WINKLE’S WONKY SNIPPING
Noel and Liam’s Frustration! rivalry ended in violence
She admits it could have been the “dumbest” idea ever but Claudia Winkleman cut her own fringe live on social media.
The Strictly host was watched by her nervous hairdresser, George, who grimaced as he warned: “Mind your fingers! Be careful around your eye!”
And after Claudia’s wonky efforts, he joked: “I’m going to have my work cut out when I see you next.”
Many fights between Oasis’s warring
brothers were born out of frustration – the board game Frustration.
and would regularly erupt into violence over their favourite pastime during their time in the band.
Liam became convinced of a devious conspiracy after Noel won a series of matches, which they played for money.
Rows even kicked off over sinister claims the central “pop-o-matic” bubble – pressed to roll the enclosed dice – had been tampered with.
“It would always end in violence,” remembers Noel. “I was up about a grand at one point on tour. He always accused me that somehow, before the game had started, I had unscrewed the glass dome and put grease on
Oasis Frustration, Liam and Noel the dice. It’s a complete game of random – it’s in the lap of the gods. I was winning far too much for him to handle so he accused me of cheating – f***ing rigging the game. “Would I rig a game of Frustration?”
The group loved playing so much that MB Games famously made them a personalised version, which they took on tour – until Noel eventually took custody of it.
“When the band split, I took the Frustration,” he boasts to Matt Morgan’s Funny How? podcast.
He adds “there is always one” in his dressing rooms to this day.
The coronavirus lockdown hasn’t improved the chances of a long-awaited Oasis reunion, despite Liam’s early attempts to arrange a one-off gig for NHS key workers.
Admitting that he had been tempted by his little brother’s offer, Noel eventually scoffed: “I realised I would only be doing it to shut this f***ing idiot up.”
Noel
Liam
chose were celebrity ones – Verne Troyer and Ulrika Jonsson’s legendary performance of Endless Love (2009),
Jackie Stallone’s show-stopping entrance (2005), and non-celebrity Chantelle Houghton’s secret mission to convince everyone she was a pop star (2006).
However, if you really want to see the best ever episodes from the Big Brother house – David’s Dead? and Frank Carson’s Dressing Room – you’ll have to wait until Channel 5 does its own rundown show.
Please do not swear.