“Britain’s loss is America’s loss also,” was how comedian Stewart Lee described James Corden’s move to the USA. Now there are fears that another roly-poly funster (as his own newspaper used to call them) wants to desert these shores for Trumpland.
Colleagues say the Sun’s political editor, Harry Cole, is eager for a transatlantic transfer now his Tory contacts are out of power. The trouble for Carrie Johnson’s ex-boyfriend is that the Sun is drastically scaling back its US operations, and though Cole is said to be angling to join the influx of Brits heading over to Rupert Murdoch’s US titles, it is far from clear whether his dream will be fulfilled.
He has not been groomed as management material – normally the most direct route to a News Corp job in the US – and does not always make it into the golden circle when the Murdochs invite elite hacks for drinks.
News that Essex Police have dropped their investigation into right wing pundit Allison Pearson over a social media message in which she branded people in a photograph “Jew haters” after mistaking their Pakistani political flag for that of Hamas has caused great celebration among her Daily Telegraph colleagues – but not for the reason you might think. Some staff were embarrassed by the amount of space given to what Pearson calls her “week of hell”.
One source says: “It is insane that on the day the archbishop of Canterbury resigned, we devoted our front-page splash to one of our columnists… there is no more Telegraph a story than the archbishop being made to resign. But at least now this madness will end – until next time.”
Former Tory headbanger-turned-Brexit Party headbanger and now Reform headbanger Ann Widdecombe has been dumped as a Daily Express columnist – but perhaps a career as a fashion makeover guru awaits.
Recent columns by the woman dubbed Doris Karloff include one on why Kemi Badenoch and Rachel Reeves were letting their sex down when they appeared on a recent episode of Laura Kuenssberg’s show. “Reeves was wearing a low-cut blouse and Kemi was sitting in a short skirt with her legs crossed and a lot on view,” frothed Ann. “Is it any wonder women struggle to be taken seriously?”
