From the monthly archives:

December 2005

X Factor Final Betting Odds – Shayne Ward Odds

by Stuart Heritage

***Early next year, the X Factor contestants – even Shayne Ward – are going on tour! Check out the tour dates and buy tickets here*** Here we go, then – the very last set of X Factor betting odds you’ll be getting from us in 2005. No doubt next year we’ll start carping on about [...]

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The Queen Rocks Out, Gives Jimmy Page OBE

by Stuart Heritage

Maybe the Queen is a secret rocker – she’s just presented legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page with one of her highest honours, an OBE. Jimmy Page was given his OBE for helping put charities dealing with Brazilian street children. Not for putting a live shark up a girl’s minge, like we thought. Maybe the [...]

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Special Howard Stern Webcast Rocking Your World Tomorrow

by 586 MEDIA

Tomorrow will be pottymouthed American shock-jock Howard Stern’s last day ever on terrestrial radio. Want to see what he does right after he’s finished? Good. To mark the end of his stretch as a terrestrial radio DJ and the start of his new life as a satellite DJ – where he’ll be free to say [...]

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Computer Spots Box Office Stinkers

by Stuart Heritage

Everyone knows what a shoddy year it’s been for movies. Cinema-goers have been underwhelmed left, right and centre by pap like The Island, Stealth and Bewitched. But it looks like a solution is in sight. An American scientist claims that he has invented a computer program that will be able to spot whether a Hollywood [...]

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U2 Make $260m By Singing Some Songs On Tour

by Stuart Heritage

U2 have got their act pretty much sewn up. Make an album that sounds like a U2 album from 1986, tour the nuts off it and make a heap more cash than anybody else. Oh, and save the world and stuff. The Billboard abacus has recently been dusted off to work out the top-grossing tours [...]

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MTV To Offer Online Music Downloads, Finds Sudden Interest In Music

by Shawn Lindseth

Popular channel MTV, best known for sucking the big one, and willingly comatosing children worldwide, has plans with Microsoft to start offering music downloads sometime in 2006. The idea is to jump on the so called "music" bandwagon, and compete with the likes of iTunes, Yahoo and Napster. The prices aren’t being made known at [...]

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Michelle Rodriguez Drives Fast, Michelle Rodriguez Drives Drunk

by Stuart Heritage

There must be something about starring in Lost that makes people drive like lunatics. Maybe they’re all being chased by that big polar bear thing, who knows? Maybe we should ask Michelle Rodriguez. Michelle Rodriguez seems to be the main culprit for all the barmy driving lately. Rodriguez, who we haven’t even seen on Lost [...]

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SLACKERJACK – Santa’s Celebrity Fancy Dress Party

by 586 MEDIA

Christmas is just ten days away. Done your Christmas shopping? Us neither. Starting to come round to the idea that you just won’t bother doing the whole present thing this year? Us too. Anyway, here’s today’s game. And, boy, is it ever fiendish. It goes by the name of Santa’s Celebrity Fancy Dress Party. In [...]

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Kanye West Would ‘Have Problem’ With Not Winning Grammy

by C J Davies

Say what you like about Kanye West… the boy certainly isn’t short of confidence. First there was his live TV outburst insisting that special-school-president George Bush "doesn’t care about black people" – a moment which left millions of viewers spluttering out their french fries and co-anchor Michael Myers shaking like a giddy epileptic puppy. Not [...]

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Christmas Number One Betting Odds – Pogues, Pussycat Dolls, Take That…

by Stuart Heritage

Time for another beastly rampage through some UK Christmas Number One 2005 betting odds – a quick squint at a bunch of soppy songs all trying to be as good as 2 Become 1 by The Spice Girls. Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day – In the Christmas of 1980, people were still struggling [...]

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