I shall now call him Stephen Thigh from now on.
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That reminds me that summat similar happened to me when I was a teenager.The talk of finding sex scenes cringey to watch reminded me of an excruciating moment from my teenage years. I was at a friends house. We were about 14 at the time. We happened to be in the sitting room with her Dad watching some movie on TV when a totally unexpected and quite raunchy sex scene came on. We sat there in total silence and embarrassment for what seemed like an hour but probably was a few seconds before my friends Dad leapt out of his chair and said in an overly cheery voice “right, who’s for a cup of tea!” and fled to the kitchen.
I was home alone watching the telly one evening, there's a knock on the door and it's one of the local priests.
Back then they would call to people's houses, in the parish, just to say hallo, like a pastoral visit type thing.
Anyway, I explained my Dad was out (it was just me and my Dad when I was growing up, as my mother had died a couple of years before and I was an only child) but would he like to come in? Hoping he'd say no
In he comes, and sits down in the living room, and I left the telly on while I went to the kitchen to make a cup of tea.
In I come, with a tray of tea and biscuits, only to find the priest sitting there and a flipping love scene on the telly
It can't have been too racy because it was before the watershed but I still nearly died of embarrassment
This tickled me
But tbf, that’s exactly how PGW wrote Jeeves.
Who’s the other man?
Yeah, regardless of what you think of them, Fry and Laurie as Jeeves and Wooster was pretty inspired casting.
There's a comedian called Limmy who has a bit of a cult following. Years ago on twitter Stephen Fry used to be a bit of a fan and mention him and stuff. One night on his old YouTube livestreams Limmy did a "bit" about how he was as smart as Stephen Fry and how SF just looked smart because he read out facts researched by other people.
It was clearly not malicious and just a silly joke he was doing. Anyway Stephen promptly blocked him and never mentioned him again.
It was clearly not malicious and just a silly joke he was doing. Anyway Stephen promptly blocked him and never mentioned him again.
Lewis Capaldi
Have you got any examples of her "hate speech"? I've been trying to find some for years but nobody ever has an answer to that question. It's weird.
I’d also be really interested to see an example of this, I’ve never successfully found it myself and whenever I see someone condemning her as a bigot I ask what exactly it is she said that was so hateful and get told to “do my own research”
I’d also be really interested to see an example of this, I’ve never successfully found it myself and whenever I see someone condemning her as a bigot I ask what exactly it is she said that was so hateful and get told to “do my own research”
It makes no sense that people are unable to give examples about something they feel so passionately about.
JK is a hero and very brave
It was absolutely yonks ago I can’t remember any of it. Back in the day we used to write to each other (I was on maternity leave) I shall dig out the letters when I get a minuteOhhhhh, do tell? What was the gossip?
I rewatched them all recently and Footballers Wives: Extra Time. On BritBox. I think you can get a month's free trial if you've time to binge.Oh blimey that’s a blast from the pastI loved that show - so trashy but so addictive. I wonder if I can find it to watch …
Posted this before but usually raises an eyebrow given their slightly different career paths: Vanessa Feltz studied at Cambridge at the same time as Stephen Fry. Both read English and Vanessa outperformed him, gaining a first.
i’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for vanessa feltz so this makes me smile.
I love Vanessa … she is ACE.
Supremely intelligent and interesting. Fabulous way with words
Totally ! I sent her a DM once ages ago about something and she replied with a lovely message almost immediately. She is lovely !
No, absolutrely not, he wrote him as someone from a modest background who was preternaturally bright, a gifted autodidact, who, like all butlers, affected an imperfectly 'good' accent. That's quite different from sounding as though you went to Upminster and Cambridge and were thoroughly spoilt.
No, it was lazy casting, tapping into the double of the day's popularity. Seriously, read the books again, it's NOT how they were meant to be perceived. Do you think Etonians and Harrovians were queuing up to be butlers??? The upper classes didn't toss a coin and say, right, heads I'll be master, tails I'll be a valet'.
It was a bit like the book Spycatcher that was banned in the UK, so my dad brought me home a copy from America (I wanted to be a spook as a teenager - love John Le Carre and Frederick Forsyth type books).
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