Thursday, December 27, 2007
Delta Goodrem Hates Australia
12:48PM Clem Bastow | You’d think with Brian “Potato” McFadden more or less deserting the UK for other shores upon which to “relaunch” his solo career, and Delta “Postmodern Mermaid Fantasy” Goodrem being, you know, Australian and everything, that the celebrity couple would choose this wide brown land within which to host their no-doubt glittering upcoming wedding, right?
Not so – apparently Delta plans to be a surrendered wife and follow Potato to the middle of outer Mongolia, or wherever is deemed to be “in the middle” of all their prospective hometowns.
While no official date has been set for the big day, the pair say they are looking at Bali as a possible location.
“We have friends all over the world so we’d like it to be somewhere in the middle,” McFadden told OK! Magazine.
Oh yes, Bali, that’s smack in the middle of the UK and Australia!
Since Geography doesn’t seem to be Potato’s strongpoint, we’d like to suggest a few alternatives that really are “in the middle”:
* Yemen!
* Saudi Arabia!
* The Gaza Strip!
* a pontoon in the middle of The Red Sea!
We can hear the OK! phones ringing hot already. Just send us a slice of the cake as thanks, Potato. More » 
Amelle Sugababes Spends Christmas In Hospital
11:41AM Clem Bastow | However, Amelle Berrabah was not unwell herself – despite Keisha Buchanan’s best efforts with her bandmate-themed voodoo doll collection – rather, this story comes to you from the John Witherspoon Memorial Nearest And Dearest News department.
Amelle and her boyfriend found themselves pitched into a world of Christmas Eve horror when thugs set upon Freddie with a machete and nearly severed his arm and leg.
Freddie Fuller, 25, was found lying in a pool of blood with his left arm and leg hanging by a thread after the attack in Aldershot, Hampshire.
Former tree surgeon Mr Fuller, from Hammersmith, in West London, also suffered huge gashes and stab wounds to his head and legs, according to The Sun newspaper.
The couple were reportedly enjoying a night out with friends at Yates’s Wine Lodge before the attack.
He underwent an emergency six-hour operation at Frimley Park Hospital, in Surrey, to save his limbs and Amelle, 23, was said to have spent Christmas Day by his bedside in intensive care.
A source close to Amelle told The Sun: “She’s desperately upset. Freddie’s arm was almost hacked clean off and he lost a hell of a lot of blood.”
No shit, “source”! What was the other option, “Amelle is doing okay and popped down to the local for a few eggnogs while they stitched up her bloke; it was Christmas, after all”?
Best wishes for a swift recovery to the extended Sugababes clan! More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Beehive Yourself
10:33AM Clem Bastow | We’d wondered for some time whether Ms Winegums might be sneaking things into Pentonville Prison in her beehive (a file, small children, a Holden Barina) and it looks like our suspicions were correct.
As if we even needed to announce such further misadventures in the world of Winegums, Amy’s prison visits to locked up hubby Blake have been “restricted” after he tested positive for drugs, presumably smuggled in by wifey.
According to British newspaper The Sun, the 24-year-old ‘Rehab’ singer is allowed to visit Blake, 25, from behind a glass screen with no physical contact.
The move by London’s Pentonville prison comes after he tested positive last week for a Class A drug, thought to be heroin.
Visits to prisoners on remand usually take place in an open hall with officers patrolling. But an insider said: “As a precaution, the governor has banned Amy from having any more open visits with Blake. They now have to meet in a room separated by a bullet-proof glass screen.”
Amy, 24, is known to hide drugs in her infamous beehive hairdo when she’s on stage.
Good move, Amy!
Now we just have to resume praying to the gods of soap-dropping that, through all this Blake-related publicity, the crims in Pentonville are reminded how much disdain they have for inmates what don’t treat their missus proper. More » 
10:08AM Defamer Hollywood | Barron Hilton, Paris’s grandfather, has announced today his plans to donate 97 per cent of his $US2.3 billion fortune to charity. While his similarly philanthropic granddaughter was unavailable for comment, we’re certain she would wholeheartedly embrace the rechanneling of the family’s vast fortunes to those less hot and/or fortunate, and match the act by pledging a penny from every sale of her mobile phone game sensation Paris Hilton’s Jewel Jam to feed the hungry Darfricans. [Reuters] More »
Jamie Lynn Spears’ Babydaddy May Be More Daddy Than Baby
9:32AM Defamer Hollywood | Jamie Lynn Spears’s tot saga is really shaping up to be 2008’s answer to the onion-layers complexity of big sis’s 2007 mental breakdown. Newest development: the dad might not be fellow recent-driver’s-licence-acquirer Casey Aldridge, but an exec at the kiddie net Nickelodeon, according to a Star magazine report: The father of Jamie Lynn Spears baby is NOT boyfriend Casey Aldridge, according to shocking reports from the U.S. More »
Just How Much Does Kylie Love Her Gays?
9:22AM Clem Bastow | Enough to consider a return to the Mardi Gras stage in 2008, if the latest rumours are to be believed. Our Kyles appeared at Australia’s biggest gay and lesbian PAARRRTAAAYYY in 1994 and 1998 but has not been back since.
Despite canning a touted 2008 world tour (as she didn’t feel well enough yet), it’s a one-off gig she’d likely seriously consider, if she knows what’s good for her, since the pink dollar has kept her career afloat even BGHP (Before Gold Hot Pants).
The princess of pop looks set to have the queens of Sydney spinning around at the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras next year, if Kylie Minogue’s enthusiastic interview with DNA magazine is any indication.
Rumours have been circulating the divine Miss M would headline the 30th anniversary of the annual event and the singer has now confirmed her interest, telling the mag she would “absolutely love” to perform at the parade.
It goes without saying that we’d love to see this happen. In fact, we’d love to see Kylie spend more time in Australia full-stop.
Surely it’s time for her to quit that maddening mid-Atlantic accent and return to her Charlene roots? Especially since it looks as though Libby won’t make it through the Neighbours cliffhanger. More » 
Lindsay Lohan Expects Judge To Believe She Can Remember Which Parts Of 2005 She Was Sober For
9:21AM Defamer Hollywood | We’d like you now to take a moment and think back: way, way back, when a pre-reformed shock-starlet Lindsay Lohan was light years away from sharing the urban-pop-recording goings-on in her newly clean-and-sober life with a Las Vegas radio show (which we’d in turn set to charming, anthropomorphized vegetable imagery). 2005 was the Golden Age of Lohan-Generated Vehicular Manglings, but who of us could have anticipated that over two years later, we’d still be talking about the once-commonplace occurrence of her black Mercedes colliding with a delivery van following a lunch at The Ivy: Lindsay Lohan says she was sober before a 2005 car crash near Beverly Hills. More »
Don’t Say We Never Gave You Anything:
8:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Don’t say we never gave you anything: Paramount Vantage’s awards consideration site has made the shooting scripts for all their contenders available for download. That’s A Mighty Heart, Margot at the Wedding, Into the Wild, The Kite Runner, and There Will Be Blood. [Vantage Guilds via Slash Film] More »
Short Ends: A Vote For Mike Huckabee Is A Vote For More Spears
8:16AM Defamer Hollywood | Well, at least we know where Mike Huckabee stands on the Jamie Lynn Spears issue. To the rest of the candidates: We’re waiting. After taking the whole family to see The Water Horse, Angelina Jolie is now intent on adopting one of the adorable baby Nessies to add to her ever-growing, multicultural brood. How one laid off below-the-line staffer learned to stop worrying and love the strike. Now you have no excuse for driving on New Year’s Eve (unless you plan on spending it anywhere on the Westside): “All Metro Rail lines will run all night, every 20 minutes.” The Oscar ballots are officially in the USPS’s hands now: God be with them, and may they never end up in the dead-letter office Santa’s P.O. Box. Now, thanks to the internet, you can stare indecisively at the contents of other people’s fridges from around the world. More »
