Is it just my imagination or is Courtney Love really becoming more and more like Edina Monsoon (the character played by Jennifer Saunders in Absolutely Fabulous) only not as funny?
Watching TV so you don’t have to!
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
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Taking part this year will be:
- Louisa Lytton (Ruby from Eastenders) dancing with Vicente Simone.
- Peter Schmeichal (ex-Man Utd goalie and inspiration for the name of Chesney’s dog on Corrie) dancing with Erin Boag.
- Spoony (A Radio 5 DJ) dancing with Aleksandra Jordan.
- Mica Paris (A Soul Singer. Her biggest hit was “My One Temptation”. She now co-hosts What Not To Wear) dancing with Ian Waite.
- Georgina Bouzova (Ellen from Casualty) dancing with James Jordan.
- Jimmy Tarbuck (Old school comic and gameshow host who is probably most famous now for being Liza Tarbuck’s dad) dancing with Flavia Cacace.
- Jan Ravens (Dead Ringers regular and Spitting Image impressionist) dancing with Anton Du Beke.
- Ray Fearon (Corrie’s Nathan) dancing with Camilla Dallerup.
- Matt Dawson (rugby player) dancing with Lilia Kopylova.
- Carol Smillie (Changing Rooms presenter) dancing with Matthew Cutler.
- Mark Ramprakash (cricketer) with Karen Hardy.
- Emma Bunton (No idea who she is) with Darren Bennett.
- Nicholas Owen (ITV News presenter and writer of a book on the history of British trolleybuses, WooHoo) with Nicole Cutler.
- Claire King (Emmerdale and Bad Girls) with Brendan Cole
John “Jabba the Hut” McCririck, the Man Pig who recently appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap with Edwina Currie, has managed to get himself kicked off a TV show, Loose Women (ITV) by insulting the hosts, the guests and his appearance fee.
After a tirade of abuse aimed at the four female presenters of lunchtime programme Loose Women, he turned on the audience.
They hit back with deafening boos and jeers, forcing host Kaye Adams to interrupt.
She asked the audience whether the interview should continue or if McCririck, 56, should go.
They called for him to be shown the door and he was ordered to leave the set. McCririck called the presenters of the ITV1 show “gruesome”, before branding all women “domineering, bossy and wanting to change men”.
He added that women “pat men on the head and do the most diabolical things to them”.
Presenter Carol McGiffin called him “repulsive”, which only spurred him on even more.
He launched a scathing personal attack, saying: “This is a woman who has been sexless since Chris Evans (her ex-husband) kicked her out and who complains about it all the time.
“But look at her, who would want to have sex with her?”
He then added: “I’m available, dear, but your breasts aren’t big enough.”
She replied: “Luckily, I don’t know if yours is big enough,” referring to his manhood.
Just seconds before his rant was bought to a halt, he muttered: “The fee for this programme is pathetic.”
As he walked off set, Carol could be heard saying: “I can’t believe we paid him anything to come on here and have a go at us.”
Fellow panellist Coleen Nolan simply shook her head and said: “I can’t stand him.”
Now, If only he’d never come back…
Everything you ever wanted to know about Trinny Woodhall and Susannah Constantine but were afraid to ask, as gleaned from The Truth about Trinny and Susannah (Channel 5, 22/09/06).
Continue reading ‘Everything you ever wanted to know about Trinny and Susannah’
It’s a very sad world we live in when Sir Paul McCartney and his wife (Heather Mills) are facing divorce and all anyone seems to want to do is make jokes about her false leg. Personally, I think it’s prosthetic.
Des Lynam is stepping down from his role as Countdown presenter, after only 18 months in the job. He cited “wear and tear” as the main reason, after growing tired of travelling 250 miles from his home in West Sussex to the studios in Leeds. The producers of the show had offered to move the show down to London make it easier on him but Des decided that would be unfair on the rest of the Countdown team.
I didn’t want to be responsible for that disruption. That would be unforgivable. We do five shows in a day, which everybody finds extremely tiring. It’s the sort of schedule I don’t want to commit myself to anymore. I’ve decided after a year and a half that’ll do nicely. I’m going to withdraw and save the wear and tear.
Possible replacements for him, according to the bookies anyway, include: Carol Vorderman, Jo Brand, Michael Aspel, Noel Edmonds and Paul Merton. Carol has ruled herself out though.
Please don’t put a bet on me as I’m really not going to be the new host of Countdown. Save your money.
But it’s exciting to see so many names have shown interest in taking on the role because as far as I’m concerned it’s one of the best two jobs in television, mine being the other one.
Talk about timing, Sacha Baron Cohen turned up at the Whitehouse in character as Borat to promote his new film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, on the very same day that Premier George Bush was meeting the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
In episode 15 of You Are What You Eat (C4, 20/09/06), Dr Gillian McKeith proved that she is, in actual fact, the mutant offspring of the Easter Bunny and the Ghost of Christmas Future by showing that week’s victim, Fiona Derin, a mock grave made of chocolate with ‘R.I.P Death By Chocolate’ on the tombstone. Cruel and unusual punishment, indeed!
All these pandas were born this summer at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center. That’s a massive nine new baby bears!
The babies – seen here with their carers – are all between two weeks and two months old now. They’re part of a special breeding programme to help the endangered species survive.
The cute cubs will make their first appearance in front of the public on Sunday, which is China’s National Day.
The panda is one of the world’s rarest animals. A recent study found there are less than 1,600 left in the wild.
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