Holy Moly writes: "Best rumour sweeping medialand this week was that Julie Burchill had had her foot amputated because of gout! A mole spoke to Julie and thankfully it wasn’t true. Who starts rumours like this?!" Indeed.
It was Madame Arcati who (I think) first reported that Julie had a foot encased in an air-pressure plaster cast (not because of gout) and she had a 5% chance of amputation if the condition didn't improve in a number of months (see original story on labels). I saw it myself down in Brighton. I'm sure she'll be OK.
Quite how that got turned into an amputation story I don't know but I suspect some semi-educated employee of the dead tree media is responsible.
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It would seem the culprit doesn`t have a leg to stand on.
I saw her just the other week. She was as brilliant and entertaining and fun as ever.
Thank you Chas. And I'm sure you can confirm that her two feet are still attached. I shall undertake an investigation into the rumour-monger who freely sows fiction: little escapes MA's beady eye.
Yup, I can confirm that! And the cast looks rather cool!
You may find that the rumour is not unadjacent to Holy Moly.
I totally agree Chas: it really looks quite chic and I may buy one myself. I say a "cast" but thinking about it again, it's more like a customised shoe with a pressure valve, so that it resembles a type of hi-tech clog. Certainly I felt a bit under-dressed by the sight of it and I had this strange but controlled compulsion to give it a stroke. Perhaps Julie won't want to know that ....
What's Burchill doing now? I thought she was going to be the TV critic of The Sun and replace the unreadable wanker Ally Ross or Ally something. He's a writer only an editor could love.
What do you mean the Fuck of Ingrams? or are you asking me who I think the miscreant is posing as? Honestly, I do wish blog visitors would focus.
If you care, Madame A, to raise your eyes above, you'll see you've written 'Fuck of Ingrams'. Two comments down from Richard Ingrams said. God, you're slow today.
Omg! Someone's actually reading my blog! I can't believe it. Me, just a blogger! Being read! You can tell I've got the X factor. Among bloggers.
I left off the other f just for you, sweetie.
You have got the X Factor, Madame!
If Louis were here - and who know's he might be! - he would say: I hope everyone picks up du phone and votes for yiz, coz I. Want. You. In. Da Foinal!
Ah Chaz. And if it were Simon he'd say: "That, that [eyes avert his right]. That. Was. The. Performance. Of. The. Night. Honestly. Perhaps of the. Whole series. Next!"
So what has julie got that requires a cast if it's not gout?
Just read Fiona RP's piece on Burchill, spectacularly insulting, worth a read. Never heard of her before, FRP I mean - do you know her MA?
We go back (a bit)
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