Celebrities Category
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.
How the inconsistent rich and rewarded socialists want us to live
DAVID Thompson nails them:
For some, professions of egalitarianism and socialist belly fire are a kind of rhetorical chaff – a way to elevate oneself as More Compassionate Than Thou, while deflecting envy from below. (“Please don’t hate me for being richer than you. Look, over there – they have even more, or almost as much – let’s all hiss at them!”) Vicarious philanthropy – giving away freely other people’s earnings – is a remarkably effective ruse, so much so it seems to encourage a certain disregard for dissonance, as demonstrated, for example, by the Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger in this comical exchange with Piers Morgan. And by the Guardian’s imperious class warrior Polly Toynbee, whose rhetoric was contrasted with her actual lifestyle and was promptly reduced to indignant spluttering on national television. Similar obliviousness is also displayed by the millionaire actor Jeremy Irons, who denounces consumerism and asks, “How many clothes do people need?” All while owning no fewer than seven houses, one of which is a peach-coloured castle. No, you’re not allowed to laugh. Because his wife is also very Green and “deeply socialist.”
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Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, Money | Comments (2)
The Golden Globes and other slave auctions
AT the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, actresses Anna Gunn, Mayim Bialik, Alyssa Milano and Emily Mortimer audition fopr the Roman Salve epic I Vadis:
More.
Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Piers Morgan co-opts the Sandy Hood dead into a rolling freak show
PIERS Morgan will come home to the UK when Americans tired of his views on guns get to deport him. Morgan is accused of using guns to show-off and promote his TV show. Andrew Sullivan is unimpressed:
We absolutely should have this debate – in as reasonable and calm a fashion possible, if only out of some shred of respect to the twenty murdered children in Newtown and their families. Instead we got a rolling freak-show designed entirely for ratings, since Morgan has never actually practised anything but gutter tabloid journalism and once sent an email to a policeman aggrieved by Morgan’s disgusting contempt for the privacy and dignity of anyone in public life: “fame and crime sends most of the usual rules out of the window.” Hence the phone hacking which forced the closure of the newspaper, The News Of The World, he once edited, and his being fired from the second tabloid he edited for publishing fake photographs of supposed prisoner abuse by British soldiers.
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Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comments (4)
Kieran Hayler marries Katie Price: Mr and Mrs Loud Hayler photos
KATIE Price is marrying Kieran Hayler. This is him in photos. She will become Mrs Hayler, aka Loud Hayler:
Posted: 13th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Lawyers win as all Jimmy Savile claimants are treated as victims
HOW can you prove that Jimmy Savile sexually abused you? Savile’s alleged victims are vying for a shared of his £4.3 million estate plus compensation form the NHS, schools, the BBC and what institutions failed to stop Savile and provided a venue for his deviancy.
Pannone is one law firm handling complaint against Savile. The company has issued press releases, such as:
October 22, 2012:
A leading abuse case lawyer whose firm is representing victims of disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, says Publicist Max Clifford must tell the police what he knows about other ‘stars’ of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and any possible misconduct on their behalf.
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Posted: 12th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
David Bowie’s no limit cocaine albums
DAVID Bowie is back with anew album. Is it as good as his best? Tony Visconti produced 12 Bowie albums. He tells Tim Teeman:
During the making of Young Americans [1975] he was taking so much cocaine it would have killed a horse. Cocaine certainly almost killed me. During the making of that album I nearly died. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I worked day and night. He’d come in to the studio at 11pm and work till 11am. One day I said, ‘I have to pack it in, the cocaine isn’t propping me up any more. I cannot stay awake. On the way home my heart felt like it was going to explode. I didn’t want to cause a scandal for him and me by going to hospital, so I took 12 sleeping pills — no suicidal intent, just to slow my heart and it did and I survived. We’d have both been dead if we’d carried on. There was a myth it wasn’t habit-forming back then. Foolishly we believed that. It was a social drug and socially acceptable. You went to any cocktail party and somebody put a line or spoon under your nose and you said ‘Oh, thank you.’ I know people who sold their homes to feed their habit. For us there was no limit.”
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Posted: 12th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Who or what killed Jorge Selaron?
WHO or what killed Jorge Selaron, the Chilean artist who created Rio de Janeiro’s Escadaria Selaron (Selaron Stairs). The steps lead to the Convent of Santa Teresa. His body was found on those famous steps. The BBC says police are investigating reports he had received death threats.
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Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Quentin Tarantino and the truth about slavery (feat. Krishnan Guru-Murthy)
CHANNEL 4 news has a mixed record with interviews. In this interview, Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks foot fetishist Quentin Tarantino about violence in his new film, Django Unchained. Tarantino isn’t keen to answer. He’s there to talk about the film. He wants us to watch it. Guru-Murthy wants to talk about things in the film that only the critics have seen. He wants to talk about violence. But without the context of the film, his question is fishing for tabloid sensation.
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Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Film, TV & Radio | Comment
Hugh Hefner in birthday cakes: the sponge and Viagra icing photos
WHEN 86-year-old Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner married 26-year-old Playmate bride Crystal Harris there was a cake. Atop the mixture of sponge and Viagra was a picture of Hefner dressed in his red housecoat cradling his new beter half. Think Nosferatu with Rogaine and implants, or Dracula (see below). Around the base was a massive Ken-sperm dressed in a tuxedo stood beside a miniature love doll of Ivana Trump.
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Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Jimmy Savile: so much for the truth
THE verdict is in. Jimmy Savile was “a prolific, predatory sex offender” who used his fame to “hide in plain sight”. He molested and raped people aged 8 to 47 in hospitals, BBC studios, his van, a mental unit, a children’s home and a hospice between 1955 and 2009. What he did in morgues with the dead remains uncertain.
The numbers:
214 criminal offences recorded against his name
126 indecent acts
450 people say Savile abused them
He is accused of 34 rapes – 26 female; 8 male
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Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Dear Kelly and Sharon Osbourne: it’s not bullying, it’s your jobs
SHARON Osbourne says Lady GaGa is a bully:
“I am calling you a bully because you have 32 million followers hanging on your every word and you are criticizing Kell. Are you so desperate that you needed to make this public?”
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Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (4)
David Bowie is not so Sweet
SELF-publicising Tory Iain Dale offers a view on the new David Bowie record:
I really don’t like David Bowie… He’s not a patch on Sparks, Roxette, Meat Loaf and Sir Cliff. Just my humble opinion!
Taste is individual. But, as our Tim puts it, you should perhaps be held accountable if you have no taste at all.
Posted: 10th, January 2013 | In: Music | Comment (1)
Gentleman Jim Davidson, wife beating and the Celebrity Police Force
JIM Davidson is on the front pages. The Sun leads with: “JIM: I’M NO JIMMY.” That’s Jimmy Savile, formerly Sir Jimmy Savile, now a man covered in lots of lots of dirt.
It was Davidson who wrote of Savile on his blog:
Who’s next to be the victim of a media feeding frenzy? I have the answer to that. But, like Jimmy Savile, it’s only rumours. But when these rumours come out… WOW!”
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Posted: 10th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
How Spanky Taylor helped John Travolta get on Welcome Back, Kotter
JOHN Travolta appears in a section of Lawrence Wright’s book on Scientology:
Before Tom Cruise, John Travolta was the biggest celebrity Scientologist, joining during the mid-’70s when he was on the cusp of fame. The Church assigned Sylvia “Spanky” Taylor, a young, vivacious Sea Org member, as his liaison…
Travolta began taking the Hubbard Qualified Scientologist Course at the Celebrity Centre with about 150 other students. He confided to the teacher, Sandy Kent, that he was about to audition for a television show, Welcome Back, Kotter. Kent instructed everyone to point in the direction of ABC Studios and telepathically communicate the instruction: “We want John Travolta for the part.” At the next meeting, Travolta revealed he had gotten the role of Vinnie Barbarino — the part that would soon make him famous. “My career immediately took off,” Travolta boasted in a Church publication. “Scientology put me in the big time.
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Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Celebrity Big Brother: Paula Hamilton’s double clap
PAULA Hamilton in OK!:
“…I have a great relationship with my psychologist. I will do this [demonstrates a special double clap] and he will take me out and talk to.”
After Cebebrity Big Brother, Paula will be available for panto. A special double clap and – Fazooks! – the genie of the lamp appears…
Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Simon Cowell’s sex secrets remain secret on Celebrity Big Brother
CELEBRITY Big Brother might be all about Simon’s Cowell’s sex life. Well, if you read the Daily Star, that is:
August 14 2012: Jasmine Lennard has nothing to say about sex with Superstud Cowell!
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Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Magic Mike actress gave Matthew McConaughey a prostate exam
THEY push the envelope for our entertainment. Steven Soderbergh tells Vanity Fair about one Magic Mike actress who went the hard yards in a scenes with Matthew McConaughey:
“While we were shooting Matthew’s script sequence, one very impassioned woman extra pulled his G-string off and tried to stick her finger up his butt. And when I remembered that, I thought, You know, where I come from, you stand up for a guy who brings that kind of game to your movie.”
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Harry Styles dating Shiloh Jolie-Pitt
HARRY Styles is no loner dating Taylor Swift. Look out for Swift warbling a heart-break song soon, and Styles dating Prince Harry, Helen Mirren and another famous American, like Michelle Obama, Adam Lanza, Suri Cruise or Jennifer Aniston.
The flame for each with last so long as the PR-fed media deliver a portnameau, a nickname to lazily belch out when all else fails. As such the favourite ‘girlfiends’ among Harry’s management team are:
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Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Heights of Hollywood male film stars
IS there an optimum height for silver screen success? Do large heads atop small bodies work best on screen? Click to enlarge:
Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The best Britney Spears Brady Bunch gif ever
Spotter: stalling
Posted: 8th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities, Gifs | Comment
Doug Stanhope’s interview as John Lydon (audio)
WHEN Doug Stanhope got a early morning call, he didn’t answer. Then he checked his voicemail. The message went:
“Hey John it’s Mike Ragogna from KRUU & HuffPost – we have a phone interview scheduled if you can please call the studio line – it’ll be real easy, just a few questions about the new release and PiL.”
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Posted: 7th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
‘Dear Internet’ by Tina Fey – letter of the decade
“DEAR Internet” by Tina Fey
From PerezHilton.com/Posted by jerkstore on Wednesday, 1/21/2009, 11:21 P.M.
“In my opinion Tina Fey completely ruined SNL. The only reason she’s celebrated is because she’s a woman and an outspoken liberal. She has not a single funny bone in her body.”
The reply:
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Posted: 6th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
