Tuesday, July 31, 2007
News Ltd Quashes Rumour It Started In The First Place
9:16PM Busty St Clair | What a surprise – Rove is not in line for a plum hosting job in the US after all. Rove McManus’s hopes of hosting an American TV talkshow have taken a hit, with network executives saying he is not top of their shortlist. What? They’re not impressed with a slightly charismatic but somewhat uninteresting Australian who almost all Americans couldn’t pick from a lineup if he was standing next to a donkey and Afghanistan’s national flag? Who’d have thought… There has been speculation McManus, who just completed a successful test run in the US, would replace NBC’s New York-based late night talkshow host Conan O’Brien in 2009. Hold on a sec? What speculation? Oh that’s right, News Ltd’s unfounded speculation in this story a month ago. Now he is likely to be a contender to replace talk-show host Conan O’Brien in two years. Not bloody likely. More »
Bodie Smacks Gretel In The Back Of The Head With A Rubber Chicken
8:11AM Jess McGuire | We interrupt this pause between Big Brother posts for a Big Brother related post.
Last night at the eviction night festivities attended by Defamer Australia, the most hotly debated topic of the evening was not “Aleisha versus Zach – who should win?” (as we were all united in our love for Zach) but rather “Umm, did you see Gretel get hit in the head back then? Did Bodie throw something? Was it a chicken or a shoe? A CHICKEN OR A SHOE, FOR FUCKS SAKE?”
The answer? It was a chicken. A rubber chicken, in fact, and it was indeed flung by the moronic Bodie … the one male housemate (other than Jamie) who didn’t cop a boozed up fondle from Killeen at the after party, we’d wager.
Here’s the video!
(Via Behind Big Brother) More » A Current Affair Drops Journalism Facade Altogether
7:54AM Busty St Clair | Anyone with half a working brain knows commercial TV current affairs shows in Australia shows have about as much credibility as a psychic at a schoolyard jumble sale, but A Current Affair is about to stoop to an all time low. Alex Fevola and A Current Affair are likely to announce a partnership in the next few weeks, while speculation on her marriage continues. Word from inside current affairs circles is that Fevola has signed to be a reporter for the show. Ah-hem. That’s Alex Fevola, aka AFL player Brendan Fevola’s busty, blonde permatanned ex-model wife who famously blubbered about her marital woes on ACA when it was alleged Lara Bingle broke up her marriage. Jesus, ACA. What next? Aleisha from Big Brother 7 to read the news? ED: But how wonderful that there are “current affairs circles”? Do they have a FaceBook group we could join, do you think? More »
How To Make Love Like Scarlett Johansson
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Fans of Scarlett Johansson – or of her cleavage – must be donkey-punching themselves with glee over rumours that the Oscar-nominated actress may bring that necessary dose of gravitas, youth, and authentic breasts to an upcoming Jenna Jameson biopic. According to the Daily Express, the self-proclaimed “World’s Greatest Newspaper” and bastion of the rigidly fact-based journalism we’ve come to cherish from the British tabs, naturally curvy Johansson has assumed the missionary position and will cleave to the role of the surgically enhanced porn star in a Universal project:. [The film] is based on Jenna’s bestselling autobiography How To Make Love Like A Porn Star, which followed the 33-year-old from ballet dancer to stripper to film “actress” and multi-millionairess businesswoman. More »
Dream Finally Over For Britney and K-Fed; Nightmare Continues For Their Jointly Neglected Kids
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Gentlemen, hide your clippers; ladies, clean out your grease traps: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are finally legally single. And despite K-Fed’s alleged fury that she took the kids to Vegas without permission (why learn boring counting when you can learn to count cards?), the semi-professional sperminator apparently experienced a fit of amnesia and agreed to share custody of the kids: It’s amazing [Spears' lawyer] was able to get a 50/50 custody split given Brit’s craziness, which included wild partying, erratic behaviour and a stint in rehab. This type of custody arrangement is typically reserved for a stable couple. More »
One Day In Paris: Broke-Ass Bitch Edition
7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | First Us Weekly deemed Paris Hilton too annoying for its tender pages, and then today E! came to its senses and decided that bratty rich girls tainting the lives of innocents no longer sounded like good TV. Now, the jailbird heiress’s grandfather is delivering a swift boot to her assets: Barron Hilton has allegedly yanked Paris’s $US60 million inheritance because, while he could tolerate a sex tape and the noxious aural assault that was her album, a prison stint was more than he could handle over his morning Ensure: The 79-year-old considered her 23-day sentence last month the last straw. More »
Basking In Feud Afterglow, Trump Tries To Leave $2 Mil On Rosie’s Dresser
7:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Perhaps seeking a little insurance in case NBC gets cold feet about renewing its vows with The Apprentice, Donald Trump tried to snuggle up to arch-enemy Rosie O’Donnell’s ratings-saving bosom. FOXNews.com reports that, as part of a “celeb-driven season,” The Donald offered the pigfaced mess a cool $US2 million to work for 12 days on the struggling reality show about boardrooms, professional finger-pointing, and unnatural follicular biology: The offer, I’m told, came through producer Mark Burnett’s office. Needless to say, O’Donnell turned Trump down flat. “I wouldn’t do it for $200 million,” Rosie was said to have responded. More »
Highest. Grossing. Episode. Ever.
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Take your mind off the bleakness of the prospect of another working week with the weekend box office numbers: 1. The Simpsons Movie – $US71.850 million It seems that Fox’s clever promotional onslaught – the conversion of selected 7-11s into Kwik-E-Marts, the giant Homer rendering in the English countryside poised to assault the genitals of an ancient fertility god with a donut, and the ambitious strategy of teasing the film’s opening by running 18 years of half-hour “mini-films” on their television network to create awareness for their feature – has paid off handsomely, as The Simpsons Movie’s nearly $US72 million opening weekend far surpassed the safe $US40-50 million projections the studio had claimed. More »
Short Ends: The Kid Pays For The Picture
6:55AM Defamer Hollywood | · Did Robert Evans pony up some dough to give a little back-pat to his boy on Brett Ratner, Billion Dollar Director Day? You bet. Did Big Bob tear up a little when he picked up that Sharpie to write a nice note to a guy that’s like a son to him? You know it, kid. [ad via Digital Variety] · Did you really need an expert to tell you that celebrities feels so protected from life’s problems by fame that they might not realise they have substance abuse problems until they’ve bottomed out? · Inspired by Lindsay Lohan’s recent, racially charged finger-pointing, HuffPo presents Great Moments In The “Black Kid Did It!” History. · Trust us, don’t click on this one. More »
