Secret Celebrity Gossip #91

[PrincessCharming]

I had neighbours years ago who had a teenage son with a medical condition that was unusual but not life threatening though required lots of operations to correct. The advice given was get it done when he’s fully an adult and the chances are he’d need less surgery as they couldn’t predict if the condition would override the surgery as he grew. Something along those lines. Parents put the kid through the ops in childhood and sold his story to all the mags like Take A Break, Woman’s Own, Woman’s Weekly etc. They had all the papers round, many visits from footballers, all creating new stories for them to cash in on.

The kid went from running around with all his pals to being confined to a wheelchair while in recovery from the ops. They moved eventually but I do hope he’s ok.

 

[RoseintheSunshine]

I know we have spoken about it before but Madonna. OMG and WTAF!! She looks shocking.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

I’ve mentioned this before but I remember one story from either Take a Break or Chat where a woman found out her husband was having and affair so she got revenge by making him a steak pie using dog shit from their pet Alsatian instead of meat. He ate the lot and said it was delicious. So obviously made up I mean it would stink for starters, but so batshit I’ve never forgotten it!

 

[jxhx]

Can anyone remember the ‘teen’ type mag that had a sex position in it (mildly)? I used to think I was so grown up getting it can’t think of the name

More magazine and position of the fortnight

 

[Dotty Merton]

It’s actually Steve Coogan but there’s a conspiracy on here to cover it up

I can feel a Coogan historic issue brewing in my waters I tell ya but not this one!

The 80s were the BEST !
I used to sit by the front door after school every Wednesday waiting for the paper boy to deliver Smash Hits …. You had two deliveries in those days. Take me BACK !

Sunday night radio 1, Top 40, recording your fav songs on tape and then playing them back to write the lyrics down then it would be pervy Peel but I'd wait for Sunday night soul with Robbie Vincent.

 

[Trafalgar]

Well this is a twist I wasn't expecting

Bloody Hell! I don’t think any of us would have guessed Mel B would be somehow involved in this @Trafalgar @Chocolategoggler

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I just posted it! I didn't refresh so didn't see you had posted! I was not expecting that twist!

 

[Shoegal17]

I used to get that. i loved all the old magazines….. they were about 20p, only last week I looked at the front of my good housekeeping (well I’m in my 50’s now you know) and they’re £5.99! I have a subscription and pay about half that.


OMG I STILL HAVE MINE TOO!!!

it’s a light blue colour, plastic was meant to last in those days

Oh mine is hot pink

I used to get that. i loved all the old magazines….. they were about 20p, only last week I looked at the front of my good housekeeping (well I’m in my 50’s now you know) and they’re £5.99! I have a subscription and pay about half that.


OMG I STILL HAVE MINE TOO!!!

it’s a light blue colour, plastic was meant to last in those days

Oh mine was hot pink version, still going strong and I still use it on damp hair! Just realised how old it must be!

 

[Serene Serena]

I'm way behind on the thread and don't know where this will land, but my mind keeps returning to Cliff Richard the Assassin from one of the previous threads. The mental image never stops being entertaining.

My favourite bit was when a poster, obviously not up to speed on the insane Kitty theories we’d been coming up with, thought that some of us were genuinely convinced that Sir Cliff had personally been responsible for murdering Jill Dando, arranging the death of Princess Diana, the mastermind behind 9/11, the faked moon landings, Covid 19 and the war in Ukraine, amongst many other global events and atrocities.

“But he sang Summer Holiday and drove a double decker bus!”

 

[Cariad]

Jackie magazine - the pop publishing sensation

Wendy Rigg, former fashion editor of Jackie, looks back on the pioneering teen magazine.

www.saga.co.uk

Found the above after looking up if I was right about Fiona Bruce appearing in it.
Very interesting article. I'd forgotten who the editor was.
I also think Lesley ? who had the first trout pout (gone wrong) was in it as a model.
Interesting about Hugh Grant, George Michael etc.

My brother also worked for D C Thompson and started on Bunty comic and then was promoted to Jackie ( his dog was even featured in a fashion photoshoot!) I also had a friend at school who had a place to study English literature at Edinburgh Uni but decided she'd rather work for Jackie!
Nina Myskow's mum was my biology teacher
I got a few free samples courtesy of his work which as a teenager in the 70's was amazing

 

[CarrierPigeon]

The same young man walked out of his home with Schofield to check out a fallen tree way back in September 2020

He’s so creepy hanging out with such young men - he looks so old too with his red face and skinny legs

 

[LoopyLou47]

£1 shop sometimes has them or B and M sell them, go on, treat yourself.

Mmm £1 meat pie in a tin- what could possibly go wrong?

 

[katz2022]

This thread just brings me total joy, though my fellow train travellers probably think I’m like the chess player with vibrating beads up an orifice. I can’t stop giggling.

 

[HaloGirl]

New thread here: Please carry on pouring that tea. We discussed amongst other topics, the prime time presenter who has been making news this week. Midge Ure hasn’t been given enough credit for Band Aid. And Katy Perry particularly the video of her receiving THAT text.
As you were.

Edit: I couldn’t post this on the last thread but to @Eirawen and @Amelia99. Reading your posts just want to say I applaud you both - May you have further success in life.

 

[Restless Native]

Matt Smith looks like a shovel

 

[Girl In The Corner]

The fact that Mel B was at the Tory Party conference to talk about domestic abuse and how reforms are needed, and then to have to deal with this? Wow that is shocking.

That adds a whole new level of disgusting.

 

[Ennui]

Miranda Sawyer, I remember her too! The Pet Shop Boys were in their hey day when I was reading SH so they always used to refer back to him working there.
Loved their little stock phrases that they used, can’t remember any of them right now but they used to make me chuckle. It was a really good publication for many, many reasons

Uncle Disgusting, It's Like Punk Never Appened, Sir Billiam of Idol, Take a note Ms Perkins, Sir Clifford of Richard... Probably not aged too well that last one.

It felt more like a private club than a magazine.

I also remember when they used to ask popstars if they'd ever been sick in their slippers or grown parsnips in a gumboot.

 

[Falkor]

BIB: Yes! You had to be a contortionist for some of them!
Imagine that in print for teens these days!!!

You say that, but not so long ago Teen Cosmopolitan was providing useful guides on how to do anal sex...

 

[Gym&Tonic]

Yes! Loved both those guys at Prince Phillip i can’t wait to see if the latest actor playing him will do a good job or not.

I know Olivia Coleman has loads of fans and i do think she’s a great actress normally but i hated her playing The Queen!!! Lol

I believed Claire Foy was The Queen, where as with Olivia I thought it was just Olivia Coleman playing The Queen if that makes sense. Likewise Helen Bonham Carter was so wrong for Princess Margaret I don’t know where to start. Vanessa Kirby was excellent though. They didn’t get it all wrong with series three and four though Charles and Diana was very good IMO.

 

[petitspois]

So glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks that! I‘m mystified by the Coleman worship. I think she’s a dreadful actress who is exactly the same in everything she does and has a really annoying voice too. The fact that she has an Oscar just shows how ridiculous those awards are. So, yeah, I don’t rate her…… in case I hadn't made that clear.

I feel the same about Judi Dench. She's always Judi Dench.

 

[Miss Begotten]

He's a massive slut, by the sounds of it. Also fronts a band called Muse.

He must have an unbelievable personality and an enormously well hung wallet because he’s not exactly what you’d call a looker is he?