TALK OF THE TOWN: Jarvis Cocker pulps Twitter as Britpop star confesses he can’t cope with microblogging site and thinks Instagram shares are like postcards
Jarvis Cocker is definitely struggling to get with the social-media programme – the Pulp frontman confesses he can’t cope with Twitter and thinks Instagram shares are like postcards.
‘I lasted 40 minutes on Twitter before I deleted it,’ the 56-year-old Britpop star reveals. ‘I thought it was horrible. People were just bothering you all the time. What I like about Instagram is, it’s more like receiving a postcard from a friend. It seems a bit more human.’
He clearly hasn’t come across the Kardashians there yet…
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker pictured above attending The Q Awards in October last year at The Roundhouse in London, England
Jarvis of Pulp pictured performing at Wireless Festival in Hyde Park. ‘I lasted 40 minutes on Twitter before I deleted it,’ the 56-year-old Britpop star has revealed
Most people just have a rusty old barbecue at the end of their garden, but not PR boss Matthew Freud – he’s got part of an intercontinental ballistic missile behind his house in London’s Primrose Hill.
Matthew tells me his passion for 1960s industrial design is behind his ‘small collection of Cold War missiles’, one of which is displayed in his London offices, and the (disarmed) Primrose Hill example is waiting to be moved to a suitable home. Well, at least it will deter burglars in the meantime…
Bake Off judge Prue Leith may be 80, but even she can’t avoid the horrors of watching her weight.
Great British Bake Off’s Prue Leith eating on the programme. She confessed: ‘I’d never worry about self-esteem, it’s not that deep. I’m just worried about vanity. I’m extremely vain!’
Although she seems to relish scoffing cakes on TV, she says: ‘If I put on some weight, I just stop.’
Prue confesses: ‘I’d never worry about self-esteem, it’s not that deep. I’m just worried about vanity. I’m extremely vain!’
Don’t worry, Prue, the only thing we ever notice is your super-colourful outfits!