CHARLIE CONDOU CONFIDENTIAL: CHARLIE CONDOU

AFTER A BUSY EVENING AT PARLIAMENT THERE IS NOTHING LIKE UNWINDING

Charliecondou: Watching X Factor. Robin Thicke performing in a suit surrounded by semi naked women. Katy Perry semi naked, surrounded by men in suits.

PINK NEWS AWARDS

Out4Marriage: The 'Good and the Gay' are out for tonight's @pinknews awards... @Charliecondou spotted, @google are here and Deputy PM @nick_clegg on way!

SharonHodgsonMP: Great to meet @Charliecondou at @pinknews awards in Parliament this evening #coronationstreet #lgbt

matthewlawton: Full house at the @pinknews Awards at Speaker's House!

_edouglas: Excellent speeches from @DPMoffice and @benjamincohen at @pinknews awards at the Speaker's House

LibDemPress: @nick_clegg scoops a Special Award at the @pinknews awards, now taking pride of place on the mantelpiece

Inter_MediaUK: Ben Cohen @PinkNews. Royal assent for equal marriage today !

NatashaYCohen: Great to meet you @ollielocke thanks for coming to my bother @benjamincohen event @pinknews love!

leoniemathers: The fantastic Yvette Cooper wins PinkNews Parliamentarian of the Year!

BabaWatson: @ParisLees at PinkNews Awards Speakers Room House of Commons with Matt Cain

christopherward: Rather chuffed at our @pinknews award. Thanks so much to all who voted. :)

IT IS, I

OK_Magazine: Which soap beauty is hoping to be @michkeegan's bridesmaid? http://okm.ag/1gE8Nm3

Charliecondou: @OK_Magazine @michkeegan it's me!

JAMESINREHAB: @Charliecondou @OK_Magazine @michkeegan always the bridesmaid eh Charlie? :)

Charliecondou: @JAMESINREHAB I'm still waiting for you to get down on one knee. Or both knees

JAMESINREHAB: @Charliecondou but what about the ring?

Charliecondou: @JAMESINREHAB I'm sure I could squeeze it onto my finger

PhillTurnerDIY: @Charliecondou @JAMESINREHAB O matron!! :-)

JAMESINREHAB: @Charliecondou u haven't seen the size of the ring yet!

Charliecondou: @JAMESINREHAB Babe, I think half of London have seen the size of that ring

JAMESINREHAB: @Charliecondou oi Frodo. You should know better than to listen to rumours. Especially when it comes to lord of the rings!

Charliecondou: @JAMESINREHAB hahaha

ARE YOU FREE?

JenniferCharity: @Charliecondou Hi Charlie. Hope you are well. Mr. @Jasperbunny emailed you on our behalf and we wondered if you had received it? Thanks x

Charliecondou: @JenniferCharity @Jasperbunny He did and I did! Just waiting to see what my schedule is. I'll let you know asap x

JenniferCharity: @Charliecondou @Jasperbunny hello sir. Just wondered if you might be free on 16/11/13 for our event? X

Charliecondou: @JenniferCharity @Jasperbunny I'm not I'm afraid x

JenniferCharity: @Charliecondou hi Charlie. No worries. Thanks for getting back to us anyway. Jx

DM FOR DH

Charliecondou: @mrdavidhaye hey man, did you get my DM?

Lynnie_A_: @Charliecondou @mrdavidhaye did you get mine too? Haha x

GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF

Charliecondou: So brilliantly put! I love her even more now RT @rubytandoh: my proudest moment (after bake off): http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/great-british-bake-off-ruby-dandoh . Off to pub now.

HouseofHaughton: @Charliecondou @rubytandoh didn't think it was possible to love her even more, then read this!

CHARLIE'S PARENTS HAVE GONE TO THE DOGS

DennisChristo4: @Charliecondou "NO PROBLEM"! Hollywood taken by storm by Kathy & Pierre. Given a complementary dog!

Charliecondou: @DennisChristo4 that poor dog!

2013 INSIDE SOAP AFTER PARTY

Above L to R: Georgia May Foote, Charlie Condou & Tisha Merry. These pictures were taken at the 2013 Inside Soap Award after party.

Below: Brooke Vincent

DocWho62: @Charliecondou Was great to meet you on Monday at the inside soap awards Charlie Thank you

SOMERVILLE FOR CARNIVAL 2013

Diversity Role Models is an amazing charity that helps to provide positive LGBT role models for young people and combat bullying in schools. Its big, annual, star-studded fundraiser, Carnival 2013, returns Thursday 24 October 2013, with a glitzy evening of fun and fundraising taking place at the Café De Paris (off Leicester Square, London), including a headline appearance from Jimmy Somerville (pictured).

Last year’s event sold out – and raised a whopping £76,000 in the process – and organisers are confident that this year’s event will again prove hugely popular. There will be games (Spin’n’Win, Glambola, etc), plus live performances and other attractions. Headline acts this year include the aforementioned Mr Somerville, of Bronski Beat and Communards fame, and drag troupe the Globe Girls. Returning this year in his role as auctioneer extraordinaire, Christopher Biggins will be putting a range of auction lots under the hammer, including dinner at restaurants Bocca di Lupo and Heston Blumenthal, among others, and the chance to have a celebrity chef come and cook at your home. Art works have been donated by Maggi Hambling, while there are also tickets to see Clare Balding live on stage in her forthcoming one-woman show and meet her afterwards. Grey Goose vodka will be supplying guests with cocktails throughout the night. Other esteemed guests include Charlie Condou & Gareth Thomas.

General admission tickets cost £99 – go to www.diversityrolemodels.org/ for more details.

Below: Some pictures from last year's CARNIVAL.

TODD IS A HOMEWRECKER

Coronation Street's Charlie Condou has confirmed his character Marcus Dent's relationship with Maria Connor will be rocked by the return of Todd Grimshaw.

Marcus and Maria (Samia Ghadie) got together last year despite Marcus having always been gay. He told other Street residents he had genuinely fallen for Maria and wanted to be a family with her and her son Liam. But Charlie revealed that when Todd (Bruno Langley), the brother of Maria's ex-boyfriend Jason, arrives back in Weatherfield he stirs up a whole heap of trouble for the happy couple. Charlie said: "Marcus and Maria have got some very difficult times ahead coming up. I think it's no secret that Todd Grimshaw is coming back to the street and obviously another gay character, he's going to cause some problems and create some waves.

Asked whether Todd would catch Marcus's eye, Charlie admitted: "He definitely does that. How far it goes I couldn't say, but yeah, it's going to be tricky times ahead for Marcus and Maria." Meanwhile, Bruno told All About Soap: "Yes, he has his eye on Marcus. He's one of those people who enjoys the drama of splitting couples up! "He can be very charming and clever when he wants to. He's clever and can turn things around to his advantage, such as manipulating Sean. I think he must have been hurt in some way in past relationships and that's why he's like he is now. I reckon he's come back to the Street to wreak a bit of havoc!"

IN OTHER NEWS FROM THE CORRIE NATION

LynScribbles: The Pogues Shane MacGowan is making a cameo appearance in #corrie. He's been spotted filming a scene in the Rovers #FairytaleofWeatherfield

FROM SOMEWHERE

OVER THE RAINBOW

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PM ABBOTT TO CHALLENGE VALIDITY OF HIS OWN SISTER'S WEDDING

Confidential_CC: PM ABBOTT STILL GONNA GALLENGE GAY MARRIAGE BILL PASSED IN CANBERRA LOCAL GOV http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/australian-provincial-parliament-allows-gay-marriage-despite-likely-federal-challenge-1.1507210

DamienOz: @Confidential_CC @ChasCondouFans @CTVNews the High Court will strike PM Abbotts challenge down.

Confidential_CC: @DamienOz @ChasCondouFans @CTVNews HOPE SO! But have they got an anti-Abbot ray gun too???

DamienOz: @Confidential_CC @ChasCondouFans @CTVNews no. But they appreciate the rights of citizens over the faiths of politicians.

vinrock39: @Confidential_CC and the plonker quite happy to go to gay sister wedding? Seriously what is this guy about?

Confidential_CC: @vinrock39 obvious he doesn't think with his heart - maybe he thinks with his...oh, sorry NO - I'll rescind that I've seen his budgie smugglers!!!

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PM ABBOTT ARTICLE TWEETED BY CONTRIBUTOR RANDLIGHT

randlight: what a terrible picture of Abbott

Confidential_CC: @randlight both figuratively and literally!!!

Media commentators should be highlighting the Prime Minister's brazen hypocrisy

Now that federal Labor has chosen its leader and its frontbench, it has to clarify its policy positions on a number of significant issues. In particular, it has to decide how to respond to the new government's approach on climate change and pricing carbon at a time when the ferocious bushfires in New South Wales have injected a dramatic and poignant relevance into such considerations. There has been no shortage of advice. The message has been consistent. The electorate has spoken, the government has a clear mandate, and Labor should stop ''talking about itself'' and go along with what Tony Abbott wants. With the Coalition lacking a Senate majority, the new ALP leader, Bill Shorten, should direct Labor's senators to vote with the government to enable it to put an end to pricing carbon. A series of commentators have reiterated that this is obvious, a no-brainer. They contend that if Labor musters the temerity to avoid doing what the government wants, Abbott will have ALP MPs right where he wants them. He'll be able to maintain that Labor is opposing the people's will, and this will be one of those gifts that keeps on giving.

But is the situation really so straightforward?

It's hardly surprising that Abbott is trumpeting the mandate line. If he can get Labor to acquiesce, it solves his problem with the Senate numbers. But the chorus of commentators insisting that Labor has no sensible alternative to doing what Abbott wants betrays a collective amnesia about recent events. It is only four years ago that the federal Coalition was in disarray, with a key factor being conflicting perceptions of climate change and what to do about it. The parliamentary Liberal Party (then led by Malcolm Turnbull) had agreed with the Rudd Labor government to vote in favour of Labor's carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS). This was, after all, consistent with the policies that both major parties had presented to the voters at the previous election in 2007. Labor under Kevin Rudd had made clear its intention to introduce a carbon-trading scheme in government, and clearly had a mandate to do so; even the Coalition under John Howard had promised to do the same. In 2009, however, when Abbott unexpectedly became opposition leader by just one vote, he decided to adopt a different approach. He ignored the agreement that his party had made with Labor - it somehow didn't apply to him, apparently - and scorned the notion that the ALP had a mandate. The Coalition under Abbott proceeded to oppose the Rudd government's measures on climate change (and practically everything else), with the result that the CPRS was rejected in the Senate. Abbott became the least constructive opposition leader that Australia's Federal Parliament has ever known. His relentless negativity suited his intrinsically combative style and was politically effective as well, in that it contributed to the difficulties Labor experienced in government under Rudd and Julia Gillard. So he persevered with it, even at considerable cost to his personal popularity. Eventually his approach paid dividends, and he finds himself in office leading the nation. In his new position, Abbott now has the effrontery to invoke the mandate argument that he spurned in 2010. In fact, his most conspicuous rejection of it as opposition leader concerned the very issue that is currently prominent - how to deal with climate change. In calling for Labor to accept his 2013 mandate and present him with the Senate numbers he needs, Abbott is displaying blatant hypocrisy. However, his cheer squad in the media have ignored this in their repeated assertions that Labor should of course comply with whatever Abbott wants on climate change policy. Moreover, this assertiveness is predicated on the basis that conceding on the removal of carbon pricing would be a politically astute manoeuvre for the ALP. Some observers even seem to believe that doing anything else would be unthinkable. Yet there is clear evidence to the contrary - none other than Abbott's path to the prime ministership. Opposing everything in opposition ended up working for him.

Shorten, though, has already signalled that he is not intending to emulate Captain Negative. As he and his Labor colleagues weigh up their options on climate policy, they will be contemplating short-term and long-term factors, considerations relating to political tactics together with the importance of adhering to principle on issues of substance such as climate change.

Meanwhile, instead of trying to influence Labor's caucus to do what Abbott wants, media commentators should be highlighting the Prime Minister's brazen hypocrisy.

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