Celebrities Category
Celebrity news & gossip from the world’s showbiz and glamour magazines (OK!, Hello, National Enquirer and more). We read them so you don’t have to, picking the best bits from the showbiz world’s maw and spitting it back at them. Expect lots of sarcasm.
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (8)
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
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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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
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:
Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)
Nicholas Cage Turns On Bath Christmas Lights, In Photos
NICHOLAS Cage has turned on the Christmas lights in Milsom Street. Bath.
And how do you follow a Hollywood A lister? Well, with one of your own top talents. Cage appeared alongside Toby Anstis. Cage won the best male Oscar for his role as a despondent alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas. Anstis was the first person to be voted out of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! In 2006. Those other leading lights:
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Jonas Brothers In Paris And In Pictures
THE Jonas Brothers are in Paris. That’s Paris, France. Anorak’s snapper spotted them emerging from the city’s NRJ Radio Station.
Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas and Kevin Jonas all hopped out of their van to the “warm welcome” of a huge crowd of gathered fans. Purity rings at the ready, boys. Set to stun:
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jamie Cullum Sings The Pursuit, In Pictures
JAMIE Cullum is in Madrid, promoting his fifth album, ‘The Persuit’ (so it says on the press release), with a concert at Chivas Studio. On stage, Calum plays the piano and the Spanish zambomba, a friction drum that anyone who owns a hand can play. Anorak’s Woman in Madrid was at the show. She’s got pictures:
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (6)
I’m A Celebrity’s Joe Bugner In ‘Hell’
I’M A Celebrity: Joe Buger’s son James appears in a Daily Mirror feature: “HAVING JUNGLE JOE AS A DAD MADE MY LIFE HELL.”
The story is equipped with a picture of Joe Bugner looking wide-eyed and dangerous. The news stems from James Bugner, Joe’s third child:
When Joe Bugner’s son sits down to watch his dad’s exploits in the I’m A Celebrity jungle tonight, he may as well be watching a stranger. For James’s boxer dad walked out when he was just 10 months old, they have met only a handful of times and he has never had so much as a birthday card from his famous father.
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
X Factor: Olly Murs Rescues Stacey Solomon For Love
X FACTOR hopeful Stacey Solomon wants Daily Star readers to know that she is “HERE FOR OLLY”. That’s the paper’s X Factor headline.
“STRESSED X Factor babe Stacey Solomon was talked out of quitting by her secret date – rival act Olly.”
This is the secret date that is so secret that in-house X Factor dance teacher Brian Freidman to utter:
“I don’t think there’s anything going on there at all.”
Or as the Sun puts it:
AS their relationship heats up, Stacey Solomon has confessed that Olly Murs saved her from quitting The X Factor.
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Strictly Come Dancing’s Alesha Dixon Sparks I’m A Celebrity Race Row
STRICTLY Come Dancing’s judge Alesha Dixon is on the cover of the Mail and the Express as she is turned away from London’s Funky Buddha club. With Jedward and Katie Price off the X Factor and I’m A Celebrity, respectively, the Mail presses F3 on the keyboard.
That Dixon is wearing a short dress and smiling is news enough. But today there is more sensation. Dixon spots a race row in the jungle:
Over-stuffed Cabbage Patch Doll Joe Buger has been disrespectful to Dixon’s former band mate Sabrina Washington – billed as “the third best singer Mis Teeq.”
Bugner has been “a bit mean to Sabrina”, says Dixon. Why has he been a bit mean? Dixon knows:
“Well he is either racist or he doesn’t like women, one of the two.”
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
The SingStar Take That Extravaganza In Pictures
ANORAK was at the Singstar Take That Extravaganza at The Tabernacle, London. The event is billed as a “who’s who of great names in London’s music and fashion world, SingStar VIPS and club cognoscenti”.
As it turned out, other than Take That, who were contractually obliged to plug their eponymous karaoke video game, the VIPs were Kate Moss, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Pixie Geldof, Paloma Faith, Rachel Stevens and.. Well, there lots of other people who work for Singstar and people who go to clubs and like singing along to backing tracks. Here are the pictures:
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Susan Boyle Weeps As The Press Set About Destroying Her
SUSAN Boyle Watch: On Monday, Susan Boyle sang her slow, churchy version of the Rolling Stones classic Wild Horses in Rockefeller Plaza (pictures). The happening was broadcast live to millions watching NBC’s Today show. And then…she cried.
On the Daily Mirror’s front page a question is delivered as a statement:
IS IT ALL TOO MUCH
The Express tells its readers:
SUSAN BOYLE BREAKS DOWN IN TEARS AFTER LIVE PERFORMANCE IN AMERICA
SUSAN Boyle showed she is still fragile as she broke down in tears after a live outdoor performance in America.
Don’t lots of singers cry? On the X Factor, everyone cries. But when Susan Boyle cries, she is “fragile”. The Star wonders:
PALS fear Susan Boyle is on the brink of another meltdown.
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (20)
Adam Lambert On The Early Show, In Pictures
ADAM Lambert is last season’s runner up on American Idol. At the American Music Awards, Lambert’s music took in a rubbing a dancer’s face into his crotch. If it helps him hit the low notes, so be it.
He then got off with a male band member and stuck his finger up in the air. Lots of people tuned in, 1,500 complained and Lambert is no longer a lump of reality TV dross – Lambert is edgy and challenging and turning telly viewers gay.
Lambert then went on GMA stands for ‘Gays Made America’. But he didn’t – his performance was cancelled. Do instead he stuck his gayness of The Early Show, and families tuning in got to see a pretty ordinary signer with dyed hair – think Jess Conrad meets The Producer’s Hitler – sing a song.
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Posted: 25th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
New George Best Waxwork Goes On Show
YOU know you’ve arrived when you’re made into a wax statue. There is something creepy about waxworks. At Ireland’s National Wax Museum Television pundit Eamon Dunphy unveils a new waxwork of himself. Besides him a waxy Calum Best, doe-faced song to George Best, puts his arm around a candle made to look like his departed father and grins.
The only people who have ever looked exactly like their waxworks massed at David Gest’s wedding to Liza Minnelli. The bride and groom stood beside Michael Jackson and Liz Taylor looked less like flesh and bone humans being than a wax exhibit. This impression was encouraged by them all appearing to be on the point of melting, a single turn of the central heating dial from turning into puddles. And then there is this lot who seem to be turning into wax.
The World’s Worst Michael Jackson Waxworks
Nicole Kidman, Simon Cowell And Pope Benedict Meet For Dublin Summit
Michael Jackson In The World’s Most Bizarre Waxwork Ehibition
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Posted: 25th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Katie Price Dominates OK! And Samantha Fox
IN OK! magazine’s continuing linger around Katie Price and I’m A Celebrity, readers get to meet Samantha Fox, the…
“… pint-sized, boobalicious, spunky volcano of fun.” (Photos here.)
Sam Fox “brims with gumption, overflows with attitude and rumbles with mischief.”
Sam Fox cannot be contained. That’s her, the one in the glasses, sat on her hammock doing as she’s told and doing her best to make Jimmy ‘Interesting’ White look like Steve Davis’s slower brother.
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Katie Price Wanted Alex Reid To Follow her To Australia
ONCE again Katie Price and Peter Andre are on the cover of OK! magazine. Britain’s answer to Brangelina are on the cover of Britain’s answer to the National Enquirer.
One thing is missing. No, not news. Well, not only that. The thing that’s missing is Angelina Jolie. If Peter Andre is Brad Pitt – stick with it – and Katie Price is Jennifer Aniston, who is going to be Jolie and marry Peter?
That for later, for now dignified Peter Andre wants to tell us on the cover:
“I’D RATHER WATCH MR POTATO HEAD THAN KATIE.”
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Scouting For Girls And Newton Faulkner Play The Union Chapel, In Pictures
ANORAK continues to highlight music acts living the dream without the need for Simon Cowell’s televised pop school of pap. Today’s pictures feature Newton Faulkner, introduced by Jo Whiley and sister Frances, Little Comet and Scouting for Girls. Hey kids, you can sing your own song:
X Factor At The Union Chapel: Lostprophets, King Blues And The Black Out
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Posted: 25th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Russian Singer Natalie Bounces On Jennifer Lopez Bum Implants
EARLIER this week Jennifer Lopez fell on his big bum at the AMM music awards and bounced back up again. Russian singer Natlie was inspired and copied J-Lo.
Of course, Jennifer Lopez did not fall. Oh no. As she told us and Pete Doherty:
“Did I? Did I? Did I trip a little bit? I don’t even remember,” Lopez said with a chuckle. “Yeah, I meant to do that. You should know me better than that. That was part of the choreography… The measure of things is not what happens when you fall, it’s how you recover when you fall.”
Here’s Natalie’s tribute act – with balloons:
Posted: 25th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
X Factor: Jedward Go GAY, Win I’m A Celebrity And Hate Susan Boyle
X FACTOR rejects Jedward are now 8-1 to win I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Having swallowed Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh’s balls, they are on course to swallow something still more fragrant in the Blue Peter garden.
Before that, Jedward are to sing at GAY Heaven this Saturday night, following in the footsteps of Lucie Jones, Rachel Adedeji, Kandy Rain and JLS.
Now the duo have been fast tracked into tabloid journalism, and are seated in the editor’s car for the Sun’s Bizarre section.
Highlights include:
* Jedward calling Lady Gag “Lady Baba” – “They think she’s brilliant.”
* Jedward have the autographs of Avril Lavigne, the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears
* Jedward’s hair is a combination of “VO5 and hairspray” – as is their voice.
Says Gordon Smart:
“X Factor rascals John and Edward Grimes are national heroes in Ireland – up there in the popularity steaks with U2, big Jack Charlton and Guinness.”
Bad news for U2, Our Jackie and Guinness, because Louis Walsh has already told us:
“They got a really hard time from people in Ireland, from people who have never met them and didn’t know them. I had it before with Boyzone and different bands before. People slag you off – it’s a weird thing, it’s an Irish thing.”
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Posted: 25th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
