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Beth Ditto: Blame gay men for skinny ladies

Nascent lesbian icon and this month's NME cover star Beth Ditto has said that gay men who work on the fashion industry are totally to blame for the pressure on women to be thin.

Ditto, lead singer of The Gossip, said that Kate Moss was totally not to blame and is very understanding of what it is like to be a bigger girl.

"If there's anyone to blame for size zero, it's not women. Blame gay men who work in the fashion industry and want these women as dolls," Ditto told NME.

"Men don't know what it feels like to be a woman and be expected to look a particular way. The Beckhams are part of the machine, Paris Hilton is part of the machine."

Ditto is from Arkansas.

On Kate of Moss, she commented:

"I spent one night talking to Kate Moss and she said the most amazing things about bodies. I didn't think I was going to like her, but she said, 'Do you know what I hate, Beth? When people tell my big girlfriends, 'You have a beautiful face…' That's a really radical concept."

Discuss.

photo? its by the real janelle@flickr.com actually!

Any Dream Will Do peer voted for gay adoption

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber will reveal on the Graham Norton Show this evening that he defied the Conservative whip to vote in favour of allowing gay adoption.

The musical impresario, currently starring in BBC1 camp-fest Any Dream Will Do, tells Graham:

"I got into trouble in the House of Lords because I voted in favour of gay adoption of children. I think it's a very serious point."

Lloyd Webber was the last peer to be created by John Major. Considering he has only turned up to vote 1.1% of the time, his positive endorsement of gay parenting is extra special.

photo: BBC Publicity

Oh my God! Hideous Big Brother sisters

Amanda and her twin (below) Sam, who were first into the Big Brother house, seem like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie wannabes.

They may appeal to the gay community but our immediate reaction was "bugger off you D-list wannabes."

Meanwhile, celeb clinger on, Charley, seemed to immediately annoy the audience.

Tracey looks odd but funny.

Lesley looks a little too intelligent to be joining this bunch of women

More later if we can stomach it especially if any lesbians appear in what's been dubbed Big Sister.

(Photos: Channel 4 Press & Publicity)

Lindsay Lohan - drunk is a medical matter

Now that Lindsay Lohan’s stay at Malibu’s Promises rehab centre has been confirmed by In Touch Weekly, a publicist for the 20-year-old starlet has issued a statement on the actress' behalf.

 

"Lindsay admitted herself to an intensive medical rehabilitation facility on Memorial Day. (Monday)

"Because this is a medical matter, it is our hope that the press will appreciate the seriousness of the situation and respect the privacy of Lindsay as well as the other patients receiving treatment at the facility."

 

Lohan admitted herself to rehab just 72 hours after she crashed her car into a Beverly Hills sidewalk.

She was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and police reported they found what they claim to be a “usable amount” of cocaine in Lohan’s car at the scene of the accident.

 

Lohan was driven to a local hospital in another car after her Mercedes SL-65 crashed on Sunset Blvd. at 5:30 Saturday morning.

According to the Associated Press, Lohan was treated for minor bruises and submitted to a blood test.

 

Authorities have yet to reveal Lohan’s blood alcohol level and have only said that the cocaine found in her car was not on her person.

 

Lohan was photographed in the wee hours of Monday morning slumped into the passenger seat of her SUV just outside LA's Roosevelt Hotel.

According to onlookers, Lohan collapsed in a heap just outside the club at 4:30 am and was helped into her car by club security.

 

A close friend of Lohan’s told In Touch that Lindsay is going to rehab willingly after finally admitting to herself she has a problem.

 

Over the weekend, Hollywood stars weighed in on Lohan’s arrest.

Lohan’s just out of jail father blamed his daughter’s partying on her falling in with the wrong crowd.

 

According to various sources, Lohan was scheduled to begin shooting a movie with Shirley MacLaine later this week. A source told the site Lohan will commute between the film set and rehab.

 

But another source says Lohan won’t be allowed to leave Promises for at least 30 days and that Lohan isn’t even confirmed to star in the film.

 

Prior to entering rehab, Lohan issued a statement that she was dropping out of several committed forthcoming film roles to focus on herself.

   

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Some people in Bermuda love gays

A delightful woman called Michele Lawrence has contacted PinkNews.co.uk with pictures of a mini-demonstration she and her daugher arranged in support of gay tourists visiting her home of Bermuda.

"After the Rosie O'Donnell-sponsored (gay family) cruise pulled out of a proposed stop in Bermuda several weeks ago because the churches had threatened to demonstrate against them, my daughter Freya was outraged enough to start a group on Facebook to discuss it," she writes.

"There was a story in a local newspaper saying a small group of gay travellers with the tour group Pied Piper would be arriving last weekend and I suggested, somewhat in jest, that we should go out and stage an anti-protest protest.

"I then forgot all about it until last Thursday, when Freya said, "well, are we going to do it?" So we decided to, had a great time doing it, met some nice people and made a small gesture that made us feel like we were doing something to help convince people that not everyone in Bermuda agrees with the churches."

God bless you madam!

Violet to be first Street lesbian?

Coronation Street bosses have revealed that they may turn Violet Wilson into the street's first lesbian.

According to Corrieblog.tv, script writer Damon Rochefort said: “We do talk about the lesbian question a lot. We have talked about introducing a character, and thought about it a lot with the Violet Wilson character for a long time."

Barmaid Violet, who is played by Jenny Platt, has been unlucky in love with both evil Charlie Stubbs and the none-too-bright Jason Grimshaw. 

And who could forget her unwitting love triangle with mum-lover Jamie Baldwin?

Here's hoping Violet can find some lady love and be happy at last.

Craig Chalmers kicked out of Any Dream Will Do, Ben Ellis saved

Jason Donovan look-a-like, Craig Chalmers, lost his battle to become the next Joseph in Any Dream Will Do, was given the boot by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He sung his little heart out and we're sure he's got a great career ahead of him.

Lewis Bradley, who looks a lot like Boni from Trap Door avoided the sing off entirely.

Our favourite, Ben Ellis was saved by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

National Shed Week excites the gays

Got a shed? Got a life?

If you answered 'yes' and then 'no', this is the competition for you.

Top read The Shed magazine and online hub of communication ReaderSheds.co.uk will mark the first ever National Shed Week (2nd-9th July) with a competition for the nation's favourite, um, shed.

There are even different heats for all the sheds. This competition is necessary, apparently,  because in the words of Uncle Wilco from ReaderSheds.co.uk "Every shed is unique."

Top prizes include a shed. A designer one.

Fun polls include your favourite celebrities - that you'd like to show your shed to.

Anyone else sensing a pattern here?

If you'd like to enter your shed, register it on www.shedoftheyear.co.uk by 25th June.
For more shed-tastic news, visit www.shedweek.co.uk

photo: wili_hybrid@flickr.com

Chicken has spontaneous sex change

A chicken (that is, an actual animal, not a young gay man) has startled scientists by undergoing a natural sex change.

The bird, currently living in India, was laying eggs until recently, but then grew a rooster's comb - that's the bit at the top.

A government vet has confirmed the change, with villagers in Kamat-Chengrabanda, Bengal,  declaring it a miracle.

"Every once in a while you hear a story about a hen that changed into a cock. Such stories are often met with scepticism, but sex reversals do, in fact, occur, although not very frequently,”  vet Partha Sarathi Ghose told AP.

photo: A rooster yesterday.
maggie_p_au@flickr.com

WAG wannabe threatens to go gay

Role model for troubled youth Danielle Lloyd has demonstrated an admirable understanding of the nature of human sexuality in her latest comments to the gentlemen of the press.

Ms Lloyd is notoriously publicity-shy, but cunning journalists managed to coax a few words out of her on the topic of her failed relationships.

The 23-year-old, who was previously linked with 41-year-old former footie ball player Terry Sherringham, has of late been dating another sports star, "Charlton ace" Macrus Bent, 29.

While these liaisons might have led one to assume that Ms Lloyd is heterosexual, it seems that on the strange planet she inhabits such matters not so clear cut.

She told the UK's paper of record, the Daily Star, that she might "become" a lesbian.

Talk us through how one "becomes" a lesbian?

Is it a similar process to "becoming" a low rent trashy Z-list embarrassment?

So, an appearance on Big Brother, a couple of boob jobs, "relationships" only with men who can be easily identified by paparazzi and tabloid audiences -  and a good old dollop of confessional stories leaked to said tabs?

Makes you proud to be British.

BTW, if you want a laugh, check out Danielle's myspace page
The blog is particularly amusing!

This is our favourite entry:

Sunday, April 15, 2007

I'M GOING IN HOSPITAL Hi Everyone, well you may have read in the papers today that I am having a 3rd Boob Job! this is incorrect I am having a lump removed from my breast and they will have to replace my implants from my 1st Boob Job to remove the lump! so please send me your support I won't be online for a while as I have to rest for 2 weeks, but I may get my mum to come on for me and let you know how I am.  She is staying with me for a while to make sure I do everything I should and make sure I don't do anything I should'nt. Danielle xx