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.
Lindsay Lohan In Public Spat: What Would Linda Lovelace Say?
LINDSAY Lohan is on her way to Cannes. She’s going to play Linda Lovelace in a biopic of the “Deep Throat” porn star and wants to tell one and all. And she’s been in a – oh, the irony – public spat.
As Our Man in LA notes:
But she took a time-out at LAX for a quick one-on-one interview with the folks at www.hollywood.tv (relevant side note: they’re owned by the same guy who runs “Millions of Milkshakes,” on Santa Monica Blvd. where Linds has made multiple paid appearances).
And she is no fan of TMZ. Lohan says people who make negative noises and do negative things get bad karma. In Hollywood, you reap what you blow.
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The latest story goes that karmic Lohan tried to get New York Ranger skaters Aaron Voros and Sean Avery thrown out of a club called 1Oak and tossed a drink over Voros’ model girlfriend, Jessica Stam.
Bad karma, indeed. You waste drinks, you may one day got thirsty.
“Lindsay threw a fit because she wanted to be at their table near the DJ. But she claimed she didn’t want to sit with Aaron and said, ‘He’s my ex-boyfriend. I don’t want him anywhere near me.’ Voros denied knowing her. A drink then flew in Jessica’s face, and Lindsay demanded their table be moved out. Club bosses refused and tried to calm her down. Stam, Voros and Avery were shocked but didn’t retaliate, and Lindsay left shortly afterward.”
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Posted: 17th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
David Walliams Marries Lara Stone: In Photos
DAVID Walliams has married leggy Dutch model Lara Stone at Claridge’s Hotel in central London. Stone, 26, sported a £30,000 Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy dress. Walliams, 38, wore a suit. Guests wore smiles. Hello! And OK! wore a look of frustration – no showbiz mag sale here, folks. Also there: Matt Lucas, Robin Dashwood, Natalie Imbruglia, Alan Carr, Denise van Outen, Lee Mead, David Baddiel, Barbara Windsor, Jonathan Ross, Ronnie Corbett, James Corden, Jimmy Carr, Steve Coogan and Dale Winton. Forget the snark – this was a good do. Anorak has never been fan of the tedious Little Britain, a flaccid bunch of gags dressed up in puke. But Walliams remains likeable.
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Posted: 16th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Mallika Sherawat’s Python Will Swallow You Whole: Hisss Does Cannes Pictures
LAST time we saw Mallika Sherawat she was upstaging Angelina Jolie in mesh. This time she upped her game and wore a 22ft, 600lb python to promote her new film Hisss at the Majestic Hotel in Cannes. It’s all suggestive stuff, not unaided by the film’s tagline:
She’s sexy… venomous… and she’ll swallow you whole…
Sherawat will soon tread the red carpet for another movie, this one called Love, Barack, a romantic comedy set during Barack Obama’s campaign for the US presidency.
Bring a snake for the great shark hunt… (The snake’s name? Rudy)
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Posted: 16th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (4)
Michael Buble And The Double – 02 Gig In Pictures
I WAS lucky enough to be at the 02 yesterday, to see Michael Buble. Well done also to the fans for creating a superb atmosphere with no real hint of trouble. (Earlier your writer has seen Chelsea win the Double)…
‘Pregnant’ Neo-Luddite Lily Allen Postpones Retirement
LILY Allen gave up music on May 2, 2010. We know this because she told us:
“I’d like to live in the country and have chickens and pigs. It’s a great job but it doesn’t leave time for what’s important – like having a family. I’m going to do one more album. I just want to make some money – maybe I could retire at 25.”
Lily Allen, the neo-Luddite, tells Absolute Radio:
“I’d like to have a child within a year. It’ll be a minimum of four or five years before I make a record again.”
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Posted: 16th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Woody Allen Makes Living Dead Scenes In Cannes: Pictures
WOODY Allen is in Cannes for You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. He’s at the Palais de Festival with Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones, Naomi Watts, and Lucy Punch. Says he:
“I do feel that it’s a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and the only way you can be happy is if you . . . deceive yourself… My relationship with death remains the same. I’m strongly against it.”
Allen remains on fine form…
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Posted: 15th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Vernon Kay’s One Man Golf With Cows: When Cows Attack
VERNON Kay is being chased by cows. No, not women upset by his extra-martial sexting – actual cows. The 17-ft tall bland face of broadcasting, the big-grinned Boltonian – the man who answers the question: “Everyone’s dropped out, who can we get to present?” – says his dog spooked and the cows gave chase.
Kay is on This Morning and the feeling is he needs a good anecdote to make himself appears as a deserving victim who had a narrow escape. Says he:
“I was in the back garden with a pitching wedge, as you do, practising, and I got outside and he’s [dog] herded up a herd of cows.
“So I go out, I drag him by the collar. The next minute I hear this roar of thunder — 35 plus cows are hurtling towards us. I dived over our next-door neighbour’s barbed wire fence, cut all my left side and ruined my favourite golf jumper.”
“Cows are a nightmare. They are really dangerous.”
Cows are in Team Tess Daly, Kay’s wife. Cows tells us that Kay plays golf in his garden, on his own…
Posted: 15th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Cannes In Pictures: Carey Mulligan Blinded By Michael Douglas’s Lynx Effect
CAREY Mulligan and Michael Douglas stood shoulder-to-teeth at the screening of
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps at the Grand Auditorium Lumiere during the Cannes Film Festival. If money is an insomniac, it’s most likely it’s not to be trusted. Sleep depravation is a well known torture technique – a bit like listening to Douglas talking about his sex life. Mulligan would do well to keep her wits about her.and watch out for his flashing armpits – and his Lynx effect…
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Posted: 15th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
In Pictures Exclusive: Sacha Baron Cohen Launches New Character In Cannes
NO, it’s not Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest character, Nige, a 1960s-obsessed mini cab driver from Melton Mowbray. It’s Liam Gallagher at a photocall to promote his newly formed production company, In 1productions, which will develop a film about The Beatles, at the Gray D’Albion beach, Cannes. Unless it is Sacha Baron Cohen, in which case, Heather Mills is shoo-in to play Penny Lane, the woman who made it all possible…
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Posted: 14th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
In Pictures: 1980s Nostalgia At The Mencap Our Friends Acoustic Gig
WAZZUP, nostalgia fans. To the IndigO2 venue in east London, as part of the Mencap Our Friends Acoustic fundraising concert, to see Carol Decker, Nick Kershaw, Howard Jones, Andy Bell, Jimmy Somerville, Steve Strange and China Crisis. All eyes on Sumerville who looks exactly as he did in the 1980s, when he played Bod…
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Nottingham Robin Hood Premiere In Pictures: Russell Crowe’s Media Onslaught
RUSSELL Crowe might be the first Irish-Australian Robin Hood, but the middle aged hero of the Middle Ages romancing his Milf Marian is less authentic than the genuine Sheriff of Nottingham, aka Councillor Leon Unczu. The film premiered at the swanky Cineworld, Nottingham. If you were there, you might be in our photo gallery.
Before that, here’s Russell wondering what Bond, Robin Bond might be doing were he alive today:
My theory would be, if Robin Hood was alive today, he would be looking at the monopolization of the media as the greatest enemy.
So says the well-paid employee of NBC Universal, the media monolith…
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Posted: 14th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Russell Crowe Suffers Mark Lawson: The ‘Dead Ears’ Interiew
RUSSELL Crowe is in conversation with the BBC’s Mark Lawson. Crowe stars in Robin Hood, a middle aged robin from the Middle Ages, with loadsa killing and Milf Marian. It’s a decent interview. But before you listen top it, here’s a review of the thing in the Sun.
In “Crowe storms off BBC show over ‘Irish’ Robin jibe”, readers are told:
“…Crowe stormed out of a BBC interview after he was accused of making Robin Hood sound IRISH in his new film.”
The Sun says Russell Crowe issued a “rant” in reply to Lawson’s posit that his accent in the film owes more to an Australian who’s been in Ireland too long than a resident of Nottingham.
The New Zealander was being quizzed on Radio 4 about his dodgy Sherwood Forest accent when he lost his rag and yelled: “B****cks!”
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Posted: 14th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
In Pictures: Myleene Klass’s Megan Fox Metronome Presnts The Classical Brit Awards
WITH Myleene Klass’s impression of Megan Fox (NSFW), we went to the Classical Brit Awards, held at the Royal Albert Hall. You can’t get a Myleene metronome to sit atop your piano yet. And this cruel luck for music fans. At the awards, we spotted and heard X Factor’s Ryhdian Roberts, who despite being mocked on the show and beaten by Leon Jackson (?) has managed to carve out a successful career in music. Why? Well, he can actually sing.
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Posted: 14th, May 2010 | In: Music | Comments (2)
Jack Tweed Back In The Dock As Model Laura Jones Tells All
JACK Tweed has been cleared of rape. But he continues to fascinate the Daily Star, which leads with:
“Jade’s Jack is ‘sleazy sex pest’”
Jack Tweed’s ambitions to command his own tabloid headlines remain on hold. But he does seem to be gaining a reputation for something. And they do no publicity is bad publicity.
Anyhow, back in the paper that advertises sex chatlines for onanists and is shares an owner with the Channel X stable of cable telly porn, we can hear more about Jack Tweed’s alleged lust from Laura Rose Jones.
Laura, who is his latest conquest, has warned other girls to watch out for his Jekyll and Hyde personality, claiming that his nice guy image is just an act.
This is the same Laura Rose who told us:
“GIVE ME A BAD BOY ANY DAY.”
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Posted: 14th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen Glamorises Knives In Metro – The Daily Mail’s Sister Paper
GOSSIP Girl actress Taylor Momsen tells Metro readers that she relaxes by flicking her switchblade open and shut.
“I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It’s a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.”
Taylor Momsen – Eyes And Thighs
Can you imagine – try to get your head around it? – if the Daily Mail heard that a paper that can be read by impressionable kids glamorised knives? Yeah, the Daily Mail, sister paper to the, er, Metro.
Taylor Momsen Is Thinking Of Haiti And Her Record: Pictures
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Posted: 13th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
US Radio Show Edits Phone In Request To Replace Marc Mysterio With Black Eyed Peas
WHAT news of Anorak’s pal Mark Mysterio, of Sam Fox fame, and his pals for world domination? News is that he’s been banned by radio stations. A caller wanted to hear Mysterio’s song One More Time played on Twin-Cities-based KHTC-FM (Now 96.3fm).
I’m A Celebrity’s Sam Fox’s Career In Pictures
The presenter thinks better of it and cuts caller Michelle Luftus’ voice to make it appear that she was requesting the Black Eyed Peas.
Says the DJ: “You wanna hear the Black Eyed Peas, right?”
Says Michelle Luftus: “…Yeah…”
That “Yeah” was taken from Michelle’s 5 minute call with the DJ, says Michelle.
Michelle might be heard from again when the DJ broadcasts her saying “..I..Will.. Kill…Obama”, “Al..l…ah…Wa…k…b…ah…” and, “Stephen… Haw…king…eats… pil…chards…di*ks”
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Posted: 13th, May 2010 | In: Music | Comment (1)
RIP Tom McGrath, You Were Willy Eckerslike Of The Lancashire Hotpots
RIP Tom McGrath AKA Willy Eckerslike, drummer and singer with the Lancashire Hotpots. Reader Bat E Bird sends us these films of some of your best moments.
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Posted: 13th, May 2010 | In: Music | Comments (3)
In Pictures: X Factor Diana Vickers Does The Scala
DIANA Vickers – an X Factor semi-finalist – was singing at London’s Scala. The singing was good and Vickers, once billed as the news Sandi Shaw (the old Sandi Shaw refused to relinquish her title, or die as we call it, and Vickers became her own singer), has found some boots. But our eyes were on the venue. The place used to an all-night cinema, somewhere to go when you’d run out of money and needed to drink and smoke while you waited for the Tube to open. Film buffs would take to making airplanes from paper, lighting them and launching them towards the screen. No-one throw a lite ball of paper at Vickers. She was better than that…
In Pictures: Russell Crowe’s Middle Aged Robin Hood Woos Milf Marian
TO the Cannes screening, then, of Robin Hood, Ridley Scott’s attempt to turn the robber of rich men into a Middle Aged James Bond. And who better to play Middle Aged Bond than middle aged Russell Crowe? In this episode, Robin gets of with Milf Marian and sticks it to loads of Frenchies on beaches. It’s like a Club 18-30 theme holiday but without the dramatic tension and vomit. And then there’s the tagline: “Robin Hood- Licence To Quill.” Enough already…
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Posted: 12th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (42)
Michael Jackson Death Hoax: Dave Dave Is Jacko And Cynical Scepticism
IS Michael Jackson alive and billing himself as Dave Dave? No, not David Cameron and his clone Nick Clegg. This Dave Dave is a 33-year-old New Yorker born David Rothenberg. When Dave was six his father poured fuel on his face and set him on fire.
Dave Dave went on to star in his mum’s book. He then met Michael Jackson at Neverland.
David Rothenberg changed his name. In 1996 he told us:
Determined to lead a normal life, David Rothenberg studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and will go to a New York film school next year to pursue a directing career. I feel wonderful, and that’s basically how I live my life,” he said.
“I don’t look back and say, ‘Oh, I’ve had a lot of pain,’ because that doesn’t do me any good as a person.” In a first step toward breaking with the past, he has changed his name to, simply, Dave.
“All my life, I’ve been categorized as David Rothenberg, the little burn kid. But I finally wanted to identify myself,” he said.
Fast forward to the death of Michael Jackson and michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com. claims Dave Dave is Jackson. So much for being your own man, Dave.
Souza and Mo run the site. Together they are the “Michael Jackson Death Hoax Investigators”.
The Sun’s Jenna Sloan gets in touch. In an exchange of emails, Souza asks for the copy to be non-mocking, factually correct and for the Sun to prove that it is not “tabloid trash”.
Mo tells The Sun that she is 41. In the story, Sloan says Mo is 40. Says Mo:
“At first we started investigating Michael’s death as it was a gut feeling we both had.
The media told us two different stories. TMZ.com reported he died six minutes before the doctor pronounced him dead, and CNN kept telling us he was in a coma. What really happened still remains a mystery.”
Lawyer Brian Oxman, says:
“I have spoken to Dave within the past several weeks, and he is doing well. He is going to school in Utah, and he is studying to be a lawyer. I can assure you that while Michael Jackson would be thrilled that Dave would become a lawyer, Michael Jackson never wanted to be a lawyer himself. He would shudder at the very thought.”
As with all conspiracy theories, if you believe in it – if you believe that you are in the know and can smell the truth that others cannot – it is unlikely you will be swayed by anyone outside your group. Sure, you are as blinkered in your own desire to be right, but, then, you know the truth.
You will pick bits of evidence that support your theory – however small – and overlook the welter of evidence against.
Don’t be a cynic. Be a sceptic.
Spotter: Bat E Bird
Posted: 12th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (28)
Cannes Festival In Pictures: Kate Beckinsale Judges And Russell Crowe Does Robin Bond, Licence To Quill
AND so to Cannes for the film festival. You writer is sat in a cafe by the Croisette wondering who picks the judges. You see, one the judges for the Palme D’Or award is Kate Beckinsale. We spotted Kate posing with Benecio Del Toro, another judge, and Tim Burton, who also sits on the panel. A top actor and top director are there to cast their eye over the offerings. And so too is Kate Becksindale..? Anyone able to explain this?
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We’re off soon to watch Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe do Robin Hood. Sir Ridley Scott’s Hood has Crowe as Robin Bond striving to make a franchise out of giving to the poor and taking from the rich. The film has loadsa arrows, a few kisses, loadsa French being slaughtered and a middle-aged Hood getting off with spinster called Marian, his Hood Girl.
Bond… Robin Bond – licence to quill.
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Posted: 12th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Angelina Jolie And Johnny Depp ‘Busted’ And ‘Seduced’
IS Angelina Jolie getting “too close” to Johnny Depp? The Enquirer seems to think so as it screams:
“ANGIE & JONNY BUSTED!”
“Depp’s lover catches couple getting too close.”
Vanessa Paradis, for it is she, is “furious” after “catching him in the arms of Angelina Jolie”.
Taxi for Vanessa!
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Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: National Enquirer | Comments (12)
Dame Helen Mirren Kisses Her Double And Men Melt: Pictures
AND so the dreams of millions of men became a reality as Dame Helen Mirren met and kissed Dame Helen Mirren at Madame Tussauds in London. Usually, its takes 14 minutes for Mirren to take her top off for the cameras. The thinking was that with two Mirren’s the wait would be shorter. Taylor Hackford, Dame Helen Mirren’s Husband, puckered up. And we waited for the inevitable…
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Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
In Pictures: StreetDance 3D Premiere With Heather Mills’ Legs
TO the Premiere of StreetDance 3D, at the Empire Leicester Square in London, the film that answers the question: What happened to whatshisface from Britain’s Got Talent? We spotted Flawless and Akai dancing on the red carpet. And there was Dino “Dappy” Contostavlos, Tulisa Contostavlos of N Dubz dancing with their fingers. No need to dance – you just twist your fingers into a gangsta sign that makes sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis at the bleeding edge of cool.
Camp XXX-Ray detainee Kimberly Wyatt was there, as was George Sampson, Perri Luc Kiely (the little one form Diversity), DJ Ironik looking miserable, Richard Winsor, Sacha Chang, Bradley Charles, Sianad Gregory and…Heather Mills, in socks (picture 7)…
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Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Alex Curran And Steven Gerrard Open Their Hearts And Their Restaurant
ANY lingering doubts that Steven Gerrard and Alex Curran are heading for splitsville are banished in OK!. We meet the Liverpool players and her husband in Gerrard’s new eatery, the Warehouse Kitchen and Bar. Stevie G is now in full control of the music, and Alex is billed as Alex Gerrard. Such is the love.
That would be enough to do-down those internet gossipers who claim a divorce looms. But Alex has more. She says this is the “shabby-chic” venue where Steve took her on their first date.
He liked it so much he bought the place. Alex may well be disappointed that he never took her to Asprey’s. But lasting love is about taking the rough with the smooth.
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