The Daily Tonic: An Embarrassment Of Richies

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* The saddest celebrity spat

* Wayne Sleep’s techno pirouettes

* PLUS: An IACGMOOH audio quiz

>> Gingerly hopeful <<

All’s well that ends Halliwell

There have been a few encouraging signs over the last couple of days that the world might slowly be returning to normal. Trump’s days are all but numbered, there’s the prospect of an effective vaccine on the horizon, and – maybe most important of all – Geri Halliwell has an absolutely batshit new project in the pipeline.
This weekend, Geri debuted the new YouTube series that she’s written and directed: Rainbow Woman – the first episode of which sees her delivering a monologue in character as Elizabeth I. 2020 might yet be saved…
[See it here]

“Sometimes I think I’ve got Hamlet’s disease of introspection.” – Geri Halliwell

>> Jazzbitch <<

Question of the day

Friday’s issue inadvertently ended up dealing with a lot of the jazz greats: Charles Mingus and his cat, Nina Simone and her Moët, Ray Charles and his spiked coffee, etc – and it’s given us the taste to hear more.
So today we want to know the best stories from the jazz scene that you’ve ever heard.
Whether it’s trivia, personal anecdotes or classic legends from history, send us your best bits of jazz chat to hello@popbitch.com and we’ll dish out some digital goody bags to the best of them.

Mo Farrah signs his texts ‘Sir Mo’.

>> Celebrity beef <<

It should be behind you!

The line-up for this year’s I’m A Celebrity has been confirmed, so we’ve been trying to figure out who is most likely to cause fireworks.
Shane Richie could be the catalyst. He was certainly involved in one of the most pathetic celebrity spats ever recorded at the Comic Heritage Awards back in 2004. He and Garry Bushell clashed in the toilets over a bad review that Bushell had written about one of Richie’s ITV shows the previous decade.
Richie was heard yelling “WE WERE MATES!” and “I GOT YOU A PANTO!”, while Bushell retorted “THE SHOW WAS CRAP!” and “NO YOU DIDN’T!”
Sadly the pair were dragged apart before either managed a punch.
Know of a stranger celebrity beef? hello@popbitch.com

A Pontins Blue Coat who worked on the Isle of Wight with Shane Richie in 1983 says Shane was famous on site as “a womaniser with legendarily low standards.”

>> Loos morals <<

Get me odour here!

We don’t have any first hand experience of what a diet of kangaroo testicles and arseholes will do for you, but for all the other contestants who are going to be sharing facilities with Vernon Kay, a quick heads up.
LA writes: 

“Backstage at Fatboy Slim’s first Brighton Beach party me and my boyfriend were waiting in the queue for the portaloos. Vernon Kay came out, wafting his face with his hand and advising us to ‘Give it a minute if I were you’.”
FYI: In 2009 Vernon received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bolton for his “outstanding contribution to the field of entertainment”.

Shane Richie had a toilet in his house that was rigged up to a projector and would start screening Planet of the Apes on the bathroom door as you sat down.

>> A refreshing Sleep <<

The joys of the jungle

Valmont writes:

“Before heading off to Australia to take part in I’m A Celebrity, Wayne Sleep gatecrashed my friend’s party in Soho, entertaining the crowd to a series of leaps and pirouettes to the hard techno that was being played.
“On finally being asked to leave by a bouncer, he turned to the crowd and announced ‘You’re all fabulous! I want to fuck you all!'”

The man who wrote 5,6,7,8 for Steps used to live in Shane Richie’s basement.

>> Quarantunes <<

#167: IACGMOOH

Today’s ten tracks are all performed (at least in part) by contestants who have appeared on one of the 19 previous UK series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
You get a point for naming the artist (or, in many cases, the band they’re in) and a second point for correctly naming the song title. Ten songs; twenty points in total.
[Play it here]

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>> Hmmms <<

A couple of quick things

A report from the ground at Four Seasons Total Landscaping

[Read on The Independent]
An unfortunate development for Rudy Giuliani

[Read on Politico]
All the American states in which you can own an otter

[See on Twitter]

Thanks to: A, LB, PD, valmont, LA, JD, ML

Old IACGMOOH Jokes Home

Q/ Why did Ant and Dec get lost in the jungle?

A/ Because the junglist massive

Fancy Another?