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* Grant Shapps’ personal poster
* Louis Tomlinson: shit cook
* PLUS: Tarantino x Nottingham |
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| >> Called out << |
| Phone tricks of the celebs |
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There is, we’re told, a little trick that celebrities employ if they’re ever caught by police talking on the phone while driving. Rather than try to hide the phone and pretend they weren’t on it, they fully lean in to the situation instead and continue to talk on the phone – even as the officer is stood at their window.
Officers’ best guess as to why celebs do this is that the celeb thinks it will give the officer some time to recognise who(/how famous) they are and hope they get let off.
Sadly, it didn’t work for Judge Rinder the other week, but we’re sure it’s worked for someone. |
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| >> Baby talk << |
| A little too revealing |
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Made In Chelsea’s Ashley James recently announced she was pregnant with her second child and – like any millennial mumfluencer worth her salt – has been posting about her pregnancy #journey since.
Parents often wonder how much is sensible to share on social media. Ashley clearly had second thoughts about one post she made to her Instagram Story about her baby getting extra wriggly around bedtime – deleting it almost as quickly as it went up.
Presumably it dawned on her that there’d be no repeat of the exclusive gender reveal spread she enjoyed last time with Hello! if she publicly referred to her bump as “she”. |
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| Dua Lipa’s dad says his personal hero is Alastair Campbell. |
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| >> Chris-cross << |
| Williamson scores phone goal |
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The bullying investigation into Gavin Williamson is shaping up to be the big political story of the week after a string of sweary texts that Gav sent to the former chief whip leaked over the weekend. You’d have thought he’d have learned to be a little smarter with his phone by now.
When Williamson was sacked as Defence Secretary for allegedly leaking classified information, he attempted to speak to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph – the paper where the revelations had appeared. Sadly for Williamson, he didn’t dial Chris Evans, editor of The Daily Telegraph, but instead dialled Chris Evans MP, a Labour member for a Welsh constituency… Oops! |
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| Rishi Sunak’s karaoke song of choice is Ice Ice Baby. |
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| >> Say what? << |
| The wit and wisdom of 1D |
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We enjoyed Louis Tomlinson’s interview with the Sunday Times this weekend. Among the choice quotes:
* “If I’m having a lazy day, I’m not going to lie, I rate Bargain Hunt.”
* “I can’t keep up with all these people posting 20 photographs a day on Instagram though, as all I’m doing is watching Bargain Hunt and that’s not that interesting.”
* “I like to inspire myself by watching interviews by other artists I admire like Arctic Monkeys and Noel Gallagher.”
* “I love a tuna sandwich with salad cream – not mayo – and some prawn cocktail crisps on the side. I’m a shit cook.” |
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| John Cleese was supposed to pop in to GBNews the other week to host their ‘comedy’ show Headliners. He didn’t though. |
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| >> Hood idea << |
| Tarantino: tied in Notts? |
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TJ writes:
“I did work experience at the Norfolk Film Commission in the 90s. One of the people running it had been to the Nottingham Film Festival and they said Tarantino had holed himself up in his hotel with videos of every Robin Hood film made, telling people he wanted to make a Robin Hood film one day. 100% relaying this as I heard it and have been telling people this for years.” |
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| I writes: “My friend did a video shoot of a Madonna vid in the early 90s. She was cast as an ‘Asian Madonna’. Same stipulations as Serena Williams on the shoot: no looking at, no speaking to etc.” |
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| >> Sign your name << |
| The poster boy for popularity |
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Grant Shapps made a lot of headlines over Tory conference for keeping a running tab of all the people who were pro- and anti-Liz Truss, compiling it all on a huge spreadsheet that he was showing off to everyone on his smartphone.
His obsession with keeping a written record of who is in and who is out dates back quite a while.
Someone who knew Shapps back when they were both members of the same youth club says that if he liked you, he would invite you into his bedroom where he’d get you to sign a giant poster that he had hanging on his wall – of himself… |
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| Keir Starmer paid a visit to the Baby Shard last week. He went to the gents while there and didn’t lock the cubicle that he took a slash in. |
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| >> Popquiz << |
| This week’s audio rounds |
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Last week saw audio rounds on the themes of Halloween, Foreign Titles and Vice City. This week, we’ve made five brand new quizzes out of tracks stripped from the Now That’s What I Call Music franchise.
You get a point for every song you correctly identify, and a point for every artist too.
Today’s theme: Now That’s What I Call… 1s
[Play it here] |
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| There’s hours and hours of audio rounds available for you to play in the Club Popbitch archives should this give you the taste for hundreds more. [Play them here] |
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| Thanks to: CC, garb, monstris, clark_bent, NB, UGQ, GP, AC, I, wiener_balcony |
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Old Jokes Home
Started a new job as an archaeologist today.
My life is now in ruins. |
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