Thursday, October 18, 2007

Angie Hart Competition – Tonight’s Tickets Have Been Won!

5:18PM Jess McGuire | Congratulations to James, whose white hot hatred of avocados earned him two tickets to tonight’s Angie Hart gig at the Toff In Town. Entries for tomorrow night’s tickets close around 2pm tomorrow. Make sure you’re able to access your email around that time so we can notify you and get your details, and if you know you’ll be gadding about town keeping it real “offline” then leave us a contact number. In summation – FRIDAY NIGHT TICKETS STILL UP FOR GRABS!BUT THE COMPETITION CLOSES 2PM FRIDAY OCTOBER 19TH 2007!DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE! AS YOU WERE.  More »

Defamer Public Service Announcement: Movember!

3:06PM Clem Bastow | Do you often lie on your back in a field of soft-focus daisies, dreaming of Timotei fantasies of fully-moustachioed hunks riding in on horseback and spiriting you into the Marlborough sunset? Do you think Tom Selleck, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Redford and George Michael all looked better with a mo’? Do bare upper lips freak you out? Well then, you should be encouraging every person you know who is capable of growing a moustache of any variety – or yourself – to sign up for Movember! Yes, you too could end the 11th month looking every bit as swarthy and handsome as Defamer Australia pal and Movember ‘Mo Bro’ Jim BBQ (pictured), and it’s not only heaven for the more mo’-oriented ladies and lads out there, it’s all for a good cause. Corral a swag of sponsors as you grow your mo’ and you will be raising much-needed funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, and Beyond Blue, as well as helping raise awareness about men’s health, and male depression. Last year, Australian Mo Bros and Mo Sistas raised an incredible $7.3 million for research and support, and there’s no reason why this year can’t be even bigger. We’d love to see a heap of Defamer Australia readers signing on for this good cause. Hell, one half of the Defamer Australia editorial team is even giving up Andrea Facial Creme Bleach for the month – and if that’s not enough to convince you, we don’t know what is. More »

Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Watch For The Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

10:02AM Clem Bastow | We’ve mentioned that Pete Doherty was beginning a slow circling of Winegums, like some rabid hunting dog looking for a bone to gnaw on, but now we have the unpleasant task of telling you it’s true. The title says it best: “Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty make music together“. WHY GOD WHY? The Rehab singer and the Babyshambles star recently recorded the track, which sees Amy showcasing her impressive guitar playing skills as well as her singing talents. Pete’s bandmate, guitarist Mick Whitnall, said: “It’s a ska-type track. Amy’s playing guitar on it and singing as well. “She plays better than James Brown playing acoustic guitar. She thinks she’s s**t but she’s not. I’ve never met a man who plays like that, let alone a girl.” We weren’t aware of the Godfather Of Soul’s mad guitar skillz, but we’ll take this Whitnall’s word for it. Let’s hope Doherty provided Winegums with a steady flow of Big Macs rather than smack at the recording session. More »

Kerry Katona Sez Posh Spice Is Desperate; Pot, Meet Kettle

9:56AM Clem Bastow | Kerry “Chipshop” Katona took a break from her unending personal struggles to pen some fightin’ words in her OK! column in the UK, hitting out at Posh Spice – who is apparently “sad and desperate”, if Chipshop is to be believed, after she attended the Diana inquest. Because, you know, cashing in on your C-list celebrity break-up, weight loss, drug hell, pregnancy issues and so forth is, like, totally, er happy and un-desperate. “I can’t believe she walked – with her entourage – straight in front of the world’s paparazzi waiting outside the hotel to see jurors retrace Diana’s final footsteps! “She was even dressed like Diana was ten years ago in a black dress, cropped blonde hair and sunglasses. “I think she’s desperate to be Diana – but she’ll never be the People’s Princess!” We’d come up with something witty to say in conclusion, but Bizarre’s Saint Victoria has already beaten us to it: “Harsh words from Kerry – but then I don’t suppose she is in any danger of running into Posh at an A-list event any time soon.” Zing! More »

Kate Ceberano Hates No-Case-Gains, Er, Gossip Magazines

9:39AM Clem Bastow | Singer and scientologist Kate Ceberano has hit out at gossip magazines, claiming they make their stories up. What? Next they’ll be saying we’re all refugees from an alien wasteland and there’s a bomb inside the volcano! Incidentally, these are pretty rich words coming from someone who regularly appears in the ladies’ mags, particularly when there’s an album or television appearance to flog. “Their stories are fabricated and complete lies,” Ceberano ranted at Spirited Women’s breakfast held by online publication SW Magazine at the Hilton Hotel. “They buy a lot of their stories and Iknow a lot of the people these magazines write about. But what appears is simply not true.” The popular performer, who won the last series of Dancing with the Stars, said she has limited her involvement with women’s titles over the years because she had been badly burned by a past experience. “I haven’t worked with them because I simply don’t trust them,” Ceberano told the the breakfast crowd. When prompted, the singer admitted to being the victim of their “lies” many years ago when, after losing a large amount of weight one magazine reported it was because of her “smack (heroin) addiction”. Well, at least she gave these ‘Spirited Women’ a “spirited” talk, eh? We’ll certainly be keeping a close eye on Women’s Day et al to see if the next promotional interview Ceberano gives is full of lies and fabrications. More »

Ellen DeGeneres Turned America Against Kennel Only After Threats Failed To Work

8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | While most of us don’t claim the luxury of a hit talk show with which to air out our grievances, Ellen DeGeneres does, and yesterday she used the pulpit of her celebrity-safe funzone to turn America against Mutts & Mums, an organisation that seeks to place found dogs in good homes. Her blubbery, beyond awkward appeal begging for the return of Iggy (taken back to the shelter after the comedian pawned the dog off on a friend) has overloaded their website and resulted in multiple phoned-in death threats. And all this comes after the shelter refused to back down after DeGeneres unleashed her Michael Vick Academy-trained flack on them. From Page Six: Keith Fink, a lawyer for Mutts & Mums, tells Page Six’s Marianne Garvey it’s all an act. Behind the scenes, DeGeneres’ publicist was calling the small agency and threatening it, says Fink, who played a vicious voice-mail message for us: More »

Suri Cruise: The First Eighteen Months

7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | In a refreshing change from the depressing procession of portraits of early-childhood neglect and despair recently adorning the magazine’s covers, Us Weekly switches gears to spotlight the development of Suri Cruise, Hollywood’s Happiest-Seeming Toddler™. But while raising an 18-month-old genetically engineered by Scientology’s top baby-fabricating technicians to unquestioningly obey its parental custodians might seems like an easy task, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes still find themselves needing the guidance contained in Dianetics Chapter XVII Sec (c), “On the Emotional Maintenance and Discipline of Your New Child-Unit.” Says Us: Additionally, Holmes, 29, and Cruise, 45, have a hard time saying no to Suri. But it’s not simply because they’re pushovers. More »

Vanessa Hudgens Not Invited Back For Disney’s ‘Community College Musical’

7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Vanessa Hudgens, the Disney Channel star who saw her wholesome image go up in a puff of cackling-Britney-shaped smoke after nude photos of the actress proliferated across the internet, will not be returning for a third slurp at the High School Musical trough, OK! reports: “Disney finally decided that they don’t want her back,” an insider reveals to OK!. More »

Let’s Forget That ‘Jack’ And ‘The Rainmaker’ Ever Happened

6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | In GQ, Francis Ford Coppola speaks truth to scene-chewing-actor power by lamenting how the careers of once-hungry artists Al “Two for the Money” Pacino, Meet the Fockers star Robert DeNiro, and Jack Nicholson (still kind of awesome) have turned out: “I met both Pacino and De Niro when they were really on the come,” Coppola tells GQ’s Nate Penn. “They were young and insecure. Now Pacino is very rich, maybe because he never spends any money; he just puts it in his mattress. De Niro was deeply inspired by (Coppola’s studio American) Zoetrope and created an empire and is wealthy and powerful. Nicholson was – when I met him and worked with him – he was always kind of a joker. He’s got a little bit of a mean streak. He’s intelligent, always wired in with the big guys and the big bosses of the studios. I don’t know what any of them want anymore. I don’t know that they want the same things. Pacino always wanted to do theatre … (He) will say, ‘Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York, and I’m never going to go to L.A.,’ but they all live off the fat of the land.” [Rush & Molloy] More »