Secret Celebrity Gossip #162

[ISeeThisThing]

One of the Spacey stories as reported on Popbitch

"I used to work for Lambeth Council and recall one time when the Licensing Committee heard annual applications for local bars, clubs and theatres. There were just two applications that time. One from the Old Vic theatre and one from a notorious gay S&M dungeon bar.

"The clerk, seeing Kevin Spacey as an applicant in person, said: 'Ah, Mr Spacey. We'll hear from you first. Tell me. Which establishment are you representing?'"

"Everyone present, including the star, fell about laughing."

 

[MissHavisham]

ITV was good. Dramarama. Children's Hospital. Press Gang. Orm and Cheep. Trapdoor. Sorry to rub it in.

I was obsesssssssed with Children's Ward. So good.

I've heard of people not being allowed watch ITV, was this an English people quirk? In Ireland we were just glad of another channel. Frankly I'm embarrassed for any 80s child who's unable to recite the intro to Mallet's Mallet.

 

[artnouveau]

I was obsesssssssed with Children's Ward. So good.

I've heard of people not being allowed watch ITV, was this an English people quirk? In Ireland we were just glad of another channel. Frankly I'm embarrassed for any 80s child who's unable to recite the intro to Mallet's Mallet.

Not aware of it in Scotland either!

 

[Minpin14]

 

[MemoryLane]

Did you ever see his sex tape in the 2000s? All I remember is it involved a lot of hair in mouths and has put me off watching him in anything ever since.

Edit- Colin Farrell not MB

I’ve found it! Oh my. he’s a decent sized lad! I’d climb that like a tree!
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She's very ethereal looking. I used to think she was stunning in an unusual way but I think she's had buccal fat removal which does make her face look quite harsh.

She looks like Sid out Ice Age!

 

[Eureka]

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Gervais?

 

[bluefoot]

The not letting kids watch ITV is typical English performative class snobbery. I’d put money on these parents voting Tory as well

 

[Don'tlookEthel]

The not letting kids watch ITV is typical English performative class snobbery. I’d put money on these parents voting Tory as well

Not in my parents case, labour voting and working class through and through. What they couldn't provide in financial capital they tried to provide in cultural capital as they naturally wanted more for me, thanks to their efforts I was the first in the family to go to University

 

[April Ludgate]

Not aware of it in Scotland either!

I grew up in Wales so maybe it's an English thing?!

 

[Brandshinynew]

The not letting kids watch ITV is typical English performative class snobbery. I’d put money on these parents voting Tory as well

Nope both parents were working class labour supporters.

 

[smudge126]

I was allowed to watch ITV as a kid and my mother is bafflingly in love with Margaret Thatcher and the Tory party in general

 

[Kerrie86]

In

I’ve found it! Oh my. he’s a decent sized lad!

Hypothetically speaking, how would someone go about finding this?

 

[Bagpuss20]

The not letting kids watch ITV is typical English performative class snobbery. I’d put money on these parents voting Tory as well

Nope, in my case labour voting working class living on a council estate in a pit village.

 

[Remotecontrol]

I grew up in England and me and all my mates watched ITV. I have heard of this thing where the occasional person wasn’t allowed because bbc was thought to be the best though. Mad really.

 

[Carefree]

The not letting kids watch ITV is typical English performative class snobbery. I’d put money on these parents voting Tory as well

Foreign mother who grew up under Communist rule so not sure that hypothesis works.

 

[orangehead]

I grew up in England and me and all my mates watched ITV. I have heard of this thing where the occasional person wasn’t allowed because bbc was thought to be the best though. Mad really.

I was allowed to watch itv but I had a friend who wasn’t because on kids tv the adverts was all expensive toys etc and her mum couldn’t afford them so she made her watch bbc and I had to tell her about the itv shows or she’d watch it if she went to a friends house.

 

[Prince fan 1999]

ITV was good. Dramarama. Children's Hospital. Press Gang. Orm and Cheep. Trapdoor. Sorry to rub it in.

I loved "Johnny Briggs" and "Bernard's watch".

 

[Dollylovesshoes]

When i grew up the Telly only had BBC Only channel availabl,then years later itv started,if you wanted to view it you had to have your Telly commercialised,that’s what mum and dad did with ours.

it was a little box on side of Telly.

 

[orangehead]

I loved "Johnny Briggs" and "Bernard's watch".

I still say ‘I wish I had Bernard’s watch’ at least one a week

 

[Gym&Tonic]

I was obsesssssssed with Children's Ward. So good.

I've heard of people not being allowed watch ITV, was this an English people quirk? In Ireland we were just glad of another channel. Frankly I'm embarrassed for any 80s child who's unable to recite the intro to Mallet's Mallet.

I’ve heard the reverse of this. My mum and her friends never watched Blue Peter as children because it was too posh and they couldn’t relate to it. When you look back it was very twee, plumby voiced Home Counties wasn’t it? I always thought it cringeworthy tit and used to get annoyed that Byker Grove wasn’t on instead.