You can spot those dark blue “I rowed the Atlantic” T-shirts in the video and photos below. I recognize the Sons of Norway and there may be some of the American crew, Team Epoch, there too.

A rare and beautiful thing - Bert smiling

Our James Cash, looking very British

James embracing terra firma

Beers in Barbados!

Reunion

James greets his wife, Anna

Facing the Atlantic

It's always noon somewhere

Check out the Talisker tracking site and the Facing the Atlantic Facebook page for more photos of Bert and James’ arrival in Barbados.

Jess9191 made the perfect choice by using “Like A Boss” by The Lonely Island for a video you’ll never forget. So, it’s OK if you watch it over and over again … we did!

No one does King as well as Bill Compton does. Bill’s the Boss! Hell yeah!

Just one more time …

“I’m the boss!”

If you have something you’d like to see on “Simply Moyer Spotlights the Fan” we’d love to hear from you. Whether it’s a creation by you or a friend, or you simply found it on the web and want to share your discovery, just drop us a line at: smadmin@simplymoyer.com The only requirement? It’s gotta contain Steve in some form … not too hard, eh?

Last night at 11:08 p.m. EST (4:08 GMT or 12:08 a.m. Bajan time) Bertie and James crossed the finish line of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge! Our brave, and incredibly resilient, rowers will bring Patience into the Port St. Charles Yacht Club today around 6 a.m. EST after a voyage of 2,752 miles and 63 days, 16 hours, and 8 minutes. Sam and Anna, and a host of friends and family are waiting there to greet them, beers in hand I hope!

Photos courtesy of Samantha Scott Thomas

Bert Portal and James Cash have raised, to date, 364,000 GBP ($575,000 US) for Facing the World!

CONGRATULATIONS!

We are incredibly proud to be a small part of Facing the Atlantic’s success and we are incredibly proud of Bertie and James for finishing the race after a mountain of difficulties. These men are true heroes. The money they’ve raised for Facing the World will help change the lives of many, many children.

Also, congratulations to the winner of our “For the Love of Bertie and James” contest, Lizzie1701! Good guessin,’ Lizzie!

Photo Credit/David Poole

Steve in promotional shot for Ny-Lon (2004)

New series NY-LON could be billed as summer 2004′s When Harry Met Sally, Friends and Sex and the City rolled into one. Rob Driscoll meets its star Stephen Moyer

Stephen Moyer is hoping public reaction to his latest starring role in a major TV drama series is a bit healthier than the last time around. “I was accosted in Sainsbury’s,” recalls the 34-year-old actor, grimacing at the memory. “This woman rushed up to me and started shouting, ‘How dare you!’ plus a few more unprintable things.” The drama in question was Channel 4′s controversial two-part Men Only, in which Moyer played Jason, one of a group of morally-questionable males dabbling in dangerous areas of sex and drugs, and ultimately, gang rape.

Not that he is necessarily excusing that woman’s unprovoked ‘attack’ on him, that day in his local supermarket. But it certainly took him by surprise. He had only recently returned from a three-month shoot in Slovakia for another film, and had missed the TV transmission of Men Only in 2001. “I’d been keeping in touch with all the other guys in the drama, like Marc Warren, Martin Freeman and Daniel Ryan, but as I was in Slovakia I never got to see the show, or read any of the buzz around it,” said Moyer. “Marc and Martin got that kind of negative reaction much more in the immediate aftermath of the programme going out – so in retrospect, I was glad I wasn’t here!”

“It was pretty exceptional. People viewed it that the boys in Men Only got away with it, because there was no court case and they didn’t go down – but anyone who looked deeper into it would realise that all the characters were going through their own mental breakdowns at that time, and that’s why I still think it’s a very clever piece of drama.”

Moyer’s latest small-screen role should hopefully elicit a much more positive response from passers-by as his character is nothing less than a total romantic. NY-LON is a six-part drama, again from Channel 4, which tells the story of a very modern, long-distance love affair, set in two great cities, New York and London (hence the title). The series is penned by Simon Burke – creator of Clive (King Arthur) Owen’s fondly-remembered ITV drama series Chancer, who more recently adapted Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth to great acclaim for Channel 4.

Edie and Michael (Ny-Lon)

Moyer stars as Michael, a street-smart, hard-nosed city trader who meets, by sheer chance, New Yorker Edie (Rashida Jones) one night in a London pub. She’s had her bag stolen, he tries to help her, and the attraction would seem to be instant, sparky and mutual. So much so that he can’t get her out of her head, so when Edie returns to New York the next day, Michael catches the next flight out there to continue the hardly-begun romance.

Impetuous, impulsive, foolish behaviour? Or splendidly, gorgeously upbeat, romantic and optimistic? Of course, not everyone can afford to hop on a plane and travel 30,000 miles, ostensibly to drop off an earring, and it’s a definite bonus that Michael is a high-flying broker with a lifestyle to match. “It IS incredibly romantic,” says Essex-born Moyer. “When you fall for somebody, you don’t think about the practicalities of it – you just go feet first.”

Moyer knows what he’s talking about. He’s done it himself; had that long-distance love affair, that is. The girl he was wooing lived even further away, in Los Angeles, yet they kept up the agonising, jet-lagged to-ing and fro-ing for a fair while. “I met her at 8.30pm on New Year’s Eve, 1997, in Los Angeles, and I moved in at 6am on New Year’s Day – around 10 hours later,” he recalls, only revealing the details when pushed. “She was an actress, and it lasted a few months. I’d be in LA, then she’d come to London. Literally, at the beginning, we were having just hours apart. At the time, I was making the drama series Ultraviolet for Channel 4. I’d fly out to LA, and three hours later she’d get the next flight back. Sure, it was all very romantic, and very exciting, and while you’re working it’s fine, because you’ve got some cash. But it’s expensive and difficult, and after a couple of months, when you need to be back home looking for work, the varnish gets tarnished. On reflection, I was a bit too young to handle it all properly.”

The long-distance love affair in NY-LON is similarly fraught with logistical difficulties – one of them being the girl’s total incredulity when the guy turns up at her New York pad, leading her to describe him as a ‘crazy British stalker’. Indeed, at the outset, these two people would seem to have little in common. He’s a work-obsessed London city boy, she’s a laid-back Manhattanite, immersed in the indie music scene. One chance look, one coincidence in a million, and both their worlds are changed forever.

Candid of Steve, 2004

Moyer was so determined to land the role of Michael he auditioned five times. After he’d read the script, he was bowled over by the coincidences with his own life, and to a certain extent, his character. “Later on it becomes apparent that Michael is a West Ham supporter, and he’s from Essex – and that’s me!” says Moyer, who was born in Herongate, near Brentwood. “So much of it comes back to my background. And there are not many of us West Ham supporters left! There are other similarities with our characters, though, if anything, I think I’m a bit more impulsive! He’s quite dark, and there are a lot of barriers in his life. He is from a Catholic background, and when, at the end of Episode One, his ex-girlfriend turns up, pregnant with his child, he has to see that through; he has a strict moral code, and that’s crippling in a way.”

Moyer himself has two children – a son, Billy, aged four, from a previous relationship, and two-year-old Lilac, by his current partner, journalist Lorian. Moyer clearly loves being around children but he misses his family whenever he’s away, as with his frequent New York sojourns while filming NY-LON. “Working there was completely different from being there as a tourist. The pace and drive is there, but I did feel relaxed there. Nevertheless, I just kept wanting to be in London. For the family, really, and Hampstead Heath.”

Moyer hopes that NY-LON strikes a chord with today’s modern TV audience. For a start, it’s his biggest profile work yet, in a career where, Men Only apart, he’s tended to land supporting parts in many popular shows. But NY-LON, although essentially an accessible, feel good affair, is notably more ambitious than a lot of mainstream TV drama. “It’s very cleverly shot, and demands your attention,” explains Moyer, “as there’s a fair bit of cross-cutting and split screen, and there are time re-winds too, as we are dealing with two cities separated by eight hours each day. I know it’s very fashionable to use split screen these days, but what I like about what Simon Burke has done is that he only uses it when a character is thinking about another one, or if there’s a phone call – when it has purpose, and it’s never superfluous. It’s not a namby-pamby romance either. They’re both gutsy people from different walks of life, they’re not going to take any rubbish, but she completely rocks his world, and that’s what I think is the crux of this piece. He’s not used to having something like that happen to him. I was hooked 10 pages into the script.”

Elvis?

Moyer’s next role for television will be yet another turnaround in character; he’ll be playing a 1960s, Billy Fury-style rock star in the third part of The Quest, David Jason’s nostalgic, semi-autobiographical comedy-drama. “It’s a really cool part,” says Moyer. “The character’s called Danny Duke, a very slick English pop star, all combed-back, quiffed hair, and I do a couple of Elvis-like songs.” That part of the proceedings came surprisingly easy for Moyer. In his late teens he was the lead singer of a band called Prophecy. “We weren’t rubbish. We got offered a contract when we were 18,” says Moyer, not a little proudly. “But we were all doing our A-levels, I’d just got into [drama school] LAMDA, the others were going to university or music college, and we were all about to do what we really wanted to do with our lives. So we said no.”

Does he have any regrets now?

“What, about being a pop star? No, none at all,” he smiles. “I had a decent enough voice, and I played the harmonica. But I think I was always itching to act, and these days, I reckon there’s a bit more longevity in that career.”

And let’s just hope he doesn’t get attacked in any more supermarkets.

That’s right; guess what day and time Bertie and James will cross the finish line of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge and you’ll win a Limited Edition Hearts of Cherry Gift Box from Sjaak’s.

SWEET!

This beautiful handmade gift box is made by a women’s cooperative in Thailand using tree free fibers such as mulberry. This box is then filled with dark chocolate Hearts of Cherry; a dark cherry truffle.

Here’s what you gotta do:

• Guess what day and time Bertie and James will cross the finish line. That’s not when they row up to the dock in Port St. Charles, but when they reach the last waypoint out in the water near Barbados. Their last estimate is for Tuesday so keep an eye on the tracking site to make your guess.
• Leave your guess in the comments below no later than midnight on Saturday, February 4! Leave only one guess, please.
• We’ll announce the winner after we’re done celebrating the completion of their adventure with all sorts of alcoholic beverages.
• Write to us at smadmin@simplymoyer.com if you have questions.

What better way to celebrate the completion of a long and difficult journey across the Atlantic for Facing the World than chocolate! (OK, beer, but we can’t mail that to you.) Get busy! You have only TWO DAYS to make your guess!

Remember, you can still donate to Facing the Atlantic/Facing the World on their JustGiving site until about the middle of March!

She also discussed how Sookie and Bill might be spending time getting naked with other characters this season, but there is no jealousy in real life. “It would be too hard to imagine how I would feel if I walked in on him and he was with someone else for real. But in reality it’s not something that I actually feel, because it’s not real. It’s just the show.”

And how does she feel about not spending as much time with Steve on set? Anna isn’t as happy with that side of it. She said: “I really like spending as much time with him as possible. While the show isn’t our whole life, we have a life outside of the show, I certainly love getting to see my husband as opposed to being stuck in some random country in the middle of nowhere and not seeing him for five months.”

To read the entire interview, please visit The Daily Record.

Is that coffee or tea, Steve?

Stephen Moyer has revealed he finds it easy moving between the UK and the US.
The True Blood star was born in Essex but now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Anna Paquin, and said his lifestyle changes depending on where he is.

He said: “When I’m here I tend to drink coffee all day. And when I’m in England, I don’t even think of drinking coffee, I only drink tea. And if I’m making toast here I have peanut butter and jam, and I would never dream of doing that in the UK, I’d have Marmite. I skateboard everywhere here, and I just wouldn’t do that in London.”

But the 42-year-old admitted some of his expressions still confuse his American friends.

“I’ll say, ‘I’m popping out for a cheeky fag’ and they’ll say, ‘Why is it cheeky?’ Or if I say, ‘You saucy moo’ it’s, ‘What is saucy?’,” said the actor.

Stephen said it was only when he decided to settle in the UK that he became hot property in the States.

“The interesting thing about it, honestly, is that I wasn’t looking for it any more. I had decided I wasn’t going to come to America that year for pilot season. And of course as soon as you say no, the bosses are much more interested than they usually are,” he said.

:: The fourth series of True Blood starts on FX on Sunday, February 5.

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To say that Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have gained a lot of public exposure recently would be an understatement. When they’re not nearly naked on True Blood, you can find them completely naked on the cover of Rolling Stone. But they’re taking themselves seriously—when it comes to their fitness, at least.

While Moyer remains relatively quiet about how he stays in killer shape, Paquin has no trouble admitting that she’s not a cheeseburger-eating kind of girl. Instead, she told Self that she’s typically chowing down on fruits and veggies. But she also has another secret up her…well, wherever she keeps them.

One of the ways she reportedly stays fit is by planning workouts she can do anywhere—without having to rely on the hotel “gyms.”

Obviously, Men’s Health doesn’t remember the layout they did on Steve for their July/August issue which included an interview that discussed his workout and eating habits, a rockin’ cover shot and a behind the scenes video. Go watch the video again, you won’t be sorry. Video.

July/August issue of Men's Health

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