Category: MOVERS & SHAKERS

The snakes and ladders of society.

A chronicle of drama, scandal and success in London, Paris, New York and elsewhere

  • Schofield Axed

    Schofield Axed

    Fresh from ‘outing’ himself Phillip Schofield finds his new television series ‘How To Spend It Well’ axed

    After outing himself and facing allegations of an affair with a young man named Matt McGreevy now faces further woes after his new television series, How To Spend It Well, was scrapped by ITV “over coronavirus fears” according to the Mirror.

     

    Lightweight Schofield, a person widely known for having temper tantrums, planned to tell “the British public [how to] get the most out of their holidays,” but now “bosses pulled it from Thursday’s listings.”

     

    Whilst COVID-19 may have been blamed for this decision, perhaps that was just a distraction. A source told The Steeple Times: “There are set to be further developments in the McGreevy-Schofield saga and ITV will most definitely want to distance themselves from this very angry man.”

     

    Pictured top: Phillip Schofield with Matt McGreevy.

     

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  • Stick A Sock On

    Stick A Sock On

    Matthew Steeples criticises ‘The Telegraph’ for suggesting men can wear loafers without socks

    According to this morning’s Telegraph, “2020 is the year of the loafer, apparently.”

     

    The paper’s Adrian Clark, this development has been “[cited] to a return to smarter dressing and the revival of the classic Ivy League look,” but where the author goes wrong is in stating: “As for the socks or no socks question, well that’s up to you.”

     

    As I have observed previously, not wearing socks is the preserve of the naff and foolish in a damp, cold country like Britain. Rightly banned in an Edinburgh pub named The Dreadnought for “making the place look scruffy,” going sockless also will result in “sweaty and stinky feet as well as some nasty smelling shoes” according to Hespoke Style.

     

    Frankly, unless you want to look like a prized berk, do the right thing. If you’re going to wear loafers, jolly well invest a natty pair of socks to accompany them.

     

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    Stick A Sock On – Loafers and the socks or no socks question – Matthew Steeples criticises ‘The Telegraph’ for suggesting men can wear loafers without socks.
    One has to ask a man (who plainly is not a gentleman) who sports loafers with turned up trousers: “Can you not afford a pair of socks?”
  • Moron of the Moment – Christabel Milbanke

    Moron of the Moment – Christabel Milbanke

    Annoying pest Christabel Milbanke is confirmed as a fruitcake and someone best avoided

    Christabel Milbanke claims to be able to “amplify your brand” – whatever that gibberish means – on Twitter. On Instagram, she’s even more bold and strangely states: “Character is destiny.”

     

    Plainly, however, this dimwitted and somewhat deranged pest is nothing other than typical of the desperados who hang around the bar at Brinkley’s desperately looking for their equally dopey male counterparts. Like others of her sort, she most probably enjoys the ‘banging’ that supposedly goes on in their lavatorial area.

     

    Banned from the South Kensington Club for childishly throwing things at the walls, mother of one and publicity obsessive Miss Milbanke is known for other odd antics. She claims to have been “expelled from every boarding school and fired from every job.” She also has, in her own words, “a lot of high friends in low places.” Classy.

     

    Now, loopy Miss Milbanke – who sadly for those with half a brain emerged from nothing to nuisance in recent months – it seems took umbrage with an Instagram post by The Steeple Times and reported it as inappropriate. We respond today by making this nutjob Mail on Sunday ‘Crush of the Week’ our most worthy ‘Moron of the Moment’ and suggest that is time for this harpy to retreat to where she belongs: A padded cell.

     

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    Moron of the Moment – Christabel Milbanke – Annoying pest Christabel Milbanke is confirmed as a fruitcake and someone best avoided.
  • A Pickled Apology

    A Pickled Apology

    That Michael Barrymore is willing to apologise to Sir Richard Branson but not the family of the late Stuart Lubbock is telling

    In November 2012, Sir Richard Branson tweeted: “OK. Who’s got a tattoo they have lived to regret?” Amongst the first to respond was Michael Barrymore (AKA Michael Parker), the disgraced entertainer and roller-around-on-the-floor with the convicted racist drunk Marie-Claire, Baroness von Alvensleben.

     

    In his missive, he with no consideration for the family of Stuart Lubbock, a young father of two, asked Branson: “Are you ever going to let me appologise [sic] to you?” Barrymore then followed affectionately with an “X.”

     

    Today, in the wake of this old tweet being shared once again by one Jamie Burton, we ask this reprehensible cretin about another apology: “When, Michael Barrymore, might you apologise to Terry Lubbock and his grandchildren about the death of his son in your filthy fleapit swimming pool?”

     

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    A Pickled Apology – Michael Barrymore should apologise to Terry Lubbock – That Michael Barrymore is willing to apologise to Sir Richard Branson but not the family of the late Stuart Lubbock is telling.
  • Boobed by Judy

    Boobed by Judy

    Bra flasher Judy Finnigan labelled “sexist” by her very own husband during a discussion about naked women in saunas

    Potbellied pisshead Judy Finnigan returned to daytime telly yesterday.

     

    In a slot on This Morning – the show she long ago co-hosted with her ‘Dorian Gray of entertainment-like’ husband Richard Madeley (prior to his hands getting rather busy helping himself to champagne in supermarkets) in the 1990s – Finnigan was termed “sexist” during a discussion as whether women should be “told to cover up” in saunas.

     

    Thankfully for the viewing public, constantly smashed out of her skull Finnigan didn’t repeat her antics at an awards ceremony in 2000. On that occasion, she quite literally fell out of her dress leaving an appalled audience staring at the washed-up wastrel’s bra.

     

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcx3FUarNiI
  • Justice by Email

    Justice by Email

    Since she cannot be physically found, alleged madam and daughter of ‘Bouncing Bob’ Ghislaine Maxwell has now been served by email

    As lawyers for Annie Farmer, a woman who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault, have been unable to physically locate Ghislaine Maxwell, they have now managed to persuade a judge to allow them to serve the alleged procurer of girls by email.

     

    Last week according to the New York Post, in a most unusual step, Judge Debra Freeman acknowledged that Farmer has “adequately demonstrated that personal service would be impractical” and now Maxwell has  been given until 6th March to respond. If she does not, a default judgment will be placed against her.

     

    At least one other civil suit also looms for Maxwell in a federal court in Manhattan, but once again we join those asking: “Where is this murky madam?” It is indeed time that this rat came out of her hole and it is time Prince Andrew also travelled to America to answer some questions also.

     

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  • The Phil & Matt Show

    The Phil & Matt Show

    Phillip Schofield filmed smoking shisha with his alleged ex-lover Matt McGreevy (and pictured in bed thereafter); another image shows the pair together in photograph taken at a school

    Phillip Schofield has most certainly manipulated most people into thinking he’s a national treasure. He’s cried on the telly box and most recently orchestrated a ‘coming out’ that has done nothing but bolstered his career. Here, indeed, is someone, it seems, who can do no wrong.

     

    In the aftermath of our covering claims that Schofield “orchestrated his mass coming out” in Politicalite, we have now been sent further evidence that the known for being very, very angry television presenter likely first met the former This Morning runner Matt McGreevy prior to 2011.

     

    In a picture, shared in a YouTube video in which the duo are primarily filmed smoking shisha, Schofield is seen posing alongside McGreevy and a whole array of children in school uniforms. The latter appears to look extremely young and though we cannot confirm that there was any relationship between the pair at that stage, what is apparent is that there is most definitely more to this story than first meets the eye.

     

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    The Phil & Matt Show – Phillip Schofield and Matt McGreevy affair – Phillip Schofield filmed smoking shisha with his alleged ex-lover Matt McGreevy (and pictured in bed thereafter); another image shows the pair together in photograph taken at a school.
    The Phil & Matt Show – Phillip Schofield and Matt McGreevy affair – Phillip Schofield filmed smoking shisha with his alleged ex-lover Matt McGreevy (and pictured in bed thereafter); another image shows the pair together in photograph taken at a school.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mzqB6oQe8
  • SchofieldLite

    SchofieldLite

    ‘Politicalite’ suggest Phillip Schofield orchestrated his ‘mass coming out’ after a former ‘This Morning’ runner had gone to the press about a supposed relationship whilst he was a teenager

    Phillip Schofield has truly milked his ‘coming out.’ Criticised yesterday by Matthew Parris in The Times for behaving badly towards other gay men in hiding his true identity until now, the This Morning presenter’s alleged ‘real reason’ for revealing his sexuality is now under question.

     

    Featured in Politicalite on Monday was a story that claimed 57-year-old Schofield had allegedly had an affair with a former runner on the show named Matt McGreevy.

     

    McGreevy, they reported, in 2014 and then aged 18, “got a taste for television” after spending the day at ITV’s London Studios with the well-known for being angry presenter. The two had interacted first in 2011 (when McGreevy was 15) on Twitter, but now Politicalite report:

     

    “Schofield is alleged to have been having the affair with the runner and he was said to have been ‘furious’ that Schofe had apparently ‘’f**ked him over,’ and he was reportedly going to the press.”

     

    “McGreevy was also said to have had a ‘close working relationship’’ with Schofe, but after they had a ‘bust up’ with McGreevy left This Morning to work on rival show Loose Women.’

     

    McGreevy’s Twitter account has subsequently been suspended for “violat[ing] the Twitter rules.”

     

    Phillip Schofield has neither denied or admitted the claims.

     

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    SchofieldLite – Phillip Schofield and Matt McGreevy – ‘Politicalite’ suggest Phillip Schofield orchestrated his ‘mass coming out’ after a former ‘This Morning’ runner had gone to the press about a supposed relationship whilst he was a teenager.
    Proof that they met more than once – Phillip Schofield and Matt McGreevy in a café.
    SchofieldLite – Phillip Schofield and Matt McGreevy – ‘Politicalite’ suggest Phillip Schofield orchestrated his ‘mass coming out’ after a former ‘This Morning’ runner had gone to the press about a supposed relationship whilst he was a teenager.
    McGreevy pictured on the set of ‘This Morning’ with a child.
    SchofieldLite – Phillip Schofield and Matt McGreevy – ‘Politicalite’ suggest Phillip Schofield orchestrated his ‘mass coming out’ after a former ‘This Morning’ runner had gone to the press about a supposed relationship whilst he was a teenager.
    Schofield and McGreevy enjoying themselves on a sofa on another occasion.
    SchofieldLite – Phillip Schofield and Matt McGreevy – ‘Politicalite’ suggest Phillip Schofield orchestrated his ‘mass coming out’ after a former ‘This Morning’ runner had gone to the press about a supposed relationship whilst he was a teenager.
    Matt McGreevy’s Twitter account is now suspended for “rule violation.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGuoqjTg1O8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L4aJWdPyUM
  • Andy’s Antics Analysed

    Andy’s Antics Analysed

    Jeremy Clarkson rightly suggests that Prince Andrew should do two things: Shut up and bugger off

    Just as alleged abuse victim Virginia Roberts suggested Prince Andrew should hear “the sound of shackles tied round his ankles on the way to the tower” instead of bells, Jeremy Clarkson has this morning used his column in The Sun to give the Queen’s favourite son some most sensible advice.

     

    In it, Clarkson points out:

     

    “When Caroline Flack was arrested and charged for allegedly battering her boyfriend, I remember thinking, ‘Ooh, that’s interesting.’”

     

    “And then straight away I started wondering about the more important things in life such as: What shall I have for breakfast?”

     

    “I think that she ended up in court and I have it in my mind that she pleaded not guilty.”

     

    “I’m also fairly sure that she’s not allowed to speak with her boyfriend until the case comes to court. But I can’t be sure, as I have other things to think about like: I need some new trousers.”

     

    “Then out of the blue she announced on social media that she was going to speak out because ‘mine and my families life is no longer up for entertainment or gossip.’”

     

    “’Wow,’ I thought. ‘That’s amazing. She doesn’t know how to use apostrophes.’”

     

    “It turns out, however, that while she can’t write properly, she can at least think straight because she never did speak out. Which means she stopped the story from rearing up again.”

     

    “If only Prince Andrew was as bright. We were all dimly aware that he knew a man in America who’d had lots of sex with young girls.”

     

    “And that one day, this man had been found dead in a police cell. Then we went back to wondering if we needed more washing-up liquid.”

     

    “Prince Andrew, however, decided that instead of letting the story die down by not saying anything, he’d go on television to set the record straight.”

     

    “It was a disaster. He was suddenly front-page news all over the world and he looked guilty as hell.”

     

    “Of what, we weren’t sure. But whatever it was, we all worked out that as he has a Bentley, he could definitely have got from a Pizza Express restaurant in Woking to the centre of London in less than six hours.”

     

    “A few weeks later, as the story was withering once more, Hank J. Dieselburger, an American prosecutor involved in the dead sex-man’s case, announced that the FBI had received ‘zero co-operation’ from Prince Andrew.”

     

    “You’d think Andrew would have learned from his earlier mistake. You’d think he’d do a Flack and say nothing.”

     

    “But no. The very next day, ‘friends’ of the Prince – which is another way of saying “the Prince” – went on the attack, telling reporters he was angry and bewildered. “They haven’t even approached me – I mean him.’”

     

    “The problem is that ego-fed celebrities read every single thing that is written about them. And they believe everyone else is reading everything, as well.”

     

    “We aren’t. We don’t really care. So when you attempt to clear your name, it’s like trying to put out a fire with petrol.”

     

    “It’s better for Andrew, and the whole Royal Family, if he takes a leaf from singer Ronan Keating’s book – “You say it best, when you say nothing at all.’”

     

    “Then, perhaps, he could take a leaf from his nephew’s book. And bugger off to Canada.”

     

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  • EXCLUSIVE – Oh Randy, Oh Randy Andy

    EXCLUSIVE – Oh Randy, Oh Randy Andy

    ‘The Times’ allows a most curious notice to appear on its ‘Register’ page; Could it have been cryptically penned by Ghislaine Maxwell to Prince Andrew?

    The ‘Register’ page of The Times is a place where families announce forthcoming marriages and share news of deaths, funerals and memorials as well. Royal court circulars also get a look-in, as do law reports and alongside details on the engagement of The Hon. F. J. St Aubyn (‘Felix’ to his chums) and plain old Miss Alice C. Tyser yesterday was information about the passing of one Dr Colin Fleetcroft. This no doubt dear old gentleman is as listed as “much loved and will be greatly missed.”

     

    On the same page, however, someone bizarrely took a much larger space to send a cryptic message to someone named ‘Andrew.’ In it – without mentioning said chap’s surname or their own name even – they penned their sorrows about “the love of their life” in a fashion that was rather akin to Philip Larkin’s This Be The Verse. They ended with some depressing words of discouragement that read: “Choosing between life and death, I’d much prefer to die; Take my advice, don’t fall in love, you’ll get hurt before it’s through; You see, I ought to know, I fell in love with you.”

     

    Frankly, though it is most surprising that somebody would feel the need to write such pugnacious drivel, it is even more surprising that The Times would deign to publish it.

     

    Pictured top: Disgraced royal Prince Andrew with alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell. Could this be a missive from the missing for months daughter of ‘Bouncing Bob’ to ‘Randy Andy’? Unlikely, but stranger things have happened given these two and their “secret visits.”

     

    Oh Randy, Oh Randy Andy – A missive from Ghislaine Maxwell to Prince Andrew? – ‘The Times’ allows a most curious notice to appear on its ‘Register’ page; Could it have been cryptically penned by Ghislaine Maxwell to Prince Andrew?
    The cryptic message ‘TO ANDREW THE LOVE OF MY LIFE’ that appeared in ‘The Times’ on Thursday 30th January 2020. Could the part about: “When you are left weighed down by fright” be a coded message from in-hiding since August Miss Maxwell asking the Duke of York for help on a page he no doubt reads over breakfast?

    The full text of ‘To Andrew’ follows:

     

    In Memoriam – Private

     

    TO ANDREW THE LOVE OF MY LIFE

     

    Did you ever love someone deeply, and out they didn’t love you?

     

    Did you ever feel they weren’t kind to you, and wonder what you should do?

     

    Did you ever blindly trust in love, but your love didn’t want to stay?

     

    Love only causes problems, it happens every day

     

    You wonder how they can sleep at night

    You wonder how they can feel delight

    You wonder how love could ever feel light

     

    When you are left weighed down by fright

     

    Love hurts so much, the price you pay is high

     

    Choosing between love and death, I’d much prefer to die

     

    Take my advice, don’t fall in love, you’ll get hurt  before it’s through

     

    You see, I ought to know, I fell in love with you.

     

    Philip Larkin’s ‘This Be The Verse’:

     

    They fuck you up, your mum and dad.  

    They may not mean to, but they do.  

    They fill you with the faults they had

    And add some extra, just for you.

     

    But they were fucked up in their turn

    By fools in old-style hats and coats,  

    Who half the time were soppy-stern

    And half at one another’s throats.

     

    Man hands on misery to man.

    It deepens like a coastal shelf.

    Get out as early as you can,

    And don’t have any kids yourself.

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