Turning nasty

NATHAN WYLDE turns nasty in Yorkshire soap Emmerdale when spurned by Leyla. The wealthy layabout seduces her while she’s drunk, with a mixture of pearls, cash and charm.

Later, she regrets her actions and tells him to get lost, leading a furious Nathan to embark on a campaign of blackmail and manipulation to make life a misery for her and her boyfriend, David Metcalfe.

“The switch between being such a seemingly nice guy and the malicious way he’s controlling Leyla is quite horrific.

He just gets worse and worse and could easily fit into the cast of American Psycho by the end of it,” says Lyndon Ogbourne, who plays Wylde.

“Nathan’s one of the most terrifying people to have fall in love with you. It would feel like he genuinely cares for you but you’d have that fear that if you stepped out of line he might kill you.”

Ogbourne is enjoying playing a soap baddie whose behaviour borders on the psychotic, but admits Nathan’s devious ways have shaken his faith in humanity.

“You really look twice at everybody. I don’t know if I trust anyone any more,”

he says.

In real life, however, things are far more straight forward for the 26-year-old actor. He’s in a loving relationship with his girlfriend, a fashion graduate, and is immensely grateful to have landed a steady job on Emmerdale, calling the part “a Godsend” when so many in the industry have struggled. With acting in his blood, Lyndon has long known it was what he wanted to do. Both his grandfather, Michael Beint, and brother, Tristan Beint, are actors.

“It was my granddad that let us realise we could get away with being an actor,”

he says. “Every time someone gives you a job you’re like, ‘Yes, no one’s noticed I’m getting away with it. I’m getting to carry on, it’s awesome’.”

Ogbourne grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire, and credits some inspirational teachers at his drama club for helping him build a successful career in the arts.

He enjoyed parts in shows such as Spooks, Robin Hood and Doctors before landing his role in Emmerdale.

Despite being part of an “amazing”

screen family, and working near “the most stunning countryside ever”, he admits to the odd pang of loneliness at living away from London during the week.

“The mates I’ve made are brilliant, but there are still moments when you just miss your family, friends and girlfriend.

Monday to Friday you have to step away from them.”

YOU may remember Gilo Cardozo as the eccentric companion of Bear Grylls who flew over Mount Everest strapped to a cumbersome paraglider back in 2007. Now he’s undertaken an equally adventurous feat – flying from London to Timbuktu – in a car.

He’s managing director of Parajet, an aviation company dedicated to building a flying car. His journey is chronicled in Daredevils, a series following extreme adventurers.

“The reason I did it is that I saw these other companies making them and it always worked out that they weren’t actually practical and none of them actually work. Ours is the best attempt you could do right now,” he says about building the Skycar.

The expedition wasn’t all plain sailing.

A brief and slightly embarrassing trip across the Channel on the ferry was necessary after the team was refused permission to fly over British skies.

WE’VE already seen Sarah Ferguson living on a council estate for a TV documentary. Now four celebrities go to live with “ordinary” people to see how they cope.

Keith Allen, Mel B, Trinny Woodall and Austin Healey leave their comfortable lives behind to step into the shoes of families struggling to make ends meet in Britain.

In Seven Days On The Breadline, they’ll try to cope on the budget of the different households they join and in the process learn about problems faced by many families across the country – paying for food and bills on limited means, dealing with inadequate living conditions, having little or no money to entertain the children and trying to motivate tearaway teenagers to stay in school or get a job.