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What a week for comebacks. After five years, the mid-noughties’ most famous reality TV family, the Osbournes, have relaunched their podcast – which initially reminisced on their infamous MTV show, but is now more of a wide-ranging chat. Topics include Ozzy’s singing lessons, a potential relocation to England and a health update on Ozzy’s back problems, replete with the Black Sabbath singer’s characteristic turn of phrase. “I don’t know what the fuck [the doctors are] doing … all I know is right now I’m in a lot of pain, I’m in a lot of discomfort,” he says.
Another return to the spotlight occurred on Nick Robinson’s Political Thinking podcast, when Theresa May made a rare public appearance – with no shortage of headline quotes. Her Brexit negotiation? “A better overall deal” than Boris Johnson’s. The way some in the Tory party see social housing tenants? “Second-class citizens”. And the reason she got such short shrift in the press? The kind of media sexism that saw her framed as a “typically silly woman”. Although arguably, there may have been other reasons …
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