Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Michala Banas To Leave Drover’s Run
9:09AM Jess McGuire | Sad news for idiotic fans of McLeod’s Daughters today – yet another pair of the show’s great tits has decided to depart for greener pastures.
Michala Banas is leaving McLeod’s Daughters. Following the recent departure of Aaron Jeffery, she has announced she will be next to go.
“After nearly four years with McLeod’s Daughters, I have made the extremely difficult decision to leave the series,” she says. “I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities McLeod’s has given me as an actor, and I will miss the show dearly.
I have sincerely loved working with such an fantastic cast and extremely hard-working crew, many of whom are my dear friends. I would especially like to thank the fans of the show, who have shown my character, Kate, such support over the years, and wish to let them know that Kate will still be working hard at Drover’s Run ’til 2008.”
We can’t keep up – is Kate yet another of the Federline-ly potent Jack McLeod’s daughters? Will Kate’s farewell necessitate the writers of the show to create a new character, perhaps a petite little thing named Khanh Kim-Ly, born nine months after Jack McLeod’s final night in Vietnam where he had been serving in the Australian Task Force and blessed with a mysterious ability to wrangle livestock? Should we start watching the show so we actually have a fucking clue about these kinds of things? Please say no. More » 
Sonny Bill Williams Has Incredibly Manly Kind Of Hissy Fit As Befits A Rugby League Player Of His Ilk
8:35AM Jess McGuire | Unfortunately monikered but rather lovely looking (we’re talking rugby league standards here, people) Canterbury Bulldogs star Sonny Bill Williams severely disciplined a photographer who refused to stop snapping his picture outside a Kings Cross nightclub by smashing the man’s camera… soberly.
Williams was out with team-mate Willie Tonga and other friends at Hugos nightclub on Saturday when he grabbed the camera off freelance photographer Billy Fidget and hurled it to the ground.
The Daily Telegraph understands Fidget contacted the Bulldogs yesterday, demanding Williams pay for the damage or even the replacement cost of a new camera – between $10,000 and $15,000.
Bulldogs chief executive Malcolm Noad described the incident as a “moment of frustration”, but emphatically denied Williams had been drinking alcohol at the time of incident.
Kings Cross nightclubs are, after all, renown for being a safe haven for teetotalling social butterflies. More » 
BB’s Daniela Is Always Thinking Of Ways To Promote Positive Body Image Amongst Girls Especially If Taking The Moral High Ground Involves Highly Paid Appearance In Raunchy Lads Magazine
7:43AM Jess McGuire | Just in case you’ve been living in a cave all weekend*, you may not have heard that recent Big Brother evictee Daniela has decided to strip off for Zoo Weekly.
The curvaceous Brazilian Bombshell from Big Brother has taken it all off like Emma and housemates before her in a raunchy photo shoot for a lads mag.
Daniela, the 24 year-old hospitality worker from Western Australia will appear naked in smut mag Zoo Weekly after the magazine made her a lucrative offer.
“The original price wasn’t worth me taking my clothes off, so I said No, but then they came back with a second offer that was pretty good and I took it.”
We get it. You needed the cash. It was a financially beneficial situation for you, no feelings involved!
She goes on…
“It’s really good that a size 12 body is on a magazine that celebrates size 8 and lower so it’s quite positive,” she said.
Presumably the positive aspects of her decision grow exponentially with the amount of money offered by Zoo Weekly.
Daniela confessed on the show to having once suffered an eating disorder, and claimed to be a spokeswoman for an unnamed charity that helps women with eating disorders.
Oh really? But.. wouldn’t this… erm?
However the curvy reality show contestant declined to be drawn on whether these sorts of magazines further contribute to body image issues and eating disorders.
“I don’t want to talk about it, I’m not interested, my Big Brother experience has ended and I don’t need to be political in my statements,†she said.
And, it would seem, her inclination to make statements not involving her breasts decreases dramatically the more cash is thrown her way by lads mags.
*And we have, if by “living in a cave”, you mean “had an overly thrilling long weekend of adventure and madcap hijinks would make for a brilliantly received Clooney/Pitt/Damon/etc extravaganza, but it would not make for a half decent blog post”. In any case, please forgive your editor for being a tad quiet, and instead prepare yourself for an onslaught of idiocy. More » 
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Hey Paula: You’re Fired
4:15AM Defamer Hollywood | By all measures, Hey Paula, the Bravo reality show offering viewers unfettered access to everyone’s favourite inarticulate American Idol judge who isn’t Randy Jackson, was as sure a thing as they come. Who wouldn’t tune in to catch a rare glimpse of the real Paula Abdul – the enigmatic woman behind all the narcoleptic promotional appearances, the Chihuahua-related head traumas, and the secretly recorded P.R. conference call meltdowns? More »
Saluting The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos In History
4:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Forbes.com’s Slideshows of the Rich and Famous series continues with their gallery of “The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos,” featuring some of the largest sums ever lavished by gossip weeklies upon celebrities in exchange for the photo-exclusives to the milestone moments of their lives (first natural child, third adopted child, first European fairy tale wedding, last photo of deceased son, etc.). Pictured, Jolie-Pitt all-access chronicler People magazine pays a cool $US2 million for touching photos of mother and newly abducted/rechristened family addition Pax Thien, a fee tied Dannielynn paternity sweepstakes winner Larry Birkhead for the first pictures of proud dad holding his darling bundle of cash joy. In Pictures: The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos [Forbes.com] More »
Today’s Cheney-Related Jessica Simpson Fun Fact
4:05AM Defamer Hollywood | “He once confused Jessica Simpson with Jessica Lynch. Hayes details how, when the vice president threw out the first pitch before a 2003 game between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs, Cheney was first informed that ‘Nick Lachey – a native of Cincinnati – would sing the national anthem before the game and would be accompanied by his girlfriend, Jessica Simpson. Cheney thought Simpson’s name sounded familiar. He asked his staff: “Is that the soldier who was captured in Iraq?”‘ (That would be Jessica Lynch).” [Examiner.com] More »
Drew Carey To Host ‘Price Is Right’ Despite Having No Stated Opinion On Pet Neutering
4:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Having determined that Hi Lo matches would in no way be enhanced by a clinically depressed hostess who’d interrupt the popular pricing game to vengefully accuse announcer Rich Fields of having betrayed her, producers of The Price is Right opted not to go with Rosie O’Donnell as Bob Barker’s successor. Instead, TV Week reports, CBS has made an official offer to former sitcom star and improv referee Drew Carey: Drew Carey has accepted CBS’s offer to replace Bob Barker as the new host of “The Price Is Right,” sources confirmed. More »
Isaiah Washington Curious To Know How McDreamy Likes Him Now, Punk
3:45AM Defamer Hollywood | With the announcement that gay-slur-spouting primetime orphan Isaiah Washington was placed into Bionic Woman foster care by NBC rock-star/case-worker Ben Silverman, the actor’s mood went from a volatile Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take It Anymore to Quietly Vindicated, But Still Wanting to Break My Silence a Few More Times. After a recent Larry King Live appearance in which Washington reassured America of his enduring admiration of Gays, the actor went on to explain to Access Hollywood how the real villain – aside, of course, from mastermind T.R. Knight, pulling his pink puppet strings from on-high – was Patrick “McEvil” Dempsey: “Patrick is… Patrick is Patrick Dempsey. And he protects himself well,” Isaiah said. “He did what he felt he needed to do and remained silent.” [...] More »News Pirates Can Use
3:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Mark Burnett’s Pirate Master, the reality TV guru’s bold attempt to fuse Survivor with, um, Survivor with people in bad pirate costumes, has been cancelled. CBS will burn off its remaining episodes online, for those who simply must know which eyepatched contestant made off with the booty. [USAToday.com] More »
