Jade Goody Comes Home To Die

JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Jade come home…

The Sun: “Hold On”

“Going home to die, stricken Jade clings to hubby Jack’s hand…saving strength for the last precious moments with her sons”

“Mummy’s Home”

She was carried to the ambulance wearing multi-coloured pyjamas with a Love Heart sweet pattern…

Anorak

Posted: 12th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (24)

David Prager’s Home Being Broken Into On Twitter And Ustream

DAVID Prager’s home is being broken into.

So he calls the police.

No.

He Twitters. S

Tired of looking at celebs, we are now all vouers on our own lives:

# ok, maybe I should lock my door – I swear a random dude just walked into my bathroom and I can’t believe I haven’t freaked out
about 4 hours ago from Tweetie

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Anorak

Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)

Fergie Spreads Lipstick On Barack Obama

FERGIE, the singer who wets herself, and not the self-styled Duchess who doesn’t wet herself but knows a few royals who do and reserves the right to film it for historical record, is the lips of a new HIV prevention lipstick.

Anorak

Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (5)

Rihanna Marries Chris Brown

RIHANNA (red corner) and Chris Brown (round the corner, running) are married.

Says the National Enquirer:

“Rihanna & Chris: SECRET WEDDING – The troubled couple did more than just reconcile in Miami – they actually exchanged wedding vows.”

Anorak

Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)

Tabloid Bingo: German Gunman 15, Michael McLendon 9 And Tariq Aziz 42

STAR dies sells more paper than Star lives. But there is lot of grim news at the moment. What isn’t about rampaging gunmen, celebrity cancer or Scare Stories about how bad it’s gonna get for you is weird news that attracts people looking to escape the aforesaid horrors, albeit featuring elaborate ways of dying.

Even celebs – that froth on top of life’s flat pint – are talked about as being hated for beign irritating and famous.

Just today, a guman in Germany has killed 15, a nutter in America has killed 9 and Tariq Azia has been charged with killing 42.

It’s Tablid Bingo!

Anorak

Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)

The Top Ten Understatements Ever

IN taking on the tabloid press, Max Mosley tells MPs that his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, “overdid it and that stopped people thinking seriously about his ideas“.

That’s was always the problem with Nazis, overdoing it. You kill someone in a van with poison gas, then someone else wants to have a go and before you know it there are entire camps full of people and gas and everyone wants to press the button and be first and have their turn.

Here are Anorak’s Top Ten Understatements Ever

Anorak

Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)

Jade Goody’s Celebrity Cancer: Her Last Interview, Christening Tadpoles And Aftershave

JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer, featuring her last interview, tadpoles and aftershave…

JADE Goody is giving her “last ever interview and final pictures” to OK! magazine.

Anorak

Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)

Madeleine McCann: Brand McCann, Selling The Commodity And The Media Feeding Frenzy

MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann

BBC: “Madeleine ‘treated as commodity’”

“COPS: MADDIE IS STILL ALIVE,” says the front page of the People. But they don’t know. Not for sure. To put this headline on the front page is bad reporting, offering false hope. It smacks of opportunism, using Madeleine to sell newspapers –Anorak, May 13, 2007

Madeleine McCann was treated as a “commodity” by the UK press, her father Gerry has told MPs.

Anorak

Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (33)

Dear Gordon: Relationship Advice From Barack Obama

HAVING given Gordon Brown the gift of accepting gifts graciously, Iowahawk explains how Barack Obama is now teaching us the gift of giving:

Dear Barry:

I’ve had a bit of a bad luck patch over the last month (losing my job, watching my 401k completely disintegrate, etc., etc.) and ended up relocating from a high rise in Lincoln Park to a new neighborhood along the Fullerton underpass on the Kennedy Expressway. I was a bit worried about the move at first, but my new neighbors have been great. In fact on move-in day they greeted me with a grocery cart “welcome wagon” containing some lovely and practical gifts like cans of Sterno, cardboard, fortified wine, and a hypo-allergenic harmonica. I would like to show my appreciation with thoughtful “thank you” gifts. Can you recommend something nice that won’t break my budget ($3.00 total for 6 gifts)? Please help!

Barbara in Chicago

Dear Barbara:

Anorak

Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (3)

Scare Stories: Killer Barbie At 50, Lidl Terrorists And Smelling Of Pigs

MEDIA Scare stories: Anorak’s daily look at horror stories making news – Killer Barbie at 50, Lidl Terrorists And Smelling Of Pigs

“Statins are the new NHS wonder drug for cutting cholesterol. But do they have sinister side-effects?”- Daily Mail

Gynnnpshthhwappp. None that we’ve – thrwakkpioooop – noticed…

“Imogen couldn’t work out why she kept piling on weight. Then she was told her thyroid had gone haywire” – Daily Mail

Anorak

Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

Jade Goody Cancer, With Cheryl Cole, Michael Jackson, Omar Bakri And Slumdog

JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer with Cheryl Cole, Michael Jackson, Omar Bakri and Slumdog…

The Sun: “JADE’S GOING BLIND”

It is the “Star’s new agony”. It’s front-page news. Why Max Clifford calls David Blunkett and the Sun is printed in Braille (Page 3, too, readers!), we ask, can it get worse for Jade?

The Scotsman: “Michael Jackson sends love to dying Jade Goody

MICHAEL Jackson sent his “love” to Jade Goody, above, and asked if he could visit her in hospital, her publicist said yesterday.

Michael Jackson To Play Ten Dates In O2 Oxygen Tent!

The terminally-ill reality star was “exhausted” and under 24-hour protection after being confronted by a woman with a hammer, Max Clifford said. He added that Goody had been cheered by messages of goodwill from Jackson.

Anorak

Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (31)

Madeleine McCann: Murat, Opik, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen And Jade Goody

MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat, Lembit Opik, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Jade Goody and a heated debate

AFTER a winter-long hibernation, Madeleine McCann returns to the newspapers and front-line debate.

The University of Cambridge’s organ tells its readers: “Robert Murat holds Cambridge Union spellbound in tabloids debate”

The debate, which brought together some famous names from the media, was notable for emotional highs and lows, as well as some colourful tabloid-style language and plenty of laughter.

Speaking for the motion were Michael White, Associate Editor of the Guardian, Robert Murat and his lawyer Louis Charalambous, and the Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik, whose personal life has regularly been splashed across the front pages of the tabloids.

Anorak

Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (12)

Prince Charles Tours His Poem For Global Warming

PRINCE Charles says we have “less than 100 months to act” before it is too late to be saved from global warming.

Charles will deliver his message to the people of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil next week in person. He and the Duchess of Cornwall will then move onto Chile, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.

Anorak

Posted: 9th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (5)

Jade Goody: Prime Minister Max Clifford, A Film And A Hammer

JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer with the Christening, featuring the film, Goody Gracious Me, a hammer and Noel Gallagher wants Max Clifford for Prime Minister…

Daily Mirror: “JADE’S HAMMER HORROR”

JADE WOKE TO FIND WOMAN LEANING OVER HER MAKING WEIRD NOISES

Speaking Hindu? Chanting?

It was the terrifying moment no weak and vulnerable cancer patient should ever have to suffer as they bravely face their final days.

Anorak

Posted: 9th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (17)

Lily Allen’s Finnish Fur Peta Hat

LILY Allen, the non-celebrity celebrity singer is pictured with her celebrity dad at Cravan Cottage, where Fulham are being taken apart, stuffed and mounted by Manchester United.

The Daily Mail says:

The 23-year-old, who says she’s been seriously hit by the credit crunch, seems determined to get as many wears out of the ‘viciously expensive’ Finnish fox fur accessory as possible.

Anorak

Posted: 8th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (4)

Jade Goody’s Celebrity Cancer Christening

JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer with the Christening, featuring God and his agent on earth Max Clifford…

Daily Mirror: “Kiss & Farewell”

EXCLUSIVE One last day of happiness for Jade and her boys at emotional hospital Christening.

Exclusive to all papers.

Tragic Jade Goody amazed family and friends yesterday by laughing and joking her way through an emotional Christening for her boys… before saying a heartbreaking last goodbye.

Last goodbye to whom? Not to us. Max, say it ain’t so…

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Anorak

Posted: 8th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (17)

Barack Obama’s Gift Selection Box And Clinton’s A Card

FINDING things made in America to give foreign politicos is proving a tricky business for Team Obama.

First Obama gives Gordon Brown a collection of DVDs, of the type sold on carousel racks in charity shops by the used board games and nearly-new toilet paper, then Hillary Clinton gives her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov a mock “reset” button, symbolising US hopes to mend damaged ties with Moscow.

Anorak

Posted: 7th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)

Jade Goody’s Celebrity Cancer: Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews, The X Factor and Jesus

JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer with Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews, The X Factor and Jesus.

Daily Mirror: “Christen Me Now Begs Jade”

Max Clifford added Jade’s sons were coping “very well”.

“They are aware their mum is very ill, but they are very young. Hopefully their lives will be as unaffected as possible, bearing in mind they are going to lose the centrepiece of their lives…

…me, Max Clifford?

…their mum.

Anorak

Posted: 7th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (26)

Plaster Cast Of Cocaine And The Ten Most Bizarre Smugglers In The World

AT Barcelona Airport, a Chilean man with a broken leg is arrested after his “cast” is found to be made of cocaine.

The 66-year-old also ahs in his possession six cans of beer and two hollowed-out stools that also contained cocaine.

Anorak

Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)

Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat, MPs And Gerry McCann’s Heated Debate

MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat

Madeleine McCann is missing, still missing. She is now missing from the papers. The story is not of a missing child. The story is of the media, how the single thread story became a maelstrom of speculation and clai, and now introspection.

Last night Robert Murat – a media victim – addressed an audience of students at Cambridge University’s Union Society in favour of a motion that “the tabloid press does more harm than good“.

Anorak

Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (35)

Ashley Cole’s Sorry Non-Denial Denial Reconstruction

ASHLEY Cole has been pinched by the police. Mr Cheryl Cole swore at police and was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. He now apologises, sort of. Cole enacts that time-honoured tactic – the non-denial denial.

Anorak

Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)

Michael Jackson To Play Ten Dates In O2 Oxygen Tent

MICHAEL Jackson tells the fans in London:

“This is it. This is the final curtain call. See you in July.”

The press release tells of 10 shows in London in July at the O2, the former Millennium Dome.

“This is it, I really mean it,” says Jackson. “This O2 Oxygen Tent is what I’ve been waiting for. It is the perfect venue. So long as the fans wear masks and bring their own bottled air – or buy the offical air at the stands – things will be amazing and beautiful.”

Anorak

Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comments (6)

The Wonder Of Michelle Obama’s Hands, Wrists And Thumbs

MICHELLE Obama is a sensation. She has the right to bare arms in prettt much every newspaper and magaine in the land.

But Anorak has been out on the street and found that although Michelle’s arms get the star treatment they deserve, her wrists, shoulders and hands – thumbs included! – are cruelly overlooked.

Anorak

Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)

Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat Cambridge University Debate And Maddy PR McGuinness Sues

MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat and Justine McGuinness (in comments).

Remember Robert Murat who was called names and monstered by the tabloid press?

Anorak

Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (19)

Jade Goody: Jack Tweed’s Confession, Signature Coffins, Paul Burrell And The Best Anecdote Ever

JADE Goody celebrity cancer: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s celebrity cancer, feartuing Jack Tweed’s confession, signature coffins, Paul Burrell and a great anecdote.

The Sun (front page): “JACK’S BEDSIDE CONFESSION AS JADE WEAKENS”

A confession?

EMOTIONAL Jack Tweed told yesterday how he spent a whole night holding terminally-ill Jade Goody’s hand in hospital — and begged her to forgive his criminal past.

Forgive me Jade, for I have sinned.

Jack is at the hospital. His electronic tag has been switched to light vibrate (all electronic devices should be switched off) long enough for him spend the night with Jade in hospital following her recent operation.

Anorak

Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (11)