Monday, September 15, 2008

Shirley Manson Is Really Happy To Be Here, You Guys

3:20PM Clem Bastow | After our fearless leader revealed (to the dismay of one fan boy and the delight of everyone else) last week that Shirley Manson had taken on a hot new role as a shape-shifting urinal, it’s been full stream steam ahead in the Defamer Australia Shirley Manson (re-)Appreciation stakes. So, as you can imagine, while sorting the day’s pictures, I was excited to find a link detailed as follows: “FOX’s Cast of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” Host A Signing, Viewing and Q & A”. You beaut, I thought, there’ll shirley – HO HO – be some Shirley action in there! Only, it could just be me, but something tells me Ms Manson would rather be anywhere else than fraternising with the fans: More »

Fly To The Hills: Bruce Dickinson To The Rescue!

2:30PM Clem Bastow | There’s nothing like a bit of heart-warming metal god bravery to, er, warm the heart on a windy Monday, so step right up, Bruce Dickinson of metal maestros Iron Maiden! Yes, in addition to rocking the f–k out and wearing amazing leather pants during the ’70s and ’80s, Dickinson is also a pilot, and stepped up to the plane plate when hundreds of British holidaymakers became stranded in Egypt after their holiday tour company went bust, flying the metal skies all the way to pick them up and safely deliver them back to Old Blighty. “I was just doing my job. I was called out like a lot of other pilots to help and I was obviously happy to do that,” The Mail on Sunday newspaper quoted rocker Dickinson as saying. More »

Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Happy Birthday To You

1:25PM Clem Bastow | You’d be forgiven, if you were a close personal friend of Amy Winehouse, for expecting her to have become somewhat tardy when it came to personal engagements and dates of late – you know, giving you Christmas presents in August and organising Easter egg hunts for early January – but surely it’s a worrying sign when Winegums is running late even for her own birthday party? Because, you know, surprise surprise, that’s what she’s been up to! She arrived two hours late for a performance at her local pub, The Monarch, in north London on Thursday night. The organisers were forced to announce, “Miss Winehouse is sorry she will be late.” More »

So Teresa Palmer Didn’t Really Change Russell Brand That Much, After All

12:30PM Clem Bastow | One thing that has been missing from the coverage of Russell Brand’s apparent “hook up” with Britney Spears is any mention of his GIRLFRIEND, Australian actress and expat, Teresa Palmer. Yes, remember her? The one for whom Russell Had apparently become a changed man (The Sun twice crowned him Shagger Of The Year). So, er, yeah, Russell, where’s your girlfriend? Just hours before their rendezvous, Brand told reporters he was newly single after ending his three-month relationship with Palmer, 22. Describing himself as “footloose and fancy free,” Brand reportedly even propositioned a female journalist during press interviews for his upcoming film Bedtime Stories. More »

Australian Idol Round-Up: Final 12 Week

10:30AM Clem Bastow | So, finally, after two weeks of der-fred auditionees, delusional stage mothers and the indignity of the Wildcard show, Australian Idol has properly begun. And despite the inherent naffness of the “Idols’ Idols” theme and extended slow-motion-childhood-photo-montage action, it was actually one of Idol’s better kick-offs. Shall we hold hands and discuss it all over the jump? More »

Peaches Geldof Aiming For Yoko-dom?

10:25AM Jess McGuire | Trouble in paradise already for Peaches Geldof and new husband Max Drummey? Perhaps! You see, it hasn’t been very long since their Vegas wedding, but the British press are reporting that all may not be well between the two – because Peaches is trying to join her husband’s band! They have been married for only weeks but Peaches Geldof, 19, and Max Drummey, 23, have had another bust-up, this time about her ambitions to join his band Chester French. More »

Ricki-Lee: “My Feelings, Let Me Show You Them”

9:29AM Jess McGuire | Here’s the thing about people – we all have feelings. Loads of them. And, as a general rule, people tend to think of their own feelings as being more interesting and more intense than any feeling ever felt by anyone else ever before. It is this streak of narcissism in all humankind which has led the internet bulging at the virtual seams because of the ever-increasing number of MySpace blogs and LiveJournal entries which all pretty much say the same thing – “Waaaah, waaaah, waaaah, I am so special and misunderstood, my life has been terribly difficult and nobody has ever loved me for me, something something lol something something listening to: linkin park”. Well guess what, everyone! If you went through the entire internet and grabbed every single emotional LiveJournal entry and whining MySpazz blog post and popped them all in a blender and then put the resulting concoction into some sort of magical machine which converts liquid text-sookery into astoundingly daft statements made to the press by celebrities, then you’d have this humdinger from Ricki-Lee. Australian Idol star Ricki-Lee Coulter has revealed a secret life of loneliness, depression and betrayal. “I’ve delved deeply and know I am a 22-year-old woman with the weight of the world on her shoulders,” Coulter said. It’s only going to get worse, isn’t it? More »

Warning: The Following Thrilling Photos Of Sunday Rose Kidman Urban May Cause Hyperventilation In Some Readers

8:58AM Jess McGuire | Folks, if you thought the grainy pictures of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban clutching their washing were heart-stoppingly exciting, then I don’t even know how I can prepare you for what you’re about to soak up. I know what you’re thinking. Sunday Rose? What does she have to do with the photo of what appears to be a strange sack of potatoes being lovingly protected by a pale woman’s hand which is sitting on the left of this text? Guess what…. those “potatoes” are actually Sunday Rose Kidman Urban! The “hand”? Oh, only the paw of Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman! And the “sack”? Actually something called a “pouch sling” which groovy parents use to transport their bairns around town! Or maybe it’s called a sling pouch. I don’t know. I should probably check with babblebaby.com.au. Either way, it’s not the only photo the UK tabloid The Daily Mail has published over the weekend. In fact, in the one after the jump, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE BABY’S NOGGIN! More »