The Daily Tonic: Driving Miss Lazy

There’s still some time for someone to snatch an 11th hour victory, but it seems likely that the most unexpected revelation of the day will be Edwina Currie tweeting in praise of pegging.

But maybe we’re wrong? Maybe you’re sitting on a story of an even more surprising celebrity shagger? Maybe you’re going to blow our minds with an anecdote of a seemingly squeaky clean star who has a truly depraved streak to them?

Today’s Question: Who is the most unexpectedly filthy celeb you know?

Send your stories of unlikely celeb smut-bags to hello@popbitch.com and we’ll dish out some digital goodies in return for our favourites.

Leaked audio of Tom Cruise giving the crew of Mission: Impossible a dressing down for failing to adhere to Covid-regulations went viral overnight, in which Tom threatens to send people packing if he catches them breaking the rules again.

If Tom’s serious about this, this latest installment of the franchise might see the highest staff turnover yet. The one to beat is the fifth film, Rogue Nation. Over the course of filming, the production went through not one, not two, but seven different limo drivers.

Not because Cruise was being a diva (he was supposedly a superb gent on set). The most likely cause was the director’s wife, whose West End shopping trips caused multiple headaches. Alongside all the parking fines she racked up, she also annoyed drivers to the point of resignation by getting them to wait outside shops for her in the limo, then asking to be driven to the next shop. A few feet down the road.

Prince Andrew is under the spotlight again now that Peter Nygard – another society figure he has ties to – has been arrested on sex trafficking charges. Some new questions are now being asked about Andrew’s version of events, but no doubt HRH will simply consider this to be more of the same beastly treatment he has come to expect from the media.

When Handsy Andy was a guest at a party at Cameron Diaz’s house a few years ago, one poor soul who ended up stuck talking to him says the Prince spent the entire evening complaining about how the UK press liked to build people up, only to knock them back down again.

Not only had it happened to him, he said, but also to his favourite band “The Radioheads”.

One fun story this August came from crew on a big outdoor fashion shoot with Salma Hayek. They told us that when they asked the star if they could get her anything, her demands were surprisingly modest. All she wanted was a glass of water.

Someone ran off to fetch her one but, after taking a small sip, Salma turned up her nose and handed it back saying, “This is cold. I only drink room temperature.”

The runner tried to explain that they only had refrigerated bottles of water, but if she left the glass for a few minutes it would soon reach room temperature.

Salma explained in return that, unless it started off room temperature, it didn’t count – and refused to touch it.

Today’s ten tracks all topped the chart in various Augusts over the last 40-odd years. All you need to do is hit play, then name the ten songs you hear for a point each. There are a further ten points at stake if you can name each recording artist/s too – giving you a total possible score of twenty.

Ready to go?

[Play it here]

If you didn’t catch our 1000th issue recap at the time, the two part special can be found here
[Part One: 2000-09]
[Part Two: 2010-19]

An oral history of Chris Morris’s Four Lions
[Read on Vice]

WAP: the 80s funk remix
[Listen on Bandcamp]

A history of co-stars hating each other
[Read on The Ringer]