Oh Danny Boy

Now, as you know, Danny John-Jules was on RI:SE a couple of days ago. The report on it started out as a news item, but grew far too big; so instead, read the article RI:SE and Shine. Hooray!

Next, an update on Craig Charles Fisticuffs News, nicked from Talkie on the BTLi forums. I’d be able to link directly to the story if Teletext’s TV Plus News had a way of accessing old news items. What a bloody stupid system. Anyway, check the forum thread for the full story; apparently, Darren Day has pulled out of the planned Celebrity Boxing show. Craig has refused to take on other opponents, “as people in the street said ‘Give him a slap for me'”, but he’s also complaining that “It would be funny if it wasn’t being done for charity. I was doing it for the Make-A-Wish Foundation for terminally ill kids” – you’d think if he cared that much, he’d be going ahead with it whoever his opponent was. Hmmm.

Finally, an apology. Recently we said that a piccy on the front page of www.reddwarf.co.uk was a screengrab of a deleted scene from Bodyswap. This is completely false, as this news item on the official site shows; it’s a photograph by Paul Grant. Perhaps not that important in the grand scheme of things – indeed, it might seem bloody stupid that I’m actually apologising for it – but it does go to show how dangerous it can be to speculate about things if you don’t clearly mark it as speculation. Besides, the picture is in the Series III images on the Image Bank anyway, so it was just stupid. I’ve got rather a bugbear of getting the facts on G&T absolutely correct – get things wrong once too often, and you lose all credibility. So: sorry. We’ll try harder in future. Ian’s Newsround will be up later today.