Secret Celebrity Gossip #168

Status
Thread locked. We start a new thread when they have over 1000 posts, click the blue button to see all threads for this topic and find the latest open thread.
1
LydiaDeetzHat said:
the more i read about Slave Play the more I become convinced that its all just a gimmick and the playwright is just trying to shock to get a name for himself. I have heard his work is very misogynistic. i mean do we really need full frontal nudity? Do ppl not know what a penis looks like and can use their imagination?
---

As a West London dweller is anyone else wondering what on earth a baronet was doing in Acton??!!
Click to expand...
Lost because they drank the bar dry at the lion and 🍍?
 
TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo said:
Am I missing something because Kit is a really well known shortening of Christopher. It's in the majority of baby name books, although it is also a name in it's own right as well.
Click to expand...
Yes, but people called Kit short for Christopher do tend to be on the posh side these days, which it would seem he is. The more plebby way of shortening Christopher is obviously Chris. It reminds me of what Frank Skinner said in his autobiography about how David Baddiel was the only David he knew whose name was never shortened to Dave. And apparently Baddiel couldn’t get over Frank’s poverty stricken childhood which for all intents and purposes was just that he grew up in a council house.
 
I’ve just watched the Ch4 documentary about Barrymore recommended by someone earlier on this thread. He’s very clever (manipulative) the way he speaks to and befriends reporters outside the court. You can see he’s lying in the sit down interviews about what happened. What I do wonder is if the injuries were inflicted whilst the victim was alive, would there not have been blood at the scene? I understand they could clean up but surely there would be traces? Did they leave it too late to look as they didn’t suspect foul play to begin with? It’s such a tragic case. Stuart’s dad 😔 I hope that Barrymore dies, of old age or otherwise, before others who were present that night and the truth will eventually come out.
 
FrannyGallops said:
Yes, but people called Kit short for Christopher do tend to be on the posh side these days, which it would seem he is. The more plebby way of shortening Christopher is obviously Chris. It reminds me of what Frank Skinner said in his autobiography about how David Baddiel was the only David he knew whose name was never shortened to Dave. And apparently Baddiel couldn’t get over Frank’s poverty stricken childhood which for all intents and purposes was just that he grew up in a council house.
Click to expand...
I would think David Baddiel goes by David because Dave is not a diminutive used in Hebrew?
 
Genuinely thought she was holding a pregnancy test
IMG_0322.jpeg
 
rivermonster said:
Barrymore is definitely going to Barcelona.
https://www.12ft.io/https://www.dai...t-market-Barcelona-22-years-pool-tragedy.html
Click to expand...
OMG talk about Acton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
---
FrannyGallops said:
Yes, but people called Kit short for Christopher do tend to be on the posh side these days, which it would seem he is. The more plebby way of shortening Christopher is obviously Chris. It reminds me of what Frank Skinner said in his autobiography about how David Baddiel was the only David he knew whose name was never shortened to Dave. And apparently Baddiel couldn’t get over Frank’s poverty stricken childhood which for all intents and purposes was just that he grew up in a council house.
Click to expand...
lmaoooooooooooooo as someone whos BF Michael has never been a Mike.. just doesn't sit right on him
 
Meowsy said:
I would think David Baddiel goes by David because Dave is not a diminutive used in Hebrew?
Click to expand...
I used to work with Frank but we all had to call him Chris (his real name)
---
I think it’s seriously uptight when people try and gatekeep their own name. I went to school with a Victoria who wouldn’t let it be shortened to Vicky, Vic etc. I so often think that shortened versions of your name are said affectionately, and the need to tightly control your name is quite unbecoming or is trying too hard to sound posher than you are. Most truly posh people I know love to shorten their name.
 
eppingforestbambi said:
I used to work with Frank but we all had to call him Chris (his real name)
---
I think it’s seriously uptight when people try and gatekeep their own name. I went to school with a Victoria who wouldn’t let it be shortened to Vicky, Vic etc. I so often think that shortened versions of your name are said affectionately, and the need to tightly control your name is quite unbecoming or is trying too hard to sound posher than you are. Most truly posh people I know love to shorten their name.
Click to expand...
never understood why Frank Sinner was deemed a more suitable handle than Chris Collins.. surely both are working ckass
 
LydiaDeetzHat said:
never understood why Frank Sinner was deemed a more suitable handle than Chris Collins.. surely both are working ckass
Click to expand...
I think it might have been an Equity thing where there was already a Chris Collins but I’m not entirely certain.
eppingforestbambi said:
I used to work with Frank but we all had to call him Chris (his real name)
---
I think it’s seriously uptight when people try and gatekeep their own name. I went to school with a Victoria who wouldn’t let it be shortened to Vicky, Vic etc. I so often think that shortened versions of your name are said affectionately, and the need to tightly control your name is quite unbecoming or is trying too hard to sound posher than you are. Most truly posh people I know love to shorten their name.
Click to expand...
I agree. The folk on Mumsnet go mental when a teacher shortens their (primary aged) kids name and I always think just wait til your kids are in secondary school and they get a weird nickname. There’s several different diminutives of my (real) name and I’ve probably been called all of them at one point and it’s never bothered me.

On a side note, did you go to school with Vicky Beckham by any chance?
 
Status
Thread locked. We start a new thread when they have over 1000 posts, click the blue button to see all threads for this topic and find the latest open thread.
Back
Top