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EastEnders: the gay kiss and preview photos

We've been away for a while so no EastEnders bisexual storyline updates recently.

Last Friday, Steven Beale (played by Aaron Sidwell) tried to kiss his gay step uncle Christian (John Partridge).

On the 28th April, they will have a heart to heart as Christian tries to help Steven through the issues with his sexuality.

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Channel 4 reporter tries "to keep it up"

PinkNews.co.uk founder Benjamin Cohen went along to the launch of the Wii fit today. His trial of the hula hoop game was rather funny

Lindsay Lohan Fights with Ashley Olsen over Girlfriend Samantha Ronson

Lindsay Lohan's tumultuous relationship with Samantha Ronson is back in the headlines again after a screaming match erupted between Lohan and Ashley Olsen over the lesbian DJ in New York this weekend.

According to reports, Lohan began screaming at Olsen after the Full House star said hello to Ronson, telling the Olsen twin to get away from her "girlfriend".   

The incident between the two young actresses reportedly occurred at the Beatrice Inn on Friday evening in New York City.

According to the New York Post, Ashley Olsen walked up to Ronson and said hello. Lohan, who has been romantically linked to the lesbian DJ, screamed at Olsen to "get your 15 year-old Full House ass away from my girlfriend!"   

The following evening, Lohan and Ronson arrived together at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone club in New York just before midnight, according to People.com . Ronson was working the DJ booth at the club while Lohan hung out at a nearby table with friends.

According to unidentified sources, Lohan was spotted drinking Grey Goose and Red Bull cocktails. Lohan has been struggling to remain clean and sober since an extended stay in a rehab facility for alcoholism last year following two DUI arrests and a brief incarceration in jail.

Lohan was videotaped in January drinking champagne while on vacation in Capri, Italy. Her lawyer at the time claimed the incident was an accident.

"After being handed a champagne bottle while on a dance floor in Italy on New Year's Eve and drinking from it, the good news is that Lindsay stopped herself, called her sponsor and got herself back on track," Blair Berk told People.

"There is no magic cure here. The most unfortunate part of this is that Lindsay has to share her 'one day at a time' with the entire world."

Written By Ann Turner

No BAFTA for Stephen Fry this year

Stephen Fry loses out as does Doctor Who the BAFTA Television awards are dished out

Best actor
Andrew Garfield - Boy A (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Tom Hardy - Stuart: A Life Backwards (BBC Two)
Matthew Macfadyen - Secret Life (Channel 4)
Antony Sher - Primo (BBC Four)

Best actress
Eileen Atkins - Cranford (BBC One)
Also nominated:
Judi Dench - Cranford (BBC One)
Gina McKee - The Street (BBC One)
Kierston Wareing - It's A Free World (Channel 4)

Best entertainment performance
Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
Also nominated:
Simon Amstell - Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC Two)
Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins - The Friday Night Project (Channel 4)
Stephen Fry - QI (BBC Two)

Best comedy performance
James Corden - Gavin and Stacey (BBC Three)
Also nominated:
Peter Capaldi - The Thick of It (BBC Four)
Stephen Merchant - Extras Christmas special (BBC One)
David Mitchell - Peep Show (Channel 4)

Best single drama
The Mark Of Cain (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Boy A (Channel 4)
Coming Down The Mountain (BBC One)
The Trial of Tony Blair (More 4)

Best drama serial
Britz (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Cranford (BBC One)
Five Days (BBC One)
Murphy's Law (BBC One)

Best drama series
The Street (BBC One)
Also nominated:
Life on Mars (BBC One)
Rome (BBC Two)
Skins (E4)

Best continuing drama
Holby City (BBC One)
Also nominated:
The Bill (ITV1)
EastEnders (BBC One)
Emmerdale (ITV1)

Best factual series
The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities (BBC One)
Also nominated:
Meet The Natives (Channel 4)
Paul Merton in China (Five)
Tribe (BBC Two)

Best entertainment programme
Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
Also nominated:
Britain's Got Talent (ITV1)
Have I Got News For You (BBC One)
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)

Best situation comedy
Peep Show (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Benidorm (ITV1)
The IT Crowd (Channel 4)
The Thick of It (BBC Four)

Best comedy programme
Fonejacker (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
The Armstrong & Miller Show (BBC One)
Russell Brand's Ponderland (Channel 4)
Star Stories (Channel 4)

Audience award
Gavin & Stacey (BBC Three)
Also nominated:
The Apprentice (BBC Two)
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC Two)
Britain's Got Talent (ITV1)
Cranford (BBC One)
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)

Best single documentary
Lie of the Land (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Beautiful Young Minds (BBC Two)
Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell (ITV1)
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives (BBC Four)

Best feature
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection (BBC Two)
The Secret Millionaire (Channel 4)
Top Gear (BBC Two)

Best international show
Heroes (BBC Two)
Also nominated:
Californication (Five)
Family Guy (BBC Three)
My Name Is Earl (Channel 4)

Best specialist factual
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC Two)
Also nominated:
Earth: The Power of the Planet (BBC Two)
The Genius of Photography (BBC Four)
The Relief of Belsen (Channel 4)

Best current affairs
China's Stolen Children - A Dispatches Special (Channel 4)
Also nominated:
Dispatches - Fighting The Taliban (Channel 4)
Honour Kills (BBC Three)
Panorama: Dog-Fighting Undercover (BBC One)

Best news coverage
Sky News - Glasgow Airport Attack (Sky News)
Also nominated:
BBC Ten O'Clock News: War in Afghanistan (BBC One)
Channel 4 News: Iraq - The Surge (Channel 4)
ITV Evening News: Zimbabwe - The Tyranny and the Tragedy (ITV1)

Best sport
ITV F1: Canadian Grand Prix Live (ITV1)
Also nominated:
Boat Race (ITV1)
Rugby World Cup 2007: England v France semi-final (ITV1)
Wimbledon - The Men's Final (BBC One)

Best interactivity
Spooks Interactive (BBC One)
Also nominated:
Big Art Mob (Channel 4)
Doctor Who Comic Maker (BBC One)
The X Factor (ITV1)

Ashlee still claiming not to be pregnant

Ashlee Simpson still claims she isn’t pregnant, but that hasn’t stopped her dad from shopping around baby photos to the highest bidder. Reports suggest he’s looking for a cool million for Ashlee’s baby with rocker Pete Wentz.   

You know, that baby they both claim isn’t on the way.   

On the eve of releasing her third album, Bittersweet World, it’s gossip as usual surrounding the 23-year-old singer. Still struggling to recover from that Saturday Night Live lip-syncing debacle, Simpson’s now dodging rumors it was her father who leaked Mariah Carey’s latest album a week before it’s release date.   

Word is Joe Simpson was worried about his daughter going head to head with Carey in her second week of release, so he attempted to end some of the anticipation by getting Mariah’s music out there early.

Now Ashlee Simpson is fending off rumors she’s pregnant. When asked on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show whether or not she’d be drinking to celebrate her album’s release, she replied with a coy, "Who knows. Maybe."   

Wentz proposed to Ashlee Simpson last month. It is the first marriage for both.    

Angela D'Amboise © 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved.

Madge's man preferred cookie to nookie

Madonna’s man Guy Ritchie killed his sex drive with cookies, the pop icon revealed.

Filmmaker Ritchie climbed on the trendy Cookie Diet bandwagon and despite the diet's success, his famous wife, was not pleased with all of the results.

"My husband went on that cookie diet and it was such a turn-off because he didn't want to have sex. He's not on it anymore, thank god!" was the dirty laundry Madonna aired to Johnjay and Rich, a Phoenix-based radio show duo.

Ritchie dropped several pounds on the Cookie Diet, an 800-calorie-a-day diet that Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson have also tried.

But while her husband slimmed down, Madonna was less than pleased with the sexual side effects.   

"He did lose weight, but he didn't really need to lose that much weight. I think he did it because all his friends were doing it and he wanted to see if he could do it,” Madonna said.

Sanford Siegal, the doctor who devised the Cookie Diet in 1975, shot back at Madonna’s assertion, saying that he’s "treated more than 500,000 patients" and he "can't recall any of them reporting a similar effect on their sexual appetite."

He added, "In the case of my cookies, they taste good enough but I can't imagine anyone preferring them to sex."   

Tracy E. Gilchrist © 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Ashlee Simpson pregnant - or is she?

Pop star Ashlee Simpson is reportedly pregnant, according to an article posted by US Magazine on Monday.

An unidentified source close to the 23 year-old singer told the magazine Jessica Simpson's younger sister is expecting her first child with 28 year-old fiancé Pete Wentz. However, Wentz is denying the pregnancy rumours are true.

US Magazine announced on Monday morning that a source close to Simpson had confirmed that she was expecting.

A spokesman for Simpson refused to comment on the rumoured pregnancy, saying only that the couple was "ecstatic" about their engagement and "can't wait to be man and wife."

Another report in OK! Magazine cited an unidentified source who said the baby is due in October and Simpson has recently been experiencing "fierce" morning sickness.

In contrast to the baby rumours spreading through the gossip blogs, Simpson's fiancé, Fall Out Boy band member Pete Wentz, says the reports of Simpson's pregnancy are false.

In an e-mail to MTV News on Monday, Wentz said: "There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood."

"I can't wait for the story about how I'm really in a gay relationship and this is all just a cover. ...I mean really, this is crazy. ...I mean, we're engaged, that's true, and happy about it."

The couple went public with their engagement last week, but so far no wedding plans have yet been announced.

© 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

EastEnders bi storyline continues with nude scene

The impending bisexual storyline in the BBC One Soap Opera EastEnders continues to veer closer.

On Monday night, Steven Beale (played by Aaron Sidwell) accidentally exposed himself to his gay step uncle Christian (John Partridge).





In pictures first published on PinkNews.co.uk, later this week, Steven is seen becoming closer to Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner). But, the influence of Christian may become more obvious in the coming weeks.

Photos: BBC Pictures

Zac Efron, Studio 54 and Andy Warhol

High School Musical cutie Zac Efron could be stepping up into a new adult role in a new movie.

Richard and Robert DuPont may not mean much to you, but in New York they are kinda iconic, being teen twin twinks from Connecticut who came to the Big Apple, got mixed up with the Studio 54 crowd, took lots of the drugs and did sex with famous old gay men.

Now nearly 50, they recently acted as associate producers on the movie Factory Girl, which was about that whole Warhol thing.

"We were Andy's proteges," they told the Daily Mail.

Richard and Robert DuPont  recently discussed what they got up to during their time as precocious runaways in the Studio 54-era Warhol camp. Andy, it seems, had a thing for twins.

"He would kiss me, and yes he touched me – he would sometimes jerk me  off," says Richard, according to SX News.

"Warhol also used Richard to recruit "cute  friends" to take part in the creation of the oxidation paintings.  "Andy would watch. He didn't touch himself, but he did this moaning.  'Oh!…Oh!…' It was like he was having an orgasm while he watched us.

"Or at least faking one. And then he would take us to lunch and give  us $100, or some of his silk-screen wallpaper of the cow or Mao."

Now the reclusive twins, 48, have said Zac is "top of their list" to play them.

What a scoop!

Still, allows everyone involved to print a pretty picture of Zac.