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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.
RIP Simon Monjack: The Brittany Murphy Foundation Loses Another
RIP Simon Monjack, widow to Brittany Murphy. The Los Angeles police department says the death is unexplained. The media will not agree.
The Mail:
He said he couldn’t bear the idea of having his wife’s body cut open, and called the coroner relentlessly – but to no avail.
His actions led to widespread internet rumours he was involved in her death, which he angrily denied.
Her death was classified as an accident. The rumours are given another airing.
Brittany Murphy Is Dead And The Media Destroys Her Name
But with Monjack goes his not all the charitable Brittany Murphy Foundation. It launched to much fanfare:
On Thursday, Murphy’s husband Simon Monjack is hosting a launch party to celebrate the Brittany Murphy Foundation, which is dedicated to arts education for children. (Monjack claims he started the foundation with $1 million of his own money.)
A source tells UsMagazine.com he is suggesting dollar amounts of $1,000 per individual and $10,000 from corporations to attend the event, which takes place at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
A source tells UsMagazine.com he is suggesting dollar amounts of $1,000 per individual and $10,000 from corporations to attend the event, which takes place at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Says a source, “Everyone thinks it’s very tacky that he is making it so much about money.”
Monjack has yet to comment.
In pictures: Brittany Murphy (1977-2009)
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Posted: 24th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Celebrities Then And Now: A Gallery Of Changing Faces
IN this gallery Anorak looks at what happened to teenage stars, sex symbols and celebrities who allowed age to catch up with them. Lindsay Lohan was once a bright-eyed child starlet. Now, she’s a glassy-eyed young adult famous for her media output. What lies in store for the aged star?
Posted: 24th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Sarah Ferguson Pimps Prince Andrew: The Cash For Equestrians Scandal In Pictures And Video
SARAH Ferguson pimps Prince Andrew in a tabloid sting, and we wonder if a meeting costs £500,000 how much a vial of his blood or a tube of semen goes for?
Of course, there are risks: Andrew shares the same genes with Princes Edward, the Tweed In Tweed, and things can disappoint. We’d advise crossing the DNA with Shergar’s and creating a new breed of Windsor – higher, loftier, faster. It’s the Cash For Equestrians scandal.
Sarah Ferguson: Life, Times And Fashion Crimes In Pictures
So. Caps off to the Express whish leads with a picture of Fergie biting her nails alongside the headline:
“BABIES DNA IN SECRET VAULTS.”
Or “stables” as Princesses call them.
The Daily Mail asks on its front page): “NOW WILL ANDREW THROW HER OUT?”
Yes? No? The Sun says:
Her grovelling came after she was yesterday seen in tears at Heathrow airport – and a pal said she may quit Britain for good.
The Duchess is in Los Angeles, where she is receiving the Catherine Variety Sheridan Award for her charity work.
Says a flame-haired source:
“Please give generously, guv’nor. I’ve been to Hull and back.”
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Posted: 24th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (13)
In Pictures: Rihanna Plays Radio 1 Big Weekend
RIHANNA played the Radio 1 Big Weekend in Bangor, Wales. Bangor in Wales. More of a question than a fact…
Radio 1 Big Weekend In Pictures: The Race To Be the UK’s Lady Gaga
In Pictures: Justin Bieber’s Groupie Face Tops Cheryl Cole
In Pictures: Cheryl Cole Works The Bangor Stage At Radio 1 Big Weekend
Jared Leto’s Day Trip To Bangor: Radio 1 Road Show Pictures
Radio 1 Big Weekend In Pictures: The Race To Be the UK’s Lady Gaga
DAY 2 of the Radio 1 Big Weekend, at Vaynol Estate in Bangor, and with Sue Pollard pre-booked, it’s left to Marina Diamandis, of Marina and the Diamonds, to wear Thumper’s old bedspread, huge bins and call it edgy fashion. The UK needs a Lady Gaga, apparently, Paloma Faith was the front runner, but Marina is catching up. By our calculations, in accordance with Boy George’s Karmic scale, Marina is a few inches of genitalia away from being Our Lady. Keep it royal…
In Pictures: Justin Bieber’s Groupie Face Tops Cheryl Cole
In Pictures: Cheryl Cole Works The Bangor Stage At Radio 1 Big Weekend
Jared Leto’s Day Trip To Bangor: Radio 1 Road Show Pictures
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Sarah Ferguson: Life, Times And Fashion Crimes In Pictures
SARAH Ferguson, Duchess of York (no HRH) has been in the public eye ever since her marriage to Prince Andrew, and hanging out with Princess Diana at royal dos. Fergie and Randy Andy pair then divorced and she set about a career as a jobbing royal for hire. We’ve put together a gallery of Fergie’s life and times – the wedding, the divorce, the children, the skiing and the celebrity. Always the celebrity…
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PA PHOTO 27/2/87 PRINCE CHARLES WATCHES HIS WIFE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES (CENTRE) AND SISTER IN LAW, THE DUCHESS OF YORK LARK ABOUT IN THE SNOW AT THE PHOTO SESSION MARKING THE START OF THEIR ANNUAL SKIING HOLIDAY. THE ROYAL PARTY, WITH THE DUKE OF YORK ARE STAYING IN THE CHIC WINTER RESORT OF KLOSTERS, IN THE SWISS ALPS.
Posted: 23rd, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Sarah Ferguson ‘Pimps’ Out Prince Andrew: Blue Blood On The Drip
WHEN we first read the NoTW headline “FERGIE sells Andy for £500,000”, we wondered if Andy Cole was worth it and when Alex Ferguson had brought him back from the wilderness.
It turns out that Fergie is Sarah Ferguson, the “devious Duchess” who can flog Prince Andrew, the golfing royal. Fake sheikh Mazher Mahmood says Ferguson is “desperate for cash” and is “putting her ex-husband’s good reputation on the line”.
Fergie says:
“I can open any door you want.”
Anorak would pay her half a million to open the door on the international space station.
Such are the shocks. Who knew Randy Andy had a reputation for anything other than golf and women? And given that rep, why not sell his seprm or vials of his blue blood? Do you need the whole man?
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Posted: 23rd, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (7)
Ronan Keating And Francine Cornell: Pictures And Love And On Your Knees
DID you know that Ronan Keating is “in love” with Francine Cornell, the blonde backing dancer now pushed to front stage centre? Lara Gould, Simon Wright and Dean Piper tell Mirror readers that the Boyzone singer with the uber alles hair is “in love” with Cornell and has been seeing her for seven months.
The paper says Cornell chucked her boyfriend of three years Nick Robbins for Keating, perhaps because cheating is wrong and Cornell wanted to see only one man at a time?
Nick’s father Royston explains in a commentary rich in detail:
“…He took her all over the world on holidays. She moved into his Chelsea flat and he helped her career…The last time I saw her was at a birthday dinner my wife and I attended with Nick and her a few days before they went off to Portugal. It was at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant in London…
“The next thing I heard was that she had told him, in front of all their friends on holiday, that she wanted to end things. It was October 25, Nick’s 30th birthday.”
Fetch the knife, the fork and the spoon and stick them right in.
“Nick was really upset. But he wouldn’t have a bad word said against her.”
Good-oh. Anyhow, Ronan is “in love” with Cornell. And love will triumph:
He is “besotted” with Francine – who he met during last year’s Boyzone tour – and even considered leaving his wife Yvonne to set up home with her.
All facts. And it is beautiful.
Writing in the Irish Indy, Niamh Horan draws a tableau of love in its purest form:
Yvonne had met her on countless occasions when she hung out with the band and their dancers backstage at gigs and tour after-parties.
At one stage Yvonne had even seen the woman gyrate with her husband on-stage. In one of band’s typically raunchy routines, Francine would wrap her stocking-clad legs around Ronan’s waist and hold onto his neck as they smiled excitedly into each other’s eyes and danced to the beat of the music. But according to Ronan it was all an onstage act. They were just showbiz colleagues and good friends, he swore. Anything else was pure speculative nonsense.
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Posted: 23rd, May 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (4)
In Pictures: Justin Bieber’s Groupie Face Tops Cheryl Cole
JUSTIN Bieber won the face off hands down at the Radio 1 Big Weekend, at Vaynol Estate in Bangor, North Wales. Cheryl Cole’s Grosvenor House grind was no match for Bieber. Jared Leto’s middle-aged coxcomb looked less a product of virility than a result of hairspray and bloody mindedness. Flarence Welch, of Florence and the Machine’s, Miss Havisham burka was a nice try. Ellie Goulding, Tinie Tempah and Alicia Keys’ ComfiSlax (Anorak own brand) were all trumped by Bieber’s face. This is the face the fans see when Bieber interviews for groupies. This is face of your honeymoon dreams, Bieberettes. This is face that walks into doors that say ‘push’ and still pulls…
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In Pictures: Cheryl Cole Works The Bangor Stage At Radio 1 Big Weekend
CHERYL Cole is on the Main Stage at the Radio 1 Big Weekend. She’s fight-fight-fighting for the love. Ashley Cole – whom she has fought with, and some would say lost – is in South Africa. He’s fighting for England to win the World Cup. Ashley wins. You can buy love. You can’t buy the World Cup. Well, ok, you can, allegedly. He’s ‘nation’s sweetheart’ Cheryl thrusting her pelvis like a Premier League footballer in a suite at the Grosvenor Hotel impersonating a Bangkok stage dancer…
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Jared Leto’s Day Trip To Bangor: Radio 1 Road Show Pictures
JARED Leto of 30 Seconds To Mars is 38. He may be the right age to wear a raincoat in front of teenage girls. Jared Leto is Benjamin Button. His hair is as pert as a cub scout’s ears. Jared Leto was at the Radio Roadshow in Bangor. Also there was Chris Moyles. He’s 36. Genes can be cruel. We also spotted and heard from Kelly Rowland, Tinie Tempah and Roy Stride of Scouting For Girls sings a few of our favourite songs. Bangor is a day tripper’s dream…
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Posted: 22nd, May 2010 | In: Music | Comments (2)
Elton John Tribute: Gay Allowed But No Mincing
TO the Elton John Tribute night in the Warwickshire hinterlands. “Gay’s” allowwd but “no mincing”…
Posted: 22nd, May 2010 | In: Music | Comments (8)
Jesse James Sniffles And Weeps For Sandra Bullock And The Telly: Video
JESSE James, aka Mr Sandra Bullock, the Vanilla Gorilla, the one who bumped swastikas with Michelle McGee, is playing the celebrity game by going on the telly to talk about it all. Unless it’s on the telly, it’s not real.
The clip begins with Vicki Mabrey saying:
“They call you the most hated man in America.”
Who “they” are is not known, but we can’t rule out Chicago Nazis and Barack Obama’s children. Says James:
“I think it’s most hated man in the world.”
The Swiss hate James. He cheated on Miss Congeniality, man. That guy is scum.
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Posted: 21st, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Beth Ditto Outclasses Cheryl Cole For Cannes’ Hors: Pictures
CHERYL Cole was overshadowed by the radiance of Beth Ditto on the red carpet in Cannes. Consider this one thing, has Ditto shagged Ashley Cole? No. As if she would stoop that low. Ditto is all about class. Sure, Cheryl, the ‘nation’s sweetheart’ has “Mrs Cole” tattooed on the back of her neck – a homage to Cole Porter and the Old King – but Beth has the lips and the hips. On the carpet, then for the premier of Hors La Loi (Slappers To The Ready) at the Palais de Festival. The carpet burns with passion…
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Posted: 21st, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Russell Brand’s Greek Style Pre-Katy Perry Threesome: Pictures
RUSSELL Brand is plugging his film at the Las Vegas Screening Of Get Him To The Greek at The Chi Theatre, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, and telling us about his sex life, and his last pre-Katy Perry shag:
“It was two women for the sake of efficiency. It’s nice to have sex with loads and loads of people. But my life has changed. I have not cheated on Katy. I have not got off with other birds.”
To test his resolve, also at the do were Playboy stunnas Laura Croft and Angel Porrino. Oh, and Holly Madison. Or, if you will, Matt Goss and Tom Felton.
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Posted: 21st, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Ronan Keating, Dancer Francine Cornell And Pictures
RONAN Keating, the one with interesting hair from Boyzone, is no longer with his wife, the fragrant Yvonne. The tabloids go to work.
The Mirror says this is “a story to shock every woman in Britain.” Tom Bryant tells us:
Or as the same paper’s 3am Girls wonder:
Yep, so apparently Ronan was cheating on his wife with a dancer. Is anyone capable of feeling shocked anymore?
Yes, Every woman in Britain is capable of being shocked. And they are. Says Bryant:
Ronan Keating has split from his wife after confessing he had an affair while on tour.
Bryant’s story is an “exclusive”.
Or as the Sun screams form it front page:
“RONAN KICKED OUT BY WIFE”
Yes, because, as Tom Bryant told us, Keating’s been cheating. What say Gordon Smart and Brian Flynn in, er, “Was Ronan Cheating?”.
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Posted: 21st, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
In Pictures: amfAR’s Cannes’ AIDS Gala And Madonna’s Charitable Bag
TO the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS 2010 fundraiser at the Hotel Du Cap, Eden Roc, Cap D’Antibes during the Cannes Film Festival. Some charities the celebs like: Aids charities is one. But as Roger Freidman notes, it can be a case of you back my charity or I’ll scratch ours.
When Madonna appeared in Cannes two years ago at the annual AmFAR dinner, she auctioned off her handbag and generally carried on… Now I’ve learned that AmFAR donated $1 million to Madge’s Raising Malawi charity to get her there…
Or as he said in 2008:
So say what you will, Madonna’s presence was her donation to the cause.
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Posted: 20th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Justin Bieber Pwnd By A Glass Door: Video
LESBIAN Donny Osmond tribute act (remove the staples) Justin Bieber has walked into a glass door thinking it was open. Well, that’s the story. It’s hard to tell if he knew it was open or not.
Bieber gets the web and would do his own outtakes.
He probably made the noise of a slide trombone as he hit it.
Posted: 20th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Ivor Novello Awards 2010: Winners And Pictures
LILY Allen scooped her three Ivor Novello Awards. Says she: “Really, truly, from the bottom of my heart, it’s the songs I’m most proud of. This song [The Fear] is so much about feeling lost in a lot of ways. All of a sudden, this has made me feel found.” Johnny Marr won the “inspiration prize”. Says he: “I always thought that the greatest thing you can achieve as a musician is to be called an inspiration – aside from a big house in Sunningdale obviously.”
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KP Baby: Katie Price Gets Her New Twin Babies Out For Kids (Pictures)
KATIE Price posed with her babies out at the launch her new baby clothing range, KP Baby, at the Worx studios in west London. KP once did only nuts. Now they do babies. We like our KPs dry roasted, but you can get them salted, tanned or painted orange to look like Wotsits.
Katie Price’s Career As Jordan (NSFW)
Katie wants u to know that if your little love wants to puke, spit or shat on something, they had best make it her gear. A source tells us that “Katie’s gear will take more **** and still come back wanting more.”
And it turns out that the gear is really good at spreading Touche Eclat and rag rolling walls.
The disappointments are that Katie failed to dress up her own kidzzz in her clobber; and that she didn’t try to pose in a bib herself. In retail terms, 3 to 6 months is the new size zero, so they tell us…
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Posted: 20th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff Present Plastic Surgery Face Swaps
CAN that be Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, former French television star brothers, attending the Chopard 150th birthday party event during the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, France? The Bogdanoff boys were pretty good at sums so got a job on the telly as the photogenic faces of science shows, the most popular being Temps X (Time X). It ran from 1979 to 1989. Since then they have mutated into what you see before you. And it is odd that all plastic surgery fans end up looking alike. Of all the faces to chose from, Messers Nip ‘n’ Tuck use the same one over and over. Are they on commission? Here’s a look-alike gallery:
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Posted: 20th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (6)
Pimp Premiere In Pictures: Danny Dyer’s Shallow Grave
TO the premiere of Pimp in Soho, where Dyer-bolical genital torcher Danny Dyer is trying to bury the British film industry in a grave so shallow it makes the average adolescent boy’s daydreams look like Stephen Hawking’s morning porridge. We looked out for actual pimps arriving to spot the likes of Unibond Division 1 liggers Bex Shiner, Sophie Reade, Bianca Gascoigne, Imogen Thomas, Alicia Douvall and Javine Hylton. And then tried to work out who would hire the talent..?
Posted: 20th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The World Music Awards in Pictures: Paris Hilton’s Chest, Jennifer Lopez Arts, Peter Andre’s Man and More…
TO the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo, the foremost meaningless awards do in the world music awards calendar. This is where loaded gentry Barron Nicholas Hilton meets Paris Hilton, sister Nicky and mum and dad Hilton on a blueish carpet. (Why Barron – why not King? Barron ask mum and dad why they puts a glass ceiling on your life.) And get a load of Paris leaning backwards to make her chest lean forwards. Her sister is a prop, literally. The Hiltons are doing Europe. But this isn’t Europe. This is Monaco, a prototype Las Vegas without the buffet, but with better surgery and Lotus eaters.
We’ve got all the pictures of the talent, including Jennifer Lopez’s Legend Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts. Not, Arse, arts. Jenny Who Owns The Block is a mum of two but someone forgot to tell her tailor.
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Posted: 19th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (12)
Mark Hamill Does Star Trek In A Boat For Darth Vader’s Black Pearl
IT’S Star Trek’s Mark Hamill announcing his new film The Black Pearl, which he co-wrote and will direct, during the Cannes Film Festival in France. Mark Hamill… You know, the guy from Biker Mice From Mars? The Pierre Fluffbottom? Yep, the guy with the laser… Lasterhawk’s Bob Sheridan. The guy they said would go on to achieve big things again after Stripperella…
Yeah, him from Star Wars (Trekkies, calm down – nannoo-nanoo) is part of a film based on a comic book called The Black Pearl. No, not the 1934 film, nor the The Black Pearl you saw in 1977, nor Tintin’s story, nor Johnny Depp’s boat in Pirates of the Caribbean. This is a new Black Pearl, in which a young blade takes to the seas in a space boat and against all the odds sees off Varth Daver, a baddie with emphysema. Sheesh, some of you live in the past…
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Posted: 19th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Stockard Channing Is Lady Bracknell
YOU know you are getting old when Stockard Channing is playing Lady Bracknell in Rough Magic’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest at Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre. Here’s Stockard in full plinths and hems. Here’s her Ladyship Betty Rizzo:
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(left to right) Rory Keenan, Aoife Duffin, Gemma Reeves and Rory Nolan, with fellow cast member, West Wing star Stockard Channing, (left) who will play Lady Bracknell in Rough Magic's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, during a photocall in Dublin, ahead of it's opening at the Gaiety Theatre and which runs from June 2-19.
Posted: 19th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
