Big Diva Energy

It’s starry but tardy this week, Divas!

In the spirit of Stephen Sondheim’s 90th Birthday Concert, Little Diva Energy is going up late due to technical issues. Apologies for that, but also - don’t worry - we’re still standing.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah…

This week’s LDE is bookmarked by two remarkable online concerts, as we learn ever more about what technology can (or cannot) provide us in the lockdown, and more and more about what the inside of celebrities’ houses look like. Lovely stuff.

Holly debuts her sliding scale of whether people can sing and can act as Holly & Tom review the Gaga-curated One World concert and Stephen Stondheim’s 90th Birthday broadcast. All of the stars, none of the gravity.

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Divas.

Just Stop It.

Everybody knows it’s a mother-fucking monster.

That’s right, for our tenth full-length, we’ve only gone and dropped the beginning of a multi-part deep-dive into the life and werk of reigning Queen of Rap, Nicki Minaj, with, none other than reigning Queen of Netflix, Rich Hawkins.

The hot takes that Rich has been serving you since Episode 1 of our bi-weekly round-up pod, Little Diva Energy, have been so damn scalding, we thought we’d just go ahead and give him his very own feature length bitch and, let me tell you, she do not disappoint.

Why y’all gagging so? She bring it to you every ball.

In Part I, Holly, Tom and Rich journey through Time & Space to Trinidad & Tobago in order to witness the birth of the Queen. They then take a leisurely tour through her family life, subsequent move to New York, several aborted attempts at early fame and the firing from - count ’em - 15 different jobs. All before the first mixtape drops.

Along the way, the trio delve into the mysterious and dangerous world of Nando’s Black Cards, Holly drops yet another obscure children’s TV reference and we introduce you to the diva you didn’t even know you were obsessed with: Kim Bell.

When I say Kim, you say…Bell.

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Celebrate, Divas!

Holly & Tom are breaking their self-imposed embargo on popular reality television program RuPaul’s Drag Race, as this week’s episode featured an unauthorised MADONNA MUSICAL!

Nine kweens, Burning Up the stage with nine eras of iconic Madonna looks and performances. So, Open Your Heart and Cherish the thoughts and feelings of two hardcore Madonna fans thanking their Lucky Stars they get to combine a chat about two of their favourite things.

There's some good Material, Girl.

Patti LuPone’s latest vid, Lady Gaga’s charitable works and Socialist Britney also get a look-in, but it really is all about the Queen of Pop this week.

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Once more with feeling, Divas!

Isolated in Diva Towers, Holly & Tom return to the scene of the crime, as Holly’s “Cabaret Wife"“, Cat Loud (there truly are three of us in this marriage.) joins them once again to chat all things Peggy Jones.

Join them as they reconvene at the point of Princess Margaret choosing the dashing, sexually-fluid AAJ (Anthony Armstrong-Jones) over an ALL (Actual Leg of Lamb), engage in a rundown of the Top 5 Moments in Which Margaret was Absolutely Appalling in a Social Situation and discover why it’s important to have Margarets as well as Elizabeths in these troubled times.

Along the way, we have a good long convo about The Archers falling behind on current affairs, Twiggy’s sassing at the hands of both Margaret AND America’s Next Top Model and stumble across a stunning new definition of the word “diva”.

Again, much of this week’s Marge content comes from the great Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. Buy it here.

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Going mad, Divas?

We are.

But here’s a little tonic (and lots of lovely gin): a Little Diva Energy for your nerve.

Rich has a good, old bitch, Chris has another coincidence for you and Holly & Tom dissect the week in Diva.

Britney’s come out as the Che Guevara of pop excellence, but Rihanna’s keeping her end up with charitable works (and casually calls everyone a cunt). Holly’s also discovered that a) the film Judy is rubbish and b) the X-Files is not.

Meanwhile, as we discover that Chromatica is being delayed, your hosts nervously await news if Gaga is a go-ahead and whether or not they’ll be taking her to Aldi.

Many thanks and a Big Diva welcome to new member of the BDE team, Katy Danbury, who is producing the shit out of the pod this week.

Be safe, Divas. Wash your hands. Stay inside. xx

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Genuflect Divas!

Despite social distancing we are very much in the presence of royalty and, in tribute to those still refusing to play by the rules of COVID-19, this week we’re covering the most irresponsible of them all: the truly fabulous - and often frankly abominable - Princess Margaret.

Like many out there, we have had to change our plans, so apologies to anyone who was looking forward to this week being all about the Williams Sisters (soon, Divas, soon), but one way or another we’ve got you a pod so fabulous we have to bring it twice.

Joining Holly & Tom for the next two episodes, via Skype (apologies for any sound issues), is indescribably brilliant friend of the pod and Holly’s cabaret-wife, Cat Loud (no apologies necessary).

Join the (house) party as we present this two-part tribute to the savagely witty Princess Pegs, as we hear stories of royal protocol abuse, Liz’s swinging left-hook and the deep tragedy of one of the world’s most speculated-upon love stories pre-KimYe.

Along the way, we hear of Billie Holiday’s unsurpassed bad-assery, being a Diva in a regional village hall and some pretty choice opinions on the Royal Family.

Much of this week’s content comes from the great Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. Buy it here.

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Wash your hands, Divas, it's time for "Ice! Ice! Solation!"

You'll be pleased to know that, apart from pretending they're Mark & Jessica in the Love is Blind pods, one thing Holly & Tom can do from their government-sanctioned lockdown in Diva Towers is broadcast to the Isolation Nation ! (But mostly they're just playing at #PodLife).

So strap in, divas, it is quite mad.

Little Diva Energy Numero 7 is about to infect your ears with extra tidbits about Patti LuPone, news for Little Monsters and all the things Holly & Tom used to do in the past - when they were free to roam wild in the big city. (Spoiler Alert: it was literally just drag shows.)

They are alive and they are broadcasting! So this one goes out to all the Divas in their self-containment chambers.

Love you all.
Be safe.
Wash your hands.

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Let’s conjugate, Divas!

I LuPone
You LuPone
He/She/It Lupones
We ALL LuPone

But the one who LuPones the hardest is mother herself. That’s right, it’s time for the hotly anticipated deep-dive into the life and times of a hardcore possessor of both Big Diva Energy and the biggest voice in Musical Theatre: the iconic Patti LuPone.

(Just don’t call her the D-Word.)

And sharing the journey is star of stage, screen and emergency rooms up and down the country, dear, dear friend Dr Esh Alladi.

Join all three as they hear tales of lily-white hands and softly-kissed penises, theatrical snubbings aplenty and introduce you to Persecution Patti - her LuPone worst enemy.

Along the way, Holly & Tom discover what happens when a Hindu mother finds out you’re bisexual, what kind of “roles” can be found at the Job Centre and just generally get really, really stagey.

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Ah, Divas, we’ve been expecting you.

This week’s LDE is the usual recap of the Week in Diva (‘Stupid Love’, anyone?), but with a little extra bit of extra - the lemon peel in your martini, if you will.

As tribute to Diva Jr, Billie Eilish dropping her latest single, ‘No Time to Die’, Holly and Tom have gone through and listened to every James Bond theme song ever released – from ‘Dr No’ to ‘No Time to Die’.

Why? They are asking themselves that exact same question.

Just remember, for those who think this franchise is toxic masculinity encapsulated – remember, they made a film called Octopussy and Shirley Bassey sang three – count em, three – theme tunes.

So, whether you’re listening to it in your kitchen, your commute or your invisible car, get your tux on, mix up a vesper martini and let’s get stuck into the music that defined the man who’ll “do anything for a woman with a knife.”

I think you get the point.

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It OK, Divas, don’t be cry. The new episode of Big Diva Energy is here, and:

It. Is. So. Fetch.

We knew you all wanted to go to there, so we brought the Queen of Vault Festival herself - writer, cheese-lover and all-round purveyor of Big Diva Energy - Camilla Whitehill round to Diva Towers, drank all the throwing wine and talked all things Bossypants. That’s right Episode 6 is all about comedy-queen herself, Tina Fey!

Perhaps, Tina Fey might not be the first person you’d think of when we say the word “Diva”, but we sure make a case for her entering the Diva Hall of Fame all the same. Because, as they say, there ain’t no party like a Liz Lemon party ‘cos a Liz Lemon party IS MANDATORY.

Come with Holly, Tom and Camilla as they learn all about how Fey quite literally bossed the writer’s room of SNL, the icky way in which most people talk about her She’s All That-type transfer to the screen, and how it kinda sorta seems like she fancies her dad.

Along the way, topics range from Cher’s Head-in-a Box Tour to a Shonda Rhimes’ bid for the presidency, via why men aren’t funny.

So get in losers, we’re going chatting.

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