By: Adam Bloodworth

Features Journalist Adam Bloodworth is the Deputy Life&Style Editor at City AM. He has served in the role since 2022, writing and commissioning culture and lifestyle features for the newspaper and website. The Life&Style section covers film, TV, music, theatre, things to do in London and features that examine the ways Londoners live their lives. He also serves as Deputy Editor for City AM The Magazine, writing and commissioning for the quarterly luxury lifestyle product distributed by hand around the capital. He has been interviewed by the BBC News at 10, BBC Scotland, BBC Three Counties Radio and can be found on X and LinkedIn.

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9 brilliant botanical interior design trends for spring

May 15, 2025

It’s almost time for the Chelsea Flower Show so if you’re feeling the botanical vibe, here are 9 botanically-themed interior design trends that would look incredible in any home. Botanical Rug £349, atkinandthyme.co.uk Make a statement in any room with this handsome hand tufted rug, with its tonal greens and large leaf design that radiates [...]
Sir David Attenborough ‘really struggled’ with being famous, says director

May 12, 2025

Sir David Attenborough has “really struggled” with fame, according to his director and producer of more than 40 years. In an interview with City AM, Keith Scholey said Attenborough had struggled with the “whole celeb bit” of his job. “He absolutely is not interested in David Attenborough,” Scholey said. “But he is fundamentally interested in [...]
Here We Are, National Theatre, review: Stephen Sondheim musical is more Severance than sing-a-long

May 8, 2025

Here We Are review and star rating: ★★★★ Stephen Sondheim’s final musical is nothing like his most famous works – in fact, it’s barely a musical at all, but perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. As Here We Are writer David Ives remarked, the legend relished in challenging his loyal followers with reinvention. “Sondheim makes people crazy [...]
Visit a rooftop bar: London’s best sky-high drinking spots for summer

May 8, 2025

Find your favourite rooftop bar: London’s latest openings for 2025 are listed below Provencal themes are jolting drinkers out of the capital and to the south of France this spring, as many of the best London rooftop bars deck out their outdoor areas with escapist design themes. That’s why we particularly love The Culpeper, who [...]
‘I’ve directed Sir David Attenborough for 40 years – these are my best stories’

May 7, 2025

Ocean with David Attenborough is in cinemas from tomorrow – its producer, a longtime colleague of Sir David’s, shares his favourite memories of working with the legendary broadcaster as he turns 99 Here’s a remarkable fact: when TV producer Keith Scholey first worked with Sir David Attenborough in 1983, the nature documentarian was approaching the [...]
Giant play review: Roald Dahl show is great but not perfect

May 3, 2025

Giant play review and star rating: ★★★★ Roald Dahl defied the image we cherish in our minds. He was charismatic, but in a way that masqueraded his poisonous views. He was also an anti-Semite, writing in the New Statesman in 1983 that “there is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe [...]
Inside the Wes Anderson exhibition at the Design Museum: ‘fans will be blown away’

May 1, 2025

The Wes Anderson exhibition at London’s Design Museum opens in November Somewhere in Kent, on the edge of a field, stands a warehouse full of old props from Wes Anderson films. Ahead of the launch of the new Wes Anderson exhibition at the Design Museum this November, curator Johanna Agerman Ross got to do what [...]
Kioku by Endo at the Old War Office: OWO might be troubled but this sushi restaurant is the real deal

April 29, 2025

The Old War Office, or ‘The OWO’ to insufferable industry types, is the most perplexing London hotel opening in decades. After spending over a billion quid turning Churchill’s wartime Cabinet Office into a hotel, industry bigwigs speak in hushed tones of low occupancy. One exec told me the breakfast room had eleven guests one morning [...]
White Lotus fans climbed over rocks with bleeding feet to break onto set, says hotel manager

April 19, 2025

It’s a story as wild as a plot from the show: during the filming of The White Lotus season 3 in Thailand, two female fans walked across jagged rocks with bleeding feet to break onto the beach of the hotel where the filming was taking place. The filming for The White Lotus season 3 took [...]
The City Break: holiday like a royal in the New Forest

April 8, 2025

For this week’s City Break, Justine Gosling goes to the most-loved national park in the south Once a royal hunting ground for William the Conqueror, the New Forest National Park is the UK’s most visited, and among the smallest and most accessible of the UK’s national parks. Stretching over 380 km sq across Hampshire and [...]

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