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Patrick Wolf booked for Underage festival

Eccentric bisexual singer Patrick Wolf will be performing songs from his upcoming album, The Bachelor at Underage festival.

Wolf, 25, has made a few changes to his fourth album, most markedly leaving Universal to start his own label, Bloody Chamber Music, and put up shares for the album on bandstocks.com.

In Wolf's own words: "Basically, you can invest in the finishing of the album and the production of it, and you get a share in the album. So you almost become part of the record company, like a co-owner of the album."

The critically acclaimed festival, open only to those under the age of 19, returns to Victoria Park for its third year on 2^nd August.

Alan Carr to present new radio show

 Fresh from a stint on Comic Relief's Celebrity Apprentice, and now celebrating his first BAFTA award nomination, Alan Carr will be kicking off listeners' Saturday nights with a new show filled with "interaction, music and banter".

If the camp comedian's Twitter feed is anything to go by - “didn't know a woman had three holes - you learn something new everyday” - then expect lots of silliness.

Going Out With Alan Carr starts on 25^th April on BBC Radio 2 at 6pm.

Cohen's 'gay sex scenes' given an NC-17 rating

Sacha Baron Cohen's new film has been given an NC-17 rating due to its 'gay sex scenes'.

TheWrap.com reports that 'Bruno', which has the full title: 'Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt' contains "objectionable scenes".

Cohen, in the persona of gay Austrian fashionista Bruno, "appears to have anal sex with a man on camera. In another, the actor goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an unsuspecting non-actor".

The NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America officially "signals that the content is appropriate only for an adult audience", but logistically, if the film does not receive an R rating (which means a child can watch so long as he/she is accompanied by an adult), the film might not be screened in certain cinemas.

It is now most likely that the offending scenes will be spliced out of the film and put onto an unrated DVD available to buy just before next year's Oscars...

Elton's low-key birthday

Famed not just for an extensive sunglasses collection, a tendency to cross-dress and a bad temper, Elton John is known for his extravagant parties.

However, this weekend, he celebrated his 62nd birthday with a relatively low-key trip to Hamburger Hamlet on Sunset Boulevard.

Perhaps this choice of venue was due to a certain sympathy for those feeling the pinch in the recession. Or, more likely, Elton's feeling the strain on his purse-strings after losing a libel case against the Guardian earlier this week.

Marina Hyde, writing in the broadsheet's Weekend supplement magazine, was accused of mocking Elton John's AIDS fundraisers. In an amusing article, Hyde suggested that Elton's parties, namely the opulent White Tie and Tiara Ball, held by the Elton John AIDS Foundation and raising £10 million last year, were regarded by Elton simply as an opportunity to make new famous friends.

With David Furnish's absence unaccounted for, Elton saw in his 63rd year with many guests, including Sharon, Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne, Cindy Crawford, Lady Victoria Hervey and former Pop Idol contestant Darius Danesh.

Video: Pub painted pink by "paint and run" vandals

The owner and tenant of The Prince of Wales in Ledbury in Herefordshire, England has told police that there was no reason why vandals should have painted their Grade 1 listed building pink.

"The whole front of the building has been painted in a glorious Barbie pink," a police spokesman told the BBC.

Actors needed for Naked Boys Singing 2009

The producers of Naked Boys Singing are looking for hot, funny men who can sing to appear in a summer production of the show.

Award-winning UK director Phil Willmott is planning to audition some new talent alongside more established performers and welcomes applications from those who may not usually be seen for a high profile Off-West End show.

The 65-minute review will feature six good-looking and talented male actors celebrating the glories of the naked male body through a series of catchy cabaret numbers.

The rehearsal commitment is short and once the show has started and it may be possible for participants to work day jobs while appearing in the production in the evening. There will be a small fee.

If you’d like an audition, you can sing to West End/Broadway standard and you have a flair for comedy and a great body that you enjoy showing off, email a covering letter, CV and a photo to producer Danielle Tarento at info@kingsheadtheatre.org

Would-be actors should note they will not be required to be naked at their first audition.

The show will be staged between May 27th and July 5th at the King's Head Theatre.

Kanye West: I do not dress 'gay'

Kanye West has again chosen to offer his opinions on homosexuality, this time stating that he does not 'dress gay'.

Speaking to Complex magazine, he said: "I really think it's because society tries to dictate the way a guy is supposed to dress and the way a guy is supposed to act, and I refuse to conform.

"A lot of these dudes would never be accused of being gay just because they all look exactly alike.

"If people could just realise the amount of mundaneness and followers that lack creativity... I think people's mentality is like, 'Only gay people are that creative'.

"And it's true there are a lot of gay people who are incredible creative minds, but there are straight people who are incredible creative minds - and there's gay people who can't dress or create at all, too.

"Closed-minded gay people probably say they dress 'straight'.

Last month, the rapper stated that the term 'gay' will be used in future as synonymous with fashionable and stylish.

Video: Robbie Williams appears in Little Britain Comic Relief sketch

Ahead of the Red Nose day sketch, Comic Relief sent PinkNews.co.uk a video of Robbie Williams appearance in Little Britain

Homer Simpson's lesbian fantasies exposed

Blue-haired matriarch Marge will be shown kissing another woman in Sunday's episode of The Simpsons!

In the episode, titled How The Test Was Won, Homer looks on as the pair lock lips.

However, female viewers with a penchant for Marge's husky voice and shapely figure may be disappointed to learn that the embrace turns out to be a figment of Homer's imagination.

Homer's life insurance runs out but after panicking about imaginary disasters, his thoughts turn to lesbian fantasies.

In 2005, it was revealed that Marge's older sister Patty is a closet lesbian.

She was briefly engaged to a female golf player called Veronica, who later turned out to be a man who disguised himself to get on the Ladies Professional Golfing Association tour