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Andy<br />
Mansell’s<br />
Stars In My Eyes<br />
BAKE OFF BROMANCE<br />
Dirty Blond<br />
Spice<br />
The result of this season’s<br />
Great British Bake Off,<br />
was still in the can as The<br />
<strong>Weekender</strong> went to press,<br />
but it seems that there’s been<br />
a bit of romance between a<br />
couple of the contestants<br />
who’ve been chucked out.<br />
Fans think there’s been<br />
a welcomed romance<br />
blossoming behind-thescenes<br />
between Henry Bird<br />
and Michael Chakraverty.<br />
Henry has been the most<br />
talked about contestant by far<br />
this cycle, namely for his questionable<br />
shirt and tie get-up, and because he was<br />
romantically linked to fellow baker Alice<br />
Feveronia.<br />
They remained silent over the rumours,<br />
but now a photo of Henry and Michael<br />
Cosying up<br />
over a<br />
brownie<br />
cosying up over some brownies, which<br />
Alice shared on her Instagram stories<br />
has everyone talking about a romance<br />
between the Sticky Bun Boys.<br />
It’s better than any soap opera.<br />
LOW KEY GINGER<br />
Apparently the much anticipated<br />
Rupaul’s UK Drag Race, guest judge<br />
appearance by Spice Girl, Geri<br />
Horner, formerly known as Ginger,<br />
but now more Dirty Blonde Spice,<br />
was something of a damp squib.<br />
The forty-eight-year old singer,<br />
known for her outrageous behaviour<br />
over the years, was peculiarly<br />
muted, downbeat and even a tad<br />
prudish, most unbecoming on such a<br />
flambouyant show.<br />
Perhaps the most shocking moment<br />
was when Divina De Campo did<br />
a fairly tame impersonation of<br />
Victoria Beckham, mocking her<br />
for ‘not being a***d’ to join the<br />
Spice Girls reunion tour – with Geri<br />
wincing and saying it was ‘a little bit’<br />
too savage.<br />
Hardly what one would expect from<br />
someone who once tried to kiss<br />
Prince Charles and pat his bum and<br />
who wore a Union Jack tea towel for<br />
an appearance on the Brit Awards.<br />
Oh dear!, maybe she is turning into<br />
her heroine Margaret Thatcher, as<br />
she nears her half century.<br />
EMMA ATTEMPTS A SELFIE<br />
REINSTATEMENT<br />
Classy Dame<br />
Emma<br />
Stars often get a bad name on their dealings<br />
with members of the public, so it’s good to<br />
see some of them have a heart.<br />
Dame Emma Thompson has reportedly<br />
urged the management of a five-star London<br />
hotel to reinstate a waiter after he was<br />
suspended for asking the actress for a<br />
selfie.<br />
The Oscar-winning star was dining with a<br />
group of celebrity friends at Brown’s Hotel<br />
in Mayfair last weekend when the waiter<br />
approached her and asked for a photo.<br />
According to reports, the Love Actually star<br />
declined his request, explaining she didn’t<br />
want to impose on her friends.<br />
The next day the member of staff was<br />
reportedly suspended from his position<br />
until further notice.<br />
However, as reported by The Sunday Times,<br />
Emma was “horrified” to learn of the waiter’s<br />
suspension and personally called the<br />
hotel’s management asking for its decision<br />
to be reversed. Brown’s Hotel managing<br />
director Stuart Johnson told the newspaper:<br />
“Caring for the privacy and wellbeing of both<br />
team members and guests, we are unable to<br />
make further comment on this matter.”<br />
Whether he got his job back or not is<br />
unclear, but at least the classy dame<br />
had a go.<br />
SHUT IT JENNY<br />
To be fair I’ve never been a fan of Friends,<br />
which I know isn’t a popular thing to admit<br />
and I honestly couldn’t give a toss whether<br />
they make a reunion or not.<br />
However, if I was a fan of the show, which<br />
ended way back in 2004, I’d be fed up with<br />
the constant rumours of the cast getting<br />
together to make more shows.<br />
Now Jennifer Aniston is at it, as fifteen<br />
years since the last episode debuted, she<br />
has confirmed that “something” could well<br />
be in the works with her former co-stars.<br />
When US TV presenter Ellen Degeneres<br />
questioned whether this meant there was<br />
something on the cards, Jennifer explained:<br />
“We would love for there to be something,<br />
but we don’t know what that something is.”<br />
Enough now Jenny …. Either tell us what’s<br />
happening or don’t say anything. I’m Bored<br />
now!!<br />
Friends<br />
Reunited<br />
A WEISS MOVE<br />
We’ve had a plethora of biopics about<br />
the lives of music stars, like Freddie<br />
Mercury, Elton John and Judy garland,<br />
over recent years and it seems that<br />
the successful formula is now being<br />
switched to movie stars.<br />
Rachel Weisz has been cast as<br />
Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor in<br />
an upcoming biopic called A Special<br />
Relationship.<br />
The film will focus on Taylor’s life<br />
in the 1980s and her journey to<br />
activism, which was inspired by her<br />
friendship with her assistant, Roger<br />
Wall.<br />
Weisz is set to play to the Hollywood<br />
icon in the upcoming biopic A Special<br />
Relationship, which will focus not on<br />
the star’s dramatic love life, but on<br />
her AIDS activism in the 1980s.<br />
Taylor’s shift toward activism was<br />
Weiss tailored<br />
for Taylor<br />
inspired by her close friendship with<br />
her assistant at the time, Roger Wall,<br />
a gay man from the Deep South.<br />
During the ‘80s, Taylor took on the<br />
Ronald Reagan administration in a<br />
personal campaign to raise public<br />
awareness about the AIDS epidemic.<br />
Sounds like it has Oscar written all<br />
over it to me.
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