celeb injuries

Grant Denyer Mourns That Angry 1cm

10:30AM Clem Bastow | As many of you will be aware, Grant Denyer (pictured at left, confusingly wearing Don King’s hair) has mostly left his television days behind to more actively pursue his motorsports dreams. The fun-sized media personality has been giving it a red hot go in a number of racing codes, but will be off the track for the rest of 2008 – after a monster truck nearly squished him late last week, shattering one of his vertebrae. He is now recovered enough to pen an account of his nasty accident, and I think you will all find this excerpt particularly moving: As if having the racing accident wasn’t bad enough already, the most heartbreaking news was that, as a result of the injury, I am a centimetre shorter. I was 165cms but from today I’ll be 164cm. More »

Things Looking Even Better For Spice Girls’ Tour As Baby Spice Busts Her Foot

11:11AM Clem Bastow | The whole Spice Girls reunion tour thing is really starting to take on a smell of death; first Fay Weldon laid into them (with good reason), then the arenas started emptying out, and now this: Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton has buggered things up by tripping and hurting her foot. They are claiming that the show will go on, but they have already cancelled one pre-record and now fans are feeling uneasy, what with SEVENTEEN shows coming up in the UK. Good one, Emma. You should think long and hard about how this is going to affect everyone else, and when you’ve had a think about it, then you can have some pudding. Baby Spice took a tumble on stage, spraining her ankle, at the girls’ Las Vegas show during the last of their U.S. dates earlier this week. Her injury was unknown to fans until she was photographed hobbling on crutches on Wednesday night at the unveiling of a Virgin Atlantic plane named ‘Spice One’ in their honour, at Los Angeles International Airport. Despite her vow to be on stage at their first London gig, the group have cancelled their pre-recorded performance on Strictly Come Dancing on the Sunday semi-final show. The band were expected to sing their hit 2 Become 1 in the taping tomorrow, but have decided to let Emma rest her ankle. As the article goes on to note, it’s not the first time she’s busted her foot; she “fell off” her trademark stupidly-tall platforms back in the Spicies’ heyday, prompting moral guardians everywhere to tut tut about the choice of footwear. The rest of us just knew that the “shoes” were hopelessly ugly and thus saved ourselves the bother. Maybe, since being unsteady on her feet seems to have become a trademark, it’s time for Emma to start considering a nice, comfy pair of flat Homy Peds? We’re sure Roberto Cavalli could tizz them up with a few rhinestones. More »

Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Pointing The Finger

11:38AM Clem Bastow | As we reported yesterday, Amy’s been seen out and about at Kelly Osbourne’s stage debut in Chicago, with a very sore looking finger – in fact, if we do say so ourselves, it looks like it would produce a satisfying amount of pus needs medical attention. But the best part of all this is that it’s sent the British rags into punning overdrive. From the Mirror: Amy, digit hurt? And, from the Sun: Amy goes to see Chicag-owww If destiny has a heart, one day we will write punny headlines alongside those brave soldiers… Anyway, it’s not all shits and giggles in Winegums world, with Amy’s less press happy mother Janis telling Saint Victoria Newton that she no longer recognises her own daughter. “She’s lost herself. We’re not talking about my Amy. It’s not someone I recognise. She has become her own stage creation.” Janis goes on to offer some more uplifting quotes, including mentioning that she “knows all about class A drugs” and that there’s basically no point trying to reason with Winegums. Good on ya, mum! More »