Another quality media appearance from Brooklyn Beckham, who arrived via private jet and 4×4 to tell the Evening Standard about his “sustainable fashion” campaign with fashion brand Superdry.
Some highlights:
His favourite clothes “There is a jacket I really connected with. It sits just above my bum which I like in my t-shirts and jackets.”
On the new Superdry store “I’m weird about little details so I love all the wood in the shop,” he says, stroking the table.
Non-leather shoes “The shoes are vegan — how is that possible?”
Getting engaged to his girlfriend “I took her up to, what’s that little thing called?” He looks at his two assistants sitting across the table, who tell him he means a gazebo. “Then I thought I lost the ring. I’ve never been engaged before obviously.”
On the COP26 climate conference What does he make of the efforts to be more sustainable at COP26? He looks blank until I tell him it was a big climate conference in Glasgow.
We wouldn’t normally waste your time with something as trivial as a tabloid love triangle, but Jack Grealish’s shagging exploits are throwing up some fairly entertaining quotes from his “pals”.
Grealish is allegedly triple timing his girlfriend Sacha Attwood with Love Island winner Amber Gill and Inbetweeners star Emily Atack.
Sadly details are scant, but we did enjoy this quote from a “source”:
Emily watched Jack in the Euros and thought he was fit. And for his part, Jack has been a fan of hers since she starred as Charlotte ‘Big Jugs’ Hinchcliffe in The Inbetweeners.
As The Upshot has long argued, French football is less a sport and more a dark psychodrama where you’re never quite sure if your teammate will stab you or stick their tongue down your throat.
Now that febrile atmosphere has spread to the women’s game – PSG’s Aminata Diallo (left) is behind bars, accused of ordering a vicious attack on teammate Kheira Hamraoui, who happens to be her rival for the holding midfielder role.
According to reports, Diallo gave Hamraoui a lift back from a team dinner, but when they arrived at her house, two masked hitmen appeared, dragged her from the car and beat her with iron bars, paying special attention to her legs.
With her rival in hospital, Diallo was promoted from warming the bench. And she turned in a star performance as her side thrashed Real Madrid 4-0 on Tuesday night.
But the afterglow of victory was short-lived – by Wednesday morning Versailles police were at her door. She denies all charges and was released soon after.
Following Antonio Conte‘s return to the Prem, we’ve been wondering how he restored his hair from near-exctinction 25 years ago into the luscious locks we see today.
Two schools of thought on this:
Theory 1) It’s a wig
Pretty simple argument: look how straight, dark and shiny it is.
Also, it’s nearly impossible to find photos of Conte between his shaved head stage (circa 2007) and the full head we see today. Which would suggest he just slapped a rug on it.
It’s quite a wig-shaped haircut, too, unlike the style he sported in the late nineties/early naughties, where he grew it long and slicked it back.
Theory 2) Turkish clinic
We’ve talked about Turkey before in relation to Andros Townsend’s miracle regrowth – simply put, it’s the place to go for cheap hair transplants.
Conte shaved his head in 2007, which is often required at the early stages of a transplant. His hair has been fantastic ever since.
Plus, would a man of his wealth and vanity really rely on something as old-fashioned and risky as a wig?
Anyway, we put this to a vote of the Upshot Gold members on Wednesday, and it was a landslide…
We also got a lot of pushback on the idea of Antonio going budget in Turkey, which is probably right.
In fact, according to a Shotter named Humphrey: “I have it on good authority that Conte was in the first wave of patients for a pioneering new procedure in Vancouver in the early 2000s.” So there you have it.
By anyone’s measure, Mauro Icardi is a shagger. The PSG star (noticing a pattern here?) famously stole his wife Wanda from another teammate, and claims to sleep with her an exhausting 12 times a day.
So perhaps it was inevitable that his exploits in the bedroom would eventually derail his career. Last week Wanda – who is also his agent – caught him cheating on her with an Argentine model.
Something of a shagger herself, Wanda went nuclear, screaming over Insta: “Another family you have ruined for a slut” and announcing she would no longer wear her wedding ring.
In response, Icardi vowed to never play again unless his wife took him back, which the club accepted, excusing him from training and a crunch European tie.
He then appeared on Argentine TV to issue a bizarre set of demands before he would return to Paris, telling his wife to post a photo of their children, then delete her social media accounts, and banning her from flying on his private jet without him.
Personally we would’ve gone for “can we drastically reduce the frequency and intensity of our marital sex?” but fair enough.
Anyway, apparently that weird outburst qualifies as an apology, and Wanda has now taken him back.
There’s always been something a little off about Paul Scholes. Maybe it’s his sullen demeanour, or his dreary dress sense.
Or maybe it’s the fact that he sucks on his daughter’s toes.
Scholesy’s 20-year-old daughter Alicia posted the clip to her Instagram. Unclear what the back story is – hopefully he’s just trying to get a splinter out.
