What Gall!

In the June 1 entry on his website, Simon Napier-Bell, Wham!'s former manager who negotiated their 1985 Beijing concert and now may or may not be involved in a Wham! biopic, talks about his very recent emergency gall-bladder operation just as he was about to leave for a weekend in Bangkok. "Last year I had my prostate removed. I'm beginning to think, if I live long enough, I shall end up as a large outer shell containing nothing much of use inside."

I've just been on the internet reading about the things I can't eat now I have no gall bladder. Top of the list is fat - no cheese, no creamy sauces, no foie gras, no deliciously buttered crusty bread, not even a dip of foccia into virgin olive oil. If I eat fat, I'm told it will run right through my body and emerge at the other end with no prior announcement. Very unpleasant, I'd have thought, for anyone in the vicinity.

(Photos: Simon Napier-Bell in an earlier year when he had a gall bladder; gall bladder surgery on someone else; Wham!)

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