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  • A Pint-Sized Peel

    A Pint-Sized Peel

    Tiny 1965 Peel Trident to be auctioned; it is the smallest two seater car ever made, is offered without reserve but is expected to achieve upwards of £80,000

     

    One of just sixty made and an example of the only production car the Isle of Man has ever produced, a fully restored 73-inch long, 39-inch wide Peel Trident is to be sold at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey, California sale on 18th to 19th August.

     

    Capable of achieving an astonishing 100 miles per gallon and a top speed of 38 miles per hour, Peel Tridents were made of fibreglass with a plastic dome, weigh just 330 pounds and have no reverse gear. The diminutive vehicle was designed to seat two passengers but was really “only a single seater in practical use” and has a small sliding side hatch as its only form of ventilation. It cost £190 new (the equivalent of £3,376, $4,354, €3,868 or درهم15,993 today) and was marketed as a “shopping car”.

     

    Of what they call “an adorable little bubble on wheels”, Jake Auberach of RM Sotheby’s told The Sun:

     

    “For the man who has everything microcars represent something new and interesting to buy, no matter how many millions of dollars worth of cars are already parked in your garage”.

     

    “It is small enough to be stored just about anywhere, unique enough to complement just about any collection, and is guaranteed to be a conversation starter. It’s not unusual for many of the world’s largest collectors to have a few microcars kicking around for this reason.

     

    “Peels have a definite cult following, helped in no small part by the well-known episode of Top Gear in which former host Jeremy Clarkson drives one through the offices of the BBC”.

     

    Previously, of the Peel brand – which became defunct when Peel Engineering was dissolved in 1974 but was later revived by a pair of entrepreneurs after a 2010 appearance on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den – generally, Jeremy Clarkson, concluded:

     

    “It’s the original terrestrial flying saucer – Almost cheaper than walking… It’s pretty practical… I’ve never seen the Top Gear team so enthusiastic about any car, ever… It’s the ultimate in personal mobility”.

     

    Chassis number E185, the car offered, according to The Sun, is expected to achieve £80,000 ($103,000, €92,000 or درهم379,000) but is listed as having no reverse so could go for a lot less. Another example reportedly sold at a Coys of Kensington sale in 2012 for $55,000 (the equivalent of £45,000, $58,000, €52,000 or درهم213,000 today).

     

    A Pint-Sized Peel – “World’s smallest two seater” to be auctioned – 1965 Peel Trident – To be sold by RM Sotheby’s at their Monterey, California sale with no reserve but expected to achieve upwards of £80,000 ($103,000, €92,000 or درهم379,000) – 18th to 19th August 2017A Pint-Sized Peel – “World’s smallest two seater” to be auctioned – 1965 Peel Trident – To be sold by RM Sotheby’s at their Monterey, California sale with no reserve but expected to achieve upwards of £80,000 ($103,000, €92,000 or درهم379,000) – 18th to 19th August 2017A Pint-Sized Peel – “World’s smallest two seater” to be auctioned – 1965 Peel Trident – To be sold by RM Sotheby’s at their Monterey, California sale with no reserve but expected to achieve upwards of £80,000 ($103,000, €92,000 or درهم379,000) – 18th to 19th August 2017A Pint-Sized Peel – “World’s smallest two seater” to be auctioned – 1965 Peel Trident – To be sold by RM Sotheby’s at their Monterey, California sale with no reserve but expected to achieve upwards of £80,000 ($103,000, €92,000 or درهم379,000) – 18th to 19th August 2017

  • Fun at Faringdon

    Fun at Faringdon

    £144,000 per year sought for Oxfordshire mansion that was the scene of a most curious ménage-a-trois; it is owned by the writer Sofka Zinovieff

     

    “Tall and willowy” writer Sofka Zinovieff inherited Faringdon House in Oxfordshire at the age of 25 from her eccentric, bisexual uncle, Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, partner of the owner of the house since 1918, the 14th Lord Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1883 – 1950). She has recently placed it on the rental market at a price of £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or  درهم56,700 per month) through Knight Frank.

     

    Artist, composer and writer Lord Berners and “uninhibited” Heber-Percy occupied Faringdon House as a ménage-a-trois with the latter’s wife, Jennifer Fry, for several years and during that time visitors included everyone from the poet Sir John Betjeman to the artist Salvador Dalí, the Communist politician Tom Driberg MP and the writer H. G. Wells. Heber-Percy died in 1987 and it was at this time that the Georgian property passed to its current owner.

     

    Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.
    Lord Berners famously once entertained Penelope Betjeman’s horse Moti to tea at Faringdon House

    Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.
    Dyed pigeons are still to be found at the property

    Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.
    Sofka Zinovieff

     

    Of her home, which she has variously herself occupied and also let to “cover the impossible costs”, in May 2016, Zinovieff told House & Garden:

     

    It’s funny how it has all worked out. The inheritance hasn’t changed me in the ways that my mother feared it might. I never wanted my identity to be bound up with my house and my life in Greece has saved me from that. No one there has ever even heard of Faringdon.

     

    Extending to 14,510 square foot, Grade I listed Faringdon House was built between 1770 and 1785 for the poet Sir Henry Pye (1744 – 1813). It includes 5 reception rooms, 12 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, stands in grounds that extend to 14.81 acres and comes with an outdoor swimming pool with turreted changing rooms and a lake.

     

    Lord Berners’ gravestone is situated within the grounds and on it appears an epitaph he wrote himself. It reads:

     

    Here lies Lord Berners

    One of the learners

    His great love of learning

    May earn him a burning

    But, Praise the Lord!

    He seldom was bored

     

    Curiously, another testament to the activities of the property’s eccentric former occupants lives on at Faringdon in the form of pigeons dyed in “jewelled hues”. Pictured in marketing literature for the house, a charity, the Pink Pigeons Trust, is named in their honour also.

     

    Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye. Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.Fun at Faringdon – Faringdon House, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8AE – To rent for £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700) through Knight Frank – Home of writer Sofka Zinovieff, former home of eccentrics 14th Lord Berners and Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, built for poet Sir Henry Pye.

  • Adrien Gaubert – What’s on your mantelpiece?

    Adrien Gaubert – What’s on your mantelpiece?

    A 20-question interview with Adrien Gaubert, award-winning co-founder of myGwork – an inclusive LGBTI recruitment hub

     

    The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?

    Positivity and fun. I am grateful to be alive and able to do what I do. Enjoy every moment.

     

    “Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?

    Just be yourself, be honest and work towards a goal. You’ll achieve it.

     

    Kerry Katona was considered unacceptable in 2007. Who or what is unacceptable in 2017?

    Bashar al-Assad.

     

    Tony Blair misses being Prime Minister. What do you miss most in your life?

    I miss living in China. I am a great fan of Chinese culture and their way of thinking.

     

    What might you swap all your wealth for?

    To give food and shelter to everyone.

     

    Donald Trump was once a case of: “If you owe the bank a thousand, they close you down; but if you owe the bank a billion, you own the bank”. What’s your view on the state of the financial system?

    Our financial system protects the wealthy and has given up on the poor.

     

    What phrase or word do you most loathe?

    “God wants” – I don’t believe, if there were such a thing as God, he would expect anything from humanity.

     

    In the UK, some people consider charity to “begin at home”. What’s your view and what causes do you personally support?

    Whenever someone asks me for a coin in the street, I give them a smile and give them what they have asked for. I believe such people are incredible brave to ask others for help and comfort. I personally support anyone in need without distinction or judgement. I never buy sandwiches for homeless people when they ask for cash even if they might use it to buy alcohol or drugs. If I were living on the street, I might also want to get high so as to forget about my situation.

     

    The judge in Law Abiding Citizen states: “I can pretty much do whatever I want” before being blown up whilst answering her mobile phone. What’s your view on the appropriate use of such devices?

    Your microwave could explode anytime, but you use it everyday. I believe mobile phones are a great communication tool and I would not give mine up.

     

    myGwork co-founder Adrien Gaubert – What’s on your mantelpiece?

    If you could fill a carriage on The Orient Express, who would be your fellow passengers?

    I would take my brothers, my mum and my grandma and grandpa (with whom I watched the movie adapted from the Agatha Christie novel when I was a child).

     

    If you were unfortunate enough to end up on death row, what would be your last meal and where would you eat it?

    I would eat some really spicy Sichuan food.

     

    What time is it acceptable to consume the first drink of the day?

    12pm if it is summer and a holiday. 7pm during the week.

     

    A Negroni, a martini or a cup of tea?

    If it is just one, then tea but if I get more than one, martinis.

     

    Whose parties do you enjoy the most and why?

    Mexican weddings. Those people clearly know how to celebrate.

     

    Who is the most positive person you know?

    Probably me.

     

    What’s your most guilty pleasure?

    Cigarettes.

     

    If a tattoo were to sum you up, what would it be of?

    I have no tattoos and I am not a fan of them as a form of expression. Personally, I would not get a tattoo to remember who or what I love.

     

    If you were a car, what marque would you be?

    A Jaguar. They are safe and fashionable.

     

    Cilla Black presented Surprise, Surprise. Tell us the most surprising thing about you.

    I have a twin brother.

     

    What’s currently sitting on your mantelpiece?

    Flowers.

     

    Adrien Gaubert is a 29-year old Frenchman who now lives in London. He co-founded myGwork, a networking and recruitment platform to promote diversity for LGBTI professionals and graduates, with his twin brother, Pierre.

     

    Follow the Gaubert twins on Instagram at @thegaubertwins

     

  • Jobbing Wine

    Jobbing Wine

    A dream job for wine lovers; get paid to drink and drive your way across America

     

    An Oregon winery is seeking a ‘Canbassador’ to join them on a roadtrip across America to hawk their range of wines – including their ‘pinot in a can’.

     

    The Union Wine Company, founded by Ryan Harms in 2001 with the aim to create good wines at affordable prices, are looking for an individual to join them in their 1972 Citroën mobile wine bar as it tours US music festivals, store openings and outdoor events. The position encompasses 30-40 hours per week in terms of time commitment, 4-6 months per year and as Guest of a Guest reported last week, here is a chance to “drink and drive the legal way”.

     

    Applicants must be over 21, be able to drive large, manual transmission vehicles with trailers and have good navigation skills. Naturally, they must also have “an appreciation for wine”. A salary is not specified on the company’s website but it will be “commensurate with experience”.

     

    To apply, email [email protected]

     

  • Michaella McCollum

    Michaella McCollum

    Dopey drugs mule Michaella McCollum was one half of the ‘Peru Two’ jailed in 2013 for attempting to smuggle £1.5 million of cocaine to Spain with her friend Melissa Reid. Hailing from Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, shameless former model McCollum was pictured in a distinctive prison orange coloured outfit in May 2017 clutching a £2,000 Chanel handbag. This fame-seeking bleach blonde wastrel appeared to not have a care in the world and previously claimed: “I’m not a bad person… [But] I could have killed a lot of people”.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgn1XjuahoE

     

  • The Commerce of Selfies

    The Commerce of Selfies

    A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition

     

    The first ever ‘selfie’ was supposedly taken on the roof of the Marceau studio on Fifth Avenue in New York. Featuring a photographer named Joseph Byron and his colleagues, the image was captured in December 1920 and now, an exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery examines the story of what has become a modern day social phenomenon.

     

    The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017.
    The first ever selfie

     

    Aside from images of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 American election and lookalikes of the British royal family by Alison Jackson, this exhibition – sponsored rather appropriately by a mobile phone manufacturer plainly desperate to get its product into the public eye in England named Huawei – features everything from selfies taken with selfie sticks to selfies taken underwater. It is an array of ridiculousness and most definitely a display of extreme vanity that is present here, but with opportunities for visitors to participate, it is also something that anyone except a true killjoy will have a little fun with.

     

    The word ‘selfie’ was announced as the Oxford English Dictionary “word of the year” in 2013 and subsequently, Business Insider, published a story that referenced selfies of groups as “usies”. Huawei Technologies, it transpires, trademarked the word “groufie” around the same time and thus it’s no wonder they managed to cut a deal with the ever-so-commercial Charles Saatchi.

     

    ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ is on display at the Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s Headquarters, Kings Road, London, SW3 4RY until 30th May. The exhibition is free and open seven days a week, 10am to 6pm.

     

    #SaatchiSelfie

     

    The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017.The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017.The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017.The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017.The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017.The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017. The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017. The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017. The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017.The Commerce of Selfies – Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery – A review of the showcase of vanity that is the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Selfie to Self-Expression’ exhibition. Open until 30th May 2017.

  • Jack Turner – What’s on your mantelpiece?

    Jack Turner – What’s on your mantelpiece?

    A 20-question interview with English born, Los Angeles based actor and musician Jack Turner

     

    The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?

    Treat people well. Try and learn your blind spots.

     

    “Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?

    Be nice, but don’t get shat on.

     

    Kerry Katona was considered unacceptable in 2007. Who or what is unacceptable in 2017?

    Everything seems to be acceptable. People are being absolutely despicable because of messaging they see from those in power. Perhaps the only unacceptable thing is calm and clear discourse.

     

    Tony Blair misses being Prime Minister. What do you miss most in your life?

    My family and Weymouth Beach.

     

    What might you swap all your wealth for?

    Everyone having some.

     

    Donald Trump was once a case of: “If you owe the bank a thousand, they close you down; but if you owe the bank a billion, you own the bank”. What’s your view on the state of the financial system?

    That, and the political system (similar principles), make me most unhappy to be an atheist.

     

    What phrase or word do you most loathe?

    “Reach out”. The word I maybe most love is “tosspot”.

     

    In the UK, some people consider charity to “begin at home”. What’s your view and what causes do you personally support?

    I think there’s a threshold of financial and social safety below which there is no hope to ascend, and that people below that threshold need help. What we have in the UK and US would be considered a ludicrous luxury in many places. I personally just donated a pretty solid sum to Syria and Somalia.

     

    The judge in Law Abiding Citizen states: “I can pretty much do whatever I want” before being blown up whilst answering her mobile phone. What’s your view on the appropriate use of such devices?

    I wish my phone would blow me up. These devices are ruining people’s presence, empathy, and ability to talk. I just read a great summary of the evidence linking socialization and our neurobiology. When you consider socialisation is being replaced by phones, I fear sociopathy will rise massively. Put the fucking phone away, or on silent if you just can’t be without it, you tosspot.

     

    If you could fill a carriage on The Orient Express, who would be your fellow passengers?

    People without phones, who can like each other even if they disagree. I pick my girlfriend and my mate Monte. Anyone else is welcome. That should ignite some fun.

     

    If you were unfortunate enough to end up on death row, what would be your last meal and where would you eat it?

    Curry from Mirch Masala in Tooting, and bitter. Followed by red velvet cake and some Law Estates Cab.

     

    What time is it acceptable to consume the first drink of the day?

    Not so much a case of “Is this acceptable?” as: “Will my body reject this now?”

     

    A Negroni, a martini or a cup of tea?

    I don’t know what a Negroni is. Martinis are frightening. So I’ll go for some tea, please.

     

    Whose parties do you enjoy the most and why?

    Those I curate carefully to avoid tosspots. Because I loathe tosspots.

     

    Who is the most positive person you know?

    My girlfriend. I’m lucky enough that this is a pretty competitive decision, but she takes the cake.

     

    What’s your most guilty pleasure?

    Aforementioned red velvet cake. And guitars.

     

    If a tattoo were to sum you up, what would it be of?

    I don’t like tattoos, which I think sums me up.

     

    If you were a car, what marque would you be?

    Public transport or a bicycle. I now realise both sound dirty.

     

    Cilla Black presented Surprise, Surprise. Tell us the most surprising thing about you.

    To my shame I didn’t know what an incredible singer she was. I thought she was just a host. That surprised me. I’m a terrible singer. Which maybe makes it surprising that I was in a great band and continue to make music. Check out our old stuff if you’re interested – Cable Car on Spotify, iTunes, etc.

     

    What’s currently sitting on your mantelpiece?

    Our place isn’t fancy enough to have a mantlepiece. However, we do have a cupboard, upon which we put meaningful things. My mum potted me an Oscar statue, which we call ‘Oscar’. Probably unoriginal, but, I think it’s very sweet, and I’ll take what I can get.

     

    Jack Turner grew up in Weymouth, Dorset, where he was a dubiously-skilled mackerel fishing tour guide. He studied psychology at Oxford before working for Google in London and San Francisco. He’s now an actor in Hollywood and has starred in Netflix’s ‘The 10 Year Plan’ and Hallmark’s ‘My Summer Prince’.

     

    Follow him on Twitter at @jackoturner and Instagram at @jaxonturner.

     

  • Lawrence Van Hagen

    Lawrence Van Hagen

    Art curator Lawrence Van HagenBig haired art curator and international jetsetter Lawrence Van Hagen is based in London and Paris. (more…)

  • Video of the Week: Sophisticated Trump

    Video of the Week: Sophisticated Trump

    British comedian dubs Donald Trump and attempts to make him sound sophisticated (more…)

  • Video of the Week: Pranking Paris

    Video of the Week: Pranking Paris

    Paris Hilton given the shock of her life by Egyptian prankster (more…)