Gwyn’s Martini bath before bed can’t beat a G&T and a collapse
MUM-OF-TWO Gwyneth Paltrow, inset below, has revealed that the secret to a good night’s sleep is to go to bed with your husband at 8.30 every night, but not before meditating, body massaging and languishing in a bath filled with her *30 Martini bath soak – and then an orgasm.
Most worn-out working mums I know would be grateful just to collapse into bed late at night after a stiff G&T and supper.
IT WAS back in June last year when JK Rowling responded to an article about ‘people who menstruate’ with the comment: ‘I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?’
A volley of abuse from the woke brigade followed, determined to ‘cancel’ her career. Her very own Harry Potter stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, denounced her.
Now, showing what the public thinks about it all, her latest book The Christmas Pig has topped the charts in Britain, her 16th No.1 bestseller. Good on J K for sticking to her guns. As her boy magician says: ‘I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed.’
IN light of the BLM movement, the Royal Opera House is re-examining classic works so performances do not offend modern ‘cultural sensitivities’.
That’s my favourite opera Madame Butterfly for the chop
then, with accusations of colonialism, American occupation of Japan and all.
It’s about a Japanese girl CioCio-San, or Butterfly, who is seduced and tricked into a sham marriage by American naval officer Pinkerton.
She has his baby, then stabs herself to death when she sees him with an American wife.
Oh, yes, she’s only 15, so that’s child abuse we can add to Puccini’s disgrace.
THE eternally slim Angelina Jolie, right, wore a ‘chin cuff ’ – a gold contraption that hangs from her bottom lip and goes under her chin – to her new movie’s premiere.
The cuff’s designer says it made her look like a female superhero, others conclude it’s just a silly stunt to get attention for another dud movie. My view is it’s a lip-version of a gastric band – with that contraption on you can’t drink or eat anything except thin gruel, through a straw.
TV historian Mary Beard is an enthusiast for toppling statues of men deemed either offensive, like slaver Edward Colston, or no longer relevant. While I adore Mary, I wonder whether, at her venerable age, she should really be encouraging people to push over old relics.