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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Jinkx Monsoon’s Judy Garland musical proves drag is serious art

May 22, 2026

Jinkx Monsoon’s Judy Garland musical, review and star rating: ★★★★★ Death Drop the Musical cautiously welcomed people back to the theatre in December 2020 with one major claim to fame: that it would be the first all-drag musical. Six years ago, that felt progressive. The musical was good, but it played to drag tropes: it was [...]
This shocking West End play is like Netflix’s Adolescence but live

May 21, 2026

Equus play review and star rating: ★★★★ If a psychological drama about a teenager with an erotic fixation on horses sounds controversial, imagine how the idea landed 53 years ago. Peter Shaffer’s Equus is still platforming taboo-breaking conversations around mental health 53 years after its world premiere, which is probably more a criticism of our [...]
Heatwave ready! 9 best rooftop bars in Soho and Covent Garden

May 21, 2026

The London heatwave is here and it’s time to get outside. Following our recent round-up of the best London rooftop bars in the Square Mile, we’ve collected our favourite rooftop bars in Soho and Covent Garden. Here are the very best, with one suited to you – no matter your vibe. If you’re looking for [...]
Huge change to Tesco meal deal as Corona and Heineken added

May 20, 2026

It needn’t be a can of Coke next time you pop to the supermarket for a cheap lunch – Corona and Heineken have been added as drinks included in the Tesco meal deal. Granted, they’re the zero-alcohol versions, but still, it feels like a hedonistic lunchtime treat. Independent London brewer Lucky Saint is the third [...]
‘An impish sense of fun’: Claridge’s announces new era with fresh restaurant

May 15, 2026

Claridge’s hotel in Mayfair has traded on its British history ever since Queen Victoria chose it as her preferred choice for a cocktail. The late Queen was another fan of the property, which first opened in 1812. But the hotel has experimented with that image lately, welcoming a kitchen takeover from New York restaurant Dante. [...]
Is it Jeff Bezos? How Devil Wears Prada 2 created its tech bro villains

May 14, 2026

Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada 2. She talks to Adam Bloodworth about writing the ultimate corporate rom-com The Devil Wears Prada 2’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna vividly recalls her first impression of hard work. When she was young, she remembers her engineer father crawling around on the floor to [...]
‘Pint prices are crazy’: Meet the legends ensuring London still has £5 pints

May 14, 2026

Outrage this week as one Mayfair establishment was caught froth-handed charging £11 for a pint of Moretti. It wasn’t even a special craft pint, just a bog standard lager. But as our City Editor Simon Hunt points out, it’s wrong to immediately stick it to London’s pubs, which are facing insurmountable costs forcing them to [...]
Team behind BuzzBallz launch new shots – available in London off-licences now

May 13, 2026

The team that brought BuzzBallz cocktails to the UK market has launched a new shot sized 50ml product which is available in cornershops and off-licences around London now. The shots are the equivalent of a double serving and come in three flavours, cherry sour, apple sour and raspberry sour. Called ’99’ the products are “aimed [...]
Anne Hathaway’s ‘extremely funny’ axed scene from Devil Wears Prada 2

May 13, 2026

The process of making a film is a bit like pulling together a magazine: things get cut. For The Devil Wears Prada 2 a series of celebrity cameos didn’t even make it into the film. Deleted scenes are an inevitable reality of movie making, but some cuts hurt more than most. Aline Brosh McKenna, the [...]
Our honest review of new Gordon Ramsay Bishopsgate rooftop bar and restaurant

May 12, 2026

Bread Street Kitchen is the new Gordon Ramsay Bishopsgate rooftop bar and restaurant. City AM were the first to try the food – here’s what to order and our honest review In Being Gordon Ramsay, the chef’s reality series for Netflix, the sweary demi-god is asked by his son how many Bread Street Kitchen restaurants [...]

Could Burnham be the answer to free-to-air sport for all?

Could Burnham be the answer to free-to-air sport for all?

KSI on buying a football club, the manosphere and quitting alcohol

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