aria awards 2008
Vanessa Amorosi Denies Getting Her Lez On With Ruby Rose At The ARIA Awards
9:29AM Jess McGuire | Vanessa Amorosi has spoken out against claims she indulged in a little girl on girl fun with MTV VJ Ruby Rose after Sunday night’s ARIA Awards, informing excited interviewers that the reports of a budding romance between the two ladies were “definitely not true”. You need proof? Apparently Ruby Rose was too busy being girlfriends with a certain newly blonde popstar with whom she shares a tabloid past.
As the internet was sent into a frenzy with talk of a lip lock between Ruby Rose and rock chick Amorosi yesterday, Confidential learnt only one girl is the apple in the lipstick lesbian’s eye at the moment.
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Two ARIA Awards Related Blind Items!
4:46PM Jess McGuire | BLIND ITEM #1 – Which reality television show judge was spotted before the awards wandering around the Novotel (where the ’slebs wait to be picked up by limo and taken to the red carpet) with huge sunglasses on and looking, according to our spy, “completely off his face already”.
BLIND ITEM #2 – Which children’s entertainer with a history of getting emotional at the ARIA Awards was overheard by one of Defamer Australia’s surprised spies exclaiming “FUCKING C—!” at no one in particular? More » 
Gabriella Cilmi Denies Delivering Her ARIA Acceptance Speeches Under The Influence Of Alcohol
11:39AM Jess McGuire | Good lord, “The Public” – just lay off Gabriella Cilmi, alright? The Daily Telegraph reports that following the teenage singer’s victorious appearance at this year’s ARIA Awards, hundreds of Cilmi-fans immediately headed to the mysterious and cutthroat world of Internet Posts TM and accused the singer of being half-cut when she took to the stage.
Poor Gabriella has had to hit back at the claims, saying she was suffering from exhaustion (that old chestnut!) and that’s why her various acceptance speeches sounded like the inarticulate thoughts of a teenage girl from the suburbs who was a little overwhelmed after winning every single prize handed out during the ceremony, including the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Underage popstar Gabriella Cilmi has blamed exhaustion and not the demon drink for her under-the-weather appearance as the ARIAs wore on.
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Did Ruby Rose And Vanessa Amorosi REALLY Get It On After The ARIAs?
9:33AM Jess McGuire | Oh my god. You know when we discussed the ARIA Awards and I asked which straight girl Ruby Rose ended up having a Sappholiciously good time with, and then added that my money was on Vanessa Amorosi being the lucky lass on the receiving end of a pash from the MTV host? I was just kidding!
I only mentioned Vanessa in the first place because she was the person who came immediately to mind when I put the words “tattoos” and “pop singer” in my Very Special Mental Database Of Worthless Popculture Knowledge, but if tabloid reports are indeed correct, it turns out I am more in sync with Ruby Rose’s taste in women than I ever imagined..
Melbourne girls, songbird Vanessa Amorosi and VJ Ruby Rose, were spied snogging at the post-ARIAs shindig.
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Who Is This Woman With Pink?
11:51AM Jess McGuire | Maybe it’s just me, but I keep looking at this picture of pop star Pink with a fan at the ARIA Awards on Sunday night (it’s on the news.com.au front page) and thinking “My god… is that Mirabai from Big Brother’s second series?”
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Highlights From Last Night’s ARIA Awards Ceremony!
12:46PM Jess McGuire | Oooh, I tell you what – there’s nothing that I love more than the ARIA Awards. All that glitz and glamour, energetic live performances, hilarious one liners, drinking in excess by people who should know better… it’s awesome! Oh, wait, sorry. That was Australian Idol. But the ARIAs are okay too!
Shall we go through a few of the choice highlights from last night? Let’s do it! More » ARIA Nominations Announced!
2:31PM Jess McGuire | This is always a tremendously exciting time of year for lovers of Australian tunes. Soon warblers and strummers and rappers and all other types of music folk will be clasping the coveted shiny pointy award that is an ARIA and delivering speeches to the people, hopefully while under the influence. Who can we expect to see potentially embarrassing themselves at this year’s ARIA Awards with ill-advised on stage banter (and possibly flashing)?
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Bindi Irwin for Best Urban Release At The 2008 ARIAs
10:16AM Jess McGuire | The other day, Defamer Australia’s Editor and Associate Editor were thrilled to open our mail and discover a copy of the Bindi Irwin single ‘Trouble In The Jungle’.
“Ah ha!” we though to ourselves, “just what every pop culture obsessed Australian in their mid-twenties could ever want – a bouncing musical number about conservation!”
We popped it on, ad lo and behold… we discovered something we were NOT expecting. Bitch can rhyme in a phat manner, yo. Seriously. Before we received a copy of her new rap single, we had simply filed Bindi Irwin away in the Things We Don’t Really Understand section of our brain, alongside “Sneaky Sound System’s Continuing Career Success” and “Why Our Boy Puppy Pees Like A Girl”.
But now? It’s all hideously clear. Bindi was born to deliver the flow. The beginning of the track sounds like something the Hilltop Hoods could have released, but when Bindi unleashes her panda-related tirade (”Mr Panda, whatchoo gonna do? Cos as man expands there’s no bamboo for you to chew through…“) it suddenly hits you – she was put on this earth to rap.
Give her twenty years, a break down, a possible drug habit, and some time with Dr Dre, and we’ve no doubt we’ll see Bindi’s full Compton-esque potential fulfilled. In the meantime, could she please re-record Trouble In The Jungle with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra? IT WOULD BE AMAZING!
Here’s a clip of Bindi delivering the goods LIVE on the Today show, with thanks to Jezebel. REPRESENT!
If she doesn’t win the Best Urban Release award at next year’s ARIAs, we’re gonna choke a bitch.
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