Naughty
SIR CLIFF Richard boarded the London underground and “nobody noticed him at all,” said a passenger. It’s refreshing that the pop knight is prepared to travel with the hoi polloi, but doesn’t it burst the pop icon bubble a little when our legends are seen to be all too real?
NICK Grimshaw looks to have been found out. Finally. But it’s taken the BBC six years to acknowledge the Radio One breakfast show presenter is more about show than substance.
He’s not being sacked, but is losing Fridays, a let off considering the show has dropped from 7m listeners a week when he took over to 5.3m.
Nice
SIR RINGO Starr has landed a “multi-million-pound” record publishing deal which covers his Beatles songs and his own releases.
Now, who would have thought there is mileage in the likes of Octopus’s Garden and Back Off Boogaloo? But isn’t it great a 77 year-old drum thumper is still in demand.
JOANNA Trollope revealed this week that when leaving Oxford University she was told she could “nurse or teach.” She added; “I remember my friend Jill saying ‘I think we’re going to have to get married.’”
Ms Trollope did indeed marry – twice – and both failed but thankfully she didn’t have to rely upon a husband, her 21 romance novels earning her some £15m.
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