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The Topless Review was originally an attempt to keep a record of all the celebrity uncoverings that
occur in Newspapers, Magazines, and on Television in the current year. However in more recent years coverage of Newspapers has fallen away due to a combination of reduced awareness of anything of relevance and seemingly less instances of what used to be a fairly frequent event. Magazines even more so. (So now the sections for those have been removed rather than having them always empty).
Therefore it is only now the Television section that retains any concerted effort to be as comprehensive as possible.
Also see the TV & British Actresses pages for a comprehensive coverage of movies.
Symbols Used (entries added
since the last update will show the symbol in RED)
J definite topless shots with one or both
breasts bare with nipple(s) visible. This includes nipple slips and see-through
shots.
L technically topless but covered due to careful or
fortuitous posing.
K a topless image that is a new one from a
previously seen set or occasion (that I've not seen before). Unless it is
only very recently after the initial appearance.
N Images that may have been doctored by magazines
or turn out to be fakes, etc.
All dates are formatted in the UK style of dd/mm/yyyy
Traitors (C4 - ep1:17/02/2019; ep3:03/03/2019; ep4:10/03/2019; ep6: 24/03/2019) 6 part series
(ep1) J Emma Appleton (Feef Symonds)
- briefly topless as she undresses at night while walking with staid young solicitor Hugh Fenton (Luke Treadaway) in the grounds of her family estate after dinner as she suggests a swim in the lake to celebrate the end of the war but he defers and she goes in alone • briefly seen topless while making love on a bed atop her American OSS agent boyfriend Peter McCormick (Matt Lauria).
(ep3) J Emma Appleton (Feef Symonds)
- topless side view in a bedroom kissing with Hugh Fenton - then briefly topless underneath him in bed as they make love.
(ep4) J Emma Appleton (Feef Symonds)
- topless on her back starting to make love on a bed with Hugh until she has to stop feeling a discomfort which she does not understand • topless on her back in bed underneath Hugh on another occasion as they try again but the same problem arises - then topless as he moves down her body and gives her oral sex instead.
(ep6) J Emma Appleton (Feef Symonds)
- topless laying in a bath crying.
MotherFatherSon (BBC2 - ep1:06/03/2019; ep2:13/03/2019; ep4:27/04/2019; ep5:03/04/2019; ep7:17/04/2019) 8 part series
(ep1) J Katrine De Candole (Sophie)
- topless having sex laying on her back across sex client Caden (Billy Howle) on his bed after beforehand acting comprehensively naive according to his peculiar foreplay requirements.
(ep2) J Helen McCrory (Kathryn)
- topless sitting on her bed with her left breast seen as Scott Ruskin (Joseph Mawle) kisses it as they undress following an evening out together after they met at the homeless centre she works at and struck up a friendship - her face is not seen in the same shot so could be a body double.
(ep4) J Niamh Algar (Orla)
- briefly topless in the rehabilitation centre swimming pool undressing and then kissing with recovering young stroke victim Caden (Billy Howle) after he abandons her suggested suicide-by-drowning pact which has the desired effect of snapping him out of his depressed state of hopelessness and making him want to rebuild his shattered life.
(ep5) J Kerry Fox (Lena)
- laying in a hotel suite luxury bath when inexperienced teenaged Max (Nicolo Tucci), for whom she has been hired by Max's father to provide a sexual experience as a birthday treat, comes into the room - her nipples are just seen above the water as she talks to him - then rear nudity in a background mirror reflection as she steps out of the bath into a towel he is holding up for her.
(ep7) J Niamh Algar (Orla)
- brief topless side view with her right breast seen while sitting beside the swimming pool drying Caden's hair - a new part of the scene from episode 4 seen in flashback as Caden thinks back to it.
The Widow (ITV - ep5:22/04/2019) 8 part series
J Siobhan Finneran (Sally Newell)
- topless with the full of side her left breast seen while laying propped up on her front in bed talking with her lover Judith Gray (Alex Kingston) whom she recently met and whom she has helped to bring about a confidence to explore a different side of her sexuality - no nipple nudity.
Year of the Rabbit (C4 - ep1:10/06/2019) 6 part series
J Caitlin Walsh (Edith Spate)
- topless laying dead on a mortuary slab as Detective Inspector Rabbit (Matt Berry) and his assistant Sergeant Wilbur Strauss (Freddie Fox) break in at night to examine her body for clues concerning her murder (she is fully naked but wearing a very obvious merkin).
Deep Water (ITV - ep2:21/08/2019) 6 part series
J Rosalind Eleazar (Kate Riverty)
- topless and rear nudity in her bedroom as she removes her dressing gown and calls her estranged husband Guy Riverty (Alastair Mackenzie) into the room wanting some comfort from him while they are both desperately anxious about their missing daughter - then partial full frontal nudity from the side as he picks up her gown and puts it around her as she breaks down into tears and they hug.
The Capture (BBC1 - ep1:03/09/2019) 6 part series
J Holliday Grainger (DI Rachel Carey)
- the side of her left breast and rear nudity are briefly seen as she gets on top of her lover Commander Danny Hart (Ben Miles), with whom she is having an affair, on a hotel bed in celebratory mood while they are watching a news programme reporting the successful outcome of an investigation he has been involved in - no nipple nudity.
Dublin Murders (BBC1 - ep4:22/10/2019) 8-part drama
J Sarah Greene (Lexie Mangan)
- briefly topless as pathologists examine her body - close-ups only • topless laying on a mortuary table with a sewn-up autopsy scar running down her body as the pathologist gives his findings to the attending detectives - some or all of the views of her could be a dummy because the dead woman is an unexplained exact twin of Detective Cassie Maddox who is also present in the scene and played too by Sarah Greene.
A Christmas Carol (BBC1 - ep3:24/12/2019) 3-part drama
J Vinette Robinson (Mary Cratchit)
- rear nudity standing wearing just a corset as she reluctantly disrobes in the home of Ebenezer Scrooge (Guy Pearce) when he cold-heartedly exploits her desperate need for a loan to pay for her son's medical treatment, not for gratification but so he can intellectually learn of the demeaning acts a person can be made to undergo in exchange for money - her face is not seen in the same shot and so could be a body double.