While everyone was rooting for Charlie and Grandpa Joe, we had a different hero in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the rotund, chocolate-guzzling German kid, Augustus Gloop. If, like us, you ...

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A young girl bullied for being overweight was given the Augustus Gloop role in the school Willy Wonka Christmas play. Lexi Shaw was stunned when she received the play script in the post with her ...

He found fame as a child as Augustus Gloop in Gene Wilder's iconic movie Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. But even the most die hard fan would have struggled to recognise Michael Bollner when he ...

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory star Michael Böllner portrayed Augustus Gloop in the original film - but now claims no one knows who he is. In the 1971 favorite starring Gene Wilder, Böllner was ...

Derbyshire school investigates why girl who suffered years of bullying is cast as greedy boy in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - despite not auditioning Lexi Shaw, 12, who has been told she needs ...

The actor who played the original Augustus Gloop in the film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has hit out at the decision to remove "offensive" words and phrases in the Roald Dahl book.

The original Augustus Gloop from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory appeared on This Morning on Tuesday, 50 years on from the film being released. Michael Bollner, 62, is now a tax lawyer, and ...