Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Sugababes Heading For Another Line-Up Change? Obligatory “Round, Round” Gag Goes Here
10:55AM Clem Bastow | Just when you thought they’d settled on the “ultimate” Sugababes line-up, it seems all is not well in ‘Babeland, with reports suggesting that the newest member, Amelle Berrabah, is not pulling her weight – and that the group’s “people” have been holding secret try-outs for possible replacement members as a result.
Hold on, infighting within the Sugababes camp, have we all gone mad? Are the planets aligning or something? Those girls love each other!
A source said: “Keisha and Heidi are the ultimate professionals when it comes to their career. They have worked hard for everything they have achieved. Amelle doesn’t seem to take it as seriously. When the girls were recording their latest album, Amelle kept arriving late to the studio. They had blazing rows over timekeeping.”
If the whispers are true and Amelle does get the boot, that will bring about the fourth Sugababes line-up since the OG days of Siobhan Donaghy. We reckon they should become the UK’s female equivalent of Menudo and just keep that door revolving for eternity! More » 
Kate Moss Kills Any Hope Of A Doherty Reunion
10:41AM Clem Bastow | Those of you who a) like good music and b) dislike Pete Doherty (i.e. all those who chose option ‘a’) will be pleased to hear that Kate Moss has apparently shed the fungus-ridden rocker and hooked up with someone of a far better pedigree, Jamie Hince – aka Hotel from The Kills.
Hince is such a puritan he does not even eat dairy products or meat and describes himself as a “chain-smoking vegan”.
All of which is sure to delight Miss Moss’s family, who have been driven to distraction by her obsession with drug addict Doherty.
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The pair were first spotted together running out of a London pub and into a waiting car on Saturday.
They then headed to a friend’s house with TV star Davinia Taylor, where they carried on their partying until Monday morning.
Ooohh we hope this is true. The Kills are awesome and “Our” Kate needs a good bloke in her life, as we’ve always had a soft spot for the former waif (and wouldn’t mind rifling through her wardrobe, too) and quite frankly were bamboozled as to exactly what she saw in Doherty. And, in light of Moss’ young daughter Lila, it doesn’t really need to be said that Doherty doesn’t exactly appear to be somebody that is healthy for children and other living things to be around. More » 
The Mid-Morning Wrap Up
10:40AM Anna King | While you were sleeping: When crazy fans attack: the Brad Pitt edition. Bill Murray not drunk, merely saving the world. When Daddy and Daddy love each other very much, they cut a deal to inherit millions of dollars! Wait…wha? It’s still good: A Night In Paris’ Jail Cell Zoo’s quest for ultimate oxymoron sexy feminists. We nominate Lara Bingle for totally discrediting the dumb blond stereotype. More »
Nicole Reveals Failed Engagement, Miscarriage; Our Urge To Pun Wildly Seems Suddenly Absent
10:30AM Clem Bastow | Nicole Kidman has put paid to rumours that Suri Cruise was an IVF baby created with the seed of Xenu by revealing that early in her relationship with Tom Cruise, Our Nic suffered a miscarriage. She told Vanity Fair:
“From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies,” she said.
“And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that’s when it came that we would adopt Bella.”
She also mentions her “yearning” to try for a baby with new husband Keith Urban, but that he wants her all to himself for a few years. If we may editorialise for a moment, we don’t want Our Nic to become a surrendered wife here, and hasn’t Our Keith ever heard of the biological clock?! She’s 40, deary! She can’t exactly luxuriate! And, we wonder how Isabella and Connor feel considering how often the press – and, in this case, their own mother – discuss Nicole’s angst at not having biological kids? Aren’t they good enough? We smell 15 years of comprehensive psychoanalysis coming up…
Anyway, Nic also reveals that in the interim between breaking up with Cruise and shacking up with Urban, she was briefly engaged. Though she gives no clues as to who the relationship was with, The Mail helpfully reminds us of all the blokes she was seen out and about with back then:
She refuses to name her fiance, saying, “I wasn’t ready – we weren’t ready.”
During that period she was romantically linked to movie stars Jim Carey and Adrien Brody, musician Lenny Kravitz, and tycoon Steve Bing, father of Liz Hurley’s child.
Our money’s on it having been Kravitz – Carrey’s all about Jenny McCarthy, Bing is possibly a cyborg, and Brody’s too obsessed with his Chihuahuas. That shit’s just not right. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: No Mercury Award For You!
9:55AM Clem Bastow | Well, we said that it was “all about the music, maaaan”, but apparently Amy Winehouse’s musical talents weren’t enough to snare her the Mercury Award’s £20,000 (a lump sum that would buy a whole heap of drugs, razors and booze hair extensions and ballet slippers), which instead went to Klaxons.
The troubled singer received a warm round of applause as she stepped up to stage to perform her track Love Is A Losing Game in front of some of the cream of the music industry.
The star wore her trademark beehive and a strapless pink and yellow short dress to perform the number. Following her acoustic set she was hugged by her husband, Blake.
Host Jools Holland said, after her performance: “She has one of the best voices of anybody of all time.”
Bless, Jools: not just a memorable cameo in Spice World, but one of music’s true nice guys.
Amy attended the awards with husband Blake Fielder-Civil and dad Mitch, which is not surprising considering the Fielder-Civils are still hammering home their “don’t buy her records” scheme – and, hilariously, Amy’s records are hotter than ever!
Her award-winning LP Back To Black has shot up to No.2 – from No.8 before her drugs collapse on August 8 – her new single Tears Dry On Their Own is selling well, and she is top of the UK Radio Airplay Chart.
Finally, The Sun managed to get the boozy pair to defend themselves upon their return to the UK, where they assured Victoria Newton’s spies that they are “not going to end up dead like Sid and Nancy”. No, but they might just keep beating each other up and encouraging each others’ drug and alcohol dependencies, for old time’s sake! More » YouTube Clip Of The Day
8:57AM Jess McGuire | It seems an understatement to declare this Defamer Australia’s YouTube Clip Of The Day. As far as we’re concerned, it’s the clip of the fucking millennium.
Please enjoy a young, slim Russell Crowe in one of his earliest theatrical “works” – starring as a lad named John in a promo video for a Seventh Day Adventist college in New South Wales. Our friends at DNA Magazine are sensing a homosexual undercurrent to the story, and we must admit we found the dialogue a tad fruity at times, although that may just be due to our personal need to find a rainbow coloured subtext in everything we watch. But it does contain the following interaction between Russell and a singlet donning, denim shorts wearing older man.
Russell: “Let’s assume, just for arguments sake, that I am interested.
Older Man: “What kind of person to do it? You don’t just decide at the drop of a hat to do this job. You… have to be called.”
Russell: “Oh yeah, what do you mean – called?
Older Man: “Well, it’s a strong desire, it’s an urging, it’s a prompting, it’s ummm, it’s like, umm, it’s an urging to… go out and try it.”
Russell: “What, you mean like a temptation?”
Older Man: “Yes! Sort of!”
Watch the clip for yourself after the jump.
More » We Remember Steve Irwin (Admittedly One Day Late)
8:13AM Jess McGuire | While we are obviously saving our Irwin-related “big guns” for the official family sanctioned Steve Irwin Day on November 15, we felt we should – a wee bit late, but better late than never – don the emotional khakis and take a moment out of our busy day to acknowledge the anniversary of the tragic passing of a man whose life would have been so, so different had he prescribed Ritalin as a wee child instead of learning how to wrassle giant crocodiles and, in time, win the hearts of the world.
And what better way to pay our respects than a YouTube clip put together by fans and featuring the stirring and emotional music of Enya.
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Michelle Williams’ Dad Confirms The Notoriously Private Star Has Split From Heath Ledger, Something Which Probably Won’t Endear Him To His ‘Distant’ Daughter
8:01AM Jess McGuire | We were hoping against hope it wasn’t true – adorable if not occasionally surly couple Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams have split up. Or at least, that’s what her dad is telling the press, confirming recent rumours that the pair have called it quits.
Speaking exclusively to The Daily Telegraph, US sharemarket guru Larry Williams said his heart went out to the young couple at this “hugely difficult time of their lives”.
Williams, who is grounded in Australia – and based mainly in Sydney – while he faces alleged US tax evasion charges, said he had not spoken to Michelle directly about the split but had recently received a phone call from the actress’s mother Carla informing him of the break-up.
“We’ve known about their troubles for a while but it’s always a very difficult thing in life when these things happen,” Williams said.
“I know Heath and Michelle still care about each other deeply and are very committed to being great parents to their daughter.”
A daughter Larry Williams hasn’t actually met yet.
As his relationship with his famous daughter is distant, Williams is yet to meet his grand-daughter Matilda, who will turn two next month. The 64-year-old also admitted to “not knowing Heath very well at all”, despite expressing a high opinion of the Oscar nominated star. “I have a great respect for Heath and I know he cares tremendously for Michelle,” Williams said. “I was never invited into their world and that’s fine, but I care deeply for my daughter and if I can do anything to help her I will.”
Somehow we doubt giving exclusive tell alls to the Daily Telegraph will be viewed as “helping” by Michelle.
VALE HEATH AND MICHELLE.
(cries quietly) More » 
