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FORMER Charlie’s Angel Cheryl Ladd, now 67, has shot down the supposed allure of showbiz fame. “When I was at the height of my success I was least happy because I was farthest from God,” says the devout Christian.
JOHN Cleese has decided to leave the UK , citing Brexit as the reason. The former Python is off to live on a tiny Caribbean island and so he jolly well should, given his perpetual complaining about ex-wives, the BBC, other Pythons and, most annoyingly, the state of Britain’s newspapers.
Cleese was of course happy to use the nation’s publications to promote his UK tour in which he rustled up alimony.
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TRAGIC to hear the BBC are paying Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker £1.75 of license payers money each year. Lineker does a decent job, but does he deserve to be the highest paid employee, given that the programme is the star and badly-behaved chimp could be in the hot seat and the viewing figures would scarcely drop?
AWFUL to hear Facebook has been fined just £500,000 for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after Facebook allowed the personal date of millions to be harvested.
Facebook generates half a million pounds every seven minutes, based on recent financial results.
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