Do you know what the best part of this article talking about Andrew G's impending nuptials to hot tamale Noa Tishby was?

No, it wasn't the bit where we learned the saintly folk from Fremantle Media have been kind enough to offer Andrew G some time off the Australian Idol treadmill to get hitched in June, although that's nice.

Australian Idol host Andrew G will take a special break from filming the program in June, because of his wedding to Israeli model Noa Tishby.

The marriage will take place in Israel, with a number of celebrity guests from Australia expected to attend. G, who is busy with wedding plans, is said to be thrilled that his bosses have been so understanding about rearranging his Australian Idol duties in time for the big day.

"Channel Ten and Fremantle Media have been so accommodating," said Mark Morrissey, G's agent, who confirmed the nuptials would take place in Israel next month.

Nup, the best bit about the article is that the photo accompanying it appears to show Noa pulling back Andrew G's shirt in order to reveal a curious man-boob waxing job.

Is it just me? It's just me, isn't it?

I don't want to come over all Tiny Tim, but god bless you, every one!

The emails are flooding in for Clip Of The Day suggestions (DON'T STOP), and I'm in the process of watching and chuckling at them all as we speak. Well, obviously not right now. Right now I'm typing. And getting off topic.

ANYWAY.

Reader Pete sent this in and it's awesome and short and oddly pleasing.

Thanks, Arthur!

Yesterday I was talking to a complete stranger at a cafe (as you do) about Rima the Wee Starlet from Big Brother (as you do), and somehow the topic moved to amazing YouTube clips (as it does).

The very nice man was telling me of a GLORIOUSLY FUNNY YouTube clip, describing it in loving detail, and took my email address and promised to send it to me immediately so I could pass it onto you, Defamer Australia's ridiculously attractive readers.

BUT HIS EMAIL HAS NOT ARRIVED YET.

And until it does, I cannot bring myself to trawl The Toobs for funny things because it just breaks my damn heart to know this magical clip is out there somewhere, and I can't remember enough keywords to find it on my own.

In order to cheer me up, I am begging you - send me any links to brilliant (or even mildly amusing) YouTube videos, and help me (and your fellow readers) waste valuable time snickering at our monitors. If you email tips at defamer.com.au, I will worship you from afar and check out your link recommendation as quickly as humanly possible.

Reet reet reet! Another report just in here at the Two Day Old News Desk TM! Lisa Origliasso has revealed she's just fine and dandy about the fact professional virgin, her new fiance Dean Geyer, has resisted doing un-Christian things to her naughty bits during their year long courtship.

Australian Idol finalist Geyer, 22, and Origliasso, 23, open up about life, love and sex in an interview with OK Magazine.

But only Origliasso is experienced in the latter. Geyer is saving sex for marriage.

"I think for us, this was the next step to show our commitment," Origliasso said.

She has said she respects Geyer's chastity vow.

"I support him with all his decisions, just as he supports mine," she said. "It's all good."

Let's hope she says something similar after their wedding night.

As Ros Reines breathlessly reports this morning, it appears Tim Campbell and Anthony Callea aren't the only cowboys in town who prefer to bunk together rather than having one stay in the pup tent to guard the sheep up on Brokeback.

Following on from Anthony Callea and Million Dollar Wheel Of Fortune host Tim Campbell, the latest potential same-sex showbiz couple has been revealed.

Music guru John Foreman, of Australian Idol fame, and So You Think You Can Dance judge Matt Lee are reportedly an item.

More than one pair of gays in the entertainment industry, Ros? You'd want to be sure! It just sounds implausible to me! What proof do you have, woman?

They were spotted leaving the Channel Ten Logies after-party in the early hours of the morning and certainly seemed to be getting along swimmingly

Awwww.

PS: John Foreman GAY? Matt Lee GAY? WHO KNEW?

PPS: I am clearly kidding.

Look, I'm not going to claim credit for Sonia Kruger's demands being met by MIX 106.5FM management, but I think it's fairly obvious Defamer Australia's public support of Tina Sparkle (and her wish to see her beloved producer returned to the studio) certainly helped the situation somewhat, don't you agree?

READERS: "NO"

Very well.

In any case, Sonia is happy once more!

Sonia Kruger has got her way at radio station MIX FM. Her executive producer has been reinstated on the breakfast program following Kruger's threat to quit.

Management at MIX FM knows which side its bread is buttered when it comes to the pulling power of the station - yesterday reinstating the breakfast program's executive producer after star recruit Sonia Kruger threatened to walk.

The popular presenter came in to bat for her MIX colleague Brenden Wood after he was benched "indefinitely" last week, seemingly scapegoated after McKenney's on-air jibes about Channel 9 newsreader Mark Ferguson.

The decision to shelve Wood after Nine pulled the rug on an estimated $100,000 worth of advertising pushed Kruger to fight her producer's rights - and winning - with management confirming Wood would be back in the studio this morning.

VIVA LA SONIA!

As we noted last week, the highly anticipated Twilight franchise appears to be far steamier and sexier than the books' tween fans may have expected. And a profile on the film in yesterday's LAT suggests the series' author Stephenie Meyer may be just as surprised. Described by the article's author as "chaste," the Mormon mother of three sounds like the near opposite of director and "troubled-teen expert" Catherine Hardwicke. But as the article reveals, no matter how hot and bothered we felt after watching the teaser trailer, the actual action on set wasn't putting any of its gorgeous cast members in the mood:

Slathered in pale vampire makeup with alternating doses of sun, rain and "hail globs the size of golf balls," actors huddle in a heated 'fire tent' and stuff Kleenex to their cold, runny noses; they exchange rubber boots for Adidas just before the cameras roll.

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If you're feeling a little cheated by the fact that Sex and the Movie (try it! It's catching on!) had its world premiere today in a town better known for Black and Tans and battered cod than Cosmos and Sushi Samba, there is some comfort to be taken from the fact that London's splashy red carpet get was completely overshadowed by That Thing On Sarah Jessica Parker's head.

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It seems as if our reconnaissance on Speed Racer—quickly shaping up to be one of the biggest turkeys in recent Hollywood history—proved correct: The film was indeed third at the box office this weekend, taking in $18.6 million, $1.6 million short of the bloated studio estimates released yesterday. (What Happens in Vegas actually $200k more than its $2 million estimate.) And there's more Racer roadkill:

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Sex And The City mania is beginning to crest this week, as plot spoilers, leaked footage and Sarah Jessica Parker magazine profiles assault us at every turn. But one sign that all this hype just may have jumped the shark comes in the form of "a happily orgasmic ever-after:" the official Mr. Big vibrator. Fans of the show fondly, er, may vaguely remember the episode in which prim Charlotte discovers the Rabbit, or the time when Samantha uses her vibrator to soothe a screaming baby, and we could go on but we're far too embarrassed for remembering even that much. In any case, the folks at LoveHoney have jumped on the SATC bandwagon and introduced the frightening grey contraption which looks a bit too much like our dad's neck massager. But among the many problems those clever UK ad wizards have on their hands is the abundance of "Mr. Big" vibrators already on the market, most of which may not be, well, bigger, but look far better. Take a closer look after the jump:

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Photos of Brad Pitt boarding a helicopter in Monaco with sons Maddox and Pax yesterday instantly set the intertubes abuzz, as the aircraft's rotors blew up the actor's shirt, revealing a mysterious new tattoo covering his lower back. The seemingly random series of horizontal dashes and shapes were initially thought to be a highly encoded abstract design, each line representing one member of the ever-growing Pitt-Jolie clan. But now, Defamer can exclusively report (Must! Credit! Defamer! Pitt! Tattoo! Exclusive!) that the tattoo is not yet finished, with the final result paying homage to one of the great design triumphs of the 20th Century. An artist's rendering of what it will look like is after the jump:

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Apart from the bold statements by movie-titling consultants about the high importance of... movie-titling consultants ("When movie titles don't work, studios are leaving potential earnings on the table," says one), Josh Friedman's LA Times survey of movie titles lost, found, revised and re-revised yields a handful of worthwhile historical nuggets we'd never surmised. Like Annie Hall was originally named Anhedonia — "a term for the inability to experience pleasure" — and our beloved Beverly Hills Chihuahua was conceived with the weak-arse working title South of the Border. After the jump, the experts show off with the good and the bad, and we leave the ugly up to your fertile imaginations.

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Are Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer the new Demi and Ashton? After seeing these new photos taken in Miami while Jen continues filming Marley & Me, we're noticing several similarities between her new fling with the tattooed O-face master and the queen and prince of age-gap relationship success stories. Like Ashton was, John is a young, charming, bed-hopping bachelor, and just like Demi, Jennifer is an insanely hot divorced actress far more famous than her beau. The icing on the cougar cake? Just like the Moore-Kutchers, it all started with a bikini:

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Confirming rumours that his appointment as Conan O'Brien's Late Night successor was a "done deal," a press event at 30 Rock today presided over by dark SNL overlord Lorne Michaels, NBC rock star Ben Silverman, and badly-in-need-of-a-distinguishing-nickname Marc Graboff, made official their intention to hand over the 12:30 a.m. programming block to one Jimmy Fallon. Goodbye, Masturbating Bear and Pimpbot 5000, hello, masturbating Barry Gibb and '80s radio hits set to "You Can't Touch This." From The Observer:

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It was only a matter of time before Cale Boyter, MGM's recently added executive VP of production, joined Mary Parent in aggressively reestablishing the studio as the roaring monolith the world has long prized. Indeed, Boyter's first announced project is a bold step away from Valkyrie and other debacles threatening the mantle of The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, 2001: A Space Odyssey and others. Or, in short, Hot Tub Time Machine:

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Our bosses would never let this fly on our expense report, otherwise we would hire a lawyer right now and take Warner Music to court for hogging the rights to the world's most popular song — "Happy Birthday to You" — when we're told it doesn't even own them. At least that's the argument of Robert Brauneis, a law professor at George Washington University whose close read of the song's copyright history suggests anyone with enough money, free time or a sadistic streak could liberate "Happy Birthday" for public well-wishers around the world:

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This just landed in the Defamer tips box: "What crazy-arse, A-list starlet was Checked into the Roosevelt Hotel by a male friend because she was to high to drive, only to reward his chivalry by proceeding to make Poo Angels all over the room—including poo body-prints on the walls. Her shitty shenanigans ended up costing the poor bastard 6 grand." We certainly have no idea, but all this talk of Poo Angel-making has gotten us excited about the holidays! Who's up for a pooball fight? We are! [Defamer

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· Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams's Fringe, about a female FBI agent who "tackles unexplained medical and scientific phenomena," and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, both for mid-season debuts meant to be bolstered by American Idol's return, an effect Fox internally refers to as "the Drunk-Paula Boost." [Variety]
· The CW makes it official: The Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff is a go, with Jennie Garth reprising her role as Kelly Taylor. New York magazine will eventually go on to declare the series "mankind's greatest single achievement since the Wright brothers perfected human flight." [THR]
· ABC, meanwhile, has ordered "quirky sci-fi thriller" Life on Mars, a new animated series from Mike Judge called The Goode Family, and Ashton Kutcher reality show Opportunity Knocks. Unlike last year's Cavemen, none are based on an insurance commercial—though Allstate, a "drama with supernatural elements" starring Dennis Haysbert as a creepy guy who has a way of always showing up at highway accidents, is said to be a possible mid-season replacement. [Variety]

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Despite recent reports that rehabbed Kirsten Dunst has cleaned up her act by nabbing a good guy boyfriend in Ryan Gosling, attending AA meetings and even heading back to work, the NY Daily News hears all that sober fun came to an abrupt and predictable stop at her 26th birthday party in New York last week. As a witness claims, "The actress looked a lot worse for wear as she tumbled out to the street hours after midnight, with girlfriends gripping her arm." While sightings like these don't exactly prove Dunst has fallen off the wagon, they do inspire us to play another game of Tipsy Face Bingo: a collection of our favourite Drunk Dunst photos of the past! All of Kirsten's finest slip-sliding, bleary-eyed, greasy-haired moments, after the jump.

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Several scenes from one of the summer's most anticipated releases—Sex and the City: The Movie (can we just shorten that to Sex and the Movie already? We feel like an asshole every time we type it)—have been leaked online. [SPOILERS AHEAD!]

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While it's always difficult getting used to living with a new roommate, it's not as though Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson met on Craig's List. After years of jaunting off to Tokyo, tag team DJ nights and generally painting the town pink like two regulars at Truck Stop Fridays, their most recent squabble sounds less like a trivial fight over a messy apartment and more like a rip-roaring catfight one sees at female roller derby tournaments:

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For all the career renaissance we've seen from Alec Baldwin over the last three or four years, not even his Golden Globe for 30 Rock overshadows his legendary turn as "Sociopathic Father" in last year's wildly popular Web-exclusive release Thoughtless Little Pig. Even Morley Safer couldn't stop talking about it last night on 60 Minutes; in the accompanying video, watch the "appalling" Baldwin float like a butterfly and sting like a bee under Safer's withering sallies, punch back with word of his forthcoming book on "divorce and parental alienation" and finally score the knockout with his disarming rejoinder about a potential political career: "There's other things I want to do. I mean, in a matter of weeks I'm going to be 50... By 60 Minutes correspondent terms, I am a young man!" Oh, Alec, you bastard. We just can't stay mad at you. [60 Minutes]

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Pictured, tropical-bird-whisperer and Transformers star Megan Fox on the set of Jennifer's Body, the Diablo Cody-penned, super-kinetic Raimian horror film currently shooting in Vancouver. Wet, trembling, and with only two flesh-coloured pasties (nothing to do with modesty, but actually a scripted wink to Cody's vocational past) preventing the full scope of her goodies from being on glorious display, it seems as though Fox, playing the film's bloodthirsty cheerleader protagonist, has mastered the "body" half of the title's equation. All that's left now is for her to tackle the tricky cadences of Cody's trademarked, Academy Award-winning dialogue, at which point the full of impact of lines like "Fried bologna is the bomb!" and "Slow down tardy slip. You sound like a sped," will earn the actress the Saturn nominations that have so eluded her until now.

The uncensored photo—very NSFW!—plus one more, is after the jump.

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We can't imagine how or why, after the ordeals of Three Kings and I Heart Huckabees, trouble could possibly find its way back to the set of a David O. Russell film. Alas, there it is — or, was, rather, in South Carolina, where only three weeks after resident cookie-choking expert James Caan quit the project, both the Teamsters and IATSE are grumpy and SAG reportedly shut production down because of "insufficient funds on deposit with the guild." And that's just the beginning, writes Nikki Finke:

Rumours also are circulating that the state of South Carolina could withdraw its incentive monies because of the financing problems. Filmmakers hope to resolve the cash crunch and re-start shooting next week since principal photography is only at the halfway point. "I am confident we will finish," an insider on the pic just told me. "The financing on this like most indies is based on bank loans and bridge loans. This is a matter of waiting on the bridge loan. Hopefully, it will all be resolved."

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We hate to rain on Tom Cruise's purity parade, but it seems his bundle of Hubbard Formula-chugging joy, Suri Cruise, has gone seriously gaga for two older men. And she's got the giggles to show it. While babysitting for all three Beckham boys as David bent it like...well, lost to the visiting team, Tom and Katie brought finger-nibbling Suri along to watch. But the blanketed Cruiselette only had eyes for one guy: and he goes by Brooklyn Beckham. Tom did seem more interested in setting up Suri with the littlest Beckham (Cruz Beckham! Just picturing future Scientology couple Suri Cruise and Cruz Beckham likely made Tom's removable head spin with possibilities), Suri couldn't keep her eyes off 9-year old Brooklyn. But earlier last week while still in NY, TomKat attended Suri's favourite musical, and we have a feeling fellow Scientologist John Travolta's role in the movie version had nothing to do with her ear-to-ear grin while leaving: a certain song-and-dancing Efronabbe got her all shook up...

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Chase away the Monday morning May-gloom blues with a glimpse at the box office numbers:

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How's this for irony? The same week Warner Bros. reestablished its mainstream priorities by dramatically cutting off Picturehouse and Warner Independent at the knees, the studio opened the summer with one of its biggest bombs in years: Speed Racer, the imperially promoted, poorly received $100 million Wachowskis film that opened this weekend to $20.2 million — if that. A Defamer operative inside Time Warner sent word Sunday that the studio's estimate could be overstating its actual gross by as much as $2.5 million, placing it in third place overall behind the relatively well-received What Happens in Vegas, which Fox is calling at $20 million but is likelier to cap out between $18 and $18.5 million. We'll know the actual numbers later today, but as explained after the jump, it couldn't get much more sobering for Warner Bros.

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