Secret Celebrity Gossip #179

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bottlewrapper said:
Randomly, I've seen them out in the wild together twice, and my impression both times from a minute or two of watching them was that he adores her - there seemed to be a very deep affection between them both. I assume he is gay but not particularly sexually motivated, but they looked very happy and relaxed in each other's company.
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This sounds like the most perfect marriage, to me. I would love something like this. Best friends, basically.
 
The lyrics of Do They Know It's Christmas are, at best, patronising bollocks. Obviously you can't really deny that it's done a lot of good over the years though.

I saw an article the other where an Ethiopian politician said essentially the same thing.

Without the phrase "patronising bollocks", mind you, because he's more polite than me.
 
They are, but it's a good song and as you say did a lot of good. Geldof didn't have months and months to write it - he saw something needed doing and he acted, which I appreciate much more than people sitting in baths of baked beans or newsreaders dressing up like the Rocky Horror Show.

ETA: blimey, that article, though. That is deeply upsetting - why are we still celebrating it, then? :(
 
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Bread said:
They are, but it's a good song and as you say did a lot of good. Geldof didn't have months and months to write it - he saw something needed doing and he acted, which I appreciate much more than people sitting in baths of baked beans or newsreaders dressing up like the Rocky Horror Show.

ETA: blimey, that article, though. That is deeply upsetting - why are we still celebrating it, then? :(
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I first read that article some years ago and have waited for it to be brought to the media again most Christmases and it’s never happened. Try as I might I can’t find anything to discredit it and can only conclude St Bob has pull in higher places.

I would dearly love someone to say ‘this is bollocks and this is why..’
 
My favourite version of Do They Know It's Christmas was the one Jimmy Fallon, Jack Black and Mark Ronson did, supporting the Strokes in New York, 22 years ago this week. Seeing Jack Black walk out as a surprise guest was amazing. Probably unlikely to be repeated now.
 
I can give the original version a pass for it being a response to a horrific event, one of the first of it's kind given major international TV coverage, and people seeing babies and children starving to death and wanting to help.

The initial idea had good intentions, if unfortunately incredibly patronising - but let's not forget it was of its time & judging it by today's sensibilities will of course find it wanting. At the time a lot of us who remember it will have thought "thank god this isn't happening to us, we need to help them" so the "Tonight thank god it's them, instead of you" represents the anguish of the time.

Many a meal time I was chastised for leaving food when "those poor babies in Africa are starving". Then witnessing "the world" come together to help them at Live Aid was mesmerising to this 8 year old.

Having said all of that, immediately after that initial idea and its good intentions, it has become a patronising pile of turd.

There's no reason for it to be rolled out again. It just proves that it's an ego boost for Saintly Sir Bob who's desperate to stay in the public eye (while pretending it's all for charideee).

It's because of Live Aid that I was an adult before I realised that "Africa" wasn't a homogeneous mass but in fact a continent full of vibrant and varied countries including some which suffered famine and drought and and/or political unrest and war.
 
CaptainHolt said:
I can give the original version a pass for it being a response to a horrific event, one of the first of it's kind given major international TV coverage, and people seeing babies and children starving to death and wanting to help.

The initial idea had good intentions, if unfortunately incredibly patronising - but let's not forget it was of its time & judging it by today's sensibilities will of course find it wanting. At the time a lot of us who remember it will have thought "thank god this isn't happening to us, we need to help them" so the "Tonight thank god it's them, instead of you" represents the anguish of the time.

Many a meal time I was chastised for leaving food when "those poor babies in Africa are starving". Then witnessing "the world" come together to help them at Live Aid was mesmerising to this 8 year old.

Having said all of that, immediately after that initial idea and its good intentions, it has become a patronising pile of turd.

There's no reason for it to be rolled out again. It just proves that it's an ego boost for Saintly Sir Bob who's desperate to stay in the public eye (while pretending it's all for charideee).

It's because of Live Aid that I was an adult before I realised that "Africa" wasn't a homogeneous mass but in fact a continent full of vibrant and varied countries including some which suffered famine and drought and and/or political unrest and war.
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I remember being traumatised walking round a corner in a department store where there was a screen set up with pictures of starving adults and children and the song Tell Me There's A Heaven playing. I naturally burst into tears and can feel myself filling up just thinking about it.
Seems that the song's about child abuse, but talks about hungry children so might be why it was used again with the famine video
 
Glaschelle said:
Me and my old dear would go and see them 🤣🤣🤣

We saw Brian Conley years ago doing his show at Blackpool. Comedy, impressions, it's a puppet, big bit from me and my girl musical, it was a brilliant show. We've seen Brian in various musicals and he's always good.

We've seen Shane in musicals (pre eastenders) and a Grace detective play. He's just Shane!

Bradley we also saw in Blackpool. It looked like they'd woke him out a drunken sleep!!!

So yes, this sounds like our kind of thing 🤣🤣🤣

Just seen the prices 😱😱😱 keep your fingers crossed i can get a wheelchair space for my old dear so i get a free carers ticket 🤣🤣🤣
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We went to pantos back in the day when the kids were little and saw Shane at Southend. There was a segment where he brought out a giant bucket of soaking wet sponges and invited the dads to flan him. My husband took armful of sponges and, being a cricketer, fast bowled them at Shane. He took it in very good part and just waggled his finger at my husband with a twinkle in his eye. Went up in my estimation after that. Also agree about Brian - and what a silver fox he's turned out to be!
 
FenellaTheWitch said:
Just to clarify foe everyone ... Percy is poor and gay, not Joan but she adores him. :ROFLMAO:
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Good Lord - my typos earlier. Marli Brandi? That's what I get for literally Tattling on my phone in front of the boss pretending it's work!

Joan's book make horrific but sadly not surprising reading when it comes to how women were treated in Hollywood. Actors like George Peppard sticking their tongue down her throat in kissing scenes. Being blacklisted for not shagging the main actor or director etc (not that I'm saying much has changed).

My take on it is that she's had some sex, she's had some heartbreak and she's settled for a wonderful companion who adores her and won't abuse her. I think that's a fabulous arrangement.
 
I remember finding out it really did snow in Africa as a young teen and being really annoyed with the bloody song. In fact, I've been known to shout at the radio to this day that Africa has some of the finest ski resorts in the sodding world.
The only thing I take from any of it these days is the 40 year longing i've had to own the jumper John Taylor is wearing in the video and the annoyance that I've never managed to find one.
 
Mamacasey2 said:
What about Peaches’ death was held back from the press?
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Wasn't she painted at the time as quite the devoted mother, who had just unluckily and randomly overdosed, when in reality she was a long term heroin addict, pretty much absent/out of it, and when she was on a bit more of an even keel spent her time in London, so her children were almost entirely cared for by nannies and relatives?
 
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