Hallo Readers,
This blog is late. Sorry about that. Watch out before the norovirus hits you because when it hits you, you get hit hard. And you cannot write your blog for three days after it should have gone out. And you have been bursting to say something which will probably piss off a lot of you.
The ceasefire in Gaza is over. 80 hostages, mostly Israeli women and children, but also some Thai tourists, have been released. There are still a number of missing women and children, including a baby, which Hamas originally said they had and then said it didn’t have, as if these people are no more than holiday luggage gone astray. Oh, and about 140 men. When asked by a woman reporter how many hostages were still being held by Hamas, one of its leaders shrugged and said he didn’t know, adding that the numbers ‘were not important’. Meanwhile, the new nonsense from those who deplore what Israel is doing and cannot bring themselves to face the horror of what Hamas did on October 7, is to maintain that these hostages were treated with ‘courtesy and respect’ and the released hostages were sad to say goodbye to them. This is the same Hamas that butchered men women, children and babies on October 7 and dragged the terrified hostages, some of whom saw their families killed in front of their eyes, back to Gaza to stuff them in dark tunnels for over 50 days. So did the murderers become completely different people once they crossed the border back into Gaza? Was the woman who was paraded half naked through the streets, with the crotch of her trousers soaked in blood and a kidnapper’s boots on her neck, treated with courtesy and respect? Sadly we cannot ask her because she is dead, even though Hamas phoned up her mother in Germany and told her that she was in fact still alive. The same people who rail against Israel’s lack of humanity, with good reason, seem unwilling to criticise the lack of humanity shown towards the dead in the kibbutzim and in their own cars driving along the road or at the music festival where they were ambushed. More than that, they seem unable to show any themselves, diminishing what happened on that day, ignoring the evidence of women being raped before they were brutally murdered, unwilling to consider that maybe the women who have not come back cannot come back because they might not have stories to tell which are not conducive to the new narrative of Hamas as superior Airbnb hosts. Some of them may just not have enough guts to admit that they believe the Jewish dead and kidnapped of October 7 had it coming. But most of them probably simply cannot allow themselves to acknowledge any element of fault on their chosen side. Which is why we see respectable citizens, who would swear on a stack of holy books that they are peace-loving, rape-abhoring, murder-hating, God -fearing people, tearing down pictures of those hostages still missing, tearing down posters which allege violated women were then shot in their vaginas being being set on fire, staying silent about Hamas and parroting bullshit about treating people with courtesy and respect. Truth is indeed the first casualty of war.
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We start our review of the week’s celebrity clothing cobblers with actor Julia Roberts, making her debut in this blog, in London wearing top to toe Gucci.
Look. It’s London. In 2 degrees at night. When you are over 50, bare London legs, even Julia Roberts’ legs, are not box fresh and they are also cold. Put some tights on, love, or a pair of trousers – you look like a drum majorette. And lose the shoes, which look like decomposing Brillo pads.
To the International Emmys and actor Billie Piper wearing Nina Ricci.
I think the word I am looking for is ‘why?’ Why is she dressed as an over-wrapped parcel? Why is she wearing those horrible mules? And why is she wearing those rubber gloves you wear to pull a calf out of a cow’s bottom? (WTF has been watching A LOT of Yellowstone recently…..)
Here is actor Jessica Chastain promoting her new movie while wearing Armani. Seriously…..
First of all, that is so not Jessica’s colour. And second she looks like the lovechild of a slab of nougat and a fly curtain.
Meet Drag Queen Kevin Aviance at the LA premiere of Beyonce’s filmed Renaissance tour.
For some reason, Kevin is wearing those swimming aids kiddies use to learn to doggy-paddle. And the bottom half of C-3PO in Star Wars.
Also there actor Michelle Williams wearing Bishme Cromatie.
So do the boots have the black smoke emanating out of them or is the black smoke under separate management? At least it isn’t coming out of her arse. Or has a giant poodle expired onstage? Answers on a postcard please…..
To the Rolling Stone party and actor/singer Billy Porter wearing Patrick McDowell.
Merlin is back – in clogs and an Abraham Lincoln hat.
And finally, to British Vogue Forces of the Year party and the ridiculous Rita Ora flashing her bits – again.
It is of course no surprise that Rita’s boobs and bum are on show – after all, when are they not? What is weird is that she appears to have spouted particularly putrid pustules. And a bad case of fake tan foot blotch.
This week’s It’s Got Got Go comes from WTF aficionado Dean from Fife who is unimpressed with the Tottenham Hotspur FC third kit, although he is much more impressed with the team’s sterling away performance against Manchester City yesterday when they managed a deeply excellent 3-3 draw, despite having half their usual first team decimated by illness.
WTF had not previously seen this kit and was appalled by it. Admittedly Arsenal have a horrible neon away kit this season covers in swirls promoting nausea in appalled onlookers, but this Spurs kit is the serious pits. It is bad enough that football fans are ripped off every season with a new shirt, but at least make it something not deeply disgusting. Like this. As someone suffering from Norovirus this week, the colour was somewhat familiar to WTF, but Dean prefers to liken it to an imaginary but aptly pretentious Farrow & Ball paint colour, Mouse Knob. It’s Got To Go.
OK Readers, that’s your lot for this week. Please keep sending in your suggestions for It’s Got To Go and your top comments, which WTF likes more than anything. Let us meet again next Friday. Be good x
