5:20AM Defamer Hollywood | · Hollywood invades the Middle East! MGM partners with a Jordanian animation company on a 26-episode
Pink Panther & Pals cartoon series, while Paramount plans to erect a theme park in Dubai that exploits properties like
Top Gun, Titanic, Mission: Impossible, and many, many others. Visitors to the UAE park
will be moved by an animatronic Effie’s emotional delivery of “I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” on
Dreamgirls: The Ride. [
Variety,
Variety]
· Get excited: Legendary Pictures will pump $US1 billion into its co-financing and co-production deal with Warner Bros. Who can’t get psyched when multimedia conglomerates and financing entities hook up to minimise the financial risks of producing another overbudget
Superman sequel? [
THR]
· In the most hotly anticipated hosting announcement of the largely unwatched US summer TV season, Joey Fatone will oversee the smooth operation of NBC’s karaoke clusterfuck
The Singing Bee. [
Variety]
· Speaking of the summer TV wasteland, Fox wins the 18-49 demo with
Top Chef: Shouty, Brain-Damaged Edition, while NBC fails to win behind a two-hour, all-Mark-Consuelos-hosted block of our new favorite shows,
Kittens Vs. Cougars and the premiering
Science Vs. Penis. [
THR]
· Even with
American Idol drawing tens of millions of teenagers away from their MySpaces twice a week, Fox’s median viewer age passed 40 for the first time last season. Expect some emergency counterprogramming in the form of the Wilmer Valderrama-hosted
So You Think You Can Watch Our Channel, You Old Fuck? [
Variety]
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3:08PM Jess McGuire | Amber Petty, Princess Mary’s best friend in the entire world and don’t you forget it, confessed in a recent column for the Adelaide Advertiser that she had gotten her New Years freak on with a wee slip of a lad, no older than 21 years of age.
Says the Daily Telegraph -
In a candid admission likely to have Crown Princess Mary of Denmark pouting in the palace, royal bridesmaid Amber Petty has revealed she recently indulged in some tonsil hockey with a 21-year-old.
In a funny and frank column in The Adelaide Advertiser,Petty, 37, questions the controversy around the “cougar” debate after announcing she kissed a bloke 16 years her junior on New Year’s Eve.
Ho, ho indeed! We meant that in the chuckling way, not the “you dirty whore” sense.
Let’s hear more from Amber Petty on the matter! More » 
