The Daily Tonic: The Easter Parade

Seeing as we aren’t allowed out any more, our Sunday mornings have been largely hangover-free – and we’re missing it a bit. So let’s reminisce a little.

One reader recalls a legendary drinking session with James Blunt one night in Verbier. In the middle of all the revelries, someone managed to convince the posh balladeer that he needed to be a bit more rock’n’roll and cajoled him into throwing a plasma TV out of his chalet window.

Staff were quite surprised the following morning to see a bleary-eyed Blunt outside in the cold mountain air, trying to retrieve the appliance from a snow drift – clearly in need of something to watch while he nursed his hangover…

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Thanks for all your suggestions for questions. We’ll pose this one first as it came in multiple times (and some of you were clearly champing at the bit to spill something…)

Today’s Question: Have you ever stumbled across a celebrity on one of the dating apps? If so, what was their approach?

Send us your sightings of celebs on the apps to us at hello@popbitch.com – and we’ll send out some goodies to the best.

When Terry Jones died earlier this year, many of the tributes featured pictures of him in happier times. Editors seemed especially keen on shots where he was sat in front of that famous oil-painting of him perched on a stool, wearing nothing but a tie, playing the piano with his bum on display.

That wasn’t the only nudey portrait hanging in the hallways of his Dulwich home. There was one of him wearing a crown and an ermine cape, clutching an ornament and sceptre, sat upon a throne, starkers.

And, according to a delivery driver who once dropped off some cases of wine, there was another one on the wall by the cellar door of close family members.

None of whom had a stitch on either.

Rx writes:
“My friend and I are pagan and went to a burning man festival. We were there drinking some mead (as you do) when a couple came over whose children go to the same school as my friend’s. We were all hanging out, having a chat. The gentleman of the couple had his face done in some mad face paint – I think his children must have done it.

“It was only after they left, I realised he was Mark Owen.”

We had an Easter themed one ready for you for today, but then decided that it would probably work better in our full-length Popbitch Popquiz that you can BUY AND DOWNLOAD HERE.

So instead you’ve got this one.

[Ten songs; twenty points]

You think you’ve been bored in quarantine? These people filmed a home-made restaging of Back To The Future II
[All 1hr45 of it]

Curt from Tears For Fears has recorded an acoustic quarantine version of Mad World with his daughter
[Hear it here]

Local News Of The Weekend: Stranded Psychic Edition
[Read on Clydebank Post]