Mister trick with crusading Tories
The Royal Mint is bringing out special coins to marking 50 years of the Mr Men and Little Miss characters. Seeing as it’s also 50 years since decimalisation I’m surprised they didn’t combine both by bringing out coins celebrating the men and misses who despised the loss of pounds, shillings and pence so much they went on a crusade for Brexit.
We could have David Davis as Mr Lazy, Jacob Rees-Mogg as Mr Uppity, Kate Hoey as Little Miss Contrary, Nigel Farage as Mr Grumpy, Dominic Raab as Mr Nobody, Priti Patel as Little Miss Bossy, Boris Johnson as Mr Messy and Mark Francois as either Mr Jelly, Mr Tickle, Mr Bounce or Mr Greedy. They could call the special commemorative anti-decimal collection Not Quite The Full Shilling.
THIS fabulous freak of nature poses proudly for a picture its taker is hailing as a “oncein-a-lifetime” shot.
Yves Adam, 43, spotted the unique king penguin on a photo expedition to South Georgia in Antarctica.
What a golden opportunity.
The ice isn’t in danger of cracking under pressure on ITV’s flagship show. But the bosses might be.
For after seeing celebs blighted by injuries and positive Covid tests, Dancing on Ice announced on Monday it was giving itself – and Holly and co – the week off.
Yet bosses can’t pull the same trick twice, so what will they do if things don’t improve?
I suspect the answer is more padding. Not the type which ironically may have prevented injuries in the first place, but the other sort, like last week’s pre-recorded performance from pandemic rule-flouter Rita Ora.
However I have other suggestions: 1) Introduce a now-familiar tier system. Keep remaining celebs in the top tier and bring back the healthy-but-eliminated to battle it out for top of the bottom Klass class? (I’m backing Myleene).
2) With no Britain’s Got Talent this year, let’s kill two birds with one, um, bone, and invite on talented types who can’t test positive.
Yes – drum roll please dancing dogs.
Pudsey has sadly gone to live on a farm (cough). But I imagine ex-Corrie star Schmeichel or Pooch Perfect’s Stanley would be masters of stroking, sit spins and cross rolls.
Let’s face it, they might bark back at the judges.
But they can’t cause as big a stink as the last Hound on the show.
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