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Gary Barlow not invited to PM’s celeb party
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 10 June 2014
David Cameron – the most Prime of all the Ministers – is planning a big celeb bash at Ten Downing Street to celebrate the great and the good and the very best indeed of Britain’s cultural industries. And Fearne Cotton.
But, and here’s the thing, while the invite list includes Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Craig and Emma Watson and Eliza Doolittle and Simon Cowell and Bryn Terfel and Katherine Jenkins, pop’s top Tory, the mainstream messiah of monarch magnifying musical merrymaking, Mr Gary Barlow, is not welcome. Oh no. Though to be fair to Cameron, as leader of the Conservative Party, he can hang out with tedious tax-avoiding cunts any day of the week. And this night is meant to be different.
Cameron’s Downing Street celeb-fest is already being compared to Tony Blair’s ‘Cool Britannia’ bash in 1997, that official wake for Britpop that confirmed, in case there had been any doubt, that mainstream politicians can extinguish ‘cool’ on sight. So Barlow might be the fortunate one by being exiled from this event. Tax dodging, it seems, is the new cool.
