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Hallo Readers,

In the movie Casablanca, Capt Renault, the dodgy, charming police chief, approaches Humphrey Bogart, the owner of Rick’s bar, with apparent disgust saying “I’m shocked, shocked! There is gambling going on in this club”. At which point the croupier of the illicit gambling operation approaches him with his winnings which he pockets.  WTF had a similar reaction when she read of the apparent bewilderment with which past and present employees of Harrods and Fulham football club, expressed the horror and shock at the news that Mohamed Al-Fayed, who died last year age 94, have been a serial and persistent abuser of women, including sexual assault and rape. This includes his previous press secretary, Michael Cole, formerly of the BBC, who spent a large part of his career handling allegations against Al-Fayed of sexual enterprise, but who now claims to be completely gobsmacked at the allegations made in a BBC documentary in which former employees came forward with horrifying stories of abuse. A s do lots of other people who were there at the  time. Because, let’s be honest, who didn’t know that this was going on for years and years? Who didn’t put their signature to nondisclosure agreements in which unfortunate and shocked women were paid off and told to keep quiet? Who didn’t threaten legal action against those who had raised the possibility that the man who could have been Princess Diana‘s father-in-law was in fact a serial rapist? The thing is, it’s the same old story every time. Very rich men, with very powerful lawyers, and an air of entitlement, ‘”bullying their way out of trouble, buying their way out of trouble, because they feel that they have droit de seigneur and the right to do what they want because they have a bulging bank account. Although it is wearisomely familiar and desperately depressing that we are there again, here we are, as we were with Philip Green and Harvey Weinstein, and God knows how many other rich men who can’t keep in  their dick in their trousers. Let us put an end to non disclosure agreements. They stifle the truth. Rape is a criminal offence. Sexual assault is a criminal offence. Men – or rather rich men and richer companies – should not be allowed to buy their way out of their criminality.

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We start our review of the week’s woeful wear with actor Lily Collins still promoting Emily in Paris wearing Rabanne.

For some reason, the lovely Lily is dressed as extra from the Bridge over the River Kwai. What the fuck are those shorts? What has the studded top have to do with the price of fish? Yurgle.

Next we have actor Chloe Sevigny at the launch of Monsters – the Erik and Lyle Melendez Story. She is wearing Phoebe Philo.

This may not be Phoebe’s fault. But the way Chloe is standing with her hands in her pockets makes her look like her nipples are down by her waist with much droopage of the dugs.

Now we have singer Gwen Stefani wearing Norma Kamali at the iHeart Radio awards in London.

Fringed white tights? Who knew such horrors even existed? Worn with a white fringed minge mask? Kill me now. Like a collection of miniature white hula skirts…

To New York and actor Zendaya wearing Louis Vuitton.

This is a ridiculous garment. She looks like a giant savoy cabbage in heels.

Here is wondrous actor Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu wearing Yves St Laurent.

Philippine’s character in Emily in Paris has almost had her tits out for the whole of season 4 but not like this. There was a soupçon. A suggestion. This is the full Monty and it is not required. WTF is horrified and then more horrified still…

Finally here is singer Anitta at the L’Oréal  Paris show in Paris wearing Balmain.

These are basically tit straps looking like spilt tomato ketchup. Ugh.

This week’s it’s got to go comes from WTF aficionado Nicky from Highgate, who is fed up to the back teeth with people having conversations on their mobiles, not with the appliance clamped to their ears on FaceTime or WhatsApp but with the loudspeaker on so that you can hear not only their inanities, but those of the person they are speaking to – and with the added disadvantage that the other person sounds like a squawking parrot beamed in from Mars. Nicky says – and in this she is absolutely correct – that she is not interested in other people’s dreary conversations and she would rather not have to listen to them. And let us add the horror of kids on their iPads watching Peppa Pig or similar at full volume while you are trying to eat your gourmet meal. It is intolerable. It’s got to go.

OK readers that’s your lot for this week and indeed for next week as it is Jewish New Year. WTF will be back on Friday  fortnight. See you then. Be good x