Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini has been famous for precisely 19 months. In all that time, have you ever heard him speak? Ever heard him give an interview? Us neither. Yet for someone who speaks so little, he seems to find himself quoted in the media an awful lot…
Practically everything Swedish superproducer Max Martin turns his hand to becomes an international, multi-platinum mega-hit. His music is estimated to have earned him $250m. Fancy a slice of that action? Of course you do. So here’s all you need to know to compile your very own Max Martin style hit.
After a brief spell in the legal wilderness, it looks like the trusty old injunction is enjoying a moment in the sun again. A couple of big names have taken out gagging orders recently – but whatever happened to all those old ones from a few years back? Weren’t we supposed to tidy that all up?
Ever since Catherine The Great’s detractors tried to posthumously discredit her by spreading stories that she died shagging a horse, zoophilia has been the stickiest celebrity rumour to shake. Why are we so drawn to tales of barnyard bonking – even when they’re always absolute nonsense?
The story of a man having his ribs removed is so old that it is literally biblical – but Adam’s reasons for abdominectomy were very different to those of Prince, if the rumours are to be believed. So just how did those stories about Prince getting bones removed to nosh himself off get started?
Every so often we come into a contact with a rumour that simply refuses to die; a shaggy dog story that does the rounds, week after week, month after month. Where do they all come from? We intend to find out. This month: Yoko Ono, the Cheeky Girls and Desert Island Discs.
Richard Desmond’s autobiography The Real Deal promises a look at Britain’s Most Controversial Media Mogul. But anyone reading it would be hard pressed to understand why he bills himself as controversial. We all understand what he means, but you wouldn’t get it from reading this book. He’s awfully, awfully quiet about all the pornography. Now why might that be?
The one person that every celebrity in Hollywood has on speed dial – even above their publicist and plastic surgeon – is Marty Singer. With a style and reputation that British lawyers can only dream of, it’s no wonder he’s the go-to litigator of choice for celebrities in the US.
Ten years after getting six million votes in The X Factor final, Steve Brookstein (the man who got six million votes in The X Factor) finally releases his tell-all book in which he reveals exactly what it’s like to get six million votes in The X Factor final. And also to have the entire UK media conspire against you.
There is still one question that remains from the fallout of the whole Dapper Laughs debacle. Namely: why on earth would ITV commission such a controversial comedian to make a blatantly sexist show? If you take Dapper out of the equation though, it suddenly starts to make a lot more sense…