Melanie Blake

Multi SundayTimes Bestselling ‘Bonkbuster’, ‘Erotic fiction’ author & Playwright📚in 9 languages. Ex celeb agent/manager/PR. Lawyers

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

Quick shout out to my vile English teacher. From 11 - 15 she slagged everything I wrote off & told me ‘the only thing you’ll be writing are labels on factory boxes’. Teachers would never get away with that now, but back then they loved to put you down. So if you’re reading this🖕🏻

[TMZ @TMZ]

A UK celeb accused of sexual misconduct is fighting to keep his name SECRET, citing self-harm risk.

If accusers get anonymity, should he? 🤔

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@andrewjwalker11 Jlo x

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

Surprised this is got getting more of a reaction … you need to listen to the link attached to it - it proves some very dark girl back vibes ….

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

Here’s an example that back up for some of the teases from my #TopOfTheDays posts - you know the ones nutters jump on saying ‘oh she never saw that’ - err yes I did - up close & personal - I saw the entire Destiny’s Child saga - every line up change & hell of a lot of drama! 👇

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

The movie is amazing …

[Lorenzo @lorenzofl0w]

Liberace's chauffeur sued him for $113 million. He settled for $95,000, three cars and three dogs.

Scott Thorson was 22 when Liberace dismissed him in 1982. He said he had been the pianist's live-in lover for five years. His lawsuit asked for $113 million in palimony.

Liberace denied it. In 1984 depositions he insisted Thorson was never his lover.

The case ended out of court in 1986. Thorson said later that he settled because he knew Liberace was dying.

Liberace said Donald Trump once stopped him from buying a fur coat to get him a better price. In the video below, he talks about his six homes on The Tonight Show in 1986.

He died on February 4, 1987, at 67. His press agent said anemia, emphysema and heart disease. The coroner said it was pneumonia linked to AIDS, and that the doctor had given a false cause.

At his death he was said to be worth $110 million. $88 million went to his foundation for scholarships.

The case for Thorson. Five years at Liberace's side, and he left with a tiny slice of what he asked for.

Do the math. He asked for $113 million. The $95,000 in cash was less than 0.1% of that.

Thorson asked for $113 million and got three dogs. The scholarship fund got $88 million.

Did Thorson settle for too little, or was he paid more than a denied claim was worth?

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

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[Simon Sheridan @SJASheridan]

The beautiful Tivoli Cinema in Cheltenham has a permanent display of classic movie posters on its walls, including this 1972 beauty!

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

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[Kv0r1n @Kv0r1n]

At 79, Debbie Reynolds, the star of Singin' in the Rain, still played nightclubs 42 weeks a year. In 2011 she cried in an auction room as her costumes sold for $22.8 million to pay her debts.

The top lot was the dress Marilyn Monroe wore over a subway grate. She said she paid $200 for it.

She had started buying in 1970, when MGM, her own studio, auctioned off its costumes. Reynolds, then 38, has said she raided her bank accounts to keep bidding. "They literally threw away our history, and I just got caught up in it," she told The Hollywood Reporter.

In 1992 she and her third husband, Richard Hamlett, bought a Las Vegas hotel and showed the collection there. When they divorced in 1996, a Las Vegas judge awarded her about $8.9 million, including money she said he had borrowed. He appealed.

In July 1997 she and the hotel filed for Chapter 11, and the costumes went into storage. Her next museum, in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, lost its construction lender and filed for bankruptcy in 2009. She later said she had asked the Academy five times to take the collection, and was turned down each time.

Days before the sale she walked the Golden Globes' press past the racks. She had worked 45 years on the collection, she said, and wanted it kept together for a museum. "But it's not meant to be."

On June 18 the $200 dress sold for $4.6 million to an unnamed phone bidder.

She died in December 2016, one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher. In 2021 the Academy opened its own film museum in Los Angeles. It cost $482 million.

Be honest. Was saving Hollywood's wardrobe ever the Academy's job, or only hers?

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@grok Ok cool just wanted to know if you liked it!

[Jessrocks❤️🇬🇧 @Jessrocks71]

Good morning ❤️

A wonderfully lighthearted interview here with the great, Kenneth Williams.

Have a lovely day everyone 🤗xx

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@mradknight 🤦‍♀️ 😬 his loss babe xx

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

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[Wild Clips @JCFights]

A husband left a video call running so he could watch his exhausted wife sleep after a long day of work. Instead, he heard another man’s voice and watched in shock as the man climbed into bed and held his wife. While he was home taking care of their children, she appeared to be with someone else

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@Sharontweet @Michael54055812 @emmerdale @Emmerdale2dae @thismorning @TheTateDynasty @TellyChat1 @Char_Tutton @The_Mac_Sheep Get that knife Kim! She had it coming!! Xx

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@RichardGorbutt I SO found that in my career where I’ve mixed with global A listers, household and newbies. The ones you’d expect to be nightmares and the ones you’d expect to be full of joy & excitement at getting their moment were the divas / and the ones in the middle pure angels or devils! X

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

More Cilla stories coming in shall I share … 350,000 views and counting …. And I barely said a word. ..

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

I used to go the IVY in the 90’s when it was THE place be. Somehow I often ended seated near Cilla and her best mate the lovely Dale Winters & Paul Grady. I’ll save the stories for the book but let’s just say from when I could I hear her saying I wished she had sat in silence 😬

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@DianeWe35390133 Well stocked !

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

They’re late to the party! Had one since the Chelsea home invasion & before that had a mini one for supplies etc when we were in lockdown & panic shoppers went crazy. I’ve got a a fabulous panic room now, doubling for break ins & doomsday retreat for🧟‍♀️..

https://t.co/kUhnSs017D

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@andrewjwalker11 @Strombolli4 Tanya!

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

🤩 worth bunking off school for ….

[Did You See? @TvDidYouSee]

#OnThisDay 27 October 1986
#Neighbours made its UK debut at 13:25 on BBC1:
"Meet the neighbours and share the intrigues, passions and humour of the Robinson and Ramsay families and their bachelor neighbour, Des, in a new week-day serial set in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia."

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@andrewjwalker11 @Strombolli4 Do I ever ..

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@Kosmo100 😂

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

Wendy Crozier!

[c a m 🎃 @camjmes0]

It’s Jan Glover tormenting Kim upstairs at Home Farm.
#Emmerdale

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@andrewjwalker11 Just amazing - made lockdown almost bearable!

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

I re watched nearly all 800 eps (or close to that) during lockdown and it was not only better that i remembered - it was so ahead of its time and deserves so much more recognition than it gets.

[The Wyke Tyke 🏏⚽️🎧 @andrewjwalker11]

@MelanieBlakeUK 🥳🎂

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

@InaneGeek She’s amazing 🤩

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

If you google you’ll find she hated this song even though it was a massive hit - I love her version & I love Kim Wildes version too 🪩

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

Son: Dad, was disco really as good as everyone says?

Dad: Son, there was a time when a song could break your heart and make you dance at the same time. Listen to this.

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

What an amazing woman 👇

[Juzi @juzixbt]

In 1984 a 17-year-old girl was dragged off her bike by a serial killer who had already murdered at least 10 women. She survived by convincing him she could be his girlfriend, and 35 years later she sat in the front row and watched him die.

Lisa McVey was riding home from her night shift at a doughnut shop in Tampa when Bobby Joe Long pulled her into his car at gunpoint. He blindfolded her, tied her up and kept her for 26 hours.

"I remember pleading with God, whatever you do, just don't let him kill me," she said later.

She had already survived abuse at home, so she knew how to stay quiet and calm around a dangerous man. She talked to him softly and told him her father was sick and she was the only one who could take care of him. Under the blindfold she memorized everything she could, the name on his dashboard and the number of stairs up to his apartment, and she pressed her fingerprints all over his bathroom so police would know she'd been there.

After 26 hours he drove her back and let her out near the spot where he grabbed her. Her description led police straight to him.

In the video below Lisa, now a sheriff's deputy, talks about those 26 hours in a steady voice until she reaches the part where she begged God for her life.

"I'm a survivor, and a warrior. There's no victim here."

She became a cop because of him, and today she guards a middle school a few blocks from where he took her. In 2019 she watched Florida execute Bobby Joe Long, looked him in the eye and thanked him for picking her and not another girl who might not have made it out.

Why did a man who killed at least 10 women let this one walk away?

[Melanie Blake @MelanieBlakeUK]

Showbiz!

[pais @paisoaps]

Real television!! #AllMyChildren