It’s understandable that BBC Sport pundit Alex Scott didn’t react with much outrage when former minister Lord Digby Jones said she required elocution training last year.
For the former Arsenal player has faced even worse insults, not to mention threats of death.
‘I’ve received so many comments saying I should be at home ironing or cooking,’ says Alex, who will be covering the women’s Euro 22 tournament for the BBC next month. I’m not concerned about things, but when someone threatens my life, it needs to be treated seriously.
She compliments Barbara Slater, the BBC’s head of sport, saying to Radio Times: “She had my back.”
I told her that I didn’t want to be taken off the radio because who would win if that happened. It’s my duty to use my time in that chair and our discussion of football to alter perceptions.
Keir Starmer boasted about representing striking miners as a lawyer when he ran for Labour leader.
Former NUM leader Arthur Scargill, 84, who joined the RMT picket in Wakefield while enjoying the autumnal spotlight, is unimpressed by this.
He says, gently, “I’ve nothing but scorn for the man as far as I’m concerned.”
I haven’t heard him say a single word in favor of the RMT. He also spoke in front of lawmakers, telling them not to join picket lines, which was abhorrent.
Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen’s triumphal Glastonbury duet, shown above, was a reprise of their on-stage collaboration in Bruce’s native New Jersey, when Paul appeared perplexed that the 50,000-person crowd appeared to jeer this historic musical moment.
He didn’t regain his composure until he realized that the joyful crowd was yelling “Bruuuuuuuuuce” in praise of The Boss.
Potty-mouthed Michael O’Leary, the CEO of Ryanair, may be practicing a few choice expletives now that he knows that his two oldest boys have taken a liking to the unHibernian sport of cricket.
And they have turned into “big supporters” of England, much to his “total and deepest shame.”
There’s hardly much use in supporting the Irish cricket team, he continues, if they want to support the English cricket team.
Sir Mick Jagger allegedly planned to arrange an odd flower presentation, according to a new BBC2 documentary to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Rolling Stones.
The band’s creative director Patrick Woodroffe says in the four-part documentary My Life As A Rolling Stone, which premieres on July 2, “Mick wanted to have an elephant come out at the end of the concert and present him with a rose from the end of its trunk.”
What was he contemplating?
Mick was persuaded to renounce the scheme by Keith Richards. Jumbo’s entrance might have led Keef to believe he was hallucinating once more given his propensity for stimulants.
When speaking of the late Edward Woodward’s performance in Rattle Of A Simple Man at the Garrick Theatre, Dame Judi Dench recalled that on one occasion, some of the marquee lights failed and only partially illuminated his name, adding, “He was known as E Wa Woo Wa.”