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Broadcaster | Columnist | Canalboat Captain | IG:missnicolathorp | all views my own john @johnnoel .com she/her

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Nicola Thorp
6 years
An open response to an interview I was asked to do last week. Magazines like this constantly reduce women to what they eat. I am not a dress size. I am not a number on a scale. I am done with a media that profits from the insecurities of women. Wonder if they’ll print it?
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Nicola Thorp
2 months
You think dancing in a parade supporting a HIV charity is...embarrassing?
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Emma Webb
2 months
Can’t fathom people who think this is “cool” for a deputy PM rather than embarrassing
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
Piers, when you tweeted this it floored me. Yes you said it to my face - that hurt too - but then you broadcast it to 7 million of your followers. I got hurled with abuse and it sent me to a dark place. I beg you to use your platform more responsibly and with respect for others.
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Piers Morgan
6 years
Miss 'STOP OBJECTIFYING ME ON RED CARPETS!' @nicolathorp_
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
The people who clutched their pearls at the Will Smith slap had better be giving the same energy to the Fresh Prince of Wales.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
This is from 2016, so let's stop pretending that people didn't know what Tate was capable of, or that his 'cancellation' was a violation of his right to free speech.
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8 years
Big Brother’s Andrew Tate filmed beating women then making them count bruises in sick vids
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
I changed my mum’s autocorrect whilst we’re on holiday in Germany. She just texted this to the cat-sitter:
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7 months
We won. On all counts. For the last three years, Laurence Fox has held us responsible for the downfall of his acting career, his failure to become London Mayor and even the increasing cost of his car insurance. During my cross-examination, his barrister even suggested I was
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Nicola Thorp
1 year
Nice to see they brought two spare Camillas just incase
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Nicola Thorp
3 years
Perhaps the Churchill statue should stay indoors for his own safety.
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
A gentle reminder that Prince Andrew’s mistake wasn’t doing a BBC interview but engaging with sex traffickers.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
What’s the point of Queen Camilla’s patronage, or King Charles’ charity work if they can’t speak out against their own daughter-in-law being abused online and in print? I don’t care if you don’t like Meghan. This is beyond our opinion of an individual. It’s bigger than that.
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1 year
Prince Andrew is a disgrace. Pass it on.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Emotions got the better of me last night, but I won’t stand by and let hateful right wing rhetoric bring out the worst in us. The Home office processed only 4% of asylum applications this year. This is a Home Office crisis. No human being is illegal.
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
Now they’re ‘influencing’ us to take pills to make us taste ‘sweeter’ ‘You should always taste better than the next chick’?!?!? FACK OFF
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Nicola Thorp
8 months
If Diane hasn’t been offered a £120k advertising campaign for a fizzy rosé brand with the slogan ‘To Di For’ then what’s the point? #TheTraitors
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
I’ve been watering a fake cactus for two years
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
So Jeremy Clarkson had the gall to write an apology email to Meghan’s husband - not to her - on Christmas Day.
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2 years
Sarah Vine’s column today celebrating the PM wearing trainers vs her column from 2017 calling me ‘vacuous’ for my campaign to wear comfortable shoes at work 🙄
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Where is the @RoyalFamily statement on @JeremyClarkson ’s vile comments in his column? I thought the Queen Consort was outspoken on issues of misogyny? Will she distance herself from Clarkson…or just invite him round for dinner again? Their silence speaks volumes.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Stephen Bear is a convicted sex offender. He is on the register. Can we stop calling him a ‘reality star’ now?
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
Any company giving future employment to Laurence Fox, or providing him with a platform, does so with the complete knowledge that he is unequivocally, publicly and undeniably a racist. And they should probably re-read their own statements of 'solidarity' with the black community
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Andrew Tate’s *mistake* wasn’t showing his pizza box and giving away his location. It was his alleged rape and human trafficking.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Please note the right wing voices claiming that the terrorist petrol bomb attack on the migrant centre in Dover was caused because of ‘frustration’ at the migrant crisis. Rather than because of racist and xenophobic the hatred stirred up by themselves on Twitter.
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Nicola Thorp
1 year
William had 40 years to learn two lines and still read from a card that someone else held in front of his face. And people say the royals don’t work hard…
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
UPDATE: the magazine have requested that I delete my tweet. The PR company got in touch and asked me to “be a dear and take it down please”... BE A DEAR!!! Despite the fact I haven’t actually named any of them.
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
Think about the vulnerable lady in her 80s who has been locked in her house for four months and just wants to go to the shops to stretch her legs and buy a bakewell tart and live to tell the tale. Wear a mask. It's not for you. It's for her.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
So on the list of things that Meghan and Harry can’t do, but other Royals can do is: eat avocados, touch baby bump, spend Christmas alone, set up a company, talk about mental health, talk about mental illness, choose wedding flowers and… HOLD HANDS
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
Has Prince Andrew been tested or is he just gonna sweat it out?
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
So…when William condemns racism in the Royal Family it’s a good thing. (which it is) But when Harry and Meghan do it: never happened/total fantasy/malicious/RUINING the monarchy/treason/LIAR????
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
It’s just awful. It’s basically a fruit sweet...with secret sensual ingredient....cinnamon 🙄 Stop targetting women to pay $30 a month on a shitty product to CHANGE THE FLAVOUR OF THEIR VAGINAS YOU ABSOLUTE SHIT SHOW. And the influencers peddling this BS can do one.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
In light of tomorrow’s documentary release…just ask yourself where the negative press on William has been all these years 🤫 #HarryandMeghan
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
Also I just wanted to add - although perhaps I shouldn’t have to - that the reason I tweeted this last night in response to Piers saying the abuse he sends women online he would also say to their face. I don’t see how that’s any more noble.
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
Netflix should produce only factual content about the Royal Family, for the sake of their reputation.
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Nicola Thorp
3 years
...but you’re cool with Prince Andrew, huh?
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5 years
God bless my 61 year old mother and her new dictionary
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Nicola Thorp
3 years
Imagine fucking up your work/life/marriage/ENTIRE COUNTRY as much as Matt Hancock, but it’s your wife whose face is plastered all over the Sunday papers. Why the obsession with a woman’s stoicism rather than a man’s behaviour?
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
2/2 we are sick of having our outfits slagged off so you make money. We don’t dress for you. You said my outfit looked like toilet roll. Well I felt beautiful, and that’s all that matters. Who needs toilet paper when I can think of something else to wipe my arse with now instead.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Watch how people will twist this into Harry being at fault for speaking about getting physically attacked, rather than William being at fault for doing it in the first place.
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2 years
Prince Harry reveals he was physically attacked and knocked to the floor by his brother Prince William during a confrontation in 2019. The confrontation escalated because William called Meghan Markle “difficult, rude, and abrasive.”
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
Let’s just be clear. This ad focusses on changing the behaviour of men who have engaged in sexual assault, harassment, discrimination and violence. In this tweet, Piers condones this behaviour. For the likes. For the column inches. For the ego. For the love of god, stop him.
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Piers Morgan
6 years
I've used @Gillette razors my entire adult life but this absurd virtue-signalling PC guff may drive me away to a company less eager to fuel the current pathetic global assault on masculinity. Let boys be damn boys. Let men be damn men.
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4 years
Beans on toast is my comfort food. No baked beans at the supermarket. Just a mystery tin on an empty shelf...
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
Snake Rock making Anne Hegerty feel better by asking her to do a quiz for them is the kind of friendship we all need #ImaCeleb
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
‘Silence is betrayal’ hit me in the feels
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Prince Harry tells @andersoncooper he was the target of press leaks after private conversations with members of the Royal Family.
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Nicola Thorp
3 years
Why👏🏻haven’t👏🏻they👏🏻held👏🏻a👏🏻palace👏🏻investigation👏🏻into👏🏻Prince👏🏻Andrew’s👏🏻conduct👏🏻
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
I know you get so much abuse too and that’s not ok either. I just ask you to show empathy and compassion for those less equipped or experienced to deal with it mentally. There’s a vulnerable human inside everyone you drag...except the vegan sausage roll, I hope x
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Nicola Thorp
4 months
The Mayor of Birmingham does not exist. The Lord Mayor of Birmingham is Chaman Lal - his Sikh family were British/Indian army officers during the Second World War, his uncle sadly lost his life in the Burma campaign. The Mayor of Leeds does not exist. The Lord Mayor of Leeds
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
She really should’ve thought about growing her baby somewhere more discreet.
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Have you noticed how Meghan Markle ensures her baby bump takes centre stage?
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6 years
Farewell, Patrick. @connor9mcintyre
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Nicola Thorp
7 months
I want to say a big thank you to our legal team, Patron Law for their professionalism and support for the past three years. To our barristers, Beth and Lorna for their outstanding work under difficult circumstances. To Nikesh who gave up work in order to show up to court every
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
Show yourself you utter excuse of an ‘editor’. Claim your work. I hope you’re proud of yourself. You’re the reason our nieces and daughters and friends are suffering from low self esteem and eating disorders. You perpetuate this BS. P.S. THERES NO SUCH THING AS A REVENGE BODY
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That’s the meanest thing I’ve ever seen. @celebsnow ...
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@Gracie_M1984 Because he was suing me and I won
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
I hope all the body language ‘experts’ falling over themselves to analyse Meghan Markle as she viewed flowers at Windsor are going to do the same for Prince Andrew.
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Prince Andrew 🤢🤮
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
To be clear, Meghan Markle didn’t compare herself to Nelson Mandela. Someone ELSE referenced Mandela as part of an anecdote about the joy of seeing a woman of colour become a royal. But a fake headline is more clickable than a boring truth.
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
If they’re not obsessed with tasting you then maybe you should try out someone who is.
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
She’s never been shy of publicity. She’s been critical of bullying and misrepresentation in the media. Which you guys have so aptly demonstrated.
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Nicola Thorp
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I’m asking - in English - what does ‘visibly born and bred here’ mean?
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You can play PC games. I'll stand up for women As someone who lived in Ghana, Kenya, India, China, worked in Cameroon, Nigeria, speaks French, Italian and some Twi, you aren't going to be successful playing the racist card against me I'm afraid this response is in many
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Meghan Markle has been treated with prejudice by much of the British Press since day one. In this clip, @JJAnisiobi and I ask…why? @TalkTV @TheTalkUK
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
U ok Hun?
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Piers Morgan
6 years
A true heroine of our times. Bravo @nicolathorp_ - absolutely disgusting that a magazine dared to politely ask you harmless diet & food questions. Quite right that you should turn this into a huge martyrdom thing to promote yourself as the new Emmeline Pankhurst. 👏👏👏
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The Fiji water girl is every actor who has done a promo job for crappy money under the false promise of it being an opportunity for ‘exposure’. And she is winning. #GoldenGlobes2019
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
My thoughts on worst-dressed lists, the toxic, sexist language used in red carpet press reports and why it all needs to stop. Please give it a read.
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Nicola Thorp
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Lots of storm chat happening so please spare a thought for me as I literally batten down the hatches on my narrowboat home and pray I wake up in the same postcode tomorrow morning.
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
Thanks to the cast and crew and everyone at Coronation Street for making the cobbles feel like home this past year. I’m lucky to call you my friends. Thanks to the audience and fans for all the love and support. From this Nicola (and the other one) see you later, Weatherfield.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
You can get rid of an 80-year-old woman, but the system’s not going to change. Racism within the culture and structure of the Royal Family needs to be addressed.
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5 years
There’s something so pure about ‘Will you though’
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Fascinating interview with Harry. The very reasonable and nuanced way in which he assesses several situations that have been so polarised by the press was very humanising. And the same issues will sadly be further polarised by the tabloids as we speak.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Loving Meghan Markle’s podcast and her interrogation of female stereotypes. It’s because of women like her - who object to female objectification - that girls will hopefully be praised on their ability, not their looks.
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"You do sign up knowing what the job entails but that doesn't mean we can't hope for a better future." Meghan Markle has said she quit being a 'Deal or No Deal' briefcase girl because she felt 'objectified'. @nicolathorp_ | @JJAnisiobi | @daisymcandrew | @TVKev | @thejamesmax
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Another passage from Jeremy Clarkson’s column that is steeped in misogyny. To suggest that a woman’s influence over a man is based on what she does in the bedroom is deeply sexist and just plain gross. And still no word from the palace? Silence is compliance.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
When will white people understand that their white friends probably won’t be racist to them.
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
Dear Teenage Girl, It’s ok if you leak. It happens to all of us. I’m 29 and sometimes I still wake up with my bedsheets looking like a crime scene. Don’t be embarrassed. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. I wish I could say this to teenage me. #honestperiod #freeperiods
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
Tier 4 has completely scuppered my plans to learn how to drive. The blame lies solely on the pandemic and not at all on 15 years of procrastination.
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Internet, do your thing. Can anyone identify these scumbags?
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george
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Two Sheffield Wednesday fans after they played Sunderland last night… Ban them for life.
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Nicola Thorp
8 months
The British public deserve full transparency over the Met police’s decision not to further investigate the allegations made against Prince Andrew. What exactly is the threshold that needs to be met in order to call the Prince in for questioning?
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Nicola Thorp
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I told you there would be blood #corrie
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
Tell 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 stories 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 women 👏🏻 who 👏🏻 died 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 men 👏🏻 who 👏🏻 killed 👏🏻 them
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Instagram just removed a video of mine within minutes because it included music by the Beatles. It’s been 6 months since I reported a guy who threatened to rape me in my DMs and they’ve done absolutely nothing. If only they cared as much about sexual violence as they do royalties
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
At least Harry and Meghan are up for interviews with the US. Prince Andrew hasn’t been so forthcoming.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
I don’t see how any of this information is necessary when they have no concrete evidence of what happened to Nikki. A shameful PR spin at the expense of a victim’s reputation and dignity. #NicolaBulley
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Nicola Thorp
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Trying to figure out what part of that coronation was slimmed-down?
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
This is my Mum dancing. This is my Dad holding her handbag. This is love.
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
So-called journalist @trayfabmag tells a 17 yr old to ‘flash a bit of flesh’ then apologised for not knowing her age. She won Best Young Actor, do your research. And your comments would be acceptable if she was over 18, would it? I’m sick of this bullsh*t. And another thing.. 1/2
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
The Royal family have multiple press teams with numerous staff whose job it is to act as a mouthpiece for their principle, yet most tabloid stories come from an unnamed ‘source’?
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Nicola Thorp
5 years
Then he seems to have lost touch with reality and needs a taste of his own medicine.
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Nicola Thorp
3 years
Why is Prince Andrew citing a prior agreement made between a convicted sex trafficking paedophile and one of their victims as a potential reason why he should not face trial? There should be more outrage over this than there is.
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Context for the Harry Afghanistan quote
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For those who don’t like 🧵:
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
I’m seeing a lot of class-shaming of Primark shoppers today. Maybe just take a minute to think about all those amazon deliveries you’ve depended on for the last few months before casting judgement.
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Can I still blame my lack of love life on the pandemic or is it back to my personality again?
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I see Prince Andrew is doing the ‘honourable’ thing by using a dead paeophile’s contract to try and escape sexual assault charges.
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Nicola Thorp
2 years
Imagine saying you want your recently ill, widowed 95-year-old grandmother to have the right people around to look after her and suddenly everyone loses their mind.
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Nicola Thorp
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And in the #HarryandMeghanNetflix doc, she addresses the fact that she wore white/neutral colours so as not to upset the apple cart by wearing the same colour as senior royals.
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Yeah. Down with white clothes! Bloody Meghan wearing them to parties sometimes. Who does she think she is, John Travolta?
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Nicola Thorp
4 years
But they weren’t creating segregated work spaces. They created a safe space for Black employees to be able to talk about trauma resulting from events surrounding BLM. That was separate to the working environment and there if they wanted to use it.
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
What a cliffhanger! #corrie bring on tomorrow
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6 years
You have one glass of red after a long day at work 🙄
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Nicola Thorp
6 years
1. All men are real. 2. A pair of legs and an arse isn’t a real woman. 3. Dating isn’t a sport. 4. Wearing perfume doesn’t entitle you to sex. 5. Nothing entitles you to sex. 6. Stop staring at her fanny you amphibious pervert. 7. Joop are shit.
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Timothy Beckett can kiss my savoury ass
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