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It’s not often we inspire anything other than fiery legal letters, but we were delighted to hear this week that someone has created a new zine called “Pop Bitch”: named in our honour, and filled with illustrated stories of people’s run-ins with various celebrities’ dogs.
Among them are Graham Norton’s dogs, Buster Bloodvessel’s, Vivien Leigh’s and perennial Popbitch favourite, Nick Cave’s – but the stand-out hero for us was David Hockney’s dog, Billy Boy.
Someone who attended a NYE party at which Billy Boy was also present was keen to befriend such an esteemed pooch, and spent a lot of the evening trying to sneak the artist’s dog bacon and other such treats in an effort to ingratiate themselves. The plan didn’t seem to work out very well though as Billy Boy growled at every advance and remained stand-offish. Dejected, they eventually gave up and retired to the sofa.
Later, a very inebriated guest started making things quite unpleasant for this failed dog whisperer: loudly and carelessly spilling cocaine all over them, then persistently trying to snog them. Just as they were giving up hope, resigning themselves to the fact they’d be fending off this pest all night, who should come and save the day but Billy Boy – who bounded into the room and promptly landed a nice juicy bite on the cokehead’s ankle.
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