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🎙️ BBC, Sky News, Times Radio 🖋️ Guardian, Indy, NME, Rolling Stone, Times, i News, GQ, Radio Times, Condé Nast, Mr Porter, The Face…

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4 years
Well OF COURSE Covid would say that!
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‘Exercise your best judgement’ says Boris Johnson to country that elected him Prime Minister.
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Off peak open return to Manchester Piccadilly.
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What would you do with $44 billion?
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Just saying, UK : be thankful for the BBC.
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@Matt_Charlton
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3 years
So Rachel Johnson has a music column…
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@Matt_Charlton
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…is it near a Waitrose?
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@cjayanetti Just sent this to my Italian friend
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@hotpatooties It’s like going into someone’s voicemails without permi... oh, hold on...
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@doodlyroses @goulcher Tchaikovsky was four ahead of her then.
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Have YOU been involved in a trip to Durham that wasn’t your fault?
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4 years
After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
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@TNeenan 4) I am the large flippered marine mammal
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4 years
The UK Government are going to leave it next to the radiator, aren’t they.
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6 years
“Come here, you lucky-lucky lady...” @AccidentalP @gregjames @digitalspy
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8 years
Took 93yr Mum to vote,she's registered blind. In a loud voice she said, “Name an 80s sitcom set in a bar" Cheers went up from waiting voters
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4 years
Ironically, this went viral.
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1 year
Accidentally shot an Arctic Monkeys album cover out of my Boston hotel window. I call it ‘The Cars’.
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@Julian5News @TomThorogood I hope this is the moment where what I call ‘X-Factor parlance’ is blown to smithereens.
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@JNRaeside They’re just innocent men
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@Matt_Charlton
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3 years
It’s weird looking forward to a TV show being ‘on’ again... and not in a ‘oh yeah I’ve heard that’s good I’ll watch that at some point’ way. Proper appointment telly. #LineofDuty
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@RealMattLucas Thought process: “is that Blue P… It can’t be Bl… dear God it’s Blue Peter, isn’t it. What did he just say?!”
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2 years
It looks as if he’s sitting on top of the chair and his little legs are dangling over the backrest.
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Ready to get more done for American families.
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After they divorce, if she doesn’t call her tell-all book ‘Carrie On Boris’, then I don’t really know what we’re doing here.
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@Matt_Charlton
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@hrtbps from the photo, it looks like they're trying to pin this one on you. Have you done something with your hair?
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@Matt_Charlton
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6 years
@gregjames As the killer was tying that woman to the bed and slipping his wife a roofie, I was thinking what a nice house it was...
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@NadineDorries @BorisJohnson You carry on pulling doors that clearly say ‘push’, don’t you.
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@MissAHaddow The Two Ronnies are DEAD, Alex.
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@lilyallen Karma police, arrest this man.
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@Matt_Charlton
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@JamesBlunt @piersmorgan Not the first time he’s faked a front page.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
4 years
Oh my choice of contraception? I spend half an hour on a video call with my nephews.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
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Dark times? Feeling a little bit down? Don’t worry: here comes HMRC - three times in one day - to remind you your tax return is due in January.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
4 years
Actual lovely print issues of things where you can smell the fresh pages, lose yourself amongst the words and don’t have to accumulate eye bags by squinting through artificial light. Put the kettle on.
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Matt Charlton
4 years
Strange - this is usually caused by guilty feet.
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@NetflixIsAJoke Narcos In Cars Getting Coffee
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@nickw84 Reminds me of then they introduce a new person on Made In Chelsea
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@scottygb The family pictures that are headshots, photoshops, and TV Times cover shoots.
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The irony is that Amazon can’t claim gift aid as they don’t pay tax in the UK. #comicrelief2024
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
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@GrumpySkeletor Better drive to Castle Greyskull to double check
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
4 years
So can I have sex whilst wearing a face mask in a garden centre or not?
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
3 years
@goulcher Legit broke my wrist during a lesson when I was nine, but the PE teacher told me to stop crying and get on with it. Had to have it reset whilst on laughing gas. The teacher's name? Mr Brakewell.
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Matt Charlton
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Don’t worry about your exam results today. I did relatively well, and now I’m doling out unrequested life lessons to strangers on an app I don’t really know the name of anymore.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
9 years
I will keep repeating this tweet until it gets the respect it deserves. #MasterChef #CelebrityMasterchef http://t.co/o38Bc4q4UQ
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Another Monday in January is it
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
4 years
Does crying count as a musical instrument?
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Have you learned a new musical instrument during lockdown?
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Trump is also in a vegetative state and yet still he calls press conferences. #KimJongUn
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@Matt_Charlton
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5 years
March: 15 degrees Celsius. British people - tops off, tats out, ice cream, crowded beer garden. October: 15 degrees Celsius. British people - parkas, scarves, spiced fucking lattes, fireside in a pub.
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Matt Charlton
4 years
@chrissyteigen @chloeepartridge The recap sentence after the ad break gets me. ‘I can’t believe you left the prize winning monkey on the bus! What are we gonna do?!’
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@kingstonwrites Cowsworth is now a new measurement.
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@simonblackwell It’s planning... summit.
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@scottygb Is Geri dancing in front of… (checks notes)… giant orange tits?
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@jamieklingler Leave him alone - he’s auditioning for Top Gear.
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If you can’t handle me at my worst then yeah fair enough.
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4 years
Beatles rooftop gig rendered in Lego. Yes please.
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2 years
Resisting the urge to slip into a twitter convo involving editors I’ve pitched to and never heard back from and typing ‘Look at you, able to write a reply!’
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
4 years
To mark the fact that’s it’s now the evening I’m going to sit in a different chair to look at my phone.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
2 years
@jonoganz It’s important that both @Markgatiss and @ReeceShearsmith know that this exists.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
4 years
Well here’s some news - I now have a TV column at the @nme . Isn’t that nice? Here’s the latest, and you can see the first two by clicking on my name. Which is Matt Charlton. Hi.
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We need those valuable extra seconds to... watch more stuff?
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@MissAHaddow Classic intercourse.
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Matt Charlton
4 years
Genuinely delighted to find out where I have to send my Covid test back to.
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Matt Charlton
2 years
Eurovision’s very own @SamRyderMusic doing his thing at the new @sohohouse Brighton yesterday.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
3 years
200 years ago (last month), I went to Berlin for @rollingstoneuk on a David Bowie assignment. David Bowie. For Rolling Stone. The latest issue is out this very day. Fantastic writers, engrossing subject matter, and beautiful photography. Oh, and my thing too. ★
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Matt Charlton
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Lads, chaps, ma peeps - my first feature for @empiremagazine - all about the inflight movie - is in the new issue. It combines my four favourite things - travel, history, entertainment and facts only ever useful in pub quizzes. Thanks to @Terri_White for giving me some pages.
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@empiremagazine
Empire Magazine
4 years
It's new Empire day! The #FalconAndWinterSoldier issue is OUT NOW – speaking to Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Kevin Feige and more. Also inside: the making of #Minari , going loopy with #PalmSprings , the origin of #RagingBull , the return of Emilio Estevez, #LineOfDuty and more!
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Matt Charlton
5 years
@LaurenNotLozza Sprouts get a bad press and I for one will not take it anymore.
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Matt Charlton
2 years
Sorry I’m late - I was brought down by the Left Wing economic establishment
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Matt Charlton
2 years
Definitely in my top 5 Smiths songs.
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@Matt_Charlton
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3 years
Happy 70th NME. Literally the only good thing about my school was that they took out a subscription for the library. Then, just under two decades later, I wrote this.
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Matt Charlton
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No one seems to be taking about this ⁦ @PaulMcCartney ⁩ fact which casually emerged at the end of a ⁦ @thetimes2 ⁩ profile yesterday…
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Matt Charlton
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@BibiLynch Pointless
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
4 years
I ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad, I’ve got my first @NME cover, in the bag, I wrote it, and so you know, The link, is just below. (It’s just below, it’s just below, it’s just below) @gorillaz @damonalbarn @jamiehewlett
@NME
NME
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. @gorillaz were readymade for an era that has seen the old certainties upended, as epic new album 'Song Machine – Season One: Strange Timez' proves. Read the full NME interview with the band here:
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@TNeenan Out of the frying pan into the utter prick.
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@nick_clegg You go girl.
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Matt Charlton
4 years
Add ‘Look Around You’ to @bbcbitesize you cowards.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
3 years
This is Sophie. She’s a brilliant music writer, and I’m getting on her good side now as she will run this town one day soon.
@fluorescentsoph
Sophie Williams
3 years
Absolutely overjoyed to share that in a few weeks’ time, I will be joining Team @NME as their New Music Writer. I can’t wait to learn and grow in this role, and I’m so grateful that my dream has become reality.
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Had the jab. Everything’s fine apart from the fact that I had a nap afterwards, and when I woke up I played the Windows® start up music?
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
2 years
We are very lucky to be alive at the same time as this man. Few people can say they have simultaneously changed the world, and brought immeasurable joy to billions of people. Happy 80th James Paul McCartney. You will be spoken of with reverence and a smile for centuries to come.
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@jameelajamil Muslim is lovey this time of year.
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Matt Charlton
2 years
I would make a joke about Lilt disappearing but I stopped writing tropical comedy years ago.
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Matt Charlton
8 years
@hrtbps found the white paper...
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Matt Charlton
9 years
Only this makes my home town Tunbridge Wells cool. The cinema where #Bowie 's parents met. Now a hole in the ground.
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6 years
@MissAHaddow It’s an analogy for Brexit... but is it art?
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Matt Charlton
6 months
What was your aha moment when you realised ‘wow, that’s the same actor!?‘
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@BBCArchive Please please do the broom cupboard
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4 years
@jonholmes1 As long as the real author of his books still follows you thats okay.
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Matt Charlton
5 years
@morganjeffery The movie quote I use the most.
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Matt Charlton
4 years
Let me once again draw your attention to the absolutely 100% genuinely non-satirical Trumpy Bear.
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Matt Charlton
3 years
@PhelpsieSarah This is really going to grate on you.
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@Matt_Charlton
Matt Charlton
4 years
A horse got into my parent’s garden yesterday evening. Standard Saturday night.
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Matt Charlton
5 years
My favourite music piece of the year bar none. Bravo ⁦ @mrdiscopop
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4 years
This headline has everything.
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