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Will the writers’ strike smash the celebrity oglers dreams of a Cate Blanchett / Angelina Jolie celebratory kiss at the Golden Globes?

Did Posh Spice pull a Showgirls on Baby Spice? Legendary Liza takes a holiday tumble off a Swedish stage, Paula Abdul has an APB out for some missing urine.

Hillary Swank, Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon romp around as BFF’s and adorable Ellen Page gets knocked up.   

 

 

 

 

 

If nobody’s there to fondle the Golden Globes, will they even bother to put on a show? The Hollywood Foreign Press—whatever the f*** that really is—has announced the slew of oddball nominees for its annual celebrity pat yourself on the back throwdown and Oscar precursor.

While the Golden Globes, which melds television and film personalities in a more laidback and boozy setting than the Academy Awards, has become the second High Holy Day of the year for this celebrity gawker, but the blasted writers’ strike promises to muck up the awards.

A few anti-scab celebs who possess strange qualities called honour and integrity have vowed not to cross the picket line, over the backs of the geek squad—the writers—to get to their awards.

Among these goody-two shoes celebs is the inimitable Ms. Glenn Close, nominated for a Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series-Drama (that’s a mouthful) for her butch turn as take-no-prisoners attorney Patty Hewes on the lesbo-centric Damages. Damn her scruples!   

   

A hodge-podge of stars landed nods this year including some gay gal goddesses.

With the writers on strike and the show’s content sure to suck, I say the nominees join the L Word gang and engage in Turkish Oil Wrestling to determine the winner. Everybody wins!   

Imagine Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama—whew—nominees, Empress Angelina Jolie of the Holy Order of Hot Lips for A Mighty Heart, Queen Cate Blanchett for The Golden Age, Lesbian Vigilante Jodie Foster for The Brave One and stunning stick figure Keira Knightley for Atonement, topless and oiled up vying for their awards.

Dame Julie Christie is also nominated for her turn in Away From Her, but at Julie’s age, she’s safer playing the ring girl.

While Jodie and her truckers drawl v. bad-assed Angelina seems like the ultimate match-up, Keira might just Bend it Like Beckham and pull a surprise win on this one.   

Comedic and Musical Queens of the Red Carpet will include film fest darling Amy Adams for Enchanted, little newcomer Nikki Blonski as the big-screen Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, Merchant Ivory darling gone awry Helena Bonham Carter for Sweeney Todd, Marion Cotillard for her uncanny Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose and baby—not sure if she’s a dyke but she’s damned cute—Ellen Page for Juno.   

   

Other possible oil wrestling match-ups include the Best Performance / Television-Drama gang that pits Patricia Arquette for Medium, Glenn Close, Minnie Driver for The Riches, Edie Falco for The Sopranos, Sally Field for Brothers and Sisters, Holly Hunter for Saving Grace and Krya Sedgwick for The Closer, against one another.

Looking very much like an Emmy’s redux—and I can’t recall who won the Emmy.

Probably a yawn, Grey’s yawn Anatomy, yawn boring broad.

Fingers crossed for Ms. Minnie on this one. But the nominated babes alone constitute a win. In a town like Hollywood where the women are put out to pasture at 35, this category rife with sexy older women and MILFs alike.

Funny ladies who garnered nods from the Foreign Press include the hottest MILF on the block Mary Louise Parker in Weeds, hot nerds America Ferrara for Ugly Betty and Tina Fey for 30 Rock, the cat with nine lives Christina Applegate for her smash hit Samantha Who? and Anna Friel for the darkly comic Pushing Daisies.   

Look for more red carpet eye candy and estrogen heavy hitters in the Best Supporting / Motion Picture category with Big Mouthed Beauty Julia Roberts for Charlie Wilson’s War, Queen Cate for her Bob Dylan drag in I’m Not There and the frighteningly smart ice queen Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton.   

 

This writers’ strike pits my morals against my pervy, celebrity-obsessed side.

Come on scribes, buck up so that we writers who live vicariously through celebrity can leeringly watch for the accidental Angie / Cate brush-up against one another on the red carpet… or the Sally Field buzzed on Veuve Clicquot solipsistic “you like me, you really like me speech!”  

In a moment not unlike the cult classic, Showgirls’ climactic turn when slutty, climber of a showgirl tosses marbles at Gina Gershon’s rabid bi-sexual bitch diva Crystal Connors in hopes of landing the Vegas review’s top slot, Posh Spice threw a wad of David Beckham’s spat-out chewing gum at Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton, causing Baby Bunton to take a spill that landed her on crutches.

Not exactly, but still, Baby Spice is laid up—and not in a good way—which promises to put a kink in the Spice Broads—uh, Girls—UK leg of their comeback tour. Stretch Girls, stretch… you’re not spring chickens—or birds as the Brits say—anymore.

   

At the end of the day, Baby’s prognosis is good and she’ll be outshining Poser Posh again in no time.   

In other stage tumbling news, the Legend, The Lush, The Liza took a nasty little spill off a stage during a performance in Sweden last week.

Poor Liza slurred her way through a painful rendition of her mama Judy Garland’s other signature song, “The Man I Love”, before tumbling off the stage into the arms of a hapless technician.   

Liza, who’s purportedly 12-stepping it clean and sober, says she felt dizzy before the performance—which smacked of some of Judy’s more painful public moments— but reports are that Liza’s on everything from anti-depressants to Oxy to kill her decades of pain.

“Maybe This Time” Liza will get luck and pull through because you know, “Life is a Cabaret” for the old gal.

All snark aside, pull through Liza. From and old-school pseudo-gay man like me, after you, Bette and Barbara, we’ll be stuck with Britney and bemoaning where have all the great entertainers gone?   

Empress Madonna of the Holy Order of Virgin Facsimiles—or “Like a Virgin—who’s a true performer and always a pleasure to watch, has landed herself a slot in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

It just goes to show you that in rock and roll you can defile a wedding dress and numerous crucifixes, conflagrate Jesus and piss off the Catholics by portraying him as black, make out with Sandra Bernhardt and release a soft-core porn sex book. Good on Madge!   

In the stranger things have happened category, American Idol’s resident pharmaceutical receptacle, Paula Abdul, is missing some piss. Seriously, Abdul—because she hasn’t made enough of an ass out of herself on American Idol each season—admitted that a crazed fan once filched Paula’s urine sample from the doctors’ office. Look for that stuff on eBay any day now!

Here’s a quick and dirty year-end movie round up:   

 

Cutie Pie Ellen Page garners critical raves as a knocked up—and not the Katherine Heigl kind of yawn-inducing knocked up—teen in the indie flick Juno, which also stars that other big mouthed beauty, Jennifer Garner.

Little Ellen’s a smarty pants who takes herself seriously, and who says she feels sorry for the likes of the Britney’s and Lindsay’s.

Really, Ellen’s just trying to say she feels for those gals with IQ’s lower than 90, who somehow find themselves in the limelight.

A baby butch Ellen played a real castrating vigilante who whacks off Patrick Wilson—as a pedophile’s—nuts in the post-feminist shocker Hard Candy, but look for more of her in the lesbian werewolf flick Jack and Diane, co-starring Olivia Thirlby.   

The films synopses reads like this, “Jack (Thirlby) and Diane (Page), two teenage lesbians, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane's charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack's tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away.

Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire occasionally turns her into a werewolf.” –That sounds like every date I had in high school.

It’s great to see everyone’s favorite mumbler Jennifer Jason Leigh back in action in Margot at the Wedding, even if she pulled the short straw of playing Jack Black’s wife.

The film stars Nicole Kidman, but Leigh’s worth the price of admission. Written and directed by the Squid and the Whale’s Noah Baumbach, look for loads of latent pseudo-sensitive poor-me male discovery and insight.   

It’s been too long since Claire Fisher road into the sunset in the Six Feet Under series finale but never fear, sexy and smart Lauren Ambrose stars in Starting out in the Evening with Six Feet Under co-star and indie queen Lily Taylor.

Also appearing is Jessica Hecht, the cracker-jack actress who played Susan, Ross’s lesbian nemesis on Friends.   

Hillary Swank, Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon play BFF’s in the romantic comedy P.S. I Love You, which also stars Gerard Butler and Kathy Bates.

If Hillary Swank has learned anything from her career trajectory, she should steer clear from any role that doesn’t involve lopping off her hair and packing a tube sock, or packing the punches in an over-the-top melodrama co-starring Morgan Freeman as a wise and haggard old man.

Tracy E. Gilchrist © 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved.

Britney's new man is "entirely gay"

In a tabloid report certain to need a hefty dose of salt, Star Magazine is reporting Britney Spears is planning to walk down the aisle with bad-boy pal Sam Lutfi.

Some Hollywood gossip sites are slamming the report, not just for its typical lack of facts, but because rumour has it Lutfi is entirely gay and not likely to convert even for pop tart Spears and her millions.

The Star Magazine cover screams "Britney ELOPES!" and claims "Brit has fallen under sinister Sam Lutfi's spell—and friends fear her creepy new guy has hustled her into a quickie Vegas wedding to get at her $100M fortune!"

Lutfi, known recently as Britney Spears' unofficial 'mouthpiece' has received a hefty share of media attention of late, but this latest report is taking the frenzy to an entirely new level.

Lutfi's latest round in the news happened after he told the press Spears was 'too anxious' to attend a recent custody hearing over her two children with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Federline's lawyers say he is planning to seek "some kind of remedy" against Spears for her failure to appear in court, according to United Press International.

Spears lawyer said she was suffering from a 'medical condition' that prevented her appearance, but Lutfi spilled to OK! Magazine that she was "very sick with high anxiety" due to being plagued by paparazzi.

He claims the singer decided to ditch the court date after consulting a doctor by phone.

Now Star Magazine claims Lutfi and Spears are on their way to get hitched.

According to a story in the magazine, Spears has already informed ex-husband Federline of her intentions to marry Lutfi.

Some Hollywood gossip sites are slamming the story because it leaves out rumours that Lutfi is not likely to marry Brit, because he's gay.

HollyScoop.com reports that an unidentified source claims Lutfi came out of the closet in 1997 to his friends at bar on the UCLA campus.

GaySocialites.com claims "high profile gays in L.A. "confirm" Lutfi's sexual orientation as decidedly queer and says Lutfi was so "embarrassed to be gay that he laid low for a long time until recently resurfacing as Britney Spears' right hand man and manager."

Whether Spears and Lutfi will end up getting hitched, or Lutfi will end up as more tabloid banter for being photographed canoodling with a male escort remains to be seen.

All that can be truly determined is that Spears just can't seem to go a single day without being skewered in the tabloids once again.

Ann Turner © 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved.

Celine finishes Vegas run after 717 nights

Who would have thought Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion’s Las Vegas show would last five years - or, to put it in more impressive terms, 717 nights? Not even Dion herself, apparently.

"At one point, it was like feeling like the Titanic was about to sink again," the Quebec-born singer said during her final show last night.

"But we believed and we went on with it. Even though the vibe was not that positive for us."

The 39-year-old also had to contend with an unexpected pregnancy, revealed when the show was still in development in 2000.

"I had a life for the first time," Dion said. "I knew then that I wanted to have more success as a mother than a singer."

Knowing that a theatre costing $95 million was erected to house her show — and that she was being paid $100 million to complete said shows — helped Dion change her mind, however, and the ensuing years proved to her that the decision to move forward with the show, which grossed more than $400 million and was seen by nearly 3 million fans, was the right one.

"Most of us have left our families behind to give ourselves every night," she told the audience last night. "I can assure you it was worth it."

Next up for Dion: A tour, starting with a Valentine’s Day show in for Valentine's Day in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Bryan Ochalla © 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved.

Liza with a Zee takes a tumble in Sweden

Liza Minnelli collapsed on stage a few songs into a Christmas show in Sweden last night, according to various reports.

 

The 61-year-old entertainer apparently fell off the side of the stage during the performance, though she was caught by a technician and wasn’t thought to be injured.

 

"It was a terrible situation," local promoter Michael Silfverskiold told Reuters following the incident. "She fell off the side of the stage. The production manager caught her."

 

Minnelli, who won an Academy Award for her role in Cabaret in 1972, was taken to a local hospital, though she was discharged Thursday morning and then flown back to the United States.

 

"They decided together with her management that it's best for Liza to go to the U.S. right away," Zlakto Nedanovski, a spokesman for the concert's organisers, told The Associated Press.

 

That information has since been confirmed by Minnelli's spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg, who released a statement saying the artist "had complained of dizziness" before the show and "became very ill after the show began".

 

"As a result, she was unable to finish her performance and was rushed back to her hotel by her manager," Rosenberg said.

 

According to the spokeswoman, a doctor examined Minnelli "and in consultation with her New York physician, determined that it would be necessary for the Oscar-winning actress and singer to immediately return to New York City to receive further medical evaluation."

Bryan Ochalla © 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Mary J sacks gay haters

R&B star Mary J Blige has told an American gay mag that she has sacked staff for making homophobic remarks.

Mary, who has been a strong supporter of gay rights, told The Advocate:

"I've heard a couple of guys say foul things, and those guys are not around me anymore. When they say things like that, I'm looking at them like, 'What makes you so scared? You don't know who you are?'

"I don't dislike them or anything, it just makes me wonder about them period. If you're not sure about that, then you ain't sure about a lotta things."

Thanks, Mary!

Kylie and Jason - together at last?

There won't be a dry eye in the house on ITV "talent" show X Factor this weekend as two former Aussie soap stars sing for the masses.

International pop diva Dame Kylie Minogue will be singing a duet with that balding  bloke off  I'm A Celebrity? are to appear - and sing!

Well children, back in the mists of time (1990) it was the balding bloke who had the bonzer pop career, while the pocket-sized Minogue was best-known for looking fetching in overalls.

As Jason Donovan soared to the zenith of pop success, sipping champers with Chesney Hawkes and Rick Astley, he stopped to perform a duet with Kylie, Especially For You, which you can view below.

Anyway this Saturday Jason and Kylie will be singing with the contestants, not each other.

Rhydian is expected to win.

Paris' lesbian sex tape threat

 

Paris Hilton better watch out.

If The Simple Life star doesn't start treating Britney Spears better, the 'Gimme More' singer may just add another sex tape to her resume.

 

According to PerezHilton.com (by way of the Daily Mail), Spears recently sent a missive to her former gal pal saying she'd leak footage of Hilton in a compromising position with another woman if Hilton doesn’t stop being rude to Spears and her entourage.

 

How did Hilton respond? A source close to the socialite told the Mail that she laughed and "said it was crap."

 

"It's obvious Britney and her bratty pals are being silly," the source said.

 

It wouldn’t be the first time a sex tape involving Hilton hit the World Wide Web.

A video shot by ex-boyfriend (and current husband of Pamela Anderson) Rick Solomon was leaked in 2004 and went on to win a number of AVN (Adult Video News) Awards in 2005.

Chrys Hudson © 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved.

Ricky Martin "outed" by beautician

Ask most gay men if they think hip-swinging Latin heartthrob Ricky Martin is gay and their response should be along the lines of, "well, duh".

That said, the former Meundo member has always been cagey on the subject, generally refusing to confirm or deny reports that he's gay (despite the slew of photos that have shown up on line of Martin and various half-naked muscle men cavorting on the beach).

Well, it seems one of Martin's beauticians has done what many gay men hoped the singer would do himself, eventually.

According to E! Online gossip guru Ted Casablanca, skin-care expert Ole Henriksen was recently asked who he’d like to vacation with other than his partner.

Henriksen's answer: “I’d go for Stig Tøfting (former Danish soccer player) but since he’s straight, I’d say my client Ricky Martin.”

Of course, as of yet there's been no response from the Martin camp.

Bryan Ochalla © 2007 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved.

Mrs Beckham reveals bedroom secrets

Victoria Beckham has finally 'fessed up to what anyone who heard True Stepper's 'Out of Your Mind' already knew.

The poor lass can't sing.

Talking to the American Elle, Posh said: "It became very obvious from the start that I was never going to be the best singer or the best dancer or the best actress. I was never a 'natural'."

Painting a picture of woe, she speaks of being bullied at school and current accusations that she spends all her time shopping - bravely admitting that she could, if she didn't 'work a seven day week'.

Posh also reveals why she holds such fascination, despite this dearth of talent:

"I'm so camp! I'm such a gay man trying to get out. I don't give a fuck what anybody thinks!"

No interview would be complete, of course, without a mention of her husband. "I sleep naked," she reveals. "I'm going to be naked if I'm getting in bed with him every night."

While we're not wholly convinced there's a gay man trying to get out of Posh, there's definitely a few we know who'd like to make their way inside David.

X Factor virgin "100% straight"

Many had imagined that his whole riff about being too committed a Christian to lose his virginity was in fact a not-so-elaborate plan to disguise his homosexuality.

But X Factor contestant Rhydian has revealed that he is not one of us.

“If people are assuming that I am gay, or whatever, that is fine. They don’t know me and I dress quite camp.

"But I can say categorically that I am 100% straight.”

The 24-year-old from Powys in Wales is one of the last contestants on this year’s X Factor, which ends on 15th December.

His comments on his Bible-inspired celibacy are well worth a read:

“That is not saying that I can’t have fun with a lady. I love the company of women. I have been offered sex, like most men. But if you believe in something you can’t compromise. But I am only human and you can fall short.

"At the moment, my priority is singing. I am not a closet Christian. If someone asks me about it, I will talk about it.

"I do pray on Saturdays (the day of X Factor) but then I pray every day. But what will be will be, it’s God’s will and that is a great mental attitude to have.”