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13th, November 2009 Celebrities

Katie Price Humilates Chelsea Handler's Pathetic Show

Handler and Price deserve each other. You find your level. As Handler - a WASPish Joan Rivers impersonator - said: "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is”... More »

13th, November 2009 Celebrities

X Factor: Jedward To Join Boyzone In Irish Vote Frenzy

Louis Walsh says Ireland hates Jedward but wants to vote for them... More »

13th, November 2009 The Consumer 4

For Hire: Engrish Teacher To Learn You Grammer

Wear do eye sign? More »

13th, November 2009 Strange But True 7

Former Soldier Faces Fives Years Jail For Gun He Found And Handed To Police

"This is a very small case with a very big principle" - and at once all hope is lost for the man who faces jail for doing the right thing... More »

13th, November 2009 Politicians

David Cameron Exploits Dead Soldiers Day For Gordon Brown's Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror plays party poliltics with dead soldiers... More »

13th, November 2009 Reviews 8

Norway Exports More Porn Than It Imports

News that British pople are ugly occupies minds on the internets, where Nadia Knows explains that such PR-driven surveys are as credible as a Daily Express phone poll... More »

13th, November 2009 Celebrities 1

Katie Price's Neo Tech Dicovery

Katie Price is in the celebrity jungle and her lover Alex Reid is limbering up for televised drinken fighting by telling the Mirror, in interview, about his books at bedtime: More »

13th, November 2009 Reviews 1

Burglar Leaves Nose Behind At Crime Scene

Exhibit A - the DNA of the accused, still attached to his nose... More »

13th, November 2009 Reviews 1

David Dimbleby Hit By Bullock In Polegate Smallholding

Headline of the day award goes to the Brighton's The Argus for his gem in response to David Dimbeleby - the BBC's political gamekeeper on a cushion - having been knocked unconscious by a bullock at his "smallholding"... More »

13th, November 2009 Celebrities 3

Robbie Williams Sings With Take That, In Pictures

To the BBC Children in Need Rocks concert, at the Royal Albert Hall with Take That back for good-ish with Robbie Williams. Also there was Cheryl Cole, the ubiquitous Lily Allen, Snow Patrol, Muse, Dizzee Rascal, Dame Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney and, well, us… More »

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Daily Mail Sticks The Louboutin Into Coleen Rooney

Hands up which Daily Mail readers want to know what kept “new mum Coleen Rooney “up till 2am”? Social services knocking on her door? Maybe... More »

13th, November 2009 Reviews 3

Jon Gaunt Compounds The Sun's Misery Over The Jacqui Janes Debacle

The Sun apologises over that 'Jacqui Jones' story and then Jon Gaunt then opens his mouth and puts his ass in it... More »

13th, November 2009 Politicians

Barack Obama Is Made From Bits Of The Berlin Wall

Barack Obama - my part in the Berlin Wall's downfall... More »

13th, November 2009 Reviews

Climate Justice Fast: Global Warming Campaigners Perform Internet Comedy Show

Climate Justice update: Canberra justice seeker Paul Connor tells us of his hunger strike for Gaia. It's calledClimate Justice Fast. Paul Connor fools his body into believing he’s taking food by eating ice for 40 days and 40 nights.It's hilarious... More »

13th, November 2009 Celebrities

In Pictures: X Factor Lucie Jones Sings Cardiff

While London-based X Factor acts - JLS, Too black Rachel Adedeji andCheryl Cole tribute act Kandy Rain - play GAY Heaven, Welsh girl Lucie Jones performs outside St David's shopping centre in Cardiff, Wales... More »

13th, November 2009 Key Posts

Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2: Free Virtual Reality Goggles And Gun Offer

Exclusive: Buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and win a free gun! See inside for details... More »

13th, November 2009 Celebrities 2

I'm A Celebrity Queen Katie Price Declares War On X Factor's Jedward

Katie Price puts on the 'Nunny Plaits' as she takes on the Jedward electic shocker... More »

13th, November 2009 Celebrities

The Jon Gosselin Sex Tape Is A Thing Of Beauty

Reality TV show dross Jon Gosselin - he of the 8 as-seen-on-teevee children (think Mel Gibson with more self-esteem) - has a sex tape out there somewhere, says the National Enquierer. Everyone needs a celebrity sex tape. You probably have one in which you're shagging Russell Brand or an Oompa Loompa. More »

12th, November 2009 Celebrities

Carrie Prejean Sex Tape Is Not Underage Porn, Expect To See It Soon

That Carrie Prejean sex tape moves one stop closer to an airing... More »

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Peter Andre Pulled Out Of I'm A Celebrity Not To Do The X Factor

I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! has claimed Peter Andre as its first victim. The pop acorn who rose to fame – literally – when he squired Katie Price in the jungle clearing will not be reporting on the show... More »

12th, November 2009 Strange But True

The Mona Lisa Had Eyebrows And A Moustache

An art expert called Pascal Cotte looked at the painting through a 240 megapixel camera. He says Leonardo da Vinci created his masterpiece in layers, the final varnish producing the effect of a three-dimensional face... More »

12th, November 2009 Politicians 1

2000-2010 In Pictures: The Decade In Politics

We look back at 2000-2010 - the decade in politics. In pictures... More »

12th, November 2009 Strange But True 1

Weston Bans Fat Mums From Giving Birth In Town

As you’re lying there screaming “GET IT OUT” a dietician will approach and test you for fatness. If you pass you can have the baby. If not, you will have to a) ingest it; b) leave, perhaps for St Michael's Hospital in Bristol, 20 miles away. Run. It’ll do you good... More »

12th, November 2009 Reviews 2

Scotland's Clinics Ordered Not To Give Swine Flu Vaccine To Over 65s

Scotland says no swine flu vaccine for over 65 -plans to cull elderly... More »

12th, November 2009 Celebrities 8

Naked Twilight Star Christian Serratos Is Peta's Dumb Animal Of The Month

Naked Twilight star Christian Serratos is Peta's Dumb Animnal Of The Month - never mind the message, get a load of the meat... More »