15th, October 2009
Celebrities
Introducing the new Jackson comic book, written by Michael Jackson, Virgin book’s Gotham Chopra, with art by Mukesh Singh... More »
Ah, yes, I remember it well... More »
15th, October 2009
OK!
3 Might Alex go knickers-to-knickers with Pete in a televised bout of cage fighting? OK, fair is fair. 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 »
15th, October 2009
Reviews
The Starsuckers film that exposes the tabloid press is a good watch. It's also front-page news in the Guardian. But as Tim Worstall points out, no newspaper is immune to a bad story: More »
15th, October 2009
Celebrities
Try not to think of Stephen Gately's death as a tragedy - try to see it more as an opportunity... More »
15th, October 2009
Reviews
2 Peta's poster campaign states that "Meat kills". E.Coli, mad cow, swine flu and MRSA all get name checked. The message is clear: "Go Vegetarian. Peta"... More »
Ove 1,000 gnomes arrive in Germany 60 years too late... More »
15th, October 2009
Celebrities
6 Stephen Gately: Anorak’s look at Stephen Gately in the news: with drugs, death, Louis Walsh, the X Factor and a burial… More »
15th, October 2009
Key Posts
2 Rush Limbaugh, the US radio host, is said to have made racist comments. They are fakes. Journalists on newspapers an in the mainstream media seize on them as fact. Now read on... More »
15th, October 2009
Key Posts
7 Jaycee Lee Dugard Watch – Anorak’s at-a-glance looks at Jaycee Dugard in the news: People magazine has published the first photographs of the adult Jaycee Dugard, and Random House secures a book deal... More »
15th, October 2009
Key Posts
16 At the James Arthur Ray Spritual Warrior Event in Arizona, two people are dead and 19 more are hospitalized. James Arthur Ray goes on with the show. And then he calls the survivors, privately. The transcipt of that call can be read here. It's is appalling, fascinating and so very American... More »
14th, October 2009
Key Posts
In Starsuckers, a group of documentary film makers in London’s Brick Lane take on the role of actual tabloid journalists by trying to plant fake celebrity stories in the national press. More »
14th, October 2009
TV & Radio
The would-be TV star told he is to star in a documentary about telephone scammers. Just after the interview begins, a sniper attacks, shooting dead everyone else in the room and giving the nascent telly star a heart attack and morbid fear of going out in public... More »
14th, October 2009
Reviews
3 Looks like Carter-Ruck solicitors should be in the PR business, because neither I nor, I'll wager, you, had ever heard of Trafigura until they allegedly slapped an injunction on the Guardian prohibiting them from - get this - reporting proceedings in Parliament in which Trafigura's name had, apparently, been mentioned... More »
14th, October 2009
Celebrities
6 X Factor winner, Leona Lewis, has reportedly been slapped during a book signing at Waterstone's' Piccadilly shop in London. When a celebrity is involved the Celebrity Police Force is swift to act, grabbing a camera, a big felt tip and a pot of Touché Eclat.... More »
14th, October 2009
Celebrities
Pamela Anderson brings you the most perfect vision of the future, the aspirations of a million and more blonde-ish pre-teens... More »
14th, October 2009
Celebrities
2 Update to the Stephen Gately Death Speculation: Having ruled out suicide, murder, gayness, drugs, drink and vomit the Daily Star says: “Gately was killed by a dodgy heart”... More »
14th, October 2009
Celebrities
4 More news on Katie Price, who having risen to fame as Mrs Peter Andre is pictured on the cover of the Daily Star canoodling in a swimming pool or large bath tub from Ideal Standard’s Olympian Range with Alex Reid, the cross-dressing cage fighter... More »
14th, October 2009
Celebrities
Shocking and scary extracts and news from Michael Jackson's last intreview.... More »
THE London Evening Standard went free yesterday. If you want one, you just have to take one.... More »
14th, October 2009
The Consumer
1 Kellogg's is so concerned about fake cereals that it has developed a laser to toast its company logo on to individual Corn Flakes... More »
13th, October 2009
Reviews
8 There is no stopping the power of Lily Allen’s arse. It walks. It talks. It shrinks. One day Lily’s arse will go it alone and bring on a pop war not seen since Dolly Parton’s breast left to form The Carpenters... More »
13th, October 2009
Celebrities
Gately dies and the tabloid press suspects that he had died from drinks, drugs, suicide, depression, acute gayness and being Irish (and that was just the Daily Mail). Only, he didn't. He just died... More »
13th, October 2009
National Enquirer
2 Jolie is “torturing” Jennifer Aniston. Angelina Jolie is torturing Jennifer Aniston for charity and to highlight the plight of the panda bear. Angelina Jolie is torturing Jennifer Aniston because she has heard the prayers of the people... More »
