| There’s No Place Like Home is a phenomenon! So many people listened last week that our player crashed, but it’s been fixed so you can listen to Australia’s latest soap sensation.
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“My dream was to be Hannah Montana” – Millie Bobby Brown
“I got asked for a selfie yesterday in Sainsbury’s” – Bruno Tonioli |
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| >> Money Talks << |
| The Price is right |
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Been enjoying the blanket media coverage of Katie Price in recent years?
Get it while you can…Katie has started charging tabloids and magazines £150 for each use of her Instagram photos. And it was these photos that for ages have been powering the stories.
Which means – either we’re about to see a whole lot less of the Pricey.
Or, considering the amount of content she provides – surgery, new boyfriend, surgery, ex-boyfriend, new husband, ex-husband, surgery, house move, surgery etc – she’s going to be able to discharge the second of her two bankruptcies pdq. |
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| Spotted having a delightful stroll together in Soho: David Schwimmer and Matt Lucas. |
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| >> River: Phoenix << |
| Noel’s next comeback |
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Noel Edmunds has reopened his pub and restaurant in rural New Zealand, after controversially kicking out the staff and chefs he brought in last year.
The River Haven restaurant and pub – The Bugger Inn – are back up and running on weekends, where Noel can be found chatting to patrons most weekends.
That’s when he’s not overseeing his other new great passion. A “Relaxation for Cats” radio station. |
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| Nominative Determinism of the Week: Monopoly Hopkins, solicitor at Farrer & Co, specialising in commercial property. |
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| >> Big Questions << |
| Who’s asking what this week? |
| Which model and A-List actor disappeared into the toilets together at a fancy London museum party, where they promptly shagged so hard that the cubicle started to collapse around them and the poor staff had to pull them both out? |
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Kerala. They’re not the only customers
feeling a spark: if you’re a sucker for
a love story…
[Read On] |
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| >> Stelllaaaaaaaaa! << |
| Discount Shopping |
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Stella McCartney might sometimes delight in telling her employees that she’s got the most famous name in the world, but it can’t be that well-known. At least not in the restaurant biz.Stella’s PA recently reached out to a famous London restaurant with a plea for a discounted rate for her boss. It didn’t quite go down as planned.
Instead, the email was re-circulated to amused hospitality staff, and poor Stella had to pay full price in the end. |
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| Pre-sale tickets for Ozzy Osbourne’s final Black Sabbath gig cost up to £834. Bargain. |
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| >> Hollywood Squares << |
| Filmic reverse ferret? |
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The new non-DEI America of 2025 may be causing widespread problems for the corporate world – but perhaps nowhere more so than Hollywood.
With films taking years to be developed, filmed and promoted; the LGBTQ-friendly slate that’s hitting the market around now is somewhat out of kilter with the Maga world.
On Swift Horses is a festival-favourite indie, with Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the leading roles. Producers are now debating marketing it as a romantic movie, ahead of its full April release date, with the inference being that it’s a love story between Jacob and Daisy. In fact, the film sees these two stars plunging headfirst into separate same-sex affairs.
There’s some indication that the cast will make their displeasure with this known through a lack of participation in the actual film promo. Time will tell if they decide whether such pushback is worth it. |
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| We’re told that when Kemi Badenoch orders an English breakfast she makes sure she has a lot of butter. Not for the toast – as you might think – but to butter everything else on the plate. |
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| >> Popbits << |
| Bitesize animal-celeb news |
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The Hamster
Divorce and parental death are not treating Richard Hammond kindly; he was described as “dishevelled” arriving at Heathrow this week. In Economy too. But, it was also noted, he was “charming” and helped his crew pick up all their heavy cases from the luggage belt.
The Lemur
Remember the mini-scandal we reported on when Jodie Marsh failed to get a Dangerous Wild Animal licence for a troop of 8 ring tailed lemurs? You can breathe easy again – the lemurs have been re-housed in a Dorset monkey sanctuary. Jodie is appealing.
The Mucky Pups
“Your report last week on ITN sewage? Hahaha. It’s worse this week. One of the loos in the gents on our floor suddenly erupted in a shower of shit. An explosion. No one was in the cubicle – but someone was washing their hands at the time. Foul business.” |
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| After the loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, Travis Kelce skipped the Super Bowl after-party to FaceTime The Chainsmokers instead. |
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| >> The Great Escape << |
| A Not-quite-country-house |
| Graham Coxon’s divorce is still rumbling through the High Courts, which makes us wonder – who’s living in his palatial Muswell Hill home?
Well, we have an answer. It is – anyone with access to Booking.com.
Coxon is currently renting out the house as ‘The Rosebery Retreat’ for the bargain price of £351 a night. A few months ago it also went up for sale for £2.8 million (pre-interior design overhaul).
Wanna book it? |
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| Not ready for Valentine’s Day? Relax – Theatre Tokens have got you covered. No expiry + endless show choices + eGift option = maximum brownie points. The perfect last-minute gift that says “I totally planned this”.
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| >> Pots & Kettles << |
| From the Popbitch archives |
| The Mail On Sunday ran a big story this week about Labour MP Andrew Gwynne sending inappropriate messages to a WhatsApp group. It was co-written by the paper’s political editor, Glen Owen.
It was Owen’s revelation which cost Gwynne his job as a health minister.
In a delightful coincidence, it is exactly two years since Popbitch revealed that Owen was caught in his own work WhatsApp nightmare – talking about a possible threesome via a WhatsApp group called Mafia Cheeseboard (See Popbitch 1121). |
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| Jeremy Kyle says that when Julia Hartley-Brewer interviews lefty guests, she kicks the bin under her desk in annoyance. The studio bin is subsequently very dented. |
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| >> Brewing Over << |
| This number is now blocked |
| The staff at Talk are fairly used to Julia Hartley-Brewer tantrums by now. Julia Hartley-Brewer is apparently less used to being called out for them.
She recently complained about the show’s briefing notes being unprinted, horror of horrors, for her Clash of the Titans show, and was confronted for being passive aggressive and arsey by one producer who’d had enough.
In some icy WhatsApps after being confronted an apoplectic JHB argued: “There was nothing passive-aggressive about my message. It was informative.”
She used the same text to threaten to flounce out of presenting duties, saying “find someone else to do today’s show. I’m out.”
Charming! |
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| Really make someone’s Valentine’s Day – support Connection at St Martin. They work to help make London a city where no-one has to sleep rough. Show some love to people who really need it.
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| Thanks to: lifthelid, KM, L&C, PB, Studio Bin, GD, M, HG, AR, LC, JB, F, W, DF |
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Old Jokes Home
Apparently, someone in London gets stabbed every 52 seconds.
Poor bastard.
Still Bored?
Why not de-sex a cat and name it after your ex for Valentine’s Day?
[Love is…] |
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