J.K. Rowling Explains Skipping ‘Harry Potter 20th Anniversary’ Special: ‘I Didn’t Want to Do It’

It was no laughing matter.“Stranger Things” star Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays lord of the “upside-down” Vecna in the Netflix series, has come a long way since he bombed his audition for the hero of the “Harry Potter” franchise — if only his penchant for naughty jokes hadn’t gotten the best of him.The 33-year-old actor revealed the blunder while appearing on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.As Bower tells it, the young actor had a meeting with the film’s first director, Chris Columbus, for which he was asked to prepare a joke.“I had just heard this joke about a fairy,” recalled Bower. “Like, the reason why the fairy sits on top of the Christmas tree.

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Prince Charles edited an edition of the African-Caribbean newspaper The Voice to mark its 40th anniversary. The Prince of Wales was asked to edit the edition, which will focus on work Charles has done with community leaders over the years.

J.K. Rowling says she made the decision not to participate in the HBO Max reunion special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, which aired on New Year's Day. The 57-year-old author opened up about the decision over the weekend in an interview for with Graham Norton. «I wasn't actually [excluded],» Rowling told Norton, who assumed she had not been asked to join the special.

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radio show with Graham Norton released Saturday, noting that she thought it was about the films, more than the books.

J.K. Rowling is finally addressing her absence from the Harry Potter reunion special.

It was her call. J.K. Rowling said she was not intentionally excluded from HBO Max’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special earlier this year.

debuted on HBO Max, J.K. Rowling addressed her absence from the special.On January 1, stars , , , and a slew of other castmembers, directors, and crew returned to the set of the magical franchise to reminisce on the makings of the films and reveal .

Harry Potter 20th anniversary reunion special Return To Hogwarts, and wasn’t blocked from taking part.Return To Hogwarts saw Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger, and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) reunite with other cast members to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first film in the series based on Rowling’s books, Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone.Upon the show’s airing in January, many critics noted the absence of Rowling, who only appears in archive video clips. There was then speculation that the writer was shut out of the programme after her previous comments about the trans community resulted in a backlash.Speaking to Graham Norton on his Virgin Radio UK show this week, Rowling revealed that she was in fact asked to take part in the show, but decided not to.She said: “I was asked to be on that and I decided I didn’t want to do it,.

Prince Charles has guest-edited the 40th anniversary edition of British Black newspaper The Voice.

J.K. Rowling is finally breaking her silence on why she didn’t appear on the HBO Max special 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. The author of the books that spawned the successful movies revealed that her absence from the reunion was simply because it was not something she wanted to do.

J.K. Rowling is addressing her absence from the Harry Potter reunion special.