Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Ricki Lee Coulter No Longer On Australian Idol?
4:26PM Jess McGuire | REET REET REET! This just in at the famous Two Day Old News Desk TM (although technically this news is at least three days old now). Fans of reality television talent contests will be disappointed to learn that the nation’s favourite netball playing pop star Ricki Lee Coulter is leaving Australian Idol! Why? Because she’s gotta follow her true passion – it’s all about the music, man.
Australian Idol co-host Ricki-Lee Coulter says she has no plans to return to the show next year as she wants to focus on her music career in the US. The recently-divorced songbird, who was linked with no less than two male contestants from this year’s Idol lineup, says she has made no move to renew her hosting deal with Channel Ten.
Well, obviously not. If Ricki-Lee was indeed using the show as some sort of televised rsvp.com.au as the papers continually seem to suggest, she’s certainly got her hands full already. Although that last bit – “she has made no move to renew her hosting deal with Channel Ten” – for some reason or another makes me think of the crazy days of primary school romances, where one would publicly declare their intention to break up with a paramour as soon as one suspected said paramour was no longer interested in them and was planning on dumping them shortly anyways.
Of course, Ricki-Lee was actually rather brilliant on Australian Idol this year – she’s a natural on the screen – so Channel Ten would be stupid to lose her.
But what can you do if Ricki-Lee is determined – determined – to focus only on her recording career? More » 
Kate Langbroek Is Having Another Baby!
4:17PM Jess McGuire | Congratulations to Nova radio personality Kate Langbroek who is reportedly pregnant with her fourth child, according to the Daily Telegraph.
News that Kate Langbroek is pregnant with her fourth child surely means her bikini days are now well behind her. The mouthy southerner and her husband Peter Lewis will welcome a new baby in July. We hope the baby fares better in the name stakes than first-born son Lewis Lewis did. And no, we aren’t kidding. Other siblings are Sunday Lil and Art Honore.
Wow, way to be totally snide, Daily Telegraph! I can see why no one has put their name to the article (online, at least). Anyone who opens a piece about a woman’s fourth pregnancy with a line like “her bikini days are now well behind her” deserves to punch themselves repeatedly in the face until they lose consciousness.
MORE: Star Kate Langbroek pregnant again with fourth child More » HATEFILES: Heart’s “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You”
3:50PM Jess McGuire | Oh my lord. I am absolutely riled up and given the big issues floating around at the moment, it seems appropriate that I focus my idiotic anger toward something pointless from yesteryear. I give you Heart’s “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You”.
As a child, I wasn’t a big fan of this song as I found Heart’s lead singer Ann Wilson to be kind of frightening and overly accessorised in the video clip for my nine year old taste. I hadn’t thought of the song for years but for some reason it came up in a conversation I was just having with the fabulous Namila from RRR’s Wax Lyrical and I ended up watching the clip on YouTube again for the first time in probably eighteen years.
I had completely forgotten that the tune was about getting some poor dude to knock her up and then running back to the man she loved! What a whore! I am totally outraged by this. And if I was the guy waking up to find a note saying:
I am the flower you are the seed
We walked in the garden we planted a tree
Don’t try to find me, please don’t you dare
Just live in my memory, you’ll always be there
I would be fuming that not only had my man-juice been stolen under false pretenses, but I’d also just impregnated a horrible, horrible writer.
At least Ann Wilson has the good sense to hate the song too, according to Wikipedia.
Ann Wilson commented on the band’s dislike for the song, stating, “Actually we had sworn off it because it kind of stood for everything we wanted to get away from. It was a song by “Mutt” Lange, who we liked, and it was originally written for Don Henley, but there was a lot of pressure on us to do the song at the time.”
Mutt Lange originally wrote that song for Don Henley? How on earth was that pregnancy angle going to work?
SONG FAIL.
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Andrew O’Keefe Fallout Continues: Tracey Spicer Defends AOK
2:56PM Jess McGuire | What’s that? You’re hungry for more Andrew O’Keefe coverage? Alright, but only for today. We must all move on, sooner rather than later! Thankfully for every sanctimonious Mrs Lovejoy damning Andrew O’Keefe to Hades, there is a sane Tracey Spicer who is happy to put things into perspective
In the modern day equivalent of being put in the stocks and pelted with rotten tomatoes, the Deal or No Deal host has been publicly humiliated for enjoying a few too many drinks before Christmas.
And I thought Easter was the time of year for crucifixions..
If only Andrew had been “turned away from the inn”, old school Christmas style, eh?
More » Andrew O’Keefe Fallout Continues: Some ‘Thoughts’ From Sally Morrell
1:54PM Jess McGuire | If you still can’t get enough of the Andrew O’Keefe-likes-a-drink-or-three scandal that has some folks in the media (Herald Sun, Channel Nine) up in arms but the rest of us thinking “Is that it? Really?”, then you may like to check out the most painful piece of writing I’ve come across in a long time.
It’s Herald Sun columnist Sally Morrell’s latest paragraph-happy piece, and it’s A-OK (themed).
Andrew O’Keefe shouldn’t worry about his drunken antics being publicised, nor should Seven.
These days it’s a non-issue or the punters even expect it.
I have a message for Andrew O’Keefe, lying dead drunk in a South Yarra gutter.
Don’t freak, Andrew, no one really cares.
Or put it this way. Worry heaps, Andrew, because no one honestly cares.
Obviously Sally Morrell has never met an Enter key she didn’t like. Also, do you see what she did there? No one cares about Andrew’s drinking which is a good thing for Andrew, but because no one cares about Andrew’s drinking, society is doomed.
It continues:
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Defamer Australia Versus Ladyhawke
12:26PM Jess McGuire | Alright, ladies and gentlemen. There’s nothing I hate more than transcribing but there’s nothing I love more than you, so despite my extreme laziness, I have tapped out some of the Ladyhawke interview I did last week for your consumption. Happy?
The show which will see the very lovely Ladyhawke (aka Pip Brown) programming the playlist will be airing in January at some point on RRR 102.7FM. I’ll be sure to give you a heads up. But in the meantime, you can check out the little chat we had before I let her wreak havoc with her pop-filled iPod, and her thoughts on Bruce Springsteen AND Icehouse’s Electric Blue.
It should be noted that the latter selection, combined with her desire to spin the Baywatch theme on the radio (I AM ALWAYS DJING THAT SONG, IT IS EPIC!), means I am certain – certain – Ladyhawke is a future bestie. If Bassingthwaighte falls through, anyways.
DEFAMER AUSTRALIA VERSUS LADYHAWKE
DA: We’re very lucky to welcome our special guest Pip Brown aka Ladyhawke. How are you, Pip?
LADYHAWKE: I’m good, thank you.
DA: That’s good. Are you glad to be here?
LADYHAWKE: Oh yeah, it’s amazing.
DA: Thank you!
LADYHAWKE: (humorously overenthusiastic) AMAZING!
DA: The energy level coming from both of us, I think, is astounding.
LADYHAWKE: I feel like my brain just collapsed or something inside my head.
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Win That BRAVIA Z Series LCD TV Worth $3,399
12:00PM Kym Weathersten | Don’t forget that BRAVIA Z Series LCD TV is still up for grabs. To win the Sony tele, or one of five $100 retail vouchers, simply click through to our absolutely gripping site survey and take a few minutes to tell us about yourself. [Survey] [Terms and Conditions] More »
Here Is The Latest Natalie Bassingthwaighte Video
10:41AM Jess McGuire | Last Wednesday night, something very nice happened. You can click the below picture for “bigger”, as they say.
Although as a general rule I do not add people on Facebook I’ve never met in the flesh, I figured becoming BFF’s with The Bass was kind of inevitable, and so I accepted the request. I also demanded some kind of fawning wall post from her, but has she delivered? NO! Hurry up, The Bass! Deliver the Facebook goods or I will delete you! Maybe!
Perhaps The Bass was too busy creating the photo album “Me on my adventures” to cater to my childish whims? Hmmmm. Either way, you can add the REAL NATALIE BASSINGTHWAIGHTE on Facebook by heading here.
Also in The Bass news: she’s got a new video clip out. Check it after the jump!
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
8:19AM Jess McGuire | Good morning, delicious readers!
Here – have a slightly NSFW slice of Nigella Lawson for your festive consumption. It’s the least I can do.
Apologies for things being a little quiet around here yesterday. Sometimes there are moments in your life where you’re faced with a choice, and your decision has bigger consequences than you could ever imagine.
For me, that decision involved choosing to reheat some day old Asian takeaway food to scoff before bed on Sunday night. Needless to say, I heartily recommend you avoid the chicken with lemon grass and chili dish from [REDACTED] unless you feel like reliving it – violently – for eight hours on a Monday.
BUT I AM BACK NOW, OH HOORAY, LET’S POP CULTURE THE BEEJESUS OUT OF TODAY!
x
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