Are teenage boys going to buy Andrew Tate’s gold coffee mugs?

Let’s hope future ex-Tate-fans will enjoy looking back at his merch in the same way adult women look back at Nineties brown lip-liner

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The Times

Good day, dearest Times reader! And welcome to this week’s Celebrity Watch — the column that prides itself on exploring all manner of celebrity, from “Putin’s new mistress” to “Welsh woman who goes viral on social media after getting her anorak caught in a rising shop window shutter”. If someone, or something, attracts the Eye of Sauron of international attention and memery, Celebrity Watch likes to be on hand, to offer such pearls as “Eh?” or “Argh!” or “But what does this all, ultimately, mean?”

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One of the most notable developments over the past decade or so is that there is no job that excludes you from the possibility of becoming famous. Are you a vet? Well, maybe you could become a SUPERVET, like Noel