Just back from London where we had a great weekend centered around a visit to the ITV studios on the South Bank to watch the live transmission of Magic Numbers. People must have heard we were coming as the ratings rose to over 3 million which is hundreds of thousands up on last week (nothing to do with some of the 11 million who watched X Factor staying around to watch the show). It was a fun and very entertaining evening as the studio audience arrived an hour before transmission and enjoyed a very funny warm up man and watching the pre recording of a couple of shots to fit in the opening credits. As soon as we got home Marion played the show back and spotted us at least half a dozen times - another five minutes of fame.
One advantage of having Marion as a partner is that there is never any "where should we go?" when you're on a holiday or a weekend away. And this weekend was no exception as she once again planned our timetable meticulously starting with a meal at the excellent Turkish restaurant Kazan, near Victoria station, staying at the City Inn Westminster (ranked 11 out of over 1,000 London hotels on Trip Advisor and well worth the rating), a trip to see Grace Kelly's dresses at the V&A and ending with a glass of champagne at the world's longest champagne bar in St Pancras station (now that's what you call a station!). Thanks for that M. There's never a wasted moment.
The next telly outing will be to the recording of the new series of A League Of Their Own which is being recorded in Teddington studios in September. We are looking forward to it as we went to two episodes of the last series and it was hilarious. I am pretty sure that Sky will have some more top guests for the new season.
The last series made a lot of jokes about John Terry and his alleged dalliance with Vanessa Perroncel. However, the Observer ran a lengthy interview with Ms Perroncel yesterday for which she received no fee. She maintains that she is innocent of being involved in any affair and is so determined and insistent on this point that, instead of cashing in on a very valuable potential kiss and tell, she is suing for libel those who ran the stories about her. You can read the excellent article by Polly Vernon here.
Having got over the disappointment at the Guardian's failure to run the weekly Pick The Score league, I today heard about and joined a new football site. Fantasy f***wit.com is a fantasy league in which one aims to pick a team full of footballing f***wits. Points are scored by players on losing teams and keepers who let in plenty of goals but there is the added bonus of more points for getting into the tabloids with a lurid story such as Crouchy's recent night out in Spain. I've picked Ashley Cole as one of my eleven. He has to be a high scorer in the f***wit stakes. Any ideas for more? I am allowed two transfers a week.
I'll close today with Alexandra Burke's fabulous Magic Numbers performance. Look carefully and you will see Marion bopping away and me er shuffling around.
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