovered since my December heads up. Thanks to the sterling work of Upcoming Nude Scenes, Deep at Sea, and BZ Video Clips whose efforts make it possible for me to link to clips I haven't captured myself. Please take time to download as many clips as possible before you vote so you can make an informed and sober judgement. And look at all the boobies...

Alice Eve - Crossing Over (DVD)

Alice O'Connell - The Blue Tower (Cinema)

Amy Beth Hayes - Misfits (TV)

Amy Manson - Desperate Romantics (TV)

Anna Friel - Bathory (No UK release)

Anna Friel - The Street (TV)

Annabelle Apsion - Shameless (TV)

Anne-Marie Duff - Margot (TV)

Ashley Mulheron - Lesbian Vampire Killers (Cinema)

Bronagh Taggart - Occupation (TV)

Charlene McKenna - Dorothy Mills (No UK release)

Charlotte Riley -The Take (TV)

Charlotte Salt - The Tudors (Series 3) (TV)

Claire Forlani - False Witness (No UK release date)

Cordelia Bugeja - The Crew (DVD)

Emily Wachter - Compulsion (TV)

Emily Watson - Synecdoche, New York (Cinema)

Emma Hamilton - The Tudors (Series 3) (TV)

Genevieve O'Reilly - Spooks (TV)

Janet Montgomery - The Hills Run Red (DVD)

Jennie Jacques - Desperate Romantics (TV)

Juno Temple - Cracks (Cinema) - Sorry, no clip available!

Kate Winslet - The Reader (Cinema)

Kierston Wareing - Fish Tank (Cinema)

Kierston Wareing - Il caso dell'infedele Klara (No UK release)

Kirsty Bushell - Coming Up: Pornography (TV)

Kristin Scott Thomas - Partir (No UK release)

Lena Headey - The Broken (DVD)

Maxine Peake - Criminal Justice (TV)

Michelle Duncan - The Broken (DVD)

Nikki Sanderson - Boogeyman 3 (DVD)

Rebecca Davies - Desperate Romantics (TV)

Rosalind Halstead - Wuthering Heights (TV)

Saffron Burrows - The Guitar (No UK release)

Sarah Byrne - Shameless (TV)

Sienna Miller - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (No UK release)

Sophie Ward - Book of Blood (DVD)

Sophie Winkleman - Love Live Long (No UK release)

Suzie Toase - Hotel Babylon (TV)

Tamzin Merchant - The Tudors - Series 3 (TV)

Zoe Tapper - Desperate Romantics (TV)


There were a lot of votes cast last year, but all the same, only a fraction of the blog's visitors took the trouble to vote. If we want our thesps to keep undressing on screen, we should show them how much we like it! :-)

New vintage video clip - Ruth Millar in Solid Geometry

Ruth Millar is one of those actresses who regularly appears on our screens without reaching a high level of name-recognition. Most recently seen repeating her role as Gene Hunt's journalist nemesis Jackie Queen in Ashes to Ashes, she remains one of my favourites of this category of TV performer. The Scottish accent doesn't hurt at all, either.




Here's a clip of Ruth's nude scenes from the odd 2002 short film, Solid Geometry. This enjoyed an outing on Channel 4 and apparently a brief DVD release, but this is long since deleted. (A vendor on Amazon marketplace claims to have it for just short of £400!) I'm therefore offering this VHS capture to keep what is Ruth's best nude scene readily available.




The usual VHS capture provisos apply, the image is a little soft and a little too contrasty, but all the important bits are clearly visible in their glory...



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Ruth Millar - Solid Geometry - via Rapidshare - 40.5 MB - 3m 40s


Ruth Millar - Solid Geometry - via Sendspace - 40.5 MB - 3m 40s

New not-quite-nude video clip - Ruth Wilson in Small Island

There may be a flash of nipple lurking in the shadows of this too tasteful sex scene from the Beeb's current Sunday night drama, but I can't find it. Nonetheless, I thought it might be of interest to some.




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Ruth Wilson - non-nude - Small Island - via Rapidshare - 18.1 MB - 1m 39s

Ruth Wilson - non-nude - Small Island - via Sendspace - 18.1 MB - 1m 39s