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* The media omertà strikes again
* The Conserative motley crew
* PLUS: 750kg of nitrous oxide |
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>> Quoted Price << |
The trick no longer works |
Katie Price used to have a foolproof method for keeping herself out of the media if she didn’t want to be quoted: peppering her answers to journalists with so much swearing that her words would be rendered unprintable.
(Or, to quote her exactly: “You cunts can’t publish a fucking word of this, can you? Now you can all fuck off and eat my shit.”)
Sadly, it seems like the jig is up. Katie was caught unleashing a foul mouthed tirade at karaoke over the weekend – and it’s been duly printed up by the Mail. But if anyone knows what “I f****** love you c****** f****** s******* b*******!” is supposed to mean, we’re all ears. |
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After all the column inches about how Rishi Sunak fasts from Sunday evening to Tuesday morning, the Times reports seeing him speak at Accrington Stanley FC on a Monday in January, swigging a can of Sprite and eating a Twix. |
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>> Tittle tatle << |
A Messi situation |
David Beckham got himself a hearty booing in Hong Kong this weekend after an exhibition match between his Inter Miami side and a Hong Kong XI ended without an on-pitch appearance from star player Lionel Messi.
Fans who paid hundreds of dollars for tickets were furious not to get to see him in action and drowned out Beckham’s post-match speech with jeers and complaints.
In the aftermath, there’s been a lot of wishy-washy talk about “the organisers” being at fault for this event (having been given significant sums of government money to arrange something so anticlimactic) but no-one appears willing to actually point a finger at the body responsible.
Looks like it’s that good old media omertà doing its thing once again, because the mysterious blame-shirking organisers turn out to be… Tatler Asia! |
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@variety Feb 4th 3:54pm “Henry Cavill Says Argylle Sequels Depend on ‘Whether the Audience Likes What We’ve Done'”
@variety Feb 4th 4:53pm “Matthew Vaughn’s globe-trotting spy comedy Argylle sputtered in its box office debut, earning a dismal $18 million” |
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>> Tripped up << |
Another naughty boy |
Kyle Walker has been in the spotlight a lot recently for the whole second family story – but the reasons behind his England full back rival Kieran Trippier’s loss of form haven’t been much discussed.
Seems like Mrs Trippier found out about what (and who) Kieran likes to get up to when he’s out on the town and Trips has been in the doghouse ever since… |
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The Sun is reporting today that one Premier League player once spent £10,000 on nitrous oxide for a single party. On Amazon, that’ll easily get you 20,000 of the little canisters – roughly 750kg of product. |
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>> Daddy issues << |
An unrepresentative position |
Further tales reach us of celebrity mega-agency YMU and the complications involved in filling your payroll with famous clients’ family members.
One of Eamonn Holmes’ sons used to work at the agency back when they represented his dad. It was a cushty little position to begin with – but the son soon discovered just how few jobs the rest of the agency were putting his old man up for (and how low down the list he was whenever they did suggest him for anything). He was so angry with them for disrespecting his dad that way that he left. |
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RIP Aston Barrett, former bassist of Bob Marley & The Wailers. Known as “Family Man” on account of the number of kids he fathered: 41. |
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>> Sleazy does it << |
The Conservative’s motley crew |
Turns out that the curious little love triangle at the heart of the upcoming Wellingborough by-election we mentioned on Thursday is just the start of the classic Tory sleaze in that contest.
To recap: Helen Harrison (the Tory candidate for the seat) is the girlfriend of outgoing MP Peter Bone (who was recalled by constituents after allegations of sexual misconduct plagued him). Helen’s candidacy is backed by Peter’s ex-wife (who Peter cheated on with Helen) but the full list of backers is a real rogues’ gallery.
Helen’s proposer was Matthew Binley – a former police officer who spent four months in prison for perverting the course of justice, covering up a relative’s drink-driving smash.
And one of the other backers is Bhupendra Patel, a former mayor of Wellingborough who was handed a suspended jail sentence after committing (and admitting to) benefit fraud. |
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Re Thursday’s Big Q: It wasn’t Chris Grayling, but when he was Transport Secretary the number of photos of trains he had up in his office (2) was massively outnumbered by the photos he had of hedgehogs (5). |
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>> Way out West II << |
More Fred’n’Rose content |
DS writes:
“A friend cut the controversial Channel 5 doc on Fred West. Police were happy to be involved and gave them all the audio of the police interviews and other stuff – including Rose West’s home videos.
“While they were going through the home videos (all very dull) something caught their eye – a weird flash frame. We went through it frame by frame until we got to the glitch which was where something had been taped over. The result was one single frame of Rose –completely naked – leaping at the camera.” |
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According to a staffer at a previous prison (HMP Low Newton) Rose West was a big fan of the Harry Potter books. |
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>> Popbits << |
This week’s audio quizzes |
Last week, themes included songs by Masked Singers, songs from Electric Lady Studios and Bardcore Covers.
This week, we’ve got another five lined up ready for your attention. Today is the fifth in our collection of Opposites. Across two and a half minutes, we’ll play you snippets from five pairs of songs that are the opposite of one another. You need to name the song title (for a point) and the band/artist (for a second point).
Get all ten songs and artists, you get twenty points. A piece of cake.
[Play it here] |
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Try the four other Opposites rounds (or any of the 550+ assorted others) in the Popbitch Audio Archive [here] |
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Thanks to: tricky, clark_bent, DS, DG, TB, earl_of_essex |
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Old Jokes Home
Just been sacked from my job at Boeing.
Ah, well. As one door closes, another one opens… |
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