Good George e Friday
Worried about this year’s I’m A Celeb moving to Wales?
Fear it might be a bit of a washout? You’d be right.
But only because... it really is flooded. Yep, Gwrych Castle in Clywd found itself awash with water after last weekend’s storms, leaving unlucky staff to bail it out (and not financially).
I feel sorry for the crew. They expected months of shorts and T-shirts in sunsoaked Oz, only to be left soaked to the skin, buying wellies and cagoules from the castle’s nearest Argos.
So will the celebs – said to include former Strictly professional dancer AJ Pritchard – be happy campers if the rain keeps up?
Show bosses certainly won’t be. For if they want to be drowning in viewers (and profits), we all know these are not the showers they need.
Gwrych Castle
Manky Monday Throwdown Tuesday
All’s not well between two knights of our realm.
Sir Elton John has apparently had the “hump” since Sir Rod Stewart called his Farewell tour “not rock ’n’ roll”.
And now Sir Rod has revealed he tried to apologise by inviting Sir Elton and his boys to play football at his mansion – only to find himself sent to Coventry (and I don’t mean Coventry FC’s stadium).
In days of yore, such a quibble would be settled by a duel.
But with pistols at dawn now frowned upon and our knights not likely to sit down around a table, how else could they bury the hatchet?
How about a streetstyle Dance Off ? Tiny Dancer vs Hot Legs?
Or they could get in the ring – Elton says Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting, after all.
I’ve got it...
A Fashion Face-Off: Sir “Grow Some Funk of Your Own” Elton vs Sir “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” Rod.
They’d be able to make a new record together at least...
A Guinness World one: ne: Most Leopard Print On Show how In One Place*.
*Outside of a zoo.
Wowza! Wednesday
I t ’s that time again – when Strictly contestants prove e they’ve got what it takes s to shine, shine, shine.
No, not talent... a lovely sequinned outfit.
Yes, Wednesday brought ught us the joy that is seeing ng this year’s batch of wannabe nnabe
waltzing wonders all done up in their very best glitter garb. Nicola Adams is set to be paired with pro Katya “snogged Seann Walsh in a pub back alley” Jones, making them the show’s first same-sex couple. Meanwhi le, Men Behaving Badly’s Caroline Quentin is clearly trying to lower expectations. Asked who she saw as competition, she replied: “Anyone with a pair of knees that function really well.”
It’s rarer than you think, Caroline. Just ask all a those in previous years... wh who couldn’t keep theirs togeth together.
Phil-flop Phi Thursday T
If there’s one basic r rule ab o u t i interviewing, it’s t this: know who y you’re talking to. This Morning p pros Phillip Schofield ie i and Hol ly W Willoughby spent f iv i e minut e s in interviewing nt a man
about scallops on Thursday, only to notice he looked... well, like a fish out of water.
It turned out he wasn’t a scallop collector, but an expert on the Loch Ness monster.
I guess with a show that big, things can’t always be shipshape.
Indeed on Wednesday, a caller from Bristol announced on air that Phil had once turned down his daughter for an autograph, saying: “I’m too busy”.
That was just after Phil had a giant sneeze on the sofa – and got slammed online for not using a tissue. ssue.
If I were him, it would be weeks like these that would make me just want to run and hide.
I wonder if there’s a broom cupboard somewhere? He’ll have to ask their gopher.
Theatres have been suffering ering a heavy blow because se of coronavirus.
But the “UK’s only dinner inner theatre”, The Mill at Sonning, ning, has been saved from closure, sure,
thanks to a certain neighbour: George Clooney. Yes, George and high-flying lawyer wife Amal have donated to the Berkshire theatre to help keep it afloat until it can reopen.
But it’s not only cash, George’s support will mean. For after publicly thanking the couple, and telling the world they’re regular attendees, I imagine all future audiences will be incredibly, overwhelmingly, 99.9% female.
It’s lucky for George social distancing will still be in place. Otherwise the hordes of amorous fans desperate to get close to Clooney, might have landed him back in ER.