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Gimme Some More Crazy, Tarisai Vushe!

8:45AM Clem Bastow | Remember Tarisai Vushe, the 2007 Australian Idol contestant who started out sounding like the new Whitney Houston, then said “thank you” an awful lot, and ended up going completely bananas? Well, she’s baaaaack! Tarisai has returned to the news after announcing that she was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend – but, er, it’s okay, you don’t have to call the police. Or something. Vushe said she was returning DVDs at 11pm on Friday when she was grabbed. “He grabbed me from behind and kept asking me why I left him, in a really obsessive way,” she said. “He left me in the car. I got out and walked to a service station (near Penrith) and called a taxi,” she said. Her manager, Alex Haddad, who co-ordinates Vushe’s new band Method, insisted he believed her account of the ordeal. “I’ve encouraged her to go to the police, but I can’t make her,” he said. “When she didn’t turn up for rehearsal last week, we rang her family and they mentioned she might be doing a gig interstate. But Tarisai didn’t want them to tell us anything.” Hmm, we’re torn. If she IS serious, then for god’s sake, go to the police, girlfrien’! Too many cases of assault against women go unreported these days. However, if she’s telling fibs a la “Marcia Hates me”, well, a thousand aspersions on “Method” and may all their gigs be on Wednesday nights at RSLs. Which is probably pretty close to the reality they’ll enjoy, anyway. More »