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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The Royal Garden Hotel review: Overhearing Kensington locals at lunch

May 23, 2023

New bedrooms paying homage to nature, inspired by Kensington Gardens, inspired Adam Bloodworth to check into the Royal Garden Hotel From my breakfast table at the Royal Garden Hotel I overlook the private entrance to Kensington Palace formerly used daily by Kate and Wills. It’s so close I can almost smell the petrol fumes. So [...]
A-List celebrities planned to ‘ambush’ Phillip Schofield live on This Morning, report claims

May 23, 2023

At least four A-List actors and well-known TV faces had planned to “ambush” Phillip Schofield live on This Morning with allegations about his behaviour, a new report claims. It has not been made clear exactly what happened between Schofield and Holly Willoughby to put their relationship on the rocks, although reports claim Willoughby was “deeply [...]
Bizarre Phillip Schofield tribute delivered by Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary on This Morning

May 22, 2023

It’s the first time This Morning has been aired since Phillip Schofield announced he was leaving the show over the weekend. Friday hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary stepped up to present this morning, with Holly Willoughby off this week, and the presenters headed up the show with a bizarre tribute to the former host. [...]
Downton Abbey ‘set for grand comeback’ 8 years after show’s finale

May 22, 2023

It sounds like the legendary Downton Abbey cast are set for a comeback, with the show reportedly set to make a huge return. It’s been eight years since Downton Abbey bowed out, with the original series running from 2011 to 2016, It followed the lives of the Crawley family who lived in Downton Abbey in the [...]
Could living in the City of London become popular?

May 20, 2023

The race is heating up for the smartest City of London living – Adam Bloodworth looks at the competition Crypts, former gladiatorial jousting grounds, dozens of gorgeous old pubs and even more shiny glass buildings: the City of London is an under-visited district rich with cultural things to do. We should frankly all spend more [...]
Johnny Depp’s comeback performance in Jeanne Du Barry ‘a disappointment’, say critics

May 19, 2023

Johnny Depp has made his comeback in Jeanne Du Barry, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, but the critics aren’t keen. It’s Depp’s first film in three years, and the first since his high profile legal case against ex-wife Amber Heard in their defamation trial. Depp’s reputation was tarnished by the trial, but his team [...]
Brokeback Mountain play, review: Where’s all the gay sex?!

May 19, 2023

Brokeback Mountain play review and star rating: ★★★ Where was all the spine-tingling intimacy? The kissing scenes that show what two men together can be like, the caressing of a shoulder with the tuft of hair, the chin nuzzling into the armpit, the gazes of adoration? Brokeback Mountain, originally a 1997 short story published in [...]
Bleak Expectations at the Criterion Theatre is the silliest West End show you’ve got to catch

May 18, 2023

Bleak Expectations is being pegged as London’s silliest show. It riffs on some of the best bits of Charles Dickens’ novels. Some of the parts we can imagine well in our minds, such as the grimy Victorian school in Oliver. Best of all is that you needn’t know anything about Dickens to enjoy the show, [...]
Best new London rooftop bars and terraces to book for summer

May 18, 2023

There’s nothing like discovering a new outdoor drinking spot. Book a table at one of these new London rooftop bars, says Adam Bloodworth It’s been a ropey old spring so far in terms of the weather but this new spell of warmth feels like a good omen, so we’re calling it: outdoor drinking season has [...]
Why Madonna, George Clooney and British royals are flocking to Portugal’s Comporta, the new St Tropez

May 13, 2023

A-Listers and royalty are moving to Portugal’s secret coastline, to the villages of Comporta and Melides, so get in now, says Adam Bloodworth To steal a commonly-used phrase from Gen Z, Comporta is popping off. Foreign investors have been quietly moving here in their droves over the past decade, encouraged no doubt by the iconic [...]

Advertising at World Cup: Levi’s genius, hydration breaks and dodging rules

Advertising at World Cup: Levi’s genius, hydration breaks and dodging rules

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