Here, in full, is the current newspaper advertisement for the coming programmes on ITV1: ‘THIS SUMMER Ant and Dec will give away £1,000,000. Famous faces will face the music (and Simon Cowell). David Beckham will bare his soul to the nation. A man will be drowned alive. Robbie Williams will support Unicef. Gazza will support Robbie Williams. Celebrities will be marooned on Love Island. The Beckhams will throw a World Cup party. Dinosaurs will be saved from extinction. Oh… and then there’s that WORLD CUP footie thing too. ONLY ON ITV1.’ This seems an almost complete summary of things that I do not want to see.
Or so I thought. But my moles from the Beckhams’ World Cup party given on Sunday night tell me that I am wrong. The Daily Mail reported that the party at ‘Beckingham Palace’, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, ‘barely sputtered into life… after a catalogue of disasters. … With her dreams crashing around her Victoria reportedly flew into a screaming fit,’ etc.
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