Totally gratuitous picture of Mr Rupert Everett - another icon celebrating his 60th birthday today - when he was still young and beautiful. Time's a terrible thing.
The oddest news story today had to be the mass panic that was caused by a suspected landmine washed up on the banks of the Thames at Wapping today - that turned out to be...
... a gigantic shiny bauble!
And we know a song about that, don't we, children?
[I couldn't resist it!]
Mass panic? Couldn't have been real East Enders then-real ones would be used to seeing all sorts of things dahn Wapping innit
ReplyDeleteThese days whenever a tabloid mentions "public anger", an "outcry" or a "panic", it generally means that their Media Studies student on placement has seen something on Tw*tter. In other words, nobody really panicked. Jx
DeleteTime's a terrible thing, never a truer word spoken. Have you seen Tony Slattery lately?
ReplyDeleteAt least he had the excuse of having a major breakdown and being hospitalised... Jx
DeleteI could still fancy Rupert Everett at 60 - not that he'd be interested. He was always one of my favs.
ReplyDeleteYes, I read about the giant bauble, but nobody explained from whence it came - perhaps your article goes one better, I shall click...
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Since dear Rupes became an enthusiast for botox, his whole face has a peculiar lop-sidedness... Jx
DeleteI mean how big was the bloody tree?? Or the fairy on top??? Questions, questions. Nobody does proper journalism anymore.
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Too right! There are few journalists left, just amateurs - everyone thinks everyone else is interested in what they have to say on social media rather than bothering to find out about anything. Standards have fallen terribly since the days of Peregrine Worsthorne, Jeffrey Bernard and Keith Waterhouse… Jx
DeleteIndeed! I mean how can someone not mention the tree???
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, I spent 15 mins plus learning more about Rupert - apparently he had affairs with famous women, including Paula Yates. I didn't know that - but it kind of makes sense.
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I reckon he was probably as confused by an affair with Paula Yates as everyone else. She was an - ahem - unconventional character.
DeleteAnd yes - where exactly was that giant Xmas tree in London? Or was it somewhere upstream? - I imagine there might have been quite a lot of coverage of a 400-foot tree being erected in, say, Crowmarsh Gifford or Little Wittingham... Jx