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Posted by Jess McGuire at 2:34 PM on April 4, 2008
Now that we've learned a few fun facts about Gabriella Cilmi, let us assess her musical worth via a collection of video clips courtesy of YouTube.
Shall we start with the official video for her single 'Sweet About Me'?
Oh, go on.
Posted by Jess McGuire at 2:31 PM on April 4, 2008
That was quick! Heeding our call for Clip Of The Day suggestions, reader Alicia put forward the following and although we had another video waiting to pop online, we felt that this clip was so adorable and hilarious, it was the perfect way to wind up a Friday and thus had to be posted immediately.
Thanks, Alicia!
Posted by Jess McGuire at 2:11 PM on April 4, 2008
While not every doodle-hungry gentlemen would know who Rita MacNeil is, we've been reliably informed that the lads on the Kylie forums have heartily embraced the Canadian songstress, making her a bit of an internet cult hero.
She's quite wonderful, isn't she?
(Previously on the Kylie boards: a feverish love of LaToya Jackson's collected works)
Posted by Jess McGuire at 1:59 PM on April 4, 2008
Just a reminder to Defamer Australia's loyal readers that we very much welcome your suggestions for YouTube Clip Of The Day. If you've seen something insane/brilliant/a pleasing combination of both, all you need to do is shoot an email over to tips at defamer.com.au and we'll check it out, quick sticks.
Posted by Jess McGuire at 1:41 PM on April 4, 2008
If you're after a quick thousand bucks and you live near Waverley Park in Sydney, you may want to start wandering the streets and yelling "BENJI!" because Dancing With The Stars judge and MIX 106.5FM breakfast host Todd McKenney is offering a reward for the safe return of his neighbour's dog Benji.
McKenney said the dog, a 12-year-old Australian Silky Terrier named Benji, went missing at around 1pm yesterday at Sydney's Waverley Park. McKenney said his dog walker had taken Benji and his two dogs on a walk in the park where two kids ran up to Benji and he just ran away. "He came off his collar, so he doesn't have his name tag on him," he said.
And god bless Todd McKenney, for the man himself has been door knockin' in an attempt to locate this missing canine.
Posted by Jess McGuire at 1:13 PM on April 4, 2008
Frankly, there are so many highlights in this article about footballer Brent Harvey's partner Shayne McClintock's fisticuffs with a woman who insulted her after snatching a pillow from her son Cooper (and shortly afterwards, the lady who tried to stop Shayne laying the smackdown on aforementioned insult-slinging woman), we're almost beside ourselves.
The partner of Kangaroos footy star Brent Harvey has escaped conviction for punching two mothers at a children's play centre after one of them called her "trailer trash".
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Ms McClintock ran at Ms Nance, who was carrying her one-year-old, and punched her in the head from behind. Off-duty officer Tania Perry, who was holding hands with her two-year-old, was belted in the jaw by Ms McClintock as she tried to pull her off Ms Nance.
A well-timed fist to the skull is undoubtedly the smartest way to clear up any misconceptions folk may have regarding how classy you are.
Posted by Jess McGuire at 12:13 PM on April 4, 2008
In anticipation of her forthcoming appearance on Sunday night's episode of Rove, we thought we'd better start finding out some stuff about Gabriella Cilmi, the Melbourne teenager who is, according to many press reports, going to be the music world's "next big thing" (and god knows the press never gets that prediction wrong).
Knowing nearly absolutely nothing about Ms Cilmi, we hit the streets - and by streets, we obviously mean "search engines" - and have hastily bashed together a dossier of facts about her which would put self-proclaimed intelligence gathering organisations like the CIA to shame. Or something.
After the jump, let's begin our GabFest with some nuggets of information about the youthful lass, helpfully presented in easily digestible bullet form.
Posted by Clem Bastow at 9:42 AM on April 4, 2008
We were going to go into great detail telling you about Naomi Campbell's latest collar for anger management issues - this time she's alleged to have a) spat on a police officer and b) been cuffed and thrown off a flight at Heathrow; business as usual, then - but we think this little bit of Photoshop wondrousness from the Herald Sun's front page says all that needs to be said:
Sometimes, there are no words.
Other than, you know, "OH JESUS WEPT SAVE US" or something to that effect.
Posted by Clem Bastow at 9:21 AM on April 4, 2008
Following intimations on his Enough Rope appearance on Monday that he and girlfriend Kate Neilson were assessing whether they were "good for each other", it looks as though Wayne Carey has split with his girlfriend of two years.
Only we're not so sure Neilson knows it's for real this time.
Family sources close to Carey said last night they believed it was a final break-up rather than a separation.But Ms Neilson denied their relationship was over.
Posted by Clem Bastow at 9:06 AM on April 4, 2008
Sorry about the title, we were just so excited for Local Girl Made Good™ Miranda Kerr's latest news that we had an attack of the Picnic At Hanging Rocks. To that news: as though snaring Orlando Bloom and being a Victoria's Secret Angel and all wasn't enough for Kerr, it looks as though she's set to be the new face of David Jones after Megan Gale stepped down a month or so ago.
And she'll be compensated generously for her troubles, with a rumoured six-figure sum inked into her contract. Because, you know, it's a hard life 'n' shit.
The 23-year-old's youth and beauty, which has propelled her meteoric rise on the international fashion scene, is believed to have impressed DJ executives scouting for generational change.
Posted by Clem Bastow at 8:52 AM on April 4, 2008
We're almost - almost - starting to feel sorry for New Idea magazine these days. To say it's been an eventful few months would be an understatement, and things just seem to be getting worse.
Apparently editor Mirella Cestaro - who is only a month into her role as the women's mag's editor - decided to cough up mad bucks for the Michael Clarke and Lara "Intellegent" Bingle engagement story. Problem is, if New Idea's competitors' decisions are to be believed, her readers probably don't even want to hear about Bingle.
The Pacific Magazines title paid a massive $135,000 for a two-part love story of the blonde couple's engagement, despite ACP competitor Woman's Day pulling out of negotiations at $80,000 - saying it wasn't worth more because Bingle does not resonate with female readers.Drunkards, alleged domestic violence perpetrators, gold diggers, dorks - perhaps Cestaro should just make expensive cover deals with unpleasant people her "thing", and try and own this shaky time in New Idea's life?Following poor sales after Monday's "exclusive", billed as such despite the fact the news had already broken, Cestaro is understood to be facing criticism for orchestrating an overpriced and unsuccessful deal.
We suggest a tell-all cover story about Ivan Milat's high school sweetheart, the readers will love that!
George Clooney can do no wrong. He's the biggest star in the world even though no one sees his movies (we're looking at you, Leatherheads). Ladies wanna do him, guys wanna hang out with him. Even when he's telling a clearly rehearsed story about Britney Spears, as in the video above, he can't help but be rakish and charming.
As a Jew, I've often heard that my people control the media. That's why on my Bar Mitzvah, I was expecting to be handed the keys to a movie studio and told to "have at it, Ketzele". But, it's been years since that momentous occasion, and still no key. Despite my membership in the tribe, I control almost no media. Today, I finally figured out why. I'm not a member of the Entertainment Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
Making good girl Anne Hathaway look bad is no easy feat, but her longtime boyfriend has managed to pull it off by allegedly committing check fraud. Raffaelo Follieri, Hathaway's 29-year old Italian real estate developer boyfriend, was apparently ordered by a D.C. court to pay up $US250k in overdue payments to a PR firm, but the check bounced and the NYPD has placed him in custody. Worse yet, sources tell TMZ that when "the bank said insufficient funds, it wasn't even close". Considering we're still worried about paying next month's rent, we'd never deem having less than a quarter mill in the bank embarrassing, but taking Follieri's fancy name and job tile into account, we're thinking it's time Anne found some new arm candy. Especially since this isn't the guy's first run-in with the law...
The prospect of Francis Ford Coppola imposing a "sex change" on Javier Bardem had us a million ways of excited (and just a little faint) today — and then we read the fine print. It turns out the director decided during rehearsals for his upcoming film Tetro that a woman would be a better mentor to his title character, played by Vincent Gallo. "As I read and reread (the script)," Coppola told The Hollywood Reporter, "I felt that the interaction between the two characters would be far more intriguing if they were of the opposite sex." Of course, the casting of Spanish actress Carmen Maura had nothing to do with Bardem reportedly "becoming unavailable" while keeping himself open for the Rob Marshall musical Nine, which shoots this fall. A similar scenario arose earlier in preproduction when Coppola, reportedly wanting to "go skeevy" with his lead, instinctively replaced Matt Dillon with Gallo. Either way, we think he's earned the benefit of our doubt. [THR]
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment at which The Real World lost its cultural relevance, but if you were to press us for an answer, we'd have to say it was when the greedy producers at MTV killed their golden goose by launching Real World: Philadelphia less than six weeks after the finale of Real World: San Diego aired. In retrospect, the grand successes of the last truly great RW season were a unfortunate harbinger of things to come for the series as a whole; while the arrests of Brad and Robin made for undeniably great television, it also established a dangerous precedent for the series by making the act of running afoul of the law something for future housemates to aspire to. But we digress — we could talk about this for hours, but we won't. Our point was mainly to say that we haven't watched the Real World in years, and while The Reunion Special / Roast that aired last night had its moments, there was a moment that occured just minutes into the show that, for us, symbolized the de-evolution of the series from a (dare we say) noble social experiment into something that more closely resembles a frat party for community college dropouts.
Actors have finally been found to play the two soldiers in the G.I. Joe crew who most resemble members of the Village People. At least, according to movie scoop site Latino Review they have. G.I. Joe, Steven Sommer's tentpole movie about the legendary action figures, will be hitting theatres in the summer of '09. And so far, the casting news has been pretty ho-hum — you've got your Sienna Millers, you've got your Ray Parks — but today that all changes, thanks to Brendan Fraser and the Rock.
Should Britney have skipped that whole "comeback" disaster at the MTV Video Music Awards and just headed straight to television? TV Guide is reporting today that Spears is "in talks" to reprise her role as a dermatologist's secretary in love with Josh Radnor's character on How I Met Your Mother, due to critical approval and a dramatic increase in the show's ratings that night. Yahoo reports that the allegedly sinking show drew in 10.6 million viewers tuning in to Britney's episode, compared to the average 7.8 million average for the season. Paired with reports that Brit has reunited with her former manager Larry Rudolph, it looks as though her Comeback Tour has finally been given some fuel, albeit slightly later than scheduled...
We knew we had felt an eerie vacuum in our lives during all those countless hours we spent bumping around the virtual universe at There.com. It wasn't until today, however, that we realised it wasn't our deflating lack of contact with the outside world, but rather the absence of Paramount movie clips epitomizing our 2-D avatars' deepest concerns. Thank God for licensing!
These are special times, people. You can take Airplane and Top Secret and shove 'em up your arse, because the golden age of the spoof film is happening right now. Superhero Movie is capturing the hearts and minds of the people at multiplexes nationwide. Before that, Meet the Spartans and Epic Movie set the world alight with laughter for months upon months. And now, the brain trust behind those two masterpieces, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, have decided to leave the ancient world behind and parody something much more formidable: Superbad.
We are shocked (shocked!) to hear this, but word on the street is that the lovely and ever-growing multicultural soccer team united by Brad and Angelina isn't exactly getting along of late. According to Star, animosity and friction is growing among the four little Jolie-Pitts, with personalities growing bolder and fights getting messier. And, unsurprisingly, The Chosen One is allegedly on the brunt of most blows. Most disturbing of all? As a source claims, those cushy lips of hers are only getting bigger as a result of actual physical blows from her siblings:
"[Zahara] once clawed Shiloh's cheek after she tried to take her cookie...Angie gets worried when Shi plays with them...she always comes back with a scraped knee or a fat lip!"
We'd like to have a word with Naomi Campbell's anger management instructor, because apparently those classes she was forced to take after that infamous cell phone toss last year didn't do much good at all. According to People, Campbell was arrested earlier today for assaulting a police officer at London's Heathrow Airport, and while it's cute that they reference the fact that "travellers' frustrations have flared due to baggage delays" since the new Terminal 5 was constructed, we can't help but feel as though Campbell is officially out of excuses for attacking the innocent. Though throwing her mobile phone at an assistant last year was certainly a step down on the crazy level from her 2000 incident attacking a PA on set, moving up to police assault moves Campbell out of the sanitation club with fellow alumnus Boy George, and into handcuffs territory. But what happened to the sweet, good-natured Naomi we witnessed on Bravo's guilty pleasure Make Me A Supermodel a few episodes ago?
· Man, we are SO glad we made the decision not to invest any of our time watching John Adams. Wake us when it's over. [YouTube]
· Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon are fucking a dead horse. Indeed. [CC Insider]
· Hate sci-fi but love international politics? Vulture's guide to Season Four of Battlestar Galactica is just what the spin doctor ordered. [Vulture]
· Mena Suvari not only plays work out tapes by Fonda, but we also hear she's got a motor in the back of her Honda. Most surprising/disgusting shots of Suvari since she took a dump on camera in Spun. [Egotastic]
As Nas famously proclaimed, hip hop is dead. And last night, we found the murder weapon. Behold the Ford commercial from Wednesday's American Idol. It features your final nine American Idol hopefuls rapping. Not singing, mind you, but rapping.
As far as celebrity memoirs go, Bobby Brown's upcoming The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But seems atypically packed with good, sound advice. From teaching readers that girls nicknamed Superhead are probably only good for one thing to lessons on how to take advantage of a major star's bad press in order to marry them, Brown is a regular Velvet Jones when it comes to dispensing words of wisdom. Even when it comes to his well-documented problems with cocaine, Brown is able to find a simple solution to dodging responsibility — just blame Whitney Houston!
"I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I had experimented with other drugs, but marijuana was my drug of choice...At one point in my life, I used drugs uncontrollably. I was using everything I could get my hands on, from cocaine to heroin, weed and cooked cocaine."
Sad news, ladies. Even though the ink has yet to dry on the divorce papers his wife filed last week, Robin Williams has already been snatched-up anew. But what woman is man enough to take on the wacky-shirt-wearing, incessantly improvising, disgustingly hairy comedian? Meet Charlotte Filbert, a 27-year-old painter. The Enquirer claims that the two were introduced by Tommy Hilfiger's daughter, Ally of Rich Girls fame, six months ago. Yes, Robin was still married then, but Charlotte's no home wrecker. Robin and his wife had apparently been living separate lives for over a year, so that made him fair game ... we guess.
Anyone else have one of those crazy uncles who keeps heading to the hair salon for "touch-ups" just to avoid going grey? Well, Ben Stiller has officially become one of those crazy uncles who has hit the Just For Men bottle a bit too hard. Apparently unsatisfied with letting nature take its course, Stiller inexplicably showed up at last night's premiere of The Ruins with a fresh new dye job. After the jump, we track the metamorphosis of his locks from early strays to full on grey to, of course, his new back to black-ish look.
Oh, now we get it: That Polo Lounge power summit last week between Tom Cruise and Sumner Redstone was not the prodigal-son mea culpa we thought it was, smoothing the waters on which Cruise would coast back into the safe harbor of Redstone's reeling Viacom flagship. Rather, it was just a quick bite to catch up about Katie, Suri, Laurie and maybe for Cruise to apologise in advance for his scathing, fat-suited cameo as a depraved studio boss in Tropic Thunder:
George Clooney can do no wrong. He's the biggest star in the world even though no one sees his movies (we're looking at you, Leatherheads). Ladies wanna do him, guys wanna hang out with him. Even when he's telling a clearly rehearsed story about Britney Spears, as in the video above, he can't help but be rakish and charming.
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment at which The Real World lost its cultural relevance, but if you were to press us for an answer, we'd have to say it was when the greedy producers at MTV killed their golden goose by launching Real World: Philadelphia less than six weeks after the finale of Real World: San Diego aired. In retrospect, the grand successes of the last truly great RW season were a unfortunate harbinger of things to come for the series as a whole; while the arrests of Brad and Robin made for undeniably great television, it also established a dangerous precedent for the series by making the act of running afoul of the law something for future housemates to aspire to. But we digress — we could talk about this for hours, but we won't. Our point was mainly to say that we haven't watched the Real World in years, and while 
· Man, we are SO glad we made the decision not to invest any of our time watching John Adams. Wake us when it's over. [
As Nas famously proclaimed, 