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17th, October 2009 Key Posts

Those Falcon Heene Jokes In Full

Balloon Boy is a huge media star. Falcon Heene is the boy who never flew in a ballon. Falcon Heene is huge... More »

17th, October 2009 Celebrities 8

H From Steps Is Dead: RIP

RIP H from steps. You were away too long... More »

17th, October 2009 In Pictures

Stephen Gately's Funeral

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17th, October 2009 Key Posts 4

Stephen Gately Gives Jan Moir Her Susan Boyle Moment

Every says hundreds of jobbing hacks watch the telly or study their kidzzz movements and homework in the quest for something to voice an opinion on. Little could Moir have dreamed that a frumpy, mentally negligible middle-aged woman could be so popular. As hacks have yet to put it, This is Jan Moir’s Susan Boyle moment”... More »

16th, October 2009 Reviews

Balloon Boy Falcon Heene Gets Letter From Her Majesty The Queen?

Balloon Boy has received a letter from Her Majesty the Queen. More »

16th, October 2009 Reviews 2

Jan Moir's Statement On Stephen Gately 'Gay Bashing' Article in Full

"However, the point of my column-which, I wonder how many of the people complaining have fully read - was to suggest that, in my honest opinion, his death raises many unanswered questions. That was all." More »

16th, October 2009 Reviews 1

The Balloon Boy Hoax Timeline

How balloon boys hoaxed the world, probably... More »

16th, October 2009 Reviews 3

Heroic Balloon Boy Falcon Heene Gets His Own TV Show

Having owned his dad on the telly by saying his hiding in the attic and not flying away on a home-made balloon was for "the show", Ballon Boy Falcon Heene turned into Balloon Boy Falcon Heave, puking on the telly. More »

16th, October 2009 Key Posts 6

How 'Loathsome' Jan Moir Buried Herself And Stephen Gately

How Jan Moir's 'homophobic' rants against Stephen Gately caused a storm of protest, and a partial retraction More »

16th, October 2009 TV & Radio

Gushers Make German Dancers Move Like A Worm Learning To Walk

ON today's Terrible TV, we hear to Germany, where the kinder are being asked for their views on Gushers... More »

16th, October 2009 Reviews

How Falcon The Balloon Boy Advertised Pappa John's Pizzas On The TV News

On 4Chan, the lads ordered a Papa John’s pizza to be sent to the Heenes family home. The pizza arrives at the same time one of the countless media nodding heads are live on the scene of a boy hiding in the attic... More »

16th, October 2009 Strange But True

Nicholas White Spends 41 Hours Trapped In A Lift: Video

In 2009 - exactly ten years ago today - Nicholas White was trapped in a New York City lift for 41 hours. Alone. A camera in the lift at the McGraw-Hill building filmed him. More »

16th, October 2009 Celebrities

Katie Price, Standing Out: Thongs, Wrongs And Dongs

"People are scared of Botox as they think their face is going to end up frozen and blank-looking but I don't have a very expressive face anyway so I don't worry about not being able to show emotion. It's not like I'm an actor and need to have that ability" More »

16th, October 2009 Celebrities 2

Peter Andre And Alex Reid Go Fanny-A-Tranny As Katie Price Fights On

Alex would win any battle with a cage – Pete being more of a paper bag fighter. And to level things up we need a contest in which Pete can excel, something like seeing which of them can purse their lips the hardest, find a rhyme for tangerine or be dignified?... More »

16th, October 2009 Key Posts

After Balloon Boy A Video Of A Baby Being Hit By A Train

While the Balloon Boy rap is adapted for the Flying Heenes TV show intro, we receive this video of a train pulling into the station as a six-month-old baby falls on the track in Melbourne, Australia. More »

16th, October 2009 Key Posts 13

Grounded Balloon Boy Falcon Heene's Rap Video

Six-Year-Old Falcon Heene is falling through the skies in a home-made air balloon. Look! Look! Look! A video... More »

16th, October 2009 Reviews

Binge Drinking Video: Sex In The Toilets, Refilling Cups Of Sick And Urinating On The Dead

"It's not unusual to find people throwing up in their plastic cup, then rinsing them out in the sinks and going back to the bar for a refill," says Samantha... More »

16th, October 2009 Reviews 1

The Silent Killer Of Hybrid Cars

Scare story of the day comes from the New York Times, wherein the threat of killer electric cars is highlighted... More »

16th, October 2009 Money 2

Disney's Snow White Becomes Ho White In Beer Campaign

Anyone who received the email Snow White virus, and who tempted by the chance to see a fairytale character servicing seven miniature miners and opened it, will be delighted to see this advert for Ho White... More »

16th, October 2009 Strange But True 1

Schwarzhalsziegen Sheep-Goat Stolen In VW Hatchback

There are only a few hundred Schwarzhalsziegen in the world. A police spokesman in Dillenburg, Germany, is appealing for witnesses... More »

16th, October 2009 Celebrities 4

Stephen Gately's Death Becomes A Tale Of Gay Sex, Homophobia And 'Murder'

Stephen Gately: Anorak’s look at Stephen Gately in the news: the X Factor plugs, the drugs, Georgi Dochev, gay sex, murder and more gay sex... More »

16th, October 2009 Celebrities

The Danny Gans Story: The Voices Inside My Head

Danny Gans' autobiography makes its official debut in bookstores today-- the same day that Garth Brooks will announce he's starting a long run at the theatre left vacant by Danny Gans' death... More »

15th, October 2009 Sports 1

David Beckham Wins A NoBo (Nobel Obama)

To honour David Beckham being named man of the match by ITV panellist Steve Bruce - Becks palyed for 30 minutes and was outshone by two goals from Peter Crouch - he gets an Anorak NoBo. More »

15th, October 2009 Reviews 2

John McCain Responds To Meghan McCain's Twitter Cleavage

The man who would have been Palin’s son-in-law Levi is to pose for Playgirl magazine. And Meghan McCain has posted this Twitter pic of her peering over a cleavage and holding a book about Andy Warhol... More »

15th, October 2009 Celebrities 8

Susan Boyle Comes Out Fighting For Leona Lewis

Boyle Watch: One day one from Leona Lewis being hit in the face by a fan / nutter / make-up artiste and Susan Boyle is taking up boxing. ,, More »