Radio 5 phone-in host Victoria Derbyshire landed herself in hot water when she told listeners she’d been given a ‘crib sheet’ to prepare for a possible appearance on Celebrity Mastermind with fearsome inquisitor John Humphries.
Amid the loud noise of gaskets being …
It’s probably the absence of other news that makes you notice the obits so much over Christmas but celebs and others seem to drop like flies.
Latest to depart is Eartha Kitt, the feisty black singer who fought her way up …
Posted on December 25, 2008 in
Arts
The doomsters are already saying that Tom Cruise’s new film, about the failed 1944 plot to kill Hitler, thwarted by an oak table leg sadly, is going to be a post-Christmas turkey.
This is a bit tough on Cruise who, by …
And it’s a case of line up the usual suspects as the list is led by troubled chanteuse Amy Winehouse, followed by Hollywood wild children Lindsay Lohan and Tara Reid.
But do you have to be a ‘train wreck’ to get written …
We’ll be looking back at some of the great moments of the passing grim old year and certainly Tina Fey’s impersonation of Sarah Palin was one of them.
Clips are hard to come by thanks to NBC but here’s one, with …
The Warner music empire has pulled all its music from YouTube in a row over revenues, Warner saying it doesn’t get enough money in compensation for the impact ‘free’ YouTube viewings have on its conventional businesses.
Warner and some other big music …
Posted on December 19, 2008 in
Arts
Legendary singer Leonard Cohen, 73, has been treading the boards again on a sell-out UK tour, in part because his accountant ran off with all his money.
Now his famous song Hallelujah is set to bring him another windfall as X …
It’s Katie Holmes’ 30th birthday today and husband Tom Cruise, 46, has been telling the world via radio host Ryan Seacroft that they’ve been celebrating all week. Not only that but he’s promised her “a nice family time and snuggles.”
Life …
Posted on December 17, 2008 in
Arts
Well there go Mr Blatherskite’s chances of ever making it as a film producer.
Mama Mia!, which he had the effrontery to criticise (and still thinks is rubbish) has broken the UK film box office record with takings of £69.05m, inching …
