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16 April 2010

And the Tories’ new celebrity supporter is . . .

By Daniel Trilling

. . . Take That’s Gary Barlow. He joins a stellar cast that includes Michael Caine, Jim Davidson and, um, the woman who presents all those property programmes on Channel 4.

We at Cultural Capital are left speechless by the news, so last words go to the music journalist Tim Chipping, who tweeted earlier today:

“All of Mark Owen’s numerous sordid, drunken affairs don’t add up to Gary Barlow’s betrayal of the people”.

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NB: What we’d really like to know is: which Labour-supporting celebrities will threaten to leave the country if the Tories get in? Ross Kemp? David Tennant? Eddie Izzard?

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