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‘Pull up your pants, this isn’t Southend!’ Watching the ex Spurs manager and chums yucking it up by the genteel seaside will waste your time – and ruin Dorset’s beaches
‘I’m sweating my knackers off here,” said Joe Pasquale from inside improbably shiny medieval armour. It was dressing-up day at Corfe Castle, the Dorset fortress knocked up by William the Conqueror 1,000 years ago, knocked down by Oliver Cromwell in 1649 and today the site of a royal battle for a throne nobody in their right minds would want.
Both Pasquale and Harry Redknapp are kings of the jungle, each having won I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here. But which of them is the true king? Pretend you care. The matter could only be decided by the two reality show recidivists mincing around in costume holding toy swords while tourists held up phones to record the moment for posterity. Imagine two cockney muppets wading through treacle while trading under-scripted boy bants and you’ll get the gist. Continue reading...