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3rd, February 2010 Strange But True 1

University Worker Spanked Women For 'Pain Management' Study

To Bristol Crown Court, where University of Bath Karl Woodgett, 37, is said to have filmed himself caning the women at a Bristol hotel. It is alleged that Mr Woodgett (nominative determinism, readers) admsintered the spankings in exchange for degrees. More »

3rd, February 2010 Celebrities 5

Alex Reid And Katie Price Marriage: Scented Condoms And Books

Katie Price and Alex Reid: They’ve only gone and got married in La Vegas. The Star says Tango & Gash have been “eyeing up the prettiest venues”. A very short scouting missing akin to looking for virgins at the Chelsea Christmas Party. More »

3rd, February 2010 Reviews

George Osborne's Global Warming Pratt Fall: Video

There must be very few examples of rats climbing aboard a sinking ship – holed at the Stern, one might say. Delingpole rises to the occasion, the comments reinforcing the enormity of the blunder made by that idiot Osborne.... More »

3rd, February 2010 Celebrities 4

Fred Dibnah The Movie: Clare Short Or Tim Healy?

THE life of steeplejack Fred Dibnah is to be turned into a blockbuster movie... More »

2nd, February 2010 TV & Radio

John Terry Meets Die Antwoord: Video

This is what the web is all about - introducing Die Antwoord, "Zef Side [Beat Boy] - the Afrikaans beat boy rappers. More »

2nd, February 2010 Heat

'Insecure' Angelina Jolie Joins Lily Allen Glee Club

HEAT magazine claims on its front cover to be “bursting with glee” as it delivers the headline that Angelina Jolie is “INSECURE”... More »

2nd, February 2010 Celebrities

Thanking God For The Oscars In Pictures: Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren And Actor Idol

It’s that time when the greatest talent and stars of the world’s greatest entertainment Mecca gather to produce an amateurish, prolix, turgid, sticky bore-fest. And it’s right that they do – this an AGM for suits and their hirelings... More »

2nd, February 2010 National Enquirer 7

Brad Pitt Crawls To Jennifer Aniston On 'All Fours' In Angelina Jolie Crisis

Brad is currently sporting a beard that would look at home at an old crones’ orgy. He also has baggage, the little Brangelinos... More »

2nd, February 2010 Reviews

Heathrow Body Scanners Find Bollocks Where Lord Adonis's Tonsils Should Be: Pictures

Transport Secretary Lord Adonis sought today to allay privacy fears over the introduction of full body scans at airports, saying that the images from the scans are deleted “immediately”. So if they make a mistake the record has gone? More »

2nd, February 2010 Celebrities

Prince Is Harry Tossed Off: Pictures

Prince Harry Baseball Cap wins the Sentebale Polo Trophy after his Sentebale team won the inaugural match at the Apes Hill polo club in Barbados. Yeah, Hal won the first cup in the new tournament. What. Are. The. Odds? More »

2nd, February 2010 In Pictures

Prince Harry In Barbados

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2nd, February 2010 Celebrities

Victoria Beckham: Bunions, Lunches And Young Girls

Victoria Beckham is on the cover of two magazines – Closer and Glamour: Closer says Posh is facing a “HORROR OP”... More »

2nd, February 2010 Strange But True 1

Man Wins Free Train Tickets With Corporate Tattoo

Rant Burton, an Australian, got inked with a tattoo of the Eurail corporate logo to win a his parents to a train journey across Europe. More »

2nd, February 2010 Reviews 3

BBC Uses Terry Pratchett's 'Suicide' To Debate Exterminating The Old And Lame

WHY on earth would BBC News lead with a report on Discworld author Sir Terry Pratchett's support for assisted suicide? Easy. To promote its Panorama show tonight [sic] whose theme is the public's warming to the idea of exterminating people past their economic usefulness, as affirmed by a "poll"... More »

2nd, February 2010 Celebrities 16

Katie Price And Alex Reid: Long Sex, Las Vegas Wedding, Wotsits And Peter Andre's Fury

Katie Price and Alex Reid: Today we reintroduce Peter Andre and the Daily Star says Tango & Gash are to be united in Las Vegas, or ass the Star hymns the romance: More »

2nd, February 2010 TV & Radio 1

Sporting - Porto: Lurker Invades New Report: Video

The Lurker of the Year Award goes to... More »

2nd, February 2010 Hello!

Hello!: John Terry Spots Vanessa Perroncel, Cheryl Cole's For Haiti And Coleen Rooney Shocks

In this Week’s Hello!, John Terry and Vanessa Perroncel revealed, Coleen Rooney on baby Kai and Cheryl Cole tells of “heartbreak”... More »

1st, February 2010 Reviews 1

Rip Torn Is Rip Taylor In Hartford

Tragic drunk old badass actor Rip Torn was led into court in shackles this morning to face gun and burglary charges after he was found drunk out of his mind on the floor of a bank in Litchfield, Connecticut, Friday night. Not much funny about the details in the story - unless you're reading it on the Hartford Courant's website... More »

1st, February 2010 Strange But True

Barack Obama Is Cheesy And Cheryl Cole Spreads, Literally: Pictures

You know you’ve arrived when Prudence Staite turns you into a life-size edible sculpture, like those of Dita von Teese, Cheryl Cole and Barack Obama... More »

1st, February 2010 In Pictures

The Grammys In 120 Pictures

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1st, February 2010 Celebrities 12

Justin Bieber's Lady GaGa Presents The 52nd Grammy Awards: 120 Pictures

Lady Gaga pretended to be an am-dram star in the Melton Mowbray Players’ lunch-time rendition of Havisham: The Musical, Veronica Mayra poured herself into a dress (she forgot to say “when”), More »

1st, February 2010 Reviews

When Gordon Brown Met Derek Derenalagi: Pictures

Prime Minister “Jonah” Gordon Brown met rugby player Lawrence Dallaglio with double amputee Derek Derenalagi on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, London. More »

1st, February 2010 Sports

Mike Tyson On Dancing With The Stars, In Pictures

What's the former Baddest Man in The World up to – you know, Mike Tyson, the once awesome boxer who earned £200 million for his fighting, bit part of a man’s ear off and got into philsophy? More »

1st, February 2010 Strange But True 3

Men Choose BAAPS For Boob Jobs: Fact

DID you know that more men are having boob jobs than ever before? The BBC, no less, tells us that breast reduction for men is the “fastest growing part of the cosmetic surgery industry for the second year running”. More »

1st, February 2010 Politicians

Barack Obama Turns Into A Weak George Bush: Video Proof

WHEN we said that you'd miss George Bush when he was gone. we meant it. Barack Obama is so smooth he says... More »