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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Amanda Holden takes swipe at Holly Willoughby by mimicking her This Morning speech

June 6, 2023

Amanda Holden has been making subtle digs at both Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield over the last couple of weeks following the news that Schofield has left This Morning over an inappropriate workplace relationship. Holden at first tweeted a muscle arm emoji when Schofield announced he was leaving the show, and this morning she mimicked [...]
Mighty Hoopla 2023: 7 iconic moments we’ll remember forever

June 5, 2023

Drag, cabaret, live performance… Britain’s most colourful music and arts festival, Mighty Hoopla, has wrapped for another year. The festival welcomed over 60,000 people to London’s Brockwell Park over the weekend, and has become famous for uniting Britain’s pop music fans and LGBTQ people over two days of the most vibrant staging the festival circuit [...]
Ben Elton interview: Woke comedy and the scourge of individualism

May 30, 2023

In a rundown rehearsal room opposite a housing estate in Oval, Ben Elton is spilling political truths in sharp, disarmingly blunt sentences. He’s been talking for almost fifteen minutes, nearly half the time I have with him, but I’ve barely asked him a question. Aged 63, Elton still fizzes with energy. He talks on three [...]
Aspects of love, London, review: Flatly ridiculous, utterly gorgeous Michael Ball musical

May 26, 2023

Aspects of Love review and star rating: ★★★★ I think I must be mad, but I really enjoyed this absolutely morally bankrupt musical about a weirdly incestual group that all seem to have sex with each other, no matter their relation to one another, and no matter how flatly ridiculous it all seems. I’ve never [...]
Once on this Island, London musical review: Gorgeous but problematic

May 25, 2023

Once on this Island review and star rating: ★★★ There’s nothing that signals the start of summer so brightly as the Regent’s Park Open AirTheatre, which has kicked off its 2023 season with an adaptation of the musical Once on this Island. It’s a beautiful production, with some brilliantly catchy songs, but it’s hard to [...]
Sara Cox interview: ‘When I lost my dog, I threw myself into work’

May 25, 2023

Radio 2 presenter Sara Cox on putting her naughty dog on probation, why she’s supporting the Dog’s Trust, and how you can too, by Adam Bloodworth Her popular Radio 2 show is just one facet of Sara Cox: she’s also mad about animals and making life better for them here in the UK. The former [...]
Asteroid City: Why Wes Anderson’s new film with Tom Hanks and Margot Robbie is going to be huge

May 24, 2023

It’s been two years since everyone’s favourite maker of loveably odd movies, Wes Anderson, last dropped a film, which was 2021’s The French Dispatch, and let’s be honest, it was no-one’s favourite Wes Anderson film. But the good news is two years on and he’s got another film, his 11th, out next week. Asteroid City [...]
Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher rips into Harry Styles in radio rant

May 24, 2023

Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher has called Harry Styles and the current pop music landscape “embarrassing” in a rant on the radio. He lamented the bygone era of the 1990s when he says bands on the radio, and in the mainstream media were “mavericks,” unlike today’s musicians who Gallagher implied had less control over their [...]
The Royal Garden Hotel review: Overhearing Kensington locals at lunch

May 23, 2023

New bedrooms paying homage to nature, inspired by Kensington Gardens, inspired Adam Bloodworth to check into the Royal Garden Hotel From my breakfast table at the Royal Garden Hotel I overlook the private entrance to Kensington Palace formerly used daily by Kate and Wills. It’s so close I can almost smell the petrol fumes. So [...]
A-List celebrities planned to ‘ambush’ Phillip Schofield live on This Morning, report claims

May 23, 2023

At least four A-List actors and well-known TV faces had planned to “ambush” Phillip Schofield live on This Morning with allegations about his behaviour, a new report claims. It has not been made clear exactly what happened between Schofield and Holly Willoughby to put their relationship on the rocks, although reports claim Willoughby was “deeply [...]

Russell set to join Pollock after London meetings with Matchroom

Russell set to join Pollock after London meetings with Matchroom

Jeremy King: My honest thoughts on The Ivy £1bn sale

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