Wednesday, September 17, 2008
YouTube Clip Of The Day
1:42PM Jess McGuire | This girl is probably one of the most annoying people on the planet.
She is also possibly getting paid by Pokemon. The Japanese seem to love her.
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Thoughts On Malcolm Turnbull’s New Job
1:23PM Jess McGuire | When the team from Sunrise asked me to contribute my thoughts regarding Malcolm Turnbull’s new role as the leader of the Liberal Party for their website, I wish I could say I was surprised. But to be honest, I’ve always envisioned myself as a political pundit, so after I finished sending Laurie Oakes a menacing email telling him to watch his goddamn back, I settled down and wrote some stupid responses to the questions I was given.
If you would like to read these thoughts, then go to the Sunrise website and take a look. Also, “media commentator and political bandit” is going straight onto my business card. And by business card, I obviously mean the About Me section on my Facebook page.
MORE: Turnbully? Turncoat? How Defamer sees Turnbull More » Richard Wilkins Announces Engagement To New Missus On ‘Today’ Show
11:56AM Jess McGuire | Australia’s number one imported – remember, he’s from New Zealand originally – showbiz lothario, Sir Richard Wilkins Esq, used his time on the nation’s television screens yesterday to not only inform them of various goings on in the world of entertainment, but also – he’s getting hitched! Fourth time lucky!
As you can imagine, former partner Collette Dinnigan was one of many viewers who showed signs of vague interest in this development in Richard’s romantic life.
The shock engagement of Channel 9’s resident Romeo Richard Wilkins stunned more than his Today show audience yesterday, with friends close to the TV star sensationally claiming he had proposed to his former flame Collette Dinnigan just three months ago.
You propose to Collette just three months ago? And now you’re marrying someone else? Tricky Dicky indeed!
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Short Odds On D-O-Double-Gizzle At The (Pimp) Cup
11:56AM Clem Bastow | Snoop Dogg hasn’t had the best of times with Australia’s immigration officials of late; after refusing his entry visa at the last MTV AVMAs, they then got heavy with the rap god (did you hear about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac? He stayed up all night wondering if there really was a dog – THANK YOU, THANK YOU) again – but now it looks like Snoop will not just be entering our country, he’ll be doing so in style and attending the Melbourne Cup. Snoop for last-minute Fashions On The Field judge!
The US singer has been invited to the Lavazza marquee at both Derby Day and Cup Day, and insiders say he is a likely starter.
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A Note To Anyone Who Watched Australian ‘Project Runway’
10:15AM Clem Bastow | Not having Foxtel anymore, I have unfortunately fallen out of the loop with all my favourite shows including Outrageous Celebrity Look-alike Behaviour Caught On Tape 2 and reruns of VH1’s 50 Least Metal Moments – and it also means I managed to completely miss Australia’s take on Project Runway in its entirety. This is a shame, as word on the street (i.e. from my friends with Foxtel) was that in the scheme of bought in reality franchises, it was actually pretty ace. Anyway, if you’ve been following it, then you’ll be pleased/shocked/disappointed/insert-emotion-here to hear that Julijana Grbac’s eponymous label, Grbac, took out the Runway crown.
“To win this is my wildest dream, honestly, it’s cool,” the newlywed said.
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What Were We Saying About Daniel MacPherson Mozzing ‘Dancing’?
9:20AM Clem Bastow | Okay, it’s probably a bit unfair that we’ve been waging war against Daniel MacPherson for taking over Daryl Somers’ Dancing With The Stars hosting duties, it’s just that when we heard Larry Emdur and/or Andrew O’Keefe were in the mix, well, MacPherson just feels like sloppy thirds. But call it coincidence or fate, either way, since he took the gig (and it almost certainly has nothing to do with the show moving to Sunday night where it’s competing against Idol and Sixty Minutes), Dancing’s ratings have dived. And they just keep going down!
The now Daniel MacPherson-hosted show owned and occupied Tuesday nights for the past four years but plunged to fourth in its third week in its Sunday slot.
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Ryan Seacrest Reveals The Secret Behind Simon Cowell’s Perma-Scowl: Botox
8:40AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that mogulsexual Ryan Seacrest finally has an American Idol season to start taping, he’s shelved his budding bromance with NBC head Ben Silverman to get back to what he does worst: trading barbs with Simon Cowell. To kick off this latest round of homoerotic oversharing, Seacrest landed himself on Ellen DeGeneres’s couch, where he proceeded to mock Cowell’s self-obsession and accuse the withering judge of a Botox addiction. Yes, Ryan Seacrest called someone else out for metrosexual grooming. Removing your blond highlights can really embolden a man. [The Ellen DeGeneres Show] More »
Australian Idol Round-Up: Jonny Taylor, The Man So Memorable Everyone Forgot He’d Left
8:38AM Clem Bastow | Pity poor Jonny Taylor; first he eats bitumen in a motorcycle accident that causes him only to be able to communicate via the power of soulful™ atmospheric rock songs and paintings of post-apocalyptic landscapes featuring screaming, bald heads, then his hair is attacked by the last remaining bottle of Fudge Raspberry Beret Paintbox dye on the planet, then his mother solemnly informs him that the family will only be able to afford clothes from Off Ya Tree since the river took Emmy-Lou, and then, he ends up in the bottom two with Teale “The JPEG” Jakubenko – and it’s The JPEG that ends up getting to stay! Good thing Jonny’s feeling so chipper about the whole debacle, then:
“I started losing faith in myself not as artist but as a performer,” Taylor said today.
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Madonna Video Installation Sorely Lacking In Juxtaposed Sarah Palin/Pol Pot Imagery
8:20AM Seth | Madonna is always reliable for causing some sort of furor with her live performances, and so it went with her Sticky & Sweet Tour, in which a video-collage backdrop had aligned images of John McCain and Mike Huckabee with Adolph Hitler, Ayatollah Khamenei, Robert Mugabe, and Kim Jong Il; later on, Barack Obama appeared in a grouping which included the Dalai Lama, Al Gore, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and (cough) Michael Moore. Now you can watch the video that McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds called “outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time,” and judge for yourself, as a copy of the disco-agitprop has emerged on YouTube. Obviously, this was thrown together well before Sarah Palin was even a blip on the national radar; we can only imagine the kinds of fun Madonna could have throwing a cone-bra into the Palin impression ring, voguing her way through a choreographed moose-slaying accompanied by two shirtless and well-muscled background dancers representing Todd and Track. The video is after the jump: More »
