Minister of State for Culture ‘worried’ about Phillip Schofield’s health June 6, 2023 The Minister of State for Digital and Culture has said she is concerned about the mental health of Phillip Schofield. Schofield left his job at This Morning last week after admitting to a workplace affair with a 20-year-old runner and has been accused of an abuse of power. ITV is investigating following further claims of [...]
James May: Top Gear’s future and my real relationship with Jeremy Clarkson June 6, 2023 He’s one third of the controversial team behind The Grand Tour and Top Gear. Adam Bloodworth speaks to James May about being woke, Freddie Flintoff’s accident and working with Jeremy Clarkson “I’ve put my foot down about that,” declares James May, a handful of M&Ms in hand. “I’ve had a stern word. Stop dressing me [...]
Amanda Holden takes swipe at Holly Willoughby by mimicking her This Morning speech June 6, 2023 Amanda Holden has been making subtle digs at both Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield over the last couple of weeks following the news that Schofield has left This Morning over an inappropriate workplace relationship. Holden at first tweeted a muscle arm emoji when Schofield announced he was leaving the show, and this morning she mimicked [...]
Mighty Hoopla 2023: 7 iconic moments we’ll remember forever June 5, 2023 Drag, cabaret, live performance… Britain’s most colourful music and arts festival, Mighty Hoopla, has wrapped for another year. The festival welcomed over 60,000 people to London’s Brockwell Park over the weekend, and has become famous for uniting Britain’s pop music fans and LGBTQ people over two days of the most vibrant staging the festival circuit [...]
Ben Elton interview: Woke comedy and the scourge of individualism May 30, 2023 In a rundown rehearsal room opposite a housing estate in Oval, Ben Elton is spilling political truths in sharp, disarmingly blunt sentences. He’s been talking for almost fifteen minutes, nearly half the time I have with him, but I’ve barely asked him a question. Aged 63, Elton still fizzes with energy. He talks on three [...]
Aspects of love, London, review: Flatly ridiculous, utterly gorgeous Michael Ball musical May 26, 2023 Aspects of Love review and star rating: ★★★★ I think I must be mad, but I really enjoyed this absolutely morally bankrupt musical about a weirdly incestual group that all seem to have sex with each other, no matter their relation to one another, and no matter how flatly ridiculous it all seems. I’ve never [...]
Once on this Island, London musical review: Gorgeous but problematic May 25, 2023 Once on this Island review and star rating: ★★★ There’s nothing that signals the start of summer so brightly as the Regent’s Park Open AirTheatre, which has kicked off its 2023 season with an adaptation of the musical Once on this Island. It’s a beautiful production, with some brilliantly catchy songs, but it’s hard to [...]
Sara Cox interview: ‘When I lost my dog, I threw myself into work’ May 25, 2023 Radio 2 presenter Sara Cox on putting her naughty dog on probation, why she’s supporting the Dog’s Trust, and how you can too, by Adam Bloodworth Her popular Radio 2 show is just one facet of Sara Cox: she’s also mad about animals and making life better for them here in the UK. The former [...]
Asteroid City: Why Wes Anderson’s new film with Tom Hanks and Margot Robbie is going to be huge May 24, 2023 It’s been two years since everyone’s favourite maker of loveably odd movies, Wes Anderson, last dropped a film, which was 2021’s The French Dispatch, and let’s be honest, it was no-one’s favourite Wes Anderson film. But the good news is two years on and he’s got another film, his 11th, out next week. Asteroid City [...]
Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher rips into Harry Styles in radio rant May 24, 2023 Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher has called Harry Styles and the current pop music landscape “embarrassing” in a rant on the radio. He lamented the bygone era of the 1990s when he says bands on the radio, and in the mainstream media were “mavericks,” unlike today’s musicians who Gallagher implied had less control over their [...]