Article Archive for December 2005
The search for the UK 2005 Christmas Number One continues to hot up, even though the record that'll probably actually be Christmas Number One isn't even out yet.
Even though Shayne Ward bleating That's My Goal will probably be everyone's abiding memory of Christmas 2005, the betting for the Christmas Number One is by no means over, although it is technically a three-horse race. One of the horses is Irish, one of them sounds like Athlete in a power cut (don't take it as a compliment, it wasn't meant as one) and one has just received millions of votes in a national talent competition. Not looking good is it, diggerboy?
So here's another Christmas Number One betting odds update, with help from SportingOdds.com...
When people think Of Whitney Houston, people tend to think of the woman who single-handedly soundtracked X Factor, but she's so much more than that. Whitney Houston and husband Bobby Brown have been named the tackiest couple in the world.
We're fairly surprised that Whitney and Bobby are now officially the tackiest couple of the year. Why? Five words - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
It was the birthday of Katie Holmes at the weekend. And how did Tom Cruise celebrate? A trip to a toy store, steakhouse and bar. Tom - that's not very spazzy, you're letting us down.
What's that? Tom Cruise also did a bunch of handstands on a piano? Oh, thank God for that. Business as usual, then.
Ah, Mariah Carey. During hecklerspray's short but productive lifespan, she's always been a firm point-and-laugh favourite of ours.
Forever supplying the world with baffling stories of OTT diva-antics and hilarious public gaffes, we had nevertheless presumed that Carey would have chilled out and given things a rest over the Christmas period.
How wrong we were.
The millions of slightly deluded fans of Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson who believe that the separation was just temporary should ready the tissues - Jessica has filed for divorce from Nick.
Everyone else, on the other hand, who thought that maybe the whole Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson marriage was nothing more than a corpse-eyed attempt to get Nick and Jessica famous and wealthy, should pull up a seat - it looks like this divorce is going to get bitter.
King Kong is a film that you can't be anything less than hyperbolic about. King Kong might be the most expensive movie ever made. King Kong seems like the longest movie ever made. And, even though it's topped the US weekend box office, King Kong is being seen as a bit of a failure.
Good things were said about King Kong - it was even mentioned that King Kong could possibly end up being the top-grossing film of all time. But, despite being the only film around that shows Billy Elliot shooting giant insects off the thick one from The Village, King Kong has had a slightly disappointing opening weekend at the box office - better than the first Lord Of The Rings film, but worse than 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Time magazine has named its Person's Of The Year for 2005 as Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono. Bono and the Gates' join an auspicious list which includes Hitler, Stalin and The World.
Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono were jointly chosen under the name The Good Samaritans, for all their humanitarian work over the last 12 months. Still, it could have been worse. Time could have gone with Jennifer Aniston like everyone else did.
You want spoil anything ever made? Stick an elf in it. The bits in Lord Of The Rings with the elves were cack. The bits in Narnia with that freakish little elf-man were - if not crap - certainly terrifying.
That's why Elf Zapper is so good. There's a room full of elves, and you have to zap them all with a magic wand
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