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.
Manchester home to biggest music thieves in the UK – pirates have awful taste in music
PIRACY of music is still something of a contentious issue. Some say it is theft, some say it isn’t because it doesn’t remove the original, rather, makes a copy. Basically though, it is quite obviously stealing and if you can deal with that, then go buck wild.
And as the headline suggests, Manchester is the biggest pirate city in the UK, and the United Kingdom happens to be the second worst country in the world for illegal music downloads behind the United States. While this is all well and good, there’s some very, very disturbing news hidden away in the stats.
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Posted: 17th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Film of the day: Untitled International Suspense Thriller
FILM of the day: Untitled International Suspense Thriller. Hope it keeps that name:
Lady Gaga and the Daily Mail caption fail
LADY Gaga has a new tattoo. At the launch of her new bottled smell at New York’s Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Gaga got inked by Mark Mahoney. The Daily Mail trawls twitter for the photos (more on that here) and gets a sub-editor to caption them. One says:
Taking it all in: The audience at the party watched in amazement as the tattooing took place
As you can see, not a single face is looking at Gaga at all.
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Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Tara Palmer Tompkinson’s new single
TARA Palmer Tompkinson’s new single?
Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Mercury Music Prize winners 2012 in photos
THE winners of the Mercury Music Prize for 2012 are – the lucky ones who can say Simon Cowell (the man whose CD collection fits onto a single shelf) and reality TV had no part in their success:
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A day with Jessica Simpson’s stomach: what goes in
BY now you’ll be wondering what Jessica Simpson has had for breakfast. One day Jessica Simpson will be like Donna Simpson (no relation), the walking postcode who earns a crust being paid to eat in front of her webcam and then squash people.
But the question remains: is Jessica eating enough to rival 600 pounds of Donna? US magazine has obtained Jessica’ one-day meal planner. Anyone planning to kidnap Jessica, should know that her day is split into seven parts.
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Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Daily Mail’s Sandra Parsons lays into ‘stunted’ Peaches Geldof
MORE on how Peaches Geldof’s pram hit a loose paving slab that caused her baby to tumble – an event recorded by a paparazzo who had the quick wits to sell it to the Daily Mail. The Mail’s Sandra Parsons sees a column:
…when I saw those heart-stopping photos of Peaches Geldof’s baby toppling over in his buggy (right), I certainly didn’t condemn her for being a bad mother.
Oh, no?
…what really disturbs me is that, despite her obvious concern for the baby, it didn’t occur to her to drop her phone.
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Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)
Katie Holmes wants to date someone ‘taller than me’: Tom Cruise might weep
KATIE Holmes is in conversation with OK! magazine. She delivers a cold blow to her ex-husband Tom Cruise:
“It sounds shallow, I like being tall, [but] going on dates with someone who is shorter…I just want to be with somebody who is taller than me.”
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Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Taboo: The Boy George Musical arrives in Brixton: photos of the Blitz remembered
SO. To the press preview of Taboo: The Boy George Musical, featuring: Sam Buttery as Leigh Bowery. Other spots are: Philip Salon (Paul Baker), Kim (Niamh Perry), Boy George (Matthew Rowland) and Billy (Alastair Brammer).
In 2010, we watched Worried About the Boy on BBC2’s – a “compassionate” dramatisation of vituperative and loveable Boy George’s early life before TOTP and stardom. It lacked the badly-lit sex, had not enough of Covent Garden’s Blitz club where George, Marilyn, Steve Strange, Martin Degvill, Carl Teper, Spandau et al nurtured their pop dreams and music. The musical is far better. The soundtrack is an improvement on the telly show. Although those coming to see the musical at the Brixton Club House will need to supply their own sex and drugs…
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Posted: 11th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Daily Mail’s Emily Sheridan bemoans seeing outline of Tulisa’s bra in paparazzi photos
EMILY Sheridan has news for Daily Mail readers on the matter of Tulisa’s dress:
The tighter the better: Tulisa steps out in a unflattering short skirt as she promotes autobiography
Emily clacks her marmalade-coated tongue and writes:
Her dress sense is often savaged by fashion critics…
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Posted: 11th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Death of the Gay Cliche – the movie
DEATH of the Gay Cliche – the movie is our advert of the day. To advertise Queer Lisboa 16, theLisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, FUEL Lisbon created this film:
Did Daily Mail’s paparazzi cause Peaches Geldof’s baby to fall from pram? Princess Diana all over again
SO. Likeable Peaches Geldof is walking down the road in East London. She’s pushing her baby, Astala, in a top-of-the-range stroller. She is talking on the phone. The sun is out. And in front of her is man from Gotcha images pointing his camera at her. She’s seen the paparazzi before. Gotcha has snapped her walking her baby back in August. You can buy those images online.
They must have sold because the snappers took more.
This time, Peaches hit a pothole. Astala is tipped from her buggy. A 23-year-old woman needs help. The man from Gotcha just clicks the shutter. The young mum, with a look of concern on her face, lifts up her baby and places her back in the pram. She then tweets:
“It’s impossible to see these cracks when pushing a pram. The Mayor of London should do something about it it’s ridiculous!”
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Posted: 11th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
The best, worst and most confusing costumes of Bestival 2012 (photos)
TO Bestival, Isle of Wight, to see the revellers in costume. One problem with his show is that many of the crew don’t know what the acts look like. You dress like a furry and the next minute you’re on the main stage playing your maracas:
Rihanna’s breasts are ready for take off
RIHANNA has remembered her grandma who passed away by inking her underboobage with a likeness of the Goddess Isis, whose wings may well be made from wire.
Says the singer on Instagram:
Goddess Isis- Complete Woman – Model for future generations- #GRANGRANDOLLY – always in and on my heart #1love
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Posted: 10th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
The Church of Scientology’s rambling paranoid letter to Vanity Fair: the ‘herculean’ David Miscavige
IN this month’s Vanity Fair, Maureen Orth talks about the Church of Scientology. She mentions David Miscavige and Tom Cruise. She asks The Church of Scientology 32 questions. Jeffrey K. Riffer, of the law firm Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP, writes a response: It’s dated August 16, 2012.
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Posted: 10th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Photos of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter treehouse
JK Rowling can build her massive Harry Potter treehouse, the one that looks like Hogwarts. The City of Edinburgh Council says Rowling’s children, David and Mackenzie, can run around in the twin towers. Other authors might like to do likewise, let their nippers play in a fantasy world. Aesop, after all, brought his kids up a giant wooden pub called the Dog & Wolf, and J. M. Barrie’s son used to sleep strapped to a ceiling fan with a leather belt:
Posted: 10th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Crap celebrity merchandise: the Jedward ‘popping’ bar
THE JEDWARD “popping chocolate bar” are on sale. No, not pooping. Popping.
As Thomas E. Scott says: “Louis Walsh sits in a little nest and lays several of these every hour.”
Spotter: Brendan O’Neill
Posted: 10th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comments (6)
Terry Nukins – tribute video
TERRY Nutkins has died. You can read about his interesting life here. You can see the tribute video hereunder. The youth loved him:
Posted: 9th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Two great hours with Lady Gaga in Twickenham: the photos
HOW can you not enjoy Lady Gaga, a little, lithe, dance-bodied twenty-something New Yorker who dresses from the deli counter and emerges on the Twickenham stage from a giant eyeball-veined womb, like a fairytale queen on a bag of rosy red apples about to be sieved through her metal fascinator? They comes to pay obeisance to the woman who pulls off knickers, bra and fishnets in public. They are not disappointed. Gaga includes the fans. She sings the hits with enthusiasm. She is self-indulgent, and unafraid of vocalising her opinions, notably on gays in the military. Sometimes she takes drugs. She compliments all, any and each sex on its appeal. Lady Gaga is the popstar you want to solve the problem presented by all the ones you don’t want. Now, what do you wear to meet her?
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Posted: 9th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Remembering Eddy Huntington and My Friend Dick
FLASHBACK remembers Eddy Huntington, the model discovered by Italy’s Baby Records. Eddy’s biggest hit was USSR. But Meet My Friend was worthy of note, it being Huntington’s only UK release.
After success in pop, Huntington became a primary school teacher at Eldon Grove Primary School, Hartlepool. He’s the Deputy Headteacher of Rosebrook Primary School,Stockton-on-Tees.
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Posted: 9th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, Music | Comment
RIP Terry Nutkins: unassisted hair and a genuinely private private life
RIP Terry Nutkins. You were the Windsor Safari Park general manager who in 1985 fed fish to dolphin mother Honey, on the occasion of her one year old baby Juno (r) birthday celebrations at the safari park. Before that, the eight-year-old Nutkins used to bunk off school, break into London Zoo and feed the elephants. (You used to be able to get into the Zoo by jumping the small fence by the canal, so I am, er, told).
At the age of 14, an otter bit off two of his fingers. At the time, Nutkins was living with the writer Gavin Maxwell (author of the classic Ring of Bright Water, the story of a smooth-coated otter he brought back from Iraq and reared in Scotland), described in the Telegraph as “a dysfunctional Peter Pan figure who eschewed adult company”.
Nutkins was famous because he was on the telly, fronting Animal Magic with Johnny Morris (and his bucket of fish) and creating The Real Wild Show. Back then a man with unassisted hair and a genuinely private private life could present very good children’s telly on the BBC without a need to go on a gameshows of trace his family tree. Back then humanity wasn’t always the baddie on nature programmes.
Looking at today’s telly stars, Nutkins was from another planet.
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Posted: 7th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Rihanna seen kissing Chris Brown at VMAs
LORDY. Rihanna is absolutely determined to be an apologist for Chris Brown. Fine, she wants to forgive him and take a stronger stance than playing the victim or letting the awful beating she took ruin her life, but there’s something to make everyone incredibly uneasy about this whole tawdry affair.
Ri was seen kissing Breezy on the lips (as the video shows) at the MTV VMAs and it will no doubt add fuel to the notion that everyone should just leave Chris Brown alone. Team Breezy, Brown’s unswerving fans, will be thrilled at the sight of this, thinking that there’s officially nothing wrong with supporting a man who hospitalised a woman.
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Posted: 7th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Lana Del Rey to quit singing! (With any luck)
LANA DEL REY has always seemed disingenuous, bursting onto the scene on daddy’s money and dragging that long face of hers about the place with her vapid, weedy blub-pop. Well, praise be! Seems that she can’t be bothered being a popstar anymore and has revealed plans to branch out into screenwriting!
According to The Sun, Del Rey said:
“When I was first starting, I had a vision of being a writer for film and that’s what I am doing now. I’m so happy. Hopefully I will branch into film work and stay there.”
“What would it say? Everything I wanted to say, I’ve said already… I don’t think I’ll write another record.”
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Posted: 7th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Naked Lana Del Rey beats off Boris Johnson
THE GQ Men of the Year awards 2012 featured 21 winners. One was a women. Her name: Lana Del Rey. Who appears naked on the post-awards issue? Any guesses…?
PS – Of the other winners, surely a naked Boris Johnson would sell more magazines that pouting Del Ray. (Unless you are one of the many to have seen zippy in the buff already.)
Posted: 7th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Shia LaBoeuf admires Sean Penn’s ability to cheat death
SHIA LaBeouf lives his art. The actor took LSD to get into characater for The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.
“There’s a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there’s a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that (electric) chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.”
Only, no-one thought to plug Sean Penn into the mains. He was – get this – pretending….
Posted: 7th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
