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Celebrity news & gossip from the world’s showbiz and glamour magazines (OK!, Hello, National Enquirer and more). We read them so you don’t have to, picking the best bits from the showbiz world’s maw and spitting it back at them. Expect lots of sarcasm.
Jimmy Savile was a miracle saved by the God and the saintly Margaret Sinclair
JIMMY Savile was a miracle, a gift from God. It’s true. He was meant to be. He was saved by the venerable Margaret Sinclair.
In 1978, Pope Paul VI declared that Margaret Sinclair practised the Christian virtues to a heroic degree and she was given the title ‘The Venerable Margaret Sinclair’.
St. Pattrick’s parish, Edinburgh, praises her. It wants the woman born in that city to made a saint.
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Posted: 24th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)
All aboard the Jimmy Savile bandwagon!
IS anyone taking responsibility at the BBC for spiking the Jimmy Savile story? The entire organisation is being pilloried for employing a predatory paedophile they thought was gibbering weirdo who just like being with kids and his dead mum. The latest name in the frame is Helen Boaden, head of BBC News. She once met Savile, So, the Times lead with a photo of Savile (medallion, red-tinted specs; sting vest) resting his tatty head on her shoulders. He looks bombed. She looks amused.
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Posted: 24th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Great band names: Pervert Savile & The Dead Bodies
“PERVERT Savile and the Dead Bodies’ – surely the greatest name ever for a rock band?” says Alan Duffy.
Jimmy Savile might be famous:
Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
In Photos: the Skyfall Royal World Premiere
IN Photos: the Skyfall Royal World Premiere at the Royal Albert Hall, London. This is Bond’s 23rd film. It’s not the best. But, then, Daniel Craig is not the best Bong. Roger Moore was:
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PD James marvels at the Jimmy Savile survivors
”I’M just amazed that so many people have come out across the board to say so publicly that Savile did these things to them. I think, if I had been groped in my younger days, I would think, ‘oh he’s a dirty old man,’ and I’d make a point of keeping out of the way of the miscreant and have a giggle with my friends about it, but then time would move on. I’d marry, I’d have children, and I’d be reluctant, even if it all did come out 40 years on, to get involved. I would ask myself ‘do I really want to have my name everywhere over a story like this?” — PD James
Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
George Entwhistle was in the Darling Buds of May (video)
GEORGE Entwhistle has appeared before a parliamentary panel to talk about why Newsnight dropped its investigation into Jimmy Savile. Entwhistle is the BBC’s Director-General. Before that he was an actor, playing Cedric “Charley” Charlton under the nom-de-thesp ‘Philip Franks’ in the euphemistic Darling Buds of May (the sick perverts):
Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
1966 snapshot: When a deer narrowly missed Ursula Andress’s right eye
SNAPSHOT of the day harks back to 1966. Ursula Andress was sporting far glasses. Why? Well, the Press Association offered this explanation:
Ursula Andress wearing dark glasses due to a deer’s antlers narrowly missing her right eye at Bushey Park, Hampton Court, rests at her Surrey Hotel, hoping to resume shooting ‘Casino Royale’, at Shepperton Studios.
Nothing to see here. Move along…
Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment (1)
Chris Brown: drugs and making girls cry
TEAM BREEZY will be thrilled that Chris Brown is in the gossip columns again, and no, this has nothing to do with Rihanna or him dumping Karrueche Tran.
Although it does involve a woman.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Savile: Let’s smash up the NHS and the BBC in our hunt for paedos
THE media loves to talk about the media. Today it’s all about media star turned pariah Jimmy Savile. The papers lead with:
Daily Star: “BBC torn apart by Savile”
Oh, please. The Star, owned by Channel 5 boss Richard Desmond, is hoping for too much.
Daily Mail: “Savile’s victims to sue for millions”
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Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (7)
Alicia Silverstone gets in touch with her leaf vibrator
WHEN we last saw Alicia Silverstone she was playing seagull to her kids, masticating food and sliding into their mouth. Now Alicia is telling us to buy vibrators designed to look like a Triffids’s genitals. She writes:
Ok, ladies– sometimes it’s nice to have a little extra…something…when you’re getting it on (solo, with your partner…whatever floats your boat). There is one personal massager company that’s actually Kinder than all the rest.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment
Q Magazine: Surely the most pointless music rag on Earth?
AWARD ceremonies aren’t anything to get excited about, unless you’re winning something. Notably, Q Magazine is a torch bearer for everything bad in music, namely, back-slapping and looking backward. And their awards underline that and how!
Winning this year, were the not-at-all-current Britpop bands Pulp and Blur as well as Muse (prog revivalists), Underworld (irrelevant since Beaucoup Fish), Emeli Sande (Radio 2 on legs) and further prizes going to Bobby Womack for album of the year and something for Dionne Warwick (hard to knock Dionne in fairness).
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Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
David Walliams thanks shit taste and Shakin’ Stevens for saving him from Jimmy Savile
DID you have a “lucky escape” from Jimmy Savile? David Walliams did. The Telegraph says David Walliams had a “lucky escape” because when he was 10 he wrote to Jimmy Savile, asking the then sainted charity worker to fix it for him to meet Brian Blessed. Yeah, Brian Blessed. Lucky escape or what!?
Walliams has kept the letter he wrote to the BBC’s Jim’ll Fix It show. He’s published it on the back of his autobiography, Camp David. The letter goes:
“Dear Jim’ll [sic], Please can you fix it for me to meet Brian Blessed, who plays the King Vultan in Flash Gordon? And please can you fix it for me to be a Hawkman for the day? Basically, I just really want to be on TV. Yours sincerely, David.”
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Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
The Sun spots trolls talking about ‘fat’ Adele and her son
THE Sun leads with news that “TROLLS TARGET MUM ADELE”.
The Sun, which for 26 years said Liverpool fans had urinated on the dead at Hillsborough, is upset that “SICK trolls” have made “revolting jibes about KILLING her tiny son”.
The boy is newborn. The Sun’s emphasise on the child’s size appears to be in reaction to a troll who posted on twitter. A Vanessa Bieber (possibly not her real name) told her 4,000 followers:
“Aw Adele gave birth to a baby. Is it fat and handicapped lol? Just murder it already lol.”
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Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comments (4)
Jimmy Savile spotted in Brighton
FACE of the day: A participant parades through the streets as he takes part in the annual ‘Beach Of The Dead’ Brighton Zombie Walk in Brighton, East Sussex. Well, so it says here.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Taiwan’s animators do the Jimmy Savile rape story
JIMMY Savile rape claims leave BBC in the mire:
Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Newsnight editor Peter Rippon ‘quits’ over Jimmy Savile story: George Entwhistle is toast
NEWSNIGHT editor Peter Rippon has quit over the fallout from his decision to spike the Jimmy Savile sex story.
Well, so says the Daily Mail on its front page. But on twitter, Nick Sutton tweets that Rippon has not quit.
Has the Mail made a howler? No. Rippon has stepped aside.
Panorama says Rippon WAS under pressure from his superiors at the BBC to drop the story that Jimmy Savile was a predatory paedophile.
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Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (4)
BBC Television Centre is a crime scene as dancer claims rape
“BBC STAR RAPE ATTACK – Dancer claims he tried to have sex while she slept.”
Step aside Julian Assange. The BBC will slash its budget by reporting exclusively on itself. On the negative (although it’s happy news for Salford’s new immigrants), the sale of BBC Television Centre must be stopped. The entire place is a crime scene.
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Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Scotland Yard to investigate Jimmy Savile case after claim that some abusers are still alive
THE Jimmy Savile case has been, putting it mildly, thoroughly distressing. On one hand, you have abhorrent claims that a celebrity abused their power, good name, charity work and more, to sexually assault children. On the other, you’ve seen a little piece of everyone else’s childhood die.
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Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
So. You got this Jimmy Savile tattoo
JIMMY Savile’s legacy: The tattoo can be fixed with long socks and garters. (A few tweaks and it’s Lady Gaga puffing a spliff.)
Jimmy Savile sends ripples through cement industry
The Jimmy Savile doll on sale in Butlins?
Jimmy Savile in FHM: ‘Lock up your daughters’
Jimmy Savile legacy: Cannock’s Gym’ll Fix It health clubs
Jimmy Savile auction – string vests, Shag Wagons and gold up for sale
Jimmy Savile auction – string vests, Shag Wagons and gold up for sale
Jimmy Savile: Margaret Thatcher, miners and a themed Range Rover
Dear Jimmy Savile, thanks for the Michael Jackson tickets
Jimmy Savile’s ‘Benjamin Rabbit and the Stranger Danger – What a child needs to know about strangers’
Jimmy Savile: The soap on a rope, a board game and tickets to take children all over the country
Buy Jimmy Savile’s Jim I’ll Fix It chair for £15,000
Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Did Homer Simpson make his debut in this Icelandic comic?
DID Homer Simpson first appeat in an Iceland comic of 1949?
Spotter : Lemúrinn
Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comments (2)
Stacey Dash and Eva Longoria open up the empty heart of US politics
STACEY Dash (Clueless, The Cosby Show (2 episodes) and Single Ladies) says we should vote for Mitt Romney.
Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives, Arthur Christmas and Beverly Hills 90210 (1 episode)) says we should vote for Barack Obama.
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Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Politicians | Comment (1)
Jimmy Savile legacy: Cannock’s Gym’ll Fix It health clubs
JIMMY Savile’s legacy continues to impact on the living. We spot the Gym’Ll Fix It Health Clubs in Cannock. Cannock Community Centre, Avon Road, Cannock, Staffordshire. It’s open to “youngsters”…
Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comments (3)
Ask Dr Ozzy Osbourne: The Sunday Times’ agony aunt opens his torpedo hatch
CHRIS Ayres is in conversation with John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne, the Sunday Times’s agony uncle:
Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
This leaked BBC e-mail exposes Newsnight’s decision to spike Jimmy Savile story
WHY did the BBC’s Newsnight show cancel its investigation into Jimmy Savile? Newsnight, the BBC’s in-depth late-night news show, at first ignored the story that every other news organisation was leading with. On Newsnight for days there was no word on the Peado King who had attacked underage girls in his BBC Top of The Pops studio and beyond, as is alleged. When Newsnight fianlly featured the story, BBC Radio 4 DJ Eddie Mair was drafted in to host a chat. We were told that Newsnight did not run the item for “editorial reasons“. What reasons? Dunno. The show that likes to unleash Jeremy Paxman on politicians, to skewer them with hard questioning, sardony and heckling, left it that that. Newnight then produced the greatest line uttered on TV this year:
“The BBC declined to appear in his live discussion.”
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Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Rolling Stones at Crossfire Hurricane Premier (photos)
THE Rolling Stones arrived for the premier of Crossfire Hurricane, the film marking the first 50 years of the band. A personal note: I spent a while with Keith Richards. He was charming, generous and funny. As for the film…Well, you know what you’re going to get. You’ve seen it all before. And it was best in the 60 and 70s…
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