OOMPA LOOMPA KIRSTY PATERSON’S ONLY FANS REQUEST

SCOTS viral sad Oompa Loompa Kirsty Paterson has been inundated by requests to join Only Fans - wearing her now famous Wonka outfit. 

Kirsty, who became a global star after Glasgow’s disastrous Willy’s Chocolate Experience hit the headlines a year ago, revealed she’s become a fantasy figure amongst anime fans. 

She admitted: “I’ve been sent so many hand drawn pictures of me as an erotic anime figure and I’ve had loads of requests to join Only Fans.  People like the idea of me being naked apart from my green wig and I’ve had offers from some who want me to draw me live, as well as play with chocolate online. Others have foot fetishes and want me to march around like an Oompa Loompa.  It’s so funny but it’s not something I’m keen to pursue.”

The Bearsden talent admitted she’s had ‘the worst and best year of her life’ on the twelve month anniversary of the event. 

Billed as a “celebration of chocolate in all its delightful forms”, it left children in tears and was abruptly cancelled as police were called due to its ‘rip off’ prices, lack of props and dire AI script. 

Kirsty became ‘a viral meme’ in an unflattering green wig and brown outfit as she prepared jelly beans in what was described online as a ‘meth lab’. 

She was hunted down by Hollywood producers to star in her own sell out show at The Edinburgh Fringe, as well as events across LA and New York. 

Her meme also inspired celebrities including Chrissy Teigen, appearances on The Last Leg, Good Morning Britain, Studio 54 in New York, billboards in Times Square and a portrait in GOMA. 

As she celebrated her first anniversary with friends and special Oompa Calipso cocktails at Glasgow’s Tropical Cafe, the yoga instructor and fire eater turned actress admitted: “This has been a rollercoaster. The worst time of my life has also turned into the best time. I’ve achieved more in the last year than I could ever imagine in a lifetime but I’ve only just started processing it now.”

She added: “There has been a lot of self growth and I’ve got even bigger stuff coming out.”

She says she went through the full gamut of emotions as the story unwound. 

She said: “Initially it was really not great for everyone involved. People paid a lot of money and we never got fully paid. 

But I had opportunities and worked really hard to make it into something better.”

Event organiser William Coull was exposed as a sex pest, and Kirsty admitted: “I found it difficult when people put me in the same line as the organiser because my story is completely different. I met him once and feel a lot of empathy for anyone involved but I don’t really want anything to do with someone like that.”

As she returned from filming Stateside, a fire also devastated her family home.

She added: “The house fire tore my world apart. Everything I invested in, like cameras, was wrecked. I had no clothes and lived in a hotel for two months. It was very hard getting my life back on track. Luckily enough, the insurance paid out although we are still not back home.”

 She said: “The one thing that kept me going is making something of myself. I’m so proud I turned something so bad into something life changing. I can’t wait to show people my documentary of the real Kirsty Paterson and just make people smile again.”

Kirsty is currently wrapping documentary Pure Imagination from Emmy winning director Todd Bieber and his company Goodfire Productions. 

She said: “The documentary is positive but there’s also a lot of ups and downs. I think it will relate to people who have been through things. It is emotional and impactful. It’s going to go big places so we are very lucky.”

JAMES BLUNT MEETS GLASGOW BUSKER FRANCIS BONDD

Singer Francis Bondd couldn’t believe it when he met James Blunt on a walk near Glasgow’s OVO Hydro - and began serenading him on the squinty bridge. 
Francis, who also performs at the new Tropical Café in Merchant City, is a huge fan of James and a year ago in March  even wrote on his social media  ‘See you in Glasgow’. “ 
Francis, who is from Lagos in Nigeria, said he’s sometimes been compared to James vocally and couldn’t believe it when he just saw the star walking beside him as he was shooting some content for his new single.
He reckons their meeting was down to Divine Intervention. 

He said: “I’ve always loved James Blunt and my voice has been compared to his in the past. He has inspired me when I’ve been songwriting. When I saw him, I had to go and speak to him immediately and ran up to him and told him about my new single LOML which is out today. We walked the whole of the bridge together and I even played a bit for him. I then asked him if I could sing You’re Beautiful to him and he said yes so I did. He was so warm and the nicest guy on the planet. My video has now gone viral online.“
James says in the video: ‘Sweet man, it’s so lovely to meet you’ as he listens intently to Francis singing the famous chorus of his hit song.

For Francis, his meeting with James is proof that the universe brings people together and he says he now has his eyes set on bigger stages with an aim to play the Hydro himself one day.
He added: “Meeting him today, definitely, it made me know that the universe is aware of my hustle and that it's gonna happen. What you see is what you become. I saw myself meeting him, and I've seen myself selling out venues, selling out the OVO Hydro.”

SHAKIRA’S SCOTS GRAMMY WINNER

The writer and producer son of Scots panto star Allan Stewart is celebrating after his music with singing superstar Shakira won a Grammy.  
David Stewart, 34, produced and co wrote the song Punteria with Cardi B and Shakira, which was named the stand out track of her new award winning Latin Pop album  Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. 
His latest accolade comes after his massive track Dynamite for Korean boyband BTS,  which he co-wrote and produced in his bedroom at his dad’s London home. It also follows up on previous collabs with Shania Twain and the Jonas Brothers.
And David says the project with Shakira, was three years in the making. 
He exclusively told theshowbizlion.com: “Shakira flew me out to Barcelona two or three times to work on the song. It was the lead single off the album. We worked on it for three years on and off in a big studio in her house there, which was amazing. She's sensational. She's a pro. She knows everything about production, writing, the recording process and was very pernickety about every detail, every breath, which is what all the greats do. It was an amazing experience to work with someone of that caliber.” 

David was unable to make the awards , but says he is catching up with ‘Shak’ this week in LA, once the dust settles.” 
He laughed: “I mean, there's no point in texting someone who has 150 text messages coming through.”
David, who now lives between LA and London wrote his first song Bo’de’da aged five.
Glasgow born dad Allan, who also started writing songs at twelve before releasing his first single aged 16 with George Martin, recalled: “David came up with Bo’de’da and started playing drums on the couch. We recorded it and gave it to his gran and grandpa for Christmas. Then I got him a Gibson guitar, as my dad bought me one when I was 16. He then started writing songs at school on piano and learned how to produce there.” 
Having been a session drummer on the Simply Red Tour, David played guitar for Example in his twenties. 

Allan continued: “I thought that he was at the peak then, but little did we know that he was going to get to the levels that he's at now. I’m also incredibly proud of my daughter, a wonderful artist and singer and stunning looking girl. I've got two of the most unbelievably talented children.”
David initially tried to be an artist in his own right. Signed by Ludacris’s manager, he moved to Atlanta for three years and said: “It was amazing but I definitely stuck out like a sore thumb. And I was sleeping on sofas.” 
He said: “I'm still so grateful for it, because I did it for so long with no success and no one caring. I still close the door on my studio house in LA and think, Wow, I can't believe that that's mine.”
He recalled: “Before that I went on the road with Example for about five years, and saw him playing from 30 people to headlining arenas.”
“I put out a mixtape which featured me with Ed Sheeran, Example, Wretch 32 on it. Ed was nobody at the time but we became close friends because he lived on our tour bus for two years.”
Deciding he needed ‘more of a reliable living’ he started writing and producing for other artists. 
“My biggest weakness was that I didn't really kind of have one genre I stuck to. Now my biggest strength as a producer and songwriter is that I can lend my hands to different genres.”
Following a publishing deal with Sony London  and management in America, David got a Billboard hit with The Jonas Brothers song What A Man Gotta Do. Then he wrote BTS mega hit Dynamite during the pandemic. He smiled: “That was the one that really took me to the moon, I guess. That really swung the door open.”
Despite now bagging a Grammy, he insists : “I don't do this for money or accolades. I do it because I love doing it. Things like this are just a bonus. It looks lovely on my CV to say the word Grammy  though and, I'm sure there's a place on mantelpiece for it.”