You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!
No John Inmans on Newsnight.
Evan Davis, at the Attitude Magazine Pride Awards, says he doesn’t want LGBT guests camping it up in an ‘obviously gay’ way on the show. Last time I went to Wimbledon I got so drunk I don’t remember a thing. This time I just stayed inside and played beer pong. War Horse star Jeremy Irvine admits in Evian’s VIP lounge at Wimbledon that tennis really is not the game for him. When Dustin Hoffman was on, his velociraptor publicists asked to just do six discs as they were pressed for time. Dustin told them, “Can you just f*** off, I have so much more to say.” Kirsty Young, right, reveals why the Hollywood megastar is her favourite guest on Desert Island Discs – which always features eight tracks. They used to think I was crazy for collecting posters, tickets and programmes. I have a few million things now and they aren’t laughing any more. Bill Wyman celebrates the 28th anniversary of his restaurant Sticky Fingers – packed with Rolling Stones priceless memorabilia – with a dig at his former bandmates. The first time she served pudding before the main, next time we didn’t have dinner at all because she couldn’t work the cooker. Theatre producer Sweetpea
Slight, at the launch of her memoir Get Me The Urgent Biscuits, lets slip that opera bigwig Fiona Shaw is not as talented in the kitchen as she is on stage. Presbyterians is an anagram for Britney Spears, mother in law is Hitler Woman and mangetouts is Mao Tse Tung. Entrepreneur and puzzle fiend Sir David Tang gives me an interesting English lesson at the China Exchange last week.