Secret Celebrity Gossip #18

[MadameOvary]

I loved those snow flake bars!! Why do Cadbury’s etc stop these bars?? I wish they would bring back Cabana Bars, Texan Bars, Fry’s 5 flavours, and I used to be obsessed with Milky Way’s, until they changed the bleeping recipe!!! I still love Kinder Eggs...

All Cadbuys 'chocolate' has been crap since it was bought by Mondelez. Nowadays it tastes like they wave a singular cocoa bean at a pile of sugar, then package it up.

 

[Won’t you have a cup]

Ooh the best autobiography I read, was Jodie Marsh’s. I know she’s hardly a zleb, and I’m really not a fan, but her book is actually really really funny. You’ll probably find it in any charity shop’s bargain bin

Keeping It Real by Jodie Marsh is THE BEST sleb autobiography I have ever read. Ever. I passed it around my work colleagues and we all loved it. Particularly the details of Fran Cosgrave’s skidmarked pants.

 

[Vanillaco]

Corey Feldman defends MJ in his book saying he never saw anything and was never abused by him. Thing is just because it didn’t happen to him or Macauley doesn’t mean it didn’t happen to other kids.

Corey and Macaulay were child stars who had their own means even if their parents were just as crap. The kids accusing MJ of abuse were far more vulnerable and easily silenced.

 

[cedarpeach]

I also believe Oscar Pistorious’ version of events - ive never been called for jury duty yet though.

are you joking?

 

[Very traditional]

I also believe Oscar Pistorious’ version of events - ive never been called for jury duty yet though.

lets hope you never are

 

[Vanillaco]

Anyone remember the Nutty bar? Fudge and toffee covered with nuts. Truly wonderful. Maybe showing my age though.

I bloody loved the nutty bar! I havent met anyone else who remembers it!

I also believe Oscar Pistorious’ version of events - ive never been called for jury duty yet though.

Hi @Jessfletcher666. I've temporarily fallen in hard times. Please can I borrow £500,000?

 

[Tarrula]

Allegedly the Member of Parliament for Tatton is known as the anal queen of Westminster!

Can confirm I’ve heard the same rumour She’s known for putting it about as well

Also the tale about her being in children’s homes? Complete bull. Best friend’s dad knows her parents and her childhood was very normal

 

[Falkor]

I had to listen to two very long interviews with James Safechuck and Wade Robson for work purposes, the day after Leaving Neverland was shown at Sundance. I believe them both. James in particular came over as still incredibly fragile about the whole experience and I think he's still in therapy, whereas Wade seems to have been able to move on more. Some of the documentary was cut to fit it into 2 hours with ad breaks on Channel 4 in the UK and one of the bits they didn't show here were the screeds and screeds of faxes Michael Jackson sent Wade, expressing his love for him.

 

[cedarpeach]

I had to listen to two very long interviews with James Safechuck and Wade Robson for work purposes, the day after Leaving Neverland was shown at Sundance. I believe them both. James in particular came over as still incredibly fragile about the whole experience and I think he's still in therapy, whereas Wade seems to have been able to move on more. Some of the documentary was cut to fit it into 2 hours with ad breaks on Channel 4 in the UK and one of the bits they didn't show here were the screeds and screeds of faxes Michael Jackson sent Wade, expressing his love for him.

It’s incredibly sad. Abuse of children is often deeply insidious and hard to prove. Grooming is such a complex psychological process that even the victims don’t always realise they have been abused. Victims of abuse have almost zero incentive to come forward, yet when they do they’re often treating as money grubbing liars.

 

[TheJoanCollinsFanClub]

I’m a bit conflicted on the ‘Anthea Turner as a victim of domestic violence at the hands of Bruno Brookes’ thing.

She comes across as one of those people who would say or do anything for public approval or sympathy. Which makes me less likely to believe her unquestioningly.

The Snowflake photos at her wedding to Grant Bovey, for example. Not for one second do I believe that they were duped into promoting a chocolate bar. Who, at their wedding reception, poses for a photo simultaneously eating a new chocolate bar and gurning for the camera? unless they were being paid, which I have no doubt that they were. Why pretend they were tricked into it? They should have just owned it.

I occasionally watch the BBC4 repeats of TOTP. It’s 1989 at present, and both Anthea and Bruno Brookes regularly pop up as presenters. I am incredulous every time that either of them would ever have been given a job presenting a programme with aspirations to coolness. Both of them are an embarrassment. Anthea Turner, at that time, would do anything to be on the telly, even if it involved making a show of herself. One Christmas day she was on telly dressed as a leprechaun and dancing on her own to Status Quo. I was aghast. I turned 18 in 1989 and she, Bruno Brookes and all they represented were so far from anything I aspired to or found appealing that it was laughable.

So it was with some surprise that I saw Anthea Turner pop up as a highly-paid presenter on GMTV, but it was an endless daily source of humour before I left for work. It was obvious that she and Eamonn Holmes LOATHED each other.

Anthea appeared to hate all the other presenters as well. I once watched her being really awful to Julia Bradbury, who now presents countryside and walking programmes and is a good presenter. At that time Julia was the GMTV showbiz correspondent. One morning she was doing an outside broadcast from the Viper Room in LA - think it must have been the first or second anniversary of River Phoenix’s death or something. Anyway Anthea interrupted Julia with some random question and said something like, “I think you need to come back and talk to us when you know more facts, don’t you?”, accompanied by this awful fake sickly smile of triumph. I really felt for Julia Bradbury but she managed to just about keep her countenance. Even people on the train to work were talking about how horrible Anthea Turner had been that morning!

Re the Grant Bovey thing: that, too, was hilarious. One of the newspapers printed extracts from Anthea’s autobiography when it was released: she was still married to Bovey then and was in full self-justification mode. Whilst she had been friends with Della Bovey, she felt justified in getting off with her husband because she, Anthea, was the victim of an unhappy marriage. Reading between the lines, she had been giving Grant Bovey the ‘poor little me’ act, and she called him from a hotel she was staying in for work to moan about how unhappy she was. He said that he’d come over to see her - they had not yet consummated their great love - and what do you think was her biggest worry? Cheating on her husband? Betraying her friend? Not a bit of it! No, she was most concerned that she was wearing her ‘comfy Hanro knickers’. Because she couldn’t be all sexy for their first night together. Making sure to drop in that her knickers were from an expensive Swiss brand, naturally! No M&S for Anthea.

(The autobiography was not a big seller, despite these details)

Hilariously, after Grant left Della, she wrong-footed him completely. Instead of weeping for her lost love, she got her hair done, got her glad rags on and went dancing with her mates. She also put a sign up in the garden saying that she’d lost a dog and a husband and that there was a reward for the dog. Go Della. Grant slunk back to her before she threw him out again a few months later and he returned to Anthea.

Flake-gate swiftly followed (the headline on the tabloids that day, accompanying the ‘scoffing chocolate at the wedding reception’ picture, was ‘sickener’). Her TV career fell flat on its arse. It was around this time that she made the allegations against Bruno Brookes. She also posed naked with a snake for Tatler and went on celebrity Big Brother.

She made a second bid for fame maybe ten years ago, trying to show us all how to be a ‘perfect housewife’. Bloody hell, Anthea, just accept that your TV career is over!I don’t know what she is doing now but I predict desperate podcasting.

Oh brilliant !!! I remember Della going out with her mates when she dumped Grant Bovey, and how nasty was Anthea by posing triumphantly with Grant Bovey in OK magazine (or was it Hello?). I just thought that was a really crappy thing to do to her “friend”. Then Anthea was going full on with Della’s daughters, buying them clothes makeup, lovely holidays, ponies, basically anything those girls wanted-Anthea got it fo them..
I don’t doubt that she was bitchy to Julia Bradbury, as Anthea seems to hate any women who she sees as a “threat”. When she was doing “Dancing On Ice”, you could tell how desperate she was, she would do anything to get back on ITV daytime...And it’s funny that her first husband, Peter Powell, seems to be the person who ITV get 99% of their Daytime Presenters from. I wonder why he hasn’t bothered helping Anthea to resurrect her career..

 

[Sariassong]

Same. I think her nickname “Princess Tippy Toes” describes her quite well... Eamon really hated her at one point didnt he

Eamon is an absolute prick though so I tend to doubt any opinion he voices.

 

[Flowergirl14]

I’m a bit conflicted on the ‘Anthea Turner as a victim of domestic violence at the hands of Bruno Brookes’ thing.

She comes across as one of those people who would say or do anything for public approval or sympathy. Which makes me less likely to believe her unquestioningly.

The Snowflake photos at her wedding to Grant Bovey, for example. Not for one second do I believe that they were duped into promoting a chocolate bar. Who, at their wedding reception, poses for a photo simultaneously eating a new chocolate bar and gurning for the camera? unless they were being paid, which I have no doubt that they were. Why pretend they were tricked into it? They should have just owned it.

I occasionally watch the BBC4 repeats of TOTP. It’s 1989 at present, and both Anthea and Bruno Brookes regularly pop up as presenters. I am incredulous every time that either of them would ever have been given a job presenting a programme with aspirations to coolness. Both of them are an embarrassment. Anthea Turner, at that time, would do anything to be on the telly, even if it involved making a show of herself. One Christmas day she was on telly dressed as a leprechaun and dancing on her own to Status Quo. I was aghast. I turned 18 in 1989 and she, Bruno Brookes and all they represented were so far from anything I aspired to or found appealing that it was laughable.

So it was with some surprise that I saw Anthea Turner pop up as a highly-paid presenter on GMTV, but it was an endless daily source of humour before I left for work. It was obvious that she and Eamonn Holmes LOATHED each other.

Anthea appeared to hate all the other presenters as well. I once watched her being really awful to Julia Bradbury, who now presents countryside and walking programmes and is a good presenter. At that time Julia was the GMTV showbiz correspondent. One morning she was doing an outside broadcast from the Viper Room in LA - think it must have been the first or second anniversary of River Phoenix’s death or something. Anyway Anthea interrupted Julia with some random question and said something like, “I think you need to come back and talk to us when you know more facts, don’t you?”, accompanied by this awful fake sickly smile of triumph. I really felt for Julia Bradbury but she managed to just about keep her countenance. Even people on the train to work were talking about how horrible Anthea Turner had been that morning!

Re the Grant Bovey thing: that, too, was hilarious. One of the newspapers printed extracts from Anthea’s autobiography when it was released: she was still married to Bovey then and was in full self-justification mode. Whilst she had been friends with Della Bovey, she felt justified in getting off with her husband because she, Anthea, was the victim of an unhappy marriage. Reading between the lines, she had been giving Grant Bovey the ‘poor little me’ act, and she called him from a hotel she was staying in for work to moan about how unhappy she was. He said that he’d come over to see her - they had not yet consummated their great love - and what do you think was her biggest worry? Cheating on her husband? Betraying her friend? Not a bit of it! No, she was most concerned that she was wearing her ‘comfy Hanro knickers’. Because she couldn’t be all sexy for their first night together. Making sure to drop in that her knickers were from an expensive Swiss brand, naturally! No M&S for Anthea.

(The autobiography was not a big seller, despite these details)

Hilariously, after Grant left Della, she wrong-footed him completely. Instead of weeping for her lost love, she got her hair done, got her glad rags on and went dancing with her mates. She also put a sign up in the garden saying that she’d lost a dog and a husband and that there was a reward for the dog. Go Della. Grant slunk back to her before she threw him out again a few months later and he returned to Anthea.

Flake-gate swiftly followed (the headline on the tabloids that day, accompanying the ‘scoffing chocolate at the wedding reception’ picture, was ‘sickener’). Her TV career fell flat on its arse. It was around this time that she made the allegations against Bruno Brookes. She also posed naked with a snake for Tatler and went on celebrity Big Brother.

She made a second bid for fame maybe ten years ago, trying to show us all how to be a ‘perfect housewife’. Bloody hell, Anthea, just accept that your TV career is over!I don’t know what she is doing now but I predict desperate podcasting.

I have to say that my ex worked with Eamonn Holmes and he found him to be lovely; and me too especially when I was introduced to him at a wrap party. So if he did not like Anthea Turner, I am very inclined to believe him. So different to Gary Lineker who did not engage with the production staff (unless they were young and female, just saying).

 

[Won’t you have a cup]

Oh brilliant !!! I remember Della going out with her mates when she dumped Grant Bovey, and how nasty was Anthea by posing triumphantly with Grant Bovey in OK magazine (or was it Hello?). I just thought that was a really crappy thing to do to her “friend”. Then Anthea was going full on with Della’s daughters, buying them clothes makeup, lovely holidays, ponies, basically anything those girls wanted-Anthea got it fo them..
I don’t doubt that she was bitchy to Julia Bradbury, as Anthea seems to hate any women who she sees as a “threat”. When she was doing “Dancing On Ice”, you could tell how desperate she was, she would do anything to get back on ITV daytime...And it’s funny that her first husband, Peter Powell, seems to be the person who ITV get 99% of their Daytime Presenters from. I wonder why he hasn’t bothered helping Anthea to resurrect her career..

I’ve just remembered the Katy Grin character from Absolutely Fabulous. Eddie’s horrendous TV business partner, trying to develop programmes so that she could get back on the telly. Who can Katy Grin have been based on? Who? Who???

 

[NikkiDeeW]

Eamon is an absolute prick though so I tend to doubt any opinion he voices.

Oooh now I worked at a health centre and he came for a health check. I must admit he was charming, not up his own arse at all. No sign of being a pretentious prick. The same cant be said for Gloria Hunniford and Cheryl Baker.

 

[Wifo1976]

QUOTE="TheJoanCollinsFanClub, post: 1709896, member: 80647"]
I loved those snow flake bars!! Why do Cadbury’s etc stop these bars?? I wish they would bring back Cabana Bars, Texan Bars, Fry’s 5 flavours, and I used to be obsessed with Milky Way’s, until they changed the bleeping recipe!!! I still love Kinder Eggs...
[/QUOTE]

Cabana bars were my mum’s absolute favourite!

 

[Renegadedancer]

Oooh now I worked at a health centre and he came for a health check. I must admit he was charming, not up his own arse at all. No sign of being a pretentious prick. The same cant be said for Gloria Hunniford and Cheryl Baker.

Cheryl baker seems lovely , no?

 

[DCICassieStuart]

Wasn't it Eamon Holmes who referred to Anthea Turner as "Princess Tippy Toes"?

 

[TheJoanCollinsFanClub]

I’ve just remembered the Katy Grin character from Absolutely Fabulous. Eddie’s horrendous TV business partner, trying to develop programmes so that she could get back on the telly. Who can Katy Grin have been based on? Who? Who???

Yep, Katy Grin is Anthea Turner!!! Just like Alan Partridge is Richard Madely!!! (I really miss Alan Partridge...Especially when he was living in the Linton Travel Tavern!!)

 

[Won’t you have a cup]

Wasn't it Eamon Holmes who referred to Anthea Turner as "Princess Tippy Toes"?

It certainly was! I am not a fan of Eamonn Holmes but he was right on the money there.

 

[TheJoanCollinsFanClub]

Wasn't it Eamon Holmes who referred to Anthea Turner as "Princess Tippy Toes"?

Yes, that was Eamon’s nickname for the “lovely” Anthea Turner...I think it rather suits her..