Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Hang On! The Nicole Kidman\”Mom” Situation Isn’t Nearly As Dire As We Thought
11:25AM Jess McGuire | Goodness gracious. The way people have been quoting from the interview Our Nic did with GMTV in the United Kingdom where she mentioned her kids don’t call her “mom” has been a little off the mark.
Check out the video.
What she actually said was that the kids don’t call her “mummy”, they call her “mum” – or, she jokes, “sometimes Nicole. I’m like, hey!” Which is more a cheeky thing than a “I don’t remember that woman. Let’s go burn incense at the L.Ron Hubbard shrine, tra la la!” situation.
SOZ NIC!
UPDATE! We weren’t just being hilarious and confusingly clever when we posted a video of Nicole talking to zee Germans. We’re just so rubbish sometimes, we’re known to copy the wrong “Embed” code. The correct video is now up, and we thank our dear friend from the world of Sciencologenetics for pointing out our daftness! More » 
Cameron Williams In Bar Abuse Shock! (Alternative Title, Cameron Williams In Leaving Bar Voluntarily Once Patrons Who Had Reserved A Table Arrive Shock!)
10:25AM Jess McGuire | Who to believe, a bar patron on the phone to Sydney Confidential quicker that you can say “Our tabloids don’t pay nearly as much for rubbish stories as the UK ones do, you sad bugger” after witnessing Today fill-in host Cameron Williams being asked to leave an establishment, or Channel 9 spokesfolk?
Today presenter Cameron Williams was asked to leave a Sydney hotel after an incident with security staff.
Williams, who is filling in as host on the Channel 9 brekky show while Karl Stefanovic is on holidays, was at the Golden Sheaf in Double Bay with his girlfriend and another couple on Saturday night.
A bar patron told Confidential he saw Williams being spoken to by a security guard.
“He (the security guard) went and grabbed him and said ‘It’s time to go’,” he said.
“He had no idea who it was. That’s when another security guy came up and said he’s from Channel 9.
“He said: ‘I don’t care who he is, he’s not going to be abusive to the bar staff like that’.
OH NO! THAT’S HORRIBLE! But wait a minute…
A Channel 9 spokeswoman said Williams had been at the Golden Sheaf on Saturday night but said the incident involved a table his party were seated at which was reserved.
“Cameron Williams was having post-Christmas drinks with his girlfriend and another couple,” she said.
“When the booking for the table they were seated at arrived, they were asked to leave and did.”
If we can be sure of one thing during these confusing times of conflicting versions of events and hangovers, it’s this – Cameron Williams is no longer at the Golden Sheaf.
What tickled us most about the article though was the following tidbit regarding Cameron Williams’ previous naughty behaviour.
It is not the first time Williams has found himself at the centre of controversy.
In 2001 he was axed as the Fox Sports News anchor after make-up artist Samantha Clifford brought indecent assault charges against him.
The charges were dropped but Williams admitted to the court he had sometimes asked Clifford to expose her bra, describing the routine as being “like a secret handshake” between them.
Wait, are they saying flashing someone a glimpse of bra-covered tit doesn’t count as a secret friendly handshake?
This probably explains the negative reactions we’ve copped when meeting Nelson Mandela/The Queen/The Pope/Collette of Ring By Bell fame*.
*This is clearly a lie. We were only seven when we met her and had no furious cannage to expose. BUT WE WOULD HAVE IF WE COULD HAVE AT THE TIME, COLLETTE! More » Naomi Watts Plans On Slowing Her Career Down In Favour Of Spending Time With The Bub
9:25AM Jess McGuire | Don’t expect Naomi Watts to be all up in your cinematic grill over the next couple of years – she’s decided to cease her previous inspirational approach to work which saw her pump out, like, 87 films per year, instead choosing to spend some quality time with the wee baby boy Alexander Pete she and Liev Schreiber went halvsies in not that long ago.
The yummy mummy has revealed she plans to make fewer movies so she can spend more time with her five-month-old son Alexander.
“I want to stick with just one or two films a year now,” the Eastern Promises star said.
“I’m OK right now. I’m sure more will come but I wanted to be a mother for so long and that was a really big deal for me. After Mulholland Drive I did go a little crazy, doing two or three things a year.”
Perhaps Naomi Watts has learned from the mistakes of best friend forevs Nicole Kidman, since the former BMX Bandit’s post-Cruise divorce frantic movie making schedule ended up resulting in her two children no longer referring to her as “Mum”.
Somewhere in Colorado over Christmas, we can only hope that due to some distant, foggy memory in the back of Bella Cruise’s mind, Nic’s daughter at least contemplating calling “that ginger lady in Australia, you know the one… ummm.. married the pretty boy country star. God, Connor – what’s her name again? Oh man, this is embarrassing! Dad? Mom? You know the one we’re talking about – quite lanky, wore a funny nose in that movie about the sad woman? Natalie? Oh… NICOLE? Are you sure? Really? I could have sworn it was Natalie. Nevermind. Let’s get e-metered before soccer!”
Poor Our Nic :( More » 
Confidential Resorts To Facebook Groups For Story Inspiration In Slow New Year Period; Defamer Australia Resorts To Confidential Resorting To Facebook Groups For Story Inspiration In Slow New Year Period
8:25AM Jess McGuire | Somehow we don’t think an online group full of passionate Dannii-loving British homosexuals is going to lead to Minogue The Younger troubling the world of politics in the near future. Still, worth a story, right?
Somehow we can’t imagine her becoming the next Tony Blair or Gordon Brown but it seems some of Dannii Minogue’s British aficionados think otherwise.
A group of the Aussie songstress’s fans in the UK has set up a Facebook group “Dannii Minogue for PM”.
It seems mini-Minogue’s stint as a judge on The X-Factor has brought in a legion of new followers but she still has a way to go before she overtakes her big sis Kylie in the popularity stakes.
Scraping the barrel, aren’t we Confidential? Now look here – we don’t want to tell you how to be journalists, but surely this Facebook group is more worthy of a bloody article!
This group has been formed to educate and inform the people of Australia the likelihood that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Muppet Show’s Dr. Bunsen Honeydew have been separated at birth. As well as the glaring similarities between Julia Gillard and Beaker.
IT IS TRUE! RUDD DOES LOOK LIKE DR BUNSEN HONEYDEW! AND JULIA GILLARD IS BEAKER’S LONG LOST TWIN!
Write it up as soon as possible, News Ltd kids, and watch the Walkley Awards roll in. Just thank us in the acceptance speech and we’ll call it even.
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