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| Friday, 31 January, 2003, 16:10 GMT Amazing tales from Planet Tabloid ![]() This week, celeb smooching, Keegan's clangers, adopt-a-hippo, and our regular pun-writing competition. But first... A: Where to start, what with the "Edward and Mrs Simpson" abdication papers finally released this week? The car salesman called Trundle who cuckolded the Prince? The rumoured China dossier? Ooo-er! Meanwhile, football boss Kevin Keegan has sparked fury 'cross for Mersey for branding Liverpudlians car thieves. But Keegan clangers are nothing new, as this selection from the Sun's archives amply demonstrate: "The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes, if they're not careful." PT, for one, finds it reassuring that Kev himself realises he has foot-in-mouth.
Zoe 'n' Norm; frost continuing. Hugh 'n' Sandy; good to moderate, cooling now joint film has opened. Britney 'n' Fred; that's, like, so overrrr. Britney 'n' Justin; birthday peck pending. Britney 'n' Colin; humid, overshadowing the Colin 'n' Dannii heat wave of last week. Pseudo-lesbo pop moppets Tatu; not each other in real life, daddy-o. And that is the end of the celebrity smooch forecast. No room No room this week to bring you news of the couple who adopted an abandoned baby hippo which now dwarfs them at a whopping 375 kg. (Need we remind you that animals, bless 'em, can never be trusted?) And there's no space whatsoever to tell you how Michael Barrymore's latest bid for fame involves getting a haircut (which seems to have worked coz it's in the tabloids). Neither is there room to tell you about the zoo that told a granny to put her hand into the mouth of a lioness. See note above to piece together what happened next. Last week we invited you to pun away for the story about how ageing Lothario Mick Jagger has warned his teenage daughter Elizabeth off dating a 44-year-old actor.
Darren Maher came in with the chorus "Papa was a moaning stone" and Shannon Lindsay upped the tempo with "You can't get no old-age action". Now that's over, please turn your attention to next week's offerings. Your puns, please, for the story of the pilot hauled off a jet because he was suspected of drinking... who was found to merely have bad breath. | Top UK stories now: Links to more UK stories are at the foot of the page. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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