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Email stories to us hello@popbitch.com* Nadine surprisingly Adorried
* Dan Wootton’s website ransom
* PLUS: Calvin Harris in Dubai |
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| >> Sly fox << |
| According to the scriptures |
| While the world waits for her to write the\ next Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is having the time of her life playing dominatrixes in music videos instead. But it’s not for want of trying on her agency’s part.
Last week a Popbitch reader sat down next to someone on a train who was fiddling with a huge iPad, looking at documents marked out as potential P W-B projects.
We haven’t seen anything online yet, but thanks to Apple’s blinding brightness settings we now know there’s a project out there which has a “mood-board”, is called The Original, written by Seth Reiss, with Shannon Murphy attached to direct.
The script (watermarked in huge letters with PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE) sounds pretty dystopian. It’s set in a world where a single female and a male “original” have “replicants” made of themselves. From the iPad it appears Phoebe is linked with the role of “female original”.
Sadly, no hot priests to report. |
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| Hannah Waddingham is burnishing her nice-guy reputation. She was being escorted through Heathrow from first class BA from Miami last Friday but kindly stopped to help a family struggling with getting their bags up some stairs. |
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| >> Taken! << |
| Hostage negotiations |
| Looks as though Dan Wootton forgot to renew his domain, danwootton.com, earlier this year – and it appears some mischievous online squatters have taken hold of it instead.
We hear Dan has tried to get it back, but there’s currently a bit of haggling going on. Dan offered to buy it for $4K, but the squatters are holding firm at $25K.
In the meantime, they’re still receiving a fair few emails to the domain. Mostly about his show. Some from fans trying to discuss their subscriptions to his newsletter. And, every three weeks, a £100 receipt for a haircut.FYI: We noticed that the URL redirects somewhere very different now. |
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| There are actually three copies of the famous white dress Sharon Stone wore in Basic Instinct. One was donated to a charity, one’s in a museum, and the one she actually wore Stone keeps in a safe. |
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| >> Big Questions << |
| Who’s opening up this week? |
| Which celebrity super-couple have a very active life outside of their wholesome marriage at the insistence of the younger half of the pair? Because of their jobs in different worlds, the couple split their time between London and LA, leaving a trail of lovesick young men and signed NDAs in their wake. |
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| >> The art of Baddiel II << |
| He walnut stand for this! |
| David Baddiel can be as particular in person as he is in his correspondence.
On a work trip to Edinburgh, after arriving at the booked hotel, he wasn’t best pleased to be in an ordinary room and not a suite.
A hastily arranged upgrade was sorted only for David to claim it was still too small.
The team phoned around to the other fancy hotels in the city and thankfully managed to transfer him to something acceptable.
When they found he’d opened every pack of nuts in the mini bar of the too-small-suite he vacated, and left them to pick up the bill. |
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| Spotted: A rather dishevelled George Osborne last Sunday popping into the shop at Hauser and Wurth Bruton for a pint of milk and some bread. His hair looked straight off the pillow and he was in a grizzly old Barbour jacket but didn’t baulk at the eye-watering prices. |
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| >> OutFoxed << |
| Murdochs beaten by LA |
| It’s been a good October for the Murdochs.Cable ratings for October came out yesterday and saw Fox News take the top five places, crushing competitors like CNN and MSNBC. Plus Fox Sports had a huge month broadcasting the MLB world series. LA Dodgers v NY Yankees captured viewers attention so much that media buyers said Fox was raking in around $50m in ad revenues per broadcast.
And yet, there’s a small sting in the tail. Given the 50% ad price uplift at the business end of the series, the sixth and seventh games was expected to bring in a bumper payday.
But alas, the Dodgers won 4-1 last night in game five. Meaning a $150 million loss in potential revenue. |
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| Tiger King Joe Maldonado has just got engaged again, inside prison, to a 33 year-old Mexican fellow convict. |
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| >> Tragedy! << |
| Only a heartbeat away |
| Mobeus writes: “After reading the Koi stories last Thursday and Monday, I was reminded of a tale I heard from someone who had worked at his production company.
“Pete Waterman had a real thing for koi carp and had some very special fish flown in from Japan, with two minders in tow.
“Apparently, they got as far as his Cheshire home all intact when the handlers dropped the box just before getting the koi into the pool, and the fish died of a heart attack.” |
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| >> Calvin harassed << |
| Unacceptable in the UAE |
| The Ibiza club brands are moving over to Dubai for the winter season; Ushuaia launched at the weekend with a huge Calvin Harris gig. It didn’t go quite to plan.
The location out on the Harbour is only accessible by a single road, meaning Calvin got caught in traffic and didn’t arrive for his midnight set; instead starting after 1am. (The less said about people trying to leave afterwards off that one road, the better).
There was also an elaborate drinks ticket arrangement. Punters needed a wristband to buy drinks, which could be topped up through the night. Even early doors, the queue to top up was 45 minutes, with another 45+ minutes of queuing at the bar. Top ups were in increments of 100 AED (about 20 quid). Two drinks? 104 AED.
The queue for refunds for unused money was so bad many people just gave up.
And vibes weren’t much better in the VIP section, after an enthusiastic partygoer managed to fall face-first into a glass table. |
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| Nominative determinism of the week: Mr Mehboob, a breast surgeon at West Midlands Hospital. |
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| >> GPS Kurtailed << |
| It’s what he would have wanted |
| G writes:
“You might have seen the furore around Helen Mirren’s remarks about how sad it was that Kurt Cobain never lived long enough to experience GPS?
“A few years back I Iived in Seattle. Despite the fact that Google Maps had an office there, GPS was famously unreliable in the area because of the constant cloud cover.
“So had Kurt Cobain lived long enough to experience GPS he may not have actually been able to use it. At least not between November and May.” |
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| Fleetwood Mac’s Everywhere became the 776th track to be streamed +1bn times on Spotify this week. More surprisingly, Shakira’s Bzrp Music Session, Vol 53 became the 777th. |
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| >> Surprisingly Adorried << |
| The weight of reputation |
| After her most recent revelations about going on Ozempic, you’d be forgiven for thinking ‘surely there is nothing about Nadine Dorries that we don’t know at this stage’. But you would be wrong!
Apparently her biggest secret of all is that behind closed doors she’s actually quite… nice? Westminster insiders say she’s much worse in the public domain than she is in private, and she was considered good to work for.
One said: “Someone told me once that when she was DCMS Sec, a person on the team had a bad break up and Nadine scrapped the Ministerial diary and got in a load of prosecco. They all just drank with the broken hearted woman and Nadine told her to ‘be strong’ and slagged off ‘bloody men’ for the whole afternoon.” |
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[Everyone needs a “Fuck Off” tea set] |
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| >> Hmmms << |
| Milk, memes, Mario 64 |
| What it’s like to be the creepy kid in a horror movie
[Read on The Guardian]
Huw Edwards isn’t the only interesting legal name on the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel. See also:
[James Dick]
A timeline of every UFO sighting
[Is anybody out there?]
Historic Soho members club Blacks is no longer a defunct crypto bros’ destination but a Hammer Horror film set
[See on Bleeding Cool]
Want the house where Stevie G and Jurgen Klopp lived? It’s so big it takes a 5’56 min video to do a fast whizz round
[Scouse paradise]
The man who gave the world that Timothee Chalamet lookalike competition
[Read on The Face]
“What it’s like being married to a man who is too well-endowed”
[Headline of the week] |
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| Thanks to: GB RichJohnston H RC CL CW RL J BobbieFleckman Mobeus Impish Scribe G NZ N S AW L HF deepstoat DT |
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Old JD Vance Halloween Jokes Home
Q: What do hillbillies do for Halloween?
A: Pump kin.
Still Bored?
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