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		<title>Eamonn Holmes&#8217; Prostitution Predicament</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Silver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eamonn Holmes is a man famed for the legendary status of his gargantuan gob. Not only is it capable of producing more crap than his backside on a day-to-day basis, but when it isn’t spewing verbal sewage it’s being stuffed with all manner of deep-fried goodies. Well, let’s hope Eamonn has deep-fried his foot after [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-69928" title="Eamonn Holmes" src="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/150x150.jpeg" alt="Eamonn Holmes" width="150" height="150" />Eamonn Holmes is a man famed for the legendary status of his gargantuan gob.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Not only is it capable of producing more crap than his backside on a day-to-day basis, but when it isn’t spewing verbal sewage it’s being stuffed with all manner of deep-fried goodies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well, let’s hope Eamonn has deep-fried his foot after he managed to, once again, get it firmly lodged between his gums during an interview on This Morning.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="more-69927"></span>Holmboy was interviewing a woman who was described as a, “sex addict,” or slag as they’re oft&#8217; known in certain parts of Essex, when he dared to ask her:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you need this five or six times a day, have you never thought about making a business of it? Charging for it?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Taxi for Holmes.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It transpires that sex addicts don’t like it when you ask them why they don’t just become prostitutes, because apparently they’re people too.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Albeit people who like to blame their socially blossoming genitalia on an addiction, in the hope that people will feel sorry for them as opposed to questioning how many STIs they have or asking them if they’ve ever considered becoming a prostitute live on daytime TV.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">THIS IS SERIOUS DAMMIT, STOP LAUGHING!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, you weren&#8217;t?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The bonking bonkers lady in question, Crystal Warren, curtly told Uncle Eamonn that she didn’t want to go on the game because:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Then it becomes a business, then I become maybe like a robot. This way I am enjoying it, I do it when I want to do it, I get to choose who I sleep with.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It’s the business side of prostitution that’s definitely the worst part of it, after all, who really knows how you go about claiming condoms as a tax-deductible expense?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Seriously. HMRC wouldn’t return our calls.</p>
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		<title>Adele&#8217;s £4million Tax Woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Silver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears as if 23-year-old, London born singer Adele has the Midas touch at the moment. Her album has been at number one for so long that it saw off both the end of the world and Cheryl Cole’s US X-Factor career. She’s performed at the Brits to universal acclaim and she’s captured the hearts [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-55078" title="adele" src="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/adele.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />It appears as if 23-year-old, London born singer Adele has the Midas touch at the moment. Her album has been at number one for so long that it saw off both the end of the world and Cheryl Cole’s US X-Factor career. She’s performed at the Brits to universal acclaim and she’s captured the hearts and minds of both sides of the Atlantic.</strong></p>
<p>But turning everything you touch to gold isn’t so great when the Tax man comes knocking it seems.</p>
<p><span id="more-60131"></span>Adele has kicked up a right storm, after whining about the fact that she had to pay around £4,000,000 in tax after the runaway success of her debut album, 19, in formerly relevant music mag, Q. She said that:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I got my tax bill in from 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Which is a lovely sentiment. Although the worrying thing is that, being from Tottenham, she could probably get her hands on a gun pretty quickly, if those bastards at Revenue and Customs didn’t keep taking all her money that is.</p>
<p>And what are Cameron and Clegg going to do with this massive windfall anyway, well, if you ask Adele, nothing that’s going to make her life any easier:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I can&#8217;t use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are shit, and I&#8217;ve gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course they aren’t having a laugh Adele. They’re the Government; they don’t know how to laugh.</p>
<p>£4,000,000 is a ludicrous amount of money for the UK Government to be demanding though, after all, how is Adele meant to dine on nothing but the finest beluga caviar or quaff the finest Champagne’s money can buy… or buy several million kebabs and a bottle of Lambrini from Abra Kebabra?</p>
<p>The answer is with the other £4,000,000 that was left untouched by HMRC.</p>
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		<title>Wesley Snipes Can&#8217;t Jump. This New Fine, at Least.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Dransfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Wesley Snipes is going to have to revert to some of the crafty money-making techniques of Sidney Deane to get himself out of this pickle. The star of the Blade trilogy, as well as Money Train &#8211; we&#8217;re not forgetting that one, Wesley &#8211; has had some&#8230; &#8216;troubles&#8217;, should we say, over the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img src="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/snipes.jpg" alt="wesley snipes tax dodging fined 217000 demolition man white men cant jump jail time appeal" width=150 height=150 /><strong>Looks like Wesley Snipes is going to have to revert to some of the crafty money-making techniques of Sidney Deane to get himself out of this pickle.</strong></p>
<p>The star of the <em>Blade</em> trilogy, as well as <em>Money Train</em> &#8211; we&#8217;re not forgetting that one, Wesley &#8211; has had some&#8230; &#8216;troubles&#8217;, should we say, over the last couple of years. Troubles involving taxes. And how he didn&#8217;t bother to pay them between 1999 and 2001, apparently. Maybe he assumed his valuable contribution to movies was payment enough?</p>
<p>Regardless, the vampire-hunting, trash-talking basketballer who likes trains with money on them has been ordered by a federal judge to pay back $217,000 to the government, to cover the legal costs incurred in <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wesley-snipes-staring-at-three-years-in-jail/200813623.php">prosecuting</a> him earlier this year.</p>
<p>Hopefully Wes can pull something like <em>The Marksman 2: The Marksman in Space</em> out of the bag to cover those bills. And use the tagline <em>&#8216;Wesley. Snipes&#8217;.</em> If it hasn&#8217;t already been done. And if it hasn&#8217;t, <strong>hecklerspray</strong> gets the copyright on that badboy.</p>
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<p>Wesley is currently <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wesley-snipes-not-going-to-jail-just-yet-or-ever/200814343.php">appealing</a> against the decision to imprison him for three years after he misplaced his tax pen, or whatever his incredible defence for not reporting $11 million of income was, but it looks like this charge is set to stick. While it isn&#8217;t the hugest fine in the history of the world, it&#8217;s certainly another in the line of examples that the once-Simon Phoenix is being used to set. It would also seem that judges hate him.</p>
<p>When you take into account the fact that Wesley&#8217;s crime involved money, and how he didn&#8217;t pay it to the government when they say he should then &#8211; well, you start to understand why they&#8217;re being so harsh.</p>
<p>As we all know, money is the most important thing in the world, more so than a roof over our heads, a hot meal or even the air we breathe. Clearly they&#8217;re well within their rights to go overboard on all the charges, even forcing <strong>Wesley Snipes</strong> to pay for the prosecution that worked <em>against</em> him.</p>
<p>Ah well &#8211; it&#8217;s one of life&#8217;s lessons and one that Willie Mays Hayes is sure to have learned his lesson from, even if it does mean he won&#8217;t be able to bankroll <em>Passenger 57 2: Passenger 57 in Space</em>. Which is a crying shame.</p>
<p>To make matters worse for the 46-year-old, he could still end up going to jail for three years when the result of his appeal is decided. On the plus side, Snipes does have a lot of experience at fighting and doing excellent roundhouse kicks, so at least he&#8217;ll be able to handle his own in the joint, possibly making something of a name for himself.</p>
<p>Another positive of jail could be the gangland chums he&#8217;s sure to make on the inside &#8211; all of whom would add a great deal of authenticity when playing &#8216;Generic Baddie 3&#8242; in <em>Demolition Man 2: Demolition Man in Space</em>.</p>
<p>Never let it be said that <strong>hecklerspray</strong> don&#8217;t try and help &#8211; we&#8217;re looking for positives, trying to cheer the guy up. It&#8217;s not like his <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wesley-snipes-chums-try-to-keep-him-out-of-jail/200813800.php">real friends</a> are much use.
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		<title>Wesley Snipes Not Going To Jail Just Yet, Or Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 18:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Heritage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone's known that Wesley Snipes is a bad man ever since he was convicted for, um, you know, something about taxes and money and whatever.

And because of this, Wesley Snipes was supposed to hand himself over to federal officials next month so he could start his three-year jail sentence for whatever that thing was about taxes that he apparently did. But not so fast - Wesley Snipes isn't going down without a fight! He's been granted bail pending an appeal of his conviction.

This could mean that Wesley Snipes might avoid jail completely, although this really is his last pitch for freedom so he needs to give the appeal his absolute all. And you know what that means, Wesley? No more getting rambling boneheaded character witness statements from Woody Harrelson? OK, Wesley? Not even one. Promise us, it's important.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/wesley_snipes_arrested.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-14344" title="Wesley Snipes Appeal Bail Tax Convicted jail" src="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/wesley_snipes_arrested-295x300.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="152" /></a><strong>Everyone&#8217;s known that Wesley Snipes is a bad man ever since he was convicted for, um, you know, something about taxes and money and whatever.</strong></p>
<p>And because of this, Wesley Snipes was supposed to hand himself over to federal officials next month so he could start his three-year jail sentence for whatever that thing was about taxes that he apparently did. But not so fast &#8211; Wesley Snipes isn&#8217;t going down without a fight! He&#8217;s been granted bail pending an appeal of his conviction.</p>
<p>This could mean that Wesley Snipes might avoid jail completely, although this really is his last pitch for freedom so he needs to give the appeal his absolute all. And you know what that means, Wesley? No more getting rambling boneheaded character witness statements from <strong>Woody Harrelson</strong>? OK, Wesley? Not even one. Promise us, it&#8217;s important.</p>
<p><span id="more-14343"></span>Wesley Snipes is obviously an intelligent man &#8211; after all, he saw the potential in notorious career-hobbling flop <em>Money Train</em> when everyone around him was saying that it was an awful piece of shit &#8211; and this is a theory he proved time and time again during his recent tax-dodge trial.</p>
<p>Accused of not filing any tax returns between 1999 and 2001 &#8211; apparently gypping the American government out of enough money to buy a really very massive bomb or something in the process &#8211; Wesley Snipes always remained calm, rational and able to convince <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wesley-snipes-chums-try-to-keep-him-out-of-jail/200813800.php">Denzel Washington to compare him to a tree</a> in print whenever he wanted to.</p>
<p>Not that it worked, though &#8211; last month <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wesley-snipes-gets-those-three-years-in-jail-after-all/200813810.php">Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in jail</a> for his crimes, and everyone packed away their <em>Passenger 57</em> Original Soundtrack cassettes and hunkered down in the knowledge that the earliest we&#8217;d ever see <em>White Men Can&#8217;t Jump 2: Nope, Still Not Great With The Jumping Thing</em> would be some time after the year 2011. Wesley Snipes, it seemed, was done for.</p>
<p>Except actually he wasn&#8217;t &#8211; because once again Wesley Snipes is a free man. For a while. Until he gets an appeal, at least. <em>Reuters </em>reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>Snipes&#8217; lawyers and court officials in Ocala, Florida, said  a judge had granted a request by the star of the &#8220;Blade&#8221; movie  series to remain free on bond while he tries to overturn his  federal tax convictions. U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges wrote that he  was &#8220;dubious&#8221; of Snipes appeal arguments. In arguments for bail, his lawyers wrote that Snipes was  &#8220;actively engaged in resolving his liabilities with the IRS  civilly&#8221; and a meeting with the agency was scheduled for next  week.</p></blockquote>
<p>It would seem, then, that Wesley Snipes&#8217; appeal will involve him throwing wads of money at the IRS and screaming <em>&#8220;Jesus, I&#8217;m sorry, OK? I&#8217;m SORRY! Sheesh!&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Which, you have to admit, is more constructive than anything Wesley Snipes did during his main trial &#8211; where his arguments ranged from how he wasn&#8217;t actually a citizen of America but he just happened to live there and used its stuff all the time to how the IRS doesn&#8217;t actually exist like everyone says it does. And he got convicted for that. We know. Crazy.</p>
<p>Good luck, Wesley Snipes &#8211; the wishes of all rubbishy direct-to-DVD movie fans are with you.</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=1111X506827&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FpeopleNews%2FidUKN2253439120080523&sref=rss" target="_blank">Wesley Snipes gets bail pending appeal in tax case &#8211; <em>Reuters</em></a>
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This could mean that Wesley Snipes might avoid jail completely, although this really is his last pitch for freedom so he needs to give the appeal his absolute all. And you know what that means, Wesley? No more getting rambling boneheaded character witness statements from Woody Harrelson? OK, Wesley? Not even one. Promise us, it's important.</span></a>		
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		<title>Wesley Snipes Gets Those Three Years In Jail After All</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stuart Heritage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well thanks a bloody lot Woody Harrelson - Wesley Snipes asks you to do just one thing to keep him out of jail and you balls it all up.

No really, thanks. All Wesley Snipes wanted to you to do was write a heartfelt character reference to stop a judge from sending him to jail for three years on a tax evasion charge, and you ended up jabbering on about how close together your birthdays are. You really are a great big dipshit.

In fact, it's probably all your fault that Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday. But you've only hurt yourself, you know - now that Wesley Snipes is in jail, you can kiss goodbye to any notion you had about making Money Train 2: Money Train In Space before 2011.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/wesley_snipes_arrested.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-13811" title="Wesley Snipes Jail Three Years Tax Woody Harrelson" src="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/wesley_snipes_arrested-295x300.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="153" /></a><strong>Well thanks a lot</strong><strong> Woody Harrelson &#8211; Wesley Snipes asks you to do one bloody thing to keep him out of jail and you balls it all up.</strong></p>
<p>No really, thanks. All Wesley Snipes wanted to you to do was write a heartfelt character reference to stop a judge from sending him to jail for three years on a tax evasion charge, and you ended up jabbering on about how close together your birthdays are. You really are a great big dipshit.</p>
<p>In fact, it&#8217;s probably all your fault that Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday. But you&#8217;ve only hurt yourself, you know &#8211; now that Wesley Snipes is in jail, you can kiss goodbye to any notion you had about making <em>Money Train 2: Money Train In Space</em> before 2011.</p>
<p><span id="more-13810"></span>Let this be a lesson to all potential tax-dodgers &#8211; not filing your taxes is officially 192,292 times more serious than driving into oncoming traffic blasted off your mind on drugs. Because when <strong>Nicole Richie</strong> did the latter she spent <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/nicole-richie-my-82-minute-jail-sentence-hell/20079796.php">82 minutes in jail</a>, but now that Wesley Snipes has been convicted of the former he&#8217;s been sentenced to three years in jail.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not a total surprise &#8211; we learnt that <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wesley-snipes-staring-at-three-years-in-jail/200813623.php">Wesley Snipes could face a three-year jail sentence</a> earlier this month &#8211; but in a justice system that usually goes light on celebrities whether they&#8217;ve <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/ti-to-spend-1000-hours-talking-to-kids-about-guns/200813230.php">illegally bought some guns</a> or allegedly <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/phil-spector-murder-trial-ends-with-a-sodding-mistrial/200710227.php">shot a woman in the face</a>, it&#8217;s quite rare for a star to get lumbered with a maximum sentence for anything.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s what happened yesterday &#8211; after being found guilty of not filing tax returns for three consecutive years, Wesley Snipes was handed the greatest punishment available to the judge. Nothing &#8211; not claiming that the IRS doesn&#8217;t properly exist, not begging that his children will go to sleep crying if he went to jail &#8211; could stop it. And, as the <em>New York Daily News</em> reports, Wesley Snipes knows exactly why he&#8217;s going to jail:</p>
<blockquote><p>The actor read a statement, apologizing for his &#8220;costly mistakes,&#8221; but never mentioned taxes. &#8220;I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance,&#8221; Snipes said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hard to disagree with that &#8211; statistically, the 1994 Wesley Snipes skydiving crime caper <em>Drop Zone</em> is the most spiritually-motivated movie in the history of cinema.</p>
<p>But, really, if anyone is to blame for Wesley Snipes&#8217; incarceration then it&#8217;s Woody bloody Harrelson. Just the other day <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/wesley-snipes-chums-try-to-keep-him-out-of-jail/200813800.php">Wesley Snipes asked Woody to write a character reference</a> to convince the judge to keep him out of jail, and Woody Harrelson ended up scribbling down some half-baked anecdote about how his birthday is quite close to Wesley Snipes&#8217; birthday and the time they both met <strong>Goldie Hawn</strong> once.</p>
<p>It didn&#8217;t work &#8211; of course it didn&#8217;t work. It was just about the most boneheaded thing that he could have possibly written. But, although he&#8217;s a hopeless stoner idiot, Woody Harrelson is a good-natured hopeless stoner idiot and we&#8217;re sure he&#8217;ll try and make it up to Wesley Snipes somehow. Maybe he&#8217;ll just maintain a comforting correspondence throughout Wesley&#8217;s sentence &#8211; after all, trying to decipher a regular series of formless rambles about absolutely nothing at all will be just the thing to stop Wesley Snipes from losing his mind in jail. Right?</p>
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<p><a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=1111X506827&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fgossip%2F2008%2F04%2F24%2F2008-04-24_wesley_snipes_gets_3_years_for_tax_convi.html&sref=rss" target="_blank">Wesley Snipes gets 3 years for tax convictions &#8211; <em>New York Daily News</em></a>
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No really, thanks. All Wesley Snipes wanted to you to do was write a heartfelt character reference to stop a judge from sending him to jail for three years on a tax evasion charge, and you ended up jabbering on about how close together your birthdays are. You really are a great big dipshit.

In fact, it's probably all your fault that Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday. But you've only hurt yourself, you know - now that Wesley Snipes is in jail, you can kiss goodbye to any notion you had about making Money Train 2: Money Train In Space before 2011.</span></a>		
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