Dreadful Spice Girls musical killed off by people telling others it was dreadful - official

Jennifer Saunders, who helped to create Viva For Seven Months Before The Empty Theatres Forced Closure, the Spice Girls jukebox musical, feels it was culled because of the press:

She tells the Bbc, "I felt there was a certain group of journalists who... were told by their editors to be nasty about it."

Saunders also thinks the world economic crisis was the blame for the show's failure, adding, "It came right at the recession time and I just thought it was unlucky in a way."

Unlucky. Journalists. World recession.

All those things.

Also, being a dreadful idea poorly executed doesn't help.

Newton's conclusions

Today's Bizarre is, if anything, even thinner than yesterday's holiday service: the second story is, erm, a single photo of French and Saunders dressed up as Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears.

Even Newton struggles to explain why she's placed a promotional picture for a clapped-out TV series as her second story, coming up with this:

FRENCH and SAUNDERS are keeping tabs on my Wino Watch campaign.

The comedy duo are back on TV next week decked out as AMY DECLINEHOUSE and BRITNEY SPEARS – and here’s how they look.

Yes, Victoria. But for your coverage of Amy Winehouse's addiction problems, it's unlikely French and Saunders would have heard of her.