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Jodie Marsh Plots Lesbian Wedding

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“Jodie Marsh is about to get married again… to a woman. Now she reckons she could have more luck with new best friend and lesbian lover Nina. She said: ‘She is the best person I have ever been out with really and I think this one will have a happy ending.’” [Link]

Doctor Who Outdraws Soccer Coverage On UK TV

“More than 6 million people watched Matt Smith being unveiled as the new Doctor Who on BBC1 on Saturday 3 January, beating ITV1’s live coverage of Liverpool’s 2-0 FA Cup win over Preston North End. Doctor Who Confidential, which also included a look back at the lives of the 10 doctors so far, averaged 6.1 million viewers, 30% of the audience, between 5.35pm and 6.10pm, according to unofficial overnight figures.” [Link]

Victoria Beckham Eats Out In Dubai

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Victoria Beckham ate dinner with AC Milan and her husband David Beckham at the Harbour Hotel in Dubai.

Katie Price Coming To America

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“Katie Price is in for a red hot 2009 as she gets ready to conquer the world. The 30-year-old is moving to the US for three months to film the next instalment of her ITV2 reality show with husband Peter Andre, 35.” [Link]

Lucy Pinder Could Quit Big Brother Early

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“Big Bro producers now fear that 25-year-old Lucy could walk out at any moment. During a moan to ex-Sugababe Mutya Buena, reality star Michelle Heaton and former boyband singer Ben Adams, she confessed: “The day before we came in, when I was with my chaperone, I really wanted to go home. “I kept changing from being really panicked to really chilled.” And a source on the Channel 4 contest revealed: “At one point Lucy said she didn’t want to do it any more.”" [Link]

Matt Smith: New Doctor Who Cross-Dressed On Stage

“Matt Smith, 26, will take over the role from David Tennant. He caused a stir when he appeared on stage in London’s West End last year in Polly Stenham’s play That Face. In one scene he wore his alcoholic mother’s nightdress and jewels and even wet himself. He has also kissed a man in another production.” [Link]

Lucy Pinder Enters Celebrity Big Brother 2009 House

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Lucy Pinder enters the Celebrity Big Brother 2009 house to meet the other housemates.

Matt Smith Cast As New Doctor Who

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“Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role. At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981. Smith will first appear on TV screens as the 11th Doctor in 2010. ” [Link]


Video: Matt Smith talks about being cast as the new Doctor Who

New Celebrity Big Brother A UK Hit In TV Ratings

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“Celebrity Big Brother’s return has proved a hit with viewers with more than 5.5 million tuning in to watch.It drew in 5.9 million at its peak, beating BBC One’s Morecambe and Wise: The Show What Paul Merton did (3.9) and ITV1’s Midsomer Murders (5.3). ” [Link]

London Sun’s Page 3 Girls Now Selling Jewelry

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“The Sun, London’s newspaper has featured topless pictures of models as a daily feature for decades. Now the Page 3 girls have their own jewelry line. The line includes watches, charms, dogtags, earrings and more in gold and silver with diamonds and other gemstones.” [Link]

David Tennant Doctor Who Replacement To Be Announced Saturday

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“His replacement - the eleventh Doctor of the TV series - will be revealed in a Doctor Who Confidential programme on BBC One at 1735 on 3 January. The casting was confirmed over Christmas and filming for the 2010 series begins in the summer. ” [Link]

UK Teachers Hannah Weiss and Katie Moakler Called Student “Chav” On Facebook

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“Hannah Weiss and Katie Moakler ridiculed Chevonne Ivors, eight, while chatting on the social networking site Facebook. Mum Nicola, 33, was also branded ‘evil and twisted’. In the exchange — visible on Weiss’s public ‘Wall’ — Moakler, 25, wrote: ‘When is it half term??? I am going INSANE. I feel sick, bloody chav mothers . . .’ ” [Link]

Linda Lusardi: British Actress Called Emergency Services To Navigate Traffic

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“Linda Lusardi called 999 after getting caught in a traffic jam on the way to a pantomime performance. The actress found herself in a long queue of vehicles on the M25 on Saturday when she was supposed to be appearing as the Wicked Queen at the Swan Theatre in High Wycombe. She called the emergency services and asked whether she could use the hard shoulder to overtake the waiting cars.” [Link]

Britain Set To Ban “Extreme” Porn

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“Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 comes into force on 26 January and makes owning offending pictures a criminal offence punishable by up to three years’ imprisonment. An image is deemed to be extreme if it “is grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character” and portrays in any way an act which threatens a person’s life, or which results or appears likely to result in serious injury to someone’s genitals or breasts. The law was passed earlier this year following a mother’s emotive campaign after her daughter was killed by a man who claimed he was addicted to violent porn.” [Link]

Lucy Pinder & Michelle Marsh

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Lucy Pinder and Michelle Marsh promote a website in the streets of the UK