Celebrities Category
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.
Flava Flav, in trouble with the law, for the millionth time
HYPE man for Chuck D in Public Enemy, star of the toe-curling Flava Of Love and a man who told us 911 is a joke, despite the fact he is consistently getting his collar felt by them for things he’s actually done wrong. No conspiracy here. Flava Flav is a loveable bloke, but a massive tool.
So, what’s he up to now? Well, he’s been arrested after allegedly threatening his fiancé’s son with a knife. After he’d finished clawing his way out of Brigitte Nielsen’s industrial knickers, he got with his girlfriend of eight years, Elizabeth Trujillo.
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Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
ITV’s This Morning hoaxed by celebrity sperm bank
IF you are going to make a spoof news story, weave in celebrities and sex. It won’t fail. ITV spotted a story about a celebrity sperm bank. This Morning, the most haphazard show on the telly, showcased the sperm depository for all VUP tossers. Viewers met Dan Richards, chief executive officer of FameDaddy, “the world’s first service to offer a top-class portfolio of celebrity sperm.”
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Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Jimmy Savile: Margaret Thatcher, miners and a themed Range Rover
JIMMY Savile Watch: In this video Jimmy Savile continues to hide in plain sight, as he tells BBC’s Have I Got New For You that he would do anyone in the back of his van would let him. This is Jimmy Savile, pal to Tony Blair, Prince Charles and Margaret Thatcher, who, it is thought, misunderstood Sir James when he said his mission was to f**k “minors“. (See Scargill, Arthur.)
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Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Eton College does Gangnam Style
ETON College does Gangnam Style:
RAther Rum:
Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Music | Comments (2)
RIP Sylvia Kristel: a life in photos
RIP Sylvia Kristel, 28 September 1952-17 October 2012. She ddi the impossible: she made wicker look sexy. A life in photos:
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Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
1978: Debbie Harry teaches Americans how to Pogo dance
1978: Debbie Harry teaches American how to Pogo dance.
Spotter: Dangerous Minds
Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
Esther Rantzen: If Jimmy Savile doesn’t bury her husband’s daughter might
ESTHER Rantzen. If one thing can be blamed on Jimmy Savile’s perversion it is that he got Esther Rantzen back on the news cycle. She said of Savile:
“We all blocked our ears to the gossip.”
She says:
“It would be such a great shame if all that work was sabotaged by this. My concern is for the children who are suffering and other survivors who need support…I would be very, very distressed if people lost confidence in me, particularly if people working with children lose confidence in me, but I’m told that everyone who works at whole-heatedly support me.”
That’s Esther Rantzen who set up ChildLine in 1986, a confidential phone service for under 19s to open up about abuse.
Reader AGW writes:
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG – “Smelly Old Git” to his more mature victims – was not alone. Others covered up because of easy sexual favours, career ambitions or fear of disclosure.
There are other forms of predatory sexual abuse and career leg ups:
The reference below dates eight years after the fact. Eight years of clandestine bumping the uglies or as Wilcox described his soirees with Rantzen “urgent” talks.
That’s life: Esther Rantzen broke my mother’s heart
The Wilcox children were less than amused. If there had been a Childline then – and knowing what the principal’s principles were – they may have not used it.
Wilcox was high up at the BBC. He died before Savile.
In 2001, Olga Craig wrote:
IT was a callous moment of contempt: the instant when the years of dislike Esther Rantzen had harboured for her husband’s ex-wife, Patsy, boiled over into public vitriol. Within a month of her former rival’s cremation Esther, seated next to her step-daughter Cassandra, Patsy’s daughter, gleefully answered a quiz question which asked what had recently burned in Richmond. “My husband’s ex-wife,” Esther shrieked triumphantly.
Cassandra Wilcox, Desmond Wilcox’s daughter by his first wife Patsy, claimed: “It was the moment I became aware of the extent of Esther’s bitterness towards my mother.”
Esther and Desmond’s love began as an illicit affair.
Through access to her mother’s unpublished manuscripts she tells how Patsy felt Esther had stolen her husband and “gushingly publicised every detail of her marriage” to Desmond. Describing how her parents met as cub reporters, Cassandra says Desmond first met Esther when she joined the BBC. She and Patsy worked together and Patsy invited her home to meet “this fantastic guy I am married to”.
Esther visited so often that Cassandra called her “Aunty Esther”. But when Patsy found out that she was having an affair with her husband and asked how she could do it, she alleges Esther said: “May I please remind you that you said I could not only join the queue but I should go to the front. That is exactly what I did.”
Desmond left Patsy and his children to live with Esther – although he came back briefly, only to leave again. Revealing how she first met Esther when she visited the couple’s flat in Chelsea, Cassandra says it was the only time Esther ever made her a cup of tea. “She was quite open about the fact that she could not cook, use a vacuum cleaner or sew. She never needed to. She had become a star and had her own domestic staff”…
Patsy was so traumatised by her husband’s desertion that she had to be admitted to Charing Cross Hospital. While there she bought a flat in Richmond and Desmond and Esther, who were looking after the children, moved into the family home at Kew…
Patsy wrote in her manuscript: “Sometimes when I leave my BBC office on a cold, wet evening to come home to my little flat, I have to walk past Esther and her children. They will be waiting for a chauffeur-driven car to take them home. To what was my home”…
Patsy, Cassandra says, never found happiness after Desmond left her. In turn, she says, Esther always felt bitter towards Patsy. “When I ask myself why,” says Cassandra, “my only answer lies in something my mother wrote in 1977: ‘I dislike her for the pain and distress she has caused people I love dearly. I know it may sound odd, but that includes my husband. If Esther is a real person she will find it difficult to find total happiness at the cost of what it has taken to get what she wants.”
Good old Esther…
Photo: 1978: Emily Alice sleeps through it all but her first public appearance in the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, is a smash hit with her parents Esther Rantzen (37), presenter of ‘That’s Life’, and BBC Executive Desmond Wilcox (46). The baby weighed 7lb 4oz.
Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jimmy Savile sends ripples through cement industry
JIMMY Savile: the ripples are felt in the cement industry:
Jim’ll Mix It is a leading supplier of concrete in London. With over 20 years of experience, products and services to suit any size job and state of the art equipment you can be sure of quality service.
Savile’s coffin was, of course, encased on concrete.
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Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Seb Coe kicks Justin Lee Collins to death (video)
JUSTIN Lee Collins, the criminal (listen to the tape) gets ‘kicked to death’ by Seb Coe:
Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jimmy Savile’s ‘Mrs Fix-it’ Janet Cope reveals the callous laughing man she knew
IN “MY 32 YEARS WITH SAVILE”, the Daily Mirror looks to have a scoop. Did Sir James Savile have a lover? Did he fancy older women and underage girls and boys? Dunno. All we get is Janet Cope, 70, Jimmy Savile’s former PA. Jimmy Savile gave her away at her wedding. She’d asked him to. She said of the big day:
“It was a super day, absolutely lovely. Jim always had to be the centre of attention, but I was happy to let him enjoy it. I thought it was funny.”
Janet Cope spoke with the Daily Mail in 2011. The paper says Cope and Savile worked together for 28 years, a relationship began in 1971. Highlights are:
Janet Cope: “I’m a better person because of Jimmy. He taught me so much about how to fight for what you believe in, because that’s what he always did. He helped so many people in his life, and I’m proud to have been part of that.”
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Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)
This Justin Lee Collins secret recording helped find him guilty
JUSTIN Lee Collins did not go to prison for harassing his girlfriend Anna Larke. He got community service. Want to hear the kind of thing he said to her? Here you go. I
f you spoke like this to a stranger – hit a stranger; spat at stranger – do you think you’d get community service? Domestic violence doesn’t mean it’s tame.
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
How deaf quadriplegic David Rose duped twitter, Kim Kardashian and the press
REMEMBER Twitter’s David “Dave on Wheels” Rose, the 24-year-old, deaf quadriplegic with cerebral palsy? He composed tweets with his eyes..? Sure you do.
The Daily Mail wrote about Dave:
In a tragic turn of events a deaf quadriplegic who found internet fame with his touching, witty Facebook and Twitter posts has died. 24-year-old David Rose captured the hearts of thousands as he took to the web with his seemingly unfaltering positive attitude and love for life despite the odds. But on Thursday he lost his life-long battle against the severe cerebral palsy he was born with that had committed him to existence in a wheelchair. He succumbed to pneumonia after being admitted to hospital with a cold late last week.
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Technology | Comment
Snoop Dogg’s 10 reasons he isn’t voting for Mitt Romney
THIS settles the US election: Snoop Dogg’s 10 reasons he isn’t voting for Mitt Romney. Game over:
Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Politicians | Comment
Hiatus gotta hate: Honey Boo Boo gets mocked on KTLA Morning News
EVERYONE favourite Other Child Honey Boo, star of Georgia, has been on the KTLA Morning News with her mamma.
It’s all hideous. It’s TV. It’s meant to be. The host and hostess have all the sincerity of wet, sliced, white bread.
They set it up. Honey Boo hammers it in.
TV’s job is to showcase a stereotype. Honey Boo and her mother are held up to be mocked. Get a load of the arsehat in beige asking how “funny” it is that mama knows the word “hiatus”.
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The Beastie Boys never met Jimmy Savile – but Jimmy Page got name checked
WERE The Beastie Boys right about Jimmy Savile Page?
If I played guitar I’d be Jimmy Page The girlie’s I like are underage…
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Then and now: Children of horror films grown up
WHAT happened to the child stars of horror films?
Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Film, Flashback | Comment (1)
Rare photos of the Rolling Stones on their 1965 US Tour
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FOUND: Photographs of the Rolling Stones, will be a month long exhibition of twenty-three rare and candid photographs that document the legendary Rolling Stones on their American tour in 1965. Curated by Lauren White and George Augusto the exhibit is presented by Dilettante in collaboration with Apart Projects.
In and around the landscape of Savannah, Georgia and Clearwater, Florida, the eager and compelling subjects are Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and founding member/road manager, Ian Stewart.
Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment (1)
Frankie Boyle is not a racist: he just picks on soft targets like Jews and the disabled
FRANKIE Boyle says the Mirror libelled him when it wrote on 19 July 2011:
“Racist comedian Frankie Boyle could soon be returning to TV despite upsetting thousands of viewers with his sick jokes.”
Boyle says he was defamed by the Mirror when it said he’d been “forced to quit” the BBC comedy show Mock The Week.
His barrister, David Sherborne, told the jury at the High Court, London:
“Saying ‘vile’ or ‘offensive’, or his material is ‘vile’ or ‘offensive’, is one thing. He realises that that goes with the territory, so to speak. But accusing him of being a racist is an entirely different matter…You can call him ‘offensive’, you can call him ‘tasteless’. That’s fine. But he is not racist.”
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Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jimmy Savile was the self-declared Paedo King who ‘inappropriately pulled’
JIMMY Savile news from the BBC on twitter:
BBC #Newsnight’s investigation into Jimmy #Savile was “inappropriately pulled” – UK Culture Secretary Maria Miller
After that unfortunate choie of words, we hear from Kevin Cook, now 45, who says that when aged 9 Savile molested him on a Jim’ll Fix It show. Cook says Savile told him:
“Are you ready to earn your badge?”
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Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Girls Aloud: Getting back together, just so they can split up
LIKE it or not, Girls Aloud are just about the best pop-group that these isles produced after the Millennium, in a period where rock lost its way, dance music turned into a dubstep version of Kiss and pop ruled absolute. Girls Aloud kicked the door in, introduced fun that was hip and, for a period, put an end to all those dreadful bloody ballads.
And then they went away, had varying degrees of success with their solo careers (Nadine’s being particularly gruesome), with the threat of coming back and showing Stooshe & Co how you’re really supposed to be a pop outfit.
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Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Damien Hirst’s dead hand moves from moths to butterflies to vultures
DAMIEN Hirst is the butterfly killer. At his show In And Out of Love at London’s Tate Modern, the butterflies hatch, fly about and then land on bowls of fruit, sugary water and flowers. Some, however, gets trodden on, batted off clothes and killed. In the 23 weeks the show ran for 9,000 butterflies died.
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Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment
Jimmy Savile in FHM: ‘Lock up your daughters’
WHEN Jimmy Savile appeared in FHM, the magazine mocked up a headline: “Lock Uo Your Daughters”…
Add it to the collection.
Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Jimmy Savile: ‘I’m feared in every girls’ school in this country’
JIMMY Savile appeared on the BBC’s Have I Got New For You. The transcript was a hoax. What he said wasn’t: “I’m feared in every girls’ school in this country.”
Not to mention every ward, studio, dressing room and morgue…
Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Chris Be Burgh explains his favourite lyric
CHRIS de Burgh. What is your favourite lyric, Chris?
“I would pick ‘Snow is Falling’ from my album The Road To Freedom. It’s like a movie. If you can imagine a camera very slowly moving into a snowscape. It’s like Doctor Zhivago. You are moving along, everything is white, covered in snow, and you go into a forest, and there are these big fir trees. It is obviously Eastern Europe or somewhere, and the fir trees are covered in snow, and the boughs are heavy with snow, and occasionally bits will fall off. It’s all in one go, like a Hitchcock shot, and you go right into the forest and there is a clearing and in the clearing is very disturbed ground, covered in snow, and the camera goes in and below the ground are the bodies of three or four hundred young men and boys who have been executed, and this is them calling to be found….Snow is falling and we are calling to be found.”
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Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
