Taylor Lautner In Rolling Stone, In Pictures And No Drugs
TWILIGHT pin-up Taylor Lautner is on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, and he’s keen to tell us how he’s cleaner than Cliff Richards’ knicker draw. Vampires aren’t all Romanians in shell suits and no-brand trainers. Vampires can be teenaged Hollywood puritans:
“The 17-year-old New Moon star with the eight-pack abs and tan, chiseled face tells Rolling Stone’s Neil Strauss he’s never smoked pot, never tried cigarettes and never snorted a line of cocaine. Lautner is quiet and guarded, more of a Zac Efron than a Lindsay Lohan, as far as young stars go.
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Woman Crushed By Fake Christmas Tree
AFTER the fake Christmas tree of Poole, news of a 78-year-old German woman crushed by an artificial tree in a Hamburg shopping mall.
The woman is in hospital. She’s lucky to be alive. The 220-pound tree fell on her when its three steel support cables broke.
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The 19th Annual Le Bal Crillon In Pictures And ‘Well-Born Young Ladies’
ANORAK’S Man in Paris captures the magic of the19th annual ‘le Bal’ (Le Bal Des Debutantes) held at the Hotel de Crillon, in Paris, France. As it says here, “This event is the high-society debuts for 24 well-born young ladies.” Want to know who these princesses are?
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X Factor: Third Placed Same Difference Are Big In Cheadle Hulme
EVER wondered what happened to the X Factor’s same difference, shiny-eyed brother and sister singing act Sean and Sarah Smith, who finished third in the 2007 series of X Factor?
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Breaking News: Alabama News Station Tweets For Three Rapists And Exposes Idiocy
IN Mobile, Alabama, local news crew WPMI-TV have taken to tweeting their breaking news on a billboard. The latest news is that the three hounds in the newsroom have heard about “3 accused of gang rape in Monroewille.”
Any ideas who they are?
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Lancashire Day In Pictures: The Most Famous Lancastrians
IT’S Lancashire Day. You thought every day was Lancashire Day. Not so. Only today. The rest of the year is Yorkshire Day. In honour of this auspicious occasion we bring you the top Lancastrians in pictures: featuring Cecil Parkinson, Cherie Booth, Dame Thora Hird, Eric Sykes, Geoff Hurst, Mystic Meg, Richmal Crompton, Les Dawson, Bernard Manning, Anthony Burgess, Julie Goodyear, Sir Norman Foster, Eric Sykes, Sir Thomas Beecham, Mike Leigh, Michelle Marsh, Saun Ryder, Emmeline Pankhurst, Peter Purves, Dame Joan Bakewell, John Inman, Henry V and…
How Lancashire Football Took Over The National Game
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England's Geoff Hurst cracks a shot past German goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski to score the final goal of the World Cup Final against West Germany at Wembley. 30/7/91: 25th anniversary. 24/4/96: Return of ball. 17/11/98: Hurst knighted by the Queen. * One of soccer's great mysteries - whatever happened to the ball used in the match - is set to be solved after an unidentified person contacted Hurst and offered to return the ball, previously thought to have been taken by German striker Hans Haller. See PA Story SOCCER Ball. 26/03/2002; Geoff Hurst cracking a shot past goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski to score the final goal of the World Cup Final against West Germany. The commentator who uttered the most famous words in English football "they think it's all over, it is now" has died at the age of 81. Kenneth Wolstenholme died at a private hospital in Torquay with his daughter by his side. His famously quoted line, for which he received just 60, came as Geoff Hurst scored the final goal in England's 1966 World Cup win against Germany at Wembley
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Strictly Come Dancing Ricky Whittle Arrested By Celebrity Police Force
CAN it be mere coincidence that with the X Factor now bereft of Jedward and the I’m A Celebrity jungle rid of Katie Price, Strictly Come Dancing pro-celebrity hoofer Ricky Whittle gets arrested? thatl;s R.I.C.K…
Yesterday, Dancing judge Alesha Dixon was turned away from a club. It was front-page news. Now Whittle is pinched on suspicion of assault. The Celebrity Police Force knows a star when the spot one, and they tell us:
“A 29-year-old man from Billinge, Lancashire, has been arrested on suspicion of assault. He remains in custody where he will be questioned by officers later today.
“The arrest follows an incident in which took place in Duke Street, Liverpool City Centre, in the early hours of Friday morning. The incident involved a collision with a male pedestrian.”
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David Cameron Wants British Thanksgiving Parade, In Pictures
TOP TORY David Cameron today calls for the UK to celebrate Thanksgiving:
Says David Cameron:
“Keeping up with the plot of Friends and other top US TV shows is hard enough for our kids. But when the cast of Dora The Explorer or Ugly Betty celebrate Thanksgiving, Memorial Day or even Independence Day, our British kids just feel confused, isolated and are 85% more likely to turn to crime.”
In light of this, Anorak brings you the annual New York thanksgiving parade. One day Britons will able to look up and cheer huge inflatable Great British carton characters, like the Fat Slags, Alf Tupper, and Dave’s personal favourite Lord Snooty.
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The Media Manipulates Images To Make Susan Boyle Look Weak Minded
ANOTHER day in the media’s destruction of Susan Boyle, as we return to the Daily Mail’s picture of Susan Boyle sucking her thumb, and image used to illustrate the story:
Susan Boyle breaks down in tears on U.S. tour
In the Anorak Forums, Percy Stilton quotes:
“For a 48-year-old millionaire singing sensation to be spotted publicly sucking her thumb and bursting into tears is, frankly, extraordinary”
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Global Warming: Every Time You Breathe A Bangladeshi Dies
GLOBAL warming scare story of the comes via the Sydney Morning Herald, in where we learn that every time you breathe a Bangladeshi dies:
We asked Australia’s best-known philiosopher, Peter Singer, how people should think about carbon emissions and climate change. He was unequivocal.
He likened Australia’s production of greenhouse gases to a country dropping bombs on Bangladesh.
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X Factor: Sex Pistols, Jamelia And Paul McCartney Ride The Jedward Bandwagon
X FACTOR’S Duracell Gonks Jedward can be used to advertise any popstar’s existence. Today, Sir Paul McCartney “reveals he loves X Factor twins Jedward” and Sex Pistols singer-turned-butter vendor John Lydon says “the tone deaf twins, John and Edward Grimes, serve a purpose because they are so bad that they make other acts look brilliant by comparison”.
But the pick of the bunch must be Jamelia, the one-hit wonder who offers:
Singer Jamelia has said that she will not be watching ‘The X Factor’ any more following John and Edward’s exit.
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Kate Winslet And Shakira Present The Bambi Awards, In Pictures
THE Bambi awards are Germany’s international television and media awards. The award is named after Bambi, the deer that gets hot in the face in Felix Salten’s book Bambi, A Life in the Woods. This year, the Bambi fawners gave awards to Kate Winslet, former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, Austrian actor Christoph Walz, German Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich’s general manager Uli Hoeness and Ukraine’s Siamese twin boxing champions Vladimir and Vitali Klitchko – you need to see their pictures. Shakira banged her drum in yoga class…
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Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy, The John Lennon Story In Pictures
ANORAK was in the press room at the premier of Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood story in film of John Lennon’s childhood. Taylor-Wood’s lover Aaron Johnson stars as the young John Lennon; Kristin Scott Thomas is Aunt Mimi.
At the show, we spotted, Tracey Emin, Liz Fuller, Edith Bowman, Sam Taylor- Wood and fiance Aaron Johnson, Olivia Grant, Gary Kemp and the ubiquitous Sarah Brown. The pictures:
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Poole Replaces Christmas With A Recyled Jesus And Fake Tree
IN Poole, Dorset, Christmas comes in the shape of a 33-ft tall cone painted green and festooned with little lights to make it look like a Christmas tree. Speakers are hidden in the foliage. It’s yours for £14,000.
The town’s usual Norway fir tree has been replaced amid concerns that it will fall over in high winds. Anorak’s resident Al Gorean agrees. If a tree can be saved from being chopped down then so much the better. It’s what the Baby Jesus, the great recycler who rose again, would have wanted – and he slept in a barn, although that wooden cross set a poor example.
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Man Stockpiles 80 Oil Drums Of Human Poo
PETER Roy, 72, from Madderty, Craigmuir, has collected 80 barrels of human excreta and urine in oil drums at his farm. No damning artwork to highlight the world’s love of oil, rather an attempt to get officials from Perth and Kinross Council to repair his “inhabitable” house.
Such is the irony that Mr Roy wanted to show how bad his house had become to live in by populating it with barrels of his family’s waste.
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Ilfracombe’s Floating Sperm Presents The World’s Worst Corporate Logos
COME to Ilfracombe, Devon, induces the seaside town’s new logo. Come to Ilfracombe, Devon, and swim with the sperm.
The “idiosyncratic swirl” is the work of Tessa Martin. Her works encourages people to “take another look and be surprised” by Ilfracombe, Devon. The log also reminds them to wear something protective and shower after bathing. Incidentally, Ilfracombe has the country’s second highest rate for teenage pregnancies - so it might be an advert for new sperm donors.
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Alesha Dixon Releases Her Strictly Come Dancing Jewellery Line, In Photos
ALESHA Dixon used to be big news. When she was picked to be a pro-celebrity magistrate on Strictly Come Dancing, the press belched. Then the X Factor and Jedward came along and Katie Price went into the jungle. Alesha Dixon was forgotten, watched only by the people for whom TV is a big moving picture too high to turn over or off but just interesting enough to seem through between doses of prescription drugs.
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Katie Price Wants Peter Andre Back And Hits A Photgrapher
KATIE Price And Peter Andre Remarriage Watch: Katie aplogises for being a bitch, Peter Andre sues Katie for her “lies”, Katie rows with Alex Reid and hits a photographer…
Anorak’s Katie Price and Peter Andre news round-up.
The Sun (front page): “JORDAN BEGS PETER: Take me back.”
Married by Christmas? Who wants to take the bet?
JORDAN has made an emotional phone call to ex-hubby Peter Andre, begging him: “Please take me back,” The Sun can reveal. She apologised for being a “bitch” to him and pleaded for a reunion, saying: “I messed up.” A friend of Peter said: “She said she was sorry for being such a bitch to him.”
“She asked him straight out if there was any chance they could get back together and pleaded for a reunion. She was telling him she just couldn’t stop thinking of him and their life together.”
Peter Andre has his apology, says Peter Andre’s friend. Which means Peter Andre can remain dignified and the tabloids’ pet couple can be reunited on the telly or in OK!.
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Amazon Eve: World’s Tallest Glamour Model In Pictures
MEET tall glamour model Amazon Eve. She’s 6ft 8inches tall.she is 30 years old. Amazon Eve might not be her real name, but if it is, it is a fine nominative determinism in action.
Our Man in LA tells us:
Something else to be thankful for on this holiday… that you’re not a 6-foot-8-inch swimsuit model named “Amazon Eve.” Just a little about Eve: She’s 30 years old and hails from Redondo Beach, California. She recently burst onto the Australian modeling scene with a spread in a magazine called “Zoo Weekly.” Pictures:
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Chilcot Inquiry Into Iraq War: Day 2 In Pictures
SIR Christopher Meyer has been testifying to the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war. He says the US was going to war in Iraq whether Britain joined them or not. Mayer called any British resistance to war “a complete waste of time”. So Blair is Bush’s bitch? “I wouldn’t say it was as extremely poodle-ish as that.” Blair was a “true believer about the wickedness of Saddam Hussein”. Mayer then left and appeared to try to throttle himself. A coded message?
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