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23rd, December 2009 OK!

Peter Andre's First Christmas Alone And Katie Price's Gift

Peter Andre is on the cover of this week’s OK! and he’s pulling a cracker. Ho-ho. No, Peter isn’t with an insignificant other. Peter is pulling a cracker – a silver one More »

23rd, December 2009 Reviews

Amanda Lepore's Bum Presents The 8th Annual Toy Drive

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23rd, December 2009 Strange But True 1

Jesus Christ Goes Bananas: Picture

Jeus Christ is a banana. Lisa Swinton has seen the face of Jesus on her banana. Says she... More »

23rd, December 2009 Celebrities

Dancing On Ice Atack: Armed Heather Mills In Fight To The Death

More Dancing On Ice news as the Daily Star delivers “MACCA V MUCCA – Couple go to war on telly dance show” More »

23rd, December 2009 Sports

RIP Albert Scanlon: Manchester United, Busby Babes And Munich In Pictures

RIP Albert Scanlon. The Manchester United winger, a 'Busby Babe' who survived the Munich air disaster in 1958, died. He was 74... More »

23rd, December 2009 Madeleine McCann 1

How Madeleine McCann Became A Fictional Character Called 'Our Maddie'

The media was attracted not to the story but to the people involved: middle class, photogenic, erudite professionals. And it helps that Our Maddie is blonde... More »

23rd, December 2009 Sports 5

Identified: The Premier League Manager In Prostitute Sex Shame

Who is the Premier League manager caught “visiting hookers in a seedy brothel”? More »

23rd, December 2009 Politicians

The Barack Obama Death Cult Introduces Kristy Lee Roshia

The Barack Obama Death Cult introduces the Michelle Obama Death Threat, brought to you by Kristy Lee Roshia... More »

23rd, December 2009 Celebrities

Brittany Murphy, Simon Monjack, Drugs And Lindsay Lohan: In Pictures

Brittany Murphy has died and the papers are filling in the space between news of what drugs were or were not in her system by destroying Simon Monjack, her grieving husband.. More »

22nd, December 2009 Celebrities

The FBI Files On Michael Jackson: Stalkers, Terrorists And The Best Bits Not Redacted

Want to know what the FBI thought of Michael Joseph Jackson? The FBI has released the files on the dead singer. Well, those files it wants you to see. More »

22nd, December 2009 TV & Radio

New York And LA TV Stations In War Of The Burning Logs

Answering the question 'What's more wooden than the cast of Hollyoaks?' are the KCAL-TV and KTLA TV stations. Anork's Man in LA tells us: More »

22nd, December 2009 Celebrities 35

Brittany Murphy Is Dead And The Media Destroys Her Name

Brittany Murphy has passed away. The talented actress died age 32. The coroner reports that Murphy died of “natural causes”. End of story. A sad end. Right. Right? It’s only just beginning. The media gets to work on speculating: More »

22nd, December 2009 Celebrities 1

Dancing On Ice: Heather Mills' And Other Stars Of Casualty

Danniella Westbrook (I'm a Celebrity; Get Me Out of Here!) landing face first in a rink of powdered white crystals... More »

22nd, December 2009 Key Posts 1

Tiger Woods: Dancing Girls Woo Tiger Back Top Golf

Golf should ask not what Woods can do for it but what it can do for Woods. Time to make golf more attractive to Woods. Time to give back... More »

22nd, December 2009 Hello!

Strictly Come Dancing's Ali Bastian And Brian Fortuna's Boast Card From Paris

While you weren’t watching Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC’ pro-am dance bore-fest, Ali Bastian (celeb/dancer) and Brian Fortuna (dancer/celeb) fell head over heels in love. Says Hello!... More »

22nd, December 2009 Celebrities

At Home With Blur's Alex James, Geronimo, Galileo, Sable And Artemas

It is a celebrity truism that the celerity chooses the baby name that best reflects not their child but themselves. So here in Hello! we get to pat the More »

22nd, December 2009 Hello!

Christmas With Paris Hilton And A Chance To Sit On Her Face

Paris says her home is “like Fort Knox”. Given the amount of gold and shiny surfaces, we’d say that Fort Knox is like Paris Hilton’s home, or at least it was before the recession hit.... More »

22nd, December 2009 Strange But True 5

Winter Solstice And Bar Mitzvah At Stonehenge: In Picture

For decades the purpose of Stonehenge has been debated. Was it a starter home for a Welsh holiday makers that never got finished? Is it a club venue for hippies? Does... More »

22nd, December 2009 Reviews 3

Liz Jones Is Patron Saint Of The Family Christmas

Liz Jones wants Mail readers to know that this Christmas it could be worse: you could be Liz Jones or spending your Christmas with Liz Jones. More »

22nd, December 2009 Strange But True

Kangaroo Has Goose For Christmas Lunch: Video

When kangaroo meets goose there can be only one winner... More »

22nd, December 2009 Reviews 1

Climate Change Hero Fidel Castro Complains Of Police Brutality In Copenhagen

In Copenhagen, the climate change protest is joined by that master of human freedom fidel Castro. After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Robert Mugabe and Sudan's Nazis, here's Fidel - he ofd the "dictatorial style of government and ruthless suppression of opposition"... More »

22nd, December 2009 Politicians 1

Barack Obama: The Big Cheese

The key difference between the US and the rest of the world is that Barack Obama can stick his face in the middle of a bunch of toothy children and escape universal ridicule... More »

22nd, December 2009 Reviews

Brittany Murphy Exposes Ugly Journalism On Twitter

Brittany Murphy’s death is grist for the hack’s pap mill. But the pick of the bunch so far must be Zoe Griffin, the former Daily Mirror gossip writer, who Twitters... More »

22nd, December 2009 Reviews

Journalism Awards 2009: Perez Hilton Beaten By Jan Moir And AA Gill

AA Gill pips Jan Moir, Carole Malone and Perez Hilton to win the Stupidest Journalist Award of 2009... More »

22nd, December 2009 Celebrities

Celebrity Big Brother: Katie Price's Men - Bowers, Peter Andre and Reid - In TV 'Fight'

Peter Andre and Katie Price: The fight between Alex Reid and Peter Andre is on! It’s Fanny v Tranny. Dane Bowers is in it too. The Star has news on Celebrity Big Brother... More »