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Andy<br />
Mansell’s<br />
Stars In My<br />
Eyes<br />
PRETTY WOMAN<br />
HEADS UP WEST<br />
Hard to believe that the movie Pretty<br />
Woman is nearly thirty years old, yes<br />
thirty.<br />
The box office smash, starring<br />
Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, first<br />
released in 1990, is a classic story<br />
focusing on an eccentric sex worker<br />
by the name of Vivian Ward who<br />
is hired by wealthy businessman<br />
Edward Lewis to escort him to several<br />
high-flying social and business<br />
events.<br />
Fans of the film will be delighted to<br />
learn that a musical adaptation of the<br />
movie will hit the West End stage on<br />
Valentine’s Day next year.<br />
The Piccadilly Theatre will play host<br />
Boris and<br />
Theresa?<br />
to Pretty Woman: The Musical for a<br />
very limited run, with Bryan Adams<br />
stepping in to helm the tunes.<br />
No word has been released on who<br />
will play the lead roles, but I’m<br />
guessing that Boris Johnson and<br />
Theresa May aren’t in the running.<br />
HOLOGRAM WHITNEY ON TOUR<br />
Not sure how I feel about hearing<br />
that a Whitney Houston hologram<br />
is set to tour the UK next year,<br />
according to reports.<br />
Apparently, though details are still<br />
sketchy, the show will be staged<br />
by Base Entertainment, which has<br />
previously produced holograms<br />
of Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison,<br />
with one based on Amy Winehouse<br />
apparently in the works.<br />
The concerts are set to feature<br />
many of the major hits released by<br />
Houston, who passed away in 2012.<br />
I Wanna Dance With Somebody<br />
(Who Loves Me) and The Greatest<br />
Love of All are expected to be<br />
included, with the New York Times<br />
reporting original band members<br />
and backing singers are lined up to<br />
perform alongside the hologram.<br />
I suppose for diehard fans the<br />
chance to hear a flawless Whitney<br />
perform again is hard to resist,<br />
particularly as some of her last<br />
Whitney<br />
on the wall<br />
appearances prior to her death<br />
were plain embarrassing.<br />
Mind you I went to a Chris Rea<br />
concert once and may aswell have<br />
been watching a hologram……He<br />
had as much personality as the<br />
wall.<br />
PROUD OF PRIDE<br />
Homolulu<br />
2019<br />
You may recall last week I wrote<br />
that I would be taking part in the<br />
Benidorm Pride parade along<br />
Levante Beach last Saturday on<br />
our Homolulu float.<br />
Well, I’m very happy to report that<br />
we had a fantastic time, despite a<br />
few technical hitches, leaving us<br />
without music for a large part of<br />
the route and torrential rain as we<br />
decorated our transport.<br />
Huge thanks to everyone who<br />
jumped onboard and walked<br />
alongside and to those who<br />
helped get it ready.<br />
This year’s festival was one of<br />
the best, so congratulations to<br />
everyone involved, organisers,<br />
performers, participants<br />
and spectators.<br />
Benidorm has had a tough year,<br />
with a negative campaign waged<br />
against us by certain parts of the<br />
UK media, so it was nice to give a<br />
big finger to all the Beni knockers<br />
and show them that when we want<br />
to, we can put on a show to beat<br />
them all.<br />
GRAHAM’S IN IT FOR<br />
THE LONG HAUL<br />
Having recently reached an age<br />
where, had I stayed in the UK, I<br />
would almost certainly already<br />
have retired, but as I live and<br />
work in Spain, the chances of<br />
me finishing work are next to<br />
zero, I was comforted to read the<br />
thoughts of chat show supremo<br />
Graham Norton.<br />
Speaking on what the future<br />
holds on US radio show SiriusXM,<br />
Graham said: ‘What I might try<br />
to do is just cut back on my<br />
workload. Then I would be able to<br />
stare at a wall, write a book, walk<br />
the dogs…’<br />
However, he added that friends<br />
who have retired have convinced<br />
Teenage<br />
daydream<br />
Graham<br />
him that it’s a terrible idea.<br />
‘What’s odd is, when you stop<br />
working you become a teenage<br />
girl,’ he said. ‘You start obsessing<br />
about minutiae. I don’t want to<br />
turn into that person.’<br />
You’re right Graham, neither do I,<br />
but I don’t want to stare at a wall<br />
either.<br />
Jamie’s Out<br />
So this year’s Strictly Come Dancing hasn’t<br />
even reached the live shows and already<br />
there’s been a casualty.<br />
Made in Chelsea’s blond bombshell, Jamie<br />
Laing has pulled out owing to an injury<br />
sustained in training.<br />
He quit at the weekend after damaging<br />
a tendon in his right foot during a<br />
group number, claims that he told his<br />
professional dance partner, Oti Mabusi,<br />
about his ailment but she told him to grin<br />
and bear it.<br />
“It felt like someone had hit me on the back<br />
of it with a belt. like stepping on glass,”<br />
said Jaimie, “I grabbed Oti and said, ‘Oti<br />
something’s happened to my foot,’ and she<br />
just went, ‘Dance.’”<br />
There’s been lots of speculation that Jamie<br />
will return to Strictly next year, but for this<br />
Jamie’s quit<br />
Strictly<br />
series he has been replaced by Emmerdale<br />
hunk Kelvin Fletcher, who plays Andy<br />
Sugden in the <strong>North</strong>ern soap.<br />
Not quite chalk and cheese ….. more like<br />
Moet and a mug of Yorkshire tea.
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