Come on Charlie, smash it!
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"I don't think the British public wants to be told what to watch" - Adrian Chiles "My favourite place is Sandbanks. I went there and I didn't even believe I was in England" - Tinie Tempah ---------------------------------------------------- POPBITCH _ _ _ _ __ ___ _ __ | |__ (_) |_ ___| |__ | '_ \ / _ \| '_ \| '_ \| | __/ __| '_ \ | |_) | (_) | |_) | |_) | | || (__| | | | | .__/ \___/| .__/|_.__/|_|\__\___|_| |_| |_| |_| 17.02.11 ISSUE 533 Free every week: to subscribe/unsubscribe go to http://www.popbitch.com Send us stories - email: hello@popbitch.com * Make your own Duck Sauce * Redknapp smashes it * Charts: Lady Gaga will be number one ---------------------------------------------------- >> Redknapp smashes it << Richard Keys would be so proud Nintendo Wii launched a new game, Wii Party, this week. The advert features their usual celebrity endorsers, Jamie and Louise Redknapp. The advert starts with Jamie playing the mini-game Goal Getters with his son. And the first, somewhat unfortunate, phrase he uses to encourage him? "Come on Charlie, smash it!" Watch: http://bit.ly/e7uWzQ ---------------------------------------------------- Tamara Ecclestone, whose father just bought her a 45 million pound house, doesn't think she is spoilt. Because, she says "'spoilt' means ruined, and I don’t feel ruined". So that's alright then. ---------------------------------------------------- >> Visa teaser << Send for the bloke from Hollyoaks! Janice Dickinson was supposed to be a guest on Celebrity Juice tonight. About an hour before the show was due to be filmed all was well. And then suddenly poor Janice was seen storming out of the studio in tears. Her people hadn't let on that she didn't have a working visa for it. Show execs somehow found out and had to draft in some bloke from Hollyoaks at the last moment. ------------------------------------------------------ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is known to neighbours by the nickname "How Much Hugh". Perhaps not everyone is impressed by the prices in his shop. ------------------------------------------------------ >> Just dance << Get off the soapbox, get on the floor Lady Gaga's over-hyped release of her Madonna rip-off, Born This Way, seems to be backfiring. Acolytes and mainstream media may have lapped it up but many fans are complaining that it feels more like a cynical marketing tool rather than genuine piece of pop. It should never be up to the artist to anoint their own work as a gay anthem - that's for listeners to decide (and if there's one thing that The Gays should inarguably be allowed to adopt, it's their own anthems). The problem Gaga has created for herself is that by making gay fans feel like they've been used as a promotional weapon, everything she does is coming under scrutiny. Her S&M video stylings, closely linking the concept of "being gay" with being a freak, or an outcast, for example. Even her previously well-received attempt to support the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is being questioned, particularly her use of the line "We are not asking you to agree with or approve the moral implications of homosexuality". What moral implications? No doubt she started out with good intention - she's possibly just a victim of her own hype - but Gaga might be advised to stop focusing on politics and start focusing on pop again. ------------------------------------------------------ Jamelia’s favourite drink is Malibu and pineapple. ------------------------------------------------------ >> Big Questions << Who is asking what this week Which Premier League international footballer is currently starring in a video going round the red-tops? There's him (and he's really no oil painting), a hooker, and action described by a picture desk as "hardcore". ************************************************** Win a Shane Meadows DVD box set and Dead Man's Shoes inspired M65 jacket. Perfect for small town revenge missions. Apparently Paddy Considine has even ordered one. Follow @saviourprojects and tweet 'Popbitch' at them to enter: http://saviour-online.com/ *************************************************** >> Back for good? << Lena wants to keep her crown Reigning Eurovision winner Lena is coming back to defend her trophy and she's drafted in some pretty heavy-duty songwriters to help her (Errol Rennalls, who was behind Mousse T's Sex Bomb; Nicole Morier, who writes for Britney; soul singer Aloe Blacc) but she told us back in June that she was planning to enter a song of her own - a German language ditty titled "Ich Bin Der Pipimann" ("I Am The Piss Man"). Someone even went to the trouble of fleshing out the a cappella version she sang for us with full music. Come on Lena! It's got 12 points written all over it: http://bit.ly/f9ZFD0 With only 12 of the 43 songs out there, it's probably too soon to predict a winner but so far our money is on Norway. Listen here http://www.popbitch.com/home/2011/02/03/popbits-february/ ------------------------------------------------------ Ashley Young has booked The Grove hotel for his upcoming wedding. It's where the England team stay before Wembley games. Very imaginative. ------------------------------------------------------ >> Sooty thinks it's shit << RIP the man behind the Cinzano ads Advertising agency legend, Ron Collins, (the C in WCRS) died last week. He was probably most famous for being the man behind those iconic Cinzano ads of the 1970s, starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins. When Ron interviewed creatives for a job he had a strange habit, particularly when he was unimpressed by the interview. He'd say that he'd have to confer with somebody else, but rather than bring in a colleague, he produced a Sooty hand puppet. Ron would then whisper to it, pretend to listen to a reply and, say to the interviewee "Sorry, Sooty thinks it's shit." FYI 1: Joan Collins was only supposed to star in one Cinzano ad, with Joanna Lumley and Felicity Kendall in the frame for two others, but it worked so well she did them for five years. http://bit.ly/hp3ubR ------------------------------------------------------ Popbitch's favourite new fast food executive? Burger King's European marketing supremo... John Schaufelberger. ------------------------------------------------------ >> Olympic hand-over << Limp wristed porn king shakes it up At an event to celebrate West Ham's successful bid to take over the Olympic Stadium, joint-chairman David Sullivan surprised the young crew of a local TV station by using what was described to us as a kind of "soul brother" overhand grip to shake their hands. Was this some sort of hamfisted attempt at trying to appear cool and 'with it' in front of the kids? Apparently not. Sullivan explained it was because he has difficulty grasping hands in the normal way, because he suffers from a weak wrist. FYI: David Sullivan made his millions flogging porn. Is this any wonder? ------------------------------------------------------ Joe Klein is reporting that Glenn Beck is close to being canned by Fox News. ------------------------------------------------------ >> Basement jizz << Partying in Fritzl's cellar Austrian authorities have been called in to seal up the door to Josef Fritzl's sex cellar after it became a hot new party venue in the town of Amstetten. Officers called to the property found smashed-up chairs, a mattress, drug paraphernalia and alcohol bottles littered in the basement dungeon. Fritzl, obviously, has not been available for comment, but we can assume he approves of this sort of behaviour. Sounds exactly like the sort of hijinks that the star of the show he famously said was his favourite would get up to - Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen. ------------------------------------------------------ Newt Gingrich, at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, arrived on stage to the sound of Eye Of The Tiger. ------------------------------------------------------ >> Access all areas << Brings new meaning to flash your pass Anyone thinking of applying to work at the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival ought to be very careful. Someone has had an idea this year to have staff perform a specially composed EIFF anthem before each screening, as well as making them dress up as statues of famous film makers and having them stand about in the town (apparently to be known as the "Bill Douglas Terrorist Brigade"). Still, on the plus side, they're planning on introducing EIFF underpants. Anyone who flashes them gets into the festival for free. So not only do staff get a pair (which they must wear at all times) they will also get a constant stream of strangers hitching up their skirts and unbuttoning their trousers. Nice. More: http://bit.ly/dGQybH ----------------------------------------------------- Valentines Joke: "I booked a table for Valentine’s Day for me and the wife. It ended in tears though. Turns out she’s rubbish at snooker." ------------------------------------------------------ >> Oscars: a grouch << What about The Human Centipede? God, it's been a long awards season, hasn't it? Seemingly every week for months the same four or five films have won something. With little more than a week to go, most of the Oscar categories have a nailed-on dead cert winner. And yet in Hollywood there are a few insiders suggesting there could be at least one upset. Hailee Steinfeld is creeping up on Melissa Leo. Same for Geoffrey Rush on Christian Bale. And Roger Ebert thinks Tom Hooper not David Fincher will be Best Director. Check out Boylesports for the odds (and get a free matched bet) http://bit.ly/e04Dzq FYI: We think Best Supporting Actress should have been Ashley C Williams. If you don't automatically remember her performance, she was in The Human Centipede. The one in the middle. For all Popbitch Oscars: http://bit.ly/f948Ke **************************************************** Want to drink less, sleep more, stop smoking or feel less anxious? You need to stress less. E-book the Stress Less Mind can help. Only GBP 6.99. http://www.georgiafoster.com/popbitch_ebook.php **************************************************** >> Things that make you go hmm << Adele, Romanian wank scandal, Pikachu Make your own Duck Sauce: http://www.gobarbra.com Rick Santorum on being known on the interweb as "a frothy mix of lube and fecal matter" http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_84/-203455-1.html As, like us, you probably couldn't face watching a Corden-fronted Brits, here's Adele's performance, which is worth watching: http://bit.ly/hRdpqh Q: How do you get 25 Pikachus into a Mini? A: Pokemon. And here's Pikachu Cat: http://bit.ly/etltET Our new favourite Eurovision entry - Romania. Their British singer David Bryan thought he was having a private internet chat with a girl. He was unaware she could see him tossing off on the webcam, or that she would send the transcript to a TV station. Our favourite bits? When he calls his penis "his best friend". And the inappropriate use of LOL. e.g. "I get so horny thinking about having wild sex with you. lol": http://bit.ly/dMQsAU **************************************************** An inspired love letter to David Bowie. Modern, audacious, trip-hop versions of classic tunes. http://www.youcanthidebeat.com/ **************************************************** >> UK Top 40 << This week's new entries/high climbers ++Number One LADY GAGA Born This Way ++Top Ten YOU ME AT SIX & CHIDDY Rescue Me ++Top Twenty ROCKETEER Far East Movement/Ryan Tedder ++ Top Forty JLS Broken Strings YOU ME AT SIX I Knew It Was You >> End Bit << Stuff about Popbitch * Email stories, gossip: hello@popbitch.com * Subscribe or unsubscribe here: http://www.popbitch.com * Popbitch is published by Popdog Ltd. * Mail by aysabtu * Correction: we wrote last week that Leo Silverman, the man who signed The White Stripes for XL, was Jeremy Beadle's nephew. 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