Saturday, November 22, 2008
Top Gear Australia Presenter Returning To The UK; Jazz Musician James Morrison Will Be Bringing His Best Dad Jokes To The Team
11:30AM Jess McGuire | Perhaps Top Gear Australia host Charlie Cox was somewhat disappointed with the response from viewers to the Antipodean remake of the beloved British car show, or maybe – as he claims – he genuinely has too many work commitments in London. Whatever. Either way, he’s leaving the show!
Cox, who presented the first series with Steve Pizzati and Warren Brown, said he couldn’t give enough time to the show due to business commitments.
“My time on Top Gear Australia was very special and it was a fantastic opportunity to be part of launching an extraordinary series,” Cox said. “Sadly, though, I’ve lived in the UK for the past 19 years and I’m not able to give the time I want to series two.
And what can we expect from replacement James Morrison then? More » 
Andrew O’Keefe: The Nation’s Favourite Party Animal!
10:58AM Jess McGuire | Best story of the weekend? That award goes hands down to the infamous Andrew O’Keefe drinking binge tape, which finally got a public airing.
The four-minute series of videos show O’Keefe struggling to walk, crawling, trying to smoke a cigarette and lying in a gutter with a blonde woman who attempts to help him.
Attempting to control the damaging publicity, O’Keefe and Seven last week released a statement defending his role as a “family man” who “never set out to deliberately offend anyone” during his binge session.
But did he get mad at anyone during his binge session? Why, yes he did!
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Christmas Centerpiece-Making With Stewart And Colbert
10:45AM Seth | She may not have the palpable sexual chemistry with Stephen Colbert that she enjoys with Jay Leno or Snoop Dogg, but we could still really kick back all day to watch these two make gilded mistletoe orbs or whatever the hell it is they’re up to. Awwww…look at the little Shiba Ee-dudes frolicking around in there. Enjoy them now before they get bigger and are sent off to loving homes. Getty stock photos + Sasha Fierce song titles = seconds of fun. Car crash rocks the set of 30 Rock! Don’t worry—everyone’s OK. Bid now on Jenna Jameson’s couch! Yikes—off-white silk. Fairly stain-unforgiving choice for a porn star. God bless Pax Jolie-Pitt: He still hoards his food in case his parents should change their mind and return him. Smart kid.
Robert Pattinson Plays Dumb About the Appeal of Hair He Can’t Stop Touching
9:58AM STV | We’ve pushed Defamer’s overworked, underpaid Twilight Bureau as far as it can go this week, and why not: Variety now reports that the film will pull in $US30 million today, establishing it on the lower end of the 20 all-time best opening-day grosses. Among other attributes, Robert Pattinson’s dense, unruly mop of hair has been of particular interest to the ticketbuying public, whose every tousle, stroke, pat and otherwise swoony self-grooming invariably culminate in hormonal yelps of appreciation from his female fan base. But when asked by Ellen DeGeneres today about that hair’s appeal, Pattinson simply raked through it once more — and once more, and once again, and again — in dumbfounded wonder before confessing, “I have no idea.” As the accompanying hair-touching highlight reel suggests, however, we think someone doth protest too much. On the other hand, if we only washed our hair once a month (if that), we’d probably have the same curiosity. Carry on, Rob. [Ellen] More »
Which ‘Arrested Development’ Star Is Ready To Ditch Michael Cera?
9:07AM Kyle Buchanan | E!’s Kristin Dos Santos brings us more news on the suddenly snowballing Arrested Development movie, including the new information that the film is budgeted at $US15 million (around what we’d estimate the theatrical ceiling is for this property, though homevid sales should be killer). However, her most interesting tidbit, divulged to her by a principal cast member wishing to remain anonymous, is what the reaction is to someone (cough Michael Cera cough) who’s not so keen on the big screen transfer: More »
Up to 24 Laid Off in New Weinstein Co. Purge
8:47AM STV | Apparently not encouraged by the spit-take and crotch-veil buzz surrounding its forthcoming releases, the struggling Weinstein Company axed “roughly two dozen” employees this afternoon. The New York Post reports that human resources broke the news to the staffers — about 11% of the Weinsteins’ workforce — in a purge related not to the studio’s ongoing money woes, but rather a bit of bearish anticipation of the fast-approaching recession. Still, we’re as shocked as you are: The Weinstein Company has a human resources department? More »
Grab A Nip Slip Eyeful Of 90210’s AnnaLynne McCord!
8:24AM Kyle Buchanan | We’ll admit that we stopped paying attention to the new 90210 after they demoted Lucille Bluth, but it appears from these on-set photos that producers have figured out an exciting new guest star for their reboot: the Nip Slip! Our old friend N.S. shared scenes with show lioness AnnaLynne McCord, who we remember fondly for her work on Nip/Tuck (and who probably should have kept her nip tucked here, hey-o). Let this serve as a lesson to McCord: when filming a running scene, a bra (and the occasional hamburger) can provide invaluable support. Click through for the full, uncensored photo. More »
Didja Hear the One About Rosie and ‘The View’? Now You Have, Twice
7:37AM Kyle Buchanan | So much has gone down on The View since Rosie O’Donnell quit that it feels like ancient history when O’Donnell reopens those old wounds for some extra publicity, but we made an exception yesterday because her reaction video to Barbara Walters’s smackdown was succinct and cute. Sadly, if O’Donnell’s appearance on Conan last night is any indication, the View-Bashing Express in her head is running on a circular track. More »
The Defamer Simpson-Wentz Baby Name Generator
7:07AM Seth | Today brings the joyous news that late last night Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz became the proud parents of a baby boy named Bronx Mowgli Wentz—a brilliant choice, if for nothing else being so ridiculous as to be virtually mock-proof. Surely its crunchy-consonant jumble of New York boroughs and Jungle Book characters is worthy of some sort of celebration however, so we proudly present The Defamer Simpson-Wentz Baby Name Generator! As we have no coding skills, this is a very lo-fi generator that really makes you do all the work, but hey—it’s more fun getting your hands dirty in the stupid-celebrity-baby-name mush, isn’t it? No? OK. More »
