Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, dressed in half a small helium balloon, stole the show at the premiere of The Boat That Rocks last night.
But aren’t we all getting a bit sick of B-listers in pocket handkerchiefs getting all the attention when a new film launches?
For once this seems to be quite an interesting Richard Curtis film, if only because it reminds oldies of the marvelous days of pirate radio, when a bunch of press-ganged DJs used to rock and roll in the North Sea, pausing only to vomit over the side (”not that side, that’s where the wind’s coming from!”).
The person Mr Blatherskite half admires is the Beeb’s showbiz reporter Colin Patterson who manages to nobble any stars going for interviews (there weren’t too many at The Boat That Rocks) and somehow sound ecstatic about it all, even though they all say the same uninteresting things.
But maybe Mr B’s just pissed off that he didn’t get an invitation.