List of Regular Mini-sections in Private Eye - Luvvies

Luvvies

Reader-submitted feature recording humorously pretentious quotations from thespians and other theatrical celebrities. The term 'luvvie' already existed as a derogatory noun for pretentious, overblown, narcissistic people of an artistic or dramatic bent. The column was briefly renamed Trevvies for several issues in the mid-1990s after Trevor Nunn described use of the term as offensive “as calling a black man a ‘nigger’”.

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