13th, October 2009
Madeleine McCann
5 MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: Madeleine McCann is being used to advertise holidays in Praia da Luz, Portugal... More »
13th, October 2009
Hello!
3 But this is not all about Sinitta - did you know she used to date Cowell? – but about Cowell, whose birthday it is. Really. Sinitta. Really... More »
13th, October 2009
Celebrities
Karls Lagerfeld is no fan of fatties, so her hired Lily Allen - here's why... More »
13th, October 2009
Strange But True
Humpty Doo sex crash case: "I was not sucking his d*** - and it's pretty obvious that wasn't the case ... you only have to look at the mark on my chest..." More »
13th, October 2009
Grazia
Beckwith, the woman who reminds Old Mr Anorak of the Greek Cypriots’ habit of panting boiled eggs, tells Grazia readers: “I LOVE BEING MARRIED TO A CHAUVINIST"... More »
13th, October 2009
TV & Radio
Music To Cuty Fijian Pigs Up By - The Fiji Meat Man / that's what I am / I'm proud of my job / I do what I can... More »
13th, October 2009
Grazia
Farmer Karl Lagerfeld invited Lily to perform when she was shooting the campaign for the “Coco Cocoon” bag, a tent-like structure made from the perinea of the Spicebush Swallowtale... More »
13th, October 2009
Celebrities
5 Today the post-mortem will discover if Gately died from being gay, Irish, or whatever else pushed him to the margins of what Mail readers would term ‘decent society’... More »
13th, October 2009
Celebrities
Michael Jackson's new song "This Is It" is breathing life not only into Jackson, the Jackson Five who sing backing vocals and papa Joe Jackson who can be heard playing the cash register but also Paul Anka... More »
12th, October 2009
Key Posts
24 How the media wrote the narrative to the Aisling Symes disappearance and played armchair detective... More »
Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: Police find the body of what loosk to be Aisling Symes, the New Zealand child payed for by the McCanns and watched by the world's media... More »
12th, October 2009
Celebrities
2 Peter Andre and Katie Price – Peter says “Don’t let my kids see you in a frock”. This is not Peter’s address to Katie Price but to Alex Reid, her current flame... More »
12th, October 2009
Strange But True
1 Council bans nurses from lighting paralysed man's cigarettes in case it affects health.... More »
12th, October 2009
Celebrities
5 Kandy Rain are too slutty for Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole, who are Anorak's hypocrites of the week... More »
12th, October 2009
Celebrities
13 Stephen Gately died. When a celebrity dies the media goes into hyper-drive. And ther is talk of drgus, suicide, beatings and homosexuality. The tabloids have come to praise Stephen Gately - and then bury him... More »
11th, October 2009
In Pictures
1 Greenpeace protestors claim the roof of the Houses of Parliament - and Greenpeace is accused of misleading information on the Greenland ice sheet... More »
11th, October 2009
Reviews
1 ANORAK likes to spot new trends in journalism, and we bring you tales from the aisles, the casebooks of the supermarket police force, who serve to ban you from buying inappropriate goods. One day supermarkets will ban under 25s from buying newspapers, full as they with scare stories and porn. But not many under 25s buy them, so there may not be any need to bother... More »
11th, October 2009
Key Posts
1 Before Reka can go for the big one – the Hollywood Swab Bowl – she must collect her trophy, a huge gonorrhoea umbrella fashioned into an oversized stick of broccoli... More »
11th, October 2009
Key Posts
3 How Russell Brand skewered the BNP's Nazi Boy as the Dail Mail kicks the BBC, and Question Time invites Nick Griffin to the debate... More »
11th, October 2009
Celebrities
In this week’s News of The World, you can read how Paul Gascoigne wanted sex ten times a day with Sheryl Gascoigne, when she was his wife. More »
11th, October 2009
Celebrities
Might it be possible to warm to Danyl Johnson, the X Factor warbler with the face of a Bronze Age Will Young, the post-modern reality TV wannabe who actually makes himself wince when he sings? More »
11th, October 2009
Celebrities
1 Stephen Gately is dead. The former Boyzone singer was 33. He died in Mallorca. The News of the World’s Dan Wootton broke the story after receiving a call from Gately’s management in the early hours of Sunday morning. More »
10th, October 2009
Celebrities
1 Miley Cyrus is no longer on Twitter. I know. Pre-teens, paedos, men in caravan parks on the north Wales coast wearing badges will be sad. But Miley’s dad Billy Ray Cyrus is here to help... More »
10th, October 2009
Strange But True
1 Friday night in the Florida home of John Tabbut, who is to be married on the Saturday. He hears a sound. He goes for the gun… More »
10th, October 2009
Reviews
The death of Natalie Morton was linked to the Express's headline that cancer jab was a killer. Only the science was nonsense, as Ben Goldacre spots. The Guardian's Roy Greenslade uses the story as a stick to beat the Express. But as we see, the Guardian is far from perfect when it comes to its biased reporting on climate change... More »
