Thursday, September 4, 2008
Lily Allen Versus Elton John: The Footage
4:39PM Jess McGuire | As mentioned earlier today, Elton John and Lily Allen enjoyed some sparkling banter whilst hosting the the GQ Awards. To summarise events, Lily drank an impressive amount of champagne and swore a lot, Elton made a joke about her boozing, Lily retorted “Hey old dude, shut up, I am young and have what is left of my career ahead of me!” (not an exact quote, of course), and Elton reminded her of the impressive cocaine snorting abilities he once had back in the day.
And now? Their banter in YouTube form, after the jump!
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YouTube Clip Of The Day
3:39PM Jess McGuire | Today’s fantastic dance move extravaganza comes courtesy of Monkeys For Helping.
Move your boogie body, y’all!
MORE: Monkeys For Helping More » Spotted! Brian Jonestown Massacre Frontman Digs John Safran
2:08PM Jess McGuire | On Sunday night in Melbourne, our spies managed to spot John Safran having his ear chewed off (settle down, Dido fans) by Anton Newcombe at the Brian Jonestown Massacre after party. Apparently Anton is a massive fan of Safran and asked him to come to the show so the two could meet. But we suspect Anton Newcombe was too much of a conversational handful even for the likes of a veteran verbal jouster such as Safran after the ten minute mark. More » 
JetstarGate: Our Source Speaks Out, Claims Jetstar Employee Was “Polite And Professional”
12:15PM Jess McGuire | Will this story never die? Not while there’s a chance of it winning me a Walkley, which is extremely likely considering it involves swear words, a Neighbours star, and minimal “investigationing” (that’s the word journos use, isn’t it? Ryan Shelton is a proper reporter, yeah?) on my part.
I contacted our source who claims to have witnessed Carla Bonner getting unreasonably surly toward a Jetstar flight attendant (something Carla Bonner denies) and urged him to speak up and tell me the truth. Had he embellished the story a little? Had anything not come across correctly in his first version of events, and is it possible Carla could rightly believe she’d been misrepresented? I mean, we may be a playful “online blog”, but we have some sense of decency. If anything needs to be clarified and publicly amended, we’re more than willing to do it.
Our source has just gotten back to us and admitted that there are a few things he’d like to change in his story. Gripped? Why wouldn’t you be! It’s JetstarGate! More » 
If You Insist She’ll Have A White Wine Spritzer. Or Eighty.
11:34AM Clem Bastow | It’s been a while since Lily Allen has come up with the goods, so to speak, in the hilarious celebrity bad behaviour stakes, so this latest update pleases me immensely (after all, she’s like Amy Winehouse but without the crushing sense of the imminent death of humanity and a bunch of cute fluffy kittens and babies): in short, Lily got shickered at the GQ Men of the Year Awards and pissed off nearly everyone in the room/entertainment industry. Even better, it was a cavalcade of bad manners as everyone’s iffy behaviour inspired everyone else, and in the end Elton John and Mani from Primal Scream had joined the party (the latter exclaiming, on the topic of Elle MacPherson, “F-cking hell, a giraffe in a dress”).
When Allen told the star-studded Royal Opera House audience “now we reach a very special point in the evening”, Sir Elton sniped: “What, you are going to have another drink?”
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Should Anna Coren Stay Or Should She Go?
11:20AM Clem Bastow | That title may seem like a rhetorical question (the answer being, one would expect, “Duh, go”), but it’s par for the course over at Seven headquarters at present. One minute Coren was all set to vamoose the Today Tonight chair and Concerned Face™ to jump ship to CNN, and now it looks like she’s not so certain the US is where it’s at anymore. Where does this leave proposed replacement, Samantha Armytage? That’s an issue that doesn’t seem to be rating very highly on Seven’s Care-Factor-O-Meter, as they’re too busy to-ing and fro-ing about Coren, if Seven’s current affairs honcho Peter Meakin’s stance is anything to go by:
“I am scheduled to catch up with Anna tomorrow and everything will be laid on the table – we are going to start with a clean sheet,” Meakin told Confidential last night.
More » Spectacular (Or Crap, Depending On Your Taste) Thursday Joke
9:39AM Jess McGuire | To celebrate the recent announcement that rap star Snoop Dogg will now be issued a visa allowing him into this fine land of ours to drop whatever it is he wants to drop regardless of its temperature, I would like to repeat a joke here that my friend Genny B told on air during the RRR Radiothon show for her program LiveWire. It is fantastic and awful but brilliant and it made me laugh til it hurt because I am a bit special sometimes.
Q. Why does Snoop Dogg always carry an umbrella? More » 
Fatherhood Finds David Spade
9:30AM Seth | To all you naysayers out there who always insisted that David Spade would never find a nice girl, settle down, and fall right into life as a loving new dad, time to start eating some crow: Spade has accidentally impregnated a Playboy Playmate. So there! More »Australia’s Favourite Gardening Gurus Have Turned On Each Other!
9:07AM Jess McGuire | I’ve always heard that gardening and spending quality time with plantlife kept you all Zen and shizz, but latest reports in the paper would indicate that’s not the case. Oprah’s new favourite plaything Jamie Durie and Australia’s other top dude who digs stuff on a renovation show Scott Cam are bitching about each other with all the spite and venom one would expect from teenage girls. And I for one love it.
The gardening gloves are off, with Jamie Durie’s former Nine co-star Scott Cam shaming the Seven personality for “offensive” comments he made which pitted Durie’s new program against the makeover of Sydney survivor Lauren Huxley.
Uh-oh. Did golden boy Jamie actually say something offensive? Say it ain’t so! More » 
