Book fans’ revolt over Ivanka speaks volumes
ONE place where Americans are guaranteed not to bump into Donald Trump is a bookstore as the President famously hates reading. However, Donald is not the only Trump not welcome in Barnes & Noble, the US’S answer to Waterstones. Ivanka’s book, Women Who Work: Rewriting The Rules for Success, caused so much nausea customers have been tweaking the self-help book’s displays. Titles that have been moved alongside it include Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-absorbed; The Fatherless Daughter Project; and Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life. Yet to see Presidency for Dummies there, though.
AS a kid, I used to love watching Tv-am’s Roland Rat in Rustie Lee’s kitchen. But real rodents in a restaurant usually mean it gets shut down... until now. For $50, tourists can drink all they can while rats scurry around in a Rat Cafe at a San Francisco tourist attraction. The rodents can be adopted via the Bay Area non-profit Rattie Ratz, which rescues them. This solves UB40’S problem: “There’s a rat in mi kitchen, what am I going to do?”
WHEN Amy Rebello-mccarthy was arrested for drink driving this week the fact she’d swerved off the road and knocked over no less than six mailboxes with her Mercedes C280 was not the strangest thing. No, that would have been the bearded dragon lizard police found stuffed down the Massachusetts woman’s bra while she was driving.
YOU can bet your bottom dollar Brandon Vezmar from Texas is going to be single for a while. This week he sued his date, Crystal Cruz, for the £13.36 he spent after he says she texted all the way through a film they went to see. Brandon claimed in his lawsuit he met the woman on dating app Bumble and they went to eat pizza and watch Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 at the movies. He says Crystal opened her phone to read and send text messages 10 to 20 times during the film. She has now paid him… and deleted his number.
WE’VE been getting it all wrong about Donald Trump. How do I know? Well, TV evangelist Jim Bakker has pronounced all this bad-mouthing of the President as satanic and in the “spirit of the antichrist”. However, all those who are vehemently anti-trump probably shouldn’t worry too much about criticising Damien – sorry, Donald. This is the Jim Bakker who resigned after a sex scandal and did five years’ jail for fraud.
P.S. I told my barman Richard I was heading off this weekend to play golf in Las Vegas with my brother. He had wise words of advice: “Never go for more than a few days. I was there for seven days once. After I had blown all my money on gambling and go-go girls, I had six days to kill.”