Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Way Out West Where There’s Hair No More, A Would Be Australian Idol Has Found Love
11:02PM Jess McGuire | Jessie Curran, the country lass who trilled her way through U2 Johnny Cash’s One on Monday night’s Idol show, is – if you didn’t already know (are you living in a cave, you crazy fool?) – dating James Blundell. Which is bad news for his wife and kids, it would seem.
The 43-year-old singer’s romance with Jesse Curran was made public yesterday – despite claims the performer has “not even told his children he’s left them”.
Blundell is understood to have recently approached Channel 10’s publicity department to come clean about the affair so “he could turn up to the (elimination) shows this week to support (Curran),” a source close to the couple told Confidential.
Blundell, who moved out of his family’s Hunters Hill home last week, confirmed his new girlfriend through manager Neil Richards, but apparently has not sat down to “explain himself” to his sons, Briar, 9 and Travis, 5.
His wife is said to have tried desperately to save the marriage after Blundell told her of his relationship in April.
Curran “thinks James is a big rock star but let’s face it he hasn’t had a hit for about 12 years,” one insider sniped.
Ah yes, but what a hit it was! And he was a handsome bugger with a rug of chest hair eighties era Jon Bon Jovi would be envious of.
In any case, James Blundell’s new love affair has angered many fans. We’re just waiting to see what it means for Jessie Curran’s chances on Australian Idol.
PS: Total mad props to Marcia Hines for mentioning the whole sordid affair on the show last night after Jessie made an innocent comment Marcia believed referred to the Blundell romance, resulting in hysterical laughter from her fellow judges, a rather classy and dignified response from Jessie herself, and some slouching from the old guy in the front row wearing a baseball cap who we think might have been Jessie’s dad. Whatevs. More » 
Brilliant Casting By The Folk From Kath & Kim!
10:59PM Jess McGuire | Guess which beloved hymen-owning boganette will be appearing in this Sunday night’s episode of Kath & Kim? Why, it’s ex Big Brother contestant Katie Hastings!
Playing the dumb blonde on last year’s Big Brother has turned into a big acting break for Katie Hastings – cast to play her “happy” self in Kath & Kim. The bubbly bogan told Confidential her start on the smash-hit comedy series made her so “nervous I said to someone, ‘I need Maccas, quick’ “.
It’s comments like this which clearly inspired producers of the Channel 7 show to approach her with the cameo role earlier this year. “My acting couldn’t have been any worse, but they just said to play myself and I’d be fine. I didn’t know whether to be insulted or what, but they were so nice.”
Hastings plays Katie, a new apprentice in Kel Knight’s butcher shop in this Sunday’s episode. “Kel loves his chump chops but I’m supposed to be into fancy meats. Don’t ask me to name them because I can’t even pronounce half of ‘em,” she said yesterday.
This may tempt us back to Kath & Kim, you know. More » The Presets On ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
10:56PM Jess McGuire | Aussie musical electro-indie-pop (we sourced that description from their MySpazz) ensemble The Presets have enjoyed a rather delicious break in the US with their tune Are You The One being used for a contemporary number on hit US show So You Think You Can Dance.
Check out the clip below.
The show is starting in Australia on Thursday night, we believe. We may just have to add it to our list of Must Watch Shows On The Telly and possibly get a man to come by once a week to wash us with a rag on a stick as, at this rate, we’re destined to never leave the fucking couch again. More » Romance You Didn’t Actually Know Was Happening Confirmed As Not Happening At All
10:47PM Jess McGuire | We haven’t felt so surprised at the alleged teaming up of a couple of love birds since Bruce Willis was rumoured to be doing unfatherly things to Lindsay Lohan – did you know Paul McCartney and Renee Zellweger were possibly dating? Did you?
Well, if you didn’t – there was word (somewhere, muttered by someone) that the pair were dating. Except now it turns out that they’re not.
Actress Renee Zellweger has played down reports she is romantically involved with music legend Sir Paul McCartney. The Beatle, 65, was spotted partying with the Bridget Jones’s Diary star, 38, at a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers gig in New York on Saturday (25Aug07). But friends of the actress insist the pair are “just good friends”. A source tells the New York Daily News, “I don’t believe there’s anything between them.
We’ll be sure to keep you up to the minute with further reports of celebrities you had no idea had even met and their non-existent romantic status. More » 
Rob Schneider Versus Michael Caton
6:25PM Jess McGuire | How quickly things change in Hollywood, eh? One time co-stars in The Animal (and, we presume, friends – in our world, everyone in Hollywood who work together automatically become bosom buddies and/or lovers) Michael Caton and Rob Schneider are in the midst of a very public war of words over comments Caton made about his flick Strange Bedfellows being the inspiration for Schneider chum Adam Sandler’s latest movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry.
It appears Schneider, forced to choose between an Antipodean ex-work mate and his meal ticket, decided to go in to bat for Adam Sandler via the always enjoyable medium of an open letter.
In response to comments Caton made in the press a few months ago claiming he’d given Schenider a DVD copy of he and Paul Hogan’s MADCAP COMEDY (screamy capitalisation author’s own) Strange Bedfellows and adding “I’m going to have to get on to Rob Schneider and say you owe me one, pal, or Adam Sandler owes me one. They’re really good mates and it’s obvious he’s said ‘Hey, have a look at this’”, Schneider retorts – amongst other things -
“It is true you gave me a DVD copy of Strange Bedfellows but I must confess I’ve never watched it, as it is not on the same format as I have and it makes quite a nice drink coaster.
I know that you recently made an early (and deserved) exit on Dancing with the Stars, still in my wildest imagination I never could see you as one who would ever become ‘bitter’. Unfortunately, that is the conclusion that you have forced me to come to. Now Paul Hogan I can understand!”
Ouch. We do appreciate the obviousness of his attempt to make it clear to Adam Sandler that he still loves him, loves him more than anyone, and please god, give him a role – no matter how small! – in his next movie.
Caton has now spoken out, saying it was all a case of Schneider taking a joke too seriously!
“I had a wonderful time making The Animal with Rob Schneider in 2001 and am disappointed by his comments as I have always considered Rob a friend of mine. I was doing press for network television around the time the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry was released and it was during that time that several journalists asked me about the similarities between the story lines of that and Strange Bedfellows.
At no time did I approach the media on this matter. I can only repeat what I said at that time which is that I did give Rob Schnieder a copy of the Strange Bedfellows DVD. I emailed Rob that if the reports of similarities were true then ‘tell Adam Sandler owes me one’. The comments I made were obviously tongue in cheek.
We refuse to believe it’s possible Schneider missed an blatant gag, because if that’s true, well… well… then perhaps, just perhaps, he isn’t one of the comic geniuses of our time. And that’s a truth we’re just not prepared to face right now, as we clutch our copy of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo in one hand and a pen in the other, practicing our “Mrs Rob Schneider” signature until our hand cramps up.
More » Newks, Rebecca Gibney, Leo Schofield And Friends Join Forces To Mess With Malcolm Turnbull
3:15PM Jess McGuire | Did you know Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull catches the bus and ferry to and from work each day? We didn’t, until today. This fact mildly interested us.
Something else that mildly interested us was news that some high profile Australians have decided to collaborate in an effort to become an irritating bee in Malcolm’s electoral bonnet.
High-profile figures such as actor Rachel Ward and former tennis star John Newcombe have joined the battle against the proposed Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania’s picturesque Tamar Valley.
An advertisement organised by Geoffrey Cousins, a former adviser to Prime Minister John Howard, has been signed by more than 120 people.
It will appear in tomorrow’s Wentworth Courier, in Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s marginal electorate.
Among the signatories are film director Phillip Noyce, actors Bryan Brown and Rebecca Gibney, playwright David Williamson, celebrity chef Kylie Kwong, Fairfax Media deputy chairman Mark Burrows, Rowena Danziger, a member of the Publishing and Broadcasting board, and Leo Schofield, a former director of the Sydney Festival. The ad urges the public to contact Mr Turnbull’s office to ask him to allow “a full and just public hearing” on the pulp mill.
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The ad says: “Is Malcolm Turnbull the Minister for the Environment or the Minister Against the Environment?” It says Mr Turnbull can insist on all voices being heard. “But will he? So many questions, so far no answers … Will Malcolm Turnbull insist that a proper public hearing be implemented before he decides on the building of one of the world’s largest pulp mills in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley?
When Kylie Kwong and the ex-Mrs Jack Jones from Southern Sons have teamed up to conspire against you, it is time to take heed. Your move, Mr Turnbull. More » YouTube Clip Of The Day
2:42PM Jess McGuire | Today’s clip comes courtesy of one of our favourite bloggers Born Dancin’, who also provides an incredibly apt description of what you’re about to see.
watch an actual video of the song featuring the $2 shop hand puppet that is Rap Cat along with a bunch of people who are essentially giving up on any possible future which might involve anything resembling a paid job in the entertainment industry. As Wikipedia puts it, “Rap Cat’s rapping abilities seem to be limited to meowing rhythmically”. What interests me most is the dazzling genius of the idea. What most myspace pages are to your eyes, this is to your ears.
Hungry for more?
Enjoy!
More » Winehouse Round-Up: Evicted From Hotel, Going On Holiday, Longing For Less Punnable Surname
11:48AM Clem Bastow | That zany madcap Amy Winehouse just can’t get out of the news, with a new morning bringing plenty of new Amy updates. The Mirror’s 3AM reports that Amy and husband Blake Fielder-Civil have been booted from another hotel (do they even have a home?) for disruptive behaviour, while Bizarre’s Victoria Newton has them jetting off on a health-giving tropical holiday.
While we have your attention, we’re going to start a running tally of all the Winehouse/Fielder-Civil-related puns and nicknames we have spotted.
Amy DeclinehouseAmy WinoAmy Not-Fine-houseAmy WinegumsAlehouseFlophouseCamden CanerBlake Not-So-CivilBlake UncivilSid & Nancy
Got any more? Send your favourites on a postcard to the usual address. More » 
Zac Efron Heading To Australia, Wettex Considering Production Of New Drool Mop
11:27AM Clem Bastow | Super choice hottie and High School Musical star Zac Efron has been announced as the host of the upcoming Nickelodeon Australian Kids Choice Awards in October, sending young girls (and not so young girls, and guys) into a frenzy of squee.
“I’m so excited to be coming to Australia to host Nick’s Kids Choice Awards,” Efron said. “I can’t wait to get down there and slime all the Aussie kids – it’s going to be a blast.”
If you are wondering what he is talking about, don’t worry – “slime” is not some hep new street slang, but rather what happens to selected celebrity guests at the Kids Choice awards, much like (for you oldies) what used to happen if you said “No” on You Can’t Do That On Television.
And if this item does nothing for you, we suggest you see Hairspray immediately. More » 
Kylie Minogue Has New Hairdo; Presses Stopped, Trading Suspended
11:18AM Clem Bastow | Sometimes we get wind of a piece of news that is so gob-smacking that we simply have to sit and have some quiet time by ourselves, and today is one of those days.
Not one, not two, but THREE British gossip rags are reporting – wait for it – that Kylie Minogue… HAS GOT A NEW HAIRSTYLE.
We are going to have a lie down and a Bex and suggest you click those links with caution. More » 
