SO HARD UP I’M SELLING MY CLOTHES
Corrie Marcus skint
FORMER Corrie actor Charlie Condou is flogging off his old clothes online – after his new play was postponed again.
The star, who played Marcus Dent in the ITV soap for seven years, told fans he “really would like a job” and “will accept anything”.
Charlie, 48, had been looking forward to a return to theatre work when Covid hit last year.
Since then his play has been put on hold.
Father-of-two Charlie is now flogging off his old clobber on second-hand designer clothing site website Depop.
He is advertising five sweaters for £245. The most expensive is a
“brand new never worn Ralph Lauren 100% cashmere jumper in electric blue” which the star is selling for £80.
The actor is also trying to shift a burgundy Dior sweater which he admits has a “couple of very small holes” for £40.
He wrote on the website: “Clearing out my wardrobe!’’
But on Twitter, with a link to his clothing sale, Charlie revealed his job plight.
He said: “The play I was due to do has been postponed again. Will accept anything. Especially roles for middle- aged men who dress in loose clothing.’’
Mum-of-three Tansy Arnett shows off the super-sized trousers she wore before shedding more than 7st.
The 29-year-old was too tubby to play with her sons and suffered years of agonising joint, neck and back pain. Now Tansy, from Colchester, Essex, has turned her life around after dropping six dress sizes at Slimming World where pals call her “Miss Slinky”.
Tansy said: “I feel like the person I always was on the inside.”
Beeb staff trained how to drink water THIRTY BBC staff took part in an online training course on how to drink water.
Last month we revealed Beeb employees were being offered the chance to sign up for an hour-long course on the “importance of being fully hydrated”.
It was one of a series of “well-being webinars” available to the broadcaster’s staff during lockdown.
But, while many workers mocked the course and moaned it was “money down the drain”, 30 actually took part, according to the response to a Freedom Of Information question. BBC bosses have not revealed the cost.
The blurb stated: “Attending this webinar will help you to identify the importance of being fully hydrated and find practical ways to achieve this state every day and to understand how being fully hydrated will improve health, overall well-being and performance.’’
Workers were even more intrigued when they discovered a video on hydration which was produced for schoolchildren on the BBC Teach website lasted just five minutes and nine seconds.
Host Stefan Gates summed it up when he stated: “Of all the boring stuff that people bang on about when it comes to nutrition, is there anything more boring than this stuff – water.
“I mean it’s tasteless, it’s colourless, it’s odourless.”
Olympic boxer Natasha Jones featured on the school video stating you can “get it out of your tap for free”.
A BBC spokesman said of the webinar: “We are addressing the fact you can take a journalist to water but you can’t make them drink.’’
A BUTCHER rigged his scales to overcharge customers 30p for every portion of meat.
Matthew Butler, 50, secretly stuck coins to the weighing mechanism so each order would be 40g light.
He got away with the scam for at least two months and is believed to have fleeced thousands of people.
But Butler was caught when undercover trading standards officers visited his Muddy Pig Butchers in Willenhall, West Mids.
They had received complaints about “sharp practice”. They seized his scales and found the coins attached with Blu Tack after twice being sold stewing steak which was 40g light.
Garry Perry, of Walsall Council, said Butler was “fleecing vulnerable as well as low income and often elderly shoppers”. Butler admitted fraudulent use of a scale and selling short weight meat at Dudley Magistrates’ Court.
He was given an 18-month community order of 200 hours’ unpaid work and ordered to pay £1,798 costs.