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30th, November 2009 Key Posts 1

Tiger Woods: National Enquirer Claims Proof Of An Affair With Rachel Uchitel

The National Enquirer claims more proof of an affair with Rachel Uchitel and Tiger Woods... More »

30th, November 2009 Key Posts 5

Tiger Woods Car Crash: Elin Nodegren's Kobe Grip And Rachel Uchitel Denies

All the news and views on Tiger Woods, Elin Nodegren, Rachel Uchitel and a jubilant golfing world... More »

29th, November 2009 Celebrities 9

X Factor: Rihanna's Sharon Stone Impression, Simon Cowell's Slip, Alicia Keys' Talent And Lloyd Daniels' Walk

X Factor results show: with aerated Stacey Solomon, contagious Olly Murs, Danyl Johnson with a ‘y’, ‘young Cliff Richard’ Joe McElderry and non-dancing, barely singing Lloyd Daniels... More »

29th, November 2009 Madeleine McCann 1

Madeleine McCann: In Qatar

The part of this story of interest to you Anorak readers is how Madeleine McCann appears in the tale of a woman who married and divorced a local man who later died... More »

29th, November 2009 Celebrities

Chinless Wonders Spotted At 19th Annual Paris Crillon Haute-Couture Ball, In Pictures

Anorak’s woman in Paris has more pictures from inside the gilded Petri Dish - it's like the Bullingdon Club set to music... More »

29th, November 2009 Celebrities

X Factor Duracell Gonks Jedward Do GAY, In Pictures

X Factor Duracell Gonks Jedward have gone the GAY way, as predicted, following in the footsteps of Lucie Jones, Rachel Adedeji, Kandy Rain and JLS. More »

29th, November 2009 Celebrities 5

X Factor: JLS Are Bigger Than Twilight And Stacey Solomon 'Dumps' Olly Murs

X FACTOR Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance round-up of X Factor in the news: JLS are bigger than Twilight, Take That and Manchester United; Cheryl Cole's fake hair and happy-happy-happy marriage give us reason to be cheerful and Stacey Solomon dumps Olly Murs... More »

29th, November 2009 Strange But True

Warsaw Zoo Hires Humans To Pretend To Be Animals

Warsaw Zoo has installed a human exhibit, featuring two “prehistoric” people in a cage... More »

29th, November 2009 Celebrities

Kate Moss's Fridge And The Sugarplum Ball, In Pictures

Spotting sugared plums at the Sugarplum Ball at the Natural History Museum, in pictures... More »

29th, November 2009 Celebrities 4

Susan Boyle Does Not Have Cancer And Not Mentally Ill

The media continues to speculate on Susan Boyle's mental health, and other "exclusives"... More »

29th, November 2009 Key Posts 5

Madeleine McCann: I Foiled The 'Maddie Conman' From 300 Miles Away

Madeleine McCann: The true story of the arrest of Kevin Halligen, the man billed as the "Maddie McCann fraudster". And how doing the right thing cost a young journalist his job... More »

29th, November 2009 Celebrities 5

Katie Price Will Marry Alex Reid, Wants Peter Andre And Dates Jermain Defoe

Katie Price is to marry Alex Reid, the one she dumped in the I’m A Celebrity jungle? More »

28th, November 2009 Key Posts 13

Tiger Woods: Rachel Uchitel Denies Affair, Elin Nordegren Accused And Roger Federer Tests His Racket

Want to know the truth about Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegren and Rachel Uchitel? Oh, and Roger Federer... More »

28th, November 2009 Celebrities 1

No Chinless Wonders At The 19th Annual Paris Crillon Haute-Couture Ball, In Pictures

The story so far: the chinless wonders have in-bred themselves out of existence, and only emergency calls to such unlikely “well-bred girls” – daughters to Clint Eastwood, Forest Whitaker, Viscount Spencer of Our Diana and – eh? - Kathy Lette have kept the event alive... More »

28th, November 2009 Celebrities

In Pictures: Katie Price Lands In UK, Dannii Minogue Deported

Katie Price has left the I’m A Celebrity jungle and retuned to the UK. Many hoped that she would remain Down Under as part of UK and Australian CEP agreement (Celebrity Exchange Programme)... More »

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The Death Of Susan Boyle, In Pictures

Susan Boyle Watch: Journalists are dreaming of Boyle's funeral, her theme song and talking about her oxygen-starved brain... More »

28th, November 2009 Strange But True 1

Rainbows Over Bristol

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28th, November 2009 Key Posts 1

Leeds University Advertises For A Lap Dance 'Research Officer' For Science Project

Leeds University is adverting for a “Research Officer” to investigate lap dancing. Apply within... More »

28th, November 2009 Key Posts 9

Rachel Uchitel And A Car Crash Make Tiger Woods No Longer Most Boring Sportsman On The Planet

TIGER Woods is not longer the most boring sportsman on planet. All over the web are rumours that injured Tiger Woods’ has been getting to know a Rachel Uchitel. She was once a producer for Bloomberg TV... More »

28th, November 2009 Celebrities 1

Katie Price And Peter Andre Plan Christmas Reunion

Peter Andre and Katie Price are in a “SECRET REUNION”. More »

28th, November 2009 Sports

In Pictures: Boring Tiger Woods Saved From 'Horror' Crash With Baffing Spoon?

TIGER Woods has crashed his car. Woods' car struck a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbour's garden as he pulled out of his driveway at…2:25 a.m. His wife, Elin Nordegren, picked up a golf club and smashed in the back window. No, not in temper. She did it to save him. She did it to make the sportsman look more interesting... More »

27th, November 2009 Celebrities 1

Taylor Lautner In Rolling Stone, In Pictures And No Drugs

Twlight pin-up Taylor Lautner is on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, and he’s keen to tell us how he’s cleaner than Cliff Richards’ knicker draw. More »

27th, November 2009 Strange But True

Woman Crushed By Fake Christmas Tree

After the fake Christmas tree of Poole, news of a 78-year-old German woman crushed by an artificial tree in a Hamburg shopping mall. More »

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The 19th Annual Le Bal Crillon In Pictures And 'Well-Born Young Ladies'

ANORAK'S Man in Paris captures the magic of the19th annual 'le Bal' (Le Bal Des Debutantes) held at the Hotel de Crillon, in Paris, France. As it says here, “This event is the high-society debuts for 24 well-born young ladies.” Want to know who these princesses are? ... More »

27th, November 2009 Celebrities

X Factor: Third Placed Same Difference Are Big In Cheadle Hulme

Ever wondered what happened to the X Factor’s same difference, shiny-eyed brother and sister singing act Sean and Sarah Smith, who finished third in the 2007 series of X Factor? More »