Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Is Adam Brody Giving An Australian Model Tongue Baths?
5:59PM Jess McGuire | Adam Brody likes gals from Down Under. news.com.au’s ShowBuzz site reports that star of now defunct teen* drama series The O.C has been spotted around town with an Australian model named Tiah Eckhardt.
The flaming redhead was apparently snapped snogging Brody around the US and Europe. A Perth paper, Eckhardt’s home town, claims the WA beauty hooked up with the actor after they met at an aids fundraiser on May 26 in Vienna.
She allegedly met Brody on her first night in the city at the Discothek Volksgarten club, where they spent time talking and “making out.”
Is this the same bird he was photographed dry rooting on a lawn during a Hollywood party? Class!
*Who are we kidding? We inhaled the first series with gusto. More » 
Ricki-Lee Coulter Set To Become Bootylicious
2:52PM Jess McGuire | A short note to let you know that we hear Ricki-Lee is rumoured to have hired a new stylist hell-bent on ridding La Coulter (and eventually, we hope, the Young Divas) of a pleather-happy existence. The word is her new look will be “Beyonce Badass!!!!” which we are quite thrilled about, to be honest.
We are very excited that her Australian Idol wish to bring a Beyonce vibe to the world will start with her wardrobe.
In addition – yeeeeaaaaars later this blogpost still tickles us to bits. More » 
The Best Piece Of Journalism We’ve Seen In A While
2:16PM Jess McGuire | News story of the day has to be news.com.au’s online gallery outlining with awesome Microsoft Paint-based skill just what some of your favourite movies would have looked like had the actors originally wanted for the various roles actually appeared in the flick. Check it our for yourselves.
We are quite grateful that Matthew Newton never landed the role of Frodo in Lord Of The Rings – as are, no doubt, the ladies of Hobbiton.
Actually, that’s not fair. Matthew’s got Pia Miranda and John Foreman in his corner! So just you stop sooking, Brooke Satchwell! For fuck’s sake!
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Axe Falls On Channel Nine’s Vagina Fest ‘The Catch-Up’
2:15PM Jess McGuire | Even the saga of Lisa Oldfield’s cat’s bum mouth wasn’t enough to keep the homemakers of Australia interested in watching The Catch-Up, it would seem, with the show being canned by an increasingly bone-happy Channel Nine.
Staff of the Monday to Friday program were told it had been scrapped today at 1pm just as the four hosts came off air. The final episode of the live show will air on Friday.
The axe fell minutes after the girlie gab-fest’s creator Mia Freedman resigned from Nine and PBL after 16 years with the company.
It was the latest upheaval at the network since it was taken over by new management and follows last week’s announcement that Alan Jones will be leaving the Today show after more than 20 years.
The Catch-Up was launched in February with Libbi Gore heading a panel including radio presenter Zoe Sheridan, author and documentary maker Mary Moody and Lisa Oldfield, outspoken conservative and wife and member of One Nation co-founder David Oldfield.
Vale The Catch-Up. Your up-to-the-minute live crosses to the Woman’s Day newsroom (a place renown for being a hotbed of serious investigative journalism) will be sorely missed by all three viewers.
Note to Libbi Gorr – please do something a bit ace now. We like you!
PS: “Something ace” may involve beating The Nation’s Jackie O to a bloodied pulp. METAPHORICALLY OF COURSE, WE DO NOT CONDONE VIOLENCE.
PPS: (winks conspiratorially)
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Hilton’s ‘Get Out Of Jail’ Party To Shame Lohan’s ‘Second Rehab Graduation’ Soiree
12:30PM Defamer Hollywood | Spending too much time on any one of this morning’s roughly five thousand Paris Hilton-related items is clearly the path to madness, and so we offer this smattering of easily digestible links out of concern for your mental health: Rick Hilton may be planning a “Get Out of Jail” party for his unfairly persecuted daughter in Vegas, an orgy whose decadence would rival the nightly “Home Imprisonment Thrown Downs” the heiress would have hosted had she been allowed to serve out her sentence in the comfort of her own mansion. [Page Six] · Hoping to take advantage of Hilton’s jailhouse conversion from self-described “dumb girl” to “person who, like, cares about stuff and junk?” publicity-shy animal rights advocacy group PETA asks Paris to narrate a video about the plight of fowl unjustly imprisoned by KFC. [The Scoop] · The unquestioned breakout star of the Hilton Home-Arrest/Rejailing Fiasco is Sheriff Lee Baca, who turned up at the Sinai Temple in Beverly Hills to talk to his best Jewish friends about the responsibility that comes with great power. [Radar] More »Johnny Depp Smiles And Nods Way Through Inscrutable Japanese Talk Show Ritual
12:21PM Defamer Hollywood | If nothing else, this Age of YouTube has given us a deeper understanding of the bizarre international promotional obligations to which our cherished, movie-pimping stars are subjected upon each new worldwide release. Hollywood’s latest press tour victim is Johnny Depp, who recently appeared on Japanese TV (clip above, and more here) on behalf of his recently released Pirates of the Caribbean sequel; to his credit, Depp does his best to be a good sport, humbly accepting gifts in the John Lennon-inspired persona he’s working on for an upcoming project. Ultimately, however, the actor had no choice but to offend his hosts by politely refusing their ceremonial offering of the country’s four most talented children, perhaps not realising that the cultural affront will doom his film’s local box office prospects and result in the disgraced tykes being sold off to the cast of Fantastic Four 2 when they pass through on their upcoming junket. Entertaining Johnny Depp [Japan Probe via BoingBoing] More »
David Chase Emerges From Hiding To Reassure ‘Sopranos’ Fans He Wasn’t Just Fucking With Them
11:55AM Defamer Hollywood | [Do we still need to say there will be spoilers in a post about the Sopranos finale? Well, there will be. Adjust your reading accordingly.--Ed.] More »
Journey Thrilled Cheese-Rock Anthem Finally Used In Unironic Fashion
11:43AM Defamer Hollywood | If we’ve learned anything from the The Sopranos finale, it’s that nothing punches up a scene emotionally like Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin”. There has been no shortage of media coverage asking the members of the 1980s supergroup with the penchant for winged scarab cover art what it feels like to be immortalised in the Most Important Final Scene in TV History: Guitarist Neal Schon “was like, ‘Awesome!’” when he heard the news, and suspects the song was chosen because it hints at a Sopranos resurrection, for which the Jersey native would love to be considered for Featured Goombah status. [EW.com] More »
Agent Dumps Paris Hilton In Her Hour Of Need
11:39AM Defamer Hollywood | Abandoning Paris Hilton at precisely the moment she needs the kinds of loyal Hollywood friends who can quickly package a project about her prison experience the most, talent agency Endeavor has announced that it’s dumped the incarcerated heiress, reversing partner Ari Emanuel’s recent policy of embracing the agency’s unfairly persecuted friends. Expect evil-collecting rival CAA to show up to Hilton’s next scheduled public visitation session with a bouquet of flowers and a cake concealing a stash of Adderall; even if they aren’t sure what to do about her career once she’s out of jail, we’re sure they’ll at least figure out a way to exploit the relationships she’s forming with hardened felons, as there’s always room on an agent’s desk for someone who’s handy with a shiv. Beverly Hills talent agency drops Paris Hilton as a client [USA Today] More »
