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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.
Margaret Ruth Groening (née Wiggum) the Inspiration for Marge Simpson dies
MATT Groening based many of his The Simpson’s characters on members of his family. His dad’ called Homer. His sisters are Maggie and Lisa. His mother was Margaret Ruth Groening (née Wiggum) . She died in April.
You feel like you knew her, don’t you?
Spotter Reddit
Posted: 7th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
RIP Ray Harryhausen: photos and memories of the man who made skeletons even more terrifying
RIP Ray Harryhausen, the wizard of stop-motion, who created the special effect in such films as It Came From Beneath the Sea, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans. You were 92. And your work was terrifying . In the pre-computer age, the monsters in your films looked hideously real. They were the stuff of childhood nightmares.
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Posted: 7th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Film | Comment
Live From Her Majesty’s: Jimmy Tarbuck arrested in Yewtree historic sex abuse purge
OPERATION Yewtree police have arrested Jimmy Tarbuck. He’s on police bail. The police nicked Tarby, 73, at his home in Kingston upon Thames.
Say North Yorkshire police:
“We can confirm that a 73-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a historic child sex abuse investigation in Harrogate. He was released on police bail pending further enquiries.”
Tarby started out at the Pwllheli holiday camp before making it big in TV, notably presenting the Live From Her Majesty’s variety show.
He denies any wrongdoing.
Posted: 7th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
In 1967 The Muppets worked as IBM instructors (video)
IN 1967, IMB hired Jim Henson to educate their staff. His Muppets were here to help. Cue the Cookie Monster:
Kermit:
Suits:
Ralph:
Posted: 6th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Technology | Comment
Revealed: the animals who died for Donald Trump and John Travolta’s hair
THE excellent 14 has a news series called Celebrity Hait Beasts. It’s about the hair. It’s always about the hair. Donald Trump and John Travolta get skewered:
Posted: 6th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Helen Mirren chose David Cameron to back her up in a fight – is she mad?
DAME Helen Mirren is front-page news on account of her telling a drumming band to “shut the fuck up”. Upset at the noise affecting her performance in The Audience at Soho’s Gielgud Theatre, Mirren, dressed as The Queen, told the drummers promoting the As One In The Park festival to naff off.
Promoter Joe O’Leary, 32, tells the Sun:
“She said people had paid ‘a lot of f***ing money’ to watch her show and that we were ‘f***ing ruining it’. It was strange to see this little woman in tiara and pearls shouting like that. It’s not the behaviour you’d expect from the Queen.”
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Posted: 6th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Crazed fan pushes Justin Bieber’s inflatable piano off stage in Dubai (video)
A GIRL fan (most likely crazed) dashes onto the stage as Justin Bieber plays a huge inflatable plastic piano. (Justin Bieber is four years old.)
Posted: 6th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jimmy Savile meets murdered Stuart Hall in Hell: Taiwan animation tells the story
STUART Hall get the Taiwanese news treatment. Look out for Hall being beaten to death. Hall meeting Jimmy Savile in Hell. Hall having his arms ripped out and for all eternity wailing and gnashing his teeth in frustration that he can’t do the very thing that got him damned:
Posted: 4th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Hell toupee: Donald Trump lambasts John Stewart for revealing his birth name F*uckface Von Clownstick
DONALD Trump = tweets:
“I promise you that I’m much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz – I mean Jon Stewart @TheDailyShow.”
“Who, by the way, is totally overrated.”
Has the Trump outed a clever Jew?
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Posted: 4th, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Star Wars: The 1970s French disco dance-off between Darth Vader and C-3PO
STAR Wars: the 1970s French disco dance-off between Darth Vader and C3PO:
In 1977 Stars Wars characters and Vogue magazine models advertised the wonder of fur coats
IN 1977. Vogue magazine hooked onto the Star Wars craze with a feature called THE FORCE OF FUR: Vogue fashion spread from 1977. Jerry Hall, Darth Vader, C3PO, Stormtroopers and Jawas real;sied that with fur comes intergalactic harmony.
In the first picture, Hall is wearing a Wookie:
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Posted: 3rd, May 2013 | In: Fashion, Film, Flashback | Comment (1)
The 10 worst Star Wars adverts of all time
HAPPY Star Wars Day! In honour of May the Fourth, we’ve got a Star Wars tattoo, sent out Star Wars cards, created some homemade outfits, mashed-up Withnail & I, remembered Bob Anderson, checked out the working of George Lucas’s robots, mashed-up Disney, flicked through the great Japanese movie posters, rolled a joint with Darth, rocked out to the Droids, gone looking for work with an Ewok, dressed in a saucy R2D2 outfit, got a glow-in-the-dark Yoda tattoo, triggered a race war, bought the 1977 empty box and watched the Stars Wars crew flog us all manner of crap:
Chewbacca goes nutzoid for chicken of the sea
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Posted: 3rd, May 2013 | In: Film, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
How Tom Cruise levitates (in photos)
TOM Cruise’s life will one day be turned into made-for-TV biopic. It will be the world’s first film produced from a worm-eye’s perspective. Cruise is not all that tall. He’s 5ft 7inches, it says here. No big deal. Well, not to you it isn’t. But to Cruise it seems to be one.
He is, of course, the most famous Scientologist out there. He’s high up in the group having attende a superior level of enlightenment. As the website tells us:
“…as one’s level of spiritual awareness increases through participation in Scientology auditing and training, one attains his own certainty of every dynamic. Accordingly, only when the Seventh Dynamic (spiritual) is reached in its entirety will one discover and come to a full understanding of the Eighth Dynamic (infinity) and one’s relationship to the Supreme Being.”
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Posted: 3rd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Bad Lip reading presents The Walking (And Talking) Dead
BAD Lip reading presents “The Walking (And Talking) Dead” — A Bad Lip Reading of The Walking Dead:
Stuart Hall: the newspapers and the victims speak out on the BBC’s pet pervert
HOW do the newspapers report on Stuart Hall, the TV and radion presenter who sexually abused 13 children – the youngest was nine?
What the BBC new?
Linda McDougall, a producer at BBC Manchester in the late Sixties and Seventies, says Hall put his hands “all over you and all over anyone female who came in”. She claims Hall had his own room at the BBC where he entertained “lady friends”. She says “everyone knew” about his “amazing set up”. Women were “not coming in for cups of tea”.
Alan Collins, a solicitor who is representing Jimmy Savile child abuse victims, said:
“The BBC has questions to answer, I would be concerned that this turning a blind eye is part of a pattern. These people are given a veneer of respectability that gives them the ability to get away with things.”
The Victims
Someone sent a letter to the paper’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. It claims to be from one of Stuart Hall’s victims.
I write to tell you that Stuart Hall is another television presenter who you can investigate. I speak from personal experience; he groomed and then sexually exploited me when I was a young teenager in the 1970s.
As he did it to me so I would imagine that he did it to others.
Stuart was a presenter on Look North, a local BBC news programme. He was invited by the head of my school to come and present the prizes one year, and presented to me, among others. He exchanged a few words with me on the stage, at a microphone. I took my prize and left the hall. A while later a message came from the head teacher; would I go back to the hall, as Stuart had asked to see me. He had told the head that he was impressed by me and wondered if I would have permission to visit the local BBC studios; he thought that a girl like me could have a future in television journalism. My head teacher was naïve enough to agree, after consulting with my mother. I, of course, was thrilled and flattered.
And that is how it starts. What drew him to me? Later he told me it was my voice and manner. (I was a shy, intelligent, studious, pretty girl, destined for university and a professional career.) I was young for my years and easy meat for a man like him. To have a man of my father’s age take a benevolent interest in me seemed wonderful.
Why haven’t I written about this before? For several reasons – the first of which is shame. A girl who is groomed and then sexually exploited does not consider herself raped. Stuart made me complicit in my own abuse. He seemed kind and interested in me, while sexually exploiting a girl more than 25 years younger than he. It’s a story as old as the hills; girls go back and then feel themselves to be as guilty as the man.
As old as the hills, indeed. So. Who’s abusing children now?
Why didn’t I report it years ago? I was afraid for my reputation, my family and career. Stuart was well known and popular, particularly in that sport bloke-ish milieu which is not thoughtful about sexual predation. He appeared protected by being well known and well connected. I saw what the gutter press was like, and didn’t want strangers going through my bins cross-questioning and photographing my family and friends, demonising me, traumatising my family…
Stuart told me laughingly that there were a number of middle-aged women locally who gave him filthy looks when they saw him as they knew the things he did, but they weren’t prepared (as my mother and I later weren’t) to go public with their knowledge.
The Establishment
That’s Stuart Hall OBE.
The Simple Facts
The simple facts in blunter terms
He’s the “Beeb’s Hall”. The Daily Star is owned by Channel 5 boss Richard Desmond. Is it all the BBC’s problem?
The BBC
Later in his career, Hall also worked for ITV.
The Police & Press Fredom
The Times moves the story to fit its agenda:
Lancashire Constabulary said yesterday that publicity surrounding the initial arrest of the 83-year-old broadcaster led to the majority of his sexual assault victims coming forward. It prompted renewed criticism of plans by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) to ban forces from revealing the names of people who have been arrested…Lawyers told The Times that the naming of arrested suspects was essential not only for open justice, but because it could result in victims or witnesses coming forward.
Fresh concerns over policing secrecy were voiced after a force refused to name a retired officer who was charged with stealing £113,000 from its former headquarters. Warwickshire Police was forced to climb down after the Crown Prosecution Service revealed that the subject of the allegations was Paul Greaves, 54. The force had cited the Leveson inquiry as a reason for its lack of transparency.
Lawyers for Hall had also cited the Leveson report. After his arrest last December, a statement from his solicitor said: “Stuart Hall is innocent of these charges. It is a matter of concern that in the week following publication of the Leveson report there appears to have been systematic, measured leaks to the media which have given a misleading impression of what this case is about.”
But a spokeswoman for Lancashire Constabulary acknowledged that the publicity led to other victims of Hall coming forward and providing crucial corroboration.
The Girls
Susan Harrison: “Susan Harrison said she was 16 when the It’s a Knockout presenter lured her to BBC premises on the false pretext of helping her record a song. He attacked her in his car while driving her home.”
Kim Wright “was 17 when Hall fondled her breasts at a show in Blackpool”.
Susan Melville met Stuart Hall after he was hired for her school prizegiving.
The TV personality who was trusted by her family lured her to BBC premises on a pretext and molested her while driving her home after plying her with alcohol. Susan, Hall’s first known victim, said she was riddled with guilt for not making an immediate complaint about the TV star as he went on to abuse numerous other young girls after her. She said that when she returned home in tears her father told her: ‘He is famous and we are nobody. Nobody is going to believe you.’..
Back in the car she felt ‘incredibly nervous’ but Hall tried to relax her by making light conversation about his daughter, Francesca, who was seven at the time.
‘All of a sudden he brought his left hand over my right leg and then moved his hand up my skirt and started touching me,’ said Mrs Harrison. ‘I was so shocked and terrified. I couldn’t do anything as I had frozen – it went on for a couple of minutes. ‘But then I quickly moved to the left of the car away from him, squashing my legs together and just sort of curling away from him. I developed a nervous cough and he kept saying, “Wouldn’t you like me to stop the car and rub your chest with something because it’s quite bad, that cough, isn’t it?” But realising the sort of things he was doing now I said “No” and just kept away from him. I was panicking that he wasn’t going to take me home.
But They’re All Old
Why are all the accused so old? Why do they all work in showbiz? Sure, Operation Yewtree is an investigation into historial sex abuse. The accused are bound to be a certain age. But why are there no lawyers, peers, politicians, sportsmen and others in the dock? Why is it just showbiz? Is it all for show, the police doing a spot of PR?
(Apologies for the poor image quality.)
Posted: 3rd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
John Lennon Jewelry on QVC is what he would have wanted
JOHN Lennon Jewelry on QVC is what he would have wanted. I particularly like the woman telling her kids “Imagine there’s no Heaven”, and them answering: “But you told us there was! LIAR!”
Posted: 2nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer, TV & Radio | Comment
Bill Roache once created this boardgame called LIBEL
BILL Roache, the Coronation Street star in the mire for alleged sex abuse. He denies raping a 15-year-old in 1967. He has been charged with two counts of rape of a 15-year-old girl in 1967. So much for the facts. And all had best stick to them. Mr Roache is an expert in libel, once devising a board game called Libel.
Devised by William Roache after he sued the Sun for printing a defamatory article about his portrayal of Ken Barlow. The game ‘guides players through the quicksand of assembling a full team of legal advisers in order to proceed to a full trial’. An entertaining and educational game for all the family to enjoy.
It was, predictably, a flop. But Roache did win £50,000 in damages from the Sun who wrongly called him “boring“.
Posted: 2nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment
Stuart Hall and Bill Roache are directors of a business owned by convicted rapist Owen Oysten
WHAT links BBC paedophile Stuart Hall with ITV’s alleged sex abuser Bill Roache? Mr Roache vehemently denies any wrongdoing. He has not been charged with any offences.
Well, in March 2013, the Mirror reported that Mr Roache and Hall are co-directors of Ridings Publishing. It publishes such titles as The Lancashire & North West magazine and The Yorkshire Ridings magazine.
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Posted: 2nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment
Samia Ghadie’s lover moves into her new breasts
OK! magazine leads with Coronation Street actress and professional girlfriend Samia Ghadie. Now dating a pro-celebrity ice dancer named Sylvain, Ghadie has had breast augmentation. And they might be huge. As OK! announces on its front page:
“Samia & Sylvain – ‘I’m so happy I’ve had a BOOB JOB & Sylvain has moved in”
Eat yer hrart out Katie Price. Samia’s not flat chested. That’s a penthouse…
Photos of Samia showing us around her residence here (NSFW).
Posted: 2nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Operation Yewtree scalp: BBC presenter Stuart Hall admits to sexually abusing children
STUART Hall has admitted 14 charges of indecently assaulting children. The youngest victim was nine. BBC presenter Hall, 83, pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court. He was active between 1967 and 1985.
His lawyer says:”He is all too aware that his disgrace is complete.”
No. It isn’t. He’s 83. He got away with it.
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Posted: 2nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Pink Floyd’s ‘Dave Gilmour’ is unwell: impersonator racks up huge hospital bill
PINK Floyd’s Dave Gilmour is not unwell. He is not staying at Minnesota’s St. Cloud Hospital. The man signing autographs and racking up a $100,000 bill is Phillip Michael Schaeffer, 53. He’s now under arrest.When Schaeffer was booked into hospital he told medics he was David Gilmour. He said he had no health insurance.
Still, he was treated and sent home.
Such is the universal pleasure in spotting a famous face that Schaeffer was asked to sign an autograph for a hospital employee’s son.
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Posted: 2nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
Brassy Denise Reis is a trumpet (video)
THEY said Denise Reis could be anything… So she became a trumpet. Cue the holiday camp music:
Reginald D Hunter lampoons the PFA after the ‘nigger’ race row (the photos)
HOW did Reginald D Hunter react to the overblown race row about his appearance at the PFA awards? He mocked it. He called his Facebook gallery “The PFA Awards – the horrible aftermath”. Pictures of the race riot to follow:
Reginald D Hunter showing off his son at the PFA after show party.
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Posted: 1st, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Sports | Comment
