Thursday, October 25, 2007
It Had To Happen Eventually – Rove Finds Love Again
2:20PM Jess McGuire | This just in from The Daily Telegraph –
Rove McManus has found love again, beginning a new relationship with Aussie actress Tasma Walton.
McManus’s manager and close friend Kevin Whyte today confirmed to the Daily Telegraph McManus was happily in love again with the former Blue Heelers actress.
“It’s still early days and we hope people will give them the space they need,” he said in a statement today.
It seems somewhat inevitable that gossip columns around the country will be spending the next few weeks (at the very least) drawing comparisons between Tasma Walton and Rove’s late wife, actress Belinda Emmett. Why not start now!
The pair have been seen leaving the house together where they have been
taking in early morning gym sessions at a gym nearby the lavish
Richmond home where he has lived for more than five years and is the
home he shared with Emmett.
She’s living in Belinda’s house…
She has been seen driving the silver Rav 4 cruiser Emmett drove
while she was alive while Rove has been driving a matching black Rav 4
cruiser.
She’s driving Belinda’s car…
In 1997 she took out a Logie for best newcomer over Emmett who was also nominated for Home And Away.
And she stole Belinda’s Logie!
In all seriousness, it’s nice to hear that Rove has found some happiness again after what must have been an incredible difficult period dealing with not only the loss of his wife, but the frantic media interest in his life both before and after her passing.
Countdown to the New Idea/Woman’s Day photo spread starts… now! More » 
To Do: Missy, Waifs & Expatriates
12:00PM Anna King | Music round-up: Sarah Blasko in Tassie and at the Forum, Melbourne; Festival of the Dead in capitals, The Panics in WA (Don’t Fight It clip above).
NSW music festivals: Legs 11 feat. Missy Higgins, The Waifs and Lior in the Domain; Stonefest at Canberra Uni feat. Scribe, Cut Copy and Expatriate.
Catch the Bell Shakespeare production of Gogol’s The Governor Inspector at the Playhouse, starring William Zappa and Darren Gilshenan.
Saw IV, Good Luck Chuck and Eastern Promises open at cinemas.
Heads up: Monty Python’s Eric Idle in Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy). More » Anna Nicole Smith Clown Video Director’s Cut More Disturbing Than We Ever Imagined
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | It turns out the now-infamous Anna Nicole in Creepy Clown Makeup clip comes from a much longer, much more disturbing video, aired on Geraldo at Large. Brought to Rivera’s show by the father of a nine-year-old girl present for the entire shoot, the girl describes having seen Howard K. Stern give Smith something from “a white bottle with red stripes.” Smith then quickly descends into incoherency, mistaking the toy doll in her arms for her own baby, and her real pregnancy as “just gas.” Stern, meanwhile, rattles off instructions about background noise, white levels, and unusable boob-slip footage to a cameraman named Mark, ignoring the nine-year-old as she pleads with him to, “Cut the tape off and help…I think we need the hospital…Howard, seriously – please help.” Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to curl into a fetal ball on the floor of a scalding shower and lie there unblinking for several hours. Geraldo at Large [FoxNews via RedLasso] More »
Hugh Jackman’s Wife Claims Responsibility For ‘Viva Laughlin’ Bombing
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | When one’s creatively adventurous casino musical murder mystery bombs so spectacularly that everyone involved is still picking the bloody sequins from the costumes of cabaret dancers killed in the low-rated blast out of their hair several days later, one can either go into hiding, hoping the media will stop calling to find out What Went Wrong, or one can hold one’s head high to proclaim (in song, preferably), “Nothing ventured, nothing gained!” We’re not sure which route Hugh Jackman eventually plans to take, but his wife has chosen the latter option: “We are obviously very disappointed, but you have to take risks in this business,” Deborra-Lee Furness said Wednesday in Sydney. More »
Could Iggy Just Be A Symbol Of Ellen And Portia’s Love Going Sour?
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | What a difference a week makes, as only days ago our state’s greatest displacement tragedy revolved around the fate of one lovable rat-dog, ripped from his hairdresser home by a mercenary squad of anal-retentive canine adoption officials. Still, those who hoped the IggyGate crisis would end with Ellen’s clear-eyed meditation on the power of televised crying were sorely mistaken, as the armchair psychiatrists at Star Magazine have begun to examine the Iggy behind the Iggy – i.e., Ellen and Portia’s allegedly deteriorating relationship: According to multiple sources, [Ellen's] really in pain because her three-year romance with actress Portia de Rossi is all but over. “Ellen would never have broken down like that on TV if things were right in her home life,” one source tells Star. More »
Britney-Stalking Paparazzi Fiddle With Their Cameras As Malibu Burns
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | With a significant portion of Southern California engulfed in apocalyptic hellfires sent by a vengeful God clearly envious of our year-round good weather and easily accessible, delicious produce, the hardy footsoldiers dispatched to the front lines of this unwinnable war display extraordinary courage in the line of duty. We speak, of course, of the paparazzi angling for a shot of Britney Spears’s home. The NY Observer reports: “Basically, all the paparazzi are still out there trying to get their Britney shot,” said one resident of the beachy burg. “They don’t even care much about the burning houses.” More »
A Rare Unscripted WWE Moment
7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | If you have any interest in professional wrestling, ladies who were once in Playboy, or upsetting YouTube video of sports-related injuries, this clip of the WWE’s Candice Michelle slipping off the top rope and suffering a broken collarbone at a recent match might be up your alley. It’s not quite as dramatic as the X-Games guy’s fall, but you’ll probably wince just as loudly from the sound of the thud. [AOL Sports] More »This Halloween, How About Going As The Gay Indian Prince?
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Look, it’s not a gay wizard, but it’s the best we could come up with on such short notice: A very special “Gays Around the World”-themed episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show featured as its guest of honour Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of Rajpipla, the famed Indian prince disowned by his family after outing himself to a shocked nation so anti-gay, they still refuse to speak to those albino Bengal tigers who ran off with Siegfried & Roy a decade ago. Rocking a Punjab-fabulous fuchsia headwrap, Gohil candidly discussed the nitty-gritty of arranged sham marriages, including the Royal Headache that suddenly rendered him impotent on his wedding night. Stumped trick-or-treaters: We believe we’ve found your costume. www2.oprah.com More »
The Flaming Zeitgeist
6:55AM Defamer Hollywood | Over at LAtimes.com, Gay Dumbledore remains just as hot as coverage of the wildfires. [LATimes.com] More »
