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 Crown season 6: details emerge about Princess Diana death scene

August 25, 2023

It is one of the most talked-about TV moments of the year and The Crown season 6 hasn’t even happened yet. Netflix’s The Crown is set to air a storyline about Princess Diana’s death later this year when the final series comes out in November. Critics have hit out at the show for dramatising the [...]
Dune: Part Two release date pushed back again due to strikes

August 25, 2023

Fans are going to have to wait an excruciating amount of time for the Dune: Part Two sequel to finally drop. It was scheduled for later this year but due to the writers’ strikes in Los Angeles, the release date of the follow-up film has now been pushed back to 2024. It comes after the [...]
Meet the man keeping London’s Turkish barber scene alive in Soho

August 24, 2023

Memo Barbers has just opened in Soho Memo was 12 when his father, who was also a barber, passed away. At that young age he was put into a haircutting job at his family salon in Istanbul. By 16 he was professionally qualified. With bundles of eccentrically frizzy black hair, Memo is only in his [...]
Stonewall Inn owners: Gay marriage could be taken away from LGBTQ people

August 24, 2023

LGBTQ rights are being challenged in the UK and US, but The Stonewall Inn co-owners tell Adam Bloodworth that their pioneering safe spaces initiative is already changing the lives of LGBT employees and customers. Now British companies and employees can sign up. “We’re being attacked and moving backwards on a global level,” says Stacy Lentz, [...]
Derry Girls creator announces new comedy series set in Belfast

August 22, 2023

The creator of the hit comedy series Derry Girls, set in Derry, Northern Ireland, has announced her plans for another comedy series. How To Get To Heaven From Belfast will be set in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, and will be about four women in their late 30s. It will feature one successful but [...]
Edinburgh Fringe’s best jokes of 2023 have been revealed

August 22, 2023

There are thousands of performers at the Edinburgh Fringe all trying out new material with the aim of making you laugh. But only one joke could with the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe, as voted for by comedy TV channel, Dave. And it was a gag by the comedian Lorna Rose Treen who has [...]
Fyre Festival founder reveals festival’s return and sells tickets despite no location or event date

August 22, 2023

Uh oh, Fyre Festival is returning at the end of 2024. But it’s somewhat of an overstatement to say the festival is ‘returning,’ given the inaugural Fyre Festival basically didn’t happen. As documented by the viral Netflix documentary, Fyre Festival was a disaster on a mass scale. Hundreds of ticketholders were left stranded on a [...]
Checking into Lord Byron’s old love nest, Durham’s Seaham Hall

August 21, 2023

Now’s an excellent time to go to Durham and the surrounding countryside, finds Adam Bloodworth WHERE: Incredibly posh students, a massive Cathedral, and music blaring from behind stately walls to signify where the studying is absolutely not happening. The northern city of Durham can feel subsumed by southern students, but go on a weekend to [...]
Sir Michael Parkinson was a proper interviewer – British TV desperately needs another like him

August 18, 2023

Parkinson was an early podcaster, really, wasn’t he? Parkinson, the long-running chat show hosted by Michael Parkinson, who has died aged 88, was the simplest of ideas. A few chairs, a couple of guests, and an in-depth conversation. The last part of this sweet formula Spotify and Apple have cashed in on over the past [...]
5 things we love about Houghton festival

August 18, 2023

Houghton Festival has wrapped for another year, drawing a close to four days of electronic music in a gorgeous woodland setting. It wasn’t just incredible sets and beautiful scenery, though. Hilariously, Kate Middleton was on site on Saturday after visiting a friend who lives in the Houghton Hall where the festival is set. If you [...]

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