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BB Producers Surprised To Find That Exceedingly Large Amounts Of Money Will Not Stop Pamela Anderson Fighting For Animal Rights

10:54AM Clem Bastow | Surely they must’ve seen this one coming – Pamela Anderson, in the country to film a stint in the Big Brother house, and apparently paid loads to do so – has continued her animal rights campaigning for PETA while down under, requesting meetings with Kevin Rudd to discuss live exports, and so on. But, somewhat deliciously, her main target is KFC, otherwise known as one of Big Brother’s major sponsors. Suddenly BB are wishing they’d gone with Tara Reid. Less than five hours after arriving in Australia yesterday, the 41-year-old ambassador for animal welfare group PETA announced that tomorrow she would deliver a letter protesting KFC’s treatment of chickens to a Gold Coast KFC outlet. The letter and accompanying video – addressed to Albert Baladi, the managing director of KFC’s Australian parent company – claims the fast food chain’s suppliers scald chickens to death in defeathering tanks. The serial Playboy bunny admitted she had agreed to appear on Ten’s reality TV show because she was being paid “a lot”. “Much more than I’m worth. I had to come. I can’t believe it,” she said. Asked if her pay cheque of was in excess of $500,000, she replied: “I don’t want to say how much, but it was a lot.” Awesome, I love Pammy – pocketing the cash, saying she doesn’t care who sponsors the show, and staying true to what she believes in. That’s the spirit! More »

BAFTAs Buck The Green Trend, Go ‘Orange’ Instead

7:19AM Defamer Hollywood | While No Country For Old Men has been collecting most of this award season’s Best Picture statuettes, the stuffy limeys at BAFTA instead decided to award their prize to one of their homegrown jewels, the weepy Anglophiliac wet dream Atonement. However, the most intriguing award of the night had ostensibly nothing to do with a great performance and everything to do with ensuring that the British Academy of Film And Television’s bottom line was sufficiently padded. The award in question, the Orange Rising Star Award, was handed to Shia LaBeouf and presented by the mobile phone company Orange. Now that the normally reserved BAFTAs have cashed in their principles for a taste of the almighty dollar pound note, can The Oscars be far behind? More »