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The Daily Tonic: Shrine To 5ive

 

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>> Fishy business <<
Commemorative plates
 

We mentioned in yesterday’s Popbitch that Cilla Black has a fish supper named in her honour – but she isn’t the only one. The chippy memorial is an oddly popular form of tribute.

The “Paul McCartney” was a flagship offering at the since-closed Sirius Fish & Chips in New Cross: pickled egg and chips, after he ordered it there one night.

The “Robbie Coltrane” was an off-menu special at L’Alba D’Oro in Edinburgh: double fish and chips, sausage, a slice of pizza and four Irn Brus (a meal, legend has it, that Coltrane once polished off while waiting for a taxi).

And, more recently, the Blue Lagoon chip shop on Argyle Street in Glasgow now offers a “Justin Bieber Haggis Special” to commemorate the time he came in after playing three nights at the SSE Hydro. Even though his full order was a plain haggis supper, a fish supper and two sausage suppers (and he only ate some of the fish) haggis is what you get when you order the Bieber.

The Pizza Express in Bexleyheath has a wall dedicated to local hero Kate Bush, with all her singles up on it. The Pizza Express in Basildon has huge stylised portraits of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke as the toilet signs.
>> Question time <<
Are you experienced?
 

Today, we want to know about celebrities at work. Specifically mentorships, apprenticeships and work experience.

Today’s Question: Have you ever trained someone famous? Has someone famous ever trained you? Pre-fame, post-fame, right in the middle of it – who have you taken under your wing, and who has taken you under theirs?

Send us stories about celebrity rope-showings to hello@popbitch.com and we’ll dish out some goody bundles to our favourites.

More nominative determinism from the Revolution chain of bars. They have a sales manager called… Lauren Sobers!
>> Shrine to 5ive <<
Proud popstar parents
 

brightoned writes:
“I went to primary school with Ritchie Neville from Five (or Richard Neville Dobson as he was known then). His parents owned a pub in Bromsgrove called The Crabmill Inn. When Five became famous they turned the pub into a shrine to Five and their son. Loads of framed pics, jackets, magazine spreads etc – all signed by Ritchie.

“Also, the jukebox had every song they ever released in it – twice – and they were all set to freeplay. They kept all of the tat up for a good decade after his fame had waned. He was a lovely chap though.”

RN writes: “Russell Crowe was down this way shooting a film at the nearby Chatham dockyard and wanted a vegetarian breakfast from my local cafe in Rochester. They renamed it the Russell Crowe in his honour.”
>> Warped tribute <<
The Rocky Horror Pavement Show
 

COL writes:
“Richard O’Brien used to live in my old hometown, Hamilton NZ. Not much happens there outside of agricultural stuff, so a statue was put up to honour him, dressed as Riff Raff.

“Cameras were mounted next to a plaque providing instructions on how to do the timewarp and you can watch people making the attempt.”

[Watch people trying it here]

MJB writes: “I went to uni in Sheffield and frequented the Broomhill Friery – a chippy owned by Sean Bean’s nephew. Some of the menu items included ‘The Boromir Special’, the ‘Ned Stack Burger’ and ‘Lord of the Onion Rings’.”
>> O’Tooled up <<
The Peter premium
 

JJ writes:
“Until a couple of years ago, there was a decidedly average B&B on Cathedral Road in Cardiff, not too far from the BBC, that had a lovingly polished brass plaque on one of the rooms proclaiming ‘Peter O’Toole Stayed Here’ followed by the date.

“Rooms were about 50 quid a night, IIRC, but you paid about a fiver extra for the Peter O’Toole Suite.”

The city of Budapest features a statue of Peter Falk, in full Columbo gear, as he’s supposedly related to 19th century Hungarian political figure Miksa Falk.
>> Quarantunes <<
Today’s ten tracks
 

Ten songs, all smashed up and stuck back together in totally the wrong order, are here for you to identify.

You get a point for every song title, a point for the artist, twenty points in total.

[Ears up, eyes down]

If you’re wanting a slightly more substantial quiz fix this weekend, we’ve put together a series of downloadable Popbitch Popquizzes all designed to be completed in quarantine, and played with friends over Zoom…
[They’re yours for a fiver]
>> Hmmms <<
A couple of quick things
 

Want a little tour round the David Hasselhoff Museum?
[See it here]

The mystery of Elmo’s dad
[Read on MEL]

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ Eurovision film has a trailer
[Watch it on YouTube]

Thanks to: JW, RX, KL, CF, brightoned, RN, COL, MJB, JJ, MJ, CK, N
Old Jokes Home
Q/ Why are there no cats on Mars?
A/ Curiosity killed them all.

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