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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.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the World War Z Premiere – 27 photos
TO the World War Z Premiere at the Empire Leicester Square, London. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were there. It was Jolie’s first public appearance since her double mastectomy. The mega-budget film ($200m) stars a lank Pitt as a United Nations employee battling to save the world from a zombie apocalypse. The zombies are very fast. It can’t fail. Can it? It’s got Brad Pitt in it. And… did we mention Brad Pitt?
[Not a valid template]Tulisa Contostavlos ‘sold’ drugs with the GLC – police nick MCC, LWT and TfL
THE Sun is gunning for Tulisa Contostavlos, the former X Factor judge. When she trotted off to Marbella, the Mail was upset by her fake tan but the Sun thundered “Tat’s too awful” as it zoomed on the singer’s bikini-line ink, a legend that declared “Lucky You”. The Sun, a bastion of fine taste, said Tulisa lacked “style and class”. And then the Sun upped the ante, leading with “Tulisa’s cocaine deal shame – X Factor star caught setting up secret sale with drugs pal.”
Having implied that Tulisa was shameless, the Sun appeared to have read her mind and found her limit. Former News of the World Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmoud told readers:
The singer was taped telling undercover Sun reporters at London’s posh Nobu restaurant: “Half my phone book sells it. Of course I can get it for you. Half the guys I know are drug dealers. One’s a massive cocaine dealer. He’s my best friend. He’s a gangster — he’s my gangster.”
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Posted: 3rd, June 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Four places where you can still see Jimmy Savile on the BBC
JIMMY Savile has not been purged from the BBC. Sure, the BBC wiped Savile from its Desert Island Discs database. But Savile still features on the BBC. He’s part of the BBC news feature on the London Marathon (see above).
When he appeared as a character on the children’s Tweenies show – Max Tweenie was dressed as the BBC and the NHS’s in-house pervert – the Sun was outraged. The BBC was aghast. It would never happen again. But now blogjam has spotted Savile elsewhere on the Beeb. On the Top of The Pops 2 site, you can send a pal a Jimmy Savile postcard. “Sir Jim’ll”… (molest your kids)…
You can read an interview with Savile on the same pages. Highlights are:
Was TOTP part of the ‘Swinging Sixties’?
Jimmy: TOTP epitomised what was going on for younger people at the time. It was simple insofar as most things were safe: sex was safe, a girl walking home late at night was safe. Booze hadn’t raised its head to the extent that it has today. Drugs were practically non-existent. It was such a time of freedom and emancipation for young people. Everything was wonderful and you could say that everything was safe and TOTP mirrored that. I made a big fuss of the audience, I made sure the audience got just as much camera coverage as the groups did, because I considered the audience, if anything, more important than the groups. You could see from their abandon that it was a perfectly natural demonstration of trouble-free joy.
Did TOTP benefit from coming to swinging London?
Jimmy: I don’t think TOTP gained anything by coming down to London from its base in Manchester. Nobody is important in London, nobody is rich, because London eats everybody! When it was in Manchester it was a recognisable entity, people worshipped TOTP. If they’d left it where it was, it would have still had that marvellous fresh flavour. You can’t take something into London and have that same freshness.
As it went through the 70’s TOTP was criticised for sexism – what is your view?
Jimmy: In the 70s, 80s and 90s there came something called Political Correctness. Now Political Correctness, apart from being a load of crap, is something that gives lesser people a tub to thump, people who are nothing. They would come and say you are doing this and that. Why didn’t they ask Pan’s People if they minded dancing in provocative gear? They enjoyed it. Queen Cleopatra wore gear like that – I mean, do me a favour! Political correctness has ruined more people, jobs, and atmospheres than anything else in today’s society.
Did the punk bands behave themselves?
Jimmy: Everybody behaved on TOTP. If they misbehaved, they ran the chance of not having their next record played. That was professional death so everybody behaved.
And will the BBC ever rerun the Grumbleweeds Radio Show? The Grumbleweeds once performed on the Childrens Royal Variety Show. Savile was there:
Posted: 2nd, June 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Photos: of Carol Anthony, the woman allegedly dating Liverpool legend Ian Rush
IRISH singer Carol Anthony, aka Havana, is said by the Sun to be dating Liverpool legend Ian Rush. The Sun alleges:
The Liverpool FC hero has been seeing Irish beauty Carol Anthony for three years in secret behind wife Tracy’s back.
There is talk of divorce.
By coincidence, Carol Anthony tweets:
Currently doing a tv show called Living With Legends which sees me having to live with sporting heros, really exciting and great TV! 🙂
Posted: 2nd, June 2013 | In: Celebrities, Sports | Comments (2)
1974 T-shirt slogans: ‘I Dreamt I was Raped by Mick Jagger in my David Bowie T-shirt’
In 1974, Lonely Ladies T-shirts presented “I Dreamt I was Raped by Mick Jagger in my David Bowie T-shirt”. Why was The Rolling Stones frontman wearing his alleged victim’s David Bowie T-shirt? And lest you think this was perverted, the San Francisco outfit let prospective rape victims know that their dream rapist could also be dressed as Elvis, Judy Garland or Boby Dylan…
Posted: 1st, June 2013 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, Flashback | Comment
Alec Baldwin used to be America’s 13th President Millard Fillmore
TONIGHT, Alec Baldwin is America’s 13th President, Millard Fillmore – as seen in a 1849 Matthew Brady daguerreotype.
Fillmore was not murdered in office. He did not lead the US in a world war. As such, his character has appeared in pretty much no films whatsoever. The imdb reveals that Millard Fillmore appeared as a character in Lost River: Lincoln’s Secret Weapon (2009), the film based on the “True story of Anna Ella Carroll, unrecognized heroine of the American Civil War who assisted Lincoln as an unofficial cabinet member; she later devised the Tennessee River Plan that brought an early end to the war.” If you thought that was terrific, wait for the sequel, starring Baldwin as Millard Fillmore, the most forgettable unforgettable President in US history…
Posted: 31st, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Pippa Middleton launches PXM Enterprises to a fanfare of vapidity
THEY might call it a career. Pippa Middleton has registered a company called PXM Enterprises. What does it do? What does it make? The Times introduces Pippa’s PXM thus:
She plans parties, writes columns, goes to weddings, dates bankers and is the sister of our future Queen. But as Pippa Middleton nears her 30th birthday, nobody quite knows what path her career will take.
Is dating a banker a job? What about being a sibling? Being a wedding guest? Are they jobs?
If the Times wanted to present Pippa as a pampered, vapid extra to the main event it’s nailed it. Should Pippa shuffle of this mortal coil this afternoon, we’d image the paper’s obituary writers padding out their tribute by mentioning her selfless dedication to breathing through her nose in the First Class cabin, the ability to find her own arse with her own hands on pretty much any beach and her ability to watch tennis by the hour without yawning. (Prices on application.)
PS – We can exclusively reveal that the ‘X’ in PXM stands for Pippa’s new career in porn, her role in the Nation of Islam and a full-time job locating treasure.
Posted: 31st, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Stinking rich actress Zosia Mamet begs for money online for vanity project
KICKSTARTER projects are great for people with bright ideas and no money. Smart, broke people pitch their ideas to the ether and people offer to fund them with whatever they have.
It is a great system, unless you’re some wealthy swine who shouldn’t be begging to people considerably less well off than you.
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Posted: 30th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Barbara Eden, 78, looks great in I Dream of Jeannie crop-top and harem pantaloons
BARBARA Eden is 78. The I Dream of Jeannie star looked terrific in her crop-top and harem pantaloons as, watched by former U.S. Olympic diver Greg Louganis and the singer Fergie, she opened the 21st Life Ball in front of city hall in Vienna, Austria.
Eden then conjured up her new master, Bill Clinton.
He’s 66.
What odds he was revisiting those ruby dream of Jeannie from his youth?
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Posted: 29th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Lorra Laughs: Comedians are making even more than footballers
ARE comics making more cash than footballers? Yes. So we’re told:
Laughing all the way to the bank: The comics who are earning a fortune and even overtaking Premier League footballers.
Peter Kay tops the list, pocketing £32.8million in the past two years.
Michael McIntyre next highest earner on the list with earnings topping £21m.
Third is John Bishop reporting profits of £6.3m in two years.
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Posted: 28th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Money, Sports | Comment
Popstar Laura Miller’s boob falls out during TV performance
REMEMBER when Janet Jackson had a perfectly orchestrated ‘malfunction’ with her wardrobe during the Super Bowl, when her boobie fell out?
Well, it has happened again, except this time, it looks like a genuine accident (albeit one that could’ve been prevented with, say, a bra or a top that actually fits).
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Posted: 28th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment
Oscar Wilde explains his comment that ‘All art is quite useless’
IN 1890, Bernulf Clegg wrote asked Oscar Wilde to expand on a line in his preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray: “All art is quite useless.” Wilde replied:
16, TITE STREET,
CHELSEA. S.W.My dear Sir
Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.
A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.
Truly yours,
Oscar Wilde
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Posted: 28th, May 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities, Flashback | Comment (1)
Woolwich jihad: Russell Brand compares and contrasts the Koran and The Catcher in The Rye
LIKE you, the Sun knows that when a man is hacked to death as a sacrifice to his alleged killers’ jihadi god, Russell Brand’s view is important. The murder of Lee Rigby needs the celebrity angle. Writes Brand:
I caught up with the sad malice in Woolwich and felt compelled to tweet in casual defence of the Muslim community who were being haphazardly condemned by a few people on my time line.
The alleged killer specifically identified himself as Muslim. He also cited the koran. Of course, only a fool believes the worst of any group typifies it. But that does not mean the psycho’s actions should not be confronted and explained.
Brand once went amongst the BNP and nailed them. He adds:
I simply feel that it is important that our reaction is measured.
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Posted: 27th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Who owns Commander Chris Hadfield’s version of Space Oddity? Copyright issues are trickier than space travel
SPACE Commander Chris Hadfield sang David Bowie’s Space Oddity as his finale to his International Space Station show. And when he did, he potentially opened a can of worms (and lawyers). You can send a man to live in space. No sweat. But it’s much harder to work out who owns the words he says when he’s up there.
The song “Space Oddity” is under copyright protection in most countries, and the rights to it belong to Mr Bowie. But compulsory-licensing rights in many nations mean that any composition that has been released to the public (free or commercially) as an audio recording may be recorded again and sold by others for a statutorily defined fee, although it must be substantively the same music and lyrics as the original. But with the ISS circling the globe, which jurisdiction was Commander Hadfield in when he recorded the song and video? Moreover, compulsory-licensing rights for covers of existing songs do not include permission for broadcast or video distribution. Commander Hadfield’s song was loaded onto YouTube, which delivers video on demand to users in many countries around the world. The first time the video was streamed in each country constituted publication in that country, and with it the potential for copyright infringement under local laws. Commander Hadfield could have made matters even more complicated by broadcasting live as he sang to an assembled audience of fellow astronauts for an onboard public performance while floating from segment to segment of the ISS.
Ridiculous…
Posted: 25th, May 2013 | In: Music, Technology | Comments (2)
What did Prince Philip say to a Polish research scientist as he toured Cambridge’s Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology?
WHAT did Prince Philip says to a Polish research scientist as he toured Cambridge’s Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)?
a) “Watch out for the Germans”
b) “Liz’s plumbing’s gone bit leaky”
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Posted: 25th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Royal Family | Comment (1)
Katie Price: Will anyone smile at Alicia Douvall’s daughter Papaya?
KATIE Price uses her Sun column to opens up on Alicia Douvall, the ambulatory cosmetic surgery menu:
“Alicia Douvall has admitted she’s had so much surgery she can no longer smile at her daughter Papaya.”
Happily, plenty of others will…
Posted: 24th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Mad cow Cara Jocelyn Delevingne gets a ‘CJD’ tattoo
TOP model Cara Jocelyn Delevingne saw fit to show off her new tattoo. It’s the letters“CJD” on her hand. Chances are high that this is precursor to theCJD brand on key fobs, handbags and phone cases. It might lead to a chain of eateries and Waitrose ready meals. But we can slap this one under fail. A quick look an the acronym finder tells us that CJD stands for:
CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
a fatal degenerative disease of the human brain, thought to be caused by an abnormal, infectious form of cellular prion protein.
Mad cow, indeed…
Posted: 24th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Kim Kardashian names her ‘gates’ Bambi and Thumper (in yer face Stu Francis)
BY now you must be wondering what Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have been up to. Well, he’s taken to calling himself Yeezus and she’s got gates that Bambi and Thumber would have admired. Here’s a selection of headlines that followed an apparent coming together of his hot, throbbing metal and her portals:
“Kanye West’s Lamborghini Trapped In Kim Kardashian’s Electric Gates”
In LA everything is electric
Feel the weight!
With sound effects!
Eat yer heart our Stu Francis:
Posted: 24th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Crap Paps: unusual photos of famous faces
THERE is a thrill in spotting a famous face. Some people will play it cool when the hearing excited murmurs that a famous face is close by but most – and I am one – will want to see the star.
My first celebrity spot was Derek Underwood, the Kent and England cricketer. He was sat in a Bournemouth pizzeria with Kent’s Bob Woolmer, the late South African team coach. I was one table over with my dad. It was he who spotted the players. Gesturing at my napkin and silently sliding a pen over towards me, dad thought it would be a good idea if I went and over got their autographs. Back then a signature was considered proof of the meet. I went over. They were charming. I had practically no idea who they were. But, still, I had the proof that I’d met them and that was everything to me and my father.
Nowadays autographs are considered naff. Photos are the thing. And because mobile phones have cameras, and phones are ubiquitous, the star can be snapped at any time. But, then, not everyone wants to be a paparazzo. Not everyone wants to be brash and invasive. So. You take a photo from afar and hope you captured the legend. On the Tumblr Crap Paps, such photographs are recorded.
Who are they. Go to the end of the story to find out:
A. The distance shot snap.
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Posted: 23rd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Demi Moore’s man can hold his breath and has a pearl in his dick
DEMI Moore is a name that smack of contradictions. Nominative determinism views Demi Moore as an Anglo-French woman who asks for half but wants more. Her new lover is called Will Hanigan. And, yes, he is, as his name suggests, all about his penis, which in keeping with his job as a pearl diver features a single pearl embedded in the shaft *.
The NYDN reports on the man Demi met on a yoga course:
“He had a pearl inserted in his penis when he was in his late teens. It is pearl farming tradition and he would always joke about it in Australia. He’d boast it’d give girls extra stimulation in the bedroom.”
It might also give the ladies an extra reason to squeeze real hard and hang on. But, then Willy is au fait with prizing open oysters and holding his breath. Sheesh. The sex is going to be great. Unless another pearl diver spots the glint in Willy’s trunks and whips out his own harpoon.
Ouch!
Posted: 22nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The Daily Show creator says Oklahoma tornado only targeted Conservatives
WHEN the Oklahoma tornado raged, The Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead thought it an idea to politicise the destruction. She tweeted:
Classy.
She has now deleted the tweet.
Posted: 22nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
James Dean returns from the dead to flog banking in this advert
WHAT if James Dean had lived? Allan Gray Investment bired King James agency to chew over that quesiton.
Allan Gray is a South African investment management company.
Our purpose is to help our investors build wealth over the long term and we seek to earn the trust of our clients by providing superior long-term investment performance, outstanding client service and holding ourselves to the highest ethical standards.
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Posted: 21st, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Money, The Consumer | Comment
George Michael was trying to close his car door when he fell from it at 70mph
GEORGE Michael was trying to shut the door on his car when he tell out of it. The singer was travelling at 70mph down the M1 when the accident occurred.
Well, so says Katherine Fox, 23, who was in a car behind Michael’s silver Range Rover.
“I saw blood everywhere and a man on the ground. I thought someone had run across the road and been hit. I asked what had gone on and was told he tried to open the car door and shut it again because it wasn’t shut properly and apparently fell out at 70mph.”
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Posted: 21st, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
National Anthem Disasters: Alexis Normand forgets the words to the US anthem
HERE’S one for the file marked National Anthem Disasters. At the 2013 Memorial Cup game between the Portland Winterhawks and the Halifax Mooseheads, singer Alexis Normand was booked to sing the US national anthems. She forgot the words. French-Canadian Normand could made some up in the mode of Ella Fitzgerald’s memorable make-it-up-as-you-go-along version of Mack The Knife (see below). Alas, she didn’t.
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