Is so-called hippy crack the media equivalent of Alice’s EAT ME cake in Wonderland? Seemingly so. After all, mere inhalation of the substance in a balloon causes the partaker to be magnified into a full-blown celebrity.
By way of a primer to this trend, you are asked to consider a Sun story from Wednesday, which featured a woman no reader can ever have clapped eyes on beneath the headline: “Les Girl’s the Latest Balloony.”
“Les Girl”? “Les Girl”? Like me, perhaps, you rifled through your Rolodex of tabloid epithets and drew a blank for “Les Girl”. Who in the name of even tenuous renown is “Les Girl”?
Allow Lost in Showbiz to clear up the mystery. According to the Sun story, “Les Girl” is the otherwise entirely unknown daughter of Les Dawson, the comedian who died 18 years ago. So, to boil this exposé down to its essence: the not-very-late Les Dawson’s daughter has had a balloon at a party. Her inhalation of this powerful substance has amplified her into the showbiz staple “Les Girl”, and you are instructed to adjust your records accordingly.
