After a brief spell in the legal wilderness, it looks like the trusty old injunction is enjoying a moment in the sun again. A couple of big names have taken out gagging orders recently – but whatever happened to all those old ones from a few years back? Weren’t we supposed to tidy that all up?
Weird though it seems, Sam Smith’s song – Writing’s On The Wall – has become the first Bond theme ever to top the charts. How has Sam Smith managed it? We stripped all twenty-three Bond songs down to their bare essentials to see if there was any explanation for it. Any explanation at all.
Cilla Black always claimed she wanted to remembered first and foremost as a singer, not as a TV presenter. But to reduce her career to just those two options is to do the woman a great disservice. She was a true polymath, and it is our honour and privilege to recount some of her other great achievements.
Jimmy Carr and Chris Moyles were just the smug and arrogant tips of the iceberg. Tax avoidance is rife in the celebrity class – from those too greedy to stay clear of the too-good-to-be-true schemes, to those too thick to understand what their financial advisers are telling them. But how do you make money from a tax scheme? Andy why do people keep picking on the poor old film industry?