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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.
S&M Club Man Jamie Theakston Advertises Activia TLC
JAMIE Theakston is on our TV screens advertising Activia pouring yoghurt. Jamie says it’s “TLC” for your body.
Might this be the same Jamie Theakston who in 2002 – ahem – “asked a taxi driver to take him to a late night drinking club and ended up in a Mayfair brothel indulging in a bondage session”?
TLC, readers…
Posted: 20th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
OK! Disingenuous Story Of The Day: With X Factor’s Sinitta
CHERYL Cole languishes on the cover of OK! and illustrates the line:
“I’m worried about Cher.”
Cher is Cher Lloyd, Dot Cotton’s team America action figure on the X Factor.
Inside the magazine and the big exclusive is not with Cheryl Cole but an interview with Sinitta, Simon Cowell’s Oddjob still waiting for spin-off series of her own. She has news, sort of. The “EXCLUSIVE” facts from Sinitta are:
- Cher and Cheryl have no fallen out – at least, “I don’t think so”.
- Cher is “very slim”.
- Cher is stroppy. That’s Cher, the teenage girl who wants to be a telly and popstar.
In other front-page news, OK! does have one fact that can be backed up: it costs £1.99.
Posted: 20th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston Covers: The Content Factory Exposed
BRAD PITT, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston are immersed in a tabloid maelstrom of news, no news, denials, non-denials and outright lies that make up the Brangelina Anison content factory. We’ve pulled together a collection of magazine covers from the past few years that are short on facts but big on sensation.
Enjoy the news that Knox and Shiloh had Downs; Brad breaking up with Angelina a few times; Jen kissing Brad; and a baby that never was…
Posted: 19th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)
Brangelina And Aniston News Hunt: Tabloids Mine Courteney Cox And David Arquette Break Up
JENNIFER Aniston “WRECKED” Courteney Cox’s marriage to David Arquette. Yep, it wasn’t Jasmine Waltz, them not getting along nor any another other reason. It was all Aniston, says the Enquirer, one magazine that each week leads with either Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston, aka The Brangelina Industry.
Inside the magazine and we find out “How Jen Ruined Courtney’s Marriage”.
Cox and Arquette say their split is “to better understand ourselves and the qualities we need in a parent and for our marriage”.
Seems to the point, even if the language is a bit stilted. Cox and Arquette have not traded on their love nor sought to profit from it. They can be left alone. Well, no. The Enquirer needs a reason to feature Anistosn on its front page, and this is it.
So. How did Aniston “WRECK” the marriage? Well, a source says:
“But the big problem was the fact that Courtney spent so much time talking about her problems with friends, especially Jen. [Friends. Jen. Can they ever move on?] If she and Jen had a fight it was always Jen’s shoulder Courteney ended up crying on.”
So. Cox and Arquette were unhappy. And it had nothing to do with Aniston. Got it?
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Posted: 19th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Hilary Swank Dazzles At Conviction Premiere: Oscar’s In The Bag
54th BFI London Film Festival: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank dazzled with a nod to Jimmy Savile’s love of gold lamé at the premiere of Conviction. This one might give Swank another Oscar.
It’s based on the true story of Betty Anne Waters, who devoted her life to freeing her brother, whom she believes has been falsely convicted of murder. Says Swank: “You don’t have any control over (awards), so you just do your work.” But you do get to pick the scripts…
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Alex Curran In Steven Gerrard Liverpool Leggings Storm: Photos
ALEX Curran is the vacuous subject of the most vacuous story ever to appear on Anorak. Our partners at PA have obtained exclusives shots of Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard’s wife avoiding a parking ticket. She’s parked an Aston Martin on a double yellow line as she lunches with her footballer. That means no stopping at any time. Still, she got no ticket. Time for a huge heated debate about where the sweater and black Max Wall–style tights are suitable attire for luncheon…
(Cynics will enjoy picture 5)
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Posted: 16th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Keith Richards Called Mick Jagger ‘Brenda’ And ‘Your Majesty’: Photos
KEITH Richards says in his autobiography Life that he called Mick Jagger “Brenda” or “Your Majesty”, and compares coping with an annoying mynah bird as “like living with Mick“. Richards adds:
“I used to love Mick, but I haven’t been to his dressing room in 20 years.”
He’s not the only one…
On a personal note: I spent a while watching snooker and eating HP sauce with Keith Richards in the 1980s. He was charming and generous. The only comment he made on Mick Jagger was “bit poofy”, when Mick flounced into view on an old tape we watched.
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Vince Vaughn’s Gay Gag Video: Cinema’s Goers Get Remote Controls To SKIP, MUTE And PAUSE Best And Worst Bits
VINCE Vaughn wants the gays to lighten up and take the joke at their expense. In his new film, The Dilemma,Vaughn’s character – who like Vauhgn is white and straight – says:
“Ladies and gentlemen, electric cars are gay. I mean, not ‘homosexual’ gay but ‘my parents are chaperoning the dance’ gay.”
That was the film’s trailer. Anyone who found it funny and wanted to see the film on the strength of the gag alone will be disappointed to learn that the joke has been expunged from the film’s new trailer (original one is below).
Presumably, the joke still exists in the film. But we reserve the right to be offended and call on cinemas to equip each person in the auditorium with a remote control. If over half press “SKIP GAY“, the gag will be skipped. The system will be adapted for other films – a “PAUSE” button for nude scenes; a “REWIND” button for, er, nude scenes you might have missed; and a “MUTE” for Mel Gibson’s lines.
It’s a huge media shitstorm into which CNN’s Anderson cooper (gay) wades in on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”:
“I was sitting … in a movie theater over the weekend, and there was a preview of a movie, and in it the actor said, ‘That’s so gay.’ And I was shocked … not only that they put that in the movie, but that they put that in the preview, they thought that was okay to put it in the preview to the movie to get people to go and see it. We gotta do something to make those words … unacceptable, ’cause those words are hurting kids.”
Gay-rights organization GLAAD also weighed in on the controversy. GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios says.
“The use of the word ‘gay’ in this trailer as a slur is unnecessary and does nothing more than send a message of intolerance about our community to viewers.”
What says Vince Vaughn, star of films watched by people who don’t see or crave meaning in anything? Well, (via Deadline):
“Let me add my voice of support to the people outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences, whatever those differences may be. Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing dividing lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly that; it divides us. Most importantly, where does it stop.”
Gays jokes bind people and communities. Vince has spoken.
To your keypads, viewers. The Dilemma is on. Press the “SHOULD HAVE SEEN SOMETHING ELSE” button now!
Vaughn wants the gays to lighten up and take the joke at their expense. In his new film, The Dilemma,
Posted: 15th, October 2010 | In: Film | Comments (2)
Guns ‘n’ Roses Play The O2 In Photos: Axl Rose Morphs Into Van Morrison
GUN’S ‘n’ Roses were playing the 02 Arena, in London. Last time the act was in the region, they threw a hissy fit in Dublin and walked off the stage. This time they played on. Although given the glasses, the hat, the bandanas and the jacket – always that jacket – Axl Rose could have been pretty much anyone. Which reminds us – anyone seen Van Morrison..?
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Sir Cliff Richard At 7O: A Life In Pictures
SIR Cliff Richard is 70. The irrepressible singer reached three score years and ten. What’s been Cliff’s high point? Being knighted? Reaching the top of the hit parade in three different centuries, once with a timpani? Selling over 150 million singles? Falling out of favour with Chris Evans. We’ve pulled together a large photo history of Cliff’s career to date. Fans will love the pictures. Non-fans will appreciate the historical tinges and staging…
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Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (8)
Cheryl Cole Moves On From Ashley With Song About Breaking Up
CHERYL Cole never needed England footballing great Ashley Cole to get on. The woman born Cheryl Tweedy never needed Cole’s surname to move her away from the TV talent show singer with a conviction for assaulting a toilet attendant.
Now divorced from Ashley Cole, Cheryl can finally be her own woman.
On her new album Messy Little Raindrops, she sings the song Happy Tears, lyrics released to an expectant and compliant media:
I cried when I heard you were cheatin’
I cried when I said I was leavin’
I cut off my hair and painted my toes
I sold all the diamonds and burnt all your clothes
I cried when I slashed all your tyres
I cried when your suit hit the fire
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Perez Hilton Will No Longer Out Gays For Our Entertainment
PEREZ Hilton, the “gossip gangsta” and sometime writer of the self-styled “Hollywood’s Most-Hated Web Site”, the celebrity watcher gone native called Mario Lavandeira has made it part of his remit to out gay stars, like “Doogie Howser” star Neil Patrick Harris and Lance Bass.
Not everyone wants to be outed. Some people who do not trade on their sexuality, who are not hypocrites, want a private life. Justin Aarberg, 15, committed suicide for hat Barack Obama’s chief aide called his “lifestyle choice“.
Hilton wrote:
“We are so proud (despite the nay-sayers) in having a hand in bringing about change. We’ve said it before and we will say it again: the closet no longer exists if you are a celebrity or a politician!”
Adding:
“It upsets me that people think what I’m doing is a bad thing … I know there is some controversy about outing people, but I also believe the only way we’re gonna have change is with visibility. And if I have to drag some people screaming out of the closet, then I will.”
Great stuff. Perez will out you and make himself famous and newsworthy. How this helps, say, the teenagers outed in public with a big sperm volcano of a penis painted on their portraits is not important to Perez’s public service. The mission to serve is all.
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Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Keira Knightley And Carey Mulligan Never Let Me Go Red Carpet Photos
KEIRA Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield rocked up for the European premiere of Never Let Me Go at the Odeon Leicester Square, London. Knightley once told Allure magazine:
“I hate red-carpet events; I absolutely hate them. I don’t like the fact that people write, ‘Oh, you look like crap’ in print. Or ‘I don’t like your arms!’ ”
“I’m not Wonder Woman. I have self-esteem problems. Everybody does. You know, skinny people are allowed to feel shit about themselves.
“I haven’t got a clue about how much I weigh. I do not own any scales.”
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Posted: 13th, October 2010 | In: Film | Comments (3)
Michael Parkinson Savages Russell Brand: Well, He’s No Billy Connolly
MICHAEL Parkinson says Russell Brand is “Talentless, unfunny and lucky to be famous”. Well, Brand never did get to flick back his hair, stroke his beard and go on Parky’s chatshow, like, say, Billy Connolly did time and time and time again.
Connell went on to be a screen actor. As Parky says on Brand:
“I mean Rin Tin Tin had a very big career in Hollywood and he was a dog. An Alsatian. You don’t have to be particularly talented to have a career in Hollywood.”
Well, no. and you don’t have to be a great journalist to be TV interviewer. Still, it is good to see that Parkinson has his pet hates. And the last word is with Craig Brown, whose pet hat is Parkinson:
“He’s the real pits isn’t he? The idea that he should be rewarded as the master of chat with a knighthood is laughable. He has a complete lack of curiosity about anyone.”
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Posted: 13th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (14)
Russell Brand Wears Tom Cruise’s Killer Heels At Despicable Me Premier (Photos)
TO the premier of the cartoon film Despicable Me at the Empire, Leicester Square, London. Russell Brand give voice to a character called Dr Nefario, a criminal mastermind.
He also wore a pair of short stilts on his feet – Tom Cruise own-brand – and was interviewed by Jenni Falconer, an experience akin to having your ear rubbed along a wet bubble of washing up liquid.
Also there were a cluster of celebrity liggers and… Anneka Tanaka-Svenska. We have no idea who she is and fining out will only spoil the thrill of a name dreamt up by a Nippon-Scandinavian law firm…
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Courteney Cox And David Arquette Split: Was Scream 4 To Blame?
COURTENEY Cox and David Arquette have split up. Before the inevitable days out in the tabloids with Jennifer Aniston, we ask: was Scream 4 a sequel too far? Before Our man in LA reports:
Did that which brought them together also tear them apart?
Hollywood’s gotta be asking itself that question about Courteney Cox and David Arquette, in the wake of their split.
The pair first coupled during production of the film “Scream,” when Cox was cast as bitchy broadcaster Gayle Weathers with Arquette in the role of ditzy Deputy Dewey Riley.
The announcement of their separation comes just as production wraps on “Scream 4,” in which Cox and Arquette’s characters are now man and wife.
Confusing, non?
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Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Justin Bieber Envies Your Simple Poor ‘Normal’ Life
JUSTIN Bieber is cautionary tale. It might look like’s having fun and giving music fans a target to hit, but the singing foetus craves what you take for granted: he just wants to be “normal”.
“Now that I’m here, I sometimes wish I could just go back home and chill. But if I was at home and I wasn’t doing this, I’d wish that I was in this position.”
What is it about Bieber that like makes you want to teach out and cuff it? Other things that engender the same reaction are:
- The BBC continuity announcer saying: “It’s Strictly.”
- Noel Edmonds’ secret Moses–To-God talks with the ‘Banker”.
- Switzerland.
- Any TV show with a horse in the opening credits.
- Anyone who plays Dr Who not playing Dr Who
- Michael Parkinson talking to Billy Connelly in public
- Justin Bieber
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Posted: 11th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
George Michael Is Out And Wagging In Highgate: Photos
GEORGE Michael is out. No, not out. We knew he was gay last week. The news cycle might look like it’s on repeat where Georgios Panayiotou is concerned, a same story loop of drugs – car – court for the shot of memory to keep up with, but Michael is moving on. He is out of jail. and back at his house in Highgate, north London, after being released from prison. He posed for the cameras, rubbed his head, wagged his finger, pulled on some dark glasses and, hopefully, remembered to put the number for a minicab firm on his phone…
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Posted: 11th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The Amanda Knox Story: Hayden Panettiere And Colin Firth Debate The Entertaining Murder
HAYDEN Panettiere is to portray Meredith Kercher’s murderer Amanda Knox in a chocolate box film TV called The Amanda Knox Story. In what still passes for reality, Raffaele Sollecito, Rudy Guede and Knox sexually assaulted Kercher and slashed the British girl’s throat with a knife in Perugia. That was way, way, way back in 2007.
Amanda Knox: ‘Shit Happens’ When A Stranger Strikes
Knox got 26 years jail – Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years while Guede got 30 years. Guede, who is black and from the Ivory Coast has not been heard of. But Knox, who is blonde and American, is a cause celebre for anyone wanting to bash the Italians and tap into a bit of sexy-drug-fulled scandal.
So. Can a young, fit, sexually active American be a murderer in a picturesque setting with coffee shops and an aqueduct? Well, yes.
Meredith Kercher Murder: Amanda Knox Says It’s Not ‘Fair’
Can a TV company make some cash and fiction from a girl’s brutal murder? Can it open up the story to a debate? Yes. It’s already begun. Get a load of this from the Telegraph:
Colin Firth is to play a journalist investigating the mystery surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
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Posted: 10th, October 2010 | In: Film | Comments (2)
John Lennon At 70: He Missed His Citroën And Apple Adverts But Saw The Light (Photos)
JOHN Lennon would have been 70th today. He never lived to see his advert for Apple or Citroën. He also missed every other mawkish anniversary of this death. How long can you go marking the birthday of a man before it looks like marketing-led campaign?
Lennon, A musician who with The Beatles make some great records and entertained millions is elevated to a sombre, mawkish and meaningful sainthood in a way he would surely have found ridiculous. Evey word of his is analysed and presented as if he never said anything that was not stuffed with meaning.
Says John: “I wanna hold your hand.” Hmmm. What hand? How did you want to hold it? What did you want to hold it with? Is John’s hand a sign of God’s love?
And here he would have been at 70. Or 80. Or 240. That sounds far-fetched. Unless, of course, in the far-flung future people are living to 300 years plus, in which case it’s poignant. Yoko Ono might care to record such a greeting for every year up to 300 and beyond.
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To mark this occasion Yoko Ono is flogging a load of Lennon’s solo material which she “remastered” in big box set.
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Donald Trump Becomes A Doctor In Aberdeen (Photos)
DONALD Trump is now Dr Donald Trump. The man with the tsumani hair is a Doctor of Business Administration at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Why? No idea. But University chancellor, Sir Ian Wood CBE, praised Mr Trump’s 750 million luxury golf development on the Menie estate on the Aberdeenshire coast. So, maybe if you plant a lot of grass and promise to keep it manicured you can be a doctor. And if you’d like to make a small donation to the college, sir, Your Highness, Emperor of All You Survey etc., we would be ever so humble. Failing that, can you juggle..?
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Posted: 9th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
127 Hours Trailer: James Franco Is Cut And Alone With His Little Franco
JAMES Franco is the star of 127 Hours, the Hollywood-treated story of Aron Ralston, the climber who severed his own arm to escape being wedged in a mountain.
Franco is just about the most likable leading man right now. In the film, a bored and stressed Ralston masturbates. As is the way with all trite film interviews, the hack wonders how alike the star is to the character he plays. Franco amuses himself:
“So, when I’m alone, I do masturbate a lot. I don’t know why. It’s like you have those days where it’s just like, I have a ton of writing to do, or a ton of reading to do, and you’re just like, OK, I’m going to be on the couch all day or in bed all day just doing that… I tend to have a four- or five-time day. So, I probably would have if I was stuck under a rock.”
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Casting Couch Sex Is Organic
GWYNETH Paltrow knows that your semen is organic and low fat but she will not have oral sex with you to get the part in the film. For starters, she is not that type of girl. For seconds, she knows better. And for thirds, she is Blythe Danner’s daughter and her dad was a director:
She tells Elle, via Huffington Post:
When I was just starting out, someone suggested that we finish a meeting in the bedroom. I left. I was pretty shocked. I could see how someone who didn’t know better might worry, ‘My career will be ruined if I don’t give this guy a blow job!’
Phew!
Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
SugarBabes Singer Amelle Berrabah fined For Drink Driving (Photos)
AMELLE Berrabah of Sugarbabes was at Highbury Magistrates’ Court to be fined £2000 and get a 14 month driving ban for drink driving. Two words, celebs: Mini Cab. If you’re lucky, you might find a 1980s popstar driving one…
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The Social Network Facebook Film Hits London: Photos
THE Social Network – aka the Facebook Movie – arrived in London. We went to see Aaron Sorkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake at a photocall for The Social Network at the Dorchester. As for the film, The Daily Beast’s Rebecca Davis O’Brien, says the film’s women who serve Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are “doting groupies, sexed-up Asians, vengeful sluts, or dumpy, feminist killjoys.” But not media whores? Why does the new media hate women as much as the old media?
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