Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Mark Holden Has Been Kicked Off Australian Idol!
5:57PM Jess McGuire | Wow, we knew the Idol franchise was going to require a decent revamp in order to draw in the punters this year, but we weren’t expecting to find out that Mark Holden has been given the flick from the show!
According to the Daily Telegraph –
From touchdown to comedown – outspoken personality Mark Holden has been culled from the Australian Idol judging panel in an attempt to reinvigorate the tired format of the Channel Ten talent quest.
It is understood the network, together with Australian Idol production company Fremantle Media, reached the decision this week and will rush out a press release after the news – scheduled to be announced on Thursday – broke to media prematurely this afternoon.
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We’re Sure Madonna Is Thrilled With This Choice Of Photo
4:13PM Clem Bastow | As is depressingly the case with all women in the public eye, discussion on the topic of Madonna must now detail her age in equal measure as her career. Thus, there has been just as much coverage lately of Madge’s wrinkles (or lack of) and her upcoming 50th birthday as there has been her soon-to-be-released new album.
However, any way you look at it, it’s probably safe to say that – old or not – she probably wouldn’t approve of the following photo, if given the chance and a sheet of contact prints to tick and cross:
An “old English pub“, you say? Would that be because she is OLD herself? Because, you know, if you hadn’t heard, she’s turning 50 this year! We know, 50 – that’s almost as old as the Earth itself! Time to retire, grandma! Etc, etc. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Amy Brings Blake The Gift Of Pestilence
3:59PM Clem Bastow | We have spent the past few months hoping that someone might deliver Blake Fielder-Civil a special prison present of, dunno, a hamper full of plague rats, but have been left disappointed.
However, we may be about to get our wish (well, at least a very pale imitation of it) after wife Winegums visited Blake, despite being currently waylaid with ultra-infectious impetigo.
Lick it up, Blakey!
Not even a case of highly-contagious impetigo could stop Amy Winehouse from visiting incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil.
The singer left her East London house today to visit her husband in Pentonville prison despite still having a noticeably swollen face.
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Husband Blake Fielder-Civil, 25, has had fifty stitches in his arms and legs after self-harming in his cell at Pentonville prison, North London.
A source said: “He madly misses Amy, and it frustrates him that she can’t even turn up on time when she visits.”
Cor, that husband of yours is really a keeper, Amy. Cutting himself when you don’t turn up on time – what else does he do, hold his breath when you get cross with him? Find your favourite shoes and wee in them?
Let’s hope Amy does give Blake impetigo – OF THE BRAIN. More » Posh Spice Wears Jeans And T-shirt, Shops At Target; Does… Not… Compute…
3:51PM Clem Bastow | By now it’s long been established that Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham more or less lives in couture and high heels, so the sight of her wearing something a little more casual would be stunning, non?
Add to that her predilection for (and funds to buy!) only the finest, and you would think that dressing like a normal human and shopping at Target would be way beneath Ms Spice, yes? We’re talking serious paradigm shift shit, dudes.
Think again!
The former Spice Girl swapped her trademark tightly nipped-in pencil skirts and cleavage hugging tops for a pair of flared jeans and – gasp – a sloppy grey T-shirt.
There was no designer handbag in sight as the mother of three trawled through discount store Target with son Romeo – she instead totted a red plastic basket as she made her way through the aisles.
You know, after her ill-fated and (un?)intentionally hilarious reality show, we were quite taken with Posh, and this just makes us love her even more! Other things we’d like to see Posh Spice doing:
* Picking a wedgie in the queue at Tesco’s
* Bleaching her upper lip while reading the paper on the balcony
* Deciding between ’super’ and ‘regular’ tampons in the supermarket aisle
* “Just popping down to the shops” in her PJs
Come on, Vicky, whaddya say? More » 
Defamer Does L’oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival: Day One
2:23PM Clem Bastow | Even though we write this stuff in our underwear and ugg boots you may not realise it, we are basically fashion oracles here at Defamer Australia. So we felt it only fair that we bring you all the news and gossip from the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, which is currently underway, to share with you our fashion nous.
We’ll be bringing you daily fashion diaries throughout the Festival; it will be like The Devil Wears Prada meets He Died With A Felafel In His Hand and will be totally compelling.
Read on for the runway reports and all the front-row celebrity spotto you can handle!
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You Got A Map You Ain’t Showin’ Me, Magellan?
12:25PM Mark Graham | Freckles. Cowboy. Skeletor. Sweetheart. Mergatroid Murgatroyd. Chachi. Oliver Twist. Hoss. Just a handful of the nicknames that Sawyer has called people on Lost over the years. [YouTube via Detroit News] We have no idea how they pulled this off, but 23/6 managed to get their paws on an “advance copy of the table of contents” of the Olsen Twins’ new book, Influence. [23/6] Treehouse Of Horror: The Movie? Hank Azaria floats the idea of an anthology movie for the next Simpsons big screen adventure. [MTV Movies Blog] We always thought those Monster cables the goons at Best Buy always try to bully you into buying were ridiculously overpriced. That said, we always just kind of assumed that they must work. Turns out we were wrong about the second part. [Consumerist] The trailer for Once gets sweded. [Hollywood Elsewhere] More »
Drew Barrymore Feels So Much Better After Giving Those Starving African Children A Fraction Of Her ‘Music And Lyrics’ Salary
12:01PM Seth | It’s Oprah’s Big Give fever! YOU get to give! And YOU get to give! EVeryBOdy GETS to GIVE! To start the ball rolling, we offer documented Mac-enthusiast Drew Barrymore, who made a donation of $1 million of her personal fortune to an organization that feeds Kenyan children, written out on a giant, Price Is Right-style check and presented on The Oprah Winfrey Show today. It was a gesture of such heartfelt magnanimity that none other than Drew’s Charlie’s Angels co-star and bestest friend Cameron Diaz (secret, mutual nickname: Poo) called in to congratulate her on the gesture. Lucy Liu, meanwhile, waited patiently on Line 2; unfortunately, time restraints never allowed her to publicly state that she too was all for Barrymore’s decision to give $1 million to a very worthy cause. More »This Is The New Madonna Song ‘4 Minutes To Save The World’
11:46AM Jess McGuire | Some thoughtful person has popped the new Madge single ‘4 Minutes To Save The World’ (a Timbaland creation featuring Justin Timberlake) up on YouTube. Revel in the French DJ shouting excitedly over the beginning while you can, we dare say it’ll be pulled quite shortly.
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Does Nicole Kidman Have The Meanest Publicist In Hollywood?
11:40AM Molly Friedman | Publicists tend to be one of two things: boring, lips-sealed mouthpieces armed with “no comment” at every twist and turn or loud-mouthed toughies whose sole duty on this planet is to defend their Amazonian clients. Nicole Kidman, for better or worse, is repped by the latter: one Catherine Olim, who sent out a nasty rebuttal regarding NY Post columnist Cindy Adams’ claims that knocked up Nic threw a few back at the Oscars. And despite our affection for long-time gossip Adams and her kookily nonsensical musings, we’re officially on Team Olim after hearing this statement: “I cannot remember that last time that Cindy Adams got anything right. She’s an idiot, and you can quote me.” More »
