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PEOPLE & ARTSThursday 15 October 2015

Donald Trump
to host ‘SNL’

In this Oct. 7, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in
Waterloo, Iowa. Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Repub- Trump has been ratings In this image released by HBO, Emilia Clarke appears in a scene from “Game of Thrones.”
lican presidential candi- gold for nearly every tele- Associated Press
date Donald Trump has vision outlet he’s touched
agreed to host “Saturday since his candidacy took Esquire’s Sexiest Woman
Night Live” next month. off this summer, the main
NBC said its former “Celeb- reason behind record Alive is the sultry Emilia Clarke
rity Apprentice” host will be viewership for the two GOP
the headliner of the Nov. 7 candidates’ debates in LEANNE ITALIE and was hands down the time soap “Doctors” after
show. It’s the second time August and September. Associated Press number one choice of Es- graduation. She worked
he has hosted the vener- Sia will be the “Saturday NEW YORK (AP) — It’s most quire’s staff, friends and multiple jobs while living
able comedy institution; Night Live” musical guest definitely Emilia Clarke’s family,” she said in an with friends before “Game
he was on the show in April on the night that Trump year. email. of Thrones” changed her
2004. hosts.q The 28-year-old London- On the pages of the No- life when it began airing in
er, who plays menacing, vember Esquire, with 2011.
Nielsen says 15.3 white-haired Daenerys more sultry photos inside, Clarke recalled some dif-
million watched Targaryen, aka Khaleesi, she is also “Lilly,” the alias ficulties on the show early
Democratic debate aka Mother of Dragons she takes after donning on. She was just 23. There
on “Game of Thrones,” is a disguise to frolic at Lon- was full frontal nudity, lots
DAVID BAUDER ocratic debate online, with Esquire’s Sexiest Woman don’s Crystal Palace Park of sex, even a rape scene.
AP Television Writer usage peaking at 980,000 Alive. with Markovits for a round She tells Markovits how she
NEW YORK (AP) — They concurrent streams. The magazine made the of “Game of Phones,” suffered along with her
aren’t quite Trump num- The point in the debate announcement early Tues- a group treasure hunt character.
bers, but the 15.3 million where Bernie Sanders said day, but GQ got there first, thought up by a social “Once, I had to take a little
people who watched the he’d had enough of talk anointing Clarke Woman networking company and time out,” she said. “I said
Democratic presidential about Clinton’s emails was of the Year in September. intended to help people I needed a cup of tea,
debate on CNN was still the most-watched mo- In addition to her high-pro- make new friends in a new had a bit of a cry, and was
the biggest TV audience ment for DVR users who file role on the massively city. ready for the next scene.”
ever for a Democratic de- rewound to see it over, ac- popular HBO series, Clarke She isn’t recognized. That’s what the English call
bate. cording to the digital video was Sarah Connor in the Clarke is the second child “mucking in,” or striking a
The Nielsen company recorder maker TiVo. summer movie hit “Termi- of by-the-bootstraps par- balance between help-
said Tuesday’s debate Besides Trump, one clue to nator Genisys.” ents. Mom started as a ing out and getting your
audience exceeded the the lower ratings for Demo- She can do fierce, but secretary and rose to mar- hands dirty while maintain-
10.7 million people who crats may be the audience also friendly. She can be keting executive and dad ing a smile on your face,
watched Hillary Clinton composition. The research queen, but also kid sister, made it out of working- Markovits writes. Clarke, he
and Barack Obama de- firm Samba TV noted that killer or girl next door, writes class Wolverhampton near said, is good at it. She re-
bate on ABC in April 2008. 48 percent of the people Benjamin Markovits in the Birmingham to become a called in the story, due to
Buoyed by the television- who watched the Demo- Esquire story accompany- roadie, then sound special- hit newsstands on Oct. 20,
friendly candidacy of Don- cratic debate said they’d ing Clarke’s nude cover, ist for big-budget musicals. her father’s early warnings
ald Trump, the two Repub- seen at least one of the belly down with bedsheet She followed her broth- about lowering expecta-
lican presidential debates Republican candidates’ strategically placed. er into boarding school tions as an actress when
were record-setters. The forums. Meanwhile, only 21 Lisa Hintelmann, edito- because “I fancied his she first started out, and
first debate, on Fox News percent of the Republican rial projects director for the friends,” she told Esquire, her days working at a call
Channel in August, was debate audience tuned in magazine, called Clarke then she went on to study center. Sexy but still real,
seen by 24 million viewers to watch the Democrats, the all-around favorite. drama in college, pulling a Markovits declares, “is the
and the second, on CNN the company said. “Emilia Clarke is unforget- couple of episodes on the gorgeous balance of Emil-
last month, had 23.1 million The debate also stacks up table in ‘Game of Thrones’ long-running British day- ia Clarke.”q
viewers. well compared to televi-
CNN also showed the Dem- sion entertainment.q