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.
1978: have yourselves a Sammy Davis Christmas with Alka-Seltzer
BACK in 1978, the good folks at Alka-Seltzer needed a famous face to make their product buzz. They settled on Sammy Davis Junior.
Sammy would replace the double act of Buster Keaton and Speedy:
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Posted: 24th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Vogue loses Gwen Stefani’s head in photoshop horror
VOGUE magazine employed Carlos Rodriguez to style Gwen Stafani for the Jan 2013 cover shot:
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Posted: 21st, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Miss Venezuela explains her new law at Miss Universe
MISS Venezuela, Irene Sofia Esser Quintero, is a marvel. At Miss Universe the beauty queen picked a question from the hat:
Question: “If you could make a new law, what would it be and explain why.”
Miss V. : “I think that any lays…constitution..already made. I think we should have strike was to war in our similar or in our life as in this. For example, I think the best way that I can take is the way I like boyfriend. Please. If you are only ……..Thank you, Vegas.”
It’s one for the list.
Posted: 20th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Inigo Gilmore interviews Julian Assange with a megaphone
CHANNEL 4 news sent Inigo Gilmore to interview Julian Assange at the Ecuarodean Embassy in London. He , like us, wants to know what’s going on. Does anyone know? Can someone somewhere write a cable so that WikiLeaks and Assange can find out?
Posted: 20th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Christmas hits: those Seventies seasonal smashes
Seventies seasonal smashes
From the time when Christmas records ruled the Earth
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Posted: 20th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
Sick: Sun newspaper uses conniving Helen Flanagan to talk about the Sandy Hook massacre
THE Sandy Hook Massacre: only two British newspapers continue to lead with the horror in Connecticut:
The Mirror has “THE LOST CLASS”, the faces of murdered children. They weren’t “LOST”. They were murdered. If the Mirror is going to go for the emotive it could at least not couch the horror in the language of mystery.
The Sun, however, takes the biscuit with a picture of busty former soap opera actress Helen Flanagan posing in her lingerie whilst pointing a fake gun at her head. The Sun is aghast and agog:
“As 26 lie dead after US school horror, Corrie’s Helen Flanagan poses with a gun to her head.”
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Posted: 19th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Thamys sings Party @ Ur House: try to be out
SONG of the Week: Thamys sings Party @ Ur House. This one has the lot:
Kelly Osbourne on the sin of eating what you want
KELLY Osbourne was once the Sun’s teen agony aunt. She did the same job at BBC Radio 1.
This is the Kelly who called Christina Aguilera a “fat bitch“.
Now Kelly is thinner. And she tells everyone that being thin means being happy:
“People think I lost weight and then got happy, but that’s not how it works. You have to get happy first. I made a life change, and the weight loss was an amazing perk.”
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Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
What killed Amy Winehouse? Death inquest to be reheard
killed Amy Winehouse? The swine who led her towards hard drugs? The inquest said the singer died from “misadventure”. Winehouse had voluntarily consumed alcohol and risked the consequences.
Only, it looks like we’re going to have another go at getting a legal verdict. The inquest into Winehouse’s death was overseen by one Suzanne Greenaway. Ms Greenaway, as she is billed, is married to Andrew Reid. He gave her the job as assistant deputy coroner in London back 2009, when he was coroner for Inner North London. You need five years experience in the Law Society or five years’ of experience as a qualified medical practitioner get that job. Greenaway, who has worked as nurse and a lawyer in Australia, had neither. So. Why did her husband give his under-qualified wife the job? Don’t all rush to answer.
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Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Feb. 16, 1978: The Sex Pistol meet Ronald Biggs and ‘Nazi’ Jim Fetter
FLASHBACK to Feb. 16, 1978: Malcolm McLaren, center top, is seen with British rock group, the Sex Pistols during a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From left, are: Steve Jones, Jim Fetter wearing World War II German uniform,Paul Cook, and Ronald Biggs.
When the Sex Pistols toured the USA and hit Cain’s Ballroom
Posted: 16th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
Johann Lumley says human beings are a plague
JOANNA Lumley, once fabulous, is now referring to humanity as the royal “we“:
“If three billion’s going to become nine billion, that’s wrong. So we’ve become a plague.”
Life is wrong? Human beings are morally bankrupt? Humanity is enacting a Holocaust on Nature? It’s ecocide!
“Which is a pity because when we’re a plague not only do we devour everything around us but we start killing each other indiscriminately.”
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Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
The amusing plot to kidnap, castrate and kill Justin Bieber
WE’VE all been annoyed by Justin bloody Bieber at some point, with his wholesome little face and unwholesome views on rape.
With that, we can all have a chuckle at a plot that has been uncovered by court papers which showed that some ne’er-do-wells planned to kidnap the gyrating infant, as well as castrating and strangling him. We can laugh because it didn’t happen.
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Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Alvin Stardust and the Jimmy Savile who might have been bald
“I WOULD have punched Jimmy Savile in the face.” So says Alvin Stardust, 1970s gloveman and stammering, nut-friendly songermesiter (Coo-Coo-caschew). The quote appears on the cover of OK! beside a photo of Alvin sat on a big whicker chair with his wife and daughter. This is an audience with the “legend” in Mauritius.
Alvin runs in the surf. He is dressed in white shirt and jeans. It matters not wher you are, getting jeans wet on the beach is a major faux pas. They shinks and are a bugger to peel off.
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Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
John Stewart says Hugh Grant is his worst guest ever
HUGH Grant, Bit of a dick. We like freedom of expression. We like free speech. We don’t like “buts”. Hugh Grant told the Leveson Inquiry that tabloids had “nurtured a culture of pure evil”. You had to laugh. Here was the luvie using the language of the tabloids (evil paedos etc.) he hates.
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Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Apocalypse Now: Harry Styles and Taylor Swift have the time of their lives
TO New York’s Madison Square Garden, where One Direction’s Harry Styles has been spotted lifting Taylor Swift over his hair as the song (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life plays. That’s the tune made famous by Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the film Dirty Dancing.
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Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Walking eyelash Anne Hathaway says looking at her upskirt crotch is sad
ANNE Hathaway, the eyelash heavy actress, managed to be photographed without her knickers on at the Les Miserables premiere in New York City.
Hathaway famously shed 25lb to play Fantine in Les Misérables. How had she lost so much weight?
“I don’t wish to discuss how I did it. I remember when I was a teenager and … if an actress that I had looked up to had told me about their crazy weight-loss method I would have tried it. I don’t recommend anyone try this. It was not designed with any health benefits in mind except to make me look like an impoverished prostitute who was near death. While shooting the film I didn’t look healthy or good and I wasn’t supposed to. Dying of tuberculosis is not romantic [or] pretty.”
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Posted: 13th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Nominative determinism: model Ivana Vancova
NOMINATIVE determism of the year is the sight of supermodel Ivana Vancova:
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Posted: 13th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Andy Kershaw spots Santa Savile doing the Radio 1 Christmas Party
GIVEN the need to stuff festive stockings or find something to get through the hideous day, I cannot recommend highly enough Andy Kershaw’s bio No Off Switch. To buy click here.
Ch 32, A Tour of the Cages, adds context to the photo – a Christmas lunch in 1985, held in September. He writes:
“My Radio 1 colleagues could be categorised into three species: there were those who, by the measures of most people, would be considered unfit to be released into the community, never mind set loose on national radio; others had absolutely no personality whatsoever, and even less interest in music, rendering their presence in the broadcasting game, and on a music radio station at that, unfathomable; and just a handful were quite normal, engaging individuals. How the latter bunch ever got over the threshold is, in the light of evident recruitment priorities, perhaps the biggest mystery.”
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Posted: 12th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
End of Says signs No. 354b: Sir Paul McCartney fronts Nirvana
END of Days Signs No. 345b: Sir Paul McCartney will be standing in for Kurt Cobain at the front of Nirvana.
Was Ringo Starr busy?
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Posted: 12th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Muhammad Shahid Nazir: The One Pound Fish Man sings to the UK Border Agency
THANKS to the X Factor and James Arthur, Muhammad Shahid Nazir’s One Pound Fish song has less chance of being the Christmas No.1 hit than Tony Blair has of finding his soul.
And the chances of Nazir singing his song live on 1000 Great Xmas Hits recedes by the day as the UK Border Agency notes that there’s something fishier about Nazi than just his tonsils.
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Posted: 11th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
