My daughter came home from school yesterday all frustrated. She’d been bickering with her mate over Daniel Radcliffe’s height all through lunch. “Mum, you know about celebrities; tell Jessica that Daniel Radcliffe isn’t that short!” Had to look it up myself, of course. Been following the lad since my kids were little, watching the Harry […]
My mate Jacob works in television production, and last month he let slip something that nearly made me choke on my tea. There was some rubbish advert during the football, and I joked about how easy celebrities have it. “Easy?” he laughed. “That thirty-second spot probably paid for someone’s house deposit.” That got me wondering: […]
My Nigerian-born mate Kemi has been banging on for years about this actor Maurice Sam. Nollywood this, Nollywood that, every time she returns home. “You have to watch Blood Sisters,” she keeps saying. “This Maurice Sam guy is great in it.” So of course, I got to wondering who this bloke actually was. It looks […]
So I’m at the coffee shop yesterday and doing my thing and this young barista girl starts gossiping about Millie Bobby Brown getting married. “She’s only 20!” the girl says to her mate. “That’s mental, innit?” I’m thinking, “Yeah, that is so young,” and then I remember my nan was married at 19, and she […]
No one warns you how mental motherhood is, do they? My sister called me crying at 2 am after giving birth to her first baby because she couldn’t stop feeling anxious. And it turned out that she had postpartum depression. One in seven new mothers experience it, and yet we hardly ever talk about it. […]
My neighbour Sarah’s obsessed with celebrity divorces. Can’t help herself. Last week, she accosted me in the shops, brandishing her phone. “Did you hear that Phil Collins’ ex-wife got £17 million in the divorce?” she said with a look of utter fascination. I hadn’t, but Sarah was just beginning. It seems Jill Tavelman, the ex-wife […]
OK, so last Tuesday I was at my sister’s house watching After Life, again, because I’m obsessed, and she said, “That woman there, the one who’s got the crazy hair, she’s very good, isn’t she?” I was like, ‘Yeah, she’s class,’ and I didn’t know who she was. Turns out it’s Jo Enright. My sister […]
So I’m having my morning cuppa last Tuesday, scrolling through Instagram like you do, when this photo pops up. A girl who looks exactly like Cindy Crawford did in the 90s. My first thought was, “Blimey! Someone’s found some amazing old photos.” Then I read the caption. Kaia Gerber. Cindy’s daughter. And I’m sat there […]
So I sat there last Tuesday, channel hopping because there was absolutely nothing decent on telly. Stumbled across The Vanishing on Film4. Never heard of it before, but the Scottish scenery looked promising enough. After twenty minutes pass, I’m obsessed. Truly not because of the story, which was alright, but because of this actress I […]
So I’m sitting there last Sunday, absolutely knackered, scrolling through Netflix with a cup of tea going cold. My sister calls and goes, “Have you watched that Queen Charlotte thing yet?” I hadn’t, obviously, been putting it off because I thought it was just more Bridgerton fluff. Two episodes in, and there’s this actor playing […]
Right, so I was having a proper chinwag with my mate Phoebe last week about celebrities and their kids. She goes, “Did you know that girl from Emily in Paris; her dad’s Phil Collins?” Honestly, I nearly choked on my tea. Phil Collins? The bloke who sang “In the Air Tonight”? Turns out, yeah, and […]
Picture this: I’m standing in the queue at Tesco last Tuesday, and this woman in front of me is having a proper row with someone on her phone. She’s going on about how “he needs his green juice at exactly 7:15 or he gets stroppy” and “don’t forget the meditation app has to be queued […]
