Wednesday, August 22, 2007
YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:32PM Jess McGuire | This delightful video came to us from Melbourne rock and roll identity Julian Wu, who added the following note…
Have you seen this clip? There’s just so much wrong with it! My fascination with J-pop just keeps on growing. From cow with the runs at the start, to fat naked man in the bathroom, to the urinal dance, to the “pink bits” it just goes on and on.
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Defamer Australia Reader’s Mad Cans Appreciated By Neighbours Star
4:19PM Jess McGuire | We received the following tale from a lovely Defamer Australia reader named Brooke, who recently ran into Ben Lawson and David Hoflin, two heartthrob stars from the Neighbours cast.
It’s about 6am in front of Revolver when me and the girls bump into a
couple of the guys on Neighbours, Oliver and Frazer. Oliver is getting a lecture on the basics of safe sex from my mate, when Frazer turns to me and says:
“Well, that’s an awfully big button covering your breasts” (and there is, in fact, a very large button smack bang in the centre of my coat.)
Me: “Did you just say that??”
Frazer: “What, do you have an objection to the word ‘breasts’?”
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Unexpected Celebrity Fans Of The Cat Empire
4:13PM Jess McGuire | Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome Ringo Starr from some little known Liverpudlian indie band called The Beatles (that name’ll never work) to the illustrious group of folk who admire HAPPY HAPPY FUN TIME BAND The Cat Empire.
(Starr) says he is loving music again: playing and listening. The recent 40th anniversary of the release of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band passed him by: it was never his favourite album, too many “effects and horses and dogs on it”.
Instead, he likes contemporary bands like the Magic Numbers and Australia’s Cat Empire. “They’re like Madness except they’re Australian and they record in Cuba. And the brass is great, and the rhythm is great …”
More » We Wish To Draw Your Attention To The Following Chocolate Rain Spin Off
3:47PM Jess McGuire | Do you all remember Tay Zonday’s rather brilliant and insane “piece” Chocolate Rain?
Enjoy this re-working, if you will.
More » We Welcome Lifehacker Australia To The Clan
3:33PM Jess McGuire | Hola, kids.
We here at Defamer Australia headquarters would like to extend a big welcome to Lifehacker Australia, the latest addition to our ever expanding family.
What is Lifehacker Australia, you ask? We have handily consulted its charming “overview” section and discovered the following!
Lifehacker is a technology blog with a slightly different way of looking at the world. We see technology as a shortcut to life. When we look at products, software or gadgets, we stop and ask – how does this make my work or play faster, more efficient, and more fun?
VERY GOOD.
And now we are three.
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Darren Hayes Arrested For Allegedly Racially Abusing A Waiter
8:24AM Jess McGuire | Last week, ex-Savage Garden frontman and Celebrity Homosexual Popstar Darren Hayes won our heart when he unleashed an eloquent tirade against John Howard’s stance on gay marriage.
Hayes married Briton Richard Cullen in London last year, but his partner has to travel with him to Australia on a tourist visa.
“It makes me angry and frustrated,” the former Savage Garden frontman said yesterday. “I’m Australian and the way the law sits I can’t bring my partner home as my partner. That to me is an infringement of my civil rights – a very un-Australian thing. I would never have voted for John Howard and I encourage people not to. I don’t think he speaks for this country in the same way I don’t think George Bush speaks for the US.”
But will his recent barney with a Thai waiter put him in the bad books forever, with allegations he racially abused a staff member at a West End restaurant?
Hayes fronted police last Friday night in London, where he was arrested for the alleged racial abuse of a staff member at Busaba Eathai in Wardour Street, in London’s West End, on July 22. The attack did not involve physical violence, but is believed to have been directed at a male member of staff. He was released on bail.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “We can confirm that a 35-year-old man was arrested by Westminster police on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff. He was arrested after voluntarily attending a Central London police station by appointment. He has been released on bail pending further inquiries, until the 21st of September.”
A manager at the Soho restaurant, who did not want to be named, confirmed the incident and said that it involved a verbal attack by Hayes on a member of staff. He said restaurant staff reported the incident to police, who took statements on July 23. The victim had returned to work, and the matter was now in the hands of the police.
How very Cheryl Tweedy, Darren.
Innocent until proven guilty, etc. We’ll leave our judging hat on the rack for now, but we’re quite prepared to don it (and adopt a stern, surly look) should the allegations turn out to be true.
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Kylie Chooses To Focus What Is Truly Important In Life
7:54AM Jess McGuire | Defamer Australia’s highly agitated UK Correspondent sent us an email this morning pointing out that the eldest Minogue sibling, clearly going mad with broodiness, is contemplating leaving showbiz to focus what’s important in life. And in no particular order, the important things in life appear to be Olivier Martinez, reproducing, and soft furnishings.
Last month Kylie Minogue was enjoying secret meetings with her former lover Olivier Martinez.
Now the diminutive singer is poised to hang up her hotpants and step down as the Princess of Pop.
The 39-year-old Aussie chanteuse has been telling friends she wants to “focus on what is truly important”.
She is currently completing a new album and has just finished shooting scenes for her role as Doctor Who’s sidekick in the BBC show’s Christmas special.
She is also finalising plans for her own soft furnishing line, due out next February.
Our surly UK Correspondent signed off his fuming missive to us regarding Kylie’s newfound sense of perspective with a succinct “Her facking HEAD is a soft furnishing sometimes”.
Indeed. More » Dannii “Haunted” By Charming Snaps Featuring Minogue The Younger Getting Her Lez On
7:27AM Jess McGuire | Oh, the twists and turns of celebrity life.
One minute Dannii’s cheerily reveling in the knowledge that she – in many circles known as the “also ran” Minogue for most of her showbiz career – was the blessed target of Channel Seven’s affections, the network prepared to wait as long as it takes for her to finish all the London-based activities currently keeping her hands full. Perhaps naively, they never quite guessed that one of these activities went by the name of Jupiter.
Dannii Minogue has been embarrassed by the release on the internet of steamy pictures of her with a naked female lap dancer.
The pictures came from CCTV footage taken at London’s Puss in Boots nightclub and show the Australian pop star kissing, fondling and simulating sex with a dancer called Jupiter.
Minogue had launched a legal fight to buy the intimate pictures after they emerged a few years ago, with her lawyers eventually agreeing a settlement for her to own the copyright.
But the pictures have now resurfaced on the internet and are being emailed around the world, the Daily Star reported.
Okay, okay – we’re embellishing a bit. As the article above says, these sexy nightclub photos are actually old news. Positively ancient by interweb standards. But maybe there simply wasn’t enough interested the first time around because back then, Dannii’s star wasn’t shining quite so brightly?
In any case, we won’t publish the snaps here as we are highbrow. We will instead direct you over to Egotastic! who are chockers with screencaps.
It seems strange she’s making a big kerfuffle about this now, thus drawing public attention to the pictures for a second time. Is she jumping on the Rudd bandwagon?
In other news completely unrelated to Dannii’s penchant for touching up female strippers named Jupiter, here’s an article titled “Why Dannii Minogue can never find a man” More » 
Harvey Weinstein Betting Own Life On Blanchett’s Oscar Chances
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Harvey Weinstein, seasonal mounter of bloody, take-no-prisoners Oscar campaigns that leave scores of voters forever scarred by his onslaught, knows that it’s never to early to start For Your Consideration pimping for his beloved talent. In a NY Times story about the strategically slow rollout of I’m Not There, the Bob Dylan biopic (trailer here for the curious) in which the musician is portrayed by no fewer than 700 different actors, Weinstein threatens suicide if his favourite Dylan isn’t recognised by the Academy: He said he also planned to position Ms. Blanchett, who plays Mr. Dylan during his “Blonde on Blonde” phase, for an Oscar. (Mr. Bale corresponds to “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” Mr. Ledger to “John Wesley Harding.”) More »
