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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Burlesque musical review: Christina Aquilera show is a true spectacle

July 22, 2025

Burlesque musical review: ★★★★ Was Burlesque going to be the worst musical of the year? Headlines suggest chaos: the director and choreographer exited the production weeks before the West End opening, and the late arrival of costumes forced the actors’ union Equity to put out a statement about a “number of issues,” including to do [...]
St Paul’s Cathedral and the best lunch spot in the City of London

July 22, 2025

In a new series celebrating the people and places nominated for our Toast the City awards, celebrating the best of the City of London, Adam Bloodworth finds the ultimate spot for some lunchtime peace and quiet Londoners become immune to the daily joys of famous landmarks. Even for the most curious, the novelty eventually wears off. [...]
Grate news, a bottomless cheese bar is opening in London this month

July 22, 2025

It’s the height of summer and it’s mostly been boiling, but it’s time to put the salad back in the fridge because London is getting its very own dedicated all-you-can-eat cheese bar. Coming to Camden Market this month, the Pick & Cheese venue will feature a conveyor belt of different types of cheeses. The team [...]
Elvis Evolution review: The King is in the building – kind of

July 21, 2025

Elvis Evolution review and star rating: ★★★★ We live in an age where the image of Elvis prceedes the reality of the man himself. Think of Presley and bequiffed impersonators from Vegas to Blackpool probably come to mind. In many ways, he has been bastardised by mimicry. Elvis Evolution has an incredibly nuanced way of [...]
New Bonnie Blue documentary includes footage from her controversial sex stunt

July 18, 2025

It was the tabloid story of 2024 when OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue declared that she’d slept with over 1,000 people in 12 hours. Her stunt instigated a conversation around whether 26-year-old Blue, whose real name is Tia Billinger, was carving a new path for feminism or destroying the one that had been laid out for [...]
This London bar is putting olive oil in everything – from cocktails to ice cream

July 17, 2025

Those who obsess over the flavour notes of olive oil, or reach for the posh versions in the shops, will want to immediately diarise the capital’s latest pop-up, which celebrates the bounty of olive oil with a menu of cocktails and oil tasting sessions. If they can put olive oil in it, it will be [...]
How Stratford became London’s thriving new culture hub

July 17, 2025

London was lucky: while some Olympic villages around the world have fallen into terrible states of disrepair after the Games ended, Stratford has remained a pleasant place to go for a walk at the weekend, to visit a cafe or restaurant, or perhaps for a trip on that slide from the top of that weird [...]
Inside new Tom Kerridge London pub headed by former Hand & Flowers chef

July 16, 2025

Let’s face it, west London needs another gastro pub as much as Shoreditch needs more hipster coffee shops. If we’re not careful there will be nothing left to do in Chelsea that isn’t ranking fancy scotch eggs and sausage rolls. I suppose the one man who may justifiably nudge in on West’s posho pub territory [...]
Tom Holland discusses beer tasting with Zendaya and the joy of sobriety

July 15, 2025

City AM’s Deputy Life&Style editor Adam Bloodworth spoke to the actor Tom Holland about the joys of alcohol free living Like when David Beckham became more synonymous with sarongs and buzz cuts than football, Tom Holland has gone on to symbolise so much more than Spider-Man. A legion of young men follow his every sartorial [...]
Where have the music festival headliners gone?

July 14, 2025

Yoga in the Healing Fields and communal sing-a-longs around the Stone Circle were more popular than ever at Glastonbury this year, after headline writers and audiences slammed the music line-up as the worst in history. Headliners are the most expensive part of the festival experience, with fees for booking the world’s biggest acts running into [...]

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