Internationally renowned, multi- award-winning British actor Ray Winstone, whose film and television career spans four decades, is to front his first-ever travel TV series Ray Win- stone’s Sicily which will be a 6 x 60’ series about the Italian island of Sicily.
Winstone has worked with Directors such as Scorsese and Spielberg as well as acting alongside Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Harrison Ford. With a reputation as a down to earth su- perstar, his love for his family Premier League Football Club West Ham Unit- ed is only equalled by that he has for the biggest Mediterranean island he has made his second home.
Sicily has ‘got under Winstone’s skin’ and in this series, he sets out to find out why. He’ll travel the length of the island alongside long-time friend, restau- rateur Bruno Zoccola (owner of VAL- ENTINA Deli & Kitchen), and sports broadcaster Matthew Lorenzo. With local characters and new-found friends as their guides, they make their discoveries via Sicilian homes, kitchens, churches, temples and vineyards.
In a courageous move, Winstone, Zoccola, Lorenzo and crew will also visit and film from the summit of the active volcano, Mount Etna, the Aeo- lian island of Lipari and the historic yet frantic city of Palermo.
Ray Winstone’s Sicily will premiere on BLAZE TV from Monday 7th Sep- tember 2020. The channel is available on Freeview 63, Freesat 162, Sky 164, Virgin Media 216, online on the BLAZE website and on the free app.
