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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At 1 Hotels, luxury means something different

January 18, 2025

As 1 Hotels prepare for their biggest rollout of openings, Adam Bloodworth explores the brand’s intriguing formula Sure, you can have a great dinner, and yep, the spa’s so nice you could easily pop in for an hour but end up spending the whole afternoon. But it isn’t an obvious type of luxury that appeals [...]
The secrets behind the Kylie Minogue wine brand’s meteoric success

January 15, 2025

When Kylie Minogue went to the ProWein industry fair in Düsseldorf, hospitality professionals were stunned to find her on the sales floor rather than in some backstage dressing room. Minogue was fitting in up to 18 meetings per day, sitting down with distributors to discuss deals for her Kylie Wine range. The relentlessness of her [...]
Oliver! London musical review: Please, sir: give me more of this five-star hit

January 15, 2025

Oliver! London musical review and star rating: ★★★★★ One of the surest ways to confirm a new musical is a hit? It has a song with more refrains than you could ever possibly imagine. In the last few years in London, productions of 42nd Street and Anything Goes have had this – and it happened [...]
Extra bank holiday 2025: Hospitality industry slams Number 10 decision

January 10, 2025

Bank holidays 2025: Number 10 has announced the additional day off has been canned It had been rumoured that an additional bank holiday would make its way onto the calendar for 2025 to earmark the end of WWII, but Number 10 has announced that the extra day off won’t be going ahead. UK hospitality bodies [...]
Titanique London review: Celine Dion musical is a titanic hit

January 9, 2025

Titanique, London, review and star rating: ★★★★ “I know you know the words because, let’s face it, you’re all gay,” says Celine Dion, her mic thrown towards the audience, one great throng of Titanic stans who’ve been waiting all night for this moment. It arguably took too long, but they got what they paid for: [...]
Best cocktails in London: the freezing martini at Hawksmoor

January 9, 2025

Next in our recommendations for the best cocktails in London, the freezing martini at Hawksmoor While we wait for the announcement about the new James Bond, pass the time at the Hawksmoor, with its new ultrasonic homogeniser martini. Like drinking a super-refined slush puppy, it has a thicker consistency, adding texture to the drink’s formidable [...]
Playing Nice: ITV responds to big viewer complaint about James Norton drama

January 9, 2025

James Norton was the first A-List name to lead a small screen production this year when Playing Nice dropped on ITV earlier this week – but viewers (and critics) shared similar complaints about how much of the plot wasn’t realistic. In Playing Nice, Norton’s character is given the wrong baby by a hospital, a mix-up [...]
Veganuary isn’t boring at these three London restaurants

January 8, 2025

Increasingly, through events like Veganuary and Dry January, diners (and drinkers) are choosing to experiment with partial abstinence, rather than go for it full-throttle. If you aren’t ready to cut meat out for a month, or if you just fancy learning something new about your palette, here are three Veganuary restaurants to book that we [...]
New Friends musical announces open casting call – it’s your chance to play Rachel or Ross

January 7, 2025

A new Friends musical is urging Londoners to attend an open audition in front of casting directors looking to cast their new Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Ross and Chandler. Auditions for Friends: The Musical Parody will take place in July before the production tours the UK and Ireland through until May 2026. The show will [...]
Viewers are slating James Norton ITV drama Playing Nice

January 6, 2025

James Norton seems to have a penchant for family dramas right now. In his latest movie, Joy, he plays a medic instrumental in the first IVF births, and now he stars in new ITV drama Playing Nice, about the repercussions that follow when a hospital gives parents the wrong baby. Critics have lambasted the show, [...]

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