Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Channel Ten’s 2009 Line-Up Is Apparently Rather Unimpressive
3:26PM Jess McGuire | I know we’re all wondering which great new television shows will appear on our screens during prime time next year, get us hooked, and then find themselves promptly shoved to an 11pm slot before disappearing without any warning whatsoever, but from the sound of things, Channel Ten have not been purchasing programs wisely.
Ten network is counting on a collection of new reality television programs to help arrest the decline in its audience this year and convince advertisers it will not be swamped by the Seven and Nine networks next year.
More » 
Jason Donovan Is Not Inviting Kylie To His Second Wedding
2:46PM Jess McGuire | Journalists have been surprised to learn that Jason Donovan will not be inviting his ex to his second wedding (he originally got hitched to the mother of his children, Angela Malloch, mid year during a holiday in Bali, but personally I find it completely understandable. Like his new wife would want to be upstaged by Our Kylie! It’s bad enough her husband talks about her at the drop of a hat!
Aussie pop princess Kylie Minogue was snubbed by actor/singer Jason Donovan when she was not invited to his wedding scheduled to take place in the new year.
More » Mothers, Hide Your Children – Salma’s On A Breastfeeding Rampage
1:57PM Jess McGuire | Salma Hayek has revealed she’s simply mad about breastfeeding – and the way she talks about it, with the same passion that Pete Doherty might discuss crack pipes, leads me to believe that women nursing babies would do well to clutch their infants a little closer toward them if the actress happens to pass them in the street, as Salma would not hesitate to grab a child and demand that it suckle from her movie star teat in order to achieve her high.
Salma Hayek is addicted to breastfeeding.
The ‘Frida’ actress, who gave birth to daughter Valentina in September 2007, has revealed she can’t bring herself to stop breastfeeding.
And she uses strong words to describe her powerful addiction. More » Brisbane Broncos Players Will Not Face Charges
11:42AM Jess McGuire | Back in September, the clean cut world of rugby league was scandalised when a woman claimed she’d been sexually assaulted by three Broncos players at a nightclub. It’s not often we hear of sporting stars drinking excessively and treating women appallingly, so the nation was understandably shocked. Brisbane Broncos supporters can breathe easy once more – although the players involved in the nightclub incident brought the club into disrepute in the eyes of club officials, police will not be charging them.
The Brisbane Broncos have fined players Karmichael Hunt, Darius Boyd and Sam Thaiday for bringing the club into disrepute.
Police today cleared the three rugby league players over sexual assault and drug allegations.
And just how large was this fine? Big enough to deter other players from misbehaving?
More » 
YouTube Clip Of The Day
9:50AM Jess McGuire | Today I proudly present Boyzone’s first television appearance.
There are no words. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the amazing reader who sent this in. More » 
9:29AM STV | A Goatee Too Far: A little more than a year-and-a-half after his infamous leather-bar amateur-night shimmy with Ellen DeGeneres, John Travolta’s new look in the thriller From Paris With Love goes about as far as the actor has yet gone to reinforce his straight creds. Stop already, John — you had us with the muumuu in Hairspray! Now we just feel guilty. [WWTTD] More »
Eve Plumb Ups The Brady Bad Girl Ante By Dropping F-Bomb On Game Show
9:10AM Seth | When it comes to beloved TV childhood memories gone sour, it seems few shows deliver with the consistency and longevity of The Brady Bunch—more specifically, the mother’s side of the family. From little Cindy’s 8:30 a.m. hangover upchuck on live talk radio, to Marcia’s syphilis-fuelled cocaine binges at the bottom of a 40-person Playboy Mansion man-castle, it seems these lovely girls with hair of gold have seen their fair share of hard livin’. More »
‘Esquire’ Wants You to Know That Vince Vaughn is Fat Now
8:44AM Kyle Buchanan | When Vince Vaughn first made his mark with Swingers, he was so whippet-thin that his wild, improvised riffs almost seemed to be a unique form of cardio. Now that a decade has passed, though, things have changed — a fact that Esquire’s new issue takes great pains to point out. Vince Vaughn is not thin anymore, each line of its cover story (entitled “The Biggest Man in the Room”) seems to say. No, Vince Vaughn is now a fatty, a great big fatty fat person. Think we’re joking? Enjoy this opening paragraph, with all the ooky, relevant parts bolded in Defamer ChubbyFont™: More »
Is An Obama World Ready For A Black 007 Or A Bootylicious Wonder Woman?
7:44AM STV | As exit strategies go, Daniel Craig’s long view on stepping away from James Bond is the most progressive we’ve encountered in some time: At a Quantum of Solace press conference last week in Rome, Craig suggested that Barack Obama’s election win had perhaps laid the groundwork for a black 007. Admittedly, we hadn’t yet considered the “action-movie franchise” component of Obama’s social influence, but at least one critic opened the discussion online — and this only days after Beyoncé Knowles made a public appeal for the role of Wonder Woman in the long-delayed (and presumed dead) comic-book adaptation. And so begins America’s next essential civil rights debate: Have our blockbuster heroes moved beyond race? More »
