Friday, October 26, 2007
YouTube Clip Of The Day
3:51PM Jess McGuire | RRR broadcaster and all round top bloke Tony Wilson recorded an interview with a car enthusiast aaaages ago, and rewatching it today made us chuckle. We especially like the earnestness in which the interviewee discusses how bureaucracy stopped him from being able to own the license plate “OHSOHOT” (seven letters) instead forcing him to make do with “OSOHOT”.
That’s sick, that’s sick, that’s sick! More » 
Paris Hilton To Appear On I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!? Perhaps!
10:48AM Jess McGuire | We’re all aware of the UK reality television show which forces C-grade celebrities to live rough and eat revolting things in the hope of winning the hearts of Ol’ Blighty and possibly crawl their way up the fame ladder to the rung labelled B-grade, aren’t we? I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! is responsible for bringing Jordan and Peter Andre together, amongst other notable achievements, and preparations are underway for the next season as we speak.
We have an insider working on the show who contacted us yesterday to reveal that Paris Hilton is apparently in negotiations to appear on the program. The idea of watching the genius behind ‘Stars Are Blind’ eating kangaroo testicles or whatever the hell kind of torture they’re planning on putting the celebrities through this year is almost thrilling enough to make us call Channel Ten repeatedly and beg them to buy the rights to the program. More » It’s Been A While Since Amber Petty Mentioned How Close She Is With BFF Princess Mary, Hasn’t It?
10:29AM Jess McGuire | So we were rather relieved this morning to wake up and find she’s piped up regarding a book penned by #1 Enemy Of Australia Trine Villemann which states, amongst other things, that Our Mary TM is not the love of Prince Frederik’s life. IS SHE MAD?
Anyway, here are Amber Petty’s dull thoughts, if you’re interested.
In her book, Copenhagen 1015K, Danish Royal correspondent
Trine Villemann claims Frederik would have been better off marrying his
old girlfriend, Danish model Katje Storkholm.
“There is no truth to that at all,” Amber says, adding the claims have upset Mary, above left with Amber.
“She is extremely disappointed by them and finds it all rather surprising, coming out of the blue.
“It is absolute rubbish. They have never been happier.”
We have to agree with Amber about the book being nonsense though. Sure, we haven’t read it ourselves, but Mary helped Fred kick smoking! Through positive pressure! If that’s not true love, we don’t know what the fuck is. More » ‘I’ve Been Yelled At By Someone Famous’
10:03AM Jess McGuire | One of our favourite groups on Facefuck (remember when we hated that place? Remember? And now we are drawn to it like a bee to honey…) is the enticingly named ‘I’ve been yelled at by someone famous’ which, true to its word, contains quite a few interesting tales on it regarding cranky celebrities.
Here are a few of our favourites if you can’t be bothered checking out the group yourself, you cheeky lazy buggers.
I worked in a pub in Richmond. One day Ernie Sigley came in to have
lunch with some other people. When he was ready for another drink he
would remain seated, click his fingers, gesturing for me to come to him
and say “girly get me another wine/beer”. Smug little c*#t
Bob Ellis once told me “I hope you die a slow and horrible death” and then he hung up.
I was in the 2UE elevator a few years back and Alan Jones entered. At
the time I was wearing some yellow Nikes and he commented “What a
revolting pair of shoes. Did you win them in a raffle or something?”
Jack Thompson told me to fuck off once – he was really drunk and he
thought i was taking his picture and i was just getting my cardigan out
of my bag
Many years ago I was housesitting for my father, and walking his bloody
beagles at Birchgrove Oval (Balmain, Sydney…). I knew little of dog
walking etiquette… Anyway, one of the dogs did a crap, I kept walking
and a strident voice yelled out from the other side of the oval…’Oi!
Pick up your poo!’ It was none other than swimming icon Dawn Fraser.
Have you been yelled at by someone famous? Do let us know. More » 
Howard’s Interest Rate Appears To Have Risen In This Happy Snap (Amongst Other Things)
9:47AM Jess McGuire | Oh, we’re clearly being ridiculous and immature, but this photo of Prime Minister John Howard out and about amongst the people during the campaign made us chuckle quietly to ourselves.
They are nice cans, John. We certainly don’t blame you for being momentarily distracted from the mammoth task of convincing the Australian public you’re not an over-the-hill power freak with a little note from your maker saying ‘IOU’ where your soul should be.
Who on earth is he on the phone to, and what is he saying, we wonder?
Feel free to forward anything else election related you think we’d like to the usual contact address (check the info column thingo to your left – we can’t remember the technical term for it because we’re a bit sick today, if you must know, and leaving bed is struggle enough). Shots of Kevin Rudd ogling bottoms are welcome. More » Sarong-Wearing Steve Irwin A Top Root, Reveals Terri
9:36AM Jess McGuire | We can’t help but feel that Terri may have shared a bit too much during a recent interview in the UK.
“He was hot in the cot and I miss him desperately,” the 43-year-old mother of two told The Times newspaper. “In some ways I miss him more now, because it hits me that he’s not coming home. He was a lucky find. “If you find a macho guy, he’s usually kind of an ass; and if you find a sensitive guy he’s usually kind of a wimp.To get someone who is sensitive, yet strong … Steve was that.”
Of course, Steve’s tendency to pounce upon and passionately wrestle even nature’s wildest creatures into submission should have given us a heads up that he was a right goer in the boudoir.
Despite recent rumours of a relationship with Steve’s friend and
manager John Stainton, Terri said it was still too early to contemplate
being with another man.
“You can’t ever say never,” she said.
“I find it wonderful when people live, love and laugh again.”
Take note, Rove – Terri is in your corner.
Also – TERRI IRWIN, PLEASE DO NOT EVER EVER EVER DATE JOHN STAINTON. THERE IS JUST SOMETHING ABOUT HIM WHICH FREAKS US OUT COMPLETELY. AND THE LAST THING THE FRAGILE BINDI AND BOB NEED IN THEIR PRECIOUS LITTLE LIVES IS A GINGE HALF-SIBLING, IT WILL JUST CONFUSE THEM. More » Distractingly Buxom Halle Berry Talks About Her Movie And The Wildfires, We Think
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Halle Berry’s publicist deserves a nice raise; knowing that erasing the public’s already fading memory of JewishCousinNoseGate would take nothing more than a plunging neckline and an eager gallery of photographers, he gave the front of her dress a final, downward tug and pushed her in front of the cameras at the London Film Festival, confident that by the end of her interview, the only thing anyone would be thinking about are the exciting ways that motherhood has changed her. Halle Berry discusses Calif. fires, pregnancy [LiveVideo] Previously: Meet Hillela Bernstein, Halle Berry’s Jewish Cousin [Defamer] More »
Third World Finance Dept
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | At least one blogger attending Natalie Portman’s recent Columbia University lecture about micro-lending wasn’t exactly blown away the actress’s appeal for debt forgiveness: “Then he showed a video featuring Natalie Portman somewhere in Africa, on top of a mountain, her knees pulled to her chest, intimately looking into the camera (as the sound person apparently knocked the mic into various objects), musing about the poor people she’d met on her journey and how they’ve taught her that exploitative micro-finance organizations like FINCA need to forgive all their loans. The real Natalie Portman in the room didn’t seem to know what to do while this video played. Sometimes she looked at the ground, sometimes at the audience, and sometimes at the screen. It would have been less awkward if she had lip-synced to herself speaking in the video. The video was short, and afterward Natalie Portman apologised for “not being as articulate as might have been expected” in it. Expected by whom?” This strikes us a little harsh, especially considering how generously Portman has given of herself lately. [I Heart Not You] More »
So How’s The Studio Mogul Deal Working Out For Tom Cruise?
7:35AM Defamer Hollywood | When MGM turned over the reigns of its moribund United Artists label to Tom Cruise a few short months after the actor/producer/freelance detox technician was cruelly cast out of the Paramount family, we just assumed that the burgeoning mogul would effortlessly greenlight himself up a few blockbusters that would quickly restore him to his former position as the Biggest Movie Star in the World. But with early reviews of the forthcoming Lions for Lambs, his first UA-branded release seeming tepid at best, Slate’s Kim Masters looks at the studio’s next projects, finding little that would make one want to stomp a talk show sofa in joy: But back to business. The film’s lack of commercial appeal wouldn’t be a problem if the movie were generating reviews that would give it Oscar fuel. But it isn’t, and UA’s got two more tough-to-market movies coming down the pipeline. Up next is Valkyrie, in which Cruise plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, a German icon who tried to assassinate Hitler. You might recall that the Germans – hostile to Scientology – wouldn’t allow filming in the Bendlerblock, where Stauffenberg was executed. When the government relented, footage shot there was mysteriously damaged in the lab and had to be reshot. More »
