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Giles Coren Has No Idea

A Bleak Christmas for Andrew and Fergie

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther had a lovely night out at the theatre, but they’re suffering for it now.

As the hang overs clear and King Charles requests Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson not to take part in Royal Christmas engagements they wonder which of your relatives would you like to disinvite to Christmas lunch?

Perhaps the King should utter “Riddikulus!” a spell cast in Harry Potter when faced with a lurking pest. JK Rowling may be doing likewise as her public spat with Emma Watson has resurfaced. Do either deserve our sympathy?

Stop the press! The British Museum is hosting its own version of The Met Ball…sort of. But who on earth would want to be first name on the guest list? And last but by no means least Esther tests Giles’ fitness…but while he has a hangover.


And as always please do get in touch especially if you wish to divulge which of your relatives, you’d like to not attend Christmas: [email protected]


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Should we start with her assenine laughter?

1:13.5

You're laughing because she's got a hangover and she thinks it's funny that i want to make the podcast good i'm just cutting out some pieces of paper and trying to what and she's she thinks i'm

1:24.4

going flat flat flat flat flat flat i just sort of paint it. It's fine, but... No, I live not. It's the podcast. Neil arrived. We have to do a proper podcast, and I took her out last night, gave her a few wines. You got me really drunk. And now... You got me really drunk. We went to see the premiere of the importance of being earnest, which has to the Noel Coward Theatre from the National Theatre with Stephen Frye playing Lady Bracknell.

1:48.0

And I've never seen the importance of being earnest.

1:50.1

And it was hilarious.

1:52.5

And I loved it.

1:53.7

But before the play, before the theatre, we went to have dinner.

1:57.6

We went to pre-theater dinner.

1:59.4

And Giles ordered so much wine.

2:02.4

We're telling you this to show you the glamorous, starry West End life that we live to give you a bit of access,

2:09.2

a little peek through the window at the glamour that could be yours if you were.

2:13.3

And we went to see the importance of being owners because our friend Cameron McIntosh invites us to all the plays opening his billion theatres. And it was lovely. Went for dinner. We've got a caraf of the cheaper of the two Shablies. It was really tasty. So Esther threw it down her neck, opened her throat, like a yard of ale drinking. I'm generally not allowed to drink wine, like just like on a humdrum day because otherwise I get over excited to drink over excited and then you're hung over for the podcast and laugh at me for making an effort but you're not laughing at you for making an effort I'm laughing you for flapping about like a kind of just getting the pattings ready just ripping things out and piling them up and that no it was when you just sort of pointlessly moved from one side to the other and then back again and then forwards and back and then flat, flat, flat. It was very good and we all got a bit pissed and we got there and we drank lots of gin and then in the interview we drank gin and then afterwards I knew Esther was drunk because she said, should we go and get a burger? Oh, it was delicious.

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