James Corden, co-writer and co-star of Gavin and Stacey, says in this month’s Esquire that he doesn’t, er, have much time for the cast or production team of Hollyoaks, having spent an unhappy two months on the show several years ago.
His character was, perhaps inevitably, supposed to be a tad overweight. But in a terrifying [...]

David Cameron is such a man of the people. The Sunday Times reports that earlier this week
the Conservative leader hosted a champagne and lychee juice reception for City donors in the back garden of his North Kensington home.
Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? If Dave ever becomes PM, we can presumably expect pomegranate juice cocktails and [...]

For all-round wrongness, Carol Vorderman advertising cheapo chicken from Farmfoods in the ad-break for Dick Fearnley-Whittington’s Be Nice to Cocks programme (or whatever it was called) was bad. But professional dimwit Danielle Lloyd’s recruitment as the “face” of a new campaign for Rustlers’ Microwaveable Offalburgers (TM) surely trumps it.
Ignoramus Lloyd famously said, during an appearance [...]

Words Dept. is a fan of egg-shaped ex-greengrocer Gregg Wallace, the co-host/judge of TV’s Masterchef. So it is with great embarrassment and personal sadness that I must recount the claims this weekend that in addition to a penchant for “plates of food”, the renowned “ingredients expert” is a fan of sick bottom smacking action for [...]

What the hell was Carol Vorderman doing advertising Bernard Matthews Chicken Drummers - six for a quid at Farmfoods - during the ad break for Hugh’s Chicken Run tonight?
This was a programme exploring the issue of chicken production that illustrated the conditions in which standard supermarket chickens are reared - shit-and-piss-covered, fat, immobile and devoid [...]

Time for the new series of MasterChef (which is no longer called MasterChef Goes Large, for some reason). This is my favourite place to hear the mysterious phrase “plates of food” repeated endlessly for half an hour. It sounds like it should be Cockney rhyming slang. Plates of food = dude (or something). Sadly, it [...]

I stumbled across this press release from Edinburgh council today. It made me snigger like a child:
Fish merchants have recently been making unsolicited calls on residents in the Inverleith area. Two men who have been calling on homes in the area are described as having North East English accents and were wearing jumpers with ‘North [...]

I watched Nigella Lawson on the telly earlier tonight. It was pretty funny, the way she kept going on about how busy and stressed out she is. Well, it must be really tough presenting TV programmes and writing the odd recipe book for a living. Especially when your husband is the multimillionaire art collector Charles [...]