Moment Lewis Capaldi reveals he unfollowed Rangers daft star
Grado grilled Lewis on why he unfollowed him on X, he said: "I believe you followed me on Twitter that night. However, I don't know if I should bring this up."
"Because this has got to me for years and years and years. But months later I checked on Twitter."
Lewis made a triumphant return to the Glastonbury stage this year (Image: Newsquest)
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Lewis finishes the sentence for him, asking: "Unfollowed?"
Grado responds glumly: "Aye."
Lewis apologised: "Sorry, I don't know what's happened."
Grado pleaded with Lewis for an answer for the snub: "Was it a mistake? Was it something that I tweeted?"
Before Lewis jokingly revealed the reason while laughing: "I found out you were a Rangers fan."
The whole room bursts into laughter at the usual cheeky remark from the global superstar.
Lewis tries to make amends by saying he'll follow Grado back, but before the offer is accepted Adele drops the Two Doors Down star in it.
Adele said: "No, Grado unfollowed you Lewis!"
Grado admits he was annoyed at the time, he said: "Oh, I spat out the dummy big time I was like 'he better not make it now.'
"He then went on to become the biggest, most streamed artist of all time so look where that got me!"
Moment Lewis Capaldi reveals he unfollowed Rangers daft star (Image: Supplied)
READ MORE: 'It's so good to be back': Lewis Capaldi returns to Glastonbury with secret set
Lewis has shot back into the limelight after a triumphant return to the Glastonbury stage in June.
The musician, who announced a break from touring shortly after his performance at the festival in 2023, performed an emotional set on the same stage he had to leave that year.
The musician announced he was taking time off shortly after performing at the festival in 2023 due to vocal issues, anxiety and his Tourette's syndrome.
Since his return, he's released a new single and a UK tour as he phases back into playing in front of adoring crowds.
Lewis is set to perform at the Hydro on September 13 and 14 as part of his UK tour.
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Glasgow Times
38 minutes ago
- Glasgow Times
Lewis Capaldi reveals Glasgow moment 'he knew he was famous'
Lewis made the admission while appearing on the Heart Scotland breakfast show, hosted by Des Clarke, Adele and Grado, on Friday morning, August 15. Grado probed Lewis on the moment he made the big time, and was given a hilarious answer by the singer. Lewis made a triumphant return to the Glastonbury stage this year (Image: Newsquest) READ MORE: Moment Lewis Capaldi reveals he unfollowed Rangers daft star READ MORE: Lewis Capaldi opens up on 'heartwarming couple of weeks' Lewis gave an unexpected response, he said: "When I was allowed to pee in a Sainsbury's bathroom." Adele queried: "A staff one?" Before Lewis told the rest of the funny tale: "A staff one! "Sorry, yes. But I was on a pub crawl with my pals in Glasgow, and I was bursting. "And I ran into Sainsbury's, and I was like, 'I'm really sorry is there any chance I can use your bathroom?' "And they were like, 'are you Lewis Capaldi?' and I go, 'if you want me to be yeah.' "And he's like 'yeah, sure get in here!" Grado asks Des if he thought the pair would get the same treatment, and he declares, "No chance!" Lewis was on the Heart Scotland breakfast show (Image: Supplied) READ MORE: Lewis Capaldi plays secret set at Glastonbury 2025 In another funny, awkward moment on the breakfast show, Grado grilled Lewis on why he unfollowed him on X, he said: "I believe you followed me on Twitter that night. However, I don't know if I should bring this up." "Because this has got to me for years and years and years. But months later I checked on Twitter." Lewis finishes the sentence for him, asking: "Unfollowed?" Grado responds glumly: "Aye." Lewis apologised: "Sorry, I don't know what's happened." Grado pleaded with Lewis for an answer for the snub: "Was it a mistake? Was it something that I tweeted?" Before Lewis jokingly revealed the reason while laughing: "I found out you were a Rangers fan." The whole room bursts into laughter at the usual cheeky remark from the global superstar. Lewis tries to make amends by saying he'll follow Grado back, but before the offer is accepted Adele drops the Two Doors Down star in it. Adele said: "No, Grado unfollowed you Lewis!" Grado admits he was annoyed at the time, he said: "Oh, I spat out the dummy big time I was like 'he better not make it now.' "He then went on to become the biggest, most-streamed artist of all time, so look where that got me!"
The Herald Scotland
an hour ago
- The Herald Scotland
Darren McGarvey on the state we're in, and his secret relapse
Darren says that night in Central Station was the last moment of a relapse into substance abuse that never became public. He was appearing at events espousing the principles of recovery and healing but in private was in the grip of a relapse. He remembers buying over-the-counter painkillers from lots of different chemists, he also remembers the codeine high wearing off and working out how soon he could get more. By the end of the week, he was taking paracetamol and ibuprofen together, his digestive system was in meltdown, and he decided the best way to cope was to take up smoking again and use laxatives. Next came nausea, headaches, his weight plummeted and yet he couldn't see he was in trouble. He couldn't see he was in danger. I ask him how he navigated that difficult period as a public figure who had famously 'recovered'. 'It began as 'it's just over-the-counter pain killers' so you can still be compos mentis. I wasn't drinking and it wasn't crazy cocaine use. But it was when I tried to stop and I was experiencing withdrawals which are quite difficult when you're coming off opiates. So that can go on for a while and you minimise it and you don't think it's a big deal and instead of letting people know I was struggling, I decided to try to mastermind my own detox.' Darren rose to prominence as rapper Loki (Image: Newsquest) The obvious question is why he wasn't letting people know. 'If I'd told them, they would've known I'd been dishonest and no one wants to be found out for that,' he says. 'I carried a lot of shame, and I had a book coming out and I didn't want to worry people. There was a part of me that thought I can't tell anyone because they're going to hit the stop button and writing that book was f*****g hell, in lockdown, my kids were so young. The crux of it is I wasn't engaging with my recovery, I wasn't in a group doing the stuff that I know keeps me well, so it's 100% my responsibility that I relapsed.' The last moment of the relapse, in Central Station, was as grim as it gets. 'I only drank for one night but what happens if you're an alcoholic is when you drink, your mind wants to drink at the level you were always drinking at before and your body doesn't have a tolerance for that so you get sick really quickly. It was a painful reminder that my real battle is beyond class-politics and careers and all of that. I'm one of those people who if I don't stay well, I'm at risk of dying from this stuff.' Some of this struggle is in Darren's show at the Fringe, which is part lecture, part rap, part funny, part deeply uncomfortable. But the reason I'm feeling a bit awkward over the story about Central Station and whether he should be telling me and whether I should be telling you is because the show, and his new book, talks about the price that he, and other people, have paid for being open about their trauma; he also talks about the part the media plays in it. The expectation – and we're doing it right now in the café in Edinburgh – is, or was, that Darren tells people like me his stories of poverty and addiction and I tell you and we're supposed to learn something from it. But Darren is fed-up with the expectations. In one of the pivotal moments of his show, he points at himself, his public self. 'The man standing before you today,' he says, 'is not me.' Darren knows there are contradictions at work here. The mission of his show and his book, Trauma Industrial Complex, is to warn about the dangers of oversharing your life and traumas on TV, online, wherever. But the 41-year-old is also aware of the paradox it sets up in his life: the fame and success he's achieved came about in large part because he shared his traumatic stories and he knows, to his frustration, that the continuation of the fame and success depends in large part on him continuing to share the trauma. He sometimes feels, he says, like an artist waking up one morning to find he's trapped in his own drawing. Darren's book, and the show, is a response to all of that. At one point in the show, he has his head in his hands and says he isn't cut out for life: 'Why does everything feel so hard?' he says. Later – the lights on his face spelling out one word: TRAUMA – he reels off, rap-style, incidents from his childhood in Pollok with his alcoholic mother, including one of the most infamous from his book Poverty Safari: 'My mother is annoyed because I won't go to bed. She walks into the kitchen and takes a knife from the drawer…' He asks the audience if we're feeling uncomfortable but says that's too bad and he will not wrap things up with a nice little TED Talky ribbon because the truth, he says, is that is 'not how trauma f*****g works'. Read more Darren says quite openly that some of this is a performance – it was his performances, as the rapper Loki, that got him noticed in the first place – but the reason he got noticed, and the reason he's been such a success, is that the performance is based on truth: he really is struggling with who he is. As his success grew, he says, the people he interacted with became gradually less representative of where he grew up and more representative of the spheres he'd spent his youth calling out and criticising. It's caused issues for him and raises questions about class: which class he is, how it affects him, how it affects us all. 'I came to prominence as a sort of rabble rouser,' he says, 'or someone who'd get in your face whenever I expressed passion. Then as the years went on, I was in recovery for a while, that all kind of toned down a bit and I started to experience almost feeling shunned by my original community as a result. I'm also aware that in some sections of the Left, in Scotland certainly, I've kind of fallen out of favour as a result of being successful or working with the BBC and all these things that really put a mark against you. I started to feel like I was someone who didn't belong anywhere.' Because it comes up a lot in his work, I ask him if he feels like he still belongs in the working class. 'Well, I live in East Kilbride round the corner from a Greggs and three off-sales and four chippies and we've stayed where we were before all of this happened. My wife is an academic, we have an espresso machine, so if these are the trappings of a more middle-class lifestyle, then absolutely, I've changed classes in terms of the economics. But I can still feel that my intuitions, in terms of the political temperature, or my understanding of how our economy is structured, it's still very much of the Left and I would say working class.' He also believes society is still self-evidently hard for the working class and the poor and is getting harder. 'The UK is a basket case, politically, economically, it just is,' he says. 'This country is for rich people to get rich. Every single day a company based in the UK posts £5bn profit while we've turned the department of work and pensions into a low-rent FBI to snoop on people's bank accounts. That is not happening anywhere else in Europe because we're trying to claw back money form the weakest people in society, because we have empowered rich people so much that we can't do anything but hold a begging bowl out to them. 'Please create some low-paid jobs, please don't leave'. And the UK is distinct in that because there's much more balance between neoliberal economics and a social contract all over Europe. In this country, people are getting shafted.' McGarvey has been performing at the Fringe (Image: Newsquest) Darren says he can also see, and feel, the effects of class inequality in his own field: the arts. You may have seen his post on X the other day questioning why he wasn't included in the programme of the Edinburgh Book Festival and he stands by it. Working-class performers and writers such as him, he says, are effectively excluded from the festival because they aren't part of the middle-class network that feeds it. It's a stitch-up against the working class, he says. The other thing that bugs him is what look like nice middle-class solutions to largely working-class issues: trauma and social inequality, he says, are deeply intertwined so the solutions aren't easy. Take public policy on drugs for example and specifically The Thistle, Glasgow's controversial safe consumption facility; I don't know why but I expect him to be supportive of it but he isn't. 'I suspect a lot of good work will be done at The Thistle and it will be saving a lot of lives,' he says, 'But for a lot of folk it will be prolonging misery when if we had rehab more available, people could go in and try to get into a rehab and get sober. I think we suffer from the bigotry of low expectations in the drug sector because resources are so stretched, we say that recovery, complete sobriety, is beyond certain people because they're too chaotic. But part of the reason they're too chaotic is because the services are in shambles. They're doing the best they can but the key ingredients to make a real dent in the drug crisis, they're just not available because economically the UK is f****d.' He's equally sceptical about legalising drugs. Again, I tell him I'm quite surprised by his opinion and he laughs. 'We're curious creatures, addicts. It's because I know the appetite for drugs is out there. So you'd have safer drugs, and you'd maybe get an economic dividend from the sale of drugs going back into the economy, but we can't even divert money from minimum pricing back into services. So could we do it with vending machines for valium?' But at least legalisation would steer people away from dealers and crime, I say. 'The dealers will undercut everything that's available,' he says. 'Think how persistent they've already been – the police don't even go after them. So yes, you'll steer some people away, but you'll also open a new population to the idea that 'well, drugs must be safe because it's legal'. That's not a blanket against legalisation, but in Scotland, this time, right now, it wouldn't work.' The book may surprise many readers (Image: Contributed) As Darren admits himself, some of these views might seem curious for a guy with his history, but that's the way it is: it's complicated. His political views are still of the Left but one of the things that seems to have driven a wedge between him and some former political comrades is that he talks about the role of personal responsibility in navigating poverty and addiction and he stands by it: 'If there was a service to meet every need, you couldn't get an alcoholic to stop unless they decide,' he says. He was also one of the most prominent supporters of Scottish independence but has a dim view of the current version of the SNP: 'a bunch of caretakers'. What's also complicated, in the end – and this is what his show and book is really about – is who exactly Darren McGarvey is now. There's all the stuff about class and his upbringing, but he lists some of his other identities: male, white, heterosexual, Catholic, addict, introvert, artist, househusband, father (to a boy and a girl), gym-bro and prolific daytime napper – these are also facets of him, he says, but are never telegraphed with the same intensity as his class. He also says there's a lot in his childhood that was positive: his father's resilience as a single parent, his awesome aunties and uncles, the long hot summers. But again: none of that is part of the public story in the way his trauma is, and it's not just the media that's done that, it's Darren too. The problem, as Darren says in his book, is that people want the tidy story arc: how bad it got, what we learned, where we are now, a neat beginning, middle and end that ruffles few feathers, but Darren's story isn't that and never was. He says he's nowhere near as 'recovered' as he'd like people to believe. He rails against the burdens of being a public face of poverty, addiction and trauma and yet doesn't know who or where he'd be without it. Even the anger isn't what it was; he's much more cautious, he says, about wading into the wars online; much better to stay at home and enjoy some of his other identities that don't get as much publicity. Read more But here's some anger from Darren to end with, for old time's sake. It emerges when I ask him for his take on the UK, our politics, our relationship with alcohol, the state of the place. 'We're leading the field in all the wrong areas,' he says. 'You're in the Netherlands or France, Germany, Italy, the wine's out, but people aren't falling about the streets, there's not someone in psychosis every hundred yards along the road. There's something corroded about the UK. Transport, politics, media. You land at Edinburgh Airport, or Heathrow, and you feel your butt clenching as soon as the plane hits the tarmac. The emotional signature of this country is so much more unpleasant. You feel it on the roads, you feel it on the buses, you feel it everywhere, and it's because our public services were sold to the highest bidder 30 years ago.' He stops and gives me one example: 'In Amsterdam they're building little staircases to help cats climb out of canals. Here, we're fishing human faeces out of the rivers.' Which isn't the neat ending some of us might want, and it certainly isn't tied up with a nice TED Talky ribbon. But it is the authentic Darren McGarvey, or one of them. Trauma Industrial Complex by Darren McGarvey is published by Ebury Press and is out now.
Daily Mirror
10 hours ago
- Daily Mirror
EastEnders confirms Sharon Watts' return in explosive new trailer - and she's not alone
EastEnders has sent fans wild with a new trailer confirming two legendary characters will be back on the Square very soon as they tease plenty of drama ahead... BBC has sent fans wild with a new EastEnders trailer, which confirms the return of two legendary characters. Viewers have been questioning when Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) would be making a return to the soap after she left before Martin Fowler's funeral. Leaving off screen, it was announced that she had gone off to visit Michelle in Australia, after struggling with the aftermath of Martin's death. Now, a rare trailer has confirmed Sharon will be back on screens soon, as well as Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan). Zoe made her shock return to the soap earlier this year during Ben Wadey's debut episode, but quickly fled to Barcelona after a close run in with mother Kat. Alfie then went off to try to find her, but unfortunately failed. It looks like she'll be making her return to Albert Square soon, however, and fans can't wait. In the trailer, Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace) can be seen applying her signature red lipstick in the mirror, as her daughter Zoe can be seen getting out of a black cab. Halfway through, a small clip of Sharon standing under an umbrella with Patrick appears, as well as another with Freddie and Stacey standing laughing together. The drama picks up by the end of the snippet, as Kat and Zoe finally come face to face - leaving Kat looking stunned. The exact date of the pair's return hasn't been confirmed yet, but with a trailer being released, we can expect it to be very soon. Fans are overjoyed to see the duo back on the Square, as they took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to celebrate. "so much to unpack here, Zoe, SHARON, cinematic trailers being back," penned one excited fan. "Kat and Zoe!! and Sharon's back!!!" exclaimed another, while another nostalgic fan said: "Omg an Eastenders trailer are we in 2008!!!" "The return of Sharon's 2018 weave omg!!" said another, noticing her new hairstyle. "Flawless classic Eastenders trailer. The best show on television is back!!!" another tweet read. As well as Sharon and Zoe's return, the BBC soap have confirmed the return of a handful of other legendary characters. Max Branning, Ben Mitchell, Stuart Highway and Anthony Trueman will all be making their way back to the Square anytime soon... EastEnders airs Mondays to Thursdays at 7:30pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
