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.

All 999 Articles

I Am Martin Parr review: examining Britain’s controversial photographer

February 22, 2025

I Am Martin Parr review and star rating: ★★★★ Martin Parr is famous for his satirical, affectionate and often provocative photographic style, which holds up a mirror to British society. In this short but fun documentary, the photographer is explored as he captures everyday images of British people. His most famous pieces are vivid and [...]
Kenrex, Southwark Playhouse, review: Jack Holden’s astonishing scope

February 19, 2025

Kenrex, Southwark Playhouse, review and star rating: ★★★★ Here’s the thing: there are plenty of people who technically do what Jack Holden does, but scarce few who actually do what Jack Holden does. In Cruise, Holden’s homage to the people who were hit by the AIDS crisis, and new show Kenrex, he creates the scope [...]
Unicorn play review: Mike Bartlett as sharp as ever with Stephen Mangan throuple play

February 14, 2025

Unicorn play review and star rating: ★★★★ Through plays like King Charles III and Cock, Mike Bartlett has delivered some of the freshest-feeling contemporary writing about the way we live our lives today, particularly to do with sexuality and dating. Cock with Jonathan Bailey became one of the hardest tickets to land in the West [...]
Bridget Jones director on finding ‘real heat’ between Leo Woodall and Renee Zellweger

February 14, 2025

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy director Michael Morris shares “precious” memories of reuniting Hugh Grant and Renee Zellweger, those age-gap sex scenes and reflects on the scenes he wishes he didn’t have to cut Renee Zellweger was apprehensive about playing Bridget Jones again. Of course she was: you’re careful about reprising the roles that [...]
Bridget Jones director reveals cut Renee Zellweger drinking scene that ‘hurt’ to loose

February 13, 2025

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is finally out today, on Galentine’s Day, nine years after the last film landed in cinemas. Based on the original novel by Helen Fielding, it tells the story of a 50-something Bridget dealing with grief after the loss of her husband, Mark Darcy, while bringing up her two young [...]
Reviewing the new Gordon Ramsay opening that’s the highest restaurant in Europe

February 13, 2025

Lucky Cat at 22 Bishopsgate by Gordon Ramsay review and star rating: ★★★ Going to Gordon Ramsay’s newest restaurant is palm sweat-inducing stuff. From its sky-high vantage point, one can look down at the Walkie Talkie, which, despite being famed for its views, looks puny. Lucky Cat at 22 Bishopsgate, on the 60th floor of [...]
Mad About The Boy: Bridget Jones review – perfectly timed with hun culture

February 12, 2025

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy review: the return of the UK’s favourite singleton couldn’t have hit the cultural zeitgeist better. In a new era of feminism, Bridget finally should be embraced by us all, whether we relate to her or not, says Adam Bloodworth ★★★★ Ah, Bridget Jones and her absolutely enormous panties! The [...]
7 of the best Valentine’s Day events in London (whether you’re loved up or not)

February 7, 2025

Valentine’s Day events in London for friends, lovers and everyone in-between Valentine’s Day is about as Marmite as it gets – as well as excluding people not in relationships, the schmaltzy day piles pressure on couples by suggesting they need to put on a big show of affection for their partner to prove their love. [...]
I signed a waiver to eat London’s hottest chicken at Dave’s Hot Chicken

February 4, 2025

Dave’s Hot Chicken is open on Shaftesbury Avenue What is it with men (yes, it is men) and hot chicken? There are dissertations waiting to be written about masculinity and its inextricable connection to hot chilli eating contests, but the trend is more significant in America than the UK. However, London is getting a (red [...]
Chap Bistro is the sort of chef London needs more of

February 4, 2025

Restaurants in London desperately need to be more fun. Yes, they should serve sustainable food, but surely ethical sourcing has evolved into an expectation rather than a concept by this stage – just be sustainable and stop talking about it. What this overworked city desperately needs is more humour and light heartedness. Gloria in Shoreditch [...]

Frank McCourt-backed Premier Jumping League raises £37m from first team sale

Frank McCourt-backed Premier Jumping League raises £37m from first team sale

A meeting with the breakfast king of Mayfair

By: Adam Bloodworth

All 999 Articles

Subscribe