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Tina Fey Praises Palin For Having ‘None of That Droopy Shit’
6:05AM Kyle Buchanan | Though she’s received widespread acclaim for playing Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey is typically self-effacing about the gig. First, she claimed that her uncannily accurate impression was the easiest voice to do since Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade, and now, while talking to TV Guide about the physical adjustments she makes to play Palin, she belittled her own looks in comparison to the candidate’s: More »
Starlet: ‘Neighbours’ Makes Me Feel Fat. Or Something.
9:40AM Clem Bastow | It’s always great when a new star or starlet joins the cast of a show like Home & Away or, in this case, Neighbours, because the PR department gets them to do a load of totally pointless interviews, and we reap all the benefits.
So it is with new Ramsay Street regular Margot Robbie (apparently pictured chilling out in the Crawfords’ bathrooms), who says that being on the soap made her more self-conscious. Or something like that:
“I used to read magazines and think, ‘Why would those girls turn anorexic?’ Sure, they would have a bit of pressure, but I didn’t think it could be too bad,” Robbie said.
“But you don’t understand what it’s like on the outside. You are under heaps of pressure and when you get cast, everyone is stick-thin and you think, ‘I need to be like that’.
“When you look at movies the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.”
Yes, and when you look at Neighbours the girls are always gorgeous and thin, and the boys are Toadfish Rebecchi and Paul Robinson.
Hang on, something’s amiss here! More » 
Nigella “Secretly” Seeing Personal Trainer; We “Secretly” Think This Is A Load Of Arse
3:04PM Clem Bastow | We told you recently that the Food Network in America were apparently horrified by the size of TV chef Nigella Lawson’s behind (like a horse’s, apparently); much groaning ensued.
Well, the seemingly irrelevant “news” of her weight gain continues to inspire rabid editorial, as the Daily Mail has reported that Lawson is apparently so mortified at putting on weight that she is seeing a personal trainer in a clandestine manner more suited to secret drug drop-offs than exercise, one would think.
The domestic goddess, who admits to a weakness for calorific treats, has embarked on an intense exercise regime in a bid to lose weight.
Says a chum: “Nigella has been secretly meeting a personal trainer to do an aerobic work-out session tailored to help her get back into shape.”
Is that so, “chum”?
The problem seems to be this: Nigella Lawson is and has always been referred to as “sexy” or “hot”. Current media/celebrity theory also tells us that to be hot, one has to be slim. You can be “ugly” and fat, or maybe even “funny” and fat, but you can’t be sexy and “corpulent” (thanks, odious Age editorial).
This whole thing makes us feel more ill than we would if we ate one of Lawson’s cream and butter stuffed honey baked ham lard sandwiches deep fried in chocolate – honestly, WHO CARES what size she is. Who cares what size anyone is! She’s a chef for crine-outloud! More » 
One Week Into “I Slimmed Down For My Health” Campaign, Lily Allen Capitulates To The Blokes Mags’ Steely Gaze
10:52AM Clem Bastow | Well, that was short-lived, wasn’t it?
Last week, Lily Allen explained away her new figure as the byproduct of her new health regime after doctors diagnosed her with an irregular heartbeat. She was very careful not to make it out that she thinks thin is better, or that she thought her body was “wrong” or “bad” before the overhaul, or that she did it for anyone else’s benefit.
Presumably Lily will be eating those words with fava beans and a nice Chianti now she’s plastered all over this month’s UK edition of GQ.
She explains how many of her high profile feuds – she has rowed with the members of Girls Aloud among others – were fueled by insecurities about her appearance.
She told the magazine: “A lot of that stuff I said was because I didn’t feel confident.
“I felt like, ‘Oh God, I’m short, fat, ugly…and I hate all these people who flaunt their beauty’.
“Ever since a kid I’ve felt like I’m possibly the uncoolest, naffest person ever to walk the earth.”
Right, so she thought she was fat and ugly, and now that she’s skinny and hot, the best thing to do would be to celebrate that within the pages of a glossy men’s magazine?
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? More » 
Australia’s Next Top Model’s Latest Photo Call Perhaps Less Glamorous Than Vogue
10:31AM Clem Bastow | We once read a great piece about an all-female gang in the UK called The Chubsters, who formed out of rage when one of them was used as a “headless fatty” on a current affairs show bit on obesity. A headless fatty is one of those montages of random overweight people walking around the city centre, either shot from the neck down or from behind.
Well, we wonder how Australia’s Next Top Model winner Alice Burdeu would feel about being News Ltd’s “headless skinny” in this image accompanying a story about youth body image?
The pic they’ve decapitated is a runway shot from her appearance in Fashion Assassin’s Rosemount Australian Fashion Week last year.
Given that a nutritionist said Alice’s BMI was reasonable considering her height, and that she doesn’t seem to have any body image issues, perhaps News Ltd should think twice next time and, like, employ an illustrator or a graph or something? More » 
Keira Knightley Requests You Focus On Her Acting, Not Her Face Or Body; Hitler Wishes To Be Known As “A Really Nice Guy With Good Taste In Facial Hair”
10:45AM Clem Bastow | In Venice to launch her latest flick, Atonement, Keira Knightley – she of the fairy-dust cheekbones and pillow pout – has expressed her dismay at the tabloids’ constantly discussing her weight and looks rather than her filmic CV.
“I think what I want to keep it about is the work, that’s all I’m interested in, and when you’ve got a project like this I think it’s a shame to take it away from that.”
She has a point – indeed, there was talk of Knightley being “too pretty” to play Elizabeth Bennett in Pride And Prejudice (which those particular critics can suck on now, as the film fell somewhere between exquisite and perfection, thanks largely to Knightley’s performance), and we’re frankly tired of the “Too Skinny, Eat A Sammich!” to “FINALLY They Pack On Some FAT FAT FATTY FAT!” celebrity gossip rag roundabout.
We suggest Terry’s consider Keira as the new face of their Chocolate Orange, so that all this speculation can be finally put to rest. More » 
