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Kate Winslet And Sam Mendes Divorce: Introducing Rebecca Hall
KATE Winslet and Sam Mendes Divorce: The dullest split in showbiz hisotry continues to enthrall anyone who likes their entertainment slow with lots of long moody silences.
Kate Winslet in pictures: NSFW
“MR Kate Winslet and his pal the young actress” is the Mail’s spite-laced headline illustrated by a picture of Same Mendes and Rebecca Hall.
Anorak has already brought you 10 reasons why Sam Mendes and Kate Winsley split. And there have been more reasons in the media since as the split is analysed by the critics:
Reason 11: Michael Musto in the Village Voice says:
I’m a big believer in the Oscar curse on celebrity marriages
Reason 12: Graeme Meadows tells Times readers that it’s not specifically the Oscars that killed off Sam and Kate, it was:
Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet’s marriage over? That’s showbiz
But back to REASON 14: Rebecca Hall, daughter of theatre director Sir Peter Hall and opera singer Maria Ewing.
* Kate Winslet had grown increasingly frustrated with her husband Sam Mendes’s friendship with the young actress Rebecca Hall, friends claimed last night.
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Posted: 17th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
In Pictures: Miley Cyrus Twitters About Being Real
MILEY Cyrus is growing up and telling teens that posting images of yourself grinding a chair on Twitter or dressed in your bra and knickers is so last year. Sure it worked for Miley but it will not work for you. It will harm you. Don’t be normal – be deep like Miley.
Teenagers need to grow the hell up and stop using the internet. They need to be more like Miley Cyrus who is no longer using the internet to tell us about her life but talking to real journalists using real pens they whittled from The Mayflower to tell us how right she’s got things.
Kids – you need to get away from the web and go out to the street and buy a real magazine to read about Miley. You may get run over by a bus on the way, but it would be a real bus driven by a real driver and not a virtual one controlled by a 15-year-old jockstrap model with a Wii who’s actually a middle-aged man in a paedo holding bay in Rhyl.
You need paper pictures of Miley you can stick on your bedroom ceiling.
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Posted: 16th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
In Pictures: David Beckham In Wootton Bassett For Airing Of Poet Laureate’s ‘Achilles’
THE Poet Laureate has reacted to news of David Beckham’s injury by reminding us that’s she is alive and relevant by way of an ode. Day-vid has ruptured his Achilles, something that has dashed his chance of watching the World Cup from “court side”.
To honour the fallen, a parade will take place in Wootton Bassett on the afternoon of the World Cup Final. Organisers believe it will be especially poignant given that Germany will be playing Italy and all true patriots will have turned the telly off and taken to the streets.
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Posted: 16th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Ten Reasons Why Kate Winslet And Sam Mendes Split
KATE Winslet and Sam Mendes split and the world reacts with a massive lack of interest. Mendes won’t see Winslet naked until she’s in another film. Winslet won’t see Mendes until he’s directing her in one. Still, it’s a slow news day and the media needs to create a sensation. Here’s the round-up of no-news news and all the reasons so for the split:
Daily Mirror: “Secrets of Winsley marriage split”.
It’s front-page news. But what are these “secrets” revealed within the paper?
Well, the Mirror says the marriage has been “going downhill for the past two years”.
Yep – divorcing stars were not getting on that well. They also had a “series of rows”.
The Sun comfirms the rows:
A source says that the couple had been “arguing a lot”.
Kate Winslet in pictures: NSFW
Daily Beast: “Why Winslet and Mendes Split”
Being directed by your husband in love scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio would put an awkward crimp in any marriage.
Did you pick up thet whiff of ther pervy home movie? The film was Revolutionary Road – available through all good adult contact magazines.
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Posted: 16th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Angelina Jolie’s ‘Lust’ for Vanessa Paradis And Johnny Depp’s Delight
ANGELINA Jolie and Brad Pitt are taking in the sights and shops of Florence as Ange films The Tourist with Johnny Depp. Yes, Angelina and Johnny Depp are working together. Cue the rumours of romance. Here’s the National Enquirer’s front-page headline:
“Angie’s lust for Depp’s lover!”
Eh?
“She wants Vanessa, NOT Johnny.”
Vanessa Feltz? Vanessa Perroncel? No – It’s elfin French singer Vanessa Paradis, last seen getting into Joe’s taxi and having children with Depp. “Sources” say that Jolie wants to romance her. The news is so incredible that the Enquirer repeats it in big yellow ink:
“ANGIE HOT FOR JOHNNY’S GAL – It’s NOT Depp she wants, it’s sexy Vanessa.”
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Posted: 16th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, National Enquirer | Comments (7)
In Pictures: Lars Vilks, Plots And The Assimilation Of Ireland’s Muslims
WHEN we first heard that Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks had been targeted by Irish Muslims, we thought it no bad thing. Ok, Lars might be murdered by lunatics, but it seemed that finally Ireland’s immigrant community had assimilated and was grasping the concept of ultra violence fed by religious fundamentalism.
Lars Vilks had depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog and Irish Muslims were gonna get him. One day they’d paint murals of the killers on walls erected around Muslim enclaves. One day there would be parades.
And then came the bad news. The Irish plotters weren’t Irish. One was Algerian national Ali Charafe Damache, the other a Libyan called Abdul-Salam Mansour Al-Jehani.
And then it got more disappointing. Damache was charged with sending a menacing text message while Al-Jehani was charged with an immigration offence.
In other Irish news, everyone can at least agree that the Jews are to blame…
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PLEASE NOTE THE FACE OF THE GARDA OFFICER HAS BEEN BLURRED BY THE PRESS ASSOCIATION Previously unissued photo dated 13/03/10 of Algerian national Ali Charafe Damache as he arrivives at an earlier hearing at Waterford District Court and who was tonight charged in connection with an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.
Jon Venables Revealed As Destroyed Ed Balls Says Denise Fergus Is Wrong
JON Venables & James Bulger: TREADING where Justice Secretary Jack Straw may not have put his beautifully formed toes, UK Schools Minister Ed Balls has entered the Jon Venables-child killer criminal responsibility ring.
Note: This is mawkish Ed who tapped into the Baby P Mourn Porn by telling us that “as a dad”…:
“I have to separate the emotion I feel as a father from my job as Secretary of State… Nothing I can do next week can being back Baby P or take away the suffering he endured.”
As Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel puts it:
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste…”
Balls defied Parliament to appoint Dr Margaret Atkinson as Child Commissioner and yesterday had to go in to bat for her after a huge political gaffe.
The Minister responsible for Education in England and Wales made matters that much worse and yesterday said, the then ten-year-old, Venables and joint killer Robert Thompson were not “intrinsically evil”
That let the Tories straight back into the political fight and David Davies, above, Conservative MP for Monmouth, told the Daily Express:
“His comments are as astonishing as they are offensive.
“Evil is the only way to describe the murderers of James Bulger.”
Balls, who made the same stupid fumble as Jack Straw by calling the victim’s mother by the wrong name, had been directly contradicting Denis Fergus, 42, the mum of murdered two-year-old James Bulger.
She has already called for the dismissal of the newly-appointed Children’s Commissioner Margaret Atkinson who for some unknown and what can only be described as insensitive or bizarre reason announced via The Times at the weekend the age for criminal responsibility should be lifted from ten to 12 and Venables and Thompson should NOT have been prosecuted.
Ed Balls said Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were victims of an abusive upbringing.
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Posted: 16th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (17)
In Pictures: Jennifer Aniston’s Insulting ‘Fake Relationship’ With Gerard Butler And…
HAVING saved Mexico by selflessly undertaking an expensive holiday there, Jennifer Aniston is telling everyone who will listen that promoting The Bounty Hunter movie with Gerard Butler is one thing while her private life is something private.
Jennifer might be seriel co-star dater but she’s not dating Gerard Butler, you know, the one she cosying up and cudlding and frotting on the red carpet. As she todl GMTV viewers in the UK:
“All this, that me and Gerry are in this fake relationship for the press of our movie, or the selling of it, it’s just so insulting at the same time but again, it’s the story – I’m getting to a better place in understanding that they’re just making money.
And she’s still talking about thsoe awful tabliods not talking about the movie:
When asked about the tabloid chatter, Aniston asked “what chatter? I hear about it, I don’t read it. You have to get better over time. You have to… build up a tough skin…. We work really hard on our jobs… you don’t want to be known as sort of a ‘tabloid face.’ That sort of distracts from what you do and what you work really hard at. Which is our movies… It’s almost like another job that you have not chosen to be a part of. It’s a soap opera that you do not sign up for.”
Oh no?
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Posted: 15th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
In Pictures: Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Show Shiloh To Florence
THERE goes Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on a low-key child army trip to Florence, with Pax, Maddox, Zahara and “cross dressing” Shiloh reminding us that she’s the one with the genes. She’s the star. They went to the Uffizi Gallery to see Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Jolie. Then it was on to the Ponte Vecchio.
No, not that fine place at the Ritz-Carlton, Las Vegas, which can be hired for such grand happenings. This is an old bridge in old Italy where you can fight the tourists shopping for yellow gold trinkets and Duomo snow globes. Las Vegas has the kind of class Italians can only dream of. We saw them.
Posted: 15th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (6)
Clues To Jon Venables’ Identity And James Bulger Story In Pictures
JON Venables, one of James Bulger’s killers, has been moved to a “SAFER JAIL”. We know this because the Mirror screams from its front page:
“BULGER KILLER MOVED TO SAFER JAIL”
Safer for whom
James Bulger: This IS Jon Venables
JON Venables has been transferred to a new jail to keep him safe from other prisoners.
That was inevitable. Readers learn that Venables is in isolation. He is guarded by a hand-picked team of 20 prison officers who are “sworn to secrecy”. But this is tabloid nonsense. All prison guards must sign the Official Secrets Act.
As the prison warden’s exployment contract states:
* All Civil Servants owe duties of confidentiality and loyal service to the Crown. This means that you are required to exercise care in the use of information which you acquire in the course of their official duties and to protect information which is held in confidence. You are also subject to the Official Secrets Act 1911 -1989.
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Posted: 15th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
In Pictures: Dubai’s Kissing Brits Ayman Najafi And Charlotte Adams
THEY say that from the top of the Burj Khalifa you can all the way to Nazi Germany. The Telegraph leads with news of that kiss – Ayman Najafi, 24, and Charlotte Adams, 25, were sentenced to one month’s jail for kissing in a restaurant in the fascist enclave of sand and cement.
Charlotte Adams is the Mail’s front-page “blonde”. To the Sun she is “British beauty Charlotte Adams”.
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Posted: 15th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
In Pictures: 15000 Bikers Ride For Afghan Troops In Wootton Bassett
THEY came en masse to Wootton Bassett. Men in hoods, some with beards and most dressed in black. No, not the Swindon mujahideen. These were bikers. Around 15,000 bikers came to Wootton Basset. Each rider paid £5 to the charity Afghan Heroes to honour troops killed in Afghanistan. Said one Guardian reader: “When I heard abnout the procession I thought they were extremist Muslim and was all for freedom of expression. But imagine my horror at this wanton burning of fossil fuels that will kill us all…”
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Posted: 14th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (9)
Jon Venables’ Sex, Porn, Hadley Freeman, Playstation And Maltesers
ALL in all, Jon Venables has been very bad news for Justice Secretary Jack Straw, writes AGW.
It is difficult to comprehend why the stumbling release of the news of the recall to jail of Jon Venables, 27, one of the joint killers of two-year-old James Bulger and the subsequent furore was handled so badly. It could not have been worse.
Straw was forced into an uncomfortable Thursday meeting with James’ mother Denise Fergus where she agreed to staying quiet after being told nothing and in the same week came half-expected news and a recommendation to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12-years-old
Yesterday’s Times carried an interview with the newly-appointed Child Commissioner Dr Maggie Atkinson, who moved into the job about the same time as Jon Venables was being lifted two weeks ago, she described the toddler’s killing as “unpleasant” and said his killers should never have been prosecuted.
Dr Atkinson called for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 10 to 12, meaning Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, (both ten at the time) would never have stood trial.
Denise Fergus says ten-year-olds can be truly evil
That gave Denise Fergus the opportunity to come out and punch her full weight once again.
The deeply angered mother called for the new Commissioner to be sacked at once
for “twisted and insensitive” comments about her son’s murder.
The BBC reported:
“Denise Fergus spoke out after Maggie Atkinson suggested James’s killers should not have been prosecuted because, aged 10, they were too young.“Ms Atkinson had said children under 12 did not fully understand their actions.
“But the Ministry of Justice said those over 10 knew the difference “between bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing”.
“Mrs Fergus told reporters: “This woman owes James and me an apology for her twisted and insensitive comments. Then she should resign, or be sacked.
“To say that his killers should not have been tried in an adult court is stupid.
“They committed an adult crime – a cold-blooded murder that was planned and premeditated – and they were tried accordingly.”
She added: “It is a shock to people like Dr Atkinson that children can be truly evil by 10.
“But it is a fact and I fear there will be more of them and we need laws to be tightened up so we can deal with them.”
The People today has Laura Armstrong’s everyday story of prison folk.
There, in the prison which shall forever be a secret place, known only to every tabloid hack in the UK:
“Arrogant Jon Venables is taunting prison staff – bragging that he is “untouchable”.“James Bulger’s killer – put back behind bars two weeks ago over child porn claims – shamelessly trades on the fact that his identity must be kept a strict secret.
“Venables, 27, who spends his time on a PlayStation and munching up to 10 bags of Maltesers a day, told officers: ‘One hair on my head gets hurt and you’re in the s***.’
“Only a handful of senior staff at the jail where he is held know his true identity. Officers have been warned they face the sack – or even jail terms – if they reveal his identity.
“A Home Office source said: “Venables is lording it up in there and quite frankly it’s sickening. He is not even paying for his own sweets – the prison picks up the tab.
“He eats Maltesers all day and has a PlayStation to himself to try to keep him happy.
“Everyone thought he would be terrified of people finding out who he is but it seems that couldn’t be further from the truth.
“He’s as cocky as they come and knows that if anything happens to him then heads will roll.”
So then, only a handful of prison officer, and a Home Office “source” on their way to join Venables in the secret chokey for breaching secrecy rules and telling Laura all about Evil Jon
In the Observer Peter Preston, Guardian Editor for over 20 years, takes a serious look at the coverage and points the finger at the great unwashed’s ability to make direct comment widely available via sites such as this. Jon Venables case reveals the dark side of online opinion
Watch for the subtle example of Preston’s unconscious old editor patronising with:
“Yet this time another voice opened another front. Hadley Freeman at the Guardian is a fashion expert turning into a terrific columnist.”
Fashion writer with a brain, Oh Dear.
I expect Hadley will be simpering with girlie pleasure at that mention from one of the greats.
The News of the World spots what Anorak has said from the beginning. There may be no trial no public exposure, no satisfaction for Denise Fergus and the Bulger Family.
In Sunday newspaper-speak the fact the Jon Venables is in jail after life-licence recall and there may be no trial is treated as a “Bombshell”
Jon Venables, left and Robert Thompson
James Bulger’s ten-year-old murderers
Venables is once again “Evil” as he escapes the dock .
The outraged News of the World says ”
Jon Venables will escape prosecution for child porn offences but could still spend TEN YEARS in jail without trial.
That is how long the powerful parole board could cage him for breaching the conditions of his release on licence.
The News of the World has learned that Justice Secretary Jack Straw is being pushed by senior advisors [sic] to take the “easier option” of leaving the Venables case in the hands of parole chiefs.
The alternative is a trial which could blow Venables’ cover if he has to face charges of possession of Category Four material – one of the worst levels of child porn.
A source told us: “There is a drive to persuade the Justice Secretary and the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge Venables as it would provide everyone with the easier option to manage.
“However there is a strong feeling that this is too little too late.
“Mr Straw should have taken a harder line from the start but now the genie is out of the bottle, causing a frenzy which is proving a nightmare to keep a lid on.”
Venables was thrown back in jail nearly three weeks ago after police allegedly found child porn images on his laptop, breaching his parole conditions over the 1993 murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Bootle, Merseyside.
It gets worse for the NoTW:
Mr Straw’s advisors [sic] have warned him that taking Venables to court would lead to “lurid details coming out in full Technicolor”. The Justice Department are also:
• TERRIFIED of vigilante attacks if Venables’ new identity becomes public knowledge.
• DESPERATE to avoid the trouble of creating a THIRD identity for him at a cost to taxpayers of over £250,000.
• PARANOID that Venables, said to be a broken man over the storm engulfing him, will commit SUICIDE in jail.
The newspaper then gets down to full lurid Sunday style and introduces former Detective Superintendent Albert Kirby who talks of sexual motivations:
“The sexual nature of the torture and murder of James was never hidden from the court or the authorities. However they deemed it was safe to release these boys when they were just 18. I’m concerned some of the issues relating to what happened to James were forgotten in a relatively short space of time.”
It’s all there. And the Justice Secretary Jack Straw wants to keep a lid on it?
No chance Jack, even the Aussies knew you blew it.
Ashley Cole Goes German As Cheryl Cole Gives Him The Boot
CHERYL Cole has told Ashley Cole to “GET OUT”. Cheryl has asked for privacy in the matter of her impending divorce from England’s World cup hero (surely disgusting love rat? – ed).
Dean Piper says:
Furious Cheryl Cole threw disgraced husband Ashley out after just 20 minutes when he turned up for their first face-to-face meeting in a month.
Or as football fans might put it:
Cheryl failed to offer care and love to England left back Ashley Cole in a cruel snub that threatens to the country’s World cup bid.
Until the World Cup, when Ashley holds aloft the famous trophy, it’s is Cheryl who is the “nation’s sweetheart”.
Heartbroken Cheryl refused to speak to him, see him or even allow him into the same room as her at their £3million mansion, we can reveal. She stayed out of sight in the living room in a humiliating snub to philandering Cole, who was given just a few minutes to pack some clothes.
Privately, of course.
Then enraged Cheryl got her mother Joan, 50, to show him the door.
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Posted: 14th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (17)
James Bulger: Jon Venables Escapes, Child Porn And Hating Maggie Atkinson
JAMES Bulger’s killer Jon Venables will not be charged for possessing “child porn”. This is a “bombshell”. Well, so says the Sunday Mirror on its front page, as we bring your our review of James Bulger in the news:
“Venables to escape child porn trial”
But we never did get to know for sure why Jon Venables was sent back to jail.
This story was never about the facts – it was about the lack of them.
And what with this beign Mothers’ Day, Sky News focuses on James Bulger’s mother, Denise Fergus:
Bulger Mother: ‘Sack Twisted Adviser’
Jo Couzens tells readers:
James Bulger’s mother has called for the Children’s Commissioner to be sacked for “twisted and insensitive” comments about the murder of her two-year-old son.
Dr Maggie Atkinson is a woman in the spotlight by her own choosing. She’s yet another expert with an expert’s opinion. She says 10 – the age Jon Venables was when he killed Bulger – is too young to understand “bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing”. The law says otherwise. Atkinson says the age should be raised to 12. The law says no.
The Ministry of Justice says:
“We believe that children aged 10 and over can differentiate between bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing. We do not intend to raise the age of criminal responsibility.”
Oh, and this is the same Dr Atkinson who described the killing and torture of a toddler as “exceptionally unpleasant“.
That is where the story ends. Although it doesn’t because Denise Fergus, James Bulger’s mother, can be relied upon to be upset – and to offer an opinion.
Here’s Denise Fergus:
“This woman owes James and me an apology for her twisted and insensitive comments. Then she should resign or be sacked.”
This is the Star’s:
“BULGER MUM’S FURY AT CHILD TSAR”
And so it is that we have an official target for our loathing. Dr Atkinson is the official in the wrong. She so wrong that eh must be sacked. But here’s is only one opinion in a sea of nodding heads. Atkinson is no more qualified in law then Denise Fergus is. Says Mrs Fergus:
“It is a shock to people like Dr Atkinson that children can be truly evil by 10. But it is a fact and I fear there will be more of them and we need laws to be tightened up so we can deal with them.”
But is Jon Venables evil?
* James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables has spoken to his mother for the first time since he was returned to prison.The 27-year-old was taken to the jail video suite where he spoke to mum Susan – who has a new identity like her son – via a television link.
Denis Fergus knows what he looks like. Will she tell? And her viw is imporatns. The NoTW says:
Denise and ex husband Ralph would be invited to make a statement to the parole board in the event Venables is referred to them.
And he might be because:
EVIL Jon Venables will escape prosecution for child porn offences but could still spend TEN YEARS in jail without trial.
That is how long the powerful parole board could cage him for breaching the conditions of his release on licence.
The News of the World has learned that Justice Secretary Jack Straw is being pushed by senior advisors to take the “easier option” of leaving the Venables case in the hands of parole chiefs.
The alternative is a trial which could blow Venables’ cover if he has to face charges of possession of Category Four material – one of the worst levels of child porn.
So ten years. Or as the Express puts it:
JAMES Bulger killer Jon Venables will be free from jail in just 12 months if convicted of alleged child porn offences, it was revealed yesterday.
With so much expert opinion, what to think?
Euan Ferguson is here to help:
I covered the murder, the trial, the 10-year anniversary. I know nothing deep about what happened – how can any of us – but I do know he was called “James” Bulger, never “Jamie”, and I do know that the mob is wrong, and always knows nothing, and we are violently wrong, unforgivably so, to listen to them. When even Harriet Harman can talk about “the court of public opinion”, rightly skewered last week by Matthew Parris (ooh, there are also some grand old maps too in the V&A by his near-namesake, but with the one “r”) as “a disgusting phrase” – when even the highest lawmakers in the land curtsey and slaver to the mob, we are in excitingly fabulous trouble. I don’t know whether the modern hell is worse than the medieval hell. But perhaps it’s time to update Satre. Hell is other people, talking.
David Mitchell adds:
The main reason that Jon Venables’s reincarceration has been all over the papers is that people enjoy reading about it – it’s another episode in a horrific but gripping story. The parts of people’s brains that it engages are, largely, the same parts that are turned on by a harrowing but compelling movie, and not a million miles away from those that flicker into life at an episode of Midsomer Murders.
Anyhow, here’s Peter Hitchens in the Mail:
Most things that are said and written about crime and disorder in Britain are complete tripe…
He doesn’t end it there. But he might. James Bulger was killed. One of his killers is back in jail. And the law is unsure what to do with him. The law, supposed bedrock of society, is unsure what the rules are…
Jon Venables: Vomiting Satan, Evil, Nurture And An ‘Unpleasant’ Thing
The Story so far:
Jon Venables Is An Election Pawn: Labour Fears As Tories Turn Screws
Jon Venables Is A Failure Of Jack Straw’s Law
Jon Venables: Jack Straw Gets Denise Fergus To Be Quiet
Jon Venables Thumb Sucks, Cop Shows And No News
David Calvert Is The Man Who Could Never Be Everton’s Jon Venables
Jon Venables: The Rapist, The Porn And The Parents
James Bulger Case in pictures
Life’s Been Hell For Jon Venables, James Bulger’s Killer Accused Of Possessing Child Porn
John Venables ‘Sex Crime’ As Jack Straw Forced To Meet James Bulger’s Mum Denise Fergus
James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Worked As A Bouncer
James Bulger And Jon Venables: The Killer Is Identified
Jon Venables’ Girlfriend, A ‘Stabbing’ And A Politically Incorrect Jack Straw
James Bulger: This IS Jon Venables
James Bulger’s Killer Jon Venables: Pictures And Sickening Detail
Jon Venables Saved By The Nanny State
James Bulger Case in pictures
David Calvert Is The Man Who Could Never Be Everton’s Jon Venables
Posted: 14th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Jade Goody’s Mother’s Day: Freddie’s Amazing Shoelaces And Jackiey’s Grave Watch
JADE Goody is being remembered in the Sun. This is “Jade – One Year On – by her mother Jackiey for Mother’s Day”. Jackiey writes an opens letter to Jade, who in heaven is reading The Sun. Jackiey is, as ever, posed by her daughter’s grave, lest we forget Jade is actually deceased and not part of an elaborate ruse to make the tabloids like her.
The letter feature the line:
“It’s a simple inscription but we were never a family for grand speeches so I thought it was fitting.”
Maybe not grand speeches, but they are given to making long ones. This one’s been a year in the making.
Before we get to the Sun’s mawkish exploitation, Jeff Brazier, father to Jade’s son talks to the Star:
“Bobby and Freddy are coping and they are truly happy but there isn’t a day that goes by when they don’t think of Mum. That will be especially true for Mother’s Day. Jade was the best mum my children could have had and she is loved and never forgotten.”
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Posted: 13th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Jon Venables: Vomiting Satan, Evil, Nurture And An ‘Unpleasant’ Thing
JAMES Bulger: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the case of one of James Bulger’s killers Jon Venables in the news. Venables has been in the news ever since the Government issued a press release that he had been arrested and put back in jail.
Daily Mail: “BULGER KILLERS: Freeing them was wrong, says juror”
The Mail shares a few words with Alan Barry, the jury foreman in the James Bulger trial.
Mr Barry, 71, who runs a Christian charity shop, said: “I can still see the photographs of the injuries we had to look at, which were horrendous. It is still so vivid. I am surprised that it was Venables who has reoffended as he was the quieter of the two in the trial — crying into his hankie and looking nervous.”
Juror turns judge:
“The pair should have been sentenced to a lot longer in prison. I, and some of the other jurors, were surprised at what they got. Although they were only ten-year-olds at the time, I believe they knew what they were doing. A sentence like that was ludicrous. And when they were released, they should have been monitored more closely.”
How closely?
But Thompson and Venables should never have gone to jail at all.
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Posted: 13th, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Josh Dubovie Sings For The UK’s Estate Agents At Eurovsion: In Pictures And Video
EUROVISION: Josh Dubovie will sign this year’s British entry in the song for Europe. The 19-year-old from Basildon won BBC1’s ‘Eurovision: Your Country Needs You’, warbling the Mike Stock and Pete Waterman penned song – oh, the irony – ‘That Sounds Good To Me‘ before a panel of judges.
Dubrovie’s impression of an estate agent at the Christmas do was only bettered when Heidi Range from the Sugababes showed off her engagement ring. Says Dubovie: “I really believe I can go on to win the Eurovision Song Contest for us.” Yep, he does jokes as well… He’d never have beaten them.
“The final dest-tinayyyytion, sounds a celebraytiiiiiion….”
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Posted: 13th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
‘Unpatriotic’ Cheryl Cole Back With Heroic Ashley: Pictures
ASHLEY Cole And Cheryl Cole Divorce: Ashley jets back to Surrey, patriotic men line up for a revenge shag and Vicki Gough, Sonia Wild, Brooke Healy and Alexandra Taylor – but not Cheryl Cole – are considered for OBEs.
The Daily Star has huge news that Ashley Cole has begged Cheryl to take him back. As the front-page headline screams:
“ASH BEGS CHERYL: TAKE ME BACK”
Anything else?
“I’ll change, sobbing ace tells missus”
Ashley will change his pulling knickers, alleged, and his ways. This news from a “source”, via the tabloids to you, the reader. This sensation is trumped by the Sun’s front-page, which moves the reunion one stop on:
“ASHLEY HOME TO CHERYL”
Or as the Mirror’s front-page puts it:
“Ashley sneaks back for Cheryl reunion”
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Posted: 13th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
In Pictures: Jennifer Ansiton ‘Insulted’ By Gerard Butler ‘Trimmed Bush’ Rumours
JENNIFER Aniston and her The Bounty co-star Gerard Butler are at it on the red carpet and the tabloids go wild.
Gerard Butler appeared to frot Aniston in the manner of a Japanese middle-ranking executive stood amid a school outing on the Tokyo subway (we’ve been – it’s grim). Aniston stroked and fluttered her lashes and looked enraptured.
And the tabloids do what is expected of them:
GERARD BUTLER has hinted he and JENNIFER ANISTON are more than just Friends – The Sun
Says Jen:
“He’s so funny and handsome. I’ve made a note to myself to have more of this.”
Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston say they’re not dating but their body language tells another story – see the pics – The Mirror
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Posted: 12th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Jon Venables Is An Election Pawn: Labour Fears As Tories Turn Screws
JAMES Bulger: The Jon Venables conundrum is reaching to the globe’s far corners. In Australia the end result is seen as Venables being used as a pawn in the UK’s election game.
This afternoon’s (tomorrow morning already on Manley Beach) Saturday issue of the Sydney Morning Herald takes a long look at the re-call to jail of James Bugler’s joint killer and comes to the conclusions probably already reached by many here in Anorak.
The paper’s Paolo Totaro reviews the original crime, the return to jail of 27-year-old Venables and says Britain is confronting a new chapter as the justice system grapples with “a child murderer who has grown up and, despite a new identity, freedom and adulthood, is clearly not psychologically equipped to live a normal life.”
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Eurovision: Buranovskiye Babushki Beats Susan Boyle 6 To 1
EUROVISION looms and sad news that you will nto be seeing Buranovskiye Babushki sinigng Kak zhit – “How To Live“. The ladies only scored third place, losing out to Russia’s very own Borat Mr Peter Nalich and his song Lost and Forgotten. B
Buranovskiye Babushka should have won. Forget Britain’s Susan Boyle. Russia sees her and trumps us with six Susan Boyles.
You want Hairy Angels? You can’t handle the Hairy Angels. From the national Republic of Udmurtia, we give you Buranovskiye Babushki & The Boyles In The Bags:
(Which one’s Cheryl Cole?)
Boyzone Remember Stephen Gately And Ronan Keating’s Hair: In Pictures
TO the Boyzone concert at the royal Albert Hall, they came to remember Stephen Gately – a career in pictures. Rumours of the death of Ronan Keating’s hair seem premature. Recently, Keating has been wearing a version of Donald’s Trump’s hair tsunami (TM), albeit with the wave gelled down. But at the concert the hair was fluffy and doing an impression of TinTin rowing in a light breeze. Also on stage was pro-celebrity ice dancer Mikey Graham, Coronation Street actor Keith Duffy and mobile adult education reading room Shane Lynch. We swooned. And took photos:
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Posted: 12th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Mark Owen’s Women: White Whine, A Blow-Up Bed And Pictures
MARK Owen, the Take That fallen possum, says he shagged 10 women while dating his wife-to-be Emma. He was seeing Neva Hanley for around five years – right up until his wedding. So he says.
He appeals for privacy, via that most public forums: Twitter:
“I’d like to ask the media to respect the privacy of my wife and children at this difficult time. No further comment will be made.”
And today the Sun screams:
“STAR’S CONFESSION: DAY 2 – TAKE THAT MARK: MY BOOZE REHAB HELL.”
Owen says he has “secretly battled a drink problem for at least TEN YEARS”.
Mark Owen And The Wome – pictures
Ten is a big number to Mark Owen. He can’t remember exactly how many other women’s he’s shagged but it’s “maybe ten”.
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Posted: 12th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Abnormal Miley Cyrus Rivals Jennifer Aniston’s Quote Of The Year
MILEY Cyrus is not like you. She is like Jennifer Ansiton, who told us that she had to go on holiday to Mexico with Gerard Butler because:
“These people survive on us coming down and spending money and coming here to these beautiful places. It sort of made sense to sort of say ‘Hey, let’s help out Mexico.’”
Anyhow, here’s Miley Curus growing into pretty much what you thoght she’d be:
While filming The Last Song on Georgia’s Tybee Island last year, Miley Cyrus couldn’t help but fall for her costar Liam Hemsworth. (On the Oscars red carpet Sunday, Cyrus, 17, confirmed that she and Hemsworth, 19, are dating and that “maybe” she’s in love)…
“Working with Miley was a alot easier than I thought it was going to be,” Hemsworth admits to the magazine. “From the first time we [met], It was like I had known her before.”
His famous girlfriend adds, “I think we’re both deeper than normal people–what they think and how they feel.”
It’s you normal people that help Miley be the abnormal person she is today…
Posted: 11th, March 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
