Friday, November 30, 2007
This Picture Pretty Much Sums Up Our Reaction To The Election Result
12:07PM Clem Bastow | Reading this story today about Kevin Rudd revealing his cabinet, we were particularly taken by the photo accompanying it:
Love it – “an excited Maxine McKew”. That’s the understatement of the decade. Maxine is basically like, “OH MY GOD YOU GUYS!! Government! WE CAN HAZ IT!”
Brilliant. And a happy Friday to you all! More » 
We Had A Sneaking Suspicion About All This
11:45AM Clem Bastow | We told you recently about Sneaky Sound System’s apparent rampage through the hotel rooms of Albury that left fly-wire screens countrywide fearing for their lives.
However, now it seems it wasn’t “the System” (thanks, Channel Ten ARIA promos) who trashed the joint at all, but a crewmember who’ll now be looking for alternative employment.
Sneaky’s Angus McDonald said: “This is all news to us. We had a great time in Albury so it’s a shame we’ve been dragged into this mess. Trashing a hotel room is a bit passe, isn’t it?
The band’s manager, Amber Zada, has confirmed a crew member was fired over the incident but claimed the band had nothing to do with it.
Zada said: “No member of the band has any knowledge of the incident, but we’re investigating allegations we have read in the press and we’ll take whatever action is needed.
“From our initial investigations, the reports have been grossly exaggerated and we wish the hotel had just talked to us about it first. It has been blown out of proportion.”
Well, you know, there were innocent fly-wire screens’ lives at stake; you can understand the proprietors’ sense of urgency when it came time to alert the people of Australia to such atrocities.
Honestly, some people… The mind boggles. Hopefully Bunnings Warehouse can come up with some sort of charitable drive to deal with this emerging tragedy before it gets any more out of hand. More » 
Bec Hewitt’s Sudden Change Of Gossip Mag Heart
11:30AM Clem Bastow | For a while there it looked as though baby Mia Hewitt was destined to grow up entirely within the pages of Woman’s Day, sort of like Sally from Home & Away but trapped inside the pages of a magazine.
Well, hasn’t Ms Bum Chin herself changed her tune – evidently Bec “Rebecca Hewitt” Cartwright has decided enough’s enough and that children’s birthday parties are – shockingly – for children rather than bored housewives and patients in GPs’ waiting rooms to enjoy.
Just one month ago, Bec ended her two-year contract as a columnist with the ACP-owned Woman’s Day – the magazine that reportedly shelled out more than a million dollars to own the exclusive rights to Mia’s birth.
At the time it was believed to be a record sum paid locally by a magazine, but two years and a stash of sappy stories later, it would appear the tennis mum is no longer looking to sell her family album to the public.
“Bec is no longer contracted to Woman’s Day and she is not looking to renew that contract with the magazine,” the Hewitts’ manager David Drysdale said yesterday.
“Bec and Lleyton would prefer to keep Mia’s birthday a private affair, and enjoy a special family day together without any media present.”
This from the couple who thought their newborn baby would really enjoy being gussied up in a mini-me version of Bec’s formal gown and bounced up and down on the Logies stage about eight hours after bedtime.
We just won’t know what to do with ourselves without Bec’s latest “baby pain” or “marriage secrets”! More » 
Delta Knocks Back Potato’s Proposal, Probably Due To Those Pesky Kids
11:07AM Clem Bastow | You know, in the bastion of things not to do when dating someone who already has children, it’s safe to say that admitting your resentment of them in an interview is probably not a great idea.
Well, no one told Delta that, as she aired her thoughts regarding partner Brian “Potato” McFadden’s daughters with ex-wife Kerry “Chipshop” Katona earlier this year.
And now, it seems Delts has KO’ed Potato’s proposal of marriage, and we’ll give you one guess as to why.
McFadden popped the question last Friday, after returning to Sydney from a working visit to his hometown of Dublin – with an engagement ring.
However, sources close to the Goodrem camp say she has struggled to accept becoming a stepmother to his two daughters at such a young age.
“She really loves him very much, but doesn’t want to be a mum so soon. It’s a huge responsibility and she’s still too young,” an insider said yesterday.
The 23-year-old has made no secret of the challenge she faced winning over his children from his first marriage to UK pop star, Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona.
“I love the kids, but admit it was very hard when it started,” she said in a recent magazine report.
What Shakespeare is trying to say is “I can’t be stuffed doing Stepmom stuff and would rather be tending to my new hair extensions and writhing around on top of a bucket chair to express my newfound passion for life and love”.
Which, when you think about it, is probably what Chipshop did when it came to mothering duties, so maybe Delta shouldn’t be so hard on herself. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Mitch Resorts To Emotional Blackmail
10:55AM Clem Bastow | Now that Amy Winehouse’s tour is in tatters and her professional rep looking to follow said engagement down the toilet, her friends and family are doing what any good friends and family should do in a loved one’s time of crisis: emotional blackmail!
Yes, not only are Winegums’ pals starting a chorus of “DUMP HIM!” (with regards to Winegums’ No Good™ husband Blake, currently locked up and dropping the soap), now dad Mitch Winehouse has apparently finally tired of being understanding and has whacked Amy with every child’s worst nightmare:
Pals say taxi driver dad Mitch is threatening to change his will unless she sorts herself out.
Mitch said last night: “I’m very concerned for Amy’s welfare.
“She’s very sorry she had to let the fans down, but it’s for the best at the moment.”
He added that Amy is thinking about checking into rehab again and that “all options” are being considered.
In other words, Mitch is basically saying “behave yourself or I’ll disinherit you”!
However, we’re not sure that’ll work, since Winegums is no doubt totally jazzed about what Blake will leave her in his will (i.e. probably a crust of bread wrapped in a couple of Rizlas with a few teeth) that she doesn’t care what her dad does. More » 
10 Dead, 5 Injured In Britney Spears Hustler Store Shopping Spree
7:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Just a day after Star magazine exposed the chilling truth about the sex-dungeon in Britney Spears’s Mulholland Dr. mansion, based off of blueprints the singer scribbled on a McDonald’s placemat painstakingly plotting the placement of every pommel horse and industrial-sized lube-dispenser, Us Weekly now reports that the singer invaded the Hustler store for a lacy-underthings spree that resulted in a possibly criminal act of petty, mannequin-de-wigging larceny: Spears loaded up on naughty skivvies and headed to the fitting rooms. But store employees “told her they don’t allow people to try on underwear,” a source at the scene says. “She was really upset.” [...] More »
Tara Reid’s Body-Shot-Pouring Services Still In Demand Down Under
7:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Even though Tara Reid’s once-promising acting career has stalled of late (sadly, her critically embraced turn as a brainy anthropologist in Alone in the Dark was so long ago that she’s starting to slide off every low-budget casting director’s short list for busty-genius roles), her savvy decision to fully exploit her world-famous Taradise brand keeps her working, especially during the end-of-year party season, when her mistress-of-tequila-soaked-ceremonies services are in heavy demand. More »
7:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Increasingly emboldened lovebirds Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon have reportedly taken to their skies with their primal lovemaking, occupying a first class Lufthansa bathroom for 11 minutes, according to Star magazine, before emerging separately, their skin luminescent with just the slightest coating of moist, mile-high afterglow. [showbizspy.com] More »
Hollywood Fuckingwatch
7:35AM Defamer Hollywood | As Sex and Breakfast star Eliza Dushku is now discovering, the problem with taking a role in a movie about group sex is that you then must spend all of your time explaining to reporters that you are just playing a horny character who’s exploring the multiway-fucking boundaries of her sexuality, and not necessarily an orgy enthusiast yourself. [LAT] More »
