TRENDING
KYM MARSH
THE former Corrie star, right, has landed a prime breakfast TV spot with the BBC. Kym and her co-host Gethin Jones are to go head-tohead with ITV’s Lorraine Kelly as BBC1 tries to emulate the success of The One Show in the mornings.
Morning Live launches next month and will be on at 9.15am daily.
ALDI
AS profits surge by more than 49% in a year, the budget supermarket has announced plans to open 100 new stores by the end of 2021 creating 4,000 new jobs. B&M has also announced plans to open 45 new stores.
BAKE OFF’S LOTTIE
THE pantomime producer became the first recipient of a Hollywood handshake on this week’s show for her ‘quarantine florentines’. However there was uproar among fans after Makbul was sent home, with many believing it should have been Rowan who got the chop.
SPITTING IMAGE
THE controversial political satire programme returns to our screens tonight. Airing exclusively on ITV and BBC’s new streaming platform, Britbox, the first series in 24 years will feature a host of new characters, including Vladimir Putin, Prince Harry and Meghan and the Prime Minister’s chief political advisor Dominic Cummings.
BORIS JOHNSON
THE Prime Minister was forced to apologise after bungling an explanation of his own lockdown rules. He got the restrictions regarding when and where people in the north east of England can meet, totally confused. Comedian Matt Lucas’s lampooning of the Tory leader on Bake Off looked tame in comparison to his own dismal performance.
PANIC BUYING CHRISTMAS TOYS
THERE is concern that it may cause an early surge in demand for the must-have Christmas gifts. Retailers are warning that popular in-demand toys will sell out long before December.
CADS AND TROLLOPS
A SURVEY has revealed that many millennials have no idea that a cad is an untrustworthy man or that a trollop is a woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships. Data research firm Perspectus Global put 2000 words to a panel of young people to find which were falling out of favour. Other words they had never heard of included minted and betrothed.
JEREMY CORBYN
PROVING there is confusion on both sides of the political divide, the former Labour leader had to apologise after he attended a dinner party for nine in breach of the ‘rule of six’ guidelines.