Secret Celeb Gossip #51

[DCICassieStuart]

Wow. Ok. Thanks. Yeah, that hasn’t aged well at all.

Re: tv programmes not aging well etc. I've been watching The Golden Girls recently (lots on YouTube) and for a series made in the 1980s, it really was ahead of its time. It dealt with homosexuality, Aids, teenage pregnancy, having a baby with doner sperm etc and all were well dealt with and portrayed in a positive way.

When Blanche's brother tells her he's gay and introduces her to his partner, she doesn't deal with it well at first but after talking to Sophia who tells her everyone is allowed to love someone and be happy she sees that she was wrong. Sophia was in her 80s on the show and had an attitude and point of view that a lot of younger people wouldn't even have had at the time.
Same when Blanche's daughter decided to have a child by going to a sperm bank. Blanche isn't happy with the idea but comes round when her daughter challenges her about it and completely changes her opinion once the baby is born.

There's also an episode where their 16 year old neighbour is pregnant and is afraid to tell her father. The ladies look after her and try their best to help.

Dorothy's brother is a transvestite and when he passes away Sophia blames his wife who tells her that he had always been like that, ever before they met and that he was a good father and a good husband and that she loved him.

I remember another episode where Rose has to undergo tests after being told that she may be HIV positive after a blood transfusion. She tells Blanche that she can't understand why it's happening to her as she's always been a 'good' person. Blanche tells her that HIV isn't a punishment for 'bad' people and that it can happen to anyone.
This was a hugely progressive view in the 1980s where HIV/AIDS was seen as a 'bad' disease that only happened to gay men.

Times and attitudes have changed a lot since then, but for a show that's almost forty years old now it was streets ahead of its time.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Does anyone remember on the earlier threads where someone came on here and told us that Boris was actually very seriously ill with Covid and was about to be admitted to hospital when it was still be played down? I can’t remember if it was the same person, but they also told us Matt Hancock was having or had an affair with one of his staff (a different one). I wonder if they’ve got any more goss? Specifically about the Gove/Vine marriage.

 

[AlanBanan]

If Gove does come out as being in a gay relationship don’t hate him because he’s gay. You should hate him because he’s a weasley Tory twat

 

[Ennui]

He had an affair with Nicole Kidman on the set of Moulin Rouge I believe? There’s been rumours he’s cheated on Eve for years with various women.

I love how free flowing this thread is so if like me your brain isn't fully switched on yet, you start thinking "Rylan had an affair with Nicole Kidman on the set of Moulin Rouge????"

Hopefully it's not just me!

 

[caroleffinbaskin]

Don't get the Adam Driver thing at all

Me neither, he’s like a Lidl Keanu Reeves

 

[AlanBanan]

I remember he did an interview where he said he only wrote that Galway girl song becuase Irish people and those that say they're Irish

There is no reference to Galway in the song at all. Grafton street is in Dublin. He said he met her there yet in the music video he meets her in a bar that is not near Grafton street. Then the video concludes with them waking up in Galway like what did they fucking drink to wake up in Galway? Galway is a good 3 hours on the train from Dublin.

Also the music video makes me angry he makes us look like we all live in 1950s rural Ireland and we all are basic Irish stereotypes, getting pissed and doing ceilí. When in reality if that ginger pox came near any Irish bird they would be knocked clean out.

Awh detest the man

 

[Gym&Tonic]

I actually felt Gemma Atkinson was a total bitch during her time on strictly.She totally ruined Alexandra Burke’s experience by hooking up with her dancer.Took away from any storytelling they tried to do in their dance knowing he was dipping his dick elsewhere throughout the week.

Is this a joke? The only person who ruined Alexandra Burke’s experience was Alexandra herself. She’s known to be a diva and difficult behind the scenes going back to her X Factor days, and seeing as Gorka and Gemma are still together and have a young child it wasn’t just a bit of ‘hooking up’. You make it sound like they were having some kind of illicit affair or something, as long as he was going into work everyday, training and putting together routines for them it was none of her business who he was dating.

 

[Ennui]

Rick Astley took a massive hissy fit at the head security lady at Rewind a few years back. She got the last nearest to stage space in the staff car park (in her Range Rover) and Rick got out of his Skoda and started shouting at her. I believe he used the phrase “do you know who I am?”. There were other spaces available, only not quite as close to back stage area.

He stayed in the Salutation Arms that night in Perth, while the rest of the acts were staying at Gleneagles. I wonder if that was because he was dickish to the person arranging accommodation?

I hope when he asked her to move from the parking space she said she was never going to give it up.

 

[AlanBanan]

I can see Rylan being a great dad.

We should rename this thread “We love Rylan Clark” because he’s just such a great fella. Love the man.

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

I don’t know what a vulva is

It's a Swedish car ....

 

[Flowergirl14]

We should rename this thread “We love Rylan Clark” because he’s just such a great fella. Love the man.

The fact he dislikes Schofield and likes Eamonn and Ruth is good enough for me. Plus the fact he treats the runners and other production staff with respect.

 

[vicky-lola]

Slowly realising I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn’t like Rylan….

* backs out of the thread quietly! *

Ha ha you’re allowed to not like him…….you can rejoin the thread when you’ve thought about why you are wrong and are willing to change your ways (joke)

 

[Brian Butterfield]

Sean bean us another one, lots of ex wives and cross overs.

Whenever anyone mentions Sean Bean, all I can think of is when my friend worked with him on a film years ago abroad and his only requests to be brought over from the UK were Fray Bentos pies and anal porn.

Still laugh to this day thinking about the poor runner that got stopped at Customs.

 

[AlanBanan]

I watched the first episode of countdown with Anne Robinson earlier …yowzas! I found it hard to understand what she was saying. Too much filler, Botox, surgery. It was a tricky watch.

She looks like a blood hound in a wind tunnel with all the procedures she’s had.

She’s also a cunt she supports fox hunting so therefore she’s on my hate list. Imagine wanting to kill harmless animals for the sake of it. Horrible bitch.

 

[Beverley Macker]

I wonder why she went the surrogate route. Not a mad fan of the name, or maybe it’s the spelling I’m not a fan of. Either way I hope the baby is happy and healthy

Because apparently it’s now easier for celebrities and wealthy women to just buy one? It seems to go like this:

1) Make up some bullshit, improbable medical reason why you are exploiting some other poor woman’s body who desperately needs the money.
2) Lap up sympathy from idiot fans who believe you.
3) Get poorer woman to carry the baby, nurture it and then give birth. Extra props here for consequently giving the surrogate mother no credit at all, - and where possible dehumanise and undermine them by calling them a ‘gestational carrier’.
4) Then quickly snatch that baby away from everything it knows as soon as it is born, in order for the attention and photo opportunities.
5) Hand baby to various nannies to bring up once attention dies down.

 

[House of Tea]

Lots of funny tweets


Sarah Vine has locked her Twitter account

 

[House of Tea]

As long as its not Philthy Scofield

Rylan is too old for Pipsqueak. Rylan is too nice for Pipsqueak. No love lost between those two. Rylan is Team Langsford & Holmes.

 

[House of Tea]

Anna has been blind sided by the amount of genitals she sees on naked attraction!

If I had her job I wouldn’t want to see anybody’s genitals every again, male or female. I have only every seen snatches (see what I did there?) on Gogglebox but that was enough for me. Looking at people’s bits in isolation from the rest of them makes you realise how ridiculous we all are. We are just bits of meat with dangly bits and holes.

 

[Miss Demeanour]

I know I've not been active on here lately. But I often think of Tealover49. She's not been active for months now. I hope she's okay.

I know she was ill, but was great having her on these threads. I found her inspiring.

 

[HockyRorror]

So Bill Cosby is free yet Britney Spears remains a prisoner. The free one has been accused by over 60 women of rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual assault against a child and drug-induced sexual assault whilst the prisoner shaved her own head one time and once whacked a car window with an umbrella 13 years ago after being hounded 24/7/365 by paparazzi like this