The Daily Tonic: The Ghost Of Alex Salmond

Dominic Raab needs no help embarrassing himself, obviously. But seeing as he’s been the one chatting about how he’d only subjugate himself in front of the missus…

One poor Popbitch reader has recently been reminded of the fact that she once shagged Dominic Raab at a wedding in the 90s. The evening is somewhat hazy in her memory, but she remembers a few key things.

She remembers him being kind enough to walk her back to the pub where she was staying, after she’d spent the whole night laughing at his politics. She remembers him waking up the pub’s other guests when he started doing some comedy schtick in an extra-loud ‘Tory Boy’ voice.

But the truly indelible memory she has is of him dancing around her tiny hotel room wearing nothing but a frilly shower cap.

Thanks for all your celebrity cameo sightings. Today we want to know if any of you have ever played a game with somebody famous. It could be a sport, cards, darts, pool, a board game, a video game, a pub quiz, some sort of fairground attraction – anything really.

Who’s good? Who’s bad? Who cheats? Who gets over-competitive and sulky? We want to know.

Tell us your stories of game-playing celebs and we’ve got some digital Popbitch goody bags for the best ones: hello@popbitch.com

SB writes:
“Back in 2000, I worked at the now-closed Books Etc in the Whiteley’s shopping centre in Bayswater. One busy afternoon while I was head down, working the register, someone threw five copies of ‘The Multi-Orgasmic Man’ on the desk. I looked up and the person in front of me said ‘Yeah, I am Paul Weller… and yeah, it fucking works.’

“I asked him why he needed five copies and he said they were for friends — but he left me one. ‘Try it,’ he called behind him as he walked out. ‘It really fucking works!’

“I was in my mid-20s at the time, so I didn’t need to worry about that — I returned it and got the refund.”

You may be wondering, after yesterday’s story of Anthony Ainley’s infamous fanny photo album, where The Master managed to recruit so many models. Most of them were of his own acquaintance, but he was apparently well-known at his cricket club for approaching any new recruit to the team to offer his photography services.

He would sidle up to them to ask: “Do you have any naked photographs of your wife?”

If they told him no, he would respond – after a brief pause:

“…would you like some?”

BoneyMLP writes:
“Sam Fox is in an episode of US sitcom Charles In Charge. More than a cameo, she’s in most of the episode ‘Paper Covers Rock’ as a love interest for Scott Baio’s character Charles. Her character? A rock star called Samantha Steele.”
[See here]

RG writes:
“Joe Swash was in the first ever episode of Club Reps, an ITV docu-series about hotel workers in Ibiza. Swash, in Matrix-style sunglasses, and his Essex lad pals get told off for trashing a hotel room and evicted from the hotel by manager Maz. It’s pretty amazing.”
[See here]

CC writes:
“Here’s an inexplicable scene from a movie I have never seen: Ghosts Can’t Do It, featuring Bo Derek and Donald Trump. It finally proves that Bo Derek can act. She delivers the line ‘You’re too pretty to be bad’ to Donald Trump without laughing.”
[See here]

Another eclectic selection of pop songs from the last forty or so years, snipped up and strung back together.

There’s ten of them in here. You get a point for every artist you correctly name. You get another point for every title you get. Twenty points in total.

[Audio Round #88]

By far, people’s favourite cameo was Alex Salmond playing a ghost in Pakistani soap opera, The Castle
[Read about it here]

Faye from Steps got some pretty fruity dialogue in her short-lived film career
[Very NSFW]

An anatomically correct otter cake
[See on Twitter]