Camping’s great isn’t it? Sitting around a real fire, cooking sausages, snogging the boy in the next tent and falling out of a tree and breaking your leg. Love it. Dirk, me and the kidlets have just been to Ashdown Forest for the weekend. We had everything, a fabulously louche campsite owner, Dave, who positively encouraged us to get pissed and make lots of noise, acres of land where we could wander willy nilly, Pooh Bridge, and, wait for it, Tom Cruise at the local garage. Yes, Tom Cruise. And, according to Dave, my new best friend, he’s only 5′ 3″. Dirk says all famous people are short and newsreaders all have enormous heads. I tend to agree. When I was at the BBC a week or so ago to support the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus in their bid for stardom in Last Choir Standing, I saw the newsreader, Thomas Schafenacker. He only came up to my middle but his head was the size of a basketball.�
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Yes how strange, i bumped (literally) into Kylie once and she must have been just over 3 feet tall ! I hear schwartzenegger is only 4ft 10in and my friend said he met David Bowie and he could have got one hand completely round his throat ! People like this would have had jobs as chimney sweeps, jockeys or burglars in the old days, there’s progress for you !
Yes, when he was Ziggy Stardust, I believe Bowie moonlighted as a chimney sweep, using his extraordinarily spiky hair as a sort of brush. However, lately, his more restrained hairstyle has meant he’s had to rely on the income from his pop music to feed Iman and the kids.