Anne Robinson is fighting against a hotel chain building twin towers near her home
She memorably found fame and fortune by reducing grown men and women to gibbering wrecks.
And now the Queen Of Mean, the indomitable Anne Robinson, is eyeing up her biggest target yet — a developer intent on building a twin-towered hotel complex overlooking her home in the elegant heartland of Kensington.
One of the planned blocks is a skyscraping 331ft, which would make it the tallest building in the Royal Borough and the same height as the 28-storey Park Lane London Hilton.
‘It’ll block out the light and wreck the skyline,’ says an appalled Anne.
The 73-year-old is eager to stress that the current building — a Holiday Inn — also fails to find favour.
‘It was declared an eyesore in 1970, and last time I looked it was still an eyesore,’ she tells me, but adds that the proposals are worse. ‘I don’t understand how, in 2018, you can make it even more horrible.
‘It’s overseas money behind this and it’s of no benefit to me. I can’t think of a single way I can make use of this development — unless I had relatives I hated and I put them in there. I’m anti-development. I’ve lived in Kensington in the same house for 25 years. We are losing our last shop in my street this week that was there when I came here.’
Warming to her theme in a manner familiar to fans of the TV competition she reigned over for 12 years, she adds: ‘I don’t want dentists, making your teeth whiter with horrible fronts, I don’t want any more cafes. I’d like my underwear shop back, I’d like my newsagent back, and I’d like less traffic, and I’d like fewer cyclists unable to see the no-entry sign.’
Plans for the tower hotel which is being turned into a new complex in Kensington have angered the Weakest Link presenter
The developer, Queensgate Investments, acknowledges that its shareholders are from several countries — including Britain — but declines to say if the majority are from overseas.
Kensington and Chelsea council has received 5,000 letters about the development and will deliberate on the proposal later this month.
But Robinson will not be marching on the town hall.
‘I don’t do marching,’ she says. ‘I just do shouting.’
Broadcaster and poet Pam Ayres has published an ode to TV hunk Richard Madden after watching him and Keeley Hawes in the BBC’s rather racy new Sunday night drama Bodyguard.
The 71-year-old, who rose to prominence after appearing on Opportunity Knocks in 1975 and has been married to theatre producer Dudley Russell for 36 years, posted her latest work, right, on Twitter.
'I wish I had a Bodyguard to keep me safe from harm,
A manly sort of geezer with a gritty sort of charm,
To stand alert and ready in the corridors of power,
And drive the limo backwards at a hundred miles an hour,
A Bodyguard, a Bodyguard, my foes to scrutinise,
And if they look suspicious, shoot 'em straight between the eyes,
Protect me from the terrorist, and scheming of the toff,
And give a gal' some lovin' if her husband's b******d off.'
Richard Madden has been capturing hearts across the nation in his role in Bodyguard
A-maze-ing gardening skills? You could get a royal role
Know how to garden organically? Then Prince Charles wants you to work at his beloved Scottish stately home, Dumfries House.
The job includes helping to maintain the new royal maze.
‘Knowledge and experience in organic techniques and procedures would be desirable,’ says the Prince’s Foundation advert. The 6ft-high maze was inspired by Charles’s memories of childhood fun at Sandringham.
Charlotte Riley reveals 'fascination' with the press
Charlotte Riley has said she is 'intrigued' by the press after landing a role in a BBC drama about journalism
Actress Charlotte Riley, soon to welcome her second child with her action hero husband Tom Hardy, is turning the tables on her media inquisitors.
‘I’m now intrigued by what journalists do and how they do it,’ says the star, who plays the news editor of a Left-leaning broadsheet in new BBC drama Press.
‘I find journalists endlessly fascinating. Now when journalists come to interview me, I’m the one asking them questions.’
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Anne Robinson is fighting against a hotel chain building twin towers near her home
She memorably found fame and fortune by reducing grown men and women to gibbering wrecks.
And now the Queen Of Mean, the indomitable Anne Robinson, is eyeing up her biggest target yet — a developer intent on ...
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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