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[bitter69uk]

“The Full Eartha – Carlsberg for Breakfast: "In the early 80s, I was the manager at the Coffee Shop in the Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch. Miss Eartha Kitt was staying at the hotel for a few days whilst she was performing at the Hippodrome. We were informed she would be joining us for 'breakfast'. "She appeared alone at noon in a beaded cocktail dress, huge heels and full slap. "'Miss Kitt, it's an honour to have you here. The staff would be extremely grateful if you would sign a menu for them,' I said. "'Daaaahlink, I'll sign anything for you if you bring me a beer,' she growled. "And that was her 'breakfast' for three days. Precisely at noon, she would arrive alone in a slinky, fabulous dress and 'breakfast' was two bottles of Carlsberg and a long, fine cigar."

Breakfast – Eartha Kitt-style! This juicy tidbit appeared in last week’s Popbitch gossip e-newsletter. I guess we now know how the divine Ms Kitt maintained her enviably svelte figure! I wonder if Kitt was puffing on an actual cigar or was it one of those slim brown cigarillos like Tura Satana smoked in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (or Alexis Carrington smoked in Dynasty!). Pictured: portrait of Kitt by Anthony Barboza, New York, 1992.

[wreathedwith]

we're all seeing this, yeah

[jenna-appleseed]

Spooky Halloween mix recommended by popbitch

[oneminutetoeleven]

Most popular Twitter theories rn

- it's his son

- it's a former (male) friend/colleague [male has been specified in the theorising]

- it's Sarah Vine

- it's his wife

- it's Nadine Dorries [meme solution]

- it's him plating seventy four dimensional chess [huge expanding galaxy brain solution]

[ghaffari]

Latest Collab with the infamous celebrity newsletter "Popbitch"

[sweatyfestivaltrash]

Here are some snipits about Liam from the Popbitch weekly gossip email this friday. I think we'll all love the second one.

"Our favourite story about Liam was that in his post-One Direction years he got into art, and started to do some drawing.

Word of his new hobby reached David Hockney's great-nephew, who kindly arranged for Liam to meet the man himself.

In advance of the meeting, Liam made a portrait of Hockney, and presented it to him when they did get to hang out.

Hockney was so taken with the result that he hung the portrait up in his house.

A close second favourite story? Liam and Cheryl stayed together publicly at the end of their relationship purely to piss off Dan Wootton, then Showbiz editor at The Sun, who had reported their break-up."

[fluffyyorkshirepudding]

A bit of levity, courtesy of Popbitch. Respect to Liam and Cheryl 😂

[celticcrossanon]

Celta, saw this royal tea that I'm taking with a quite a bit of salt. Rumor is Prime Minister Sunak's aides are placing bets "on the date Harry and Meghan are going to split." From the gossip email newsletter Popbitch-- where journalists anonymously send in gossip obtained from their sources.

I genuinely think they have much more important work then this

Hi Nonny,

I think that government officials have important work to do as well, but I also think they are capable of placing bets on unimportant things like the date of a celebrity divorce.

If this is true, then it says to me that the divorce of Harry and Meghan is something that has been discussed in the Houses of Parliament, hence the placing of bets on when it will happen. I have no idea why or in what context it would be discussed. It could be something going on behind the scenes, or it could be idle speculation. It could be even be linked to a story going around about Sir Keir Starmer removing Harry's titles if he wins the election. I have no idea what happens in the halls of Parliament but I suspect it is no different from any other workplace, with gossip and rumours doing the rounds like they do everywhere else.

[lenetaylor]

You can get too high, Paul McCartney edition

this is from popbitch so who knows if it's true. i want it to be true. i am now imagining mary yelling at stella to keep a better eye on him: "you know what he's like! you can't let him wander off like that!"

also endlessly amused at the thought of Harrison Ford still dealing industrial grade weed to famous people

[bitter69uk]

An irresistible tidbit from this week’s Popbitch gossip e-newsletter from a contributor called BJM:

"Back in the summer of 2000, I was doing some work at a video editing facility in NYC in an old industrial building with excruciatingly slow elevators. While I was waiting for the lift after a midday ciggy break, two women came into the lobby to wait with me. I smiled and nodded at them, and we all stood silently while waiting. No indication that I was in the presence of greatness. "The elevator finally arrived, we all got in, and the older woman urgently and repeatedly pressed the button to their destination floor as she purred, 'I haaaave to peeee so baaaadly.' "It was the absolutely unmistakable voice of Ms Eartha Kitt. "I laughed and said that I couldn't understand why we didn't have public pay toilets like in London. While doing the pee-pee dance, she readily and robustly agreed that the US was very uncivilized in comparison."

Pictured: portrait of La Kitt by Terry O'Neill, 1989

[alarrytale]

Hey Marte, what is blind gossip?

Never ever read this before so can you just explain me? Is it a site where people wrote their gossip about famous ones? Can you recommend me some of this? I’m curious now 😂

Hi, anon!

Yes, it's sites/blogs where the runner of the site/blog post anonymous stories about famous people. Often behind an alias to hide their identity to make people guess who it's about. Some siterunners have contacts in the industry feeding them stories from sources close to the celebrity, and some get submitted stories from people who have something to share, or they get stories submitted from the celebrity's PR team. After the secret story is out publicly, the site will reveal the blind items to show who it is about and to prove that their sources were reliable and telling the truth.

Blindgossip.com used to be a blind item site posting blind items. They stopped posting in 2022. There are many blind item sites out there posting blind items, some more reliable than others. Most famous for currently posting blind items are crazydaysandnights.net aka CDAN and Deuxmoi (not linking that shit). You also have sites like Popbitch (blinds from the UK). There are many. There are also sites/blogs who try to guess who the blind items on blind item sites are about. ACG is guessing CDAN blinds and so are Foxella (they also guess other blinds from other sources and post original blinds).

The different sites have posted a lot of blind items about the 1D boys over the years. Most famously, Blind Gossip posted a blind in april 2012 called "Boy Banders Are Hiding A Secret" about H and L being in a relationship. That blind made thousands of people into larries and 1D fans.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Popbitch says theres a minor royal placing divorce bets by u/MyJoyinaWell

Popbitch says there’s a minor royal placing divorce bets Popbitch is weekly mail out in the U.K. They publish showbiz and sometimes political gossip, but not very interested in the royals. They tend to be pretty spot on although some things you never know who they mean unless you are very familiar with tabloids and journos behind the scenes. They'll never publish the name of this minor royal, but I thought it was funny.Any guesses who if is?text from the email: |||||>> Big Questions

[finepairofboots]

Someone would mention the 1984 ones or the upcoming 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and Buck would know this fun fact. (Thanks Popbitch!)

[perezhilton]

What a crappy situation! All the Gwyneth Paltrow and Derek Blasberg details HERE!

[isay]

From this week’s Popbitch…

Hidden in W's recent excellent interview with Miley Cyrus was a fabulous bit of pop trivia: Dolly Parton still uses a fax machine.

Dolly is Miley's godmother and regularly sends faxes to her. Miley says she makes Dolly send the faxes to her lawyer's office, as he's the only person she knows who still has a fax machine. She then pops in to her lawyer every time Dolly says she's sent one.

It's usually worth the trip. The last fax Dolly sent to Miley? "How much do I love you? As much as my heart can hold and as far as my arms can reach.

Dolly Parton's Xmas present to Miley last year was a mannequin, made to Dolly's proportions, wearing one of her outfits.

Maybe she should have got Miley a fax machine?

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

"It is a risk their teams have been aware of from the beginning and have had strategies around" What do you think those strategies are or could be?

It's not really what I think those strategies are - there's lots of discussion and evidence about the strategies and available to UK celebrities to manage the British tabloids.

The basic strategy is to have someone who has information and power who can play their game and keep your story out of the headlines. There's a very good article in popbitch about it - and this byline investigates article is also pretty key. People only talk about the strategies after they haven't worked, but it still gives you a pretty good idea of the lay of the land.

It's important to understand that for at least the first two and a half years of 1D Max Clifford was involved in their publicity strategies. Max Clifford has boasted that nobody he represented was ever outted. There's quite a lot of information about how he operates in Louis Theroux's documentary 'When Louis Met Max Clifford'.

Tabloids haven't changed that much, and the strategies needed to deal with them haven't changed that much.