Posts from January, 2007

Courtney Love To Replace Paula As American Idol’s Batty Old Twit?

American Idol Courtney Love Paula Abdul judgePaula Abdul gets a lot of criticism for her American Idol judging style - primarily because it consists of her staring into space, absent-mindedly drooling and trying to babble the same confusing half-sentence eight times in a row before giving up and crying.

And, if reports are to be believed, this could be Paula Abdul's final American Idol. It has been suggested that the American Idol team is looking out for a new full-time female judge who'd be able to hold herself together and give a range of well-meaning constructive advice. Thing is, though, the same reports say that Paula Abdul's American Idol replacement will be Courtney Love - a woman who we imagine has spent the last year or so crawling around the floor inflating her face to ghastly proportions with a bicycle pump and muttering swearwords to herself with her vagina hanging out. Fair's fair, though - that'd be a pretty solid swap for Paula Abdul.

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Shilpa Shetty Wants You To Be Her Boyfriend, More Or Less

Shilpa Shetty Celebrity Big Brother Boyfriend Dad LoveThanks to having a loud idiot who can't talk properly name her after a crispy bean-flour bread during Celebrity Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty is now the world's most famous woman for people who watched a lot of Celebrity Big Brother and nothing else.

And as such, Shilpa Shetty is looking to enjoy the perks that come with being the most famous victim of racial abuse since Rodney King. At the moment, Shilpa has only used the perks entitled 'talk endlessly about yourself' and 'make the mannish one from S Club 7 loudly sob while rocking backwards and forwards during a live GMTV interview in a genuinely disturbing way', but now Shilpa Shetty wants to use her new fame to get a boyfriend. And that boyfriend could be you, provided you're the same age as her, Indian, a millionaire and you can gain the approval of Shilpa's frankly terrifying-sounding Dad. 

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Kevin Federline Apologies To Millions Of Spotty Offended Workers

Kevin Federline Apologises Fast Food Super Bowl Ad Commercial Burger FlipperKevin Federline has always done his best to stand up for the little guy, whether it's the little guy who ignores his wife to go partying or the little guy who tries to make a hip-hop CD even though he's got less talent than an envelope of hair clippings.

But recently Kevin Federline resolutely failed to stand up for the little guy. In fact, Kevin Federline seemed to have quite a lot of fun openly mocking the little guy in his new 'Look, Kevin Federline Is So Pointless That He Works In A Fast Food Restaurant' Super Bowl advert that has literally offended the millions of American burger-flippers who are outraged that someone who thinks that 'paparazzi' rhymes with 'Pavarotti' could ever get a job working a fryer in a fast food joint. But it's not too late for Kevin Federline to make amends for his actions, and so he's issued a humble apology for everyone upset by his advert in a transparent effort to ensure that nobody ever jizzes in one of Kevin Federline's burgers ever again.

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Dreamworks Flushes Wallace And Gromit Down The Toilet

Dreamworks Aardman Wallace Gromit Flushed Away Deal contract endTo the British, Wallace And Gromit are national treasures right up there with June Sarpong and Pat Butcher - but, as Dreamworks Animation recently found out, the rest of the world couldn't give a stuff about Aardman's slaphead cheese-lover or his dog.

It's been announced today that Dreamworks Animation is prematurely putting an end to the five-picture deal it had signed with Wallace And Gromit creators Aardman because nobody wanted to go and see any of the films the companies made together and Dreamworks ended up taking huge write-downs on the Aardman movies. Although the end of the Dreamworks/ Aardman deal marks a sad day for Wallace And Gromit fans, at least would-be animators can take something from the news - whatever you do, never ever make a film about a rat falling down a toilet and then let Shane Ritchie do the voices in it.

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Sienna Miller & P Diddy Perhaps Possibly Porking?

Diddy, Sienna Miller, Hotel, TMZ, Paparazzi, BodyguardYou know, there are certain types of people who just want to sit alone eating hamburgers and watching VH1 on the big faded red recliner chair in the far corner of our mother's Milhurst Avenue basement. People like that are generally super awesome.

Then there are other types of people that can't stand to sit at home when they could be out canoodling. The story we have to tell today involves two people definitely in the latter, but far less cool, group. Popular gossip of the hour has it Diddy, AKA P Diddy, AKA Puff Daddy, AKA Puffy, AKA Sean Combs, AKA not the overweight dead guy - the other one, well he's been seen cavorting with Sienna Miller a whole bunch - but he didn't want to be seen.

TMZ's got a stinking funny video of Diddy's reaction to getting caught - and we have a link to that video on the next page!

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Now Brandy Gets Sued For $50 Million For Her Fatal Crash

Brandy Sued $50 million lawsuit car crash death LA parents Awatef AboudihajWhether she was singing What About Us, being the least-unfunny member of the Moesha cast or trying to make sense of a man called Flippy The Magnificent doing an almost-nude dance routine with a blow-up doll, Brandy always seemed sort of carefree.

That's all changed this week, though, as details of Brandy's involvement in a car crash last year that resulted in a woman's death have started to trickle out. As if coping with a fatality that it seems she may have indirectly caused by not slowing down on a Los Angeles freeway wasn't enough, Brandy may still face a manslaughter charge in the coming weeks. And now, just to heap more trouble on Brandy, the parents of the woman killed in the crash are also suing Brandy for $50 million. And you thought watching Flippy The Magnificent was unfortunate. 

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SLACKERJACK - The Handy Man

The Handy Man GameHandy Men are the bane of our pissing life - £30 to change one tiny bit of broken plastic on a shower? How dare you! -  but on the plus side no handy man of ours has ever sat outside our house behind a car blasting us with machine gun fire every time we walk past a window. Not that we know of, anyway.

In today's Slackerjack, however, that's exactly what you do. The Handy Man sees you taking on the role of a Mafia handy man who - instead of putting up shelves and fixing curtain rails - kills scores of baddies with three different types of gun. The Handy Man couldn't be simpler to understand - it's more or less like a Shoot The Duck game at a funfair, only you're shooting stereotypical Italian-American gangsters instead of quacking birds. And you have a machinegun instead of something that pushes a cork through the air at 0.5mph. The Handy Man is a diverting enough way to spend a few minutes, unless murdering 60 people in one go is your thing, in which case you should sit tight and play The Handy Man while we call the police.

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Watch The Enemy It’s Not OK Video

Watch The Enemy It's Not OK VideoWe'll admit that The Enemy didn't convince us when we first heard them - their bad haircuts, prematurely old faces and obvious worship for the boring end of the Britpop spectrum did nothing for us. So get ready for something rare - a hecklerspray change of opinion.

40 Days And 40 Nights by The Enemy was almost enough to put us off the band for life with its cheapo video and lack of discernible tune, but It's Not OK seems to be the exact opposite of it. It's Not OK by The Enemy has a tune that hangs around in your brain long after you first hear it, enough energy to knock the fur off a kitten and a video that… well, OK, the video to It's Not OK by The Enemy makes the band look like a sort of Argos version of The Beatles, but even that's an unbelievable progression. From shouting generic indie to powerhouse Eastern-tinged rock in three months isn't bad - if It's Not OK is anything to go by, The Enemy is due a world-shaking single of galactic proportions in April.

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Police Reunion Definitely Happening (Again)

Sting Police Reform Grammy Awards GrammysIt's got to have been tough for the other members of The Police.

Just think about it. While The Police lead singer Sting cruises around saving rainforests in a yoga-powered Earth-healing travel-pod, fellow band refugees Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers probably haven't had anything better to do than hang around the '3 for £10' section in HMV hoping that someone recognises them.

This must be made all the more heartbreaking by the fact that - before pursuing solo projects - The Police never actually officially 'split'. No - they simply dwindled into obscurity and irrelevance like a ninth-season X-Files episode. So … it seems fair to say that Sting may have had to put up with the odd pestering phone call about 'getting the guys back together.'

Well, it looks like they've lucked in. The Police will be cobbled together one more time at the upcoming Grammy Awards in LA next month, in order to treat the audience to a rendition of hits like Roxanne, Every Breath You Take, Message In A Bottle and… um… all the other ones that we're a bit too young to remember.

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Oscars Betting Odds: Will Smith To Win Best Actor?

Oscars betting odds Best Actor Will Smith Ryan Gosling Leonardo DiCaprioWe don't know about you, but we're in a sort of post-Celebrity Big Brother betting lull. We want to bet on stuff, but what? Dancing On Ice? That's OK in small doses, but if you read about that every day you'd be down the noose shop faster than you can say "I still have so much to live for."

So we've struck upon a giant worldwide betting market to keep you busy for the next few weeks - The Oscars. The Oscars have a many long and proud traditions - like the one of awarding prizes to all sorts of depressing films that you only go and see because you feel you have to and the one of the ceremony lasting for so long that the majority of the audience starts crying about two-thirds in. And now you can bet on the Oscars too because, let's face it, you probably wouldn't watch otherwise.

This week we'll be looking at the Oscars betting odds for the Best Actor category, so here's part one - for Ryan Gosling, Will Smith and Leonardo DiCaprio - with help from Paddy Power

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Now David Beckham Redesigns The LA Galaxy Kit

David Beckham LA Galaxy Los Angeles Kit Design RedesignThere's literally no end to the amount of talents that lurk within David Beckham - they include kicking Argentinians, advertising Pepsi, marrying idiots, possibly sleeping around, giving children crap names and scoring one good goal ever, but that's not all.

Because David Beckham is also a frustrated fashion designer too. That side of Beckham's personality has laid dormant ever since Alex Ferguson told him that he could eff off if he wanted to add mauve tassels to the Manchester United away kit, but now it has been awoken to furious effect. As if going off to get paid $1 million a week to have a kickaround in LA wasn't enough for David Beckham, he's also rumoured to be redesigning the LA Galaxy kit.

Or at least he will be, as soon as the LA Galaxy tailors have decoded the wax crayon scrawl that David Beckham handed them with 'Vis iz mi an I lik mi nu clovves' written underneath it anyway.

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Publicist Implies Lindsay Lohan Isn’t Special

Lindsay Lohan Rehab Publicist Special WonderlandWe all know the 12 steps addicts complete to achieve successful rehabilitation, but what is not widely know is the special (and obviously made up by us) 15 step program reserved for celebrities.

Lindsay Lohan has given us commoners a looksee at the extra steps reserved for superior beings: filming movies, shopping, and running errands. Supplemental steps of having a massage therapist and make-up artist come regularly to rehab may be practised at the patient’s discretion. Apparently, Lindsay likes to maximise her rehabilitation by doing these as well during her stay at the Wonderland rehab facility.

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