Friday, July 27, 2007
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
3:09PM Jess McGuire | A rainbow-coloured frenzy of reporting is happening all around the country with news splattered across the nation’s papers of Australia Woman’s Weekly Editor-At-Large and all round “hot lady” Deborah Hutton, in the midst of grieving for her brother who recently died unexpectedly, being yanked from her comfortable shoe-stocked cupboard and outed as She Who May Be Something More Than Roomies With Her Female Hockey Playing Associate.
A Sydney Sunday gossip item alleged Hutton had broken off a lesbian relationship with her live-in partner of seven years, gold medal-winning hockey player Danni Roche, saying the top-rating TV star had moved on to a relationship with an equally “high-profile television personality”.
But while our Sydney colleagues tell us the story has been the talk of the town, in an extraordinary move Nine and Hutton’s manager and former boyfriend, Harry M. Miller, rekindled interest yesterday by releasing a joint statement pleading for privacy.
“It is with great sadness and disappointment that such an admired person as Deborah has become the target of vicious rumour and speculation in regards to her private life,” it read.
Is the vicious part the lesbian bit, or the allegations she’s moved on quickly with another closeted famous lady? Or is it simply the timing of it all?
Personally, we think it’d be marvellous for Deborah’s fans, perhaps more conservative older folk, to realise that The Gays come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and anyone – ANYONE – could quite literally be one! And if they can “admire” someone like Deborah Hutton and she turns out to be partial to the occasional lady-dive, then perhaps they can open their minds and begin to respect all decent people regardless of their sexual preference.
Of course, you’d think Australian Woman’s Weekly readers would be used to things not being what they initially appear to be, considering they’re only able to purchase the magazine on a monthly basis.
The big question is… who’s the equally high profile television personality they’re talking about? More » 
We Would Like To State For The Record That We Are Supporting Zach
2:48PM Jess McGuire | This weekend (well, dragged out over Sunday and Monday) will see the conclusion of an all-round fairly disappointing season of Big Brother. Can we blame the lack of nude moments? The housemates themselves? An exhausted nation weary of reality television? We will perhaps pen an incredibly lengthy and insightful essay answering these very questions next week.
In the meantime, please vote to save the wonderful, charming, sweet Zach who strikes us as the only person in the damn Dreamworld compound with a soul. Restore our faith in the nation. If Zach wins, the huge hole in our heart caused by the hideous victory of The Logans over Lefty Tim in 2005 may be somewhat filled.
More » Does This Not Sound Like The Greatest Movie Ever?
2:48PM Jess McGuire | All signs point to yes.
A comedy featuring a girl with teeth in her vagina, a gynaecologist who loses a hand in the workplace and a rottweiler eating his master’s penis was always going to be the talk of the town, especially in Utah.
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Teeth is the first feature Lichtenstein – son of Roy, the famous pop artist – has made. His central character, Dawn, is a sugar-and-spice high school girl who is a leading light in her local branch of the Promise, a chastity club.
Teen love looms, however, making it increasingly difficult for her to keep her vow. Confused, she swims at a local beauty spot with a sympathetic boy from the group when, against her will, he decides the moment for them to break their vows is now. Right now. It is then, in a scene that will give even the gorefest fans a small thrill, that she discovers her hidden weapon. Downstairs, she’s like the Terminator.
SCREAM!
We are seeing it in approximately four hours, so we’ll give you the heads up as to whether it is officially the Greatest Movie Ever on Monday. More » YouTube Clip Of The Day
2:23PM Jess McGuire | Please enjoy the following video, sent to us in an email with the message “There’s something about gay children lip synching which is akin to watching a car crash in slow motion…”
Indeed. More » Josh Goot Fails To Hit Target
1:52PM Busty St Clair | Australian shoppers aren’t exactly rushing out to buy designer Josh Goot’s diffusion range at Target. In fact, our spies tell us that stores are struggling to push the crap, thus choosing to further devalue Mr Goot’s name by discounting it. Not that Mr Goot’s name was worth much to the average punter to begin with. His eponymous label has enjoyed a meteoric and arguably undeserved rise to quasi-fame – clearly benefiting from good PR and friends in the biz, since no one outside of the insular and often misguided fashion pack actually know who the fuck he is anyway. Nonetheless, in case you give a rats arse, the stuff is now 25% off at Target. Radical! We’ll see you there on the 12th of Never! More »
The Simpsons Movie Chestbeating
1:35PM Busty St Clair | Film publicists, aw heck, any kind of publicists really, love to find a story where there isn’t one. Take today’s email from Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors… “‘The Simpsons Movie’ grossed in excess of a massive A$2.3 million at the box office, making it the biggest animated film opening day of all time in Australia! This is an extraordinary achievement given the non-holiday release date, confirming the exceptional appeal of the Springfield family to the Australian audience. Extraordinary achievement? Um, no, getting accepted into Harvard as a 5-year-old is an extraordinary achievement. Winning 18 gold medals at 6 consecutive Olympic games is an extraordinary achievement. Making $2.3 million on a film fans have been waiting to see for 18 years is, well, is par for the course, and frankly not that impressive. Seriously, it’s STILL half what the latest Harry Potter film made. More »
Naomi Watts And Liev Schreiber Have Successfully Produced Another Showbiz Bub
9:22AM Jess McGuire | Even though she chose to wash her hands of her association with Australians, the thoroughly lovable larrikans of the planet, Defamer Australia is somewhat pleased to inform you – via the magic of other people who actually know and find out stuff quite shortly after it happens – that Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber have popped out a baby boy.
Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber welcomed their first child, a healthy baby boy, in Los Angeles on Thursday, PEOPLE has confirmed. Just last weekend, Watts, 38, and Schreiber, 39, celebrated with a baby shower at their Los Angeles-area home. Among the approximately 15 guests were Kate Hudson and actress Carla Gugino. The pair started dating in 2005.
No word on the name yet, but it’s got to be better than Peter Andre and Jordan’s choice of Princess Tiaamii for their newborn daughter, which made us think they were forced to come up with a name using only 15 random Scrabble letters handpicked by eldest offspring Harvey from a velvet drawstring bag, and after they managed to cobble together “princess” (a miracle in itself considering the pair’s combined brain power), they were left with only two consonants and a sea of useless vowels to bang out a second name. More » 
Short Ends: The Return Of Marion Ravenwood
9:10AM Defamer Hollywood | · A special thanks to the Official Star Wars Blog for saving us the trip to Comic-Con to learn that Karen Allen is returning for Indy 4. Still no word on when they’re going to announce Short Round’s surprise involvement. · The Lohan-Vac: for all your handheld, coke-hoovering needs. · Al Jean picks out his favourite Simpsons guest stars of all time. · Celebrity couples reproduce, just like Us! · Rock of Love fans wanting to know more about the contestants’ fine work in the adult film field might want to read this. [NSFW, at all. You've been warned.] More »
Inside Last Night’s Lohan-Haunted ‘I Know Who Killed Me’ Screening
9:05AM Defamer Hollywood | As we all undoubtedly realise, the tragic, coke-in-someone-else’s-pants-related events of early Tuesday morning created certain challenges for the people behind I Know Who Killed Me, the Lindsay Lohan vehicle opening tomorrow that will henceforth be associated with her most spectacular meltdown to date. Still, the cast and crew soldiered on last night at a private premiere screening, refusing to be defeated by circumstances outside of their control. The Defamer Special Correspondent On Well, It’s Not Like We Can Just Burn All the Film and Pretend This Never Happened filed this report on the event: [warning: some spoilers ahead] Tagged along with a friend of mine to the I Know Who Killed Me screening at the Academy in Beverly Hills last night. Co stars Neil McDonough and Julia Ormond were in attendance, but the star of the show (LILO – you may have read about her lately) was noticeably absent. As the movie begins, producer Frank Mancuso Jr. gets up and says the requisite “thanks for coming” and “thanks for all your hard work” and then goes there by saying that we’ve “seen things on this movie we never thought we would see in this town” and that after Lindsay’s “most recent problem” they considered not even having this screening. More »
