Thursday, December 11, 2008
The Today Show Spreads Some Christmas Cheer
4:35PM Jess McGuire | Reader Luke sent me this video – it is amazing and hilarious and completely heartbreaking.
Currently on the Today Show, there’s a competition involving some BIG CHRISTMAS PRIZES. In order to win, you need to register with the show, and if you get a phone call during the program, you must answer it within five rings with the words “I wake up with Today” and then Channel Nine’s breakfast telly stars Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic will give you the prize, and oh! Oh! What a happy day!
Not such a feel good segment if you fuck it up, however. Take this morning’s on air tears as a nice example.
We’ve been on since 5:30am, bitch! Get with the program!
Poor, poor woman. Still, Karl’s going to whack together the best damn hamper he can for you. That’s nearly as good as a prize worth $20,000?
Thanks for the tip off, Luke!
UPDATE: ARGH! It seems the video has been pulled! WHY? It’s the feel good moment of the year! I’ve still got the YouTube page open from earlier today and can still watch it, over and over, and I’m never closing that window again.
UPDATE II: All seems to be well, it was just some temporary insanity. Revel it the goodness! More » 
Kanye West “An Angry Robot” At Sydney Show
3:44PM Jess McGuire | This story from the most recent Christie’s Music News column over at themusic.com.au regarding Kanye West’s recent performance in Sydney made me chuckle. Oh, the curse of the vocoder!
Kanye West was in a strange mood at his December 6 show in Sydney. He got into a rave about Britney Spears and how she “spazzed out” because of media, then how it had stripped him of a “real life” and then started the song “Love Lockdown” no less than four times. Each time he’d leave the stage, and the startled band would start again. Apparently he was supposed to have worn a new item for the number but it wasn’t available or something.
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More Farmer Wants A Wife News!
2:44PM Jess McGuire | Yesterday, whilst announcing the sad split (yeah, yeah – I know none of us truly care, whatever…) of reality show couple Farmer Ben and his second place filly Sarah, I finished my explosive piece of online journalism with the words “As long as Rob and Jo are still together and in love, I’m happy. They are, aren’t they?”
Well, ask and ye shall receive from the gossip gods!
Love has come to town – specifically, the South-East – for The Farmer Wants a Wife romeo Rob Hodges. The Mt Gambier farmer is spending more time in Melbourne to be with fiancee Jo Fincham, with whom he found love on the popular dating show.
They’re engaged?! Had that already happened on the show?! God, I don’t know. But I’m just stoked they’re still together. They are TOO SWEET.
And if the wedding ends up nearer to Melbourne than Mt Gambier, I will sneak in and cry loudly as they exchange vows. More » Peter Andre And Jordan Are Having Another Baby!
1:28PM Jess McGuire | Pregnancy Thursday continues…
While a joint Abbie Cornish/Ryan Phillipe production is yet to be officially confirmed, it seems definite – in a UK tabloids kind of way – that Jordan and Peter Andre’s brood will increase next year, with news the big breasted polo enthusiast is three months gone.
Aussie pop singer Peter Andre is 100 per cent back with his wife, the busty model Jordan, with news she is expecting her fourth child. The glamour English model, 30, who now goes by the name Katie Price, is thought to be three months’ pregnant, the UK newspaper, The Daily Star, reports.
And guess where they’re going to raise the little one? Certainly not in Australia… No, apparently this latest addition to the Andre clan will grow up in the Los Angeles, with the Daily Telegraph insisting the birth will “cement their status” in the US.
The most truly disturbing part of the article? More » Abbie Cornish Knocked Up?
12:15PM Jess McGuire | Sydney Confidential seems to think Abbie Cornish’s return to Australia for Christmas this year will soon tie in nicely with an announcement she’s got a Ryan Phillipe DNA infused bun in the oven. Either that, or Sydney Confidential suspects she’s been eating egg yolks. Erm, okay guys.
An expanding waistline is a sure-fire indication of one or two things when you’re a 26-year-old actress. Either you’ve consumed too many egg yolks or you are pregnant. And so Abbie Cornish’s figure has been a catalyst for excited whispers since the actress flew home to Australia on Sunday.
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11:01AM Jess McGuire | Have you seen The Age’s feature on Catherine Deveny today? Quite the raunchy picture accompanying it, I’m sure you’ll agree. The Dev has a new book out featuring her best columns (”An oxymoron, surely?! Barbarians at the gate, Horatio on the bridge!” – Andrew Bolt) and the stuff Fairfax wouldn’t publish, and she’s doing a book signing at 12:30pm at Readings in Carlton, so if you’re around and you’re a fan, you should pop in.
Anyway, back to The Age article. It is revealing!
“If I’d been allowed to bonk at home, I never would have left,” she explains. Of course, she was not allowed, so she moved into a Fitzroy terrace with three mates. It remains the happiest time of her life. She grew vegies in the back yard, smoked dope and had lots of sex. She had her heart broken. She stayed out late, slept in and listened to her housemates’ Pixies records.
She merrily throws criticism at the direction of the ABC – and she works for them! More »
Well HELLO THERE, Catherine Deveny!
11:01AM Jess McGuire | Have you seen The Age’s feature on Catherine Deveny today? Quite the raunchy picture accompanying it, I’m sure you’ll agree. The Dev has a new book out featuring her best columns (”An oxymoron, surely?! Barbarians at the gate, Horatio on the bridge!” – Andrew Bolt) and the stuff Fairfax wouldn’t publish, and she’s doing a book signing at 12:30pm at Readings in Carlton, so if you’re around and you’re a fan, you should pop in.
Anyway, back to The Age article. It is revealing!
“If I’d been allowed to bonk at home, I never would have left,” she explains. Of course, she was not allowed, so she moved into a Fitzroy terrace with three mates. It remains the happiest time of her life. She grew vegies in the back yard, smoked dope and had lots of sex. She had her heart broken. She stayed out late, slept in and listened to her housemates’ Pixies records.
She merrily throws criticism at the direction of the ABC – and she works for them! More » 
Who Is The Gent Looking Remarkably Unimpressed With Cate Blanchett’s Dress?
9:45AM Jess McGuire | My friend Nadine was enjoying the fashion critiquing delights over at Go Fug Yourself and gazing at a picture of Cate Blanchett at the premiere of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button when she noticed something. Goodness, a man in the background holding a microphone and looking incredibly bored seemed oh so familiar. Who could it be now? More » 
YouTube Clip Of The Day
8:44AM Jess McGuire | You know what’s really bad? There have been so many YouTube Clips Of The Day that it’s hard to remember if we’ve already published something on here. Now, I think what you’re about to see here is new (at least, to Defamer Australia). But I have vague recollections of watching Japanese toilet training video clips in the past. Did I do this in my own time? It’s possible. Quite possible. Are there several different toilet training video clips floating around on the internet? Maybe.
In short, if you’ve seen this already on Defamer Australia – I’m sorry. But it IS cute in a really, really weird way.
Thanks to reader Cheryl for sending it in! More » 
8:25AM Seth | Maddox: Playing With Guns Part 2. We noted with some apprehension Angelina Jolie’s seeming encouragement of son Maddox’s growing fascination with guns, knives, and various other lethal things you can hide in a pocket. Now, in his Rolling Stone cover story profile, Brad Pitt shares: “Our seven-year-old was searching the word ‘weapons’ on Google the other day and ended up on some white-supremacist site. I’m sure now we’re on all kinds of watch lists.” We’re certain this is all just part of a boyish, completely natural fascination with the implements of war, however, and won’t throw up any red flags until we receive word that Maddox has officially slaughtered and gutted his first wild boar as part of a four-day, independently undertaken survival campaign in the French wilderness. [ONTDvia Lindsay Robertson] More »
