HELLO and welcome to the new world of support bubbles. Isn’t it fun? It’s like zorbing but without having to throw yourself downhill, strapped into a clear plastic orb. Sleb Safari thinks the Executive missed a trick there. Compulsory zorbing would have lifted spirits and provided a perfect away day for people who’ve been in lockdown alone for 12 weeks. And you can’t get any more socially distant than being in a bubble.
Sleb Safari is now officially in a monogamous support bubble with its mum. She is a smidgen less excited about it and refusing to even enter into a discussion about zorbing.
Choosing who should be in your support bubble is nearly as important as choosing who to go into lockdown with. If you had to do it again – and you might – would you isolate with someone else? Knowing what you know now, would you lockdown with someone different or, if you live alone, would you pair up with a friend for the company?
Sleb Safari would go to ground with someone who was in possession of a very particular set of skills – a personal trainer/yoga teacher/professional chef who loves cleaning. People like that do exist. Sadly they all work for Beyonce.
Sleb Safari’s been thinking about the celebrities who would make good support bubblers.
Tom Hanks is going to be everyone’s first choice so we’ll have to cast the net wider.
What about Carlton from the Fresh Prince? He’d teach you the Carlton dance which would definitely entertain you until the hairdressers reopen.
Sleb Safari would politely request that Moira Rose from Schitt’s Creek considers joining it in a support bubble. There would be no actual support on offer from Moira, just a lot of wigs and the use of arcane words and surprising pronunciations. It would be all the support Sleb Safari would need for this last stretch.
One couple who are really, really ready to form a support bubble with a single person household are Jamie Laing and his girlfriend Sophie Habboo.
Jamie, of Made in Chelsea fame/infamy, says spending so much time together has been a challenge and Tupperware was nearly the straw that broke this relationship’s back.
He told UBAR Radio's Access All Areas they’ve been on the verge of breaking up “about 400 times”.
“We nearly broke up over Tupperware. Over Tupperware! Stop putting stuff in Tupperware! Eat it. Stop putting it in Tupperware! What are you doing? No, I hate Tupperware! Get it away from me!”
Jamie sounds really chill.
The next thing that got him going was fake tan on towels.
“Why is there brown marks on the towel? She's told me it's definitely fake tan and I'm like, ‘well why is it on the towel?’ Why is it on the towel?
‘“I don't know. It comes out in the wash.’ No it doesn't. It doesn't come out in the wash!”
Jamie and Sophie sound like they’re absolutely ready to reintroduce other people into their lives. Perhaps there’s a relationship counsellor in Chelsea who lives alone and wants to flex their professional muscles?
Cush Jumbo wants people to pull up
Lucca is serving the looks. #TheGoodFight pic.twitter.com/Cl0XUyTX5q
— The Good Fight (@thegoodfight) May 29, 2020
CUSH Jumbo is a favourite of Sleb Safari’s. It loved her in The Good Wife and it loves her in The Good Fight. Cush is English, but plays an American lawyer in both series, and has been speaking to Vogue about the importance of pulling up; of holding the door open for the people coming behind you, particularly if they might traditionally meet closed doors.
“I don’t speak for all women, or black people. I just speak for Cush, and a lot of the time I’m wrong, but I’ve had so many doors opened for me and a lot of them have been dependent on that person bothering.
"Without people to encourage, there isn’t a following generation. I do feel responsibility and I don’t feel it like a weight. I feel it as something I’m really proud of.
Because I know there’s a girl in Lewisham, who’s eight, who’s me.”
People can’t be what they can’t see and that’s the importance of diversity.
Happy Birthday Prince
Prince would have celebrated his 62nd birthday last week. It's four years since he was found dead at home in Minnesota. Friends have been remembering him on his birthday, including Salma Hayek and the photogapher Afshin Shahidi.
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