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Terrifying scenes at the Rod Laver Arena, as Jennifer Lopez fights to maintain vertical equilibrium after a stylist applies a squirt of hairspray to her hair during a press call.
Fortunately for the music world, JLo was able to keep her balance, despite the weight of her hair superseding that of her entire body.
She lives to sing another day.
Torrill and unfortunate companion at the ‘Edge Of Salvation’ premiere in Los Angeles last night. Image: Tibrina Hobson/FilmMagic.
There’s something about staring into those cold, dead eyes that sends a shiver down my spine.
But enough about Norwegian singer Torrill. Let’s just hope that thing around her neck is dead. You don’t want stunned wild animals wandering around a dark movie theatre when you’re trying to watch a film, do you?
Image via gawker.com.
If you don’t have an opinion on the New York Post’s decision to run this image of Ki Suk Han on their front page last Tuesday, you almost certainly have something to say about R. Umar Abbasi’s decision to take it in the first place.
Image: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Europe.
The idea of “Rudolph” being slaughtered and cut up for dinner makes a mockery of the Christmas spirit of peace and good will to all.
A PETA representative on the news that parents are angry about supermarket Lidl selling reindeer steaks in the run up to Christmas.
Are we then to deduce that letting kids think that turkeys enjoy an intensive protein based diet while living in crammed conditions that cause chronic pain for up to a third of their lives before they’re killed so we can eat them does not make a mockery of said Christmas spirit and goodwill?
I just want to be clear.
Image via twitter.
The woman on the right in this photograph is Nina Turner, a Democratic State Senator in Ohio. She responded to a Republican Party attempt to de-fund Planned Parenthood by wearing a t-shirt suggesting the acronym ‘GOP’ actually stands for “Get Out of my Panties“, not “Grand Old Party”, as the Republicans would have it.
Bold policy statements from female politicians on such matters are not new. Last year, Oklahoma Senator Judy McIntyre made her thoughts perfectly clear on the subject of a Fetal Personhood Bill through borrowed & bawdy signage, while Senator Constance Johnson’s handwritten amendment to the same bill caused shock, awe and much knicker wetting among the Republican faithful.
In other news, Nadine Dorries, Tory MP for Mid-Bedfordshire, went on TV gameshow ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’ to promote her controversial views on abortion. Last night she ate an ostrich’s anus on live TV.
National pride is coursing through my veins as I write.
Safe if written down? The Leveson Inquiry might beg to differ these days. Image via photobucket.
I grew up slap bang in the middle of the video nasty era, when clever authority types were beginning to suspect that exposing impressionable young minds to lusty scenes of gore and blood spatter might not necessarily be the best way to develop mentally balanced and healthy future generations.
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Entertainment for the masses, 21st Century style. Image via yahoo.com.
Like Dancing On Ice, ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’ is one of the few celebrity based game shows that brings with it the very real and thrilling possibility of abject peril. Wanting to see someone you’ve been nursing a special hatred for get savagely attacked by a poisonous animal or have their fingers sliced off on an ice rink while Philip Schofield looks on in horror are perfectly natural human desires, and we should consider ourselves fortunate that so many celebrities are willing to hurl themselves into the fray for our entertainment.
‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’ starts on Sunday. Here are some exciting things to look out for, just in case you missed last year’s highlight.
Anyone know how Fatima Whitbread’s doing, by the way?
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The Baghdad International Trade Fair kicks off today. In case you’re not fully up to speed, Hussain Qaragholi, President of the U.S. Business Council in Iraq, explained after last year’s event that the fair offers ‘distinguished’ companies like ExxonMobil, GE, Citi, Honeywell & presumably Dodge, the opportunity to:
develop mutually beneficial economic partnerships with Iraq.
Having read this, I suddenly found myself wondering just exactly how mutually beneficial a big fat contract to supply law enforcement vehicles might be to a population whose displacement due to conflict is estimated to be about 2.5m people.
I don’t know how my mind comes up with these hypothetical flights of fancy. I really don’t.
Ikea Hamburg, this morning. Sticky. Images via facebook.
Members of the feminist protest group FEMEN shouted in an unladylike manner, trod on some furniture and may even have spilled greasy body paint all over a cushion during a protest against Ikea’s recent decision to airbrush women out of the Saudi Arabia version of their catalogue.
It appears there is no end to the hate crimes these woman are prepared to commit in pursuit of their cause.
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