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Halina Watts’ Saturday down the showbiz rabbit hole

WATTS the GOSS

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Former Word presenter

Terry Christian called

Jo Whiley “terrible”

for snubbing Take That

before they made it.

The TV host described how

the Radio 2 DJ used to work as

the music booker for

the C4 Friday night

magazine show in the

90s – and failed to see

the Manchester

boyband’s appeal.

“Jo wouldn’t book

them,” he told

listeners at the BFI.

“The irony was the

following year when

they’d gone big, they

wouldn’t do The Word

because we snubbed them.”

Well, we’re sure she’s

regretted it ever since!

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IT’S A

HAPPY

BIRTHDAY TO

POP QUEEN

MADGE! Last year

Madonna threw a

fabulous shindig in

Marrakech, but this

year’s celebrations

are more low-key as she is in

rehearsal for her Madame X tour.

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THE

DATE IN

SEPTEMBER Charli

XCX’s upcoming

album Charli is out. I

can’t wait.

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THE NUMBER OF DAYS

Reservoir Dog’s

Michael Madsen has

been sentenced to

jail after pleading no

contest to driving under

the influence (DUI).

The film of the British period drama

television series Downton Abbey is

set for release in the UK on

September 13, but before we see

what the Crawley family and their

servants have been up to, here is

some fun trivia about the show:

1

The series, written by Julian

Fellowes, was inspired by

American TV shows such as ER.

2

The house is just an

elaborate TV set.

3

Actors Elizabeth McGovern and

Hugh Bonneville, aka Lord and

Lady Grantham, had been ‘married’

before Downton.

4

Each episode cost a million

pounds to make.

CELEB FACT

OR FICTION

True4. True 3. False 2. True 1. ANSWERS

Sewing Bee star

Patrick Grant has

revealed Strictly

Come Dancing host

Claudia Winkleman has asked

him to go on the show, but he

won’t because he doesn’t like the

fashion.

“Claudia and I are friends and

we have discussed it, but I have

my own business to run and

Strictly’s a big commitment,”

Patrick told me at the Fitzdares

Club

enclosure at

Goodwood.

“I’m sure

Claudia could

put a word in

for me if she’s

bribed, but I

am not sure.

“A n y wa y, I

couldn’t do

Strictly even if I wanted to

because I haven’t got time.

“Also I am so

fussy about the

costumes.

“I think I’d have a lot to say

about what I was wearing

because it’s what I do for a living.

“They tend not to have many

people from the fashion world on

there. They had Julien

Macdonald a couple of years ago,

who loved it. I sat next to him at

lunch not long afterwards and he

was like, ‘I really loved it but I

couldn’t remember the steps!’

“God bless him, so he just

went out there and went

f****** mad.”

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM OF PAGE

Yet more Taylor chips

on Katy’s shoulder?

Katy Perry and Taylor

Swift fans never thought

they’d see peace between

the ladies – so they were

delighted when the pop

singers made up after their

five-year fall-out.

Katy even starred in Taylor’s video to

the single You Need To Calm Down.

But they may have gotten comfort-

able a little too soon. For they are set to

once again do battle – this time in the

charts, and there may be more Bad

Blood spilled.

Katy released her latest single, Small

Talk, last week, which debuted at

number eight to not much fanfare.

Disappointingly, after just nine days

in the US charts, it has slipped down to

number 78. Now she faces seeing her

one-time most fierce rival steal her

music thunder with the release of

Taylor’s eagerly awaited seventh studio

album’s title track, Lover.

It precedes the release of the album

itself which is out next week.

The song is an old-school romantic

ballad with a 60s’ vibe and

opens with: “We can leave the

Christmas lights up ’till January.

This is our place, we

made the rules.”

A music insider

says: “Katy used

to dominate the

music charts, but

her last album

Witness famously

flopped and a

previous track,

Never Really

Over, which was

promoted as her

comeback solo, just

fizzled out. Taylor seems to have had a

resurgence in popularity getting the

Vogue September issue cover and is

breaking more records.

“But Katy’s career is hardly in crisis

five albums in, and

she still has a huge

fanbase of

Katycats.

“However, while

she and Taylor

kissed and made

up, she is going to

be watching

Taylor’s turn in

the spotlight

with interest,

and her success

through gritted

teeth.”

Maybe a duet

is what’s really

needed here.

BUN FIGHT Katy stars in

Taylor’s video, but will it

be burgers at dawn?

EXCLUSIVE

Don’t miss more WATTS the GOSS

in tomorrow’s Sunday Mirror

CELEBS:

THE WEEK

IN NUMBERS

EDITED BY SARAH

ROBERTSON

I had to laugh at Nicole Appleton for

spotting that Cara Delevingne looked

just like her son Gene when they were

little kids. The supermodel, 27, posted

a photo of herself as a little girl

wearing a hat, pulling a stern face.

Quick as a flash, the All Saints

singer, 44, dug out a photo of Gene,

her 18-year-old son with Liam

Gallagher, 46, around the same age

and dressed similarly to Cara at

the time and captioned it:

“@caradelevingne posted a tbt

[Throwback Thursday] when she was

little. She looks just like my

@genegallagher.”

Jaime Winstone and Kate

Thornton also spotted the pair’s

likeness and agreed.

Gene has just launched his

modelling career, so let’s see if his

good looks match Cara’s success.

Lindsay Lohan has made

herself at home in Dubai

and Mykonos, but Down

Under may be her new

address. The actress has fallen in love

with Australia and is looking at

houses there.

A source says: “Lindsay loves the

laidback beach culture and the

people from working on The Masked

Singer Australia. She is keeping

Dubai and New York as her bases.

“But she likes the idea of

going for a chunk of time

as there are work

opportunities, so she is

looking at rentals.”

Could we be seeing her

in Neighbours?

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