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X Factor: Katie Waissel’s Tattoos In Photos Are For The Birds
X FACTOR 2010: Want to see Katie Waissel’s tattoos? On the write of her right arm, across the ulner artery, is the legend: “Nothing is impossible” in italics with a small bird fluttering by the last letter, helping the fledgling dream born in the title of a Jerome Kerr inspired Westlife song take flight.
It’s a statement of fact, only with the sloping writing and plump 2D bird less certain.
Katie: next time you want a slogan to affirm your goals go for a hard font, like ‘Arial Black’, capitalise the letters and get an eagle.
On the top of Waissel’s right foot is another small bird, this one with angel-type wings and holding a large musical note in its talons.
The creature is about to fly up Katie’s trouser leg and deliver a “parp” to her ambitions…
Read: How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel.
READ: The X Factor 2010: Where You’ve Seen The Fix Factor Finalists Before
Posted: 7th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Masterchef 2010: What Really Happened (Video)
MASTERCHEF 2010 – What really happened in the 2010 chef-of-chef’s final..
Posted: 6th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Cher Lloyd’s New X Factor Tattoo: Photos
X FACTOR 2010: Cher Lloyd’s getting a new tattoo.
So far Cher has a tattoo of a musical note on her left hand; “Bolsillo Lleno De Suenos”, which is Spanish and means, sentimentally, “a pocket full of dreams”, inked along her right forearm; and a bow tramp stamp.
Now Cher is to get a new one:
“I’m going to ask people what I should get…they can send me ideas on Twitter!”
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Posted: 6th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
X Factor: Mary Bryne Is Naked And Wagner’s Always A Perv
X FACTOR 2010: Wagner Carrilho has seen Mary Bryne in the nude. It’s the Mirror’s front-page news. And the headline:
“HAIRY V MARY – Tears as Wagner sees her nude”
But whose?
Poor Wagner. While everyone else get to be fancied – and Cher is prolific – his given tabloid narrative is to be a perv – a falsehood encouraged by the show’s choreographers surrounding him with nubile young, scantily clad dancers and directing him to ogle their breasts.
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Posted: 6th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
BBC In-Fighting Over Murdoch’s BSkyB Takeover Brings Joy To News Rivals
THE BBC’s striking journalists have already resulted in a return to the fore for Kenneth Kendall as a Claymation figure reading the old news in the style of modern bulletins) and pride for mothers of less attractive hacks now pushed in front of the cameras.
Add in the long weekend off for strikers and the BBC able to cover a news story on its own doorstep featuring it’s own staff mates, and it’s all good news. But the Independent says it isn’t.
The paper says the BBC’s Director-General Mark Thompson is facing a “crisis of confidence”. The problem is his attitude to Sky News (the broadcaster shrewd BBC journalists are sending their CVS to.)
Thompson added his name to a list of organs asking Vince Cable, the Business Secretary to stop Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation taking over BSkyB.
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Posted: 6th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor: Matt Cardle Has Lots Of ‘Respect’ For ‘Stupid’ Katie Waissel
X FACTOR: Matt Cardle says he’s got loadsa “respect” for Kate Waissel. Would that be the same Matt Cardle who called Katie Waissel “a fame hungry twat”, a “dick” and “stupid” before he made a mess of his performance on last week’s show? Anyone else think Matt is covering his arse should he stuff up again and have to endure the sing-off?
Read: How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel.
READ: The X Factor 2010: Where You’ve Seen The Fix Factor Finalists Before
Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Matters: Episode 1 – Anthea Turner’s Body
ALAN Partridge steps into the radio phone-in slot occupied by the struck down Danny Baker.
Partridge says Anthea Turner is the Ford Escort cabriolet of middle-aged women.
(Poor Della is in trunk.)
You’re listening to North Norfolk digital with Alan Partridge:
Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor: Did One Direction’s Zayn Malik Cheat On Cher Lloyd?
X FACTOR: We all know that Cher Lloyd is dating Harry Styles, Aiden Grimshaw, Liam Payne Zayn Malik, One Direction’s Scary Spice.
Now we all know Zayn Malik is dating [David] Belle Amie singer Geneva Lane (far left in photo).
Says a “source” in the Mirror:
“Everybody in the house knew something was going on. They even had matching love bites!”
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Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
BBC Replaces Striking News With Claymation Kenneth Kendall
THE BBC’s striking journalists have forced the corporation to repeat the news highlights from 1978, create 100 Best News Bulletins and employ former presenters to read out old news bulletins in the modern style.
First up, a claymation Kenneth Kendall reading news of Wayne Rooney’s alleged affair with a prostitute in the manner of a 1950s newsman introducing a feature on the Suez Crisis.
This is followed by Angela Rippon reporting on their being no General Election.
More non news as news every day on the BBC…
Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Student Fails To Get ‘SHITFACED’ On Countdown
THE Countdown word of the day is “SHITFACE”. Rachel Riley, the TV show’s hostess with the least-est, reveals the letters: DTCEIASHF.
Jack Hurst, a Cambridge University maths student, sees the letters and misses the goal. What a WALLY. The word is SHITFACED – uses the ‘D’ and get a score bonus.
(Hurst is the show’s highest ever points scorer, winning 8 shows on the trot and being forced to retire undefeated.)
Susie Dent, of Dictionary Corner, tells presenter Jeff Stelling that shitface is a word used to disrobe a “rude or obnoxious person“. It is acceptable.
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Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (11)
BBC News Journalists Strike: ITN, Sky And CNN Carry On
THE firefighters are not striking over Bonfire Night and Diwali (chuck and elephant on the barbecue, and have a joint party) – but the BBC news presenters are.
Where-oh-where will we get out news from now that the BBC’s journalists are upset over Obama’s defeat and their pension deal and have launched a 48-hour strike?
Well, there’s Sky News, ITN, CNN, FOX and Channel 4 news on the telly. There are ten daily national newspapers.
And as for the radio, well, the sportive is that the BBC’s often excellent output will not be broken up by repeated new bulletins.
In other news, the BBC has lots of new about itself…
Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Cheryl Cole’s Favourite X Factor Act Ever Is Cheryl Tweedy (Video)
X FACTOR: Cheryl Cole’s favourite act ever is… Cheryl Tweedy:
Read: X Factor: Jay Kay On Shagging The ‘F*cking Useless’ Cheryl Cole
Read: How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel.
READ: The X Factor 2010: Where You’ve Seen The Fix Factor Finalists Before
Spotter: Dave Schneider
Posted: 4th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Can The Boston Celtic’s Nerd Boy Save The Bon Jovi Jihadi? Video
CAN the krazy kid at the Boston Celtics game make Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On Prayer acceptable? Can Nerd Boy’s his glasses, baggy jeans, beige T-shirt and clever use of railings make us love the song of the New Jersey jihadi?
Spotter: BestWeekEver
Posted: 4th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Same-Sex Couple Wow Israel’s Strictly Come Dancing
STRICTLY Come Dancing Israel features same-sex dancing couple Gili Shem Tov and professional dancer Dorit Milman. Says Tov, a TV presenter:
“I live with a woman, we are raising my son together and it felt natural to dance with a woman.”
The Sun says Tov is “gorgeous” – because only lesbians who men fancy get on the telly (pictured). The paper states, factually:
The girls are the first same-sex pairing in any of the 75 countries where BBC1’s hit is copied.
Sky, the Sun’s sister organ says:
Thirty different countries have versions of the show, but none have done what Israel has this week.
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Posted: 4th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (4)
Star Trek: News Site Apologises For NNC-1701-E Gaffe
DO not mess with Star Trek fans. They have the facts. The site news.com.au has apologised for getting is to very wrong. They regret the error:
Yesterday, a news.com.au article incorrectly stated that the Star Trek starship USS Enterprise-E, otherwise known as model NNC-1701-E, was the successor to Captain Kirk’s original USS Enterprise… It has since been brought to our attention that the NNC-1701-E in fact came two models after Captain Kirk retired and was under the command of Captain Jean Luc Picard.
News.com.au apologises unreservedly for the error… We also agree that Patrick Stewart is a handsome man, a sentiment expressed by several readers.
And, yes, that is a better read than the article it follows…
Spotter: Media Blog
Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (7)
Woman Ties Herself In A Knot: Video
THIS is not for the squeamish. Zalata – “Goddess of flexibility” – will now tie herself in a knot.
To some this might be sexy. To the rest it is worrying…
Video and pics are not safe for work:
Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Multitasking Marvel: Man Drives, Reads Kindle and Phones At Once (Video)
BANISH forever is the myth that men can only do one thing at a time and multitasking is beyond them. Here’s a video of a man driving a car, reading a book and using his mobile phone at the same time…
Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
X Factor’s Fragile Katie Waissel Is Dropped From A Great Height
KATIE Waissel, this year’s X Factor hate figure, is the subject of a Daily Mirror dearth threat:
“AXE HER!”
News is that Katie is being given “round-the-clock” care for her stress. She is having “panic attacks”.
The girl sounds ill. So, what does an insider say:
“Everyone’s livid. They are sick of her diva-like antics.”
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Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (10)
Footballer Tosses Duck From Pitch: Belgium Boos
WHAT is the correct method of throwing a duck from a football pitch, say, one that has appeared at a Belgian First Division match between Zulte Waregem and Lokeren?
Zulte Waregem’s Mahamadou Habib Habibou chose Method 4: The grab and toss.
Had he done this in the UK, Habibou would be a pariah and Facebook voices would be calling for his death.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Masterchef Winner Claire Lara’s Pregnancy Gave Her The Edge
CLAIRE Lara won MasterChef: The Professionals 2010, Claire Lara was raised on oven chips. If you want to make your child a top cook, give them oven chips.
And make sure they are pregnant; Claire was during the show.
She was sick. Her competitors put it down to nerves. But if anyone looked nervous is was David Coulson, 25, who was at times unbearable viewing.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Can Roland Rat Save Daybreak?
ROLAND Rat says he can dace Daybreak, as he once saved TV:AM. Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley – the exit is that way:
Speaking from his Hollywood ratcave, Roland branded Daybreak “a right load of old rubbish” and told us: “They need me on there to save that early mornin’ bilge – yeahhhhhhh!!”
Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
The Worst News Show Opening Ever And Other Marijuana News: Video
THE Greatest TV news opening ever: thanks to Channel 10 in San Diego for breaking the mould of predictable, stale, formulaic news delivery with this masterclass.
Legalise weed and this is what you have to look forward to – a forgetful, half-arsed, sporadically funny, crazed news show that speaks to the hard-to-engage youth market. The morning news will be even better. It might not be on at all.
(Daybreak may yet be ahead of the game.)
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Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Daybreak: Adrian Chiles Gets His Tool Out
ANYONE watching ITV’s dire Daybreak morning show – any one? – will have heard Adrian Chiles utter:
“I have a recurring dream about getting a tool out of a box”
Now for bed-wetting with Christine…
Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (4)
The Invisible Flames: Rick Mears Is On Fire (Video)
RICK Mears is on fire. But you cannot see the flames. The pit crew cannot see the flames. The flames are invisible. The flames are from burning methanol.
It’s the 1981 Indianapolis 500 and Rick Mears is engulfed in flames.
The flames are invisible.
The flames you cannot see. The flames!
spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
X Factor Photos: Matt Cardle’s Marijuana Explanation
X FACTOR: Is Matt Cardle is smoking a joint (that’s a marijuana cigarette, readers and impressionable kids tuning in for news of the singing sensation)?
But it might be a rolled-up cigarette. Still, a show “insider” is here to tell the Sun:
“He had been to a festival and got carried away in the moment. But there will be no spliffs in the X Factor house.”
Bongs, then? Hot knives? Magic pin tricks? Or just Matt lulling the contestants into state of catatonia with his slowed-up, high-pitched versions of great pop songs..?
Read: X Factor: Jay Kay On Shagging The ‘F*cking Useless’ Cheryl Cole
Read: How The X Factor And Sony BMG Fixed It For Katie Waissel, aka Katie Vogel.
READ: The X Factor 2010: Where You’ve Seen The Fix Factor Finalists Before
Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
