Friday, September 28, 2007
Youtube Clip Of The Day
11:16AM Clem Bastow | We make no secret of our borderline-psychotic obsession with So You Think You Can Dance, so we were pretty much wetting ourselves when it was announced – mid-adbreak – during last night’s episode that an Australian version is on the way.
Mostly this involved our thinking that we could perhaps fluke a Top 20 spot based on a heart-stopping “freestyle” routine involving two tap steps and a combination of Michael Jackson’s Beat It and the Spice Girls’ Stop, but ain’t nobody gonna stop our dreams!
In any case, it made us think of this amazing YouTube clip, featuring a similarly easily-excited young lass who has taken it upon herself to learn one of Benji and Donyelle’s routines from Series Two.
Watch, for an insight into our minds:
We particularly like the explanation for her outfit, which she has helpfully posted on the site following numerous comments on the topic:
I’M ONLY WEARING ONE SOCK BECAUSE I ONLY TURNED ON ONE FOOT SO I DIDN’T NEED IT ON THE OTHER ONE=]]
“Chaseeo” and your single sock, we salute you. More » 
Jess Mauboy Wins Deadly, Joins Young Divas; No Word As To Whether Dandruff-Free Confidence Was Behind Her Rise To The Top
11:10AM Clem Bastow | Congratulations are in order for last year’s Australian Idol runner-up, Jessica Mauboy, who last night won Artist Of The Year at the Deadly Awards.
It goes without saying that we thought Jess should have won over Damien “Not Even An Australian Citizen” Leith and his googly-eyed falsetto, but this should be a nice, if belated, vindication.
Perhaps fewer congrats are due, however, on the topic of Jess having also been announced – officially, as it was assumed for some time – as the newest Young Diva, following Ricki-Lee’s departure from the group (once referred to memorably by our friend and UK Correspondent, Will Fop, as “the bin of the Australian music industry”).
“They’re beautiful inside and they’ve had a lot of experience in performing around Australia, and they’ve inspired me a lot,” Mauboy said of her fellow Young Divas.
Their first gig together was an illustrious engagement that would make Barbra Streisand seethe with envy: a free Idol concert in Melbourne’s Fed Square. More » 
The Ongoing Saga Of The Surfer And The Supermodel Reaches New, Sweary Heights
10:57AM Clem Bastow | In an effort to become more like NW, we told you the other day about the love triangle of Taj Burrows, Cheyenne Tozzi and Brandon Davis; well, now we have pro-surfer Burrows’ stance on the whole thing – which, it turns out, is a whole lot of *$#@!!
(And no, we’ve not stopped swearing all of a sudden, we just like the old comic-book technique when it comes to accurately describing a particularly foulmouthed outburst.)
The surfer dude poured his heart out to wave mag Stab, proving that gnarly tube-riders have feelings too, dude. Cowabunga. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: And You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourself, We’ll Give Your Mobo Award To A Starving Child In The Sudan, Go To Your Room, Etc
10:36AM Clem Bastow | It seems the UK press are in the same bind that Winegums Watch finds itself in: all revved up and nothing to report.
Thank goodness, then, that we can always count on the Daily Mail to come up with the goods – in this instance, a story so emotionally manipulative it makes Today Tonight look like a PBS doco on the Peace Corps. In short, they’ve found some poor lass who overdosed on class A’s, melting her brain, whose parents’ “only wish” (yes, even more than the recovery of their daughter) is for Amy Winehouse to come and have a look at their vegetative daughter, in the hope it might scare her (Winehouse) into cleaning up.
Honestly, you can’t make this shit up. More » Australia To Bring Silicone And Restylane-Sponsored Light Into The Dark Lives Of Its Less Visually-Appealing Citizens
10:27AM Clem Bastow | If you can’t get enough of those Extreme Makeover moments where sutures are plucked from purpled flesh and deer-in-headlights eyes peer out from mummified facelifts, then strap yourself in: it looks like Australia is getting a local version of everyone’s favourite trainwreck reality tribute to the society of the spectacle.
Dr Warwick Nettle, of Bondi Junction clinic Silkwood Medical, returned from a “short, sharp and shiny” trip to the US last week to learn the tricks of the reality TV trade.
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Details of the Aussie version of the show are being kept tightly under wraps, with the team members involved believed to have signed confidentiality agreements.
The series will likely air on Channel 9, and we can’t wait to see how down-at-heel farmers from the Blue Mountains region’s lives will be turned around by liposculpture to the chin area and laser-resurfacing to the back of the ears. That’ll show the drought who’s boss! More » Revelation Of Casey Donovan’s Boyfriend Is Worst “Revelation” Since Bruce Willis Was “Revealed” To Be Dead, Too
10:20AM Clem Bastow | By now, we know we can rely on News Ltd’s Confidential to come up with the hard-hitting goods, but this piece “revealing” Casey Donovan’s mystery boyfriend is about as “revealing” as a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat that isn’t there.
In short, Casey has a boyfriend, and they can “reveal” his name, and that’s about it.
Confidential can reveal the one-time Idol winner has been hiding a secret man named Dylan for the past two years.
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But Donovan has successfully managed to keep her mystery boyfriend hidden from all but her closest friends and family.
“She’s extremely private about it,” her Melbourne-based manager Wendy Richards told Confidential.
“She has been going out with him for a couple of years but I haven’t met him.”
Have you seen Casey with her mysterious boyfriend?
Well, they’d hope someone has, because they clearly haven’t!
We’re surprised they didn’t go as far as the stoners in Can’t Hardly Wait, describing him as a guy who has hair, and wears t-shirts sometimes. More » 
Supernanny Makers’ ‘Ethics’ Land Them In The Naughty Seat
10:16AM Clem Bastow | If we are to believe everything we see on TV, Supernanny Jo Frost is a miracle worker whose no-nonsense advice and Continental “pass-tah and soss” meals are the only way to get screaming todlers to shut up.
All well and good, were it not for emerging allegations – made by a decorated and respected UK filmmaker – that the tots weren’t all that bad to begin with, and that Supernanny crewmembers bullied them into chucking more tele-worthy tantrums. More » 
