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* What Dane Bowers did next
* Jingle jangle fallout
* Charts: 1D v Rihanna for new no. 1
>> Dane Dream <<
Bowers tries to score again
Seeing as he has already shagged Jordan and faced allegations of sexual and racial assault, it’s only natural that Dane Bowers’ next career move would be football.
Dane signed for Cwmbran Celtic FC last week. He played his first game for their third team against Marshfield on Saturday.
They were beaten 3-1.
http://bit.ly/T3flJj
Mumford and Sons’ album Babel has the biggest first-week sales of any album in US this year – more than 600,000.
>> Knot nice <<
Social media reviews
Brit wedding comedy The Knot is out this week and co-writer/producer Davie Fairbanks has been monitoring social media in advance of its release.
One blogger, Londonfilmfanatiq, gave this rather frank review: “The Knot is 90 minutes of non-stop horrible, derivative “comedy” that is never once funny, even in the slightest.”
How did Davie respond? By finding him on Facebook and writing this on his wall: “…you shouldn’t call yourself a film fanatic, you’re quite clearly a sad jumped up cunt that should climb up his own arse and die rather than give your ill-advised opinion to the world.”
If that’s how he intends to respond to every bad review, looks like poor Davie’s going to have his work cut out in the next few weeks.
Interesting to see that Manchester United changed their betting partners from Betfair to Bwin this season. Bwin’s market focus is not UK. It’s Asia.
>> Big Questions <<
What people are asking this week
Which party-loving female celebrity has something of a reputation with one first-class airline crew? After enjoying the drinks trolley she made friends with a rich older passenger and they ended up in the plane’s bathroom. Still, when she returned to the seat the trolley-dolleys just covered her with a blanket as she slept it off, as she’s always really nice to them on flights.
Which X Factor contestant isn’t enjoying the attention and demands for photos that sudden fame has brought? They’ve been heard saying that if this is what it’s like, then maybe they don’t want to be famous after all.
Talk at Channel 4 suggests that two of its biggest stars, Jamie Oliver and Alan Carr, passed on being in Hotel GB. Probably wisely.
>> Savile rows <<
Jingle jangle fallout
* Protestors in Scarborough have already defaced Savile’s gold-coloured civic society plaque. Now there’s rumours of a demonstration this weekend against the road named in Savile’s honour.
* The Youth Hostel Association are desperately trying to stop news agencies from using their logo in stories about the Haut de la Garenne hostel in Jersey. The YHA took it over from 2004-2009 but keep finding their logo attached to stories of Jimmy’s visits there in the 1970s.
* Perhaps there’s still more fallout to come from the suspended Newsnight investigation. Sources on the show say the journalist who pursued the story has been put in cold storage ever since…
* Dr William Oddie was rather peeved at the time that none of Sir Jim’s obituaries mentioned that he was a practicing Catholic – branding it a ‘conspiracy of silence’. Bet he’s rather glad of it now.
http://bit.ly/RfbU32
Tabloid subeditors used to joke they remembered to spell Jimmy Savile with one L, “as that’s where he would be heading if the stories they heard were true.”
>> Jim’ll Fix-ups <<
Cigar smoke without fire
Some of the wilder Savile stories have been doing the rounds again.
* That HIGNFY out-takes transcript first circulated in 2001. It’s a fake.
* The tales of Alan “Fluff” Freeman’s cornershop parties where various celebrities like Jimmy Savile and politicians like Ted Heath and Jeremy Thorpe would ply young boys with booze and drugs – seem to have started out as black propaganda in the 1970s designed to discredit the politicos. (See also: Sir Jim as ex-PM Heath’s official procurer of boys from Hampstead Heath.)
This summer Savile’s possessions were auctioned for charity. We bought his baseball cap collection. They have some rather icky stains.
>> Good riddance <<
Plymouth get lucky escape
Peter Ridsdale, famous for leaving Leeds United to collapse with 100 million in debts, was yesterday banned as a company director for seven years.
More recently he was chairman of Plymouth Argyle, which went into administration and was relegated twice, only just avoiding going out of the football league last year.
Ridsdale spent much of 2011 as the administrator’s preferred club bidder. With Kevin Heaney, chairman of non-league Truro City FC, Ridsdale was slated to buy PAFC for a pound.
Heaney went bankrupt in August and Truro have gone into administration, with a debt of 700k. Unless someone rescues them, Truro sadly played their last game on Tuesday. The club got an unexpected win.
As did Plymouth Argyle. Thankfully, the club, backed by the supporters, was sold to an alternative bidder, James Brent.
After making a whole career out of books on Oasis, Paolo Hewitt is now writing a screenplay based on Guigsy’s booke about Cardiff City footballer Robin Friday.
>> X Factor 15 <<
Pop wannabes tan for TV
KillerHeels writes:
“Your GMD3 story was true except they were actually formed by themselves at a party thrown by another Sylvia Young classmate then picked up by Jane Collins. The deal with X Factor was done to sell out the tour, and their album is in the can – having been recorded in LA earlier this year. Boys II Men meets One Direction. I have a video of Michael aged ten singing on a Fox Kids show. He had a lisp and fake tan. His mum used to wipe his face with a tanning cloth so he’d not look so pale on TV or on stage!
FYI 1: Jayne Collins/Richard Branson/The Hoff – all in German:
http://bit.ly/SJfYb0
FYI 2: Australian X Factor contestants fall out with the manager who (secretly) put them together?
http://bit.ly/QvctGt
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>> Cisses Ceasing? <<
TV WAG to lose WAGness
Back in 2005 then-Liverpool star Djibril Cisse and his wife, local lass Jude, bought Ridge Manor House, and in doing so inherited the titles Lord and Lady of the Manor of Frodsham. Alas, the rags to riches love story seems to have come to an end. The Cisses were spotted in court in Holborn last week for what appeared to be the start of divorce proceedings.
At the recording this week of a radio panel show, Arthur Smith said he once bet Nigella Lawson 200 quid she couldn’t eat 12 pickled eggs in a row. He lost the bet.
>> Popbits <<
More Todd Terje
He was heavily sampled in Robbie Williams’ single Candy, and now Todd Terje, is flavour of the month in nu-disco circles. Here’s why. Check out his lovely Hot Chip remix:
http://bit.ly/T56xYx
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>> Hmmms <<
Beer, balls, burnt dinner
Wanted: topless dungeon mistress for Dungeons & Dragons bachelor party:
http://bit.ly/RCIYEc
Local news story of the week:
http://bit.ly/WnJkj6
How many times a day do people say “faggot” on Twitter? (A: Loads)
http://www.nohomophobes.com/
Think you know carrots? Think again:
http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html
Grammar nazi uniform:
http://bit.ly/SliMhW
What your beer says about your politics:
http://bit.ly/Ugn3Xi