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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Man behind Netflix’s Bank of Dave gets a ‘kick’ catching scammers, and thinks Gen Z has got work wrong

January 22, 2025

You might not have heard of Dave Fishwick, but Bank of Dave – the Netflix biopic about the unlikely bank manager from Burnley – was one of the most Googled films of 2023. That same year it topped the streamer’s charts, and now a second installation is on Netflix. Fishwick grew up with “nothing” and [...]
Denmark has the ‘happiest city in the world’. I spent a week there in search of their secret

January 22, 2025

Can a city cure sadness? Adam Bloodworth visits Denmark’s other capital, Aarhus, to speak to some of the happiest people in the world You probably haven’t heard of Aarhus, but Denmark’s second biggest city – which has serious beef with Copenhagen – claims to be the ‘happiest city in the world’. The British Institute for [...]
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 [...]

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