The Second Serve // Ed Gein Chic

As we told you in last Thursday’s newsletter, Margot Robbie was down Sainsbury’s last week. Not doing a big shop, but hawking her new gin – in person – down at the head office.

She made a few other stops along the way too. Margot and Tom were also spotted at Gerry’s off-licence in Soho, and posted a video from The Ivy round the corner.

Not one for supermarket tribalism, they even stopped into Tesco HQ in Welwyn Garden city on the way home, where the Big Tesco heads were so impressed that she turned up in person that they actually plan on stocking the gin. She must be pleased her Wolf of Wall Street sales tactics are paying off.

Zandra Rhodes told the Mail On Sunday this week that she has a necklace made out of teeth, given to her by Divine. Hopefully they’re goat’s teeth, as she imagines – not human (Zandra never bothered to find out).

She’s not the only celeb with a penchant for odd pendants. Cat Deeley makes jewellery from her kids’ baby teeth and bits of their skin. She made a bangle out of her son Milo’s fingerprints, with his missing baby teeth dipped in gold and attached one by one.

Also embracing the Freudian Ed Gein aesthetic, Lenny Kravitz has a knob piercing made from his mum’s earrings. Whereas Marilyn Manson’s mum, Barb Warner, sensibly just kept his circumcised foreskin at home in a small jar instead.

Paris provided 300,000 condoms to the Olympic Village this year, which works out at a respectable 33 per competitor. Or two condoms a day for each day of the games.

The French don’t hold the horny gold medal, however. That award goes to Rio 2016, where 350,000 condoms, 100,000 female condoms and 175,000 packets of lubricant were delivered to the Olympic village.

But this year doubles the amount of condoms handed out at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. To be fair to those athletes though, they could only use them after the games were finished – due to pandemic restrictions.

It’s been a hell of a week for JD Vance. In any normal week “Is JD Vance The Worst Vice Presidential Pick Ever?” would be your worst headline. But not for JDV:

JD Vance Didn’t Have Sex With A Couch But He’s Still Extremely Weird
[Vox]

JD Vance Has a Burnt Monkey Testicle Problem
[Rolling Stone]

JD Vance Refers To Jan 6 QAnon Shaman As “A Fun Guy To Have A Beer With”
[Salon]

‘Creep’ JD Vance Under Fire For Previously Searching ‘Woman Dolphin’ On Social Media
[OK!]

JD Vance’s Online Reputation Graduates from Couch Lover to Dolphin Porn Enthusiast
[Gizmodo]

Still, it’s not all been bad. There was also “How JD Vance Became The New King Of America”.
[From the Telegraph – of course]

An all-timer of a correction in the weekend’s Guardian – apologising for an article “insensitively juxtaposed with an advertisement from the watch company Christopher Ward”.

The advertisement’s slogan? “Watch Porn”.

The article opposite? About how a woman’s world came crashing down when police knocked on their door accusing her husband of viewing child sex videos…

anon writes:
“Had the pleasure of working on the website for Jessica Seinfeld’s first cookbook back in the day, as part of a team for a small web company.

“Two abiding memories of her: firstly as a tightwad who didn’t want to pay even our low-end fees for the work. And the fact that she had all of the cooking knowledge and skills of Brooklyn Beckham. The content was all copied/curated (not created). Vanity on all levels.”

Last week saw quizzes on the themes of Rejected Hits, Trevor Horn and Olympic Anthems.

This week sees another set of quizzes to test the breadth and depth of your pop knowledge. Each mini-mix is made up of ten song snippets that you have to identify. Get a point for each title and a point for each artist. Ten songs twenty points.

Monday’s Theme: The Neptunes

[Play it here]

For sale! Cara Delevingne’s childhood home, a bargain £23 million!
[Not sure about the interiors]

How “lore” became pop’s hottest summer accessory
[Read on The Face]

Introducing: The screaming hairy armadillo
[He’s here and he’s perfect]