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In Pictures: Michael Jackson: The Official Exhibition At London’s O2

pa-79636131MICHAEL Jackson: The Official Exhibition at the O2 in London is on. And we have been there to take the pictures of the life-sized throne, a crown, a rocket ship, a triptych of canvases of the singer showing him being crowned, knighted and holding a magical sword, and Jacko being the down-to-earth guy we all loved.

You can walk under the gilded archway used to welcome guests to Jackson’s fairytale Neverland ranch, stroke the saddle of a carousel-style rocking horse inscribed: “To MJ love ET”. That’s Elizabeth Taylor, not the little alien lost and trying to get home.

Read a signed letter from former fellow monkey enthusiast US president Ronald Reagan dated 1984. Reagan wishes Jackson good health following his hair catching fire while filming an advert for Pepsi.

Some might say it is fitting that Jackson’s life should be laid out in the O2 oxygen tent; some might say it’s a cynical marketing ploy to wring more cash form the fans, under the pretence of respect for the dead performer; others might say, “It’s what Michael would have wanted.”

A little light animatronics and the show might yet go on. But for now, all we have are pictures… in high definition…

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Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)


X Factor: Joe McElderry Hits Lucie Jones, Lily Allen And John & Edward’s Soiled Suits

x-factor3X FACTOR round-Up: Joe McElderry hits Lucie Jones, Lily Allen sings, Strictly Come Dancing flails, John & Edward soil their clothes and evil Lisa Hayden-Johnson…

Metro: “X-Factor Lucie Jones left in tears after ‘bust up’”

X-Factor beauty Lucie Jones was left in ‘agony’ after she was struck in the face by a tambourine by show rival Joe McElderry back stage.

Can McElderry copy Danyl Johnson’s Stacey Solomon shtick and help Lucie Jones connect with her tears?

The Welsh beauty cried out in pain after the 18-year-old misfired throwing the instrument in the air, striking the stunner direct in the face…

But injured Lucie was left stunned, wondering whether her nose had been broken after she reportedly crying out: ‘Ouch! What the hell did you do that for? It really hurt.’

It’s the X-Ray Factor. But did she cry? If you’re going be the new Cheryl Cole, you’ve got to cry:

The injury was an extra blow for Jones, 18, who was left in floods of tears on Saturday night’s show after her big band performance failed to win over Simon Cowell.

Hold the tambourine, literally. Lucie Jones is already crying.

Mirror: “AXess all areas”

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Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)


Katie Price: Peter Andre’s ‘Sham’ Marriage, Alex Reid’s New Jordan And Tabloid ‘Lies’

pa-79578171KATIE Price Watch: Katie heads to Afghanistan, Alex Reid heads home, Peter Andre’s songs, Amy Price speaks truth and a new Jordan…

Katie Mum Tells The Truth

Daily Mirror: “My fury at Peter by Katie’s mother – PETE WAS SO COLD TO KATIE”

Pete, who looks like you could fry an egg on his torso, is cold?

She’s kept a dignified silence over the acrimonious break-up of her daughter’s Katie Price’s marriage.

Dignity is word much used and used in the tale of Katie and Peter.

She said: “I’m so angry and somebody has to start sticking up for Kate. As much as I don’t want to say anything, people have to hear the truth.”

The troof is?

But she said that several months before the break-up, she was stunned at lyrics Peter had written for his new album. She said: “It was about failing relationships and he was continually running her down. I thought maybe this was what songwriters did, but then I thought, ‘Hang on, how could he do that?’ “They were still married and it was just wrong, not normal. It was almost as if the last year was all pre-planned and little more than a sham.”

Anyone else anything to add?

Daily Star: “‘SHE’S A NASTY SELFISH BITCH’”

JORDAN has been branded a “nasty selfish bitch” by her best friend of 15 years. Michelle Clack, 30, was chief bridesmaid for Kate when she wed Peter Andre.

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Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)


X Factor: Danyl Johnson Saved By Stacey Solomon

danyl-johnson-8AND it came to pass that the X Factor did some down to Miss Frank, a would-be drag act named after a boutique in the Poole Arndale Centre, and Danyl Johnson, the Bronze Age Will Young.

Both acts are vastly superior to non-singing, non-dancing Lloyd Daniels and Return To Oz extras John & Edward.

Was Danyl undone by the story of his making Stacey Solomon cry? We waited. The judges would decide. Who stays?

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Posted: 25th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (5)


Janet Jackson Breaks Her ‘Vow’ To Michael Jackson

pa-79614171MICHAEL JACKSON’s youngest sister Janet Jackson promised to wear black for a year to mourn her brother.

A source told all the press:

“Janet, like the rest of the Jackson family, has been left bereft by Michael’s passing. She felt a particular bond to her brother and has been distraught since his death. As a mark of respect she has decided to only wear black clothes to express her grief, and she has had to go on a number of shopping trips to find suitable items to wear.

“She has resolved to mourn Michael’s death for 12 months, and in June next year – on the anniversary of Michael’s passing – her time of reflection will come to an end.”

This picture hereunder is from October, and shows Janet Jackson with Will.i.am at UFC 104, an Ultimate Fighting Championship, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

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Posted: 25th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (5)


Mark Croft Tows Kerry Katona Into A Pub For £50 A Time

6886551HOW much shopping can you do in Iceland for £50? That question to you, Kerry Katona, as the NoTW reports:

“Kerry Katona’s low-life husband Mark Croft is flogging her for personal appearances at £50 a time.”

Anorak wonders what constitutes an appearance? Is, say, having Kerry stick out her tongue in your direction an appearance? If so, Croft might be chancing his arm and trying to test the limits of Kerry’s market value.

If a tongue poke is £50, how much for full two-fingered salute; having her slur your name; or her grabbing your tits and gurning?

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Posted: 24th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)


Katie Price’s Alex Reid In Thai Ladyboy Tongue Twister

7947861ALEX Reid, Katie Price’s walking Toffee Crisp, “became OBSESSED with this Thai ladyboy he met in a sex club.

She’s called Kay Kae. And it’s ‘A OK Kay Kae’ from Alex Reid who “kissed and cuddled Kay Kae and made 15-mile trips to see her during three months teaching at a martial arts centre on the holiday isle of Phuket”.

Kay Kae wasn’t doing the teaching with her Karate Chopper, Alex Reid was. And Kay Kae, who has now undergone a sex change, says “Reid KNEW of her male past because of her large hands – but added: ‘He liked me to talk dirty.’”

A sex change doesn’t take in the hands. The hands never lie – neither does the RAF uniform, because in the tabloids a sex change operation is always carried out of a member of Her Majesty’s armed forces.

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Posted: 24th, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)


Emmy Winning Richard Heene, Mayumi Heene And The Heenettes In Halloween Horror

balloon-boy-halloweenHAVING met Richard Heene and Loft Boy Falcon Heene, we now get to meet Mayumi Heene, who has confessed that the Balloon Boy story was a hoax.

Yeah, double hard luck on all of you who tuned in to see a six-year-old boy die – you were double-duped. The ones who wanted Falcon to live are still rejoicing that he managed to come down from the attic without injury. That boy is a walking miracle.

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Posted: 24th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)


BNP Nick Griffin’s Question Time: Christmas Cancelled, Winston Churchill Tweets And White Trash

bnp4JUST when you thought you’d heard the last of twitchy BNP leader Nick Griffin, up pop the media to tell you that you should be thinking about him.

Before we go on, we have question for Mr Griffin:

If, as you say (we have video evidence), Winston Churchill would have joined the BNP, in what capacity would he have served – as leader or as your subordinate? And if he would have been the BNP’s leader, in what ways would he have made a better leader than you? The Indy sums it up best:

It is not hectoring or mystique, but familiarity that breeds contempt.

Oh for a Sir Jimmy Goldsmith clapping along as the crowed chant “Raus! Raus! Raus!”

Now to all the news and views:

Sky News: “’One In Five Voters Now Considering BNP’”

Shocking news for Sheila and Lucy Cohen to know that one of them or their three grown-up children is a Nazi. But the BNP is all-inclusive (you said that too, Nick.)

More than a fifth of voters would consider voting for the British National Party according to the first opinion poll taken since the controversial appearance of Nick Griffin on Question Time.

Would consider… And then dismiss it?

More than half of those questioned said that they agreed with the BNP, or thought that the party had a point, in wishing to speak up for the interests of the indigenous, white British people which successive governments have done too little to protect.

Into the void created by the mainstream parties’ lack of desire to talk about immigration, race and a media that demonises the white working class steps the BNP.

And as our own Ed Barrett notes:

Today, the white working class has neither political power nor cultural cachet. One consequence of this is that the rest of society sees no reason to hide its distaste when discussing it. In these politically correct times poor whites are just about the only section of society that it is permissible to insult. The council estate, once a symbol of progress (albeit of a bureaucratic penny-pinching variety), is now regarded as the British equivalent of the American trailer park, and its inhabitants, once the harbingers of a coming classless age, are derided as ‘white trash’.

Sky news’s facts leads to the Sun’s front-page headline:

“DOWNFALL – NAZI BACKSLASH FOR GRIFFIN – Nation turns on BNP chief after TV fiasco”

Only seven per cent in the YouGov poll of 1,314 people said they would “definitely” or “possibly” back them.

Down with the BNP!

As the Guardian puts it:

“Ministers warn of poll boost for BNP after Question Time”

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Posted: 24th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)


Anorak Wraps Up The Week When Lindsay Lohan Died And Nick Griffin Forgot His Lines

acid_picdump_57_55THAT was the week when: Lindsay Lohan died, Nick Griffin twitched, Cheryl Cole had the Y Factor, India’s call centre workers exploded, Stephen Gately died – again; Madeleine McCann became a mascot – but not a Halloween outfit – and James Arthur Ray didn’t break sweat…

Sunday October 19:

Only Video Of Anne Frank Emerges

Cheryl Cole’s X Factor Lap Dance Undoes Whitney Houston’s Dress

Someone should have told Whitney Houston that you don’t need a wardrobe malfunction to be British pop star, you just need to come on stage dressed as a lap dancer and get mum, dad and the kids to clap along.

Indian BT Worker ‘Bombs’ British Customer’s House

“I’m disgusted that something like this can happen with such a respected company. The whole thing has been upsetting. It doesn’t get much worse than someone – a stranger – saying he is going to blow you up.”

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Posted: 23rd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment


Cassette Boy Does Nick Griffin, The Most Powerful Muslim Woman in Britain

nick-griffinNICK Griffin is on Question Time. Nick Griffin is the Most Powerful Muslim Women In Britain.

“I am against black people kissing in public.”

“I believe that the Holocaust was an emormous party”

“The British National Party is extraordinarily racist”

Video proof:

* Nick Griffin has trouble remembering what he says and maybe this video can jog memeries…

Posted: 23rd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment


The BBC Anti-Nick Griffin BNP Protest In Pictures: Hello Mum

WERE you at the BBC protest against the BNP? Which acronym were you gunning for? NF? ANL? SKY? Was that you screaming “Intolerance will not be tolerated!

* Were you with the Socialist Workers who gave us the Jew-free Holocaust?

* Were you with the Conservatives who in Europe have “allied themselves with some pretty awful characters on Europe’s far right – Poland’s Michal Kaminski among them – including For Fatherland and Freedom, a Latvian party that has participated in an annual event commemorating the Latvian Waffen SS, the Lettish legion”?

* Were you with Labour, who tells us we are 45-minutes from being hit by an Iraqi bomb, whould they get one big enough?

* Were you with the BNP, who hate.

It’s not just the fascists who are sure of themselves, who are sure they are right. You want to test if you are right, really right, and they are really wrong, really wrong? Then debate it.

Or shout as loudly as them. Silence is not an option.

We’ve got the pictures from the telly demo on the day the news came to the BBC.

That you?

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Posted: 23rd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment


BNP Leader Nick Griffin’s Question Time Review, With Jan Moir, David Letterman And All The Views

nick-griffin-2_632928aDID BNP leader Nick Griffin do it on Question Time? Did Nick Griffin do what everyone who sat up to watch political chatter over tractor racing, repeats of Coronation Street and strippers get what they hoped for? Did he tick the boxes? Let’s take a look:

Sky News: “Disgusting’ Griffin Defends Ku Klux Klan”

Far-right BNP leader Nick Griffin has defended the Ku Klux Klan, attacked Muslims and called gay couples “creepy” in a controversial appearance on BBC’s Question Time.

Were it not for the KKK, Griffin could pass for a tabloid hack voicing off. “JAN MOIR FOR LEADER!”, “BUY THE DAILY EXPRESS!” come the cries from the BNP voting households. Can Griffin recover?

At one point moderator David Dimbleby snapped at the BNP leader for smiling as he struggled to answer a question about his past denial of the Holocaust. He was booed as he attacked Jack Straw’s father for being in jail for not fighting in the war while his own father was serving in the RAF.

Smirking… Snide comments about MPs…We stayed awake for this?

Sky’s chief political correspondent Jon Craig said: “Griffin was exposed on Question Time as a nasty piece of work, with unpleasant views on race, immigration, Islam, homosexuality and Winston Churchill.”

BNP leader is unpleasant… We needed to watch him to know this?

Those front pages:

“Griffin uses BBC to attack Islam and defend the Klux Klux Klan” – Daily Telegraph

“As protestors bay outside, Griffin says “I’m not a Nazi’” – Guardian

“Hostile reception for Griffin” – The Times

“BIGOT AT BAY – Jeered, scorned and ridiculed…but still BNP leader milks his moment in the spotlight. Now the BBC faces angry questions of its own” ” – Daily Mail

“Griffin baptism of fire at the BBC” – Indy

“BNP leader Nick Griffin is… A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY” – Daily Express

“RAT RUN – BNP chief scuttles away after humiliation on TV” – Daily Mirror

“BNP CHIEF IS A NUTTER… even wife puts boot in” – Daily Star

The Show Without Punch

The Guardian: “BNP on Question Time: Lone voice freezes Griffin’s grin”

Nick Griffin was not sitting on the far right of the panel. But if that would have been a cliche too far for Question Time’s producers, Mentorn, there was symbolism enough as the four men and two women took their seats for last night’s recording.

Faced with the BNP, all three mainstream parties, in what had doubtless been the subject of some negotiation by the programme’s producers, were seated squarely to the left of the long, curved desk, with David Dimbleby in the centre acting as a reassuring buffer against any anticipated xenophobic spittle.

Bonnie Greer alone, unelected and hence beyond contamination, sat next to Griffin, though with her elbow nearest to him planted firmly on the desk throughout, one shoulder directed in sniffy contempt.

And her eyebrows ready to fire at will.

The Times: “Audience is outraged as Griffin says Churchill would have joined BNP”

The British National Party’s exposure to a nationwide audience provoked outrage last night as its leader reiterated his claim that Winston Churchill would have joined his party.

And Churchill would have served diligently under leader Nick Griffin. Right, nick? Far right!

BBC: “Griffin attacks Islam on BBC show”

His references to Britain’s “indigenous people” prompted other members of the panel to challenge him to say he meant white people. Mr Griffin said the colour was “irrelevant” and said Mr Straw would not dare go to New Zealand and tell a Maori he was not “indigenous”. “We are the aborigines here,” he claimed

At least he’s doing jokes now.

THIS Is Staffs: “Mixed blessings in TV’s big time”

“The vast majority of this audience finds what you stand for disgusting,” one man told him. “You’d be surprised how many people would have a whip round to buy you a ticket to the South Pole,” said another. “It’s a colourless landscape and it’d suit you fine.”

The Times:

The redoubtable American playwright Bonnie Greer, who refused to look his way, started him off by referencing the new law that would require the BNP to admit non-whites to its membership. “You laugh,” said Ms Greer. “If I was you, I would be scared.” The vision of the policy U-turns a mass influx of Muslims would cause, was such a good joke Mr Griffin even applauded.

She wasn’t joking. If every non-white, Jews, Muslims, Hindu and more join the BNP, the BNP would die.

The Sun: “I’m the most loathed man in Britain”

SMUG bigot Nick Griffin appeared on BBC1’s Question Time last night – after sparking mayhem at Television Centre. At one point the fascist BNP leader, 50, confessed he was “the most loathed man in Britain” among Nazi sympathisers.

The Opinions

Daily Mail, Max Hastings: “Repugnant, slippery and exposed as an empty vessel”

Anyone think Hasting is giogn to talk about the war?

Greer said that Churchill’s mother was possibly of Mohawk Indian descent, which made nonsense of the BNP’s ideas on British racial identity. As a history lesson, almost all the panel talked tosh. Winston Churchill, in his own time, possessed the values and racial attitudes of the Victorian aristocracy from which he came, wildly politically incorrect in modern terms.

The Guardian, Aditya Chakrabortty: “Nick Griffin on Question Time: No big gaffes, so he will say it’s a success”

Griffin’s success last night can be defined as follows: neither cabinet ministers nor protesters stopped him from getting on air and there were no punch-ups nor any telltale flashes of temper. For the BNP, those are sufficient grounds to chalk up last night as a victory.

The Sun: “Sun panel gives its verdict on BNP leader”

Matthew Todd, editor of gay mag Attitude, says… Saira Khan, of TV’s Apprentice, says….

You need to know what the gay man and the Asian woman think of Nick Griffin?

FT, Matthew Engel: “’Billy Bunter’ is wounded in bear-bait

This was not Question Time , it was a bear-bait, with Nick Griffin as the animal supposedly undergoing torment. This was the only way the BBC could square its decision to invite him with the bien-pensant view that he should never have been allowed. It would have been far better if he were just allowed to rabbit on until even the most alienated builder in Burnley realises that Mr Griffin is unimaginably stupid. Last night’s performance may have created some kind of sympathy for him….

The Times, Andrew Billen: “Question Time, BBC 1”

Maybe Mr Griffin couldn’t find a gag writer, or maybe he thought by looking serious and speaking slowly he would be taken seriously. But this tactic was soon in trouble and, suddenly, after 10 minutes he went as giggly as a sixth former…

There was so much ganging up, I was half-reminded of barmy David Icke’s sorry appearance years ago on Wogan in which he elaborated his sci-fi conspiracy theories. It is not easy — it even requires courage — to say the unsayable even when the unsayable is plain wrong. Unfortunately, Mr Griffin — evasive, hair-splitting, his every other answer further proof of bad faith — turned out to be unspeakable. Sympathy for the devil? I think not.

Anyone else on the show?

The representative of what’s left of New Labour was Jack Straw, striking absurd Churchillian poses, who was his usual evasive old-line political self. He was outshone by the Tory communities’ spokesman Sayeeda Warsi. But Mr Griffin was the most incoherent and unconvincing.

CRIKEY, Alex Mitchell: “BBC’s Question Time gets Nicked with a reborn Alf Garnett”

Instead, Question Time presented the British public with a reborn Alf Garnett with none of the comic satire of Warren Mitchell…His presentation is so lightweight it’s difficult to see him emerging as the leader of a major neo-Nazi force, which is what the political hysterics are predicting.

The Times, Libby Purves: “‘All of the panel wanted to attack a man who wanted to be attacked’

It was an odd show because almost all of the questions — even the five minutes on gays — were BNP-related, and the entire audience and panel anti-Griffin. Dimbleby, briefed to keep quoting his YouTube nonsenses back at him, risked making him seem a victim. Griffin’s tactic was to grin pudgily and to keep his answers crisper than Jack Straw’s (not difficult). It is never easy for a chairman to come down hard on someone who keeps it brief.

The Times, Matthews Parris:

Nobody crashed. Nobody descended into incoherence. All of them — landed with the task of attacking a man who wanted to be attacked — found their own distinct way of doing battle. But nobody dared try what, if it could have been done, would have been the most devastating tactic of all, and perhaps the only tactic that would have done Mr Griffin any real harm: to brush him aside as a small man, enlarged by the anger of his enemies.

The Times, David Aaronovitch

Griffinism is a state of permanent denial, followed by self-incrimination and wild eccentricity…

Tested on his penchant for Holocaust denial he became a Holocaust-denial-denyer, replying “I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial” and telling the nation how he couldn’t explain how and in what way he had changed his mind on the Holocaust as he might be prosecuted in France.

On Islam he slipped in a reference to supporting Israel on Gaza, which was unlikely to win the Jewish vote and likely to baffle the BNP vote.

Finally he confided that he thought the BBC to be “part of a thoroughly unpleasant ultra-leftist establishment”, when voters know it best for Strictly Come Dancing. He showed himself to be, not so much a fearful Nazi, as kook.

Nick The Celebrity

Late Show With David Letterman Amy Poehler; Nick Griffin; Judy Collins performs. 11:35 p.m. KCBS

His Last Word

The Herald: “BNP leader laps up the publicity but wilts in Question Time heat”

Reviewing his own performance he said: “People will see the extraordinary hostility shown to me from the people representing the three old parties. It’s still a matter of the main political parties being against the outsider and that is what it is about.”

The Last Word

Radio Netherlands: Giving the far right rope to hang itself

It’s a risk. As soon as you promote extreme attitudes you create more attention for those views. Professor Groebel says the media also plays its part, being more interested in risky, thrilling stories than moderate ones. On the other hand, he says, to suppress them completely is dangerous because you then have a movement that you cannot control publicly. In the end, people have to be trusted to weigh up their politicians, says Mr Groebel. “A strong democracy does not necessarily have to fear more extreme views if they are placed in context and surrounded by good moderation.”

The Mail: “Talk about bare-faced hypocrisy.”

Normal service has been resumed, the Mail is attacking the BBC:

Amidst the furore over the BBC’s decision to invite Nick Griffin on to Question Time, its director general, Mark Thompson, claims that he had no choice because of the Corporation’s ‘central principle of political impartiality’. What a pity that the BBC for years has comprehensively trampled this so-called ‘central principle’ into the dirt. This is an organisation that’s utterly in thrall to the left-wing agenda of the majority of its staff.

Nick Griffin – an unlikely man who would never get anywhere in a major political party gets a lot of attention…

Posted: 23rd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (28)


Interview With Survior Of James Arthur Ray’s Sedona Sweat Lodge

james-ray-datdMORE on the James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge fatalities as Texas resident Beverley Bunn speak out publicly about the events that led up to the three deaths.

Ms Bunn tells of the New Age oven than killed three, saying how the the participants had “undergone days of physically and mentally strenuous events that included fasting. In one game, guru James Arthur Ray even played God.”

But it is ok because James Arthur Ray is doing fine. And he’s making puns:

I promise you I am doing a lot of learning and growing. I have taken heat for that decision, but if I chose to lock myself in my home, I am sure I would be criticized for hiding and not practicing what I preach.

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Posted: 22nd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (93)


Katie Price And Peter Andre: How Dignified Peter Keeps Private Things Private

7898688HAVING told Katie Price’s current accessory Alex Reid in a phone call that he was going to “break your fucking legs”, a dignified Peter Andre, who also called Reid a “fag” and a “tranny”, tells OK! readers:

“A private phone conversation should be kept private. I believe within minutes it was put on Facebook. It’s a game and I really don’t want to be dragged into it.”

You can read all about how dignified Peter doesn’t like to be dragged into it here. And you learn why Peter keeps mum and rises above it all here:

I’m aware that at some stage they’ll want to go on the internet, read what happened, and see what was said, and I don’t want them to read anything bad their dad has said about their mum.

And here.

And if you want to hear about private phone calls, you can read this in the Daily Mirror:

Horrified Peter Andre accused Katie Price of being a “despicable mother” during an expletive-filled row witnessed by the Mirror. The singer was incensed after discovering Katie was teaching their children to swear – using the C-word in front of Junior, four, Princess, two, and Harvey, seven.
During the ferocious six-minute phone conversation Katie, 31, instructed Junior to use vile and offensive language.

The Mirror was with Peter, 36, throughout the conversation.

It went on:

Katie then took the phone back from the youngster and launched a vicious attack on her former manager Claire Powell, who still represents Peter. She called her a “fat, ugly, evil c***.”

The emotional singer retaliated, calling Katie a “despicable mother” and a “disgrace”. By chance, the argument was captured by an ITV2 camera crew filming for Peter’s reality show.

Elsewhere in OK!, Peter tells readers about his new song for Katie, the delightful, You Ain’t Worth Shit.

“I hope the ratings for this are good, just so people can hear that song at the end,” he chuckles to us, clearly regaining his sense of humour after a torrid few months.”

Privacy. What privacy. They can’t handle the privacy…

Picture: Peter enjoying a private meal with few of his agent’s clients in a Mayfair hotel, before a big row that made it into the papers. Why do they stare?

Posted: 22nd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, OK! | Comments (5)


BNP Leader Nick Griffin On Question Time: Oddballs, Exposure And A Riot

nick-griffinNICK Griffin, monocular leader of the BNP, is to appear on BBC’s Question Time politics show. You can read what we think of it here and here. But what says the media? What says the media about the BBC’s decision to make its moribund TV show interesting?

The front pages:

“Why even the BNP leader’s wife thinks he is a weirdo” – Mail

“BBC chief: We were right to allow BNP on Question Time” – Guardian

“BNP: Thank you auntie for giving us such a boost” – The Times

“Riot fear over BNP talk show” – Daily Star

Nick Griffin The Man

Daily Mail, Dominic Carman: “DOMINIC CARMAN: A deeply disturbing encounter with the BNP’s Nick Griffin – and the wife who thinks he’s an oddball”

Jackie [Griffin’s wife] pulls no punches when it comes to her husband. The former district nurse later revealed some extraordinary home truths about the couple’s marriage.

“My mother thinks he could do with a damned good slap,’ she confided in me, adding: ‘Nick’s parents taught him that the sun rose and set in his a***. He never had to do anything at home and was told he was always right, he can do everything and he’s wonderful.”

They first met in Suffolk in 1978: she was 15, he was 19 and friends with her sister’s boyfriend.

“Nick was an oddball, never part of the gang,” she says.

Sing along: Nick Griffin is only one oddball, the other is in the…

After graduating in 1980, Griffin worked full time for the National Front.

“I thought he would grow out of it,” says Jackie. “I was earning money, he wasn’t – what a fool I was.”

The couple married in 1985. Joe Pearce, best man at their wedding, was imprisoned twice for inciting race hatred. The Griffins lived on state benefits for more than a year.

“I worked my a*** off trying to keep us going,’ Jackie moaned. “I’ve been… working to keep us going financially and bring up four children while he’s spent his time playing at stupid politics. To Nick, it’s all a game.’

Meanwhile, In Scotland…

The Herald: “BBC ‘bent over backwards’ to accommodate BNP leader”

Mike Russell, the Scottish Culture Minister, said of the decision to invite MEP Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, on to the flagship show tonight: “BBC managers in London must explain why they are bending over backwards to accommodate this overtly racist party, which has absolutely no standing north of the Border.”

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Posted: 22nd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (14)


Madeleine McCann Is An Everton Mascot

_46583161_-7MADELEINE McCann is now an official Everton FC mascot. The club has printed T-shirts.

Shirts, emblazoned with pictures of Madeleine McCann, are being handed out ahead of Everton FC’s Europa League tie with Portuguese team Benfica. They have been created to highlight the campaign to find the child, who was three when she vanished while on holiday in Portugal in May 2007.

Benfica play in Portugal. Win it for Maddie, Everton. Can Our Maddie inspire? It might catch on. What team did Ben Needham support? Keith Bennett?

Congratulations to the McCanns for keeping their daughter in the public eye. But who does not crave for them to find her; to be left alone? Right now, their hunt for their daughter exists as a public spectacle. You wear the T-shirt to show that you care. You display a shallow sentiment. Others join in. You all feel it. Only you don’t. Not really. You go through the motions, afraid to say, “No, I don’t feel much at all.”

Every fan who bought a ticket can collect a T-shirt, which has the words “We’re Still Looking For You” on it.

And you thought Evertonians were just looking for a decent centre half.

A total of 6,000 shirts have been produced by the club – 3,000 in English and 3,000 bearing the message in Portuguese.

It’s all horribly mawkish. Anorak was there when Liverpool fans commemorated the 96 who died in Hillsborough. It was poignant and noisy. And it was relevant. This is something else:

Everton chairman Bill Kenwright said: “I will never, ever forget that image of a beautiful, smiling child in an Everton shirt.”

And you thought a missing child was painful enough; even though the media were turned on by her blue eyes and blonde hair. And you also might have thought fans were on there way to watch a game of football, excited at a chance to escape the pains of life for an hour and an a half, with a break for half time. But you should know different:

Fans with a match ticket can pick up a free T-shirt from Goodison Park or Liverpool Airport before embarking on their flight to Portugal.

Let us know if you got one and why you did; and why you didn’t. What, you didn’t get a T-shirt and wear it for Our Maddie? What’s the matter with you – don’t you care?

An anecdote: When Princess Diana was eulogised at Wesmintster Abbey, two Japanese people were laughing in Green Park, enjoying the sun. One began talking on a phone. A woman near to your writer moved across, hung up their phone call and asked them, rhetorically: “Don’t you have any shame?”

When we advertise our grief and care in public for someone we never met and never knew, we do so to reveal more about ourselves than the subject. We display signs of mourning sickness.

Spotter: Yampster

Madeleine McCann: The Story In Pictures

Posted: 22nd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (20)


The Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize Jokes In Full

obama-nobel-prizeBARACK Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for saying good things about peace. Barack Obama was nominated for the award in February 2009, just two weeks into his presidency. You want jokes?

Obama is more peaceful than Sima Samar, women’s rights campaigner in Afghanistan; Ingrid Betancourt – Liz Jones look-alike held hostage for six years; “Dr. Denis Mukwege – helps Congolese women who’ve been gang raped; Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition; Hu Jia – Chinese human rights worker serving a three-and-a-half-year prison term for ‘inciting subversion of state power'”; and Wei Jingsheng – endured 17 years in Chinese prisons for championing reforms.

And countless others people who have never tried to kill anyone.

Obama wins! And the media finds something to skewer Obama on and laugh at:

* “When you look at my record,” said SNL actor Fred Armisen as President Obama. “It’s very clear what I’ve done so far — and that is nothing.”

* Obama wins 2009 AKC “Best of Show”

* Today’s Nobel Peace Prize announcement raises the question: Is a negative caricature of President Obama now fully developed?

One thing that eluded Mr. Obama during his presidential campaign was that he was never successfully lampooned by the Republican Party…

Well, today’s announcement – while totally out of the president’s control – finally may have handed his critics their own “Mission Accomplished” moment Hot Air

* It’s the comedy gold that the blogosphere as well as the late night talk show hosts and “Saturday Night Live” will exploit to no end. In fact, there’s already a joke formula that’s exploded: fill in the blank with your favorite award (Oscar, American Idol, etc.) and say that President Obama has already won it without accomplishing anything to deserve itAce

Andrew Bolt has breaking news:

More sensational news from Norway: Barack Obama has won the 100 metres at the London Olympics, to be run in 2012.

IOC spokesman Che Riviera said the committee had decided to award Obama the gold medal after the president made a series of speeches in which he promised to run an astonishing 9.5 seconds.

Obama captured the world’s attention, and expressed values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population,” Riviera said. “We would hope this will enhance what he is trying to do.”

Ezra Klein: Obama also awarded Nobel prize in chemistry. “He’s just got great chemistry,” says Nobel Committee.

* Barack Obama’s Teleprompter: Big Guy says Bill Clinton called and was gracious in defeat; offered to fly Kanye West over 4 the Nobel awards ceremony.

* They are handing him the Nobel Peace Prize because he isn’t George Bush.”

Obama is not the first to achieve peace in no time:

* There is Henry Kissinger. His receipt of the prize in 1973, in the wake of his war crimes against Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, prompted Tom Lehrer to famously remark: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize.”

And not forgetting:

A man is driving down a country road, when he spots a farmer standing in the middle of a huge field of grass. He pulls the car over to the side of the road and notices that the farmer is just standing there, doing nothing, looking at nothing.

The man gets out of the car, walks all the way out to the farmer and asks him, “Ah excuse me mister, but what are you doing?”

The farmer replies, “I’m trying to win a Nobel Prize.”

“How?” asks the man, puzzled.

“Well, I heard they give the Nobel Prize . . . to people who are out standing in their field.”

Importantly:

ktumulty: Has anyone asked Kanye West what he thinks of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize?

Well, have they..?

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Posted: 21st, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (9)


MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer Confuses Al Sharpton For Jesse Jackson And Black For White: Video

contessa-brewerMSNBC’S Contessa Brewer is the embodiment of Obama’s post-racial America. Gawker’s John Cook spots Brewer introducing the Reverend Jesse Jackson as the “the Rev. Al Sharpton.” As she says:

If Fox News did this, there would be sit-ins.

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Contessa has form. It’s not that all blame reverends look the same to her – it’s that all angry white and black people look the same:

Contessa Brewer spots an armed man at an Obama health care rally:

“A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.”

Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.

The video footage shown of that protester was so edited, that it was impossible to see that he was black. The man appeared at a health care rally outside of President Obama’s speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Posted: 21st, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment


Closer: Lindsay Lohan’s Suicide, Katie Price’s Crying Kids And Cheryl Cole

closer1IN this week’s Closer magazine: Lindsay Lohan’s suicide, Victoria Beckham is 700,  Myleene Klass is proud of Charlotte Church, speaking for Cheryl Cole and fears for Katie Price and Peter Andre’s kids…

* THE death of Lindsay Lohan is proving to be a popular story. Following news that Lohan will die in 2010 – and your glimpse into her future – Closer magazine explains the method of her demise:

“SUICIDE FEARS FOR LINDSAY.”

“Friends say the star – who looked miserable and dishevelled in Paris recently – is living on a diet of pills, vodka and cigarettes.”

That would seem to be unlikely. But Closer has no time to investigate and beneath a picture of Lohan smoking a ciggie, tells us:

“She’s been wearing loads of bracelets too, which friends fear are covering up wounds from cutting herself.”

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Posted: 21st, October 2009 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)


Stephen Gately In Gay ‘Blackmail’ Plot And ‘Third Man’ Flees

gately2STEPHEN Gately Watch:  the former Boyzone singer is fondly remembered by The Sun.

In 1999 Stephen showed huge courage in coming out as gay. He endured a homophobic backlash for the rest of his short life – The Sun

No kidding. The Sun has more to say on Stephen Gately, who was, in case you missed it, gay. As The Sun wrote in 2008:

IT seems like only yesteryear when boybands were ordered not to have girlfriends and coerced into hiding homosexuality so they could sell more records.

But things have changed. And they have changed thanks in part to The Sun:

Stephen, who just a week ago attended a London awards bash before singing at a cabaret night in Soho, shocked the showbiz world in 1999 when he was the first boyband star to bravely come out as gay. He took the decision to “out” himself in The Sun in June of that year.

The Sun headline was “Stephen: ‘I’m gay and I’m in love’”.

Thanks to Anorak reader Karen we are offered a reason as to why Gately chose to come out in The Sun:

In a May 31, 1999 article entitled: “MY SON WAS BULLIED INTO ADMITTING HE IS GAY; Mum blast The Sun over ‘blackmail’”, Stephen Gateley’s mum Margaret offered her version of events:

Cleaning lady Margaret Gately hit out at what she called “blackmail” by The Sun – who persuaded Stephen to admit his secret sexuality by saying a member of the band’s roadcrew had approached them to sell the story…

Stephen wasn’t ashamed about his sexuality – but he never wanted people to know about it.

“Because it was always his own business, and that is the way it should be. I think what has happened is blackmail. I always thought my children should never be pressurised. “But Stephen has been bullied into doing this.”

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Posted: 21st, October 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)


70 Stone Paul Mason Is The World’s Fattest Dancer

paul-masonMR Paul Mason is the world’s fattest man. Mr Mason last achieved a fame of sorts in 2002 when he weighed 56 stone and needed to go to hospital for a hernia operation. Back then, a firecrew removed his bedroom window, dismantled a brick wall and fence and took him off in a forklift truck.

Paul Mason is big. He now weighs in at an impressive 70 stone.

Or as the Sun puts it on its front page:

“WORLD’S FATTEST BLOKE LIVES IN IPSWICH.”

His secret:

He eats 20,000 calories of food a day – EIGHT TIMES the official adult male average of 2,500. Paul scoffs three family-sized takeaways a night and wolfs down Sunday roasts like snacks.

He’s a giant of a man, popping whole roast chickens into his mouth.

On Google Earth, Ipswich is the small reddish-brown smudge by Mason’s ankle.

Paul Mason is a former engineer, is due to undergo surgery in the next few weeks in a bid to reduce his weight. NHS officials are trying to decide how to move him from his home in Ipswich, Suffolk, to a specialist unit for obese patients at St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex, 152 miles away.

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Posted: 21st, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (17)


Lindsay Lohan Dies In 2010: In Pictures

lindsay-lohan5THE National Enquirer reports that Lindsay Lohan has “ONE YEAR TO LIVE”.

And then, decades to pop up on daytime telly shows to talk about what she used to get up when she felt so alive?

Well, no. The NE says Lohan will die in 2010. It’s not an altogether exact medical report, and only gets looser when we read that she might die.

Although the NE does have form as a ghoulish organ of record, correctly predicting Michael Jackson death. This week it also predicts that “ailing” Liz Taylor is “weeks from DEATH!” hwo many weeks, we do not know, but the guess is anything from 10 to 30,000.

Lohan’s death is also the opinion of a single unnamed “source”. And we should get second opinions from Messers Paxil, Zoloft, Xanax, Ativan, Valium, Adderall and all the other guys on the Serbian soft ball team who think Lindsay is “ace”, and are all namechecked in the article.

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Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, National Enquirer | Comment (1)


Hello Magazine Tuesday: Prince Harry And Chelsy Get Intimate

helloIN this week’s Hello! magazine, we go on an intimate dinner with Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy, Myleene Klass introduces Baby K and at home with billionaire John Caudwell…

IN a “ROYAL EXCLUSIVE” – Hello! magazine will tell readers “HOW ROMANTIC PRINCE HARRY WON HIS CHELSY BACK”.

At a push, we’d say Harry won her in a tombola, first prize being a year’s supply of Flaming Lobes at the Boujis nightspot.

It turns out that Harry wooed fair-to-platinum maiden with an “intimate dinner for two”. Just Hal, Chels, three waiters, a wine waiter, 5 security guards and a chauffeur waiting for a doggy bag.

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Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Hello!, Key Posts | Comment


Koran Writing Appears On Baby’s Leg

ali-god-legsIN the small village of Krasno-Oktyabrskoye, in the Republic of Dagestan, new-born Ali Yakubov bears the mark of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

Ali’s mum, Madina Yakubova, says her son was born with a hematoma on his chin. But – lo! – when the wound healed, the word ‘Allah‘ written in Arab appeared as if by magick.

And that is not all. On his legs are entire sentences in Arabic. He is the first child that you can cuddle and read:

“The inscriptions appear on Mondays and Fridays, the boy runs very high temperature and cries. The inscriptions gradually disappear after three days and then new ones appear.”

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Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (12)