Hannah Waddingham left viewers during the BAFTA TV Awards in hysterics with another meme-worthy moment, after missing out on the Entertainment prize. Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson scooped the award instead for her incredible role as Jaq in the Netflix drug dealing series. Not Hannah with the hip flask bracelet QUEEEN! Luckily the night ended on a happier note for Hannah, as she took to the stage to accept the prize for Live Event Coverage, for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Tweets included: ‘Hannah Waddingham drinking a shot out of a bracelet whilst Joe Lycett is dressed as Queen Elizabeth I in the background. Matthew Macfadyen won the Best Supporting Actor gong for his role in the hugely-popular series Succession. Following the loss, cameras caught Hannah drinking from a hip flask attached to her bracelet, sparking a flurry of reaction from fans watching the ceremony unfold. Elsewhere during the ceremony, The Crown star Elizabeth Debicki missed out on the Best Supporting Actress gong. It was a good night for Top Boy as the show also won in the Drama Series category – beating favourite Happy Valley, The Gold – https://www.backtoglamour.com/blog/2024/06/27/where-to-start-out-with-cubic-zirconia-jewelry/ – and Slow Horses. Later Top Boy won in the Drama Series category – where Happy Valley was widely expected to win. Hannah was praised by fans when she co-hosted the event in Liverpool last year, along with Alesha Dixon, Graham Norton and Ukranian star Julia Sanina, who was also in attendance for the ceremony. Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas, but lost out to BBC favourite Strictly Come Dancing.
Cheltenham revellers were snapped getting into the spirit of things yesterday – with some racegoers spotted chugging booze out of some rather interesting containers. Some drinkers were snapped openly quaffing from hips flasks, including one lady who drank from hers while watching the action from the stands. Those looking for something even more subtle could try out another nifty item – fake tubes of what look like sunscreen – but are also secret flasks. One woman was photographed drinking from a flask shaped like a hairbrush, while another, who appeared to be in the same group, opted for a flask shaped like a pair of binoculars. Mail Sport revealed earlier this week that racing fans were left reeling after Cheltenham bosses hiked the price of Guinness on the racecourse by 30p, making a pint £7.80. But for others, fake binoculars are hairbrush are impressive ways to avoid sky high drinks prices at events – but they are far from the only options when it comes to imaginatively-shaped flasks. A premium lager costs 40p less than a Guinness at £7.40, while the alcohol free version of the Irish stout is valued at the same price. And finally, there are also flasks which are shaped like cameras, but are in fact, empty, so that would-be revellers can fill them up with the tipple of their choice. Those who don’t want to tote a fake umbrella around with them may prefer another option – what looks like a neat little clutch bag. It isn’t the first time racegoers have been spotted using covert ways to bring their own drinks into the event. Wrapped in a sleeve and carried in a cardboard box which says tampons on it, so it looks just like one of the sanitary objects, the item is actually a small bottle – excellent for secreting drinks. Among the other options available for those keen to save money when attending events are flasks which look just like umbrellas – but are actually bottles. It came yesterday, during day two of the four-day racing event, which has faced some criticism from attendees over the cost of drinks. However, appearances are deceptive, and the small quilted silver purse is actually designed to secretly stash drinks. What looks like the handle of an umbrella is actually the bottle lid, and the body of the flask is concealed within what looks like an umbrella sleeve. 10 out of 10 for effort on this! A video from 2019 shows one woman also using a binocular-shaped flask as she took surreptitious sips of what was presumably an alcoholic beverage. Perhaps the most unexpected way to beat the high prices and sneak booze into an event comes in the form of a fake tampon. But these revellers got creative in order to avoid expensive drink prices at the racecourse, opting for their covert drinkware.
Meanwhile, a 330ml bottle of alcohol-free lager demands £4 of any wannabe slurpers.
The sneaky ways punters have been bringing drinks into the Cheltenham Festival come after attendees have complained about the prices of both alcohol and soft beverages. While Guinness costs £7.80 a pint, a ‘zero’ alcohol pint of Guinness sets back thirsty consumers to the tune of £7.40. Despite predicted record sales of Guinness this year, Cheltenham bosses have decided to increase the price of the popular bevarage by 30p, charging punters £7.80. The pricing has split opinion online, with some fun-seekers in uproar over ‘blatant profiteering’ while others insist it isn’t that bad. Wine lovers will be disappointed to find out that a 187ml costs £9.70, while the prices of spirits are kept between £7.20 and £7.30. The attack on non-alcoholic prices comes just a day after festivalgoers lambasted the regular alcoholic fares. Soft drinks are priced at £3.10, while sparkling or still water would cost £2.50 – a 10 pence increased compared to last year. Blatant profiteering as there’s no duty on 0.0,’ another said. £7.40 for a pint of black water,’ one commented, adding three laughing emojis. The 0% is taking the mick,’ one said. That’s not bad for an event,’ another added. Meanwhile, a 330ml bottle of alcohol-free lager demands £4 of any wannabe slurpers. Jeez these people complaining about £7.40 for a pint want to try a music festival or football match,’ one hit back. Give it 4-5 years and the alcohol industry will be finished and they’ll only have themselves to blame,’ added another. One fan shared a receipt for a round of four Guinness with Mail Sport, coming to the cost of £31.20. Guy Lavender, Chief Executive of Cheltenham Racecourse, said: ‘Despite being impacted by the rising price of goods and services in the current climate in exactly the same way that other industries and businesses are, the price of a pint at the Cheltenham Festival had not increased since 2022 until this season. But other thinkers insisted that such pricing was par for the course for a major event. When considering how to price food and drink we benchmark against comparable venues locally, while also factoring in any associated costs like temporary facilities and increased staffing to cater for significantly larger crowds.
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GENEVA, Nov 9 (Reuters) – A pair of diamond bracelets that belonged to France’s Queen Marie Antoinette sold at auction on Tuesday for 7.46 million Swiss francs ($8.18 million), several times the pre-sale estimate, Christie’s said. The buyer was bidding by telephone and not identified. Rahul Kadakia, Christie’s international director of jewelry who conducted the auction, told the Geneva saleroom that the bracelets had stayed in the family for almost 200 years. Marie Antoinette, who sent a letter from prison in the Tuileries in Paris saying that a wooden chest with jewels would be sent for safekeeping, was guillotined in 1793. Her surviving daughter Marie Therese, Madame Royale, received the jewels on her arrival in Austria, the auction house said. An Art Deco ruby and diamond bracelet, ordered by the Duke of Windsor from Cartier, and offered to his American wife Wallis Simpson on their first wedding anniversary by the man who gave up the British throne to marry her, failed to find a new owner. The bracelets, which were the property of a European royal family, had been expected to fetch $2 million to $4 million, Christie’s said before the sale. The hammer price was 6.2 million Swiss francs, but with commission the final price was 7.46 million Swiss francs, Christie’s spokesperson Alexandra Kindermann said. A blue velvet box bearing a label “bracelets of Queen Marie Antoinette” holds the double bracelets, each composed of three strings of diamonds and a large barrette clasp, for a total of 112 diamonds. The pre-sale estimate for the Duchess of Windsor bracelet was 1 million to 2 million Swiss francs, the auction house said.