Les Paul Joins Celebrity Death Watch

LES Paul dies and the Celebrity Death Watch business thrives. Anorak’s Man in LA looks at the man who made so much possible:

Les was the innovator, and a part if the New York City music scene over the years. He pioneered multitrack recording; he invented the solid body guitar; when he shattered his right arm in a car crash, rendering it immobile, he had it set at an angle so he could play continue to guitar; they named the Les Paul after him!

But it’s thirty-third week of 2009 and Les Paul’s is the thirty-eighth celebrity death we’ve highlighted since January 3rd.

Get a load of this list of the people whose passings we’ve mentioned in 2009– so far:

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Posted: 14th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Lady Gaga Says Bondage Makes You Gay

LADY Gaga is naked on the cover of OUT magazine. Jimmy Savile lookalike (pictured) Gaga will do anything to stop you looking at her face. Or her penis. Yes, dear reader, the web is rife with rumours that Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite, or a drag act, or one of the Lady Boys of Bangkok.

So long as you don’t look at her face, you can say what you like about Madonna’s camel.

If Gaga was in the UK, we’d have hundreds of pictures of her face. The UK has 20 pet cent of the world’s CCTV. The only place Gaga’s face would not be seen would be on BBC3 or the House of Lords, and Ladies.

Says Gaga:

“I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It’s not an underground tool for me. It’s my whole life. So I always sort of joke that the real motivation is to just turn the world gay.”

To turn the world gay, Gaga poses nude with a skeleton, appears wrapped head-to-toe in bondage bandages, and languishes in a coffin smoking a ciggie.

This is how you become gay and make the world gay. Gay-a is turned. Gayness can be undone by stopping doing any one of these things. And stop drinking frog spawn. And she’s still talking:

“I’ve become really fascinated with fantasy and monster movies of the ’50s.”

Fascinated with fantasy. Thrilled by thrillerzzz. Horrified by horror. Mystified by mystery… Gaga is called Gaga for a reason. She writes all her own jokes:

“Somehow I feel, socially, after a war or after something really bad happens there’s a rebirth of naiveté, so that’s where my obsession comes from. That’s when the fame monster is born.”

You need naivete to buy into the Gaga legend. Pictures:

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Posted: 13th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Bar Refaeli Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Pictures

BAR Refaeli is spotted in behind the scenes pictures of the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. No burkini for Ms Rafaeli, who opts for the trim speedo-style swimwear to keep her on top of her game.

And no go faster swimsuit. Bar Refaeli is a sports purist, a Corinthian, who relies on what god gave her and minimal fibres to go higher, faster and for longer.

What sport Refaeli is famous for is a moot point, but a survey of the Anorak typing pool tells us that she is something of the dartist and once pulled off her double top to great effect.

These pictures are courtesy of Sports Illustrated’s editor MJ Day. The interview – Flippers Are This Year’s Crocs – is our own work:

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Posted: 13th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

An Invitation To Pop Hannah Montana’s Cherries

TEEN Star Hannah Montana is not to star in Disney Jailbait – Home On The Range, On The Drier, On The Porch – yet, but you can appreciate her talents by chewing on her official oral sex training gums, and pop a bag of her official Red Cherries.

It’s all deliciously tasteful, of course.

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Posted: 13th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (5)

The Ladyboys of Bangkok In Fringe Pictures

AT the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Ladyboys of Bangkok have been corralled into a zone of tolerance with the county’s drama students and their tutors.

To your weapons, noble natives of Edinburgh. You can take the armies of Edward Longshanks, but Vicky and Hugo from the Vomit In Sock Workshop theatre are too worthy. Fire at will.

Thus we journey to the Bedlam Paintball near Edinburgh with The Ladyboys of Bangkok, who will be performing their Mile High tour to a syncopated ping-pong backbeat.

Old Mr Anorak, our patron, thinks it great that the United Kingdom has such a fine balance of trade – London gets the Scottish drunks and politicos; Scotland gets budding drama luvvies and crystal meth. Deal made.

As for the Bangkok Lady Boys, OMA says they are welcome to try out for his table tennis winter training camp, literally…

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Posted: 13th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Katie Price Inflates Chantelle As Peter Andre Ends It All

KATIE Price and Peter Andre divorce: Chantelle Houghton’s promoted at Princess Tiaamii’s birthday, Jordan’s upset, Jordan the TV mogul and Peter Andre will not say anything more about it LIVE on Sky News…

STV: “Katie Price ‘not happy’ Chantelle met her kids”

Katie Price has admitted that she is unhappy that Chantelle Houghton has been introduced to her kids, a report claims.

In case the kidzzzz mistake Chantelle Houghton, for it is she, for their lookalike mum? And what of Katie Price’s partially sighted son Harvey who may start to think the he is in the care of not two but four giant space hoppers? Indeed, given how much mum’s face has altered, Harvey can glue a serving spoon onto a pair of watermelons and never be far from a mother figure.

The glamour model’s estranged husband Peter Andre invited the Celebrity Big Brother winner to Princess Tiaamii’s second birthday party, according to Now! magazine. Katie, who is currently dating cage fighter Alex Reid, said: “I was not happy.

“I have kept my mouth shut on this for a couple of weeks but it has upset me. She doesn’t even know my children so I cannot understand why she is at the party.”

To pop out of the cake? To twist her inflatables into the shape of a  dog? Says a Peter Andre source in The People:

“She was invited to the party because she belongs to the same management company as Pete.”

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Posted: 13th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (8)

Jade Goody’s New Reality TV Show Stars Jack Tweed, Katie Price And Kerry Katona

NEWS from Jade’s Goody Industries’ AGM is that The Jade Goody Mum, Jackiey Budden, “is very concerned about Jack Tweed’s current mental state. She wants him away from the kids.

“She met Jeff [Brazier – now a GMTV presenter] last week to discuss going to the High Court to get an injunction stopping him from having access to the children.”

One day on from telling readers that news, the Sun now tells us:

The womaniser burst into tears when he read The Sun’s revelations that Jackiey wants the High Court to rule he is unfit to be with the lads.

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Posted: 13th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)

Tracey Connelly’s Lesbian Lover And Baby P’s Flesh

BABY P Watch – Anroak’s round-up of Peter Connelly, Tracey Connelly, Steven Barker and Jason Barker in the news – Tracey’s lesbian fling, evil flesh and Rose West…

THE focus on Baby P’s “evil” mum Tracey Connelly goes on as the Sun reveals: “Baby P mum is lesbian.”

Phwoarr, indeed, readers. Can Tracey Connelly become Racey Tracey and so be accepted into tabloid society? The Sun doesn’t give readers Tracey’s vital statistics, but she’s a hefty lass.

And so to today’s The Big Debate: does Tracey Connelly wait until she’s lost weight and had her hair done before she poses with her naked chest pushed into another woman – or does she just go for it now?

Or is she one of those lesbians, the broadcast’s media’s last taboo, a wimmin in sensible shoes who you never see on the telly unless she’s talking about a dull book or genital mutilation in Soviet Central Asia?

The Sun is here to help:

THE twisted mother of tortured Baby P had a LESBIAN fling in prison, The Sun can reveal. Callous Tracey Connelly, 28, sneaked off to a cell with a 30-year-old brunette while in Holloway jail, North London, awaiting trial over the death of her 17-month-old baby son Peter.

No picture of the 30-year-old brunette stunna, but there is the promise of another coupling to come:

Connelly “was moved to Low Newton – which also houses House of Horrors child killer Rose West – days before a court order banning her identification was lifted on Monday.”

But wait in line, Rose. Says one lag’s lover:

“There are hundreds of women in there and they all want their piece of flesh from that evil bitch.”

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Posted: 13th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)

Recording Starts At Guy Ritchie’s Punchbowl Pub Movie

THERE’S a microphone outside Guy Ritchie’s The Punchbowl pub in London’s Mayfair, there to monitor noise as the former Mr Madonna and his Mockney Rebels ‘ave it large up the quince and avocado pears for a bit of celeb and tickle and lashing of Becks ‘n’ Posh.

News is that Westminster City Council has received 37 complaints of noise, which may be a lot. The sounds of braying and the snap of camera shutters closing are causing a bit of a waxed Barbour and getting in the locals’ Latvian au pair.

The council says the microphone doesn’t record conversations but simply measures decibel levels. But the voices should be recorded and if set to a score in which Chas ‘n’ Dave play Hava Nagila in the amnnr of a Greek restaurateur. This is Ritchie’s next big film in the making.

Ritchie could talk about “the classical body of wisdom” and introduce a caper for “The Natives of England” to ride with hounds across Hyde Park in search of The Fox, an Albanian Samantha Fox look-alike who has stolen a rare breed of pig from Her Majesty’s butcher, and on the eve of the Cup Final, and all.

Leonardo DiCaprio could star as Widow Twanky.

Scene 1:

GR: Wotcha…

Lily Allen: … Cocks

Bang!

Ends.

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Posted: 12th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Michael Jackson’s Glass Coffin To Go On Tour

MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Michael Jackson in the news – Helena is Blanket’s mum, Vienna tribute show, Madonna and Whitney Houston pull out and the Halloween spectacular…

Daily Mirror: “Michael Jackson exclusive: Blanket Jackson’s surrogate mother is a Mexican nurse named Helena”

The surrogate mother of Michael Jackson’s seven-year-old son Blanket is a Mexican nurse named Helena. As several people come forward to claim parenthood over the King of Pop’s three children, the Mirror has discovered the truth behind the birth of his youngest.

Despite rumours about who fathered the boy, we can reveal Jackson is his biological dad…

The Mirror and the NOTW are locked in a battle for Jackson’s paternity. Mark Lester says it could be him. Now the Mirror says it knows the truth:

The friend told the Mirror: “He chose Helena because she had a latino background but she was also a US citizen and had quite fair skin. He liked her because she was very attractive and seemed stable and intelligent. She was a nurse or medical assistant, which he also liked.”

And – behold –  a Blanket was born:

TV producer Gary Pudney recalls that just days later, Jackson proudly introduced him to Blanket. Pudney said: “Michael told me, ‘I have something to show you, Gary.’ And he went in the back of the trailer into the little bedroom and brought out this little blanket that had something in it.”

A nose grafted onto a mouse?

“And it was the baby.”

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Posted: 12th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (8)

Michael Jackson’s Egyptian Model Lookalike In Pictures

MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Michael Jackson fans flock to see Egyptian model ‘lookalike’ at the Inside Ancient Egypt exhibition at Chicago’s The Field Museum.

The bust was bought in Cairo in 1889 and has been on display at the museum for 21 years.

Some say that the bust wept when Jackson died? Some say that on a quiet day you can hear someone breathing inside. Some say King Tut was killed by and addiction to Dipravan and molested Tutankhamun (never proven).

Most chillingly of all the Telegraph tells us:

The music video for Jackson’s 1993 hit “Remember the Time” was set in Egypt and starred Eddie Murphy.

Say the Jacksons: Show Me The Mummy?

A gallery of the bust appears hereunder.

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Posted: 12th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Dignified Peter Andre Slams Katie Price’s Strawberry Ripples

KATIE Price and Peter Andre Divorce: “Dignified” Peter talks to the Star and Mirror, Katie’s strawberry ripples and a “Drunken slapper”…

Daily Star (front page): “JORDAN THE DRUNKEN SLAPPER. THE REASON I LEFT Kate? Look at the pictures. They tell the story”

This is Peter Andre who would never badmouth his estranged wife?

As he sat down in our newsroom…

It’s another tabloid interview with “dignified” Peter Andre who has already called his estranged wife “cheap” and “disgusting“. She makes “dirty money“.

Daily Mirror (front page): “KATE WHO”

“I am 100% over her”

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Jennifer Lopez’s Heart Breaks For Her Missing Children

THIS week in Hello! – Jennifer Lopez’s heart breaks, Donna Karen’s home therapy suite, Alexandra Richards models and Kirsty Gallagher vomits…

Jennifer Lopez At 40

How does it feel?
Jennifer Lopez: “I have to say I feel awesome”

And the twins?

JL: “They’re amazing!… I put Max to bed and said, ‘I love you baby, I’ll see you in the morning.’ I swear he said, very quickly, ‘I love you.’ So I rushed into the nanny and said, ‘Oh, my gosh, did you hear that? He said I love you!’ She agreed, she had heard it too.”

Yeah, he probably tells it to the nanny every time she changes his nappy, plays with him, feeds him, washes him…

JL: “It breaks my heart if I’m away from them even for a short time.”

So don’t go.

JL: “Staying at home with the kids, watching everything they do is awesome. I loved every minute of it.”

As Jen says, having twins is “double the work”. Right nannies?

At Home With Donna Karan

According to Donna Karan: ‘The Hamptons truly is my family…” But Donna has not take after her kin’s clapperboard exterior and dry beaches, opting for an altogether deeper beige and moisturiser.

We join Donna as she sits in a white smock with a painted wax effigy of her self leaning on her arm.

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Posted: 12th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment

PETA: Nia Long Fights The Fur Holocaust, Ronald McDonald Eats Children And Fat Vegetarians

PETA Watch: Nia Long is a Holocast survivor, McDonald’s Unhappy Meals frighten children and vegetatians are fat people too…

PETA’S new dumb Animal of the month is actress Nia Long, who refuses to wear fur, but, as D-listed notes, “she’s okay with wearing ten million layers of Photoshop!”

Nia has no crotch. Instead she has a shiny pole and a pudenda shaped like the kind of thing euro brats ski over. She also has no navel. This is what happens what you spend time naked on the New York Subway – you’re body reacts and mutates. (Peta, via YBF.)

Says Nia – As a mother…

“When I became a mother, I started to really understand the importance of all living creatures in a way that I didn’t ever think about before… There’s no difference, in my opinion, [between fur and] slavery or the Holocaust. It’s just that we’re not dealing with human beings, we’re dealing with animals, but it’s still a living thing.”

When the Austrians poured lice powder over the Jews, Nia wept. Those poor little bitty live never hurt anyone. When the rats had to live with the slaves, Nia wailed. But the truth hurts. And Peta can handle the truth, whatever the Photoshop evedence says to the contrary.

FoxNews.com has news of Peta’s anti-McDonald’s drive:

“Unhappy Meals” featuring a knife-wielding Ronald McDonald and bloody rubber chickens are upsetting parents who say the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are unfairly targeting their kids at McDonald’s restaurants across the country…

“I don’t want my son to be around something like this. This is not fair for a child,” Stephaine Gipson told FOX23 News in Albany.

Says PETA spokeswoman Lindsay Rajt, with no hint of irony

“I think children and adults deserve to be told the truth — and that’s that behind Ronald McDonald’s smile is cruelty to animals,”

In other news, Simon Scowl alerts us to this gem:

I would like to express my outrage at a billboard I recently saw in Jacksonville, Florida. My family was visiting, and I was planning on taking them to the beach to enjoy the beautiful day when i saw a billboard that made me want to cry.

And what’s behind Nia Long’s figure is something other than sesame seed buns.

Fat vegetarians. Don’t eat meat, be thin. Like Boy George, or him…

Anorak

Posted: 11th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Mallika Sherawat Upstages Angelina Jolie

AT last night’s Inglourious Basterds premiere, Indian actress Mallika Sherawat managed to upstage Angelina Jolie (praise be her name) by arriving dressed as the insides of the Bride of Frankenstein’s costume jewellery display case.

Turn the flashbulbs to eclipse, paps, because Sherawat is putting Jolie in the shade.

Sherawat’s birth name is Reema Lamba. No, it’s not Savita Bhabhi – but if the film of the comic is made, Sherawat has an outfit ready for the close ups.

Jolie came dressed as a rubber glove, Which may be statement about the state of women in impoverished Pakistan. Or just a clingy dress she picked up in Pakistan’s Fetish Sex Factory.

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Posted: 11th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Babyshambles Peter Doherty Court Case, On Coke

GOOD old Pete Doherty, aka Babyshambles Pete, who has not died but remains alive and continuing his tour of UK courtooms with an unplugged gig at the Magistrates Court in Cheltenham.

Last month, Babyshambles Pete, the 30-year-old ex-Libertines frontman, was stopped in Gloucester after police officers spotted a car allegedly being driven erratically.

The Celebrity Police Force went into action and enlivened up a dull night by getting up close with a celeb.

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Posted: 11th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment

This Week In Closer: Kerry Katona’s Lap Dancer, Carol McGriffin Is Not “Slut” Katie Price And Brian Zembic’s Jordans

THIS week in Closer Magazine – Kerry Katona takes back “cheating’ Mark Croft, Jordan’s kids thinks she’s a “slut”, Carol McGriffin talks about not talking about her marriage and a man with fake breast looks for love…

Lisa Burrow, editor of Closer magazine, brings news of Kerry Katona:

“Kerry Katona’s life has, predictably, taken another turn for the worse. While on a recent make-or-break holiday to Magaluf with husband Mark she stayed in the hotel room while he went out groping and propositioning lap dancers.”

Make or break? Vote now!

Inside, Closer readers get news from Kerry’s mum Sue, who has seen pictures of Mark “climbing on top of lap dancer Claire Basset and trying to take her clothes off”. Says Sue:

“I’m worried sick about Kerry now she’s taken him back. Mark’s destroyed her self-esteem… What does he have to do to make her realise what a bastard he is?”

This might be rhetorical question, but if it’s not than Anorak suggests that Croft shag a lap dancer over the family kitchen table and spill the milk from Kerry’s breakfast cereal in her slippers.

There then follows an exchange between Sue and Kerry:

Sue: “Have you seen it – the story about Mark trying to shag the lap dancers?”
Kerry: “He’s been stitched up.”
Sue: “For God’s sake, he’s been filmed trying to shag her, what more do you need to see?”

Again the question is rhetorical. And readers are invited to submit their own answer, perhaps with pictures and drawings, and send them to Kerry Katona competition, c/o Groser magazine.

Jordan’s Mum:

Amy, the Jordan Mother, has a question for her daughter Katie Price:

“Do you want the kids growing up thinking you’re a slut?”

To your keypads, Katie. What says you, kidzzzz?

Loose Older Woman

Carol McGriffin, a dead ringer for Rodney Plonker in Only Fools And Horses tells us:

“I won’t flog my marriage like Jordan did.”

And thus we are denied the chance of seeing McGriffin dry humping 23-years-younger lover Mark Hutton and getting matching anal bleaching.

“I don’t want to flog every detail of my marriage like Jordan and Pete,” says Carol. “I want to keep everything to myself.”

So she tells Closer magazine. Is no comment still a comment?

Oksana Koslova’s Designer Vagina

Oksana had sugery six times to restore her “virginity” to please her husband. She nearly died.

“I’d realised I’d become addicted to it. I’m lucky to be alive. From now on I’ll have to get something more conventional for his birthday.”

Like a virgin in a cake and bottle of ketchup.

Brian Zembic is Jordan’s No.1 Fan

Zembic is the man with fake breasts.

Brian had his implants implanted to win a bet. He then bet a plastic surgeon to win the surgery for free. He now has a C-cup breast, far smaller than many men but enough to seduce “dozens of women”, including a “heavy-drinking contortionist from Monte Carlo and a money-obsessed manic depressive.”

Says he:

“Once the novelty of my boobs has worn off, women usually want me to have them removed. But they’re still earning me money.”

Katie Price is single…

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Posted: 11th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)

Pictured: Harriet Lester ‘Sister’ To Paris Jackson

MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Michael Jackson in the news – Introducing Harriet Lester, Paris Jackson’s ‘sister’.

Mark Lester says he could be the father to Michael Jackson daughter’s Paris Jackson, and to the two boys, Prince Michael and Blanket.

Says Mark Lester:

“Paris is very pale, with blue eyes. All my daughters, apart from my eldest, are fair with blue eyes. So many people have commented on how alike Harriet and Paris look. Our families often holidayed together and staff, especially nannies, watching the children play together would say how similar the two girls looked.”

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Posted: 10th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (14)

Claire Elisabeth Fields Cruise Is Paris Jackson’s Mother

MEET Claire Elisabeth Fields Cruise, a woman who has filed three guardianship petitions – one for each of Michel Jackson’s three children. Is she the fake Debbie Rowe?

Says “random loon” Claire Elisabeth Fields Cruise:

“I am the biological mother of Prince Michael Jackson II and all of his siblings.”

She is married to Michael Jackson – “who is now deceased” – and “engaged to Prince Michael Jackson II’s biological father.” And , alelgedly, shagged Mark Lester, or met him in a Petri Dish.

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Posted: 10th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)

Michael Jackson Was Sold To Twitter And Mark Lester Confesses

MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Michael Jackson in the news – Jackson paid for Twitter, buried in LA, Mark Lester is and isn’t Paris Jackson’s father and Jackson enters school syllabus…

Metro: “Oliver star’s Jacko daughter claims were ‘twisted’”

Mark Lester – the daddy?

‘They twisted his words around. He’s not claiming to be the father of Paris Jackson,’ said a family insider.

The back-peddle comes as lawyers for the Jackson camp slammed the claims. Attorney Londell McMillan said: ‘These are just merely claims with no legal standing whatsoever.’

Digital Spy: “[Uri] Geller: ‘I knew about Lester all along”

So Lester is the Paris Jackson daddy?

Contact Music: “BRIAN OXMAN – JACKSON FAMILY LAWYER BACKS LESTER”. Says he on GMTV:

“Mark Lester is a very straight shooter, an honest man and when he describes the process by which he was asked to make a donation of sperm, I believe every word he says. Michael Jackson always told me he was the biological father so you have on one hand Mark saying he might be and Michael saying he might be – so you have the question who the daddy is. Mark always told the truth and I believe he is telling us straight right now.”

Mashable: “Company Boasts it Sold Twitter Followers to Michael Jackson”

MICHAEL JACKSON BOUGHT TWITTER FOLLOWERS: USocial Press Release

Social bookmarks to elevate social rank:

One such service is the highly-controversial paid Twitter follower service which has been offered by web promotions company uSocial.net for several months now. Now they’re claiming they’ve had the attention of some of the world’s largest names, including one interesting one in particular.

“I can’t admit that we dealt with Michael Jackson directly, though we were in touch with someone in his family recently who tasked us with conducting a Twitter campaign on an account relating to him.” Said uSocial.net CEO Leon Hill. “It was exciting to say the very least to conduct work with such a big name.”

uSocial say that 25,000 followers were bought to be delivered to Jackson’s account and they’re still working on fulfilling the order.

“For obvious reasons we’ll be dealing with his family from here on in, though it would have been great to conduct services for Michael Jackson in a different time, under different circumstances.” Said Hill.

Brand Republic: “Michael Jackson family wanted to ‘buy’ Twitter followers”

Australian marketing company uSocial.net, which sells packages of Twitter “followers”, said that Michael Jackson’s family wanted to buy 25,000 followers for the pop star’s Twitter account before he died.

Daily Mirror: “Jackson-themed merchandise approved”

Michael Jackson will be featured in calendars and collectors’ coin cases after a judge approved several deals involving the singer’s estate.

The judge at Los Angeles Superior Court signed off on agreements for Jackson-themed items including calendars, school supplies, posters and a commemorative coin.

Now Magazine: “Michael Jackson’s body is finally laid to rest”

Michael Jackson has been buried, his family’s lawyer confirms. The star died in June and a public memorial was held at LA’s Staples Centre on 7 July… It’s thought the family held a low-key ceremony at the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills.

New York Times: “Gamma’s Bankruptcy Shows Shift in Photojournalism”

Jean-François Leroy, organizer of the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival, which runs in Perpignan for two weeks beginning Aug. 29, pointed to a declining emphasis in the media on serious subjects — what he called the “disease of the press” — as another problem.

“Photographers are producing plenty of great stuff, but now the media seem interested only in celebrities,” he said. When Michael Jackson died, it wasn’t part of the news, it was the news. How many photographs of his funeral did we really need?”

Michael Jackson – Rest in Pieces…

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Posted: 10th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Megan Fox, Sarah Palin And Miley Cyrus Break Out At The Teen Choice Awards

THE Teen Choice Awards is not a Government-run anti-drugs, anti-sex, anti-smoking campaign, but an awards show presented annually by FOX. Teens aged 13–19 vote for their idols.

And there is a special award to Kathy Griffin for snuggling up to Levi Johnston (pictured), who squired Sarah Palin’s daughter. If Kathy can just dye her hair and wear some pig lipstick, this could be the real thing.

Treading the green grass carpet are the Twilight cast (Robert Pattison, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed and Kellan Lutz) and such notables as David Beckham, Hayden Panettiere, Zac Efron, Britney Spears, Rupert The Bear, Rumur Willis, Megan Fox, Cameron Diaz, The Kardashians, Vanessa Hudgens, Jennifer Morrison, Keke Palmer, Gary Glitter, Alexis Bledel, Chace Crawford, Leighton Meester, Pitt The Younger, Ellen DeGeneres, Miley Cyrus, and Ashley Tisdale. (Anyone missed was also there.)

And with more than 85 awards to dish out, there’s one for everyone. It’s less of an award than a going home present.

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Posted: 10th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)

Katie Price Crushes Peter Andre’s Cook Book

KATIE Price and Peter Andre Divorce: With the couple estranged, the battle of hearts and minds and wallets goes on. Can Katie’s book outsell Pete’s song? Can Jordan out-orange the pop acorn? And does the one whose antics earn the most column inches get custody of the children and the camera crew.

YOU join us on the set of Be A Man, the Jeremy Kyle movie, as Katie Price tells her estranged husband Peter Andre:

“I’LL TAKE LIE TEST TO CRUSH PETER.”

DEFIANT Kate Price is to take a lie detector test to prove she did not cheat on husband Peter Andre…

Her bizarre move is part of a fightback against Peter who has been winning the PR war between the estranged couple

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A Message From Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Dead’ Lover Patrick McDermott

OLIVIA Newton-John’s lover Patrick McDermott is alive. He’s living in Baja Mexico. Four years ago, the cameraman disappeared from a fishing charter boat docked in San Pedro.

It was June 30, 2005 – night time – Los Angeles, Calif. A charter fishing boat called the Freedom left for an overnight trip on the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean.  There were 23 sport fishermen aboard.  And one of them was this Patrick Kim McDermott.

Anorak’s Man in LA has more:

There’s a book’s worth of shocking, jaw-dropping, facade-smashing evidence and allegations behind today’s claim from a private eye that friends of Olivia Newton-John’s missing ex-boyfriend Patrick McDermott have reached out to say he’s alive and well in Mexico– and wants to be left alone.

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Peter Andre Duets With La Toya Jackson And Gordon Ramsay Moves Into Katie Price’s Place

KATIE Price – Peter Andre Divorce: Peter duets with La Toya Jackson, Katie’s bored of Alex Reid, Gordon Ramsay moves in to Katie’s old palce and more…

Daily Star: “JORDAN: MY FURY”

Dominik Lemanski has more…

SHELL-SHOCKED Katie Price was plunged into despair last night after a stinging new attack from Peter Andre. The estranged couple’s vicious feud descended into all-out war yesterday, with Peter branding her “disgusting” and a “disgrace”.

And “cheap“. Don’t forget that.

But that was before details were leaked of another no-holds-barred interview to be screened on Channel 4 tonight.

You mean dignified Peter Andre is going to break his silence and in plugging his new musak on Alan Carr’s chat show?

And he reveals that the video features a crazed Jordan-style glamour model, who he says is a “possessed woman that wants to kill him”.

He’s talking about the video to his musak, the one that look like an advertorial for a spray-on air freshner:

“And then the woman ends up being an evil cow. Then, basically, she’s possessed. She’s trying to kill me. But, BUT, deep inside I know she loves me.”

Fans in the audience immediately thought he was making a thinly-veiled reference to Jordan.

Contact Music: “PETER ANDRE – KATIE PRICE BANNED FROM LOOKING AT HUSBAND”

Alex Reid, the cage fighter boyfriend of glamour model Katie Price, has banned her from looking at pictures of her estranged husband Peter Andre.

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Posted: 9th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (5)

Ozzy Osbourne Bought Cocaine From The FBI

ROCKING vibrato Ozzy Osbourne says he “was once offered a line of cocaine to an undercover US narcotics agent”.

Anorak imagines the Star means to say that Ozzy was offered the drug “by” a US narco but we cannot be certain.

Says Ozzy:

“I met this guy and asked him, ‘You want to do some coke?’ He goes ‘No, no, no’. I’m whacking this stuff up my nose. I said, ‘What do you do?’ He said, ‘I work for the government’. I asked, ‘Uh, what do you do with the government?’ He replied, ‘I work for the drug squad’. I said, ‘You’re f**king joking’. He showed me his badge and I f**king flipped.”

Great story, Ozzy. And a great scoop, Daily Star, which knows that when it comes to anecdotes and matters of record you can always trust a man who was off his face of cocaine to recall the moment.

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