The Daily Tonic: Potty-Mouthed Post-Its

Hot on the heels of his blackface backlash, David Walliams’ children’s books are the latest bit of culture to be placed under the microscope.

Some of his critics are saying that the stories are too problematic to subject young kids to – but, in fairness to Walliams, he seems to be doing more than most to stop children from actually reading any of them.

Walliams was approached by a literacy charity not too long ago to see if he would do something for the 100 or so children who completed their reading programme that year. He said he wouldn’t have the time to record a video message, but would send the kids a book of his instead.

Which he did.

One book. For a hundred kids to share.

Thanks for all your stories of oddball stars. We’ve included a couple of the more curious ones below – but today we want to know about something else.

Today’s Question: Who is the clumsiest celebrity you’ve ever met?

Whether they’re occasionally inelegant, or a full-on disaster area, we want to know which famous people are all fingers and thumbs.

Send your stories of cack-handed celebs to us at hello@popbitch.com and we’ll dish out some goody bundles to our favourites.

BB writes:
“I was in a swimming pool in LA with Leonardo DiCaprio once, and Iggy Pop came down and sat right by the pool’s edge. Iggy then seemed to drink a couple of handfuls of the water. I teased Leo that Iggy was trying to drink his essence. Freaked him right out.”

CT writes:
“Andi Peters can’t abide swearing, in even the mildest form, and enforced a strict office no-swearing policy when he was producer of Top of the Pops in the mid-00s.

“The policy required any swearer to immediately write him an apology note on a Post-It and stick it to his office door. The notes started off as ‘Sorry Andi, won’t happen again’, but inevitably the door became full of little yellow stickies saying things like ‘Dear Andi, sorry for saying CUNT. All the best, x’.

Much like yesterday’s, today’s quiz doesn’t follow the usual pattern we’ve established in the last hundred or so audio rounds.

Instead of identifying the ten songs you’re about to hear, you need to identify the 90s and 00s rap tracks that famously sampled them.

So, the first song you’ll hear is by Stevie Wonder. You don’t get a point for naming Stevie. What you do get a point for is naming the rapper who had a worldwide number one using a sample of that song in 1995 – and a second point for naming their version.

[It’s simpler than it sounds – honestly]

A seal is trying to shag swimmers in Dorset
[Read on the Dorset Echo]

Addictive little web game of the day: The Kanye Zone
[Play it here]