Paper Monitor
12:42 UK time, Wednesday, 6 June 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
One of the stranger quirks of the Jubilee weekend was the omnipresence of a man who must struggle when filling in the hotel check-in page.
Yes, Will.i.am. is everywhere.
Zelig-like he seemed to pop up in pictures with just about everyone in the celebrity tribe.
There he was with Prince William, Robbie Williams and a rather bewildered looking Paul McCartney.
Metro put him on page three with his arm around the Prince. "Arm draped around his namesake, the Duke of Cambridge relaxes backstage after the diamond jubilee concert,". "I just realized I'm the shorter "Will.i.am", the hip hop star tweeted.
It was all too much for the Daily Mail.
The writer was not sympathetic. Why is an American rapper entertaining the Queen, he demanded.
The final straw appears to have been him getting in a shot with the Queen. "Pop royalty?" the caption asked.
"It is not just that the oddly named musician is American and confesses he needs sophisticated studio technology to stop him sounding like a strangulated cat." Apparently his only claim to fame was appearing on a "much-derided" TV talent show. And then there was his "perplexing" appearance carrying the Olympic Torch in Taunton.
Adopting its best scouse accent, Paper Monitor suggests everyone calms down. Have a long lie down. Oh...erm, yes, some of us have been doing exactly that for the last four days.
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