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Roger Ebert: ‘I Was Probably Too Quick To Tweet’ About Jackass Star’s Death
5:04AM Maureen OConnor | Following Bam Margera’s outrage over a Roger Ebert tweet about Jackass star Ryan Dunn’s death (“friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive”) Ebert has taken to his blog. He quotes Bam’s curse-strewn tweets about him, then expresses “regret”: More »
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Lars Von Trier To Jews: Sorry For Pretending To Be A Nazi
4:27AM Maureen OConnor | And on the 15th minute of his Nazi scandal, Lars von Trier issued an apology to Israeli newspaper Haaretz: More »
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Botox Mum Begs For Forgiveness
2:27AM Maureen OConnor | Botox mum Kerry Campbell (who might not be “Kerry Campbell” at all, but a multi-named mystery chupacabra of indeterminate origin) has returned to The Sun, the publication where her insanity spree began, to apologise for shooting botulism into her 8-year-old daughter’s face, then bragging about it on TV. More »
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John Galliano Issues Apology, Denies Claims Against Him
5:02AM Brian Moylan | Disgraced former Dior designer John Galliano issued a statement today apologizing for his anti-Semitic tirade but also denying the claims against him, saying he was provoked into making the offensive remarks. More »
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Most Glorious Apology Of Our Time: Chris Brown’s ‘Fallaciloquences’
4:06AM Maureen OConnor | After Chris Brown called Raz B a “butplugged” “homothug,” Raz’s brother Ricky Romance threatened Chris with murder. Now Ricky’s burying the hatchet, and his Jabberwock-like apology—featuring words like “fallaciloquences,” “eclaircise,” and “humgruffin”—is a work of art. More »
Online
Facebook Is Sorry For Its 30-Minute Outage
5:57AM Adrian Chen | Facebook is sorry for forcing you to interact with people in the real world for 30 minutes yesterday.
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Digg CEO ‘Deeply’ Sorry For Thing He Didn’t Do
11:58AM Ryan Tate | In his debut blog post as CEO, Digg’s Matt Williams writes he’s “deeply sorry” about the social news site’s “disappointing redesign“. Sad: Williams inherited the redesign entirely from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose. Let’s hope Williams’ contract includes a grovelling bonus.
Music
3:29PM Jess McGuire | I had high hopes that Kanye West’s weekend Twitter ramble about Taylor Swift would lead to the two musical superstars finally becoming friends and leaving the whole ruining-of-huge-career-moments incident behind them, and it looks like I got my wish! And then my wish was taken away from me! Why did you delete your Twitter acceptance, @taylorswift13? It even included a Justin Bieber gag! Thankfully, someone took a screenshot… More »
Taylor Swift Accepts Kanye West’s Twitter Apology, Deletes Evidence Of Acceptance Shortly Afterwards (UPDATED!)
3:29PM Jess McGuire | I had high hopes that Kanye West’s weekend Twitter ramble about Taylor Swift would lead to the two musical superstars finally becoming friends and leaving the whole ruining-of-huge-career-moments incident behind them, and it looks like I got my wish! And then my wish was taken away from me! Why did you delete your Twitter acceptance, @taylorswift13? It even included a Justin Bieber gag! Thankfully, someone took a screenshot… More »
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9:19AM Jess McGuire | Kanye West has taken to Twitter like a duck to water. Since joining the social networking site in late July, he’s been an unrelenting force of increasingly endearing updates. Talking fashion, offering up new songs, and discussing the benefits of diamond teeth – it’s all good as far as I’m concerned.
I was one of many people around the world who wrote him off as a total dick after his infamous “Imma let you finish…” rant at the VMAs when he took exception to the fact that Beyonce had lost ‘Best Female Video’ to Taylor Swift, and he’s miraculously managed to win me over. This weekend he decided to open up about the incident on Twitter, and I’ve helpfully compiled his many (many, many) updates about it below. More »
Kanye West Is Really, Really, Really Sorry About That Whole Taylor Swift Thing.
9:19AM Jess McGuire | Kanye West has taken to Twitter like a duck to water. Since joining the social networking site in late July, he’s been an unrelenting force of increasingly endearing updates. Talking fashion, offering up new songs, and discussing the benefits of diamond teeth – it’s all good as far as I’m concerned.
I was one of many people around the world who wrote him off as a total dick after his infamous “Imma let you finish…” rant at the VMAs when he took exception to the fact that Beyonce had lost ‘Best Female Video’ to Taylor Swift, and he’s miraculously managed to win me over. This weekend he decided to open up about the incident on Twitter, and I’ve helpfully compiled his many (many, many) updates about it below. More »
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