| LETTERS FROM LONDON |
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| REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL 16 June 2011 |
| 1. Pass Me a Tiara Oh make it stop. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa, Pippa, Pippa, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa, Pippa, Pippa. Pleeeeease. Front page, full page coverage. Argh. Ex- Waity announces “I’m so in love!” on the cover of a tabloid. Well, yes. With her hair, her anorexia, her haute couture attire, herself. Good god. The woman looks like she is about to literally explode from self-love...or have an embolism. More about Pippa and Kate Middleton 2. Prince Charming In celebration of Prince Philip’s ninetieth birthday, he relented to two TV interviews. One with the gardener and talk show host, Alan Titchmarsh and Fiona Bruce, BBC presenter of news and The Antique’s Road Show. Curious choices. Throughout PP managed to keep his eyes narrowed and his teeth clenched and only slightly bared. “You’re ninety now.” PP: “Oh you can count.” “How do you feel?” PP: “I don’t.” More about Prince Philip 3. 'King Of' Princess We have suffered through the BBC’s Film 2011 (or more commonly known as And More About Me) and now we can continue on Friday nights with channel 4s King Of. They have set up the unwatchable Claudia Winkleman to make us all laugh and laugh and laugh until we gasp for breath and are forced to throw water in our collective faces. Her new show, King Of: the King of Everything (what?) is merely a vehicle for her ‘I’m so cool, brilliant and sexy- don’t you simply adore me and want to be me’ persona via the same old fringe to the end of her nose, the palest pinkie lipstick sold at Harvey Nics, smudged black rings of eye makeup. Oh I get it. She’s trying to look like she’s just got out of bed after having sex with herself for 4 days. Not always a successful look – really. Mannered enough for Louis XIV to be concerned for his position, obnoxious, affected, irritating surely this show will be cancelled before it’s over. Exciting guests, the inane Chris Evans and the occasionally amusing Sarah Mullican, were there to admire Claudia’s clever antics...and something about discussing or was it voting on their favourite things. Who knows. And the purpose was? 20 excruciating minutes until I located the remote. What a relief. |