This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning, everybody, welcome to your free podcast for today.

I just a little coughing fit, just momentarily.

I've been quite good at sort of suppressing the cough.

But there were so many stories in the papers today.

Actually, to be honest with you, not as many good stories about celebrities as there were the other day,

but we struggle through, we struggled through.

And today we have, oh, a raft of celebrity-based stories.

And I know how much you enjoy hearing about the good, the great, the shallow, the useless,

the totally useless, and the damn right, I was going to say,

the downright ones who you don't want to

talk about ever again, because I get people writing to me, say, you know, you're always talking

about Jordan. But of course, I only ever talk about Jordan if she features in the papers.

We don't just mention her for the sake of mentioning her. There's got to be a story of the paper

attached to it. We only ever mention Joey Essex if he's mentioned in the papers, but of course he's gone

off the radar now. He's disappeared completely. He's doing this program jump or whatever it is,

the one where they take a lot of third-rate has-beens out to the Alps and hopefully they try and

do themselves serious damage. So because he hasn't featured on the radar, we don't bother with him.

We only feature with those people who deliberately try and get some sort of publicity for themselves because they're there.

So when you pick up the magazines, the girls who aren't working at the moment, you know, the Sam Fahir's and all those sort of, you know, the Lauren Goodyear and people like that, they're not working.

So they feature on the front page.

If they were working, they wouldn't have time to do interviews for the newspapers or the magazines, so they don't bother it.

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