IT MUST BE TRUE…

I read it in the tabloids

Spam has become such a hot commodity in Hawaii that drug addicts are shoplifting cans of the processed pork, and selling them on the street to raise cash for their habit. “I mean, you try to keep an eye on it, but if they run, you just can’t leave the counter and chase them,” said one convenience shop owner in Honolulu. “So you just have to take the hit.” While most countries fell out of love with spam in the postwar years, Hawaiians never lost their taste for the product, and still eat millions of cans a year. “Asians eat a lot of rice. Spam is salty, and goes well with rice,” explained one Spam expert.

Katie Price has revealed her er latest business venture: the former model, who has already amassed an estimated £40m fortune from lingerie, cosmetics and TV appearances, is now branching out into coffins – suitably blinged up. Her designs are pink and covered in crystals, for that special send off. “I’m bringing out coffins, crystallised coffins,” she says. “I’m bringing out Katie Price coffins. Would you want to put someone in a wicker basket or in a crystallised one?”

A game that encourages users to “applaud” the Chinese president has gone viral in China, racking up 1.2 billion plays by some 400,000 users in just three days last week. Users of the game are shown extracts of Xi Jinping’s latest speech from the party congress, and are then asked to tap the screen to see how fast they can “applaud”.