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* In a flap with Dita von Teese
* Dustin Hoffman wants two shots
* Charts: Calvin and Florence no 1
>> Surprise package <<
Colin Salmon is a big star
Strictly Come Dancing’s Colin Salmon was doing a photoshoot for Hello! magazine. The photographer looked up from his camera and asked Colin if he could take out whatever was in his pockets, as it was causing quite a lump in his trousers. “I haven’t got anything in my pockets”, answered Colin. Cue much childish sniggering.
Is celeb sperm-bank web hoax Fame Daddy a C4 spoof show, currently filming in Teddington? Someone claiming to be on set says “website owner is worst actor ever”.
>> Big Questions <<
What people are asking this week
After a rather humiliating bust-up with her ex-husband, which Hollywood A-lister is finding the company of ladies more congenial at the moment?
A couple were caught having sex during a London Film Festival screening.
>> Age concern <<
Who says romance is dead
Seemingly every hoary old rumour surrounding Jimmy Savile and a host of ancient radio and TV presenters are now making it into the tabloids, as they attempt to make us all forget that they actually spent the past forty years sucking up to Savile.
Still, it’s definitely interesting to note just how much has changed in the entertainment industry since the 1970s. Someone involved with N Dubz tours tells us how many steps were put in place to try to make sure girl fans couldn’t get close to the band without their ID, and therefore age checked, to make sure they were over 16. And “encounters” were generally filmed to ensure everything could be shown to be consensual, if needed.
Rufus Hound likes chocolate orange flavoured vodka.
>> In a flap <<
Dita makes an entrance
Deep_Stoat writes,
“No Pierce Brosnan, but Dita von Teese was at Radiohead’s aftershow party in Paris.
“And full marks to the person who shouted, ‘I’ve seen her flaps’ a little too loudly as she walked in”.
Radio 4’s Jeni Murray in Virgin Trains’ first class, with two small airdogs, tutting at how busy the carriage was as “normally the dogs get their own seat”.
>> Fair dealing <<
RIP Newsweek magazine
Vanity Fair is rather good today on Newsweek’s print closure:
“Pairing stock images and incendiary statements at random and slapping them on the cover did not, in the end, turn out to be a business-saving publishing model.”
In the film Pitch Perfect, watch the Don Faison flashback scene. There, over Don’s shoulder, you will see Har Mar Superstar.
>> Something about Mary <<
Dustin gets a double shot
Celtiagirl writes:
“Dustin Hoffman, generally agreed to be a low maintenance star, arrives for a morning meeting. Everyone orders coffee, except for Hoffman who asks for a bloody Mary, with two shots. One of his people scuttles off and places a drink by his side. Hoffman takes one sip, says a polite ‘excuse me’ to the room, then hairdryers the assistant. ‘Do you think I’m stupid? What the fuck is this? Did you think I would not notice? I’ve flown in from another country, where right now it’s 7pm. So give me my fucking drink, with my two fucking shots.’
“He got his fucking drink.”
Football commentator Martin Tyler lives in a house called Squirrels Leap.
>> Cym on you Celtics <<
Dane Bowers’ perfect club
Following on from the news that Dane Bowers has signed for Cwmbran Celtic FC, we’ve been told a little more about the etymology of the club’s name.
The ‘cwm’ in Cwmbran relates to the Welsh-Celtic word for ‘valley’. It’s also believed to be the origins of the word ‘quim’. And, if certain lines of linguistic thinking are to be believed, ‘cunt’ and ‘Queen’ too.
Perhaps Dane’s signing is not so surprising after all.
FYI: Dane Bowers is dating an ex-Miss Wales.
Jimmy Savile used to take Edwina Currie for lunch at the Athenaeum Club. In her diaries she says he is “a fascinating man”.
>> Turkey shoot <<
Bernard Matthews’ avian actors
D_S writes
“Friend-of-a-friend was working on a film where they needed a baby ostrich, but given these were out of season they got a couple of baby turkeys from a local farm and dyed them to look right. Everyone agreed that after the shoot they would send them to a petting zoo, or something, as now they were stars it would be cruel to send them back to be slaughtered.
“23 frustrating, fruitless takes later, they were shipped back to Bernard Matthews. If only you could do the same with actors.”
The sheep in Downton Abbey are not just any old sheep. They’re specially trained not to react in typically ovine panic to cars/human beings/everything.
>> Hmmms <<
Cage, Lance, Savile
Back in August BBC announced that Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson were reuniting for a new series of Bottom, 18 years after it last aired. Ade Edmondson now says it’s off. Listen – about 34 mins in:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ynmws
David Walsh on Lance Armstrong in Press Gazette:
http://bit.ly/R2GmNX
Bargain? Is this Jimmy Savile’s flat for sale?
http://bit.ly/R2FBo8
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Save the date – US Election night party to end all parties – 6th Nov 2012. Details – and chance to buy tickets – coming next week.
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Thanks to: LT, MS, NM, Smillsy, kenners, ashleyjwilliams, deep_stoat, S, MS, chardstix, ccbaxter, aristocat, LT, A, neville_bartos, DW, celtiagirl, GO, NR
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Old Jokes Home:
Jimmy Savile’s family have had his gravestone and the flowers around it removed as a mark of respect. That just leaves a small hole and no bush.
It’s what he would have wanted.
Still Bored:
Manborg – surely a contender for Best Film Oscar 2013?
http://bit.ly/T2U1HR