GagSlag gossip round-up

Slim pickings in our gossip round-up this week. Seems Russell Brand’s promise to keep it zipped (his trousers, not his mouth) is crippling the tittle-tattle trade…

Of course, if you’ve anything to share with us, you know where we are.

• When Vic Reeves was commissioned to write an erotic story, he came up with a tale of ‘a bloke who drove a Commer lorry up and down the A1 in 1963 with loads of Bic biros on board’. There was some shagging, but it ended with the woman being stabbed with a pen and dying.

• Little harsh? Joan Rivers believes that Mel Gibson deserves to DIE for drunkenly shooting his mouth off against Jews. ’He is an anti-Semitic son of a bitch. He should f**king die,’ she raged.

• Least surprising story of the week: Catherine Tate says she’s getting ‘loads of letters from teachers’ complaining that her character Lauren’s ‘Am I bovvered’ catchphrase is making their lives hell in the classroom.

• Borat’s portrayal of Kazakhstan as a backward nation is, of course, entirely fictional and the nation’s leaders are right to get upset. In a completely unrelated piece of news, Kazakhstan’s central bank has had to withdraw new banknotes, because they misspelt the word ‘bank’ on them. True.

Sources:Independent, Celebrity Week, The London Paper, London Evening Standard

Published: 20 Oct 2006