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Amy Winehouse Goes Back To Rehab – Again

REMEMBER the days when Amy Winehouse was famous for being a reasonably exciting singer? Alas, since then, she’s disappeared down a booze hole, leaving her career wide open for lesser acts to cash-in on. We’re looking at you Paloma Faith. And you Adele.

Yep, Winehouse only ever appears on the radar when she’s fallen over after a skinful or, briefly, re-emerged with some hilarious new breasts that looked like floating liquid in a space shuttle.

And now she’s in the news again and, predictably, it isn’t with talk of a new record, but rather, she’s off to rehab again.

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Posted: 27th, May 2011 | In: Music | Comment


Imogen Thomas: Blackmailer Or Not?

THIS writer has been warned away from a number of stories thanks to the ubiquitous super injunction. Kinda irritating when you meet the celebrity in question and have to stand there with a big shit-eating grin on your face, coupled with whitened knuckles of frustration.

One super injunction that seems to have a whole bunch of names attached to it regardless is the one involving Imogen Thomas, who you may remember as being ‘Her Off Big Brother 7 Who Had The World’s Most Listless Sex Tape Leaked’.

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Posted: 17th, May 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)


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?

billboard-fail

Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


George Orwell Would Weep For Nick Cohen

NICK Cohen is at the George Orwell Award, and showing all the great and good – the ones who are in the smug club – why it’s an utterly meaningless award that caters to pap and crap.

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Posted: 31st, March 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


Hacked Off: Journalists Riot At New Guinea Media Awards

TO the New Guinea media awards, where “simmering tensions mixed with alcohol” create an “all-in brawl”.

As the Australian reports, in sober tones:

The fight came late in the proceedings, after speeches on the importance of media freedom and accurate reporting.

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Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)