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The Best And Weirdest Election Pictures: A Gallery

THE election has been a pretty turgid affair. The highlights have been Gordon Brown calling Gillian Duffy a bigot, Nick Clegg remembering everyone’s first name in the entire country, David Cameron not wearing a top hat and tails in public. The media have spent the entire time guessing what will happen and how many people will even bother to vote. But the pictures were good. Some were brilliant. Look through our library of the best images of the election campaign. Enjoy them all.

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Posted: 5th, May 2010 | In: Key Posts | Comment


Sandra Bullock Interview: Louis Bardo Bullock, The Universe, Jesse James, Poop And Pictures

SANDRA Bullock pulled a blind side when she adopted Louis Bardo Bullock, a child names after Louis Armstrong and someone called Bardo. Bullock tells us that she is to divorce Jesse James, the Vanilla Gorilla who, allegedly, bumped Nazi memorabilia with Michelle McGee and others.

Bullock is on the cover of Hello!, presenting her new baby, “the perfect little man”. Bullock Junior is black and had a bris – a Jewish circumcision. This is how Sammy Davis Junior started. We expect big things from Louis.

Louis seems to be being set up for a celebrity life. Says Bullock:

“He’s handsome, but it’s his spirit that’s beautiful. There’s a wisdom to him.”

Louis is three-months-old and wearing an expression Bullock says means “hurry up and get it done” – and which other mums might suppose means “I’m doing it. Plop. There ya go.”

Sandra says she won’t discuss the adoption to “protect her son’s privacy”. That’s Louis naked in his mum’s arms in Hello! magazine.

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Posted: 4th, May 2010 | In: Hello!, Key Posts | Comments (5)


Virgin Mary Appears In Soup Pot: Corn But Not Forgotten

MARIA Froilana Esquivel of Oxnard has seen the Virgin Mary in a soup pot filled with corn. Says her daughter Maria L. Esquivel:

It’s a miracle that it happened.”

Says mum of the stain:

“I was washing the pot and it wouldn’t come out. And those are expensive pots.”

Mum’s mum, one Sofia Alonso, says her arthritis eased after the happening.

Lets us pray:

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JESUS of The Day belongs to young Austin Coleman, of Phoenix, Arizona. He found Jesus on his thumbprint. Says he: “I got a little freaked out.” Can you cope with the wonder...

Posted: 2nd, May 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment


Madeleine McCann: Martin Samuel’s Fear As A Parent Suffering From Our Maddie Sickness

HAVING heard Esther Rantzen patronise the McCanns for the independent MPs, spreading the fear and addressing Kate and Gerry McCann from the bottom of a bucket of syrup marked “FEAR”, the Mail lets Martin Samuel lose on Our Maddie and emotional exhibit Kate McCann.

In “Maddie, the heartrending dilemma”, Samuel, one of Anorak’s favourite writers, says:

There are, it is roughly estimated, as many as 180,000 missing children in the United Kingdom. According to the home Office, the number of full-time police in England and Wales is 142,000.

They are not all missing, presumed stolen. Many have gone off with parents.

You see the problem, yes? Even if we took one officer and told him his only job was to find Madeleine McCann, he would still have to take alternate Thursdays off to help investigate some other disappearance.

Well, if every missing child was thought to have been the subject of a crime, then yes. But they are not. Samuel is using the big numbers to prove a point but missing the facts.

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Posted: 30th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (12)


Incest Watch: Pearl Carter Is Having Her Grandson Phil Bailey’s Baby

PEARL Carter is has 72. She’s shagging her grandson, 26-year-old Phil Bailey. Phil is the son of Pearl’s daughter Lynette Bailey. And she’s having his baby. They’ve spent $54,000 hiring a surrogate called Roxanne Campbell. Says Pearl:

I’m not interested in anyone else’s opinion. I am in love with Phil and he’s in love with me. Soon I’ll be holding my son or daughter in my arms and Phil will be the proud dad.”

Phil adds:

“I love Pearl with all my heart. I’ve always been attracted to older women and I think Pearl is gorgeous. Now I’m going to be a dad and I can’t wait. Yes, we get laughed at and bullied when we go out and kiss in public but we don’t care. You can’t help who you fall for.”

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Posted: 29th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (48)


Katie Price Knows That Only the Rich Get To Be Kirsty Allsop

KATIE Price or Kirsty Allsop? A period piece or period features? Allsop of the TV Allsops, is upset that Katie Price is using Junior Pete and Princess TenaLadyMeee (aka Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez Kidz) to flog her clothes:

“She might as well just put her children up a chimney to earn some money. They have no chance in later life of leading private lives. By making them famous, you are removing their right to make that decision themselves.”

Kristy waited for her sister Sophie to reach puberty and beyond before introducing her to the telly. Allsop is daughter to Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip and former chairman of Christie’s. Dad’s a pal of Prince Charles. Her kidzz are called Bay Atlas and Oscar Hercules.

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Katie Price leaves the May Fair Hotel in London.

Says Kirsty:

Actually I think that’s why I like breast-feeding Oscar so much – it’s a great excuse to sit down and watch telly while doing something else,’

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Posted: 29th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)


Eel Swims Up Man’s Anus And Eats His Bowels: Pictures

IN a Sichuan hospital, China, a man has died after an eel was inserted up his anus.

The eel entered the rectum and chewed away his bowels. The man, aged 59, worked as a chef. When opened up, medic found as 50cm long Asian swamp eel lodged in his rectum. The eel was dead.

Reports are that the man claimed to have “eaten a lot of eel the previous day”.

Later, friends of the dead man claimed they had inserted the eel when the victim has been out cold from drink. It was a joke.

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Posted: 29th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)


In Pictures: Jennifer Lopez’s Back Up Plan Premier, Kerry Katona And Other Stuffed Turkeys

WEDNESDAY meant The Back-Up Plan premier at The Vue, Leicester Square, London. The co-stars Alex O’Loughlin and Jennifer Lopez have set the movie world abuzz with their romance. It’s not so much a “Have they?” as a “Would they even if there was no-one else alive on Earth?” Lopez has been in more turkeys than a Bernard Mathews’ chestnuts. And this is another one. But the celebs were choice. You can tell a lot about the calibre of a film by the sort of liggers it attracts. So here come: Kerry Katona, Stacey Solomon, Sophia Hyatt, Hofit Golan, Jenni Falconer, Tamara Ecclestone (and what colour is she today – we’d say ‘Defcom 4), Kathryn Prescott and – a roll on the turkey drummers – Bianca Gascoigne…

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Alex O'Loughlin and Jennifer Lopez arriving for the gala premiere of The Back-Up Plan at The Vue, Leicester Square, London.

Posted: 28th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)


Sandra Bullock Adopts Black Domestic Orphan Louis Bardo Bullock: Pictures

SANDRA Bullock is the proud mum of Louis Baredo Bullock. She’s adopted a baby. This is how you show your husband Jesse James and his tattooed lover Michelle McGee that you have moved on. This is how you keep a secret. And Jesse James new. He can keep a secret. He’s the daddy. He’s the daddy of a black baby.

So much for those Nazi accusations. Although Bullock is happy to soak them:

“The photo shocked me and made me sad. This is not the man I married.

Michelle McGee (NSFW)

Louis Baredo Bullock is from New Orleans. Yes, she’s adopted a domestic orphan.

People says Louis Bardo Bullock is 3½-months-old. Says Sandra:

“It’s like he’s always been a part of our lives.”

And she’s divorcing Jesse James:

“Yes, I have filed for divorce. I’m sad and I am scared.”

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(L-R) Mery Streep and Sandra Bullock onstage at The 15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium on January 15, 2010 Hollywood, California.

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Posted: 28th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)


In Pictures: The Ukraine Parliament Fight EastEnders Style

IN pictures: a look at the fight that took place within the Parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine. Look out for EastEndersChristian calleing for Sayeed. There, a heated debate over a deal with Russian’s Black Sea Fleet. The discussion takes in shouting, notes, eggs, a smoke bomb, a little light hair pulling, more notes, questions from the floor, Nick Clegg and a punch in the head. John Prescottski was not there…

Tyler Dixon And Media Bias Presents A History Of Attacks On Politicians: In Pictures

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Posted: 28th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment


In Pictures: Who Killed And Covered Up Blair Peach?

WHO killed Blair Peach? He was the special needs teacher who died on April 23 1979 after an altercation with police during an anti-fascist demonstration against the National Front in Southall, London. Scotland Yard released files confirming he died as a result of a blow to the head inflicted by an unnamed officer. He was killed by The Specials.

In all, 14 witnesses said they saw Mr Peach being hit by a police officer. The internal report concluded that officers conspired to cover up the truth. Commander Cass, a former Scotland Yard officer, wrote a report. It was secret.

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Posted: 27th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)


Larry King: These Documents Claim He Pretends, Lies, Misleads And Two-Times (Pictures)

LARRY King, Shawn Southwick King and Rama King are in the news. Talkshow host Larry King confesses: “I lie – pretend – mislead… I will have 2 or more women going at the same time.” Anorak’s Man in LA reports:

Clearly, Larry King has issues with women.

After all, less than two weeks ago, he and Wife Number Six, Shawn Southwick King, engaged in a race to see who could get to the courthouse first to file for divorce, each reportedly accusing the other of certain extramarital activities.

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And based on documents obtained exclusively by Our Man in LA, Larry is his own toughest critic when it comes to the way he handles intimate relationships. (These documents seem to be authentic. But King or his poeple have yet to comment on their veracity.)

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Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)


Whitney Houston Loses Her Voice In London, Literally: Pictures

WHITNEY Houston was on stage at the big oxygen tent, the O2 in Greenwich, London. It was billed as Whitney comeback concert.whitney cameback. But her voice – Little Whitney – was lost.

USA Today reports that “hundreds in the audience walked out” as the singer “missed high notes, cut short her songs and apologized for her shortcomings”. And sweated. Boy did she sweat. People in the front row needed umbrellas. Says Houston:

“She don’t want to come, my soprano friend. Sometimes the old girl sings, but not tonight.”

Whitney’s voice has it’s own personality. Whitney talks to Whitney’s voice.

“I want to do it, but she doesn’t want to. … She’s getting a little … temperamental, even.”

Whitney voice needs whipping into shape or, maybe, sectioning.

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THIS PICTURE IS ONE TIME USE ONLY / EDITORIAL USE ONLY / NO MERCHANDISING. Whitney Houston performing on stage at the O2 in Greenwich, London.

Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (3)


Gisele Bundchen’s Blue Lagoon: Pictures

GISELE Bundchen is green. Gisele is an environmentalist. Gisele knows. She is hot on green matters. She also has a huge house. Huge. Massive. And a huge family in the planning, which will make those greenies unhappy.

What kind of U.N. environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with a six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon? Why, that would be the Hub’s favorite Pats fan, Gisele Bundchen!

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Says Gielse, a United Nations’ Environmental Goodwill Ambassador, on her green blog:

The most important thing about all this is that we understand the importance that each of us has in the process, and are aware of the fact that it is our duty because we are also part of this world.

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Posted: 25th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (7)


Restore Stephen Baldwin: He Wants Your Job And A 421

STEPHEN Baldwin, last seen speaking through Alex Reid’s head on Celebrity Big Brother, needs your help. On Restore Stephen Baldwin, the star of the Sex Monster appears to explain why he needs YOUR help. Forget rescuing Katie Price from Egypt and little staving babies. Baldwin needs you. Baldwin might be the cause Peaches Geldof has been looking for.

Verily, it is Baldwin:

Dane Bowers: “The water’s still cold”

Stephen Baldwin: “The hot water?”

But before restoration, Baldwin needs a Job:

“Everyone knows that God restored Job, but do they understand the mechanism of his restoration? Job was restored by the people. By ‘All Who Knew Him’. This website was created to see a rebirth of that mechanism.”

Baldwin is third person man in need. Says he:

“He has been publicly ridiculed and insulted by people who think that he has been abandoned by God.”

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Posted: 23rd, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)


Baby P: Sharon Shoesmith Loses A Sun Campaign And Ed Balls’ Crowd Pleaser

UPDATE: Sharon Shoesmith has lost her case.

Earlier:

WITH impeccable timing, Baby P returns to the news agenda. It’s time to learn whether or not Sharon Shoesmith lost her job as head of children’s services at Haringey council unlawfully. Sheosmsith claims she lot her job in a “flagrant breach of the rules of natural justice”.

Baby P, was abused despite being on Haringey Council’s “at risk” register.

Was Shoesmith sacked from her post because Baby P was an emotive issue and someone who could have saved him had to be blamed? No, not Baby P’s mum Tracey Connelly, her lover Steven Barker and their lodger, Barker’s brother Jason Owen. Not them. They are all in jail. Was Shoesmith the victim of the need to punish someone who could have saved him who worked for the state?

Where did the buck stop? At the top? Shoesmith was on £130,000 a year. Ofsted inspector Heather Brown, said the quality of practice in Shoesmith’s department as the “worst I had ever seen“.

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Posted: 23rd, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)


In Pictures: Malcolm McLaren’s Funeral Madness And Life

DID you have a Minute of Mayhem for Malcolm McLaren’s Funeral? We looked on from a pavement in Camden Town as the horse-drawn carriage carrying the coffin of the man best known for managing the manager Sex Pistols passed by. On it went to Highgate. There, mourners including McLaren’s former partner Dame Vivienne Westwood, friend Sir Bob Geldof and Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook sang along to McLaren’s recording of Max Bygraves’ You Need Hands. RIP.

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Posted: 22nd, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (7)


Tyler Dixon And Media Bias Presents A History Of Attacks On Politicians: In Pictures

TYLER Dixon tossed an egg at David Cameron. But did it hit the Conservative leader? What says the media of goings on at Cornwall College Saltash? You see, a simple act of tossing an egg can be whatever you want it to if you have an agenda to push. Before the agendas can be presented as new, here is a brief pictorial history of attacks on politicians – taking in a floral attack on Maggie Thatcher, an eclair for Nick Brown, an egg for John Prescott, that egg for Cameron, another egg for Ruth Kelly and some slime for Peter Mandelson…

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Education Secretary Ruth Kelly recovers after being hit by an egg outside Salford Magistrates Court, Monday February 6, 2006, where Fathers for Justice protester Simon Coverdale is on trial over an alleged incident in which eggs were thrown at the minister while she addressed an audience in Bolton last year. See PA story COURTS Kelly. PRESS ASSOCIATION photo. Photo credit should read: Martin Rickett/PA.

Martin Brunt – Sky:

And he missed – from ten feet – so clearly not a member of the college cricket First X! [sic].

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Posted: 22nd, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)


Katie Price, Peter Andre And Truth About Princess’s ‘Bruised Face And Body’: Pictures

PRINCESS Tiaamii, who along with Junior Peter Andre form one part of the Lucille Ball – Desi Arnez tribute act – who is also daughter to the pop acorn and Katie Price – has a “BRUISED FACE AND BODY”.

Dignified Peter Andre, picks up on the earlier story of Princess TenaLadyMee’s “black eye”, which turns out to be smudged mascara and not an overdose of fake lashes. Only, there is front-page “shock at injured tot”.

Of that smudged mascara, Peter Andre says: “This isn’t true.” So, it was bruise? Chocolate? Touche Eclat?

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No, this is a toddler with a bruise. And make that brusies. As the Star says on its front page, the body and face are brusied. It’s either more than one bruise or a huge swelling.

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Posted: 20th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment


Pictures: Michael Jackson Impersonator Arrested For Molesting A Boy

THE World’s greatest Michael Jackson impersonator gets into character – Ricardo West accused of molesting a minor. Is this the perfect tabloid story of the week?

A Michael Jackson impersonator has gone “Off the Wall,” say Michigan police who have charged the 22-year-old with molesting an 11-year-old boy.

Story continues after gallery of young Jacko:

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A young Michael Jackson, circa 1971

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Posted: 19th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)


Pictures: Global Warming Caused Eyjafjallajokull Volcano

IN Iceland, the Eyjafjallajokull volcano has exploded. And global warming is to blame. (Just like it was to blame for that earthquke in Haiti.) Gaia has joned Plane Stupid to stop us from flying. Bill McGuire, of the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre at University College London, author of Seven Years to Save the Planet and an invitation to…:

Imagine a volcanic blast so devastating it obliterates at a stroke the English county of Yorkshire or the US state of Connecticut; a detonation so titanic it buries a continent in ash and plunges the entire world into a bitter volcanic winter.

No, sorry. Can’t. No Yorkshire? But the kids might be able to imagine the horror – article continues after gallery of the volcano…

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To accompany Playhouse Disney’s Playing for the Planet Awards for budding eco-warriors, Bill McGuire has drawn up a list of tips to help pre-schoolers and their parents reduce their own and the UK’s carbon footprint

The basic ideas is when the ice melts the land bounces back (it being free of weighty ice). Then the water in the seas is heavier on the sea bed. The floor of the oceans can’t take the impact and bends. And… Kapow! And then there are the “ice-quakes” that could trigger volcanic eruptions.

Periods of exceptional climate change in Earth history are associated with a dynamic response from the geosphere.” Responses include volcanic activity, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, glacial outbursts, rock-dam failure floods, debris flows, and destabilizations of gas-hydrates, which are crystalline solids consisting of gas molecules encaged by water molecules. According to McGuire, anthropogenic climate change doesn’t just affect oceans and the atmosphere.

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Posted: 19th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts | Comments (17)


In Pictures: US Prepares To Attack Iran From Diego Garcia

PLANS for war between Iran and the US mount. Having told you about Bunker Buster Bombs being sent to Diego Garcia in readiness for the US attack on Iran, we spot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posing with even bigger weapons at Iran’s annual army day parade.

Bunker Buster Bombs To Diego Garcia As US Prepares To Attack Iran

He wants us to see his missiles capable of hitting US and Israeli targets.

The Iranian nuclear programme moves on. Strike now before Ahmadinejad’s Iran gets the bomb? Why, yes. The bunker buster is a Massive Ordnance Penetrator. It weighs weighs 15 tonnes and can burrow through 200ft of reinforced concrete before exploding.

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Posted: 19th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment


In Pictures: Brian McFadden ‘Kills’ ‘Pig Faced Mole’ Kerry Katona

THE 12-step plan to make Kerry Katona a likeable personality, follows her estrangement from husband Mark Croft, confessions of cocaine addiction and a non-romance with Peter Andre, to move on to her being a victim of Brian McFadden. As the NoTW reports:

ANGRY Kerry Katona speaks out today for the first time about her six-year war with ex-hubby Brian McFadden.

Brian McPadding, the former Westlife singer who gave Kerry two kidzz, Molly and Lily-Sue, and made her one part of the couple known as Karion?

In part two of her explosive News of the World interview she tells of her AGONY when he cheated on his stag night and her DEVASTATION when he dumped her for Aussie singer Delta Goodrem.

That was the same Goodrem of whom the Mirror reported in 2003:

A source tells the paper that the former Neighbours star saw the trip to South Africa as a fun holiday and not as the start of a relationship. ”They don’t have a future as a couple,” the source says.

The papers never get it wrong. Goodrem and McPadding are now engaged.

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In the NoTW, Katona recalls how McPadding cheated on her on his Stag do with a lap dancer caleld Amy Barker:

That killed it for me. I loved Brian and I trusted him. I remember thinking: ‘But he’s the fat one from Westlife. Why would he do this to me?'”

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Posted: 18th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)


In Pictures: Christina Hendricks’ Mad Mams for Esquire

CHRISTINA Hendricks, the Mad Men Bombshell – not to be confused with Michelle Bombshell McGee (NSFW) – a woman more bomb shelter than any shell you’d want to cock to an ear – is the Esquire magazine cover model for May.

Hendricks is on the cover because 10,000 women said she was the Best-Looking Woman In America. Of course, it’s a vote dependent on who is American at the time. And then there is Hendricks’ face which seems altered from her usual look. Sure the Mad Mams are there but her the airbrush has lent her a new nose, angular face and lips trimmed and shaped.

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Spotted: Celebutopia

Posted: 18th, April 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)


In Pictures: The Tea Party Protest Bigots And Other Journalists

THE Tea Party protestors are on the move. And one NBC reporter has her own story to chase. Are the Tea Party people racists? Because you know that Barack Obama is black? Here’s the woman with an agenda asking a black protester is he doesn’t feel “uncomfortable”. See if you can spot the bigot?

Obama Not Assassinated In Arizona With AR-15 Assault Rifle

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Posted: 18th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)