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Fanny Cradock : How we Brits Used To Cook

In the 1950’s and right up to the mid 1970’s there was only one cookery queen who ruled Britain’s TV programs : Fanny Cradock.  She pre-dated all the celebrity chefs, even Julia Child, and was quintessentially English right down to her snobby accent and the dreadful fussy dresses that she wore to cook. For the … Continue reading

Flamboyant Pete Burns dies aged 57

Pete Burns the Brit pop-singer who became a Reality TV personality, died suddenly yesterday  after a massive cardiac arrest.  He was 57 years old.  Boy George mourning his passing, described Burns as ‘one of our great true eccentrics‘.  Burns found fame as a member of a proto-goth group originally called Nightmares in Wax before they … Continue reading

Fawlty Tower’s Manuel dies

The actor Andrew Sachs who played the hapless and much beloved waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (ranked number one in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programs by the British Film Institute) died recently aged 86.  Sachs had a long and distinguished career on TV and in Films that lasted almost 60 years, but … Continue reading

Four More Shots Please : unmissable fab trashy TV from India

  Amazon Prime has just produced a new Indian web television show which they are claiming is their take on Sex and The City.  However from where we sit it looks much more like a Real Housewives  of Mumbai.  “Four More Shots” is the story of  four unapologetically flawed women (two in their 30s and … Continue reading

Flash Back Friday : Bianca Del Rio on Being Fierce and Funny back in 2015

     Photo by Magnus Hastings   Bianca Del Rio is a big-time winner.  Back in her hometown of New Orleans, she won Big Easy Entertainment Awards for Costume Design six times and then went on to win Gay Entertainer of the year for 3 consecutive years before she left for the bright heady lights … Continue reading

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