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8th, April 2010 Celebrities 6

Katie Price Is Pregnant With Alex Reid's Career

AlexReid, the walking Toffee Crisp married to Katie Price, aka Jordan, is delighted that he’s “going to be a daddy”... More »

8th, April 2010 In Pictures

Bicycle Accidents (OUCH!)

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7th, April 2010 TV & Radio

The Intenet Conspiracy - Is It Real? A Video

Does the Internet really exist or is it all just a conspiracy? More »

7th, April 2010 Sports

Manchester United Lose To Bayern Munich And English Football Fans Rejoice: Pictures

Manchester United lost to Bayern Munich in the Champions League. In 1999, when last the teams played in the biggest club competition in European football, Bayern were winning as the game moved into its death throes. Your writer was in a bar in Madrid... More »

7th, April 2010 TV & Radio 2

In Pictures: Dhruv Baker Wins BBC MasterChef 2010

Dhruv Baker is the winner of MasterChef 2010, the addictive BBC TV show in which amateur chefs try to impress professional telly eaters John Torode and Gregg Wallace with stone cold food congealed under arc lights... More »

7th, April 2010 Celebrities

Jennifer Aniston's Car 'Kiss' With Brad Pitt And 'Bill'

The front-page news is: "JEN & BRAD CAUGHT KISSING" More »

7th, April 2010 Strange But True

Tolpuddle Guides Strike For Improved Pay, Australia Expects

It's déjà vu all over agin... More »

7th, April 2010 TV & Radio

In Pictures: Chris Evans' Snow Centre Breakfast Show Sporting Challenge

Chris Evans was at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, for one of his Friday Breakfast Show Sporting Challenges. This is radio you can see. More »

7th, April 2010 Madeleine McCann 2

Madeleine McCann: The Press Complaints Committee Forgets Robert Murat

The Press Complaints Commission was criticised by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee. It responds - and there is no mention made for Robert Murat, a man almost destroyed by the press: More »

7th, April 2010 Sports

Martina Navratilova's Breast Cancer Exposed

Martina Navratilova's breasts are now a talking point... More »

7th, April 2010 Fashion 2

In Pictures: Selena Gomez For Asda

We saw the new teen sensation in her black top and spangly skirt... More »

7th, April 2010 Money

KISS Lead Tongue Man Gene Simmons Is The Hair Of Springs Life Equity Strategy

Having cracked wigs, long tongues, sex tapes and KISS, Gene Simmons moves into the ultimate gig – flogging Life Assurance... More »

7th, April 2010 Reviews 2

Media Says Mephedron 'Killed' Wesley Sharples As Gordon Brown Ignores Ban

Meow meow is legal. Gordon Brown could have helped to make it illegal had he only waited a short while longer to put his premiership to the vote. But Gordon and the wonks say it is legal. So legal it is. More »

7th, April 2010 Celebrities 12

Private Kate Middleton Sues Rex Features And Advises the Plebs To Get A Camera

Rex apologises – that full apology at the end of the piece. But before that, private Kate is being interviewed on the website of Party Pieces, you know, the company her family owns... More »

7th, April 2010 TV & Radio 1

Lin Yu Chun Is The Next Whitney Houston Is Next Susan Boyle

Lin Yu Chun is the next Whitney Houston. And he's the nest Susan Boyle. chances are that Lin Yu Chun is the nexy Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and, with that hair, Ann Widdecombe. More »

7th, April 2010 Strange But True

Man Tries To Down Qantas Plane With His Mind Bomb

It is a serious threat and the man is restrained by flight stewards. His arms and legs are cuffed. But his mind remains free... More »

7th, April 2010 Key Posts 1

That Jesse James Love Child And Michelle McGee's Slap-On Burka: Pictures

Odd indeed that the man who has spent so long covering his arms - and partied with Michelle McGee, a woman who covered her face in Kendo Nagasacki’s slap-on burka - should have failed to cover his arse and pecker... More »

7th, April 2010 Celebrities 2

Alice Tan Ripley Is The Next Susan Boyle, And Stepping Stones Her Cat Agrees

The US wants its own star and Alice Tan Ripley - starved of nitrogen at birth; owner of a cat called Stepping Stones; a woman who can't even says vuirtin without bushing - has scored a gig on America’s Got Talent. More »

7th, April 2010 Reviews 2

Greenpeace Warlord Mean Gene Hashmi Declares War On Global Warming Demnier

GREENPEACE India's communications director, Gene Hashmi, has declared war on you. And you. And you, you scum... More »

7th, April 2010 Reviews

Your Morning Fry-Up Is Killing Obese Mice And Other Media Scare Stories

On 10 March, the Express ran the headline 'Death by fry-up' on its front page, claiming the full English breakfast was 'lethal'. and it is. For mice... More »

7th, April 2010 Strange But True 3

Mark McGowan 10,000 Prostrates Before David Cameron

Mark McGowan plans to prostrate himself 10,000 times in front of a "large photographic image of Conservative leader David Cameron on (election day) May 6th, 2010, opposite number 10 Downing Street." More »

7th, April 2010 National Enquirer

Jennifer Aniston's Baby With Gerard Butler And The Bombshell

JENNIFER Aniston is going to be a mum. We know this because the National Enquirer screams: “JEN BABY BOMBSHELL!”... More »

7th, April 2010 Reviews

The General Election In Pictures: Ed Balls Tucks In

BECAUSE writing about politics only encourages them, we've decided to just bring you pictures of the vain and the very vain on the campaign trail. Every picture deserves a caption. Enjoy the gallery... More »

7th, April 2010 Strange But True 1

Arizona Prisoners Pedal To Watch Porn And Oprah

To Tent City Jail in Phoenix, Arizona, where the prisoners must pedal to generate electricity for the telly to work... More »

7th, April 2010 OK! 2

Amanda Holden On Affairs And Cheryl Cole (Pictures)

AMANDA Holden continues to mistake the love for Susan Boyle, Simon Cowell and Britain’s Got Talent for a sign that we like her. More »