Friday, July 11, 2008
BBUK Update: Aussie Sara Pashes On With Cookie Lovin’ Kathreya…
4:46PM Jess McGuire | Bad news, Enrique Iglesias – it seems your former tongue buddy, Big Brother UK housemate Sara Folino, has found a new “special friend” and it’s… Kathreya the Cookie Lover! Wait, WHAT?
On Big Brother 9 U.K. this week, that’s exactly what happened: Contestants Sara Folino and Kathreya Kasisopa shared a snog in the pool. Of course it wasn’t as romantic as a goth pool party kiss would likely seem — other roommates were there to “encourage” them along.
Though both Sara and Kathreya have yet to speak about their sexuality on the show, Kathreya ended their pool party by saying: “I kiss you tomorrow. Same time. In the pool.” I wonder what the next theme party will be — Mardi Gras? (Sara is Australian, and you know how gay their Mardi Gras is.)
I love how pleased Kathreya seems by the encounter. “I kiss you tomorrow” is going to be my line of choice this evening when I stroll around the Northcote Social Club hunting down Dave McCormack… or, frankly, anyone too drunk to run away.
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New Kids On The Block To Work With Michael Jackson?
4:10PM Jess McGuire | Wow. If the year was 1989 and not 2008, word that Michael Jackson is planning on collaborating with pop sensations of yesterday New Kids On The Block might have been welcome. But it’s not 1989, and thus the revelation is more of a joke than anything else.
Former King of Pop Michael Jackson is set to collaborate with reformed boy band New Kids On The Block.
The reformed boy band’s singer, Donny Wahlberg, revealed the plan as the group – who announced they were reuniting earlier this year – celebrated the launch of their comeback tour, which starts in September.
Donny said: “It’s very exciting. It’s one big party and everyone wants to join us.”
The band held secret talks with Michael, 49, at his Nevada home last week.
As a clever clogs commenter over at the Stuff.co.nz site quips, “Is Michael Jackson only doing this because he likes their name, New KIDS on the block????”
Moving on, let’s take a look at the photo accompanying the article of the New Kids themselves.
Am I alone in thinking that the one who was the least attractive in the group during its hey day (Danny Wood, the chiselled looking fellow on the far right, those who were not young girls/future homosexuals during New Kids mania) is now looking dangerously like the ensemble’s hottest member? This makes me uncomfortable. I fear change. Although it is worth keeping in mind that as a young lass, my favourite was Donnie – and Donnie had a rat’s tail. When it comes to picking the cutest member of New Kids On The Block, I may have been born with a strange genetic defect which prevents me from assessing the situation correctly.
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James Blunt Fails To Keep Up The Greek Cats
3:56PM Jess McGuire | Poor James Blunt. All the sex and alcoholic beverages in the world won’t make up for the slap in the face that was the needless cancellation of his sold out shows in Athens.
His music may be laidback, but James Blunt is on the warpath after the Greeks formed a phalanx to prevent him performing on Lykavittos Hill, the highest point in Athens.
Two sold-out concerts by Blunt were cancelled by the municipality for “safety inspections” only hours before the singer was due to take to the stage. However, concerts by Nick Cave and Mark Knopfler did go ahead. The Athens authorities admitted later that there had been no safety issue, but a letter confirming this had been “misplaced” – while 6,000 fans were locked out.
“In the best case it’s carelessness and in the worst case corruption,” an angry Blunt told Ta Nea, the Athens daily paper, sensing a conspiracy.
A conspiracy to protect the ears of Athenians from the dirge that is You’re Beautiful? Surprisingly, the feeble mewling you’re hearing in your head right now as you read about this story isn’t just the chorus of “Goodbye, My Lover” raping your consciousness, it’s the sound a wounded cat makes after being dropped. More » Alexander Downer’s LiveJournal-esque Sook Doesn’t Impress Crikey One Bit
2:08PM Jess McGuire | Oh, my. I do love when Crikey starts their daily email to subscribers with the textual equivalent of a king hit, and today they didn’t disappoint, slamming former King of Mayo Alexander Downer in three punchy paragraphs.
What a bloody sook Alexander Downer is. His response today in The Sydney Morning Herald to Peter Hartcher’s savage farewelling of him last week contains a standard-issue lament about the anti-conservative bias of the Australian media.
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
12:44PM Jess McGuire | This is without a doubt the greatest film trailer I’ve ever seen.
CHAIRBULANCE! More » 
All Work And No Play Makes For A Pretty Awesome Kubrick Ad
11:30AM Seth | If you love The Shining—and who doesn’t—we’re pretty sure you’ll love this commercial plugging a Stanley Kubrick retrospective on UK TV. [thighswideshut.org, Channel 4] The “Straight Dave” referred to in that Arkansas gay wrestling prank is rumoured to be another character Sacha Baron Cohen is playing in Bruno: “A gay man trying to hide his sexuality by living an ultra-straight lifestyle.” This is starting to sound tedious. [g4tv.com via videogum] Have you always wanted to know how to spell Vin Diesel’s name in Russian, but were too shy to ask? Today is your lucky day! [/Film] This 32,000 Barbie doll installation is like some Busby Berkeley fever dream. [eyeteeth.blogspot.com via Goldenfiddle] Panda births are not cute. They kind of remind us of Alien births. [itn.co.uk] More »
Brooke Hogan’s Worst Year Ever Documented For Celebreality Posterity
11:15AM Seth | Brooke Hogan, the Saddest Reality Star on Earth, popped by GMA this morning to plug her new VH1 show Brooke Knows Best, where she was made to react to all the truly awful things to happen to her this year. By way of review: Her brother’s best friend was left brain dead from a racing accident with her brother Nick Hogan at the wheel, for which he is currently serving an eight-month sentence. Also, her mother filed for divorce from her famous wrestler dad, and is now dating a 19-year-old. And where most of us would choose to cope with a year of unthinkable tragedy and heartache by, say, not submitting ourselves to 24-hour reality film crew documenting every emotional breakdown, Brooke has chosen the perhaps more challenging route, and done precisely that. To her credit, were it us in that situation, we’d probably be shitfaced and trying to make out with Sam Champion—but Hogan manages to admirably hold it all together. Let’s hope she doesn’t wind up being shuffled through the VH1 Celebreality repertory, and wind up roomies with Natasha Lyonne on Celebrity Rehab, or judging a hot-fudge-massage contest on her own competitive dating show, Hogan On To Love. More »
Isla Fisher Chooses Stardom Over Judaism, But All The Other Converted Actresses? Some Fine Lookin’ Jews
10:55AM Molly Friedman | When choosing between months of intensive studies spent hunched over a Torah preparing for your kiddushin (that’s betrothal for you goyum, which are non-Jews for you…non-Jews), and becoming a big star, it seems Isla Fisher has decided to go with the latter. As the Daily Mail reports, the potential redheaded successor to Lucille Ball’s slapstick throne has put off the conversion process in order to complete filming Confessions Of A Shopaholic. And fiance Sacha Baron Cohen’s ultra-religious parents just don’t see what all this movie stardom fuss is all about. The wedding date has reportedly been postponed, Cohen’s gone back to making Israelis cry as Bruno, and the wee Cohen baby is presumably in the hands of the only au pair they could find who hasn’t seen Borat. But Fisher isn’t the first actress to undergo conversion to Judaism for a guy — from Liz Taylor to Connie Chung, a diverse handful of stars became Jews in the name of love, though not every shattered chuppah led to a happy ending… More »
Original ‘90210′ Alumni Report: Checking In With Kelly, David and Nat
10:35AM Defamer Hollywood | There hasn’t been a show as hotly anticipated as the 90210 revamp since last year’s Knight Rider. (You heard me.) And as we wait with bated breath wondering about the casting fate of teen counseling sensation and all around Losing My Religion-loving Brenda, let’s catch up with some former cast members to see how life is treating them. More »
