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#Club146 11.11.24 – Scandal + slander II

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* IACGMOH Returns!

* Tulisa N-Dubz is back!

* PLUS: 60 mins of Intros!

>> Celebrity Squares <<
Get Them Out of Here
It’s not been a good week for celebrities. All those cringeworthy election cameos, and American voters just largely ignored them.Our favourite moment of election night was MSNBC host Joy Reid’s on-air incredulity at how Kamala Harris didn’t win:

“This really was an historic, flawlessly run campaign. Queen Latifah never endorses anyone – she came out and endorsed! She had every prominent celebrity voice. She had the Swifties; she had the Beyhive. You could not have run a better campaign!”

And yet…

Thankfully in Britain, celebrities are about to get back to doing what they do best – eating kangaroo anus on TV for attention.

I’m a Celeb… starts again on ITV1 next Sunday.

As ever, a random collection of self-publicists are tasked with endearing themselves to viewers. We’d thought we’d use this week’s issue to help. Here’s a selection of some backstories they probably won’t be telling about themselves on VT next week.

Excellent advice this weekend from Jon Ronson, “People who are able to write for a living shouldn’t fuck it all up on Twitter”.
>> Coleen Rooney <<
More than just Wagatha
Coleen is, of course, forever deified in public consciousness as the Wagatha Christie sleuth. But we knew even a decade ago she had a fearsome intellect. In his Man Utd days, Wayne and Coleen would often go to their local Wilmslow pub, The Botanist, for the pub quiz. And on many occasions, would go home the victors. Bar staff said they were particularly good at a word search, and that they always donated the booze prize for winning the quiz to the runners-up.
Coleen should be OK on the food front. She says she’s not really a biscuit girl, except for Nice biscuits in her childhood and does “like the occasional chocolate finger”.
>> Tulisa <<
It’s All Codes
We reported back in 2014 that Tulisa had been approached by IACBMOH bookers but was “holding out for 500k”. 11 years later, we’re not sure how much she ended up with, but after a bad few years including a revenge porn court case, the Sun on Sunday drugs sting, and rejoining N-Dubz on their not-entirely-successful comeback tours, we wish her (and her remarkable lip/cheek filler) well in the jungle.

Mind you, she’s going to have up her chat skills if she’s going to impress her campmates. This is the nonsense she described to the Fake Sheikh when she was explaining how she got her dealer to sort the drugs’ order.
“I’ll say ‘Hi’ and he’ll be like ‘Ummm, how many sweets do you want?’ And I’ll say ‘Oh, just a nice bag of sweets.’ And he goes ‘How big of a bag?’ and I’ll say, maybe, like, ‘Four sweets.’ And I’m referring to what he knows is what.”

“He’ll go ‘What kind of sweets do you want?’ and I’ll go ‘I want the green sweets.’ Or I’ll go – not for me, because I don’t do it, but for my mates – I’ll go ‘I want the white sweets.’ And then he gets it. It’s all codes.”

Tulisa went to the same North London school as Ed and David Miliband. And football pundit Joe Cole.
>> Jane Moore <<
Loose But Quiet
Loose Women pundit Jane attended a Halloween event for Thorpe Park, where media guests were given the run of the place for the night, sampling all the iconic rides without the usual queues.At one point, Jane sauntered up to the Nemesis ride and asked the only two people on it if she could join. They invited her to sit next to them – but were surprised then to discover that, as the ride set off and the whiplash kicked in, Moore made absolutely no sound, expression or show of emotion for the entire thing.

And then, when it was finished, walked off in total silence.

The pair that Jane sat next to sent the story in to Popbitch, which of course we wrote up, coming to the attention of the rest of the Loose Women – who got Jane to recount the story on air in full.

[Watch on YouTube]

Oti Mabuse managed to steer clear of the Strictly Curse, but only just. One of the crew described seeing her, and celeb partner of the time Kelvin Fletcher, looking very, very friendly at a members club party for the cast.
>> Richard Coles <<
Glad to be Gay
On coming out to his family – The Rev said “I played Tom Robinson’s song ‘Glad To Be Gay’ four times in a row. Afterwards, my mother turned and said to me, ‘Are you trying to tell me something, dear?'”

Probably not something that would have happened to Richard’s old Communards bandmate.

One of our favourite old 80s pop stories concerned Andy Bell, from Erasure, whose fun evening on Hampstead Heath getting an anonymous blowie from someone in a motorbike helmet was tempered somewhat by the dawning realisation that the masked enthusiast was in fact his chart rival, Jimmy Somerville.

When Jimmy sold his house in Islington some years back, the new owner acquired the artwork that was left over. Including an oil painting of the pop star portrayed as a naked saint, wrapped in a huge snake.
>> Danny Jones <<
McFly on the Wall
Danny got a cameo in one of his bandmate Harry Judd’s finest pop star stories. Back when McFly were topping the charts they were invited out to LA to meet US records execs. Upon walking into a Hollywood party, the band was greeted by Lindsay Lohan, who took such a liking to drummer Harry that she dragged him off to a bedroom.

Things started to move fast, but in the throes of passion, the door opened and Danny walked in.

“Oops, sorry mate”, he exclaimed as he tried backing out of the door, “Wrong room”.

Harry tried to get back to where they were, but Lindsey was bored with the idea, instead rolling over and putting on her eye mask ready for sleep.

It’s a bad time to be in Australia. This month across racecourses there’s a speaking tour by one of UK’s most wooden speakers, Michael Owen. Next month in Melbourne and Sydney, “An audience with Boris Johnson”.
>> AUDIO QUIZ <<
2ManyDJs Style
We found this audio file when tidying the PB laptop this weekend. One hour of intros put together by Dave and Stephen Dewaele, aka 2ManyDjs/Soulwax.

Answers next week…

[Listen/play here]

We mentioned in Thursday’s issue that Ivanka celebrated the Trump victory in head-to-toe Democrat blue. But we didn’t spot Jill Biden’s all-red trouser suit.
>> Hmmms <<
A few quick things
GB News’ coverage of the two minutes silence at the cenotaph went as well as you’d expect

[Watch here]

Raygun might have retired but she lives on in NFL celebrations

[Camryn Bynum’s touchdown]

Buy in pesos, save a fortune

[Read on Buenos Aires Herald]

Thanks to: PD, DSDW, SB, L,
Old Jokes Home

A family goes into a pet shop and says they need to buy a rabbit for their little daughter.

The pet shop owner leans over to the girl and says, “Aw, which do you prefer, the fluffy white one or the cute little brown one?”

“I don’t mind”, she replies, “I don’t really think my
snake will care.

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