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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Alexis Petridis

Courtney Love's Tory conversion is not to be sniffed at

Courtney Love, October 2011
Courtney Love, who announced her conversion with a typically blunst tweet: 'Tory now.' Photograph: Billy Farrell Agency/Rex Features

It takes a great deal to make Lost in Showbiz feel sorry for David Cameron, but news of the Conservative party's latest celebrity supporter has caused what it can only describe as a twinge of sympathy. This week, Courtney Love announced her conversion to Cameroon status by means of a typically blunt tweet: "TORY NOW". It would appear Love was introduced to the Conservatives via her current amorata, Henry Alsopp, the brother of Location Location Location's Kirsty Allsopp – a relationship that, in and of itself, blows LiS's mind to tiny pieces. But Love's support for the Conservatives may yet bring with it a ray of hope for the beleaguered PM. This week it was claimed that Love attempted to get a journalist to snort her late husband Kurt Cobain's ashes: "She actually said she would offer his ashes first to me to snort, then she would like them," he alleged. Does LiS espy an initiative for the government to stop local councils ramping up funeral charges in the wake of cuts?

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