WHAT a great week it's been for some of our Scottish icons of stage and screen.

It has been announced that David Tennant and Billy Connolly are to star in a new movie set in Scotland titled What We Did On Our Holiday.

The film has been written by the team behind the hugely popular TV show Outnumbered and will begin filming over the summer – it's one to watch out for.

Rod Stewart went straight in at Number 1 in the charts this week with his new album Time.

It's the first new material the rocker has released in nearly two decades and his first Number 1 album at 34 years, which is hard to believe given his string of classic hits over the years.

I will never forget watching the hilarious Kenny Everett's take on Rod Stewart's leopard print leggings and derrière that seemed to expand every 10 seconds until he left the ground and flew off the stage – it's still one of my favourite comedy sketches of all time.

And now I come to think of it, there really aren't enough male singers sporting that look these days.

It was also announced this week that the King's Theatre in Glasgow will unveil a permanent memorial of to the late, great Gerard Kelly, who sadly passed away in 2010. He was a wonderful actor whose breakthrough role as the hapless author Willie Melvin in City Lights was one of the best characters ever to appear in a Scottish comedy.

Gerard went on to star in soaps such as EastEnders and Brookside, as well as taking on a hilarious cameo role in Ricky Gervais' Extras.

I had the pleasure of working with the great man while he was covering the Fred MacAulay Show on BBC Radio Scotland a few years ago.

I told him of how when I was little I used to boast to all my friends because he had been in my Aunt Marie's class at school and that I knew that his real name was Paul.

He laughed and said he remembered her and that he would now boast to all of his friends that he had worked with a real life Pop Idol – such a great sport and a true gentleman.

In Glasgow of course he will be best remembered and loved for his roles in pantomimes over the years and that's why it's so fitting that he is to be immortalised in the theatre he called home.

GERARD always appeared on stage with his trademark Doc Martens and it was decided to have a pair of his boots cast in bronze and put on a marble plinth.

This will be my second year starring in the Pavilion Theatre's annual panto as the Blue Fairy in The New Magical Adventures of Pinocchio and if I can achieve a tenth of what Mr Kelly did in the years to come I will be extremely lucky and proud.

So indeed, a great week for the Scots and with Gordon Strachan announcing his squad for next month's World Cup qualifier against Croatia, I'm hoping against hope that this run of good news continues for our national side – and that I can get a refund on that Brazil guide book I rather optimistically purchased last year.

A huge thank you to all the staff at the Forge Colour Print Centre in Glasgow for all their help and fabulous work on our Hen Party T-Shirts. They did a really professional job – so much so that the rest of the passengers on our plane are in for a very colourful ride.