The Daily Tonic: Spew Romance

One of the more beloved celebs we’ve heard recurring public snogging stories about is Andrew Scott, who has been spotted on multiple occasions putting on quite a display for punters.

The good news is that if you ever happen to brush up against him in a bar, it’s not too complicated to score a snog off him yourself. Apparently he’s such a sucker for compliments all you have to do is tell him how much you liked him in Sherlock/Pride/Fleabag and he’ll have slung his arms around your neck before you know it.

With all this talk about a second lockdown and the bringing forward of closing time for pubs, we’re interested to hear any tales you’ve got of celebrity lock-ins. Whether it’s a sneaky final pint for a VIP customer, or a full-blown after-hours sesh, we want to know what you got up to after the shutters came down.

Today’s Question: Which celebrities have you shared a lock-in with, and what happened?

Send your stories to hello@popbitch.com and we’ll give out a little goody bundle to our favourites.

MC writes:
“I once took a flight from London to Glasgow in 1999 with an LWT production team. We were all seated up front near an amorous Ralph Fiennes and Francesca Annis. Sat awkwardly across the aisle from them was the then up-and-coming actor, Daniel Craig.

“When we were all waiting at the baggage carousel, Fiennes and Annis began sucking face and fumbling like desperate teenagers – almost as if it was for Craig’s benefit.

“We later found out that when Fiennes had his an on-set affair with Annis in 1995 (the affair that saw him leave Alex Kingston) it took place at the time Kingston was filming Moll Flanders with… Daniel Craig.”

KC writes:
“I was at a show at the Marquee Club and one of the Whitesnake guys was at the bar next to me. I put my gum in an ashtray and he said ‘Are you done with that?’ to which I replied ‘Yes.’

“He then popped it in his mouth and grinned widely at me. I walked away.”

Two quick updates from the half-gossip files:

One reader has written in to tell us that most of Kajagoogoo shared a house about a mile from Nilsen’s Melrose Avenue address in the early 80s, just off Cricklewood Broadway. While they can’t say for sure that Limahl and Nilsen crossed paths, they do know Limahl was no stranger to the Cricklewood area in the 81/82/83 period as he was always at the parties they went to there.

Elsewhere, Eric Idle has set the record straight about the origins of the Monty Python Spam sketch to a different reader. He says he wasn’t the one who wrote it. Palin and Jones did. So if he ever did stay in a B&B in the Stoke/Biddulph area that only served Spam on its menu, it’s just an uncanny coincidence.

Sadly, no-one has been forthcoming with any evidence that John Major and Vanessa Feltz once had a thing. Yet.

Got any half-gossip you’ve heard but need confirming? hello@popbitch.com

Today’s audio round comes courtesy of ten of showbusiness’s most admired and respected shaggers. You get a point for identifying each of the shaggers in question (or, in a couple of cases, their band) PLUS you get a further point for identifying the song of theirs we’ve included.

You have 2’42 to get all twenty points, so snap to it.

[Play it here]

This video of Russia’s Red Army Choir singing Sex Bomb is doing the rounds again
[We approve]

RIP Longcat
[“As a cat, you were long”]