In another case of ‘celebrity weighing in on the lives of ordinary people about which they know nothing’, Martha Stewart has offered us her hot take on hybrid working and it’s about as welcome as a used sick bag.
The celebrity chef/swimwear model says the mix of home and office working brought about by a pandemic will cause America to “go down the drain”.
Martha’s ‘logic’ is that “you can’t possibly get everything done working three days a week in the office and two days remotely”.
Au contraire ma soeur! The only means of communication unavailable to people working from their kitchen two days a week is face-to-face and even then someone’s face is pretty much life-sized on a laptop screen when you’re one-to-one Zooming.
The other important point here is that Martha’s forgotten she works from home. Just because you’ve a professional kitchen and TV studio in the barn doesn’t mean you’re at the office, Martha. It means you’re at your home office, the same way someone else might be working from their kitchen table. And nothing’s going down the drain, except a cup of tea that got cold because the home worker was too busy to drink it.
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An unlikely opponent to Martha has stepped forward. He is Jay Morton, of SAS: Who Dares Wins. According to his bio Jay “spent 10 years serving with UK Special Forces and four years with the Parachute Regiment, he's trained as a patrol medic, military mountain guide and summited Everest twice”.
The first time Sleb Safari read that sentence it saw “military mountain goat” which put a whole other spin on Jay’s prowess.
Jay says humans weren’t designed for office-life. Jay doesn’t want to see us shackled to computers either. In fact, Jay’s going as far as Martha, only in the opposite direction. He wants us jumping out of planes and adventure seeking.
“My whole life, being a kid, it was always about being outside and playing in the local woods, building treehouses, just seeking out adventure, playing down by the river. It was always about being outside and getting muddy and trying to stay out as late as possible, without getting told off by my parents,” Jay says.
“You don't realise it when you're doing it – it's just childhood – but that carries on into your adult life, the fact that we do like being outside and getting dirty. I think as human beings, that's what we're designed to do. We're not designed to sit in offices and go on computers.”
So Martha wants us in the office five days a week, six at a push, and Jay wants us running around a forest, muck-to-the-eyeballs. Could we meet somewhere in the middle? Say, three days in the office and two at home…?
Tom Cruise 'stung' over Shakira and Lewis Hamilton
Time to check in on Tom Cruise who was crushing on Shakira after meeting her at the Formula One Miami Grand Prix.
How do we know he had a crush? Why, a source let it be known.
Page Six reported that their source said there was definite “chemistry” between the two and Tom was “extremely interested in pursuing” Shakira. Shakira’s people shut that down immediately - “Shakira had a great time hanging out with Tom at F1 but she has no interest in dating him.”
And now, a month later, the rumours are that Shakira and Lewis Hamilton could be dating.
According to The Mirror a source told RadarOnline (please follow along, because Sleb Safari doesn’t have time to draw a information flowchart) that the rumours are “a huge dent to Tom’s ego” and he is “stung” because he considers Lewis to be a friend.
Tom, treat yourself to a new helicopter and get back out there.
Pedro Pascal says hands off his peepers
Pedro Pascal, the internet’s daddy, has been explaining why he no longer lets Game of Thrones’ fans touch his face.
Pedro played Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones and his gruesome death involved his eyeballs being pushed into his skull. Naturally, when they met Pedro fans liked to pose for photos with their thumbs over his eyes.
Pedro indulged them, for a time.
“At first I was so earnest and happy about the success of the character in the show, I’d let them,” he told The Hollywood Reporter, but then “I developed an eye infection”.
Hands off Pedro’s peepers, people.
