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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.
Je Suis Charlie Hebdo But…: Amal Clooney argues for a limit to free speech
Compare and contrast the views of Amal Clooney, wife to actor George Clooney.
On January 11 2015, Amal was at the 72nd Golden Globes, an acting AGM at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
She sported a “Je Suis Charlie”, a nod to the journalists murdered for expressing an opinion.
Free Speech. No Buts.
On Janaury 28, Amal Clooney is a member of a legal team representing for Armenia at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France. Clooney is among the lawyers arguing at the European Court of Human Rights against a Turkish man convicted in Switzerland for denying the 1915 Armenian genocide. She is challenging a decision that ruled the manÂ’s right to free expression was violated.
Je Suis Charlie Hebdo. They just don’t want to be him.
Hey, it’s our right to demand an edn to free speech!
Back to the drawing board.
Posted: 28th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Loredana Chivu says her Playboy photos drove father to suicide
The Sun has news of pneumatic Playboy model Loredana Chivu (as seen above):
Playboy model’s dad killed himself after daughter’s nude shoot
Really?
A PLAYBOY model has revealed her father killed himself after she stripped off for a naked photo shoot. Loredana Chivu, 25, had always been close to her dad but he was furious when she appeared nude for the adult magazine aged 18.
What a horrible story.
He cut off all contact with his daughter and the pair didn’t speak for months. But when Loredana went to his house to make peace, she was horrified to find his lifeless body hanging in the attic.
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Posted: 28th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Ghostbusters re-sexed: classive movie reworked as feminist message
Hollwyood has run dry of ideas when you get the third film Ghostsbusters made with an all-female cast. The Hollywood Reporter notes:
Melissa McCarthy, who was already in talks for one of the leads, has signed on for the Paul Feig-directed reboot, and the studio is now negotiating with Kristen Wiig, as well as “Saturday Night Live” players Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon…
CNN spots that naysayers:
As some of the Twitterati accused the ladies-led “Ghostbusters” concept of being a “gimmick,” Feig swiftly responded, “Interesting how making a movie with men in the lead roles is normal but making a movie with women in the lead roles is a ‘gimmick.’ #its2014.”
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Morgan Freeman nails Black History Month and ends racism, just like Rosa Parks and her fried chicken did
Morgan Freedman nails Black History M0nth and the obsession with division:
The Republican National Committee has congratulated civil rights hero Rosa Parks for her role in ending racism”.
Meanwhile…over at NBC it’s fried chicken fot all the folks (via):
Such are the facts…
Posted: 25th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment
Celebrity Big Brother: The Sun’s Katie Hopkins gets naked on Chegwin’s Channel 5
Celebrity Big Brother is making news in the tabloids. In the Sun and Star (now the only paper for topless stunnas – watch those readership figures soar!). Both papers have a league table of how the housemates are getting along.
The top two spots in the Sun’s list are occupied by Sun columnist Katie Hopkins (“bloody hilarious” and “no longer heartless”) and Sun columnist Katie Price.
Over in the Star, the Number 1 hosuemate is “laugh-a-minute” Keith Chegwin, who in the Sun‘ is “starting to crack” and “needs to crack a few more jokes”. Chegwin was once the hsot of Naked Jungle, the the Channel 5 “gameshow for naturists”. That was when Channel 5 was owned By Richard Desmond, who also, er, owns the Daily Star.
Such are the facts…
Posted: 20th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Fantastic! Ray Charles tries to get arrhythmic and tone-deaf English kids to sing ‘Hit the Road Jack’ in 1964
Fantastic! Ray Charles tries to get arrhythmic and tone-deaf English kids to sing ‘Hit the Road Jack’, 1964.
It’s from the film Ballad in Blue. Yeah. These were the better kids (when they hit the high notes they all turn into Hayley Mills):
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‘You classist gimp’: Read James Bunt’s wonderful letter to Chris Bryant MP
Labour MP Chris Bryant (Edu. Cheltenham College)told the Guardian that arts should not be about merit.
“I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for best actor], but we can’t just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk. Where are the Albert Finneys and the Glenda Jacksons? They came through a meritocratic system. But it wasn’t just that. It was also that the writers were writing stuff for them. So is the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, doing that kind of gritty drama, which reflects [the country] more? We can’t just have Downton programming ad infinitum and think that just because we’ve got some people in the servants’ hall, somehow or other we’ve done our duty by gritty drama.”
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Posted: 19th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Celebrity Big Brother is TV’s moral compliance show: only the most intolerant survive
Big Brother should come with an “Approved by the Ministry for Morals” sticker. The good get to win; the bad get to lose. The bigots are shunned and mocked; the enlightened get loved and panto.
This series has seen the back of Jermy Jackson (who he?) for alleged groping; Ken Morley for alleged racism; and now Alexander O’Neal for alleged homnphobia, his crime calling the immensley dislikable Perez Hilton a ‘f*****’. That’s ‘faggot’ in Sun-speak, the paper also telling us that Morley used the “N-word”, which turns out not to be ‘nigger’ but ‘negro’
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Posted: 19th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
A day in the life of Philippe Starck: the square oyster omelette and sex in a white truffle
A day in the life of Philippe Starck, as told to the Times:
Spotter: @whippletom, @daisygreenwell
Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Big Brother racism: Ken Morley needs to get cancer and jihad if he wants to be an anti-racist
Racism. It’s big news. The Daily Mirror leads with it. No. not the top story about Islamists murdering Jews in Paris.
That story is that Hayat Boumeddiene was filmed at Istanbul Airport as she headed to Syria.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said today that Boumeddiene arrived at an Istanbul airport on January 2 via Madrid.
That would mean she was not in Paris when 17 people were murdered. Ahemdy Coulibaly was in Paris. He murdered four people when he “raided a Jewish supermarket”. No use of the word ‘racism’ in that story in what was clearly an anti-Semitic attack. No mention of the phrase ‘anti-Semitism’, either. Race was not an issue. Fact!
No, the Mirror’s story on racism is about Celebrity Big Brother.
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Posted: 13th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Big Brother: ‘pervy’ Ken Morley never did call anyone ‘Chalky’ nor appear on Television X
Celebrity Big Brother got rid of Jeremy Jackson for “allegedly trying to grope Chloe Goodman in the house loo”. And like you we have no idea who is is, either. Big Brother has now expelled Ken Morley. Why?
It was for ‘offensive language’?
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Posted: 12th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Gun-toting Glenn Beck says ‘We must stand together against all violence’
Glenn Becks says ‘We must stand together against all violence’. Glenn Beck has a gun.
Spotter: @mattjohnholmes
Posted: 11th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The Clash Revisited: Watch Julien Temple’s film on the punk ‘revolution’
Julien Temple’s latest raking of the coals of the punk ‘revolution’ looks at The Clash – a band often regarded with disdain and suspicion by the courtiers of the Sex Pistols (and indeed by the Pistols themselves).
The film revolves around their performance on 1 January 1977 at the Roxy, a small run-down nightclub in Covent Garden which had been commandeered to serve as Punk HQ.
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Although only a few months old, the band already had a distinct image: paint-splattered jumble sale clothes and stage backdrops of tower blocks painted by bassist Paul Simonon. They also had a unique body of songs, reflecting life on the dole or in dead-end jobs. A selection of these had been recorded as demos in November 1976…
Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein advert before they Photoshopped his thumbs
Justin Bieber has been showing us his Calvin Klein pull-ups,
BreatheHeavy.com looked. And looked again. The site says that that it’s Photshop trickery and Bieber’s has a pudenda more akin to a naked Barbie than a jock with a sock.
He is also taller, more muscular and, most intrestingly, has bigger thumbs.
It’s all about the thumbs.
But what about that stain? Is that wetting? Do the pull-ups leak?
Posted: 9th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jah Wobble: when kids from pokey council flats all over London made music
Jah Wobble is talking to the Guardian. Wobble was John Wardle until a drunken Sid Vicious slurred it:
When my mate John Lydon told me he was joining a band called the Sex Pistols, he might as well have said he was becoming a 747 pilot, because working-class kids like us just didn’t do that. It wasn’t like music now, where well-off kids have three years and a flat in Notting Hill to make a go of it. If you asked for that where I was from, they’d have had you sectioned, but suddenly there were kids from pokey council flats all over London coming together with energy, intelligence and humour. Punk was closer to the Marx Brothers than the situationists, but a window opened. I was already thinking about music, so it was fantastic timing….
I borrowed Sid Vicious’s Fender. He’d say, “You’re shit” and I’d go, “You can’t fucking play. Give it to me …” But the first of my own was a Musicman copy. I was living in a squat and had burned the furniture to keep warm. The others were furious and rightly so – so after a big fight, they just left me there with this bass and no amplifier, propping it against the headboard to get a sound. The first bass line I wrote [heard on the song Public Image] went top 10. Commercially, it’s been a steady decline ever since (chuckles)…
I made a radio documentary called In Search of Sid Vicious about that. [Author] Jon Savage very generously gave me access to his recordings of Sid’s mum – a heroin addict – going, “I fucking told him, ‘I don’t care where you go. Sling yer hook. Fuck off. Sleep on a park bench for all I care.” This when Sid was 15 years of age. So a very damaged boy. When Sid told a shrink that he wanted to kill himself, the shrink told him to bring a friend along to get him interested in life, and that was me. I said, “To be honest, I don’t know if he has got anything worth living for. Suicide is a viable option.” The shrink was horrified – we ran out of there pissing ourselves laughing. But, of course, many a true word said in jest. He was thinking of topping himself.
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Your chance to own David Bowie’s teeth (with in-depth analysis)
Dental artist Jessine Hein has created dentures of David Bowie’s old teeth from acrylics, plaster and acrylic paint. The toothless can now what it feel like to hold, lick and suck on David Bowie’s teeth. This is great news for Bowie’s American fans who can experience the naturalistic thrill of crooked, English teeth.
Now with added tooth analysis:
Spotter: The World’s Best Ever, DM
Posted: 6th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Madonna uses dead black men to promote her Rebel Heart
If you’re black, famous and dead you can promote Madonna’s new album, Rebel Heart.
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Posted: 5th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Miley Cyrus in drugs and cider enema shocker
The Sun has shocking news on Miley Cyrus:
Fans of pop music wonder. Can it be true? Can it be that young, rich and famous Miley Cyrus isn’t on drugs, that she actually listens to her music sober?!
Reading on, we’re told:
MILEY Cyrus sits working in her unicorn onesie opposite what appears to be a table covered in drugs.
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Posted: 4th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Kate Hopkins charged with world’s first murder-by-tweet
The to-deadline controversialist and internet Aunt Sally Katie Hopkins has said something that, as the BBC notes, “police are examining”.
Follwing news that Scots nurse Paulin Cafferkey was being treated for the Ebola virus, Hopkins stretched her thoughts to 140 chracters and tweeted:
“Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn’t cricket.”
And:
“Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London’s Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?”
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Posted: 2nd, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Frenzy: the ‘disgusting’ story of a London serial killer dubbed the ‘Necktie Strangler’
Hitchcock’s 1972 Frenzy Is One Of The Least Festive Films Ever Made…
The BBC2’s decision to screen Alfred Hichcock’s Frenzy at 12.05am on the second of January, five minutes after the end of the holiday season is brutally appropriate, as it is without doubt one of the least festive films ever made.
Frenzy tells the story of a London serial killer dubbed the ‘Necktie Strangler’, and from the start there are references to Jack the Ripper and John Christie. The part was intended for Michael Caine, who thought it was disgusting and turned it down.
Posted: 31st, December 2014 | In: Film | Comment (1)
Adele splits from Simon: let’s all hate the singer who ‘snubbed’ chugging Bob Geldof
The Sun’s “exclusive” that Adele and Simon Konecki are no longer an item has been picked up by the other tabloids.
The Sun says:
News of their separate lives comes as Adele, 26, prepares to release the follow-up album to her global smashes 19 and 21 which laid bare her heartache at failed relationships.
A few hours later the Mirror says:
Her new album was due out before Christmas but is apparently still not finished and there is no release date.
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Posted: 28th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Free Speech: Dappers Laughs cannot be killed by the student censors
When Dapper Laughs was booted off the telly for making a rape joke at a club for his paying fans, we thought it a shame. Whan Daniel O’Reilly, for it is he, went on telly to say how sorry he was that he’d caused offence, we thought it tragic. Wear your ‘Too Bad for Telly’ as a badge of honour we urged.
As is the trend, students who would once have cheered for freedom and saying the unsayable now demand things be unsaid:
Earlier in the year, a show in Cardiff was cancelled following a petition by around 700 students who didn’t want him to perform at the university. Twenty-year-old student Zara Lindsay was behind one of them. She told Newsbeat she didn’t want Dapper Laughs performing on the University of Leicester campus.
She said: “Lad culture is quite prevalent these days. It’s especially bad on nights out with theme nights, drinking games and sports initiations. Plus there’s a general feeling that sexual assault is something that you should just take on a night out. Having people like Dapper Laughs holding gigs here suggests that this is an OK attitude and that sends out the wrong message.”
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Posted: 26th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Music fan tongues radio DJ’s bumhole to win concert tickets live on air
To Chile, where DJ Paul Hip (“I’m crackers, me”) is giving away tickets to the EDM Mysteryland Festival. the contest is simple: what would you do to get the tickets?
The winner is the woman who offers to stick her tongue inside DJ Hipe’s bumhole. And then arries at the studio to perform her purchase live on air.
Prisa Group, the Spanish radio conglomerate that owns the station, is unimpressed, issusing the apology:
“Les dejamos una declaración del equipo de 40 Principales Chile.”
All terrible. but not all that new:
The most notorious of all Zeppelin legends began when the band played the Seattle Pop Festival on July 27th, 1969, then retired to the Edgewater Inn. The building sits atop Seattle’s Puget Sound; guests can actually fish directly from their windows. The 1985 Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods – which got much of its information from Zep road manager Richard Cole – describes a graphic scene in one of the rooms. “A pretty young groupie with red hair was disrobed and tied to the bed,” wrote author Stephen Davis. “Led Zeppelin then proceeded to stuff pieces of shark into her vagina and rectum.”
Spotter: Diario Registrado
Posted: 22nd, December 2014 | In: Music, NSFW, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
