Monthly Archive for February, 2007

Britney Spears is still bald

Britney Spears is still bald

Britney Spears is still bald and apparently has booked herself an entire wing at Promises, the Malibu clinic.

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Britney Spears goes bald!

Britney Spears reportedly had an argument with estranged husband Kevin Federline between arriving home from her brief skint in rehab last week and shaving her head on Friday night.

According to OK magazine, Kevin was at Britney’s Malibu home with their sons, Sean and Jayden, when Britney arrived home and the two had a fight over Britney’s partying lifestyle.

A source told the magazine: “They had a huge argument. Kevin threatened Britney that he was going to have people test her hair to find out exactly what she’s been up to. She was so scared. That was what made her have her head shaved.”

Sources close to the star have said that she has taken ecstasy, cocaine and powerful anti-anxiety prescription drugs in the past.

Another source told People magazine that Kevin ditched his plans to go to Las Vegas for the NBA All-Star game (and parties) over the weekend to stay in Los Angeles with Britney and their boys: “Kevin is concerned for Britney and his children. Of course he’s concerned about her. He loves her. He’s always loved her – even after she started divorce proceedings.”

However, Britney had other ideas and tried to check herself into the Mondrian Hotel instead. An onlooker revealed that she turned up at the hotel in an electric blue wig: “She tried to book a room but she didn’t have any money or a credit card, just a piece of paper carrying a partial credit card number.”

“She kept saying: ‘Nobody wants me anymore’.”

She was later seen trying to hire a rental car but again was turned away: “The staff were stunned and didn’t know what to do with her.”

Britney checked herself into the Promises Treatment Center in Malibu yesterday morning, reportedly at the urging of her father, Jamie Spears. The two dined together on Sunday night and a source revealed: “Jamie just told Britney how much he loves her and that he wants her to get help. He told her that he’s afraid for her safety and that she needs to take a look at her life and make some major changes.”

According to WENN, Jamie was with Britney when she checked into Promises. The center’s treatment usually involves an immediate detox with 24-hour supervision followed by therapy for, on average, 45 days.

However, Entertainment Tonight is reporting that Britney has repeated last week’s 24 hour stint in Crossroads Center in Antigua by checking out of Promises again this morning.

The Inventor Who Deserves a Sitting Ovation

It is with profound regret that I report the death, at 93, of Robert Adler, the co-inventor of the TV remote. Millions of people would have loved the opportunity of asking him (a) what are some of those buttons for? And (b) where is it? I could have sworn I left on the sofa.

Adler, who rarely watched television, refined an earlier version, which used cables and was called the “Lazy Bones”. In 1956, with a colleague, he came up with a wireless version, using high-frequency sound. The rest is couch-potato history.

During the Second World War, Adler specialised in military communications. He also held some 180 other patents.

His wife, Ingrid, said Adler wouldn’t have chosen the remote control as his favourite invention. “He was a man who would dream … and wake up and say, ‘I just solved a problem’. He was always thinking science,” she said.

Viewers wishing to pay their respects may wish to press the mute button for a minute’s silence.

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Bankers!

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Buy ugly people on eBay

Buy Ugly People on eBay

I was doing a search on Technorati for information about the show Ugly Betty and Google ads came up with an advert telling me that I could “Buy ugly people” online at eBay. Uhm … Hurrah! Is there nothing you can’t find on ebay?

Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty (America Ferrera)

Ugly Betty (C4, Fridays), played by America Ferrera, actually appears to be rather … hot and the show seems quite good too! Good for her, I suppose. Although, it does make me wonder about the state of US TV in that they can’t handle somebody a bit more … uhm …. visually challenging.

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