Celebrities

The BBC has been forced to cancel a Laura Kuenssberg interview with Boris Johnson after she sent him her briefing notes “by mistake”.

Kuenssberg was due to meet the former Prime Minister for an interview to be broadcast on BBC One on Thursday night.

But in a statement on X, she announced: “While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead.

“It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than embarrassing and disappointing, as there are plenty of important questions to be asked. But red faces aside, honesty is the best policy. See you on Sunday.”

What’s wrong with the interviewee seeing the briefing notes? You weren’t, say, going to try to ambush him, were you?

Phillip Schofield has claimed that he was sacked by ITV because his brother is a paedophile.

In the final episode of Channel 5’s Phillip Schofield: Cast Away, the 62-year-old claims he was “fired for the bad publicity for someone else’s crime”.

Personal responsibility is so last century, don’t you think?

Phillip Schofield has blamed homophobia for the scandal that ended his career, saying he would have received a pat on the back for having an affair with a woman.

Schofield was forced to quit his job on ITV’s This Morning when it emerged he had lied about a relationship with a runner who was more than 30 years his junior.

Given the me too stuff it’s entirely possible that the shrieksof outrage would have been worse. 30 years younger, you in a position of power over them at work?

It’s probably not the dick on dick action you know….

When he was 18, the Duke of Sussex vowed to finish the work started by his mother, Princess Diana.

More than two decades on, he remains true to his word. On Monday, he will take to the stage before a global audience to champion two causes intrinsically linked to her legacy: landmines and young people.

Prince Harry, 40, will be the star guest at five high-profile events held over two days in New York during UN General Assembly High-Level Week and Climate Week, which will also see him focus on conservation, sustainable travel and the many crises facing the tiny African country of Lesotho.

Still, guess that’s 5 new outfits the Meg gets out of it.

Here’s What Happens When You Stop Drinking

How would anyone at Vogue ever know this?

How to get Victoria Beckham’s body

Has she told David she’s making it available?

Prince Harry to miss Lord Fellowes’ funeral over security fears
Duke insists it is too dangerous to travel to UK without guarantee of police protection, recently revealing that he feared an attack

Actually, not all that complex. If he turns up without full security therefore, see, he don’t need it. Therefore, if he’s arguing he need it he can’t turn up without, can ‘ee?

Not that I dream, for a moment, that ‘ee’s doing the thinking here but…..

Duchess of Sussex says she has not ‘scraped the surface’ when talking about mental health struggles

As she says, she’s nuts.

Rather fun.

Budding influencers like the young woman I met that night often refer to me as a social media “star”. But really, I’m small fry. I have 35,000 followers on Instagram and 23,000 subscribers to my YouTube channel. I specialise in dreamy, fashion-adjacent images with long, thoughtful captions about life and love. I’ve made an entire career out of it with brand deals, books, a successful blog and now a Substack, The Simple Letter. Technically, I’m what the industry calls a micro-tier influencer. Creators at the top end with more than 1 million followers are referred to as mega influencers; those at the bottom end are called nano influencers and have follower numbers anywhere between 1,000 and 10,000.

All very reminiscient of the Model, Actress, Whatever, in LA or NYC. The true stars make fortunes and there an awful lot out there on the edges who might pick up a sugar daddy to make it work.

This particular example doesn’t do that – instead she’s following the those who can, do, those who can’t teach etc. She’s making her living writing about what it’s like to be an influencer.

Soon to be followed, no doubt, by someone writing books about the sociology of influencers – these things do always seem to go one stage further Meta over time.

I’ve made this point before:

The movie adds another layer to the legend that has built up around Winehouse, who was 27 when she died of alcohol poisoning in July 2011. In life she was an enormous and still growing talent, troubled by toxic relationships, thuggish paparazzi and her drug and drink addictions.
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And, making her a member of the tragic “27 Club” — along with Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison — her premature death has spawned an Amy Winehouse industry.
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Fielder-Civil’s most recent public comments came last September when he was a guest on Good Morning Britain as the show marked what would have been Winehouse’s 40th birthday.

“We were really young, you know, nearly over half my life ago,” Fielder-Civil said. “The fact is, a lot of people when they’re young [make] mistakes, not knowing how to conduct themselves, not knowing how to pace yourself, not knowing what your limits are, normal things that people learn as they get older. Perhaps we were not afforded the same kind of allowances to make mistakes.”

Sure, everyone makes mistakes. Meeting cider, liquor, drugs, general hedonism, for the first time. Most to near all of us are limited by jobs, money, availability and so on. Those who get very rich, very quick, very young, aren’t so limited. Takes about a decade to really kill a human body that way. Sure, accident, overdose, can make it happen sooner. But to really wear it out takes those years.

Thus the 27 club. About the time it takes for a 17 to 19 year old to kill themselves by gorging, unrestrained, on the world’s pleasures.

Sure, it’s only a theory but it’s mine and I like it.

Her comments followed a backlash against her appearance at a Biden fundraiser because of a series of damaging allegations of professional misconduct against her.

The accusations against Lizzo include sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.

Ron Zambrano, a lawyer representing three of her accusers, reportedly told subscription television network NewsNation: “It’s shameful that Lizzo would be chosen to headline an event like this amid such egregious allegations.”

Lizzo, who was last seen at the event at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, has denied the allegations.

Couldn’t work out why the shrieking. But then it makes sense.

Lizzo’s good, d’ye see? Fat and proud of it, body positivity and all that.
OK
But then there are allegations of not being a nice boss. Forcing back up dancers to go to a sex club (or perhaps merely a tittie show) while on tour and that sort of thing.
That’s bad.

But then comes that petard. Because it’s the mere allegation – these days – of sexual or controlling or being a bad boss etc which is the sentence. But, of course, that’s not supposed to apply to those who are good, is it?

How Often Should You Cut Your Hair? Stylists Set the Record Straight

They asked a barber whether they needed a haircut.

The Duke of Sussex has been named in a $30 million US lawsuit alleging that Sean “Diddy” Combs, the rapper, used his name to give his sex trafficking parties legitimacy.

Rodney Jones, a record producer, has accused Combs, 54, of a litany of sexual assault allegations. His 73-page lawsuit against the rapper and several of his associates and record labels was filed in New York last month.

The lawsuit claims that Combs was known for throwing sex trafficking parties. It alleges that those affiliated with such parties, or those who sponsored them, were given access to celebrities such as “international dignitaries like British royal Prince Harry”.

Seriously, who thinks Meghan is going to allow Harry that sort of freedom?

The Royal Family Have Been Lifestyle Influencers for Centuries, so Why Is Meghan Markle Being Criticized for American Riviera Orchard?
King Charles III has been selling his own jam for decades, while the Prince of Wales rents out accommodations on his Cornwall estate.

Good question, eh?

But then Glamour is Meghan Central….

That it took so long for the streamers to renegotiate terms with Sag-Aftra, Porter says, has resulted in a shrinking middle class of working actors. “Those Friends people are making $100m a year!” he exclaims. “I’m getting six-cent cheques! It’s not OK!”
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The Pose star plays a divorcing dad in Our Son, but he has other things on his mind – such as getting paid, why his James Baldwin biopic is like Barbie and trying to understand the Israel-Gaza conflict

Billy Porter is known for going big.

Who?

Watch: Meghan bakes and poses in ballgown to debut lifestyle business
American Riviera Orchard website linked to claims the Duchess will position herself as rival to ‘domestic goddesses’ such as Martha Stewart

Yes, of course marketnig is a business. Yes, images are constructed, positions artfully defined. But there’s usually something there first. Some actual knowledge, ability. They’re not grown out of whole cloth.

Megan’s convinced it works the other way, that it’s all and entirely artifice only.

You know, like some Teenage Trot believing prices are things randomly assigned etc.

Dakota Johnson Can’t Fake It

Bustle.

Perhaps actress wasn’t the correct career choice therefore…..

The Duchess of Sussex has criticised women who are “completely spewing hate” to other women online, calling on female executives in tech to do more to block it, as Prince Harry cheered her on.

The Duchess, speaking at an event about women in the media in Austin, Texas, said she could not “wrap her head” around how people could have been “so hateful” towards her on social media.

“It’s not catty, it’s cruel,” she said of comments written online while she was pregnant. “Why would you do that?”

“What I find the most disturbing frankly, especially as a supporter of women, is how much of the hate is women completely spewing that to other women,” she said. “I cannot make sense of that.”

She specifically criticised female executives at online platforms who host conspiracy theories, disturbing rhetoric and “very inciting comments”.

“There are a lot of women at the highest executive level who are great champions of women and great philanthropists, and they are working in these spaces, and yet they’re allowing this kind of behaviour to run rampant.

“And at a certain point, they have got to put the do’s behind the say’s and really make some changes on a systemic level.”

Change The World to stop wimmins being catty to me!

To which the correct response is “Fuck Off, Honey.” Or even “Fuck Off Honey.”

Duchess of York called Turkish banker accused of theft ‘kind and supportive’ after £1.4m payment
Prince Andrew’s ex-wife praised Selman Turk in letter after receiving funds from the financier accused of stealing £40m from heiress

He was kind and supportive £1.4 million times as well.

The Duchess of Sussex “creates so much drama” that does not exist and then uses it to “rewrite history”, Gary Goldsmith has suggested.

The Princess of Wales’s uncle criticised Meghan as he chatted with his fellow Celebrity Big Brother housemates on the ITV1 show.

The 58-year-old businessman reserved some of his wrath for Prince Harry, saying: “I mean, you can’t throw your family under the bus in such a dramatic style, then write books about it and expect to be invited round for Christmas.”

By contrast, Mr Goldsmith hailed both his niece and Prince William as “the saviour of the Royal family”.

In fact, difficult to argue with much of that.