4 important questions

Now for the serious issues of the day - telly. Four issues have been raised in recent days.
1. How, I beseech you, can David Tennant be the next Doctor Who? He might be a fine actor, but he's just a boy. His mortal enemies won't be the Daleks or the Cybermen. They'll be Jonathan King and Gary Glitter.
2.  Has anyone else noticed the uncanny resemblance between Bruno Milligan, the wifebeater in Footballers Wives, and a younger Lee Chapman? It's a good job Footballers Wives is so unrealistic.
3. Why is it that the most attractive woman in Desperate Housewives is a readhead played by a lesbian - just as in Sex and the City?
4. Watching Channel 4's 100 best albums show, the question occured. No, not why is public taste so bad? But how come bald pop stars are so rare? Sure, there are some: Michael Stipe and Moby (shaves don't fool me), Phil Collins, Brian Eno, James Taylor and Elton John. And Adam Ant went bald and mad, thus proving there is a just God. But generally, ageing rockers keep their hair remarkably well. Just look at Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, the surviving Beatles, and so on. Look even at the Rolling Stones. Keith Richards might have a face like a pensioner's scrotum, but he's kept his hair.
Why is this? Is this a hitherto overlooked effect of drug use? Cliff Richard is evidence against that. My theory - based on the fact that men who work in the City lose their hair - is that it's early mornings that cause hair loss. Stay up all night, and your hair stays in.
Well, prove me wrong.

Comments

[Scott Campbell at Blithering Bunny]

I thought that DH actress rejected claims that she was a lezzo?

Peter Gabriel has started to go bald, although admittedly he's had 50-odd years of great hair.

>My theory - based on the fact that men who work in the City lose their hair - is that it's early mornings that cause hair loss. Stay up all night, and your hair stays in.

There seems to be a mild genetic correlation between good at the sort of dry intellectual areas that City folk engage in require and going bald. But how many rock stars secretly wear wigs?

[Richard Hancock]

Did you like Christopher Eccleston's version of the Doctor? I think they've ruined the programme in more ways than I have time to mention. My not-entirely-serious suggestion is that they go the whole hog and get David Walliams to play the Doctor - and Vicky Pollard would make a much better assistant than Billy's Rose. Doctor: "All I want to know Vicky is where is the Tardis?" Vicky Pollard: "Oh, I swapped it for a Westlife CD." Doctor: "Oh my God, how could you." Vicky Pollard: "I know, they're rubbish." Oh, and get Tom Baker to do the voice-over.

[Patrick Crozier]

Winos also keep their hair. Possible connection?

[Bad Santa]

You are kidding aren't you? You think there is ANY chance the Rolling Stones' hair is real?