apologies
Flotsam & Jetsam
Sorry About The Gay Witchhunt, Alan Turing
11:07AM Ryan Tate | The online petition is just about the least convincing showcase of political will yet devised. But it can still trigger meaningful action, like the British Prime Minister’s apology to the late computer science pioneer Alan Turing, persecuted for being gay. More »
Online
Today’s The Day For Tech Companies To Issue Hushed Apologies
1:47AM Ryan Tate | The best time to say “sorry” to your customers is when no one else will hear you say it. That seems to be the thinking at Google, Amazon and AT&T, which are all ready to grovel to you, today. More »
Online
Perez Hilton Will Not Apologise For Being An Awful Person
7:30AM Foster Kamer | Perez Hilton got a fawning LA Times profile today. Instead of taking the opportunity to win fans back after recent publicity snafus, he used it as a platform to define his brand going forward: that of a professionally insufferable dick. More »
Music
11:56AM Jess McGuire | Dear Fans of Extremely Talented Australian Band Short Stack,
I am writing this open letter to you because I am afraid for my life did something very bad on Tuesday. More »
An Open Letter To The Fans Of Short Stack
11:56AM Jess McGuire | Dear Fans of Extremely Talented Australian Band Short Stack,
I am writing this open letter to you because I am afraid for my life did something very bad on Tuesday. More »
Small Screen
David Letterman Apologises To Sarah Palin Again
6:27PM the cajun boy | Reports have surfaced that David Letterman offered yet another apology to Sarah Palin at this afternoon’s taping of his show set to air later tonight. He couldn’t have made a worse mistake. More »
Small Screen
11:14AM Jess McGuire | Yesterday Defamer Australia (thanks to the video uploading mad skills of Crikey) showed you footage of Karl Stefanovic’s post-Logies performance on The Today Show. It was an impressive display of slow talk and trying to stay upright, and I think he actually made a pretty good effort to hide how shitfaced he really was. He failed, of course. But he tried. More »
Karl Stefanovic Sorry For “Tired And Emotional” Performance On Today Show
11:14AM Jess McGuire | Yesterday Defamer Australia (thanks to the video uploading mad skills of Crikey) showed you footage of Karl Stefanovic’s post-Logies performance on The Today Show. It was an impressive display of slow talk and trying to stay upright, and I think he actually made a pretty good effort to hide how shitfaced he really was. He failed, of course. But he tried. More » Gordon Ramsay Is Sorry For Diddling The Professional Mistress
9:29AM Jess McGuire | Surprise, surprise! Looks like Brand Ramsay is stronger than public revelations celebrity chef Gordon cheated on his wife Tana with a woman who describes herself as a professional mistress, with the sweary Scot apologising to his missus and praying to God his indescretion won’t affect his paycheck. I am assuming that last bit, of course.
Gordon Ramsay has apologised to his wife Tana after admitting he met his alleged mistress at least four times. The couple have now made a pact to keep their marriage together as they brace for more accusations in the coming days.
“I’m so sorry I’ve put Tana through this,” Ramsay told a friend who was quoted in Britain’s Mirror newspaper last night. “I’ve apologised to her and feel absolutely dreadful. I feel I’ve been a fool. She really doesn’t deserve all this grief.”
Of course he feels like a fool – it was the professional mistress who set him up with the tabloids! More » 
4:33AM STV | Truly Madly Icky: Alan Rickman is well-known for decades’ worth of on-screen misdeeds, but the sex scenes in his new film Nobel Son appear to be the first for which the actor has actually felt remorse. “You show up at nine in the morning and you shake the poor woman’s hand: ‘Hi, nice to meet you,’ and then you get at it on the desk,” said Rickman, who portrays a college professor with a weakness for nubile grad-student flesh. “It’s such a bizarre thing to do. You just move on as quickly as possible. I felt sorry for those women in the sex scenes.” The denizens of Century City, meanwhile, are still awaiting his apology for that whole blowing-the-shit-out-of-Fox-Tower thing in Die Hard. At least the Nobel girls had a choice. [WENN] More »
‘Public Enemy of All Mankind’ Sharon Stone Regrets Mixing Human Rights With Geology
6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Mere days after scientists assured her that “karma tectonics” was most certainly not responsible for the devastating May 12 earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people in China, Sharon Stone revised her earlier geological lecture to include a direct apology to the Chinese people for suggesting as much in the first place. “Due to my inappropriate words and acts during the interview, I feel deeply sorry and sad about hurting Chinese people,” Stone said in a statement released through Christian Dior, which is dropping the actress from its ads in China. “I am willing to take part in the relief work of China’s earthquake, and wholly devote myself to helping affected Chinese people.” More »
