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“I started off doing mobile discos and the one that used to really get everyone going was Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade” – Carl Cox |
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* One last milk of the possum
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The time is here! The Xmas Play-At-Home Popbitch Popquiz is now available for download.
With eight brand new rounds of pop culture weirdness spanning another year of nonsense, it will test your capacity to retain stupid celebrity bullshit to the limit. But if you can recall the dinner order that got James Corden banned from Balthazar, Ryan Giggs’ awful sex poetry and Kirstie Allsopp’s accidental swallowings then you’ll be golden.
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| >> Drama queens << |
| The real messy bitches |
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Episode 3 of the new Harry & Meghan Netflix series takes slightly scattershot aim at Royal correspondents: a topic that is guaranteed to get media piss bubbling.
We remember a documentary researcher once told us the biggest headaches they invariably endure when making shows about the Royals don’t come from the Palace. Nor do they come from nervous lawyers or network bosses.
The most consistent source of drama, hissy fits and egomania when touching anything related to the Windsors? Royal correspondents, who absolutely hate other reporters horning in on their patch and are unbelievably precious about their representation on screen. |
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| The Russian arms trafficker exchanged for Brittney Griner was the inspiration for the Nicolas Cage character in Lord Of War. |
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| Who’s asking what this week? |
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Which MP is such a constant testicle fondler (his own; through his trousers) that his staff developed genuine concerns about his health? |
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| >> Presents of mind << |
| A Coolidge Yule-idge |
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JB writes:
“I was once at a party around Christmas in Hollywood where the funniest woman alive turned up, Jennifer Coolidge. Not only did she give everyone a lift home, her car was piled up with great big fabulously gift-wrapped presents.
“She didn’t even know who she was going to give them to. She’d just bought loads of fantastic presents in the spirit of Christmas that she was giving out to people generally.” |
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| Samantha Morton once got offered the part of Tina Dingle. Her stepdad was furious when she turned it down as he loved Emmerdale. |
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| >> Casting on << |
| Following the lead |
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“Jenny in 2:22 A Ghost Story” has become the new “Billy Flynn/Mama Morton in Chicago”: the role of choice for dilettante celebs keen to get a West End credit.
Whereas Chicago was often a bit of a crapshoot, star-wise, there does appear to be one thing that connects the rather bold casting choices for Jenny.
First Cast: Lily Allen (1.5m Instagram followers)
Second Cast: Giovanna Fletcher (2m IG followers)
Third Cast: Laura Whitmore (1.5m IG followers)
Upcoming 2023 Cast: Cheryl (3.4m IG followers) |
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| BB writes: “Matt Hancock is a shitty tipper. He left his server a £5 tip on a £300 bill in a swanky London hotel bar. In addition, the staff had to watch him groping his girlfriend all evening.” |
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| >> Truth hurts << |
| A tricky interview |
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How are things going for Kelvin MacKenzie with his new media venture The Daily Disclosure?
Well, he posted a job listing on Facebook earlier this week, but comments were turned off by an admin after a prospective candidate asked how much experience they’d need in slandering dead football fans to be considered for the role. |
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| >> Breast intentions << |
| Milking it one last time |
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Farewell to Kirstie Alley, star of one of the finest Hollywood junket legends of all time.
Kirstie once had to interrupt a press event for her 1990 movie, Sibling Rivalry, because the pet possum she’d brought with her started squeaking. The poor thing was hungry but Kirstie hadn’t brought anything to feed it with, so asked one of the production PRs who had just returned from maternity leave if she’d mind feeding it instead. With her breast milk.
Even more weird? The PR obliged. |
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| Kirstie Alley kept a dozen ring-tailed lemurs and employed a full-time animal handler at $40k p.a. to look after them. |
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| More office politics |
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James Dyson was moaning in the Times today about how working from home is causing staff to miss out on the “vital in-person collaboration and momentum [needed] to innovate and succeed”. Former staff found this sentiment strange, given the lengths Dyson has gone to to avoid seeing or speaking to them in the office.
As we mentioned a few weeks back, Dyson maintains a personal ‘no-liquids’ policy whenever he’s in his Bristol office as he doesn’t have a private toilet there and doesn’t want to risk rubbing shoulders with anyone in the staff lavs.
That’s not the wildest length he goes to not get collared by colleagues though. When working at the Dyson campus in Malmesbury, Sir James would have a helicopter fly him the 29 miles from his house to work; then call his chauffeured Rolls Royce to collect him from the helipad to drive him the remaining 500m to his office entrance. |
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| Nominative Determinism Of The Week: National Highways has Howard Rhoades doing their press, and their “Winter Weather Leader” is Matt Salt. |
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| >> Chat shit << |
| Badger v Baboon gets banged |
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As everyone has been messing about with ChatGPT bot this week, getting the AI to ponder all sorts of topics, we figured we should see what it made of the perennial question: who would win in a fight between a baboon and a badger?
Its answer? “It is not appropriate to encourage or glorify violence, particularly between animals. Both baboons and badgers are fascinating creatures with their own unique characteristics and behaviors. It is important to respect and appreciate them for who they are, rather than imagining them engaging in violent confrontations.”
The future is fucking square. |
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Old Jokes Home
I recently joined a nudist colony.
The first few days were the hardest.
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