- The Guardian
Wednesday 24 July 2019
All hail Mia Williamson,
an icon of our times,
who stepped in when
her friend’s white
outfi t was splashed
with red wine at Ripon races on Saturday
and performed a feat of emergency fashion
crafting, creating a new outfi t in the loo.
Why is Mel B
so keen to out
other women?
Pass notes Shortcuts
In the latest instalment of Mel B’s
sordid tales, the singer let slip in a
radio interview that fellow Spice Girl
Emma Bunton once shared a “girl
kiss” with the This Morning presenter
Holly Willoughby on a night out.
Despite Willoughby suggesting she
has never experimented with her
sexuality, Mel B (Melanie Brown)
blurted the story out regardless.
When Brown confronted Willoughby
with the claim, the latter neither
confi rmed nor denied it, saying –
according to Brown: “Why would
you say that out loud?”
Why indeed. Perhaps it’s because
lesbian gossip is the hottest gossip,
for two reasons. First , being gay was,
for a long time, not a positive thing,
particularly if you were famous;
when Ellen De Generes came out in
1997 , she all but lost her job (the
sitcom, Ellen, was cancelled the
following season, and DeGeneres
has stated how hard she found it to
get work). Laura Dern, who play ed
her girlfriend on the programme,
did not work for a year and a half
after the show aired. So, when
something goes to ground – sexual
relationships, say – it is only natural
that it ignites people’s curiosity.Age: 28.
From: She was born in Mankwe, a small
settlement that was at the time part of the
nominal Republic of Bophuthatswana, and
was absorbed into South Africa.
She’s a dancer? Correct. She was expected
to become a lawyer and join the family law
fi rm, but the pull of the dancefl oor proved
too strong, and the bar gave way to the
cha-cha-cha.
And now she’s on Strictly. She is, but hey,
you’re supposed to ask the questions and I’m
supposed to answer them.
Yeah, but everyone knows. She has been
on before, many times. She’s one of
the pro dancers, recently with Graeme
Swann, the cricketer, and she was runner-up
with somebody off Hollyoaks a while back ...
Er, no.
The name’s familiar though. Because you’re
thinking of her sister, Oti Mabuse.
Oooh, now Motsi’s joining the show, that’s
nice, bringing sibling rivalry to the dance
fl oor, a bit of pasa doble trouble ... Yes, but
Motsi’s not going to be dancing
Hang on, you said she was also a dancer. She
is, you might know her from being a pro on
the German show Let’s Dance. But for the BBC
she’s replacing Darcey Bussell ...
As a judge? No way! But isn’t her sister going
to be there as a pro, competing with Huw
Edwards or whoever it turns out to be? Yes.
Oti will be judged by her elder sister.
That’s terrible, like Jo Johnson turning up
at the QEII Centre to fi nd out his brother
has been made ... No, it’s not at all like that,
and we don’t want any of them in here,
thanks. It’s more like Serena Williams coming
out on to the court and fi nding Venus in the
umpire’s chair.
Are there any winners? Serena, almost
certainly ... oh I see, in this, no. If Motsi
holds up a big fat 10, it will obviously
be seen as nepotism. And if it’s a one ,
it will be because Oti pulled the arm off
Motsi’s favourite doll when they were
children or something.
I wonder if the Bible has anything to say on the
matter? Not keen, as it happens. From Romans
14:10 – “You, then, why do you judge your
brother or sister? Or why do you treat them
with contempt? For we will all stand before
God’s judgment seat.”
And Oti, has she anything to say about her
sister coming to judge? She’s less bothered.
She tweeted: “Yayyyy!!!! Da da da dadada
daaaaa- da dada da da”.
Do say (as Motsi did): “I am absolutely
overjoyed to be joining the Strictly judging
panel.” Actually, don’t – zzzzz.
Don’t say: “That’s a zero from me, little sis,
hahahahaha.” Actually, do.
No 4,022
Motsi Mabuse
Can you really
tie-dye clothes
with red wine?
Instagram has long been fi lled with
fi tness crazes, from urban parkour
to HIIT workouts and even the
chair challenge – which involves
climbing under and over a chair
without touching the fl oor. Not to be
outdone , celebrities are embarking
on a new craze – taking photographs
of themselves in headstands , with
everyone from 70-year-old Dragon
Duncan Bannatyne to TV presenter
Fearne Cotton getting involved.
Otherwise known as inversions,
headstands and handstands are a key
part of advanced yoga practice, but
when performed incorrectly they
can have damaging consequences ,
up to and including causing a stroke.
“Instagram is full of peak-level
poses,” says Anna Taylor, a yoga
teacher. “ Something like a headstand
really needs to be built up to , so
you’re not crushing your shoulders.
It might not be one for offi ce workers
who have bad back alignment.”
In order to perform a headstand,
your core strength needs to be built
up through poses including the
plank, dolphin plank ( where you
keep your forearms on the fl oor) and
downward dog poses, according
to yoga teacher Sarah Scharf. “For
a complete beginner, it might take
anything up to six months to buildHow to get in
over your
head – safely
It began with a nightmare: Eleanor
Walton had gone to the races with
her workmates, dressed in a white
jumpsuit. Someone spilled their
wine down the pristine white
outfi t. “So, we’re two hours into the
races, and El comes and tells me
someone has spilt red wine down
her,” Williamson wrote on Twitter.
Her response? “No problem.” She
got another four glasses of red wine
from the bar , and, while Walton sat
naked in a toilet cubicle, used it to
soak the jumpsuit in the sink, wine-
tie-dying the jumpsuit to dusty-
pink-hued perfection. T hey dried it
under the hand-drier – before going
back to drinking in the sunshine.
The quick thinking, the unfazed
fabulousness, the rock-solid refusal
to let anything kill your buzz – it was
heroic behaviour. The result (pictured
above), as Williamson pointed out,
looks a lot like Pretty Little Thing’s
rose-hued festival range. This wasn’t
just a fudge – this was actual fashion.
So, how easy is it to wine-dye
your clothes? I’m in the south of
France with two €3 bottles of Côtes
du Rhône, a pile of rubber bands
and a couple of white garments. My
method: wrap the fabric lengthways
around the bottle and secure in
place with a few bands. Scrunch the
ends tightly until they fi t compactly
around the fat part of the bottle and
secure with more bands. Dip into a
sink of wine a la Williamson, or pour
the wine over the garment until it
is saturated. The longer you leave
it, the darker it will get. Remove the
bands and rinse until the water runs
clear, squeeze out and dry.
I dye a top and a jumpsuit this
way, and they come out far less
impressive than Williamson’s eff ort.
To ramp up the eff ect, I splatter the
dried jumpsuit with more wine and
don’t rinse it. The result? A pattern
that looks exactly as though it’s
had a €3 bottle of Côtes du Rhône
down it. I smell like a broad on a
bender, which, I have to say, is not
entirely unpleasant.
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