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Joe Bromley

Why a gin and tonic really is the naffest drink of summer 2025… What's hot (and not) this week

Going up!

Kim K trial

(Getty Images for The Met Museum)

Buckle in for the trial of a generation as the French “grandpa robbers” who held Kardashian at gunpoint and nicked $10m worth of bling finally go on the stand. Kim to testify on May 13.

MDMA in the back garden

Lorde has single-handedly reinvigorated the MDMA market in time for BBQ season with her new song What Was That.

Kensington

Patsy Kensit, Kate Moss and Katie Grand attend the launch of Issue 8.5 at The Lavery hosted by Perfect Magazine & Burberry (Dave Benett)

Home of hot new restaurant The Lavery, Chiltern replacement The Roof Gardens and nightclub Gallery. W8 is back.

Polygamous working

WFH means more people now secretly work two or more full-time jobs. Power to them.

Going down…

Celebrity Traitors

The Traitors presenter Claudia Winkleman (Cody Burridge/BBC/Studio Lambert/PA) (PA Media)

Enough with the Traitors hype now. Kudos to the booker who has wrangled Stephen Fry and co, but I shall not be tuning in to the kilt fest.

Full body tatts

Pete Davidson (Reformation)

Pete Davidson is having hundreds of tattoos removed, which he says is “like putting your arm on a grill and burning off a layer”. Avoid in first place.

The M&S collapse

The retailer is continuing to deal with the fallout of a cyber attack (PA Wire)

I fear no one has worried enough about what comes after the “crippling hack” which has left M&S on its knees for a week.

Gin and tonics

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The whole ordeal has become so undignified. Everyone barking “just the cheapest gin” at bar staff who require JCB machinery to dump tons of ice into Malaga fish bowls. Naffer than Whispering Angel this summer.

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