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.
InStyle’s The Best of British Talent Party: Pictures
AT InStyle’s The Best of British Talent Party at Bar Music Hall in London we spotted the contest of Tony Blair’s pop Rolodex rock up for free this and that: Konnie Huq, Jamie Campbell Bower, Tamara Ecclestone, Immodesty Blaize, Henry Conway, Jonathan Ross and wife Jane Goldman, Rosamund Pike, Kimberley Wyatt, Rachel Stevens and The Saturdays, the most desperate pop act not working to Simon Cowell:
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Posted: 28th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Mum Wins Justin Bieber Tickets With Tramp Stamp Tattoo: Video
WHAT would you do to meet Justin Bieber? Threaten to kill everyone unless he said “hi”? Hang about his school with pockets full of sweets and an Andrex puppy litter on your lap? Or get a tramp stamp tattoo? That’s ‘Bieber’ – BEEBER. In a bold Cambria font:
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Posted: 28th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The LAFTA Awards: No Jerry Sadowitz Required
ONE face not seen at the LAFTAS Awards 2010 was Jerry Sadowitz’s. (Is LAFTA an acronym for something or/and just a meaningless marketing-led gimmick?) All the usual suspects were there at the Cuckoo Club in London: Leigh Francis, Jimmy Carr (winner of Funniest panel Show, for 8 out of 10 Cats) Blake Harrison, Emily Head, Greg Davies and Joe Thomasa (Funniest Show On TV, for Inbetweeners), Frank (Legend Award), Vic Reeves (Funniest Double Act) and Katy Brand (Funniest Woman Award). Anorak is off to see Sadowitz tonight. He must be gutted…
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Posted: 27th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Susan Boyle: The Intruder Story In Pictures
SUSAN Boyle Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Susan Boyle in the news: Susan entertains a man:
The scene: La Boyle returns to her home in Blackburn, West Lothian. She opens the door. A man is there. A source tells us:
“Susan got home to find an intruder halfway up her stairs. She was with a female pal, who was dropping her off. Her pal only expected to be with her for a couple of minutes, but it is just as well she was. Susan is unharmed but is obviously very, very shocked. The guy has seen her come in and bolted out straight past Susan.”
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Posted: 27th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Pete Doherty Takes 13 Wraps Of Heroin To Court: Pictures
PETE Doherty continues his Court Room tour at Gloucester Magistrates Court. Anorak spotted him stood outside the entrance having a cigarette. He was then joined by other smokers and was said to be signing autographs or adding his order to a dash to the sweetshop. Doherty escaped with a fine today despite “stupidly” walking into a court with 13 wraps of heroin in his pocket. Thirteen. Unlucky. Best make it seven next time…
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Posted: 27th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Katia Ivanova And Lady Sov Go Lapdancing: Pictures
IT did not take too long for the Star to give up trying to sell orgy makeweight and rolling Stone gnome polisher Katia Ivanova as a stunna with a heart of gold. Heidi Fleiss, who was first out of the Celebrity Big Brother house, sums up Katia thus:
“Dumbass.”
But Katia Ivanova is still filling in holes in the news agenda. The Sun’s Phil Space writes:
BISEXUAL Lady Sov shared an affectionate clinch with Celeb BB pal Katia Ivanova on another wild night out. The pair went to a lap dancing club in London. Sov slipped notes in the dancer’s undies – then gave new pal Kat a goodbye kiss.
Says Fleiss of Lady Sov:
“Unbearable person. Wore too much purple. .. I can’t even look at the vampire fucking teeth… You can have that shit removed.”
Over to you, Ronnie…
Posted: 27th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Haiti Presents The Cherly Cole Show: Brits And Tears
HAITI: News is that Cheryl Cole was “close to tears” as she sang for the tens of thousands killed by in earthquake.
“X Factor judge Cheryl took a moment to think of the earthquake’s millions of victims before taking to the singing booth to lay down her part of the REM tune”.
As the Star’s headline screams:
CHERYL COLE IN TEARS AT HAITI SONG
Only she wasn’t. Which brings us to The Metro’s headline:
Cheryl Cole ‘breaks down in tears’ over ‘Everybody Hurts’ Haiti song
Are Cheryl Cole’s tears so needed by Haitians that they need to be made up? Cheryl Cole – Curé d’Ars.
Rod Stewart, Miley Cyrus, Mika, Kylie Minogue, Leona Lewish, Take That, JLS, Joe McElderry and Susan Boyle are all on the record. But none are reported to have almost cried and gathered themselves with a thought for Haiti.
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Posted: 27th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
ABBA World Exhibition Opened By Big Bother, X Factor, Ice Dancers And Other Reality TV Stars: Pictures
THE ABBA World Exhibition at Earl’s Court in London is “The one and only exhibition officially approved by ABBA!” Indeed. All other exhibitions of clothes, merchandise, dolls and ticket stubs are unofficial. Starry stuff. And who more fitting to look at the 25 rooms of ABBA gear the foursome can’t fit in their lofts than starry Stephen Baldwin, Heather Mills Boy George, Dionne Bromfield, Lucie Jones, Donal MacIntyre, Brian Friedman and Sisqo. Each will get their own World just as soon as a shoebox can be secured.
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Posted: 27th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Rachel Weisz’s Demented Colonscope Presents The South Bank Awards In Pictures
TO the South Bank Show Awards in the North Bank of the Dorchester, Mayfair in the company of someone who used to be Vic Reeves, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Frankmusik, Jarvis Cocker, Peaches Geldof, Ronnie Wood – of whom Big Brother’s Heidi Fleiss says: “Katia Ivanova: Dumbass. Ronnie Wood must have been drunk to have been with her” – the ubiquitous Michael McIntyre, the lovely Maxine Peake, sarky Miquita Oliver, bedpan fancier Grayson Perry, Will Young, Billy Connolly and Old Mr Anorak’s future wife No. 32 Rachael Weisz, all vying to take home Melvyn Bragg’s demented colonoscope…
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jonathan Ross’s Turf Comic Book: Preview Pictures
JONATHAN Ross is now a comic book writer. Any jokes? Well, no. Turf, by Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards, is set in 21st Century Hampstead, where a man with time on his hands want to prove that he can live without the BBC. No, it’s set in 1920s Chicago, home to organised crime and vampires and aliens and… Have a look:
Spotter: Bleeding Cool
Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
In Pictures: Maccabees And Bombay Bicycle Club Play NME Awards Party
THE Maccabees performed at the NME Awards Nominations Party, at the Tabernacle centre in west London. So the Bombay Bicycle Club. We watched. The shortlists for the NME Awards 2010 take in Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian (both up for 6 gongs), Muse, Oasis and Biffy Clyro are among the nominees.
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Voting is now open at NME.COM/awards. See below for the full list of nominations.
The Shockwaves NME Awards 2010 nominations are:
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Courtney Love Shops Miu Miu Barefoot: Pictures
THE tabloids love to gun for Courtney Love, whose crime appears to be having translucent skin tones, the Mail calls it a “ghoulish appearance”, being tall and possessed of a degenerate stately elegance, a look suggestive of better times gone (early-mid 1980s) and never to be recaptured. It’s romantic and doomed. Our snapper spotted Love shopping at Intermix and Miu Miu stores in Soho, New York, an enclave of expensive preppy-but-cute stuff. On picture filed shows Love’s bare feet. The tabloids will love this one:
Courtney Love’s New Tattoos, In Pictures (NSFW)
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (10)
Brangelina: Angelina Jolie’s ‘Powerful New Man’
BRAD Pitt And Angelina Jolie are aover. or not. Ok, they’re over-ish. But what can we expect to discover when they split? Anorak’s Man in LA reports on a new man:
THE author behind the book “Brangelina,” which details the demise of the couples long-term relationship, Ian Halperin, has some incredible tales of what’s (allegedly) going on behind the scenes of the star coupling.
Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt – A Romance In Pictures
Halperin says the two are still be living together, while at the same time being “romantically estranged.”
But Halperin doesn’t stop there… he has a prediction as to which of the two will come out of their bust-up in better shape.
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Justin Dior Comb’s 16th Birthday Party With P Diddy And Snooki: In Pictures
TO Sean Diddy Combs’ son Justin Dior Comb’s 16th Birthday Party at M2 Ultra Lounge in New York City, NY. Yeah, get a load of that name. No, Dior is the kind of nouveau-rap brand name we expect. Justin. We’ve only getting over the news that Thong-tastic Big Brother singer Sisqo has a son called Ian. Have made-up celeb names all been used up, leaving the edgy star to revert to calling the child something out of the ordinary, like Justin and Ian? Is Dannii Minogue’s child to be called Nigel? Also at the do were tanned Smurf Nicole Snooki Polizzi and someone from MTV’s Jersey Shore called Pauly D, not to be considered with P Diddy, unless you want to…
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Susan Boyle’s Cousin On Britain’s Got Talent
SUSAN Boyle Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Susan Boyle in the news: She’s back on Britain’s Got Talent with Piers Morgan (PieMan), Amanda Holden (AmHo) and Simon Cowell (SiCo).
How can Susan Boyle be used to flog the new series of Britain’s Got Talent. The Star tells us:
SuBo’s cousin a talent.
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Celebrity Big Brother: Vinnie Jones’ Secret Knickers And Ladies Football
CELEBRITY Big Brother: Vinnie Jones is officially the Daily Star’s “BIG BRO BULLY”.
And inside the Star there are “PICTURES you WON’T believe”. Before we turn the page – brace yourselves – the Star says Vinnie has a “TRANNY SECRET”.
Celebrity Big Brother: Vinnie Jones Wins, Beacham Strips And The Other Results
Ready… Go:
“Wearing a polka dot dress, red heels and a red wig, Vinnie looks every inch the perfect laydee.”
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Break-Up Pictures
BRAD Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not splitting. The Jolie-Pitt child army will not be put out to tender. Jennifer Aniston can stop smiling and writhing in ecstasy on covers of the News of The World.
Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt – A Romance In Pictures
The Daily Star, does, however, lead with news that “Brad and Ange split over Jen”. The paper says “Brad and Jen have split up amid rumours he will reunite with Jennifer Aniston.”
But that’s the Daily Star for you, unable to hear the words of the spokesperson for the sound of blood running through their ears. The Jolie and Pitt rep says the reports of a split are “total b.s.”
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Posted: 25th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)
Got To Dance Semi-Final Pictures
GOT TO Dance, is Sky One’s C-grade answer to So You Think You Can Dance, which is the BBC’s attempt to broadcast something dancy between Strictly Come Dancing weekenders (they shoot pro-celeb dancers, don’t they?) and shows about people too sick to turn the telly over or off: Holby City, Casualty, EastEnders etc. Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity performed before presenter Davina McCall and one-word acts called Status, Parallel and Internet. Pictures:
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Posted: 25th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Farrah Fawcett: Ryan O’Neal, Craig Nevius And Charlie’s Angels Fight In Ugly Court Case
FARRAH Fawcett has died. but ther story does end there.Craig Nevius filed suit against Ryan O’Neal, his business manager Richard B. Francis and Alana Stewart for “snatching control of the cancer documentary that was turned into a maudlin NBC special.”
Farrah’s Story: Pictures Of Farrah Fawcett’s Celebrity Cancer
Before we go on, here’s An interesting footnote: Farrah’s Charlie’s Angels co-star Kate Jackson is defending Nevius.
“He had an unflagging devotion to Farrah in every way and he worked with her to help her achieve her vision, not his vision and not anybody else’s vision.”
“These accusations are nothing more than a fabricated press release disguised as a lawsuit. As much as I would like to answer the allegations and disprove them right here and right now in the court of public opinion, I will wait to do so in a court of law. Out of respect to Farrah, I limited the focus of my lawsuit against Richard Francis, Ryan O’Neal and Alana Stewart to issues of contract interference. But it now seems that at least one of the defendants wants to widen the scope of litigation to issues of artistic integrity and the personal relationships between parties. If that is the case, I will be happy to let the work Farrah and I did together (over years) speak for itself. And I will be more than happy to let the video tapes, documents, witnesses and Farrah’s own words (both written and spoken) speak for me and defend me, finally removing all doubt and suspicion as to what actually happened during the final months of her life and who her real exploiters are. This is a fight Francis, O’Neal and Stewart cannot win.”
~Craig J. Nevius,
Executive Producer/Director
“Chasing Farrah” & “Farrah’s Story”
Mike Pingel, who worked for Farrah from November 2005 to October 2007 and was said to be at her side when she got her cancer diagnosis in 2006, has come forward to support documentary producer Craig Nevius, who was sued last week by Farrah’s estate, for allegedly misusing her funds and botching the cancer documentary that was eventually sold as a special to NBC– and apparently in retaliation for his own lawsuit against the estate’s executor and Farrah’s sometime lover Ryan O’Neal.
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Posted: 25th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
So You Think You Can Dance: JLS And Sex In Pictures
SO You think You Can Dance is the worst show on the magic box (with music by JLS). Or it would be were it not for the cryongenic celebrity cull that is Dancing On Ice, which is so terminally awful that it is almost watchable. SYTYCD sounds like a Polish experiment in Nazi eugenics. The contestants are all bubbly and fixed with smiles that suggest they’ve drowned in lime jelly. On this week’s show a Mark Calape and Hayley Newton were “eliminated” – literally: all that remains is pair of day-glow arm bands and a tight T-shirt that might fit an US news reporter, but no-one human:
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Posted: 24th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Penelope Cruz Does Ten From Nine At The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award: In Photos
WITH Penelope Cruz and Marion Cotillard to the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. No rain. Christina Hendrick’s portico was not required. Old Mr Anorak, our patron, wants the ladies to know that he appreciates their efforts to come as a 2-4-1 package deal but, laws such as they are, and Utah and Mecca so far removed from Anorak Towers, he can only marry one at a time. Rest assured that each marriage will be thrillingly short and mutually rewarding:
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Posted: 24th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)
Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Marriage Is ‘Over’: Fact
THE big news is that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie “have seen DIVORCE lawyers and signed a £205 million split deal”. As the NoTW says on its front page: “PITTS ALL OVER.”
So says the News of The World, which may have scooped the National Enquirer, the magazine that for over five years has featured Brand and Angelina on its masthead and told readers that they are falling in and out of love. Although all were scooped by In Touch magazine, which told us in October 2007: “The romance is over.”
This was soon followed by, also in 2007, by the headline in Grazia magazine: “Jen blamed for wrecking marriage.”
If Brad and Angel are getting divorced, the short-term boost in magazine sales as the children get divided will be further excited by the news that a turgid love story now in its sixth year – the Jolie-Pitt-Jennifer Anistone love triangle – has been reinvigorated.
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Posted: 24th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comments (4)
In Photos: Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief
MORE Haiti news. While the UK gets together another vehicle for Simon Cowell’s acts – oh, c’mon – America does something. Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief in New York City featured Mr G9 Bono, Jay-Z and Rihanna, Coldplay, Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Sting, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera and Taylor Swift.
Says Gordon Brown:
“Right now we estimate 79% of the UK is in desperate need of a telethon. If we can persuade Five to delay the Neighbours Omnibus and distil EastEnders into two-minutes of stares, we can free up the vital air time needed to raise much-need money for the hardest-up hard working families.”
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Posted: 23rd, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The Hope For Haiti Now Telethon LA: In Pictures
ANORAK was there to watch the “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” in Los Angeles, California. We were there to see who gets sat by whom. Jennifer Aniston scored a seat by Daniel Craig. Russell Brand shared a seat with Katy Perry as he moves closer to becoming “That English dude who married Katy Perry.” And we got see what these fine people look like on the phone: Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, Selena Gomez, Joe Jonas, Alyssa Milano, Reese Witherspoon, Ben Stiller, Kevin Jonas, Jeremy Piven, Samuel L. Jackson, Marisa Tomei, Jack Black, Nicole Scherzinger, Mel Gibson, Ellen DeGeneres, Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater, Taylor Lautner, Gerard Butler, Jack Nicholson and anyone else who fro a few dollars will whisper down the phone: “I love you. I’m your number one fan…”
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Posted: 23rd, January 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)
Jean Simmons’ Death Is A ‘Demure’ Media Cut And Paste Job
JEAN Simmons has died. Her amazing career in pictures is here. Madame Arcarti looks at the pap media treatment of a once great actress. This is what happens when all the hacks who grew up watching you are dead:
Demure. It’s the adjective du jour. That’s because Jean – “thought she was dead already” – Simmons has just died. If you write “Jean Simmons demure” into the Google search box you get 4,210 results (as I write). All those cut ‘n’ paste jobs drag-netting “demure” into the catch as thousands of hacks worldwide try to encapsulate the long celebrated life of someone scarcely on their radar. Mention Spartacus, the mental light bulbs flash.
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Posted: 23rd, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
