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* It’s sea otter awareness week
* Pete Waterman’s dubstep stable
* PSY and Gangnam Style is number one
>> Haile Unlikely <<
Bedders gotta get tru dat
Forget Snoop Dogg turning his back on hip-hop and moving in a new direction as Snoop Lion. The news that’s really got the rasta community excited is this:
Daniel Bedingfield is in New York. Making a reggae album.
Russell Kane’s age, in profiles, is generally given as 32. Which is odd as he seems to have been born in 1975.
>> Made up <<
Points make prizes
Alec Guinness famously negotiated that he’d get 2% of Star Wars’ profits. It would have been clever of anyone starring in the Inbetweeners movie to have taken a leaf out of Obi-Wan’s book as, although shot with a tiny budget, it had a huge gross. Sadly none of the actors insisted on points. But the woman who did make-up did. Nice work!
Hilary Swank spotted in the Cow, Notting Hill earlier this week. She drank half a lager and played cards. She brought the cards herself.
>> Big Questions <<
What people are asking this week
Which gropey TV presenter enjoys the semi-affectionate nickname “Sex Pest” within parts of his crew? They claim that, while he used to be alright, fame has brought about the wandering eyes and hands.
Popfiction writes: “Re last mailout. It’s not all fun and games at the hospital for Gorbuntsov and his minders. For the last week, Michael Winner has been installed in the next room.”
>> Meat and greet <<
TV station fails to use its loaf
Fans of Meat Loaf were surprised and delighted to hear that Meat made an impromptu appearance at the Water Street Tavern in Kent, Ohio – a small town of less than 30,000 inhabitants – last weekend.
He was incredibly accommodating, talking with fans, having his picture taken with dozens of people… except he wasn’t Meat Loaf at all. He was a really unconvincing look-a-like.
Still didn’t stop a Fox News affiliate running the story online though.
Bat Out Of Hell still sells about 200,000 copies a year.
>> Otter potty <<
The most wonderful time of the year
This week is Sea Otter Awareness Week and, as long-standing devotees of the mustelid family, we thought we’d give you three new reasons why it’s right to celebrate them.
* Sea otters were the focus of a recent ecological study, which shows they help to reduce levels of atmospheric CO2 and combat oceanic acidification:
http://bit.ly/SCPaOs
* The first otter to survive an oil spill, Olive, has just given birth a pup:
http://bit.ly/QdRDcX
* There ain’t no party like an otter cake party:
http://bit.ly/UZc6Hf
FYI: Lib Dems are getting in on the action. Curious yellow signs have been appearing in Brighton saying, simply, “Otter Pick Up”:
http://bit.ly/UMDdqp
Pandas make for expensive pets. Over three years, the four US zoos with pandas paid $33m more than they took for exhibiting them.
>> X Factory <<
Jayne Collins Fan Club
One of the problems facing X Factor is that despite pretty much everyone knowing that much of the talent show is a cynical set-up, no-one wants to feel they’re being manipulated.
One of the groups – GMD3 – seems to have been put together with the help of Jayne Collins, and Maximum Artist Management, the people who put together The Saturdays and The Wanted.
Should the show be the launch-pad for the latest group manufactured from Sylvia Young’s school? A band that – it is suggested – didn’t have to pre-audition but went straight to TV (and no doubt into the final 12). A band that already seems to have someone paying their bills. And who had slick videos up on YouTube over two years ago.
Quite frankly we prefer svengali Jayne’s own attempts at being a pop star, 20 years ago.
Louis Walsh insisted that he not get stuck with the ‘codgers’ this year.
>> PWned <<
Where your dubstep comes from
Not only do Nero and Shy FX share a studio building (and an aversion to wearing penguin costumes at Bestival) but they are joined in the same complex by fellow drum and bass dubsteppers Chase and Status, Breakage and Sub Focus.
And which hip young dude on the cutting edge of cool culture owns and runs this building?
Pete Waterman.
Clear your diaries on Friday. Danny Dyer is back at his one true pwoper gaff – The Opera House, Tottenham. (Ladies Free B4 12.)
>> K-popbits <<
Unleash the Beast!
We bow to no-one in our love for the end of summer novelty number one hit – so hurrah for PSY and Gangnam Style.
We reported from the K-Pop showcase in London last year, and we’re hoping Psy’s success helps Beast – aka Boys of East Standing Tall” – become the new One Direction. Bad Girl is classic 90s pop.
http://bit.ly/QHwXuw
And here’s the Chinese riposte to PSY – a Shanghai dance studio have created Yangpu Style:
http://bit.ly/QHHPZu
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QIPCO British Champions Day is sold out, but we have a few pairs of tickets to give away. Ascot is the only place to be on 20th October – it’s Frankel’s end-of-season (and possibly last) race. He really has to be seen to be believed. For a chance to win, email pophorse@popbitch.com with your answer to this question: If Frankel was a human celebrity, who would he be…?
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>> Hmms <<
Collins, Radcliffe, Collins
Rejected by Kickstarter. But the future of phone sex:
http://www.lovepalz.com/
Want to know what it’s like to go on the razz with Daniel Radcliffe?
http://bit.ly/SRfajW
In case you missed it – the court reports from Rock of Ages stage star Justin Lee Collins’ trial. Extraordinary:
http://ind.pn/SD5jnd
The always good Register on the risible Guardian broadband tax plan:
http://bit.ly/TFG5WL
Kony-watcher Jane Bussman harangues Bob and Bono at Sydney Opera House. Go see:
http://bit.ly/Qqfrhi
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Thanks to: BD, SG, kerching, IM, KB, SON, LB, liquidpunk, Itol Jasso, JT, PM, weetabix, thebestnameshavegone, popfiction, LMES
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Old Jokes Home:
Q/ What’s the difference between Stevie Wonder and Jeremy Forrest?
A/ Jeremy Forrest only has one fucked pupil.
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