Things I’ve HATED this week

It’s been quite the week. I thought I’d flip reverse the things I love for a one-off hate-filled special. It’s soft, really.

Mar 30, 2025

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This week there are frustrations, musings and deep dives into a few of the things I’ve hated reading or dissecting this week.

These things have played on my mind for a while now. Always better to get things off your chest, eh.

ENJOY!

HOW IS KANYE STILL FREE?

It feels like another day, another Kanye West drama. I came across a post on Threads this week which read: “If Kanye West was a young woman he’d be under a conservatorship by now.”

I’d love to think men and women would be treated the same way. But unfortunately, that isn’t the case. Men appear to be able to get away with so much more with very rare cases of control or conservatorship. It really hit me. Like, why on earth is Kanye still being given airtime? How is he still allowed access to his social media accounts to continue spouting his Nazi-like opinions? And why isn’t anybody doing anything about it?

Let’s be honest, Britney Spears needed help. She needed to be under control to preserve her fortune, her sanity and navigate her through her well-documented public breakdown. Britney was eventually released from her father’s clutches in 2021 after close to 14 years under a conservatorship. We don’t know the full details. But she’s alleged she was drugged, forced to perform against her will and generally had no control of her life. It looks like she was a work horse for her father and the, clearly dodgy, team around her.

She was freed and since then we’ve watched her spinning like a maniac in badly designed clothes on Instagram. She couldn’t look more like she’s still in the midst of a mental breakdown if she tried. Were we right to set her free? Possibly not.

But with Kanye it feels like a much higher energy public breakdown. Some have even begun saying his extreme opinions and posting of late are all part of a societal creative artist experiment; all of which shall be revealed later. But could that truly be a possibility? Could Kanye be experimenting with the parameters of racism, homophobia, fatherhood and society? Doubtful.

His current wife Bianca Censori is out of red carpets totally naked – being paraded around by the rapper for the paparazzi.

Bianca, you in danger, girl. Blink twice for danger.

Then he has spent the past couple of years getting continually more prolific online. Nazi slurs against Jews, throwing the Kardashian clan under the bus at every opportunity and the beef with Jay-Z. It’s all gotten to the point where it’s not funny anymore. The guy needs help.

Like every celebrity crisis, there’s so much we don’t know from what’s happening behind the scenes. It’s likely he’s not got anybody great in his team that is helping him. It’s very likely he doesn’t have a therapist. It’s very likely he’s on all sorts of medication. It’s just the pits to watch.

More than any other celebrity, it feels like we should be starving this man of oxygen in the public arena and trying to allow him to get help away from the cameras and the tweets. But there’s no sign of it ending. Well, there are obviously signs. But maybe it’s a case of waiting for the day when Kanye isn’t around anymore – there’s a genuine possibility he’s hanging onto life with a thread here.

I’m not a huge fan. I’m just somebody looking at Kanye’s life turmoil and thinking “this guy’s a human and he desperately needs somebody to help him navigate a way back from the brink”. It’s gotten to the point where it’s actually very unfunny to watch.

THINGS ANNOYING ME THIS WEEK

· I live on a little High Street. Dog owners are letting their dog’s piss on my doorstep daily. It’s driving me mad. I’m very close to getting a sign reading “I wouldn’t piss on your doorstep so please don’t allow your dog to piss on mine”. Am I having a Kanye breakdown? Possibly.

· Hayfever. No notes.

· Journalists hammering Meghan. Who gives a shit. Can we just move on?

· Bills. Endless.

· Joe and the Juice’s in-store music volume. There’s no need, gang. Very silly.

· Sugar comedowns after 8 margaritas the day before. Whoops :-/

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AWKWARD ENCOUNTERS

I haven’t ever really fallen out with many people in the showbiz world. But there is one celebrity I’ve not spoken to for well over a decade. This week I was at an event she was at. Said celebrity point blank still refused to look me in the eye. So childish.

Truth is, this celebrity fed me the story of her marriage break up years ago for a front page exclusive. Every single detail. Directly to screw over her ex.

I wrote the ‘exclusive’ up and it was on the front page as she had desired. The day before publishing I OBVIOUSLY had to go to her former hubby with a right of reply. Legally it was a must. He gave me two lines of quotes denying the article. Again, obviously.

Thanks to the PR involved and her agent (who called me a c**t and whipped it up into a frenzy) she’s not spoken to me since. We were tight. Close friends. I never heard from her after that. She saw me calling the ex as an act of betrayal which is very bizarre. It was simply a legality I couldn’t avoid and AGAIN obvious that it needed to take place.

I’ve often thought about whether we could ever be friends again. I know I need to put this one to bed and get over it. But it still bothers me. Deeply.

WOMEN BASHING WOMEN

What is this about? I thought we’d moved on from this?

I worked with Princess Beatrice recently on a project and was disappointed to see a twerp of a Daily Mail journalist ripping her a new one in her column of bile. Have we not got to the point where we can support women doing good?

That leads me onto the great big Meghan debate once again. The woman can’t do anything right. Now sure, she’s fucked up with the British public and she’ll never have a place in the hearts of Brits. She’s spoken out when she could have remained quiet, she disrespected the Monarch when she was alive, staff seem to last five minutes (never a good sign) and she seems to always be cashing in on being married to Harry.

But it’s not all bad behind the scenes. I’ve heard a number of stories behind the scenes where Meg’s been the dream. Supporting one of my friends who had a stroke with the best medical care known to man, helping out a friend with a place to stay and a number of other tales.

There’s a human being there.

I guess of late the thing that really bothers me are the leagues and leagues of female journalists who are essentially bullying her each and every day. They slate her business prospects, her Netflix show, her fashion, her choices…her everything. You just have to wonder how far this has to go before you consider the fact Meghan’s just part of a bloodsport machine. She’s being hunted daily.

It's not just journalists; it’s the public too. This week the likes of Whitney Cummings jumped in. Whitney’s somebody who a few short months ago was talking about how women needed to support women. She’s full of shite. One day full of love, next day bullying. Everybody seems to want to put her down. There’s no way Meghan’s played the game well. Whether it’s her or the people around her, she seems to have properly fucked up on so many levels.

Maybe we just need to stop chatting shit about people and get on with our own lives. Let’s just go live our lives.

IF YOU COULD…

Remove celebrity names from your entire online engagement so you didn’t have to see news, posts or gossip about any of them again who would you choose? Here’s mine for now. These change weekly btw.

· Kim Kardashian

· Actually, all the Kardashians

· Donald Trump + JD Vance

· Anything and anyone to do with Love Island

· Meghan Sussex (just to have a break from the venom)

Who would you remove from your online life? Let me know below.

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