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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.
Rihanna Does Germany’s 8th ‘Popstars’ For Joe McElderry
WHILE you were watching the X Factor and Joe McElderry’s audition to be the UK’s first Joe-nas Brother for Simon Cowell’s Disney’s project, US singer Rihanna was performing during the finale of the 8th ‘Popstars’ season in Oberhausen, Germany. The music and TV businesses work in tandem – the music world provides pop talent that looks good on video to sing in TV talent shows contested by a wannabes trying to be the best looking on music video. Round and round and round it goes. Josef Elderweis won the German show. Here’s Rihanna wearing very little:
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Posted: 14th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Terry Wogan Made Freeman Of City Of London, In Pictures
WELL – he-he – what d’yer know. Sir Terry Wogan has been given the Freedom of The City of London. And with the City honours come the City privileges. Terry Wogan can legally borrow his own weight in bearer bonds; he can stick all his money on black and if he loses get all his money back – if he wins he gets to keep the lot and go lap dancing in the Maldives at lunch; he can pay himself a huge bonus; he can herd her sheep over Tower Bridge; he can stick his head in a toaster. Terry is beginning his final week presenting his breakfast show on Radio 2 after five decades in broadcasting. High time Anthea Turner was given her chance to shine…
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Posted: 14th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
X Factor’s Leona Lewis Sees James Cameron’s Avatar As A Message For Hypocrites
AVATAR is James Cameron’s huge budget, carbon burning look at the future of mankind. Before we get to what X Factor singer Leona Lewis thinks of it the film for which she sings the theme song I See You, let’s hear from James Cameron. Says he – brace yourselves:
“I see it as a broader metaphor, not so intensely politicised as some would make it, but rather that’s how we treat the natural world as well. There’s a sense of entitlement — ‘We’re here, we’re big, we’ve got the guns, we’ve got the technology, we’ve got the brains, we therefore are entitled to every damn thing on this planet’.
“That’s not how it works and we’re going to find out the hard way if we don’t wise up and start seeking a life that’s in balance with the natural cycles of life on earth.”
To restore the balance Cameron has helpfully created a hi-tech, fossil fuel–fed electronic look at the figure.
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Posted: 14th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
X Factor Winner Joe McElderry Records Duet With Cheryl Cole
X FACTOR: Joe McElderry beats Olly Murs to win the top telly talent show and to him the spoils. Christmas is coming, so Joe is a certainty to score the Christmas number 1. Next time you see Joe he’ll covered in twinkling fairy lights and smiling in a snow globe. Anorak rounds-up the papers:
The Sun (front page): “TINSELTOON – Simon’s £5m Hollywood plan for Joe”
Is the real prize of winning the X Factor a one-way ticket out of South Shields? A wrench to leave his home but Geordie Joe – the UK’s Joe-nas Brother – will be well rewarded. That’s five million pounds. As the Daily Mail says on its front page:
“Joe’s £1million X Factor moment”.
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Posted: 14th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Lindsay Lohan Accused Of Using Twitter To Deceive Over Role In Saving 40 Indian Children
LINDSAY Lohan is in India for a BBC3 documentary on child trafficking. Earlier she told us that she had saved 40 children in a single da. Only she didn’t Well, not in person. As she said:
“Focusing on celebrities and lies is so disconcerting, when we can be changing the world one child at a time…. hope everyone can see that.”
Well, not everyone. One Indian at a time, Lindsay, starting with a “social activist and lawyer” Bhuwan, of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, a campaign group. He says the 40 children were freed from 15 workshops in New Delhi not by Lohan but by police following two months of planning by local police and magistrates. They were freed before Lohan arrived in India. Such is her power.
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Posted: 13th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
X Factor Final Live Blog: Joe McElderry Wins, Olly Murs Lose Gracefully
THE X Factor Final Live Show: Joe McElderry wins. Here’s how he did it. Newests news first.
Final Proud Watch of the X Factor series: Cheryl is proud of Joe. Joe just looks stunned and elated.
Cheryl and Danniii air kiss. Britain gets its own Jonas Brother. Any more like you at home, Joe? Simon’s just wondering? Rachel whatsherface grabs the mic.
Joe WINS!!!!! And here is debut single. Look! Buy! Look!!!!
The lines are closed. The cash is being counted. Your mum is going TO KILL YOU when the phone bill comes.
George Michael sings a dull song dressed in those Minder indoor sunglasses used and abused car dealers wear. Sir Paul Macca appears.
Return to see Cheryl Cole crying. What the **** did Cowell say to her?!
Then Olly and Joe are ready to sing The Climb, a Miley Cyrus song. It’s pretty dull. But Joe wins. Joe is walking on clouds. Behind him is host of white-clad singers. What can it all mean? It’s moving. Your writer moves to the coffee machine, literally.
Leona Lewis is dressed as a goldfish.
Proud Watch II: Simon is “proud” of Olly and Joe.
Proud Watch: Simon Cowell is “proud” of Joe – “literally”.
Joe sings Don’t Stop Believin‘ by Journey. To be picky, Joe is not a great walker. But he way better than Olly at singing. Joe wins.
Olly sings Twist And Shout. Olly dances like a City broker on a patch of black ice. Grandma will like this one. Olly reminds one of Antoak’s writers of Vinnie Jones singing Wolly Bully. Says what you like about the singing, but Olly does good stairs. Walking up stairs on stage is not easy.
Fashion Note: Louis Walsh is dressed like an extra from The Waltons.
Fashion Note II: For those fo you watching in black and white Michael Underwood’s outfit is bright.
Olly and Joe are dressed in white. Can Godspell have two leads? All the other losing finalists are dressed in black. It’s all deeplty meaningful.
BEFORE the X Factor final – and Joe McElderry’s victory, and Olly Murs’ good sportsmanship – Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy are seen backstage at the X Factor final, and then taking their seats for the show proper at the Fountain Studios in Wembley, north-west London. Should Harry and Chelsy marry? Should they live in sin? We need a public vote…
Posted: 13th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
X Factor: Cheryl Cole Wants A Baby In May And Might Have One By Christmas
X FACTOR: It’s the X Final grand final between Jonas Brother lite Joe McElderry and Olly Murs, the Dancing On Ice stage dancer – which means the News of The World leads with:
CHERYL Cole wants to quit and have a baby
Cheryl Cole wants to quit X Factor to have a baby, the News of the World can reveal.
This would be the same Cheryl Cole who revealed back in May:
“I think I’m ready for parenthood now.”
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Posted: 13th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
In Pictures: Pamela Anderson Vibrates, Vivienne Westwood’s Elizabeth I Impression And Charlie Brooker Goes Native At British Comedy Awards 2009
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THE British Comedy Awards 2009, that AGM for funny men and the odd funny woman, is an odd thing where the rebels, those sayers and doers of things “out of the box”, “left field” and way cray-zee arrive on stage to collect an award. Like all awards do, these are awards for media compliancy, for being acceptably funny and funny enough to be on the telly.
And they came to chuckle: Vivienne Westwood went for visual gags with her Quene Elizabeth I impression, Pamela Anderson raised a smile, Griff Rhys Jones, Ash Attalla, Beth Cordingly, a child with a descriptive funny name – Tyger Drew Honey – Keith Allen, Tom Felton, Rob Brydon, Claudia Winkleman, Peter Capaldi , Lee Majors and his wife Faith, Pixie Lott, funny looking Katie Price, Steve Benham, Leigh Francis, critic gone native Charlie Brooker, Sir Terry Wogan, Simon Bird, the great Harry Hill, Joe Calzaghe and Kristina Rihanoff, Alice Beer, Davina McCall, Jane Goldman, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Armando Iannucci, John Thomson, Paul Kaye, Jack Dee and comedy singing act JLS all battled whether to go for the GQ cover pose (suit, tie and serious face) or jaunty jig pose?
And everyone laughed and laughed and lauged until their heads fell off…
Posted: 13th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Will Smith And The Smithios Do The Nobel Peace Prize, In Pictures
AT the Nobel Peace Prize concert Natasha Bedingfield was followed on stage – and how to follow her? – by actor Will Smith, his wife actress Jada Pinkett Smith and the Performing Smithios – Willow Smith and Jaden Smith. Yeah, Will equals Willow; Jada equals Jaden. Such is the self-love. Then Wyclef Jean did the dread deed and danced with the Norwegian royal family. Get a load of the expression of dismay, pity and horror on Crown Prince Haakon’s face. The pictures:
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Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
X Factor: Stacey Solomon In Pictures
FAREWELL Stacey Solomon. You sang. You moved a bit. And then you lost to Disney character Joe McElderry and contagious Olly Murs (have you got Ollymurs?). Stacey is hard not to like. She has the aura of familiarity. We’ve seen her before. But where? Why, here. It’t the Stacey Solomon look alike gallery:
Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
X Factor Live Final Blog: Stacey Solomon Is Out
X FACTOR live blog: Joe McElderry, Olly Murs and Stacey Solomon are until Monday the Future Of Pop Music. But Stacey is is out.
Highlights of the night are:
* Dermot saying that “in no particular order the second act through to the live final is…”
* Joe looking like a mini George Michael as they duet on Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me. George is wearing those glasses you used to see car dealers wear in episodes of Minder.
* Olly singing Angels with his older version: Robbie Williams, who sings out of step with the lyrics. Olly then appears with all the dancers dressed in Dannii Minogue’s hair.
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Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)
Cheryl Cole Is Proud Of Alexandra Burke’s Miming
ON the Cheryl Cole show, Alexandra Burke (Sol Campbell look alike) is miming so badly that she might – just might – make it a judge on the X Factor. Then an early Proud Watch entry. Cheryl says she is “so proud” of Alexandra. She then sits holding Alexandra’s hand, like she’s a toddler sat on a bus.
Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (4)
X Factor: Stacey Solomon Is Covered In Cheese
X FACTOR: You can buy the Stacey Special Pizza at Papa Johns in Essex. Stacey is covered in toppings:
Having earlier learnt that Stacey’s favourite chip shop meal is red cabbage in oil and lemon, we’d says Stacey’s pizza features red cabbage, oil, lemon and maybe soupcon of whatever Simon Cowell’s having.
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Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
They All Look Like Jedward: A Picture Special
JEDWARD can’t sing and they can’t dance. But they can entertain. They can entertain because they have huge vehicle behind them. They have the context of the X Factor. Without the show and the hype that comes with it, Jedward are rubbish. Would you pay to see them? If you answer “yes”, best check what time the warden on your secure ward wants you back. If you can’t see Jedward, then you can see their look alikes. Here’s the gallery:
Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
X Factor: Stacey Solomon Gets Cabbaged And Joe McElderry Pulls
X FACTOR Watch: It’s the final weekend of the X Factor. Who wins: Disney character and granny-magnet Joe McElderry, hyperventilating Stacey Solomon or twitchy itchy dancer Olly Murs, the man whose name is contagious – literally? Look out for Olly’s impression of David Brent in a lift.
Geordie Joe McElderry will perform with George Michael. Wake Me up After You Joe Joe. Everyone else gets Jedward.
Jedward wins!
He is lining up a series of deals. Louis said: “They will be millionaires by the end of next year. TV, modelling endorsements, gigs, books, hair, pop music…they’ll be huge.” – Mirror
Amanda Holden Is Coller Than A Wasabi Enema
Amanda tells us: “I’m really hoping Joe will win. There is nobody out there on the market for 10 to 21-year-olds and fits the bill perfectly – Mirror
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Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)
X Factor: Spice Girl Mel B Replaces Dannii Minogue
X FACTOR 2010 will not feature the pneumatic, silicon–enhanced screechy singer with the funny accent: Dannii Minogue. X Factor 2010 will feature the pneumatic, silicon-enhanced screechy singer with the funny accent: Mel former Spice Girl Mel B.
Well, so says the Mirror. The winner will be… Simon Cowell.
Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Scarlett Johansson’s View From The Bride: In Pictures
ANORAK’S Man in New York was there to see Scarlett Johansson attends a photocall for her broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s ‘A View From the Bridge‘ at Etcetera Etcetera. Johansson reprises the role performed by Brittany Murphy in 1997. It’s cracking tale of a man ruined by his overarching love for his niece. It’s the hot ticket…
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Posted: 11th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
X Factor: X Factor Ice Lollies Go On Sale
X FACTOR photocall of the day invited us to feast our eyes upon the Ice Sculpture of the X Factor judges unveiled at St Pancras International, London.
We went. We’d seen the bear in Trafalgar Square and expected much. And then we arrived and saw, well, what was it? And would you want to drink it? Would you drink a melted Simon Cowell, or stick a twig in it and lick it like a lolly?
Of course, the brand mangers heard us and they got to thinking. Celebrity lollies are the next big things. The flavours:
Simon Cowell’s Lemon Tongue – a lolly shaped like a tongue. The mirrored stick gives the impression of licking yourself
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Posted: 11th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Richard And Judy Absent From 21 Years Of This Morning Party, In Pictures
YES, we did go to the 21st birthday of ITV’s This Morning at Studio Valbone in London. Yes, we did see Peter Andre. Yes, we did see Philip Schofield dressed a jacket potato and a woman later identified as his wife. Yes, we did see the hard to like Holly Willoughby. And, no, because we did not ask how her son “Harry” was, we didn’t speak to her. (Anorak runs a daily sweepstake on how far into the show Holly will make mention her son – the record is five seconds.) and yes we did see John Leslie dressed in a blue velvet jacket, hanky and wearing an expression of a man easing into his reputation. And we did not see Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, the couple who started the TV Valium. And yes we did get pictures:
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Posted: 11th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The N-Dubz Christmas Party In Pictures
TO the N-Dubz Christmas Party, to see Chipmunk perform on stage with Quintin Kynaston School collective N-Dubz at the Shepherds Bush Empire. On the eve of the X Factor final, when Disney character Joe McElderry will make granny proud, Tula Contostavlos, Dino Contostavlos – Dappy, Fazer and Tulisa – and Esmee Denters sang their songs and danced their dance. Like something from the ink of Jamie Hewlett, they posed and pouted. You want entertainment. This is it. In Pictures:
Posted: 11th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Kerry Katona To Open A Kebab Shop
KERRY Katona wants to open a Kebab Shop. No, not in an official capacity. Kerry cuts the string of entrails pasted across the kebab shop door and declares the shop open.
No, the Sun says Our Kerry wants to open a kebab shop every day in her role as a kebab shop owner. You work hard and one say you live the dream.
The Sun says the shop could “help the ex-Atomic Kitten sort her finical worries”.
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Posted: 11th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
X Factor Exclusive: Proud Joe McElderry’s Proud Family Do Disney
BECAUSE the X Factor is a competition to find a Friedrich von Trapp, Joe McElderry should win. Joe is a Disney character who waits until he’s buckled up in the backseat before wiping off granny’s lippy wet kiss. The X Factor is bit of fun, and Joe is about as fun as a wet tissue in a goldfish bowl.
In the Sun we get to meet Joe’s mum Eileen, a “social worker” – so instantly Sun readers hate her. Mum’s job is just another battle Joe must over come to achieve his dream. Dad Jim is a “probation officer”. Joe comes from a “deprived area of Tyneside”. Joe lives in a “cramped upstairs flat”.
Everywhere you go in Newcastle there are posters and messages declaring: “Go Joe!”
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Posted: 11th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
In Pictures: The World Premiere Of James Cameron’s Avatar
THE world premiere of the much-hyped Avatar at the Odeon, Leicester Square, attracted such seat fillers as Una Healy and Mollie King from The Saturdays, former Strictly Come Dancing prof-celeb hofer boxer Joe Calzaghe, boxer David Haye, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Kimberly Wyatt of the Pussycat Dolls. Does the calibre of the celebs reflect the quality of the film? Thankfully, also on the blue carpet was Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Director James Cameron, Zoe Saldana and, er, Louis Winstone. Luckily, the film is shot in new kind of 3D that makes any celebrity look even shallower. They say watching it can cure any ills. The pictures:
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Posted: 10th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
In Pictures: The TeenNick’s Halo Awards With Mariah Carey’s Butterfly Kiss
MARIAH Carey and her actor husband Nick Cannon were spotted arriving for the TeenNick’s Halo Awards at the Newseum in Washington, DC. It’s proved to be a memorable night as Cannon and Carey engaged in kiss that will ranks up there with some of the greatest kisses of all time… Lainey has more on the butterfly ambush.
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Posted: 10th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Kate Gosselin’s Parenting Tips For Peter Andre And Katie Price
KATE Gosselin was the star of reality TV show about her life and her eight (8) children. Katie Price and Peter Andre like to show their little uns on the telly. But what happens when the TV crews are gone? Kate tells Barbara Walters:
“They cried in the van on the way home from school the other day. I finally admitted to them, they kept asking, ‘Where’s the camera crew? Where’s the camera crew? We miss them.’ And I said, ‘Our show is over.’ …Eight sobbing kids driving home from school,” Kate, 34, says on Barbara Walters’ The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009, airing Wednesday on ABC.
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Posted: 10th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
