Friday, 28 May 2010

Fergie


Welcome to the world of Fergie
Poor Sarah Ferguson is so broke - I use her commoner’s name on the assumption that Brenda and Phil will by now have had her stripped of the HRH bit, shackled in the Tower for crimes against the royal we - the ‘complete aristocrat’ is reduced to peddling dodgy cash for access deals. Boo hoo! But in my (bank)book, ‘not having a (FabergĂ©?) pot to p*** in’ doesn’t allow for a jolly to Naomi Campbell’s 40th birthday bash in Antibes. If only she were more like her hardworking ex, the industrious trade ambassador, obviously, not the joyrider duke of popular myth accused of flagging down jets and helicopters like they’re cabs for hire at our expense. How about Hollywood? Produce a warts-and-all sequel to The Queen giving us the real filth on the Windsors. You could pocket the leading lady’s fee too, playing your old toe-sucking self and wouldn’t Maxwell Caulfield make an ace Air Miles Andy? Box office gold. Future, sorted!   

Friday, 21 May 2010

Philip Treacy

I’m love-love-loving reports that mild-mannered Irish milliner, Treacy, is taking on a new intern. Step forward, Lady Gaga!  Apparently, the chapeaued-up chantoosay, who has worn everything from a telephone, a flying saucer, antlers and what appeared to be road-kill to a brown paper bag over her head - her most flattering look yet, according to bitchy detractors - is keen to master Phil’s craft. It’s a move that displays the Irishman’s shrewd business acumen. Their collaboration - a Gaga for Philip Treacy at Debenham’s range, perhaps? - could be a licence to print money. Can’t wait to see their outlandish creations on Scouse tea-bag tan trollops on Ladies’ Day at Aintree. It’s said Philip needs to assess the Lady’s sewing skills first but I reckon she’s a shoo-in, for isn’t the critical CV requirement ‘must be mad as a hatter?’        

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Cynthia Nixon

I don't know why she looks to have been sidelined in the new film poster because Nixon’s screen character, Miranda, has always been the coolest of the Sex and the City girls;  ‘girls’ whose next film will, at this rate, be shot on location in The Hamptons retirement home for senile, sex-obsessed, Dior couture adult diaper wearers. Interviewed in the Advocate, Nixon relates how she dumped one PR hellbent on keeping her secret sex shame - as a certain fit-only- as-chip-wrapper red top would likely have described her burgeoning Sapphist tendencies - under wraps, hiring openly gay publicist Kelly Bush to get her news ‘out.’ Way to go, girl! Not for her, any South Park jibes about being stuck in Carrie’s closet. Now the actress is free to show off her other half, fiancĂ©e Christine Marinoni, not necessarily Nuts cover material and described, affectionately, by Cyn as ‘like a short man with boobs.’ On that basis, could Johnny Vegas be in with a shout if things ever go pear-shaped?   

Joni Mitchell

In a recent interview, having branded Madonna as ‘like Nero’ and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin, effectively,  as drunken slags, when the subject of Bob Dylan was raised, the usually retiring Joni branded the icon ‘a plagiarist, dismIssing both his name and voice as fake. Come on! With an eye on a rock stardom, would anyone stick with Bob Zimmerman as a handle? As for that voice; fake? Why affect an adenoidal whine that, at times, sounds like a Strimmer on the blink? If he’s such a plagiarist, don’t go covering various Dylan tracks such as Mr Tambourine Man, Joni! Could the lady's pique stem from rumours that, with Mitchell present, Dylan pretended to fall asleep, snoring, when previewing her Court and Spark album in 1974? Let’s hope that if the pair ever meet in France, they kiss (and make up) on Main street.