Wednesday, December 24, 2008
An Amusing Maria Venuti Story
3:41PM Jess McGuire | After today’s earlier piece about her hairdressing dramas, I was thinking about Lillian Frank and idly Googling her name to see what would come up. I stumbled across the Vogue forums and chuckled at the following story about Maria Venuti someone shared in a thread about Toorak’s most famous follicle manipulator.
hahaha Maria Venuti is obnoxious i was trying a bra on in DJ’s once and i opened the door to show my mum and Maria yelled out “darling that bra is far too small for you” and she ran into my fitting room and handed me her 16DD bra
Well, it tickled me!
MORE: Lillian Frank – Vogue Australia Forums More » 
YouTube Clip Of The Day
2:52PM Jess McGuire | POOR SORORITY GIRL! ELYSE DOWNS JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
Back story, according to YouTube:
Apparently, she wanted to make the hallway appear that it had snow in it, so she decided to use a fire extinguisher (this is something that her dad has successfully done in the past). Instead of there just being a “little poof”, the entire hallway filled with chemicals that caused the fire alarm to go off in the middle of the night during finals week.
Now this is her in the car upset that everyone at Alpha Chi (the sorority she wants to be in and presumably those who live where the fire alarm went off) hates her. She explains how she isn’t a bad person and it was just an accident. More » 
I Have Had My Feelings Hurt By Natalie Bassingthwaighte
1:45PM Jess McGuire | Earlier this week, I alerted you to the news that pop star Natalie Bassingthwaighte had added me as a friend on Facebook. This was a good thing, people! I was tremendously honoured and excited. I felt sure that she’d comment on my wall sooner rather than later, appreciating my support over the years, but friends? Things haven’t gone to plan.
Now I know that by going public with my tale of woe, I am probably jeopardising any chance I may have had in the future of interviewing Natalie Bassingthwaighte, but I had a long hard think about it and I cannot help but feel that it’s better to get the truth out there, you know? I suppose the best way I can explain the situation to you is to copy and paste the Description section of the Facebook group I have created called ‘I have had my feelings hurt by Natalie Bassingthwaighte’. I haven’t invited anyone to join the group as this is a personal issue for me and I don’t want to assume that anyone else in my friendship circle has had their feelings hurt by Natalie Bassingthwaighte, but if you’ve felt some personal pain caused either directly or indirectly by The Bass, you are welcome to join.
Before we get into it though, I do want to add that I have heard nothing but good things about The Bass “in real life” from mutual acquaintances who rate her highly. This is why the Facebook snubbing hurts so much. C’MON NAT, REACH OUT TO ME.
Ahem. Let’s continue, eh? More » Attention Queensland – Thank You For Your Prompt Response
12:46PM Jess McGuire | I should start writing open letters to assorted States and Territories more often, as I managed to get an answer to today’s earlier enquiry astoundingly quickly! Regular viewers will recall that I demanded answers as to why an 18 month old report on Jennifer Aniston’s then blossoming relationship with a British model/bricklayer had suddenly rocketed to the top of the Courier Mail website’s Most Popular Articles list.
Much thanks and appreciation to John Grey, editor at couriermail.com.au, who promptly offered up a satisfying response in the comments of the post.
Says John:
I might be able to offer a clue. We are getting traffic to that story from search.live.com image searches for Mr Sculfor. For some reason, when they get to the search results page, people want to click on the image of this semi-naked young man. I doubt they’re all Queenslanders.
Ha! Well, that clears that up. Well done, everybody. Thank you John, and Queenslanders may resume their interweb surfing without fear of Defamer Australia questioning your actions. We’ll put this one down to a flash mob of The Gays seeking hot photos of a nearly naked male model, I reckon. Or maybe news that Paul Sculfor is moving in with Cameron Diaz has inspired the image search frenzy. Whatever.
(resumes Googling nudie pics of assorted celebrity boyfriends)
PS: To commenter Chris McCulloch – if you are a male who loves Ladyhawke and Alphabeat, you are probably one of the aforementioned Gays. Which doesn’t bother me in the slightest, please forward relevant contact details to my “people”. More » 
Trouble In Toorak: Lillian Frank Is Involved In Some Kind Of Follicle Related Drama
11:32AM Jess McGuire | Gracious, it’s all happening in Toorak these days, isn’t it? Hot on the thrilling news of Pixie Skase’s return to the ritzy Melbourne suburb, it now seems as though The ‘Rak is providing even more excitement for those of us with no lives! (Former?) Herald Sun gossip columnist, renown philanthropist, and hair renovating socialite Lillian Frank is making waves – and I don’t just mean those of the ‘blow’ variety! HAHAHA ETC – with news she’s leaving the hairdressing business she’s put her name to for the last 40 years… and opening up shop around the corner!
Check out this madness!
Socialite Lillian Frank has been ousted from the hairdressing business she built up over more than 40 years — Lillian Frank the Hairstylist — and will start a job at a rival salon around the corner on Saturday.
Frank sold her iconic business three years ago to one of her young workers, Yili Karadavut, on the condition it keep her name on the shop front and she be allowed to continue cutting hair for her favourite clients three days a week.
This seems to me to be a reasonable request, but then I don’t know anything about the ins and outs of the coiffure business. Obviously things didn’t work out, because Lillian has chosen to leave the salon which still bears her name and moved to the nearby establishment Mal Bradley Hair.
Says Lillian: More » 
Attention Queensland – Is There Something We Should Know?
10:01AM Jess McGuire | Occasionally I like to peruse the Today’s Most Popular collection of stories on news.com.au which lists the articles getting the most hits according to particular News Ltd sites. I was intrigued to see that the Courier-Mail’s second top story fifteen minutes ago (it’s now moved down to the number four spot) was something called Jennifer dates British brickie..
I thought to myself “Hmmm, are we talking Jennifer Hawkins? Has she ditched Jake Wall? This could be good! Or maybe it’s Jennifer Lopez! After all, she and husband Marc Anthony have been spotted without their wedding rings!”
I clicked on the link – only to discover that the piece is about Jennifer Aniston and British model Paul Sculfor. Weird. Are they back together? Has she ditched John Mayer? Then I looked at the date of the report… June 06, 2007 11:00pm.
Queensland, why have you suddenly gone mad for an 18 month old article about Jennifer Aniston’s love life?! I need answers!
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Need More Tina Fey In Your Life?
9:01AM Jess McGuire | Sometimes watching 30 Rock repeatedly and scouring the interweb for interviews where she impressively delivers clever one liner after clever one liner just isn’t enough to satisfy the feverish desire for Tina Fey goodness for those of us who truly/madly/deeply adore the woman.
Therefore, if you are not already aware, I would like to alert you to the fact that Tina Fey – like Malcom Turnbull – uses Twitter.
It’s like getting Feytastic quotes and observations in private, only it’s totally public and she has no idea you are stalking her every move!
Here are a few choice examples of her Twittering: More » 
Hef and the Body-Painted Twins Wish You a Very Perky, NSFW Christmas
8:38AM Kyle Buchanan | It looks like we’ll have to think of a new idea for the Defamer Christmas card, because Hugh Hefner and his 19-year-old twin concubines have gone and stolen ours. More »
You Say ‘Statutory Rape,’ Kate Winslet Says ‘Puppy Love’
8:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Here in America, the romantic pairing of an underage 15-year-old and an older partner is only acceptable when the teenager gets country singer parental consent. Kate Winslet, though, will not accept this double standard! More »
