Friday, August 17, 2007
Channel Seven Waits For Cowell-Fancying Dannii Minogue
6:29PM Jess McGuire | Australia’s Got Gum Leaves, our favourite talent show featuring Dannii Minogue (we haven’t seen the UK stuff she’s appearing on so we’ll be patriotic and stick with the Channel Seven program), is going to be coming back for a second series!
Dannii Minogue looks set to be in Oz this summer to reprise her judging role on Australia’s Got Talent.
Auditions have already begun but Confidential understands Seven will not go ahead with the show without the pulling power of mini Minogue.
While she’s currently in the midst of launching herself into British lounge rooms as the much hyped addition to the X Factor UK, Seven Network will wait for her to tie up commitments there before proceeding with the second series.
The dateless star made no secret of how she loved returning home to film the first series – not to mention hanging out with an assortment of eager and eligible bachelors.
In other news, Dannii has admitted to fancying her fellow judge on X Factor UK Simon Cowell, saying she’d totally bang that – if he got a decent haircut..
Dannii Minogue has admitted she’s got the hots for fellow X Factor judge Simon Cowell. At yesterday’s series launch, she said: “He is strangely attractive. He tells people they are terrible but they are desperate to kiss him. I love him, he’s fantastic. Do I fancy him? I’d have to say yes.”
But his 80s-style flattop will have to go. She added: “It’s square – he needs to get a good haircut.”
Given Ms Minogue’s good standing with The Gays TM, as well as her penchant for inspirational infotainment shows, we see the potential for some kind of Cowell-related Queer Eye For The Straight Guy make over program. More » 
John Laws Adds “Asians” To The Ever Growing List Of People Who Just Don’t Get His Plain Talkin’ Ways
3:55PM Jess McGuire | John Laws had a tasty little spray at Asian drivers today on his 2UE morning show,
This morning’s tirade was directed at a Chinese-Australian caller named “Helen”. Helen was describing the trouble she had recently experienced with the cross-city tunnel. She had been fined for failing to pay the toll. Laws asked her why she hadn’t paid the toll and Helen said she didn’t know that there was one. “I never travel to east (sic), that’s the first time I travel to east.”
Talking over the top of Helen, Laws said: “Sounds like you travelled from the east.” He continued: “Obviously you’re Asian are you?” Helen said she was from China.
And away Laws went.
“I understand that Chinese drivers are probably the worst drivers on the face of the earth,” he said. “You probably fall into that category along with the rest of them.”
By this time Helen was superfluous to requirements and was cut off.
“I’ll give you even money that sweet Helen’s little, too. She’s about 4′ 8. I can see it. They look out between the steering wheel and the top of the dashboard.
“You’ve got to… well, I won’t put it that way… well, I will: you’ve got to keep your eyes open.
“Now I’m going to be screamed at for saying (sic) that I’m being racist,” Laws then said.
“I’m not being racist. I’m telling you the truth.”
Now, we’re not sure but we think he might have been a bit out of line. We’re not really a hundred per cent on it though since last time he directed his attentions towards the pompous little pansy prigs of the world, it was covered in free speech and we were forced to reassess our entire stance on the issue.
Also, we can’t be the only one who thinks he looks like the head of the Gay Mafia in the photo used in the Daily Telegraph article, surely? More » 
LOLOLOLOL @ KANYE WEST!!!!
3:47PM Jess McGuire | Kanye West, god bless him, has spoken to a British tabloid about Amy Winehouse’s recent troubles. He’s thrown his support behind her and made a very, very witty quip!
Famous fans are rallying round Amy Winehouse in her hour of need – with megastar rapper Kanye West fully supporting her efforts to kick her drug habit.
The platinum-selling hip-hop star couldn’t be happier that Amy, 23, has finally given in and gone to rehab in the States with her hubby Blake Fielder-Civil.
Speaking to us at the playback for his fabulous new album Graduation at BBC Radio Theatre near London’s Oxford Street he said: “I love Amy Winehouse. But she needs to stop the drugs.”
And he added: “Should she go to rehab? Yes, yes, yes!”
Yes, yes, yes? Instead of no, no, no? Oooh get you and yer clever japes, Kanye!
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Britney Spears: The Last Usable Photo Shoot
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | As recently as April 25th, Britney Spears had her shit sufficiently together to complete a cover photo shoot without fondling herself, sharing the magical sounds of her open-door micturition with the crew, or using the day’s wardrobe items as impromptu, couture pooper-scoopers, at least according to Allure. In a website gallery of the photographic work accomplished back on that landmark day, the magazine brags that Spears “voluntarily posed” for their September issue, a gentle flip of the bird to the competing publications that will now need to sedate the rampaging pop star with horse tranquilisers if they hope to compile a collection of publishable images. [Photo: Allure; a makeup artist applies a mild barbiturate balm that calmed Spears just enough to make it through the session without a meltdown.] Britney Spears: Her Photo Shoot [Allure] More »
‘The Invasion’ As Bad As They Said It Would Be
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | The first reviews have begun to trickle in for The Invasion, a Warner Bros. production plagued by paparazzi-captured car crashes and a German auteur, discharged by the studio after his esoteric vision failed to deliver the kinds of zombie car chases that put asses into summer movie theatre seats. With an early Tomatometer Score of 15%, the ominous buzz hanging over the late-August dumping ground release appears to have been justified. The Invasion may have reportedly brought in the Wachowski siblings at the 11th hour to hit all the required projectile-vomiting notes, but, ironically, for a movie about a dehumanising alien virus, the consensus seems to be that that it woefully lacks a heart. Here’s sample of what the critics are saying: · “Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, it’s one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney’s 1954 novella The Body Snatchers.” [LA Weekly] · “The movie isn’t terrible; it’s just low-rent and reductive…This is just a glorified zombie movie: 28 Days Later with monsters – they even spread the virus by vomiting! – that look like you and me.” [EW] More »
Jodie Foster Still Enjoying View From The Glass Closet
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | In a recent interview, The Brave One star Jodie “Without a Y” Foster was tenderly prodded by More magazine about her long-rumoured, but never outwardly acknowledged, personal leanings. (If you’re still in the dark as to what is we’re talking about, perhaps Out’s cover story “The Glass Closet,” or her ranking as #43 on a list of Hollywood Power-Gays, can provide further insight.) After the reporter inquired about the shiny piece of hardware gracing her ring finger, Foster deflected the questions by instead discussing her symbol-laden dream life: Let’s talk about your ring. This one? [Proffers left hand] It’s Tiffany, an eternity ring. You’re wearing it on your wedding ring finger. I am. I’ve always worn a ring. Even taking photos. Even on magazine covers. I don’t take it off. Don’t you think wearing a ring like that raises questions? Well, but that’s my life. I thought about this recently: I had a nightmare the other night. Well, anyway. . . More »
Studios Already Shredding Hundred Dollar Bills For Use As “Summer Of Prosperity” Parade Confetti
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re nothing if not suckers for a nice feel-good story, especially when it’s accompanied by a fun chart where Spider-Man scales a pillar representing the obscene amounts of money some of our favourite movie studios are making: With four different films crossing the $US300 million mark, Hollywood is enjoying its Best Summer Ever, a period of prosperity that is erasing all memory of that nasty, alleged “Slump” of 2005, when executives were forced to answer all kinds of rude questions about why their shitty product wasn’t selling. During this new Golden Age of Very Profitable Threequels, they instead get to crow about how smart they are in the pages of Variety: “It’s proved that when you offer people great stories that also deliver state-of-the-art effects and stunts, they want to go out and experience it together. It becomes an event,” said DreamWorks CEO/co-chair Stacey Snider, whose studio and Paramount turned out “Transformers.” More »
Report: NBC Uni Evicted ‘Housewives’ From Set, Possibly Moving Conan In
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | According to Hollywood Today, NBC Universal has tossed Desperate Housewives from its primary soundstage on the Universal lot, which they plan to convert into a new theatre and office building that may or may not eventually house The Tonight Show. Apparently, anointed Jay Leno successor Conan O’Brien was touring the potential facilities yesterday, trying to ignore the anguished wailing of Teri Hatcher, whom the Housewives had “mistakenly” left behind after she handcuffed herself to a catwalk in protest of the unwelcome move. Reports HT on the shuffle: Sources said Stage One, once home to the “Jack Benny Show,” may next become the home of “The Tonight Show” starring Jay Leno, and after 2009, Conan O’Brien, although a studio spokesman insists that is still being evaluated. Construction is expected to start by early next year and take at least one and a half years to complete. A studio spokesman said completion depends on getting the necessary permits. More »
Lionsgate Puts Baby In A Courtroom
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Be warned, unauthorised apparel makers who’d like to place Dirty Dancing’s famous “Nobody puts baby in a corner!” line on a cute t-shirt, for Lionsgate will sue you back to 1987 for trademark infringement. However, the studio has yet to file a suit over the use of the film’s other signature line, “Just put your pickle on everybody’s plate, college boy, and leave the hard stuff to me,” which has appeared in countless works of pornography since the movie’s release. [THR ESQ] More »
