Jilly Cooper, who also executively produced the show ... an honorary doctorate at the University of Gloucestershire in 2009, a CBE in the 2018 New Year Honours list for her services to literature and ...

And given its racy storylines, producers of the Disney+ show must have been left in a panic when Dame Jilly Cooper asked them to find roles for her young granddaughters in the adaptation of her ...

David Tennant, Nafessa Williams, and Aidan Turner in "Rivals." Credit: Hulu / Disney+ National treasure Dame Jilly Cooper wrote beloved romantic novel Rivals in 1988, and it's now been adapted ...

Watch: Jilly Cooper is relieved that Rivals is good after some 'awful' TV adaptations Jilly Cooper has admitted her relief at Rivals being a good TV series as she has previously had to force herself ...

Jilly Cooper, 87, has written raunchy novels for decades. Adapting her 1988 book “Rivals” for the streaming age meant tweaking some details. Jilly Cooper at her home near Stroud, England.Credit ...

Eagle-eyed fans have spotted the “perfect moment” Jilly Cooper makes her long-awaited cameo in Rivals. The 87-year-old author wrote the bonkbuster in 1988, which focuses on the cutthroat world ...

But Jilly Cooper is not far behind, and her brand of bonking is uniquely English: the posh thoroughbred horndog. Where Collins and her descendants partied by Malibu pool sides, Cooper made the ...

Declan ( Aidan Turner) and Maud’s ( Victoria Smurfit) relationship is so messy, and she chooses herself at the end of the ...

I am a HUGE Jilly Cooper fan. I love her books - including Rivals which has been adapted for the TV show - so much that I always joke they'd be my specialist subject if I ever went on Mastermind.

Jilly Cooper has defended the casting of Alex Hassell as the leading man in Disney’s Rivals - despite him looking nothing like the “blond and beautiful” man she described in her books.

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+‘s Rivals may launch tomorrow but the Jilly Cooper adaptation has been living inside producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins’ head since he entered the TV industry 25 years ago.

Watch: Jilly Cooper is relieved that Rivals is good after some 'awful' TV adaptations Jilly Cooper has admitted her relief at Rivals being a good TV series as she has previously had to force ...