Three years after he joined the charity football match organized by Ross Owen, he’ll be again part of the Allstars vs Legends game on Sunday, 31 July 2022 in Airdrie, Scotland (UK).
Join us on a fun day out at Airdrie stadium for our pro celebrity charity football match on Sunday 31st July 2022 in conjunction with North Lanarkshire Suicide Prevention and Airdrie Community Trust. A plethora of football legends and celebrities from TV and sport will battle it out on the pitch for the community cup. Kick off is at 1pm with pre-match entertainment from 11.30am.
Adults (16 and over) £8. Kids (under 16) £4. Kids under 5 go free.
The first single, also called “The Jacaranda” will be released next week on 1 July and the EP on 19 August 2022.
Andrew has been making music since his teenage days when he toured the north-west of England with his band Emerson. When Emerson disolved, he formed Gustaffson with his school friend James Webster and they previously released some songs on Soundcloud. The Jacaranda, produced by Elbow‘s Craig Potter, is their first EP.
After the #BonnieComeback, ScreenRant took a look back on Andrew Gower‘s time on Outlander and his (in)famous catchphrase #MarkMe which he uttered a total of 18 times in his 11 episodes.
ScreenRant are largely basing their article on an interview Andrew Gower gave Yahoo Entertainment in 2016 where he was asked if his use of “Mark me” was based on research, Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling novels or were invented by the series’ writers.
Eagle-eyed readers of the books will know that Diana Gabaldon indeed used the phrase several times but it was never spoken by Bonnie Prince Charlie.
There is no mention of that particular phrase in my bible on Charlie [Frank McLynn’s biography]. It has become such a part of the character. Quite interestingly, it was in a first draft and read-through for my first-ever appearance on Outlander. There was a speech in the brothel, and from that point I wanted to build on that. I kept adding a few more “Mark me’s” because it felt like his way of demanding attention and saying, “This is my moment. Pay attention.” I took it also as a very military phrase, and he is a guy who is interested in that as in, “Mark my gun” or “Mark my sword.” In a way, for me in trying to play someone with a lack of identity, I wanted to give him a phrase that he routinely uses and that speaks to who he is. The scenes where I have not used it, I was a bit more raw and emotionally cut up. I have enjoyed the collaboration with the directors and writers on deciding when to throw one in or when to cut it out. It was a nice thing to add to the character.
Andrew Gower also addressed the drinking game that was invented by dedicated Outlander fans in another interview with Access Hollywood in 2016:
AccessHollywood.com: First of all, you must be aware of the ‘Mark Me!’ drinking game [some fans have made up], yes? Andrew Gower: (laughs) Yes, I am. And I hope people are drinking safely, and maybe doing it like, every other ‘Mark me!’ and not on every one, because I don’t want to be encouraging bad hangovers on a Sunday.
AccessHollywood.com: What did you think when you first heard about that? Andrew Gower: It’s very, very sweet and I think it’s quite fitting really, that they’ve invented that game, seeing as every time I’m saying, ‘Mark me’ at the moment, I seem to be holding a glass of wine or some alcohol. So I think it’s a fitting game if ever there was one.
Andrew Gower as Bonnie Prince Charlie with portraits of “Betty Burke” and an elderly Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Andrew Gower reprised his role as Bonnie Prince Charlie twice since S2 and concluded the story with a flashback to the Prince’s flight from Scotland when Flora McDonald famously dressed him up as her Irish maid “Betty Burke” to hide him from governement troups.
Love him or hate him, the legendary Bonnie Prince Charlie is still one of the most entertaining characters to have graced the screen on Outlander. […] Andrew Gower gave a phenomenal portrayal of Prince Charles Edward Stewart. Gower’s Charles was zealous, reckless, hedonistic, and oddly sympathetic. Watching Jamie and the prince form a friendship was sheer merriment. It’s almost a shame that Jamie was initially compelled to work against the cause.
Since 1 September 2020 Miss Scarlet & The Duke has only been available in Germany on VoD streaming service RTL+ (formerly TVNow) but on Friday, 27 May 2022 the series will finally have its Free TV premiere at 8:15pm on ServusTV Germany.
Am Freitag, den 27. Mai um 20.15 Uhr feiert die erste Staffel von Miss Scarlet and the Duke ihre deutschsprachige Free-TV-Premiere bei ServusTV. Die sechsteilige Season wird in Doppelfolgen gesendet. In Deutschland lief die Serie zuerst 2020 bei RTL+ als der Streamingdienst noch TV Now hieß.
Scotland, June 1746: months after the devastating defeat at Culloden, Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Andrew Gower) is still hunted by Government troups. In order to disguise his identity, Flora MacDonald (Shauna MacDonald) dresses him as her Irish maid Betty Burke and together they escape in a boat “over the sea to Skye“.
North Carolina, August 1774: Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) are invited to an event at River Run, the plantation of Jamie’s wealthy Aunt Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy) with Flora MacDonald as the guest of honour. In Wilmington they experience the rising tensions between the Sons of Liberty and those loyal to the British government.
Back at Fraser’s Ridge, Marsali (Lauren Lyle) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) discover a mysterious love charm while husband Roger (Richard Rankin) spends a little bit too much time with the young widow Amy McCallum (Joanne Thomson). Malva Christie (Jessica Reynolds) unveils herself as not quite the innocent girl she has appeared so far.
“Mark me” count: 1
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Our questions about the context of the #BonnieComeback in Outlander‘s season 6 seem to be answered with the following tweets by actress Shauna MacDonald who revealed she will play Scottish heroine Flora MacDonald on the show.
In A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon’s 6th novel in the Outlander series, main characters Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) are invited to a barbecue at River Run, the plantation of Jamie’s wealthy Aunt Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy). Guest of honour is none other than the “Heroine of the Highlands” Flora MacDonald.
“Flora MacDonald, the woman who had saved Charles Stuart from the English after Culloden, dressing him in her maid’s clothes and smuggling him to a rendezvous with the French on the Isle of Skye, was a living legend to the Scottish Highlanders, and her recent arrival in the colony was the subject of vast excitement, news of it coming even as far as the Ridge.”
(Source: Diana Gabaldon – A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Chapter 53 “Principles”)
Shauna MacDonald’s tweet seems to confirm that we will see Aunt Jocasta’s barbecue, which is the perfect opportunity to show Flora’s connection to Bonnie Prince Charlie (Andrew Gower) through flashback scenes.
In another tweet, Shauna MacDonald also thanked director Christiana Ebohon-Green, who directed episodes 6×04 “Hour of the Wolf” and 6×05 “Give me Liberty“. Taking this into consideration, we are pointing a speculative finger at one of these two episodes that will see our #BonnieComeback.
You can watch the entire red carpet on the Outlander Facebook page. Andrew appears at time stamp 38:23 giving a short interview teasing his return as Bonnie Prince Charlie and wearing an “even more ridiculous outfit” than the “human shortbread” one he’s worn before.
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