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So I guess I have a podcast now…?
How is everyone doing in lockdown? Ropey at best? Same!! Anyway, I’ve channelled my excess energy into a new radio station SLASH podcast on my “ents” blog, Electric Angels. Breakfast Bops airs Monday-Thursday mornings 9-11am and is all about phenomenal pop music that loads of us have been loving for the last 2 or 3 Read more
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This new Hollyoaks is a special one
Forgive the EARNESTNESS but my latest episode of Hollyoaks is my favourite yet – and across my whole ~career so far, it’s easily one of the things I’m most proud to be involved in. I’m very grateful to have been asked to pen the episode in which closeted gay character Mitchell finally comes out to Read more
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LGBTQ ‘sex ed’ in schools? Almost everyone’s missed the point
Let’s say you’ve got a 6-year-old kid. And one of that kid’s aunts – your sister, or the other parent’s sister – is gay. They have a long-term same-sex partner. What do you tell your kid? Are you upfront with the fact that the two women are a couple? Or do you water it down Read more
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Top 25 albums of 2018
I spent a lot of this year thinking the album output was quite crap, but actually 2018 came good in the end, didn’t it? Comparing it to last year, anyway. For reference, here are the albums I’ve put at the top of these year-end slogs in the past: 2010: Lights – Ellie Goulding 2011: 21 Read more
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Top 50 singles of 2018
This is my tenth – TENTH!!! – year-end singles blog (eleventh if you include 2008, but that was more of a straightforward list on a Facebook note(!)). And goddammit I will continue until the bitter end!! Loads of the blogs aren’t online anymore because they were on websites I forgot to renew (woops), but the Read more
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On BBC World News talking viewer interactivity in TV
I had a little chat on BBC News yesterday about rumours that Black Mirror could introduce viewer interactivity to one of its upcoming episodes. I absolutely did not have an ulterior motive of starting my route to being on Strictly Come Dancing in 2020. No way. Read more
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