Naughty

STING loves to immerse himself in all forms of music. But the Geordie superstar has been getting pelters for his “mock Jamaican accent”revealed in his reggae collaboration with musician Shaggy, and accused of “cultural appropriation.”

But some sympathy should be extended. Could you imagine Roxanne being sung in a Tyneside accent?

CHARLIZE Theron felt depressed after gaining 50lb for a film role by eating cheeseburgers. The one-time supermodel turned Stanislavskian to get into the character of an overweight mother. But couldn’t she just have worn a fat suit? After all, it’s not called “acting” for no reason.

Nice

LOVE Island TV bosses are set to take a cut of the future earnings of this year’s contestants. And so they should. There is no way these fabulously attractive young people who are set up in a fabulous villa with their pick of fabulously attractive partners should be further rewarded with personal earners that bring in as much as £750k. Just jealous? You bet.

JULIAN Fellowes could so easily have followed his Downton Abbey success with another tale of toffs and scullery maids and their confused relationships. But instead his new series is based around fitba. Yet, the writer has not entirely gone against the grain of success. The English Game will be set in late 19th century and look in on the lives of the toffs and tradesmen who became as one. For 90 minutes.