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Des Browne Is Max Clifford In An Ahmadinejad Suit

DEFENCE Secretary Des Browne categorically denied he and the MOD had totally lost their bearings and strayed into Max Clifford’s territory by promoting the Ahmadinejad and Iran ‘hostage’ story to … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

3rd Rock From The Sun – Live Earth Is Carbon Neutral

LIVE Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2 billion people to combat the climate crisis.

Live Earth’s 24 hours of music across 7 continents will … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

The Apprentice Voyeur

FIRED by Alan Sugar, Apprentice loser Gerri Blackwood is making front-page news in the Star.

In “SUGAR SHOW’S SEX SHOCK”, Gerri tells all. This is Gerri Blackwood, a 33-year-old from Woking, … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

Fat And Faulty – New Obese Gene And TV’s Fat Tribe

“THERE IS AN OBESITY GENE.” So says the Mail’s lead headline. Or as the Times’ front page puts it: “’Fat’ gene found by scientists.”
So much for tales of fat kids … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (6)

Landlords Brought To Book

WITH most public sectors workers unable to buy a house, rental is the only option.

However, in one rare piece of good news for tenants, landlords will now not be able … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comments (2)

Kate Moss Dresses And Pete Doherty Needs A Dressing

“WE apologise for carrying this disgusting picture of Cocaine Kate’s drug-raddled fiancé, but it’s the reality behind Ms Moss, the £3m darling of Topshop billionaire Sir Philip Green.”

The Mail does … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (8)

Geri Halliwell’s Book Lacks Substance

IN compliance with the tenth rule of celebrity motherhood, Geri Halliwell has written a children’s book.

As the Sun reports, the book are centred on the character Ugenia Lavender, a girl … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment (1)

Hostages Of Fortune – Why Faye Turney Dunnit By Andy McNab

“WHY Faye told her story in The Sun,” says the headline.

Readers are not allowed to get into the spirit of the thing and guess why Faye Turney took the Murdoch … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comments (2)

A Load Of Rubbish Tax In Birmingham

NOT content with bombarding us with high council tax bills and ridiculous parking fines, local councils have now found another way to squeeze every last hard-earned penny out of us.

According … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment (1)

Abbey Clancy Is Only 100% Genuine

ABBEY Clancy bends forward in the Sun and the paper stares. So too do the readers.

Following a recent Sun poll in which 83 per cent of respondents said they thought … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

WHEN SAUSAGES EXPLODE!

TABLOID headline of the day: “SCARRED FOR LIFE BY EXPLODING SAUSAGES”.

It’s a gruesome tale in the Sun. And it is hard not to feel sympathy for the victim, an unnamed … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Big Brother’s Gonna Get You – Bullies Copy Jade Goody

“RISE OF RACIST SCHOOL BULLIES,” says the Sun.

The figures are in and the Sun can report that “almost” 3,400 pupils were suspended for “racist bullying” last years – up from … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment (1)

Amazing Grace – Madonna Adopts New Daughter In Malawi

MADONNA is planning to adopt again.

This is all very noble. And Anorak has long argued that we should overlook the grandstanding and concentrate on the fact that a child’s life … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Tabloids | Comment (1)

Carly Zucker Rates Friends And Family

IT’S been while since we last saw Carly Zucker, Wag to footballer Joe Cole.

It was back in July 2006 that we saw Carly perform her “sexercises” by a Miami … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2007 | In: Back pages | Comments (3)

Sanjaya Malakar And Other Subversives

OVER on American Idol Sanjaya Malakar continues his impression of Manuel does Motown.

But something is changing within the whispering wonder.

As Tabloid Baby writes, Sanjaya’s revelatory performance of Besame Mucho revealed … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)

Don Imus Is A Hip-Hopper

DON Imus just quoted words from a hip hop song wherein these garbage songs are heard by our youth with every sort of bad words degrading all sorts of people. … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

The Condensed History Of Tony Blair In 15 Minutes

Blair: Remember how we said about taking turns as Prime Minister?
Brown: Oh yeah, I’m completely cool with that. You go first and then I’ll have a go.
Blair: Yeah, yeah, I … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

21/7 Suspect And ‘Amazing’ Flour Bombs

IF you were testing whether or not a 2kg bomb was going to explode, would you stand next to it?

As Dizzy notes.

One of the alleged 21 July bombers must have … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)

Algerian Al-Qaeda Spawn More Violence, Say Muppets

TWO bomb blasts in Algeria’s capital Algiers have killed at least 23 people. A further 160 are injured.

Al-Qaeda boast that they have ruined so many lives.

One easily bears moral reproof, … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Counting Them All Out – Des Browne And Tony Blair Take On Iran

LOOKING at Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, the Times’ People’s column sees disproof of the cliché that all publicity is good publicity.

Counting up column inches, it notes how of Wednesday … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Uncategorized | Comments (2)

David Beckham’s Tattoo To A Very Best Friend

HEY, kids, wanna look like David Beckham without getting in trouble? Well grab a rake and get along to the Los Angeles Boutique store Kitson.

On sale are white T-shirts complete … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

The Last Noel For Jade Goody

JADE Goody has been dumped by her management company.

Says John Noel: “I can confirm that we have parted company. We couldn’t agree on a strategy for moving forward. We’d like … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Reviews | Comment

Taxman Wins Lottery

FOR one lottery winner, Lady Luck was only out the door when the Grim Reaper popped in for a visit and now his family will have to pay the price.

The … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment

Shop Scan Save – Schlep Drone Poor

IN a valiant effort to fight back against the supermarkets’ popular special-offer and loyalty card campaigns, a new mobile phone-based scheme is set to be launched across 17,000 local grocers.

The … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comments (2)

No Poor Service At HSBC

IT seems that in the eyes of HSBC, the self-proclaimed “world’s local bank”, some customers just aren’t worth the bother.

The Guardian reports that the HSBC branch in the salubrious Canford … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2007 | In: Money | Comment (1)

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