Spoiler alert – Spitting Image has gone woke. It may sound unthinkable for the satirical programme, but its Christmas special will feature ‘inspirational young female voices of reason’ such as Emma Raducanu and Greta Thunberg according to its lead female impersonator Jess Robinson.
‘They are being shown as a lot cooler than people like Melania and Ivanka Trump,’ Jess told me at a Lambeth Palace concert for the Ronald McDonald children’s charity.
‘I’m doing Emma sympathetically. She and Thunberg will be pointing out that the rest of us are bonkers.’
So it’s no surprise that Liz Truss (anti-woke foreign secretary) will receive a make-over during the program.
Spitting Image Christmas special will feature Emma Raducanu (tennis star).
Greta Thunberg is an environmental campaigner and will appear on the satirical comedy program.
Ms. Raducanu, Ms. Thunberg and other ‘female voices’ will speak for the rest to let them know that “we all are bonkers”.
Autumn Phillips, ex-wife of Princess Anne’s son Peter, is winding down her firm SupercarGB, which offers driving holidays for the mega-wealthy.
It owes £15,000 to creditors, but as Autumn, 43, looks set to get engaged to property tycoon Donal Mulryan, that shouldn’t worry her too much.
Peter, now 44, is closing down his company XF Medical. This was launched just before the pandemic. He didn’t get any testing contracts but the business did come in useful once – giving him an excuse to visit girlfriend Lindsay Wallace in Aberdeenshire under the guise of ‘work’ during lockdown.
Autumn Phillips, ex-wife of Princess Anne’s son Peter, is winding down her firm SupercarGB, which offers driving holidays for the mega-wealthy
There is one upside to jetlag, according to Coldplay star Chris Martin – you get to binge-watch Gogglebox. Chris claims that he doesn’t sleep in as the band tour the globe, but instead he spends the night with Channel 4 stars. Referring to Gogglebox veterans Jenny and Lee, who watch shows from their caravan, Chris says: ‘I have a soft spot for the lady and the man on the couch in the trailer park.’ He’s so rock ’n’ roll!
Windsor’s merry spouse
With the Royal Family in so much turmoil, it’s good to see some members of the House of Windsor smiling. Here’s Freddie Windsor, son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and actress wife Sophie sharing a giggle last week while out near their West London home. The pair, who married in 2009, haven’t always had much to laugh about – Sophie was in a horror car crash three years ago.
With the Royal Family in so much turmoil, it’s good to see some members of the House of Windsor smiling. Here’s Freddie Windsor, son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and actress wife Sophie sharing a giggle last week while out near their West London home
Billy Connolly wishes that the drinks be with him at his final breath. But the comic isn’t planning a lavish wake – instead the 79-year-old wants his gravestone on a Loch Lomond island to be installed flat like a table so that fishermen can put their cuppas on it!