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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.
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)
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
For soap fans, especially the gay ones, a new storyline revealed by twinky actor Jack P Shepherd seemed too good to be true. It was.
Shepherd, 20, who has been in the soap since 2000, can be seen in the picture above wrestling a sea lion.
Sorry, hold on, that's his on-screen mum, Gail Potter Tilsley Hillman Platt. Yes, married three times AND she gave birth to a child that transformed into Adam Rickitt.
Anyway back to the story.
Shepard told the nice people on the This Morning sofa that during his character David's stay in prison there were "disturbing scenes."
"He's got a cellmate called Bubba, and Bubba likes to play sometimes ... they share bunk beds, you see. David's is the top bunk - and so is Bubba's, if you get my drift. There are a few shower scenes, too!"
The lovely people at the Daily Star interpreted this to mean:
"Corrie's David Platt is set to become a beefy prison inmate's bitch!"
Charming. Anyway the lovely people in the ITV press office have only gone and thrown a bucket of ice cold water over the whole Bubba/bunk sharing/shower scene thing.
"Jack was making what was clearly a joke and there's no truth in it whatsoever."
Shame.
Lucy Mangan in the Guardian wonders why only women and gay men like Today programme host, Evav Davis have nicknames at the BBC
Vlad the Impaler, Bloody Mary, Jocky Wilson; the Bard of Avon, Billy the Kid and David "the Hoff" Hasselhoff. Truly, history is strewn with evocative nicknames enshrining the qualities, talents and deeds, noble and ignoble, performed by their bearers. Now we must add another to the list, newly vouchsafed as we are the knowledge that the former BBC economics correspondent and the Today programme's newest presenting recruit, Evan Davis, is referred to by colleagues as "Tinsel Tits". This striking moniker is thought to derive from a combination of his rumoured nipple-piercings and the prepubescent level of humour, spiced perhaps with a touch of homophobia (Davis is one of the very few openly gay high-profile correspondents at Broadcasting House), that exists among those working in the bowels of the BBC.
Davis is not the first presenter to have been saddled with a nickname that he - presumably - would rather do without. Natasha Kaplinsky is known as Spangles, a blisteringly witty result of her sequined appearances on Strictly Come Dancing and a general opinion that she is more style than substance. Fiona Bruce is apparently referred to behind her back as Lady Macbeth - which, assuming that she hasn't lured her husband into killing any Scottish kings lately, is either a sign that she is a cruel tyrant in the studio, or that the low-grade misogynists among the backroom boys react equally badly to perceived un-Spangliness as they do to its opposite.
Jeremy "Paxo" Paxman is the only one of the current straight, male heavyweights to have anything approaching a nickname, and his is more of a simple abbreviation, which also accomplishes the feat of sounding even more macho than the man himself.
But a golden era of equal opportunity insult did exist, and not long ago. Peter Sissons apparently used to be known as "Potatohead", and it behoves us now to resurrect the egalitarian tradition. Henceforth, let's hear it for Jeremy "Easter Island" Paxman, John "If a Smash robot had hair" Humphrys, Ed "Teddy Robinson" Stourton. All other suggestions on postcards to the usual address.
Fresh from sharing screen time with a rehabilitated Britney Spears in How I Met Your Mother, series star Jason Segal is ready to assist in another reinvention: The Muppets. Making the rounds to promote his new film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Segal says its time to light the lights on a brand new movie that will hopefully make all well in the land of Henson. "I've just grown a little disappointed with Muppets in the Old West, Muppets Under Water
and all these weird concept movies," the 28-year-old actor told MTV. "I
just want to take it back to the early '80s, when it was about the
Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back." Segal,
who takes a huge step forward for equality by being the one who takes
his clothes off in his new movie, says the idea came to him while
shooting Marshall. In the film, his character fantasizes about making a puppet show out of Dracula's life. “When
you see the movie, you’ll see that there’s a puppet musical at the
end," he says. "I’ve always loved puppets, and the Henson Studios
designed those puppets for us. While I was there, I was talking to them
and asking when the next Muppets movie was coming out, and they said
‘We don’t control the Muppets anymore, Disney does.’ And that just made
me think back to those early '80s Muppet movies, and The Muppet Show." Segal said that, like The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppets Take Manhattan, he wants to enlist big-name stars for the film, having already approached the Judd Apatow stable that includes Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig and Paul Rudd. "I remember thinking that Kermit was the original Tom Hanks...
he was the everyman for a kid," Segal said, revealing that the plot
would focus heavily on the banjo-picking frog. "I remember watching
Kermit and thinking ‘That’s what I want to do when I grow up.’ I don’t
think I realized he was a puppet." Segel said he hopes to dive head first into the Muppet movie after shooting this summer's I Love You, Man. Angela D'Amboise
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Australian Gladiator contestant Sam Brodie
may have lost his battle to win fame on the show, but his gay porn past
has gained him a whole new level of notoriety. DNA Magazine revealed
this week that nude photos of Brodie were featured on the 'gay-for-pay'
porn site SeducedStraightGuys.com. Last month, the American version of the show was rocked with scandal after it came to light that gladiator Alex Castro had posed for gay porn sites. Sam Brodie, from Queensland, was one of the first contestants to appear on the recently re-launched Australian version of Gladiators,
a remake of the 90's television series. The 23-year-old sheet metal
worker and Junior Olympic swimmer failed to win on the show and will
not return. His performance on the show was so dismal that one of the
gladiators, Hunter, called him a "waste of his time". Though
his performance on Gladiator was less than stellar, Brodie's brief 15
minutes of fame were stretched out a bit longer when it was discovered
he had previously posed nude for a gay porn site. The photos reportedly originated from the gay-for-pay porn site
SeducedStraightGuys.com, which posted the photos under the pseudonym
"Ben". A blurb about "Ben" stated he was a "ladies man" and has
aspirations to sleep with a girl from every country in the world,
according to NineMSN.com. Brodie may have also appeared in at least one porn video, rumored to be
a masturbation film. The bio on SeducedStraightGuys.com states the
reason why "Ben" posed for the photos and alleged film was because
"it's one of his fantasies of course". Last month it was
revealed one of the gladiators on the American version of the show had
previously worked as a gay porn model. Alex 'Militia' Castro posed for
a number of nude photos for COLT under the alias of "Elian Castro" and
is rumored to have been featured in several "solo" porn films. Another
of the gladiators, Justice, once worked as a stripper at a male strip club under the stage number "Thunder". Ann Turner
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Photos of Brodie in various stages of undress were published this week in DNA Magazine.
In the pictures, Brodie is featured in a variety of provocative poses.
PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen reports on More4 News on the rise of gay hookup sites including Gaydar. Looking at how it's changing gay life and not always in positive ways.
Check out the report (that does contain references to bareback sex below)
PinkNews founder Ben Cohen's three part series on More4 on Britain's Dot.com decade began tonight on More 4 News.
"For anybody there from the word go - it's been an amazing journey from
bulky computers- through the euphoria of the dot.com boom, followed by
bust and eventual rebirth."
Tomorrow he tackles the impact of gay hookup sites like Gaydar on the gay community.
Steven Beale (AARON SIDWELL) and Stavey Slater (LACEY TURNER) [Photo: BBC Pictures]
EastEnders' bisexual ticking time bomb continues.
Too clever to actually cop to any actual girl on girl, Ellen bid a fond flip of the bird to the likes of the Village Voice's gossip monger extraordinaire Michael Musto,
who recently opined about Ellen in his column, "Is she or isn't she?"
The cutest, smartest actress to dissemble about her bedroom
proclivities since one Ms. Jodie Foster, Ellen's fluid sexuality worked Musto into a good ole gay boy froth. "I mean, come on already, is she??? You know, Lebanese! She certainly dresses like a, you know, tomboy," Musto wrote. And this week, Little "E'"—Ellen Degeneres is "The Big E"—responded to the rumors on Saturday Night Live with a hilarious riff on what the masses consider all things Lesbo. For the skit, Ellen's thinly-veiled SNL alter ego returned home to her boyfriend—Andy Samberg—all butched out following an illuminating night at a Melissa Etheridge
concert. Just to hear eat-her-with-a-spoon adorable Ellen utter the
words, "Indigo Girls, Closer I am to Fine, great big lezzy jam and
athletic girls in tank tops," was enough to send budding gay girls and
dyed-in-the-wool dykes alike into fits of longing. But the
proverbial icing on Ellen's cake was when she dropped to her back with
her legs in the air and queried, "Why does everything have to have a
label? Why can't I just hug a woman with my legs in friendship if I
want?" The
real Hillary turned up with an "editorial response," and parried with
her twin, Poehler. When little Amy asked, "How's the campaign going?"
Hills responded with a very funny faux mélange of self-confidence and
paranoia. "It's going great. Great. Why what have you heard?" With support from Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Cher
and Tina Fey, Hillary—it's small wonder her initials are HRC—has got
the queer vote sewn up. But I'm not holding my breath for card carrying
Texan and Ohioan homos to tip the scales away from her rival. However, Jack Nicholson has thrown his support behind Hills with a video endorsement of famous Jack lines edited from his films. Oddly there's no ax wielding, "Here's Johnny," in the mix. With
the gay vote and now the pervy old man demographic behind her, she
might just pull it out of the bag—or at least she'll be able to open a
porn shop. Nice girl Natalie Portman publicly
objectified her on-screen sister—and by sister I don't mean the kind
you find romping in the nude at the Michigan Women's Festival. On the subject of her The Other Boleyn Girl, corset-clad co-star Scarlett Johansson,
Nat said, "I would really want to grab Scarlett's breasts. She's got
beautiful ones." Touché Natalie….touché. It doesn't take a Harvard grad
to figure that out. Selma's slated to play a "sarcastic lesbian schoolteacher" who gets down and dirty with a female student, played by Californication's Madeline Zima. I can see it now, in a Notes on a Scandal-esque
backlash, the politically correct among us will skewer the film on the
basis that it makes all Lesbos look like predators, while privately
drooling over the match-up. Let's hope Selma gets a filthy tagline similar to her "f*** me…" in Todd Solondz's button pushing Storytelling. Edgy teen star turned loopy shoplifter Winona Ryder's decided to tie the knot with Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett. Perennial groupie and erstwhile slut, the gal who won our hearts with Heathers, has dated Johnny—Wino Forever—Depp, Matt Damon, Adam Duritz, Dave Grohl and others… many others. Like the famous blackout that spawned the Baby Boom generation, everyone was getting laid on The L Word this week... except there wont' be much baby-making going on there. A heat wave and rolling blackouts made the L Word ladies—and Max—mucho horny. Locked
in an elevator, Bette continued to do what she does best and cheat on
her partner Jodi—albeit with her ostensible "lobster" for life, Tina. Shane
scratched her straight-girl itch with Molly and Max got it on with a
boy… P.S.—if anyone knows where to get a t-shirt like the one Shane was
wearing that was emblazoned with the names of my fave director Michelangelo Antonioni's films, this trendy little film history nerd would be eternally indebted. Life
imitated art this weekend when Lesbian Turkish Oil Wrestling became a
palpable reality—at least for the greased up girls in the ring. Joining cutie-pie Keener was Clementine Ford, Cybill Shepherd's real daughter and Molly on the show, and the genius who directed the oil-wrestling episode, Angela Robinson. A perfectly wholesome evening of boozing and ogling half-naked chicks in a crammed, sweat-soaked environment, was had by all. Check out babe Bridget McManus, the next big thing in lesbian comics on AfterEllen.com's
weekly "Brunch with Bridget," in which a P.J.-clad and bed-bound
Bridget rubs elbows and pillow fights with lesbian luminaries. This week's episode features Bridget and my friend, the very funny Andrea Meyerson, Laughing Matters series director and founder of the wildly successful lesbian outings—not outing—group, Women On A Roll. After this Vlog, gay girls nationwide will want to pillow fight—or pillow bite—with funny girl Bridget. Missed the last "Media Blender"? Read it here!
Let's keep our fingers crossed she's a baby dyke, Juno's Ellen Page teased the trendy True Religion jeans and retro-print t-shirts right off legions of Lesbos on Saturday Night Live this week. 
Following up on Tina Fey's SNL mantra for Hillary—Seven Sisters—Clinton that "Bitch is the new black", Tina's erstwhile partner in crime, Amy Poehler, donned her Hillary drag for a skit that eviscerated the Democratic debate process in which Darryl Hammond, impersonating Tim Russert, interrogated Hillary while tossing Nerf balls at Barack—one
minute I'm welcoming an anti-gay activist and gospel singer to my
campaign and the next I'm sending Valentine's to the queer community—Obama.
The student of gay girl action in Cruel Intentions, raven-haired Selma Blair, has become the teacher. She's signed on to play it gay on the big screen in Driving Lessons. 
Congrats
to Winona and Blake, but it's a tad bittersweet when a tried and true
pill-popping kleptomaniac with a slutty edge settles down. 
That's right. OurChart.com teamed up with West Hollywood promoter Linda Fusco and Fuse events to allow Weho women to objectify and ogle slippery women. The L Word's breakout star of the season, Elizabeth Keener, was on hand to do her best Dawn Denbo and play ringmaster. Sadly, "lover Cindy" was nowhere in sight.
Tracy Gilchrist
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“It made me smile, and it takes a lot to make me smile.” And with those words from famously stone faced Project Runway guest judge Victoria Beckham,
viewers should have known 22-year-old Christian Siriano had a lock on
taking home the US talent show title on the season finale earlier this week. The
pocket gay, as he’s been dubbed online—with lines like crediting
himself as “sew fabulous” to his credit—became the youngest winner in
the show’s history earlier this week, with judges Beckham, Michael Kors and Elle fashion director Nina Garcia singing his praises. The show’s design mentor Tim Gunn said Siriano and contestant Jillian Lewis were neck and neck until Beckham’s comment—“That collection is me”—sealed his win. As
in seasons past, Siriano walks away from the show with $100K (£50k) seed money
for his own fashion line, a brand new Saturn car and a spread in Elle magazine. After
leaving the runway a winner, the notoriously flamboyant Siriano waved a
hand in Beckham’s direction and offered a simple, “We’ll be in touch.” Watch the thrilling finale! Angela D'Amboise
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Cruel Intentions star Selma Blair is in final negotiations to play a
lesbian high school teacher romantically involved with a student in the
black comedy Driving Lessons.
Madeline
Zima, who plays David Duchovny's underage fling in Showtime's Californication, has enrolled as Blair's love interest.
Blair famously shared an on-screen kiss with Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions, winning an MTV award for best kiss.
Driving
Lessons revolves around a woman (Hope Davis) given a second shot at
her unhappy marriage after losing her memory.
It conveniently helps her
forget an interracial affair with her burly neighbour Simon (Chi
McBride).
Dermot Mulroney plays her husband, and Max Thieriot her
religious, right-wing son.
American Idol judge Paula Abdul has denied rumours that her co-host,
music mogul Simon Cowell, is gay, saying that he is just “comfortable in
his own skin.”
Despite having a long-term girlfriend, Terri Seymour, Cowell’s sexuality is frequently the subject of media scrutiny.
Singer
Abdul says she is sick of the constant rumours and evens goes as far as
saying she fancies him herself, because “he's been doing more push-ups
lately.”
She tells the UK gossip magazine Star:
“People say that
all the time but no, he's not! His brother always jokes and says that
he's gay but Simon has fun with it now. He's very comfortable in his
skin.”
But even Paula is not impressed by those high-waisted
trousers. “There's no excuse for him to dress that way,” she says.
Quite right.
Youth magazine AXM has put together a list of the sexiest men in the eyes of gays across Britain. As ever David Beckham is apparently the man at the top.
Number five, Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones is our favourite from the list.
1. David Beckham
2. Channing Tatum
3. Hayden Christensen
4. Ryan Philippe
5. Gethin Jones
6. Dermot O'Leary
7. Matt Di Angelo
8. James Marsden
9. Alex Pettyfer
10. Gerard Butler
Fights, tantrums and tanked-up pop
stars can only mean one thing: the Brit Awards. The music industry's
most notorious annual award show is back on our screens this month.
Famed for its disastrous presenters, unruly guests and controversial
performances, the Brit Awards is always great entertainment value and
this year is set to be no different as the cream of the industry turn
out in full force.
Never an event to shy away from controversy, the awards have produced some memorable pop moments in the past including the Spice Girl Geri Halliwell in her iconic union flag dress, Jarvis Cocker's stage invasion during Michael Jackson's performance of Earth Song, Robbie Williams challenging Liam Gallagher to a fight and a drunken tryst between DJ Brandon Block and Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood.
If you're tuning in to see some big names you won't be left feeling disappointed. Some of the industry's best known stars have signed up to perform this year, including music legend Sir Paul McCartney, who will headline the show with a very special performance and will also pick up the 2008 Outstanding Contribution to Music Award.
We will also see performances from the ultimate pop queen, Kylie Minogue, record-breaking nominee Rihanna, world-class British indie acts the Kaiser Chiefs, Mika and Mark Ronson.
Known for its history of unpredictable rock n roll antics, the Brit Awards has fittingly chosen rock music's favourite couple, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, as hosts. With Ozzy's metal mayhem and Sharon's outspoken honesty, the duo will guide the expected millions of TV viewers and 11,000 music fans partying in Earls Court through one of the most exhilarating nights in the UK music calendar.
X-Factor judge Sharon says: "Ozzy and I have been asked to host many awards shows in the past but this is by far the most prestigious and meaningful, especially for Ozzy, as it's about the music. We are proud to be Brits and are both incredibly honoured to have been asked to help celebrate the best in British music at the biggest music awards show in Europe."
Now in its 28th year of broadcast, the Brit Awards will go out live on ITV1 for a second consecutive year, so expect the unexpected and the controversial from the biggest personalities in the UK music industry.
The nominations for this year are:
British male solo artist: Jamie T, Mark Ronson, Mika, Newton Faulkner, Richard Hawley.
British female solo artist: Bat For Lashes, Kate Nash, KT Tunstall, Leona Lewis, PJ Harvey.
British group: Arctic Monkeys, Editors, Girls Aloud, Kaiser Chiefs, Take That.
British album: Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare, Leona Lewis - Spirit, Mark Ronson - Version, Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion, Take That - Beautiful World.
British breakthrough act: Bat For Lashes, Kate Nash, Klaxons, Leona Lewis, Mika. (Winner chosen by BBC Radio 1 listeners.)
British live act: Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Klaxons, Muse, Take That. (Winner chosen by BBC Radio 2 listeners.)
British single: Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love, Mika - Grace Kelly, Take That - Shine, Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby, Sugababes - About You Now, Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse - Valerie, Kate Nash - Foundations, The Hoosiers - Worried About Ray, James Blunt - 1973, Mutya Buena - Real Girl. (A live public vote will decide the winner on the night.)
International male solo artist: Bruce Springsteen, Kanye West, Michael Buble, Rufus Wainwright, Timbaland.
International female solo artist: Alicia Keys, Bjork, Feist, Kylie Minogue, Rihanna.
International group: Arcade Fire, Eagles, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, White Stripes.
International album: Arcade Fire - Neon Bible, Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden, Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times, Kylie Minogue - X.
Critics' Choice Award: Adele
Outstanding
contribution to music: Sir Paul
McCartney
To find out how your favourite pop acts
fare tune into ITV1 on 20 February for the live show.
It’s Valentine’s Day, and what better way to celebrate than a walk down memory lane with The Vagina Monologues… assuming the banter is kept PG. It wasn't this morning on the set of The Today Show, as Academy Award winning actress Jane Fonda let slip the title of the piece she was asked to perform so many years before: "Cunt." Fonda
then when on to say that when she was originally asked to perform the
piece, her response was, "I don't think so. I've got enough problems." Upon uttering the four letter slur, host Meredith Vieira looked a bit caught off guard but kept going. Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler was also on the programme. Ten
minutes later, Vieira returned, saying both Fonda and NBC apologised
for the use of the word. In recent weeks, NBC has had to apologise for
comments made by Chris Matthews and David Shuster. Fonda was on the show to promote the tenth anniversary of The Vagina Monologues.
Neighbours stalwart Harold Bishop will not be coming out anytime soon.
The actor who plays Harold, Ian Smith, told the Daily Star that producers were keen to change the character's sexual orientation, but he was having none of it.
There was a lot of talk about this," he told the paper.
"He and Lou once ate a salad together and that means you are gay ... in Australia!"
Poor Harold.
Married to a lady many 12-year-olds assumed was a man in drag, his daughter killed by a stray bullet during a protest against duck hunting, lost at sea, amnesia, owner of Lassiter's coffee shop until it exploded, an ongoing battle with the Russian mafia.
The last thing he needs is a gay sex life.
In any case, Harold will be leaving the cast in April, though he will be returning intermittently.
OK, we don't normally carry info on this sort of caper, and we would like to go on record and say that anyone over 25 who watches teen-porno drama Skins is either very sad or shouldn't be allowed near teenagers, BUT some of the bands who will be appearing across the country are pretty damn hot, so here we go:
E4’s hit comedy drama series Skins is rolling up and rolling out to the best music joints across the U.K. for a string of exclusive showcases to celebrate the launch of the second series in February.
Not only will they be premiering the eagerly anticipated first episode of the new series at each event but in true Skins style, they’ll be throwing some deeply decadent parties, featuring live sets from the glitterati of the indie, electro and nu rave scenes.
These highly coveted tickets will be free and available on a first come first served basis from 17th January through E4.com, Myspace.com and Bebo.com.
Giving
something back to the hardcore fans, tickets will be free of charge and will be
exclusively available online through E4.com, Myspace and Bebo from 17th
January.
Making every effort to ensure they are not resold, tickets will be sent as an SMS straight to the successful applicants’ phone and redeemable at the door where ID will be required.
All events are strictly over 18s
only.
Friday February 1st – Barfly, Liverpool
Rascals
Kissy Sell Out.
Loose Cannons.
Chibuku DJs
more tbc
Saturday February 2nd – The Old Fire Station,
Newcastle
The Metros.
Maximo Park DJ set.
Broken Hooker DJ’s.
Tuesday February 5th – The Old Fruit Market, Glasgow
Pendulum DJ/MC Set.
Annie Mac
DJ Yoda
Seargent
Thursday February 7th – Custard Factory, Birmingham
New Young Pony Club DJ set
Annie Mac
DJ Yoda
Crystal Castles
Friday February 8th – Motion Park, Bristol
Late Of The Pier.
Courteeners
Massive Attack DJs
Skull Juice DJs.
Dynamo magician
Blow Pop DJs
Saturday February 9th – The Shepherd’s Bush
Pavillion
Mylo
Kissy Sell Out
Santogold (Live)
Teenagers
(Live)
Skull Juice DJs
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For some gay men, it was among the best television ever made.
For others it was, in the words of the talking dog in Family Guy, a show about three hookers and their mother.
In any case one gay man has lots of happy memories of Sex and the City - and he is willing to share them. For money.
Clifford Streit, the former manager of Candace Bushnell, is reportedly working on "Unbecoming Stanford," a behind the scenes expose.
Bushnell's sex column in the New York Observer was the inspiration for the show.
SATC's gay best friend character (cliche? noooooo!) Stanford was apparently a charicature of Streit.
Anyway, among the revelations, as told to the New York Daily News:
Gay producer Darren Star turned Ashton Kutcher down for a part in the show because he was unconvinced he would go anywhere.
Kim Catrrall caused tensions on set by stealing all the limelight.
Two on-screen lovers were doing it in real life too.
There must be more dirt than that - get publishing Clifford!
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. 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. 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
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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!” 
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.
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.
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.”
This year, the Christmas number one may have people dancing their cares
away.
Fans of the 1980s family favourite, Fraggle Rock, can download the
'Fraggle Rock Theme Tune' on iTunes from 10th December.
Fraggle
Rock, the first US TV show to be aired in the former USSR, returned
to our telly boxes in July, and now online betting sites are giving the
theme tune a 15 to 1 change to beat the usual Christmas number one
suspects.
In addition to entering the digital music world, Jim
Henson's subterranean puppets have also joined the Facebook social
networking site.
The Fraggle Rock Facebook Application, which has over
four thousand users, lets you decorate your profile page with The
Fraggles, the Doozers and the Gorgs.
So grab a "doozer stick" and get clicking--they might just be able stop the Spice Girls from getting to the number one spot.
Panto dame and old-fashioned gay Christopher Biggins has won this year’s edition of exclusive ITV1 reality programme “I’m A Celebrity? Get Me Out Of Here.”
"I'm so proud to boast that I am - the first I'm A Celebrity Queen to become King of the Jungle,” he said of his victory for gay people everywhere.
"We humbly thank you, Great Britain, from the bottom of our heart. One was moved to tears. One loves you all, my loyal subjects."
Biggins sent shockwaves across the country when he came out in 1998.
After his jungle triumph he gave an exclusive interview to The Mirror about his life on the C-List. If you have a few moments to spare it is reasonably insightful.
More amusing is the sight of Independent journalist Johann Hari calling other people chubby:
“The portly, shrieking pantomime dame Christopher Biggins won ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ last night, and to no doubt become the nation’s favourite eunuch for a few months.
“He’s part of a long tradition of gay men welcomed into the British mainstream who I’ve written about before: the safe, sexless, self-hating homosexual who doesn’t make you think about anything frightfully distasteful like men actually having sex with each other other.
"No – Biggins reassures you that homosexuality is about nice things, like wearing dresses and being friends with Joan Collins, dah-ling!”
OUCH! Read the rest of Hari's comment piece here.
It is a headline that's been generating a slew of hits for cinematical.com - Ryan Phillippe is gay. We wish - in fact he PLAYED a gay in his first professional acting job - and very convincing he is too.
"From 1992-1993, there was a character on One Life to Live called Billy Douglas. He was a young, blonde kid who also happened to be gay," reports cinematical.com.
What is his dad wearing??
What is it with these girls all wanting to sleep with some girl or another?
The latest is 18 year old Heroes star Hayden Panettiere. According to American GQ, she wants to sleep with Angelina Jolie.
"Well, if you want to make me a lesbian, that's totally fine with me. That would be a pretty funny rumour. I'd love to have a love affair with Angelina,” she said.
Panettiere, who is 14 years junior of Mrs Pitt, also claimed, "and there are other beautiful girls I like too - Charlize Theron, oh my God! Kate Beckinsale is gorgeous too, and Jessica Alba.”
We have enough problem dealing with working out if someone is a heterosexual in the first place without all these “I'm not gay but..” people coming into the picture.
“I'm a Celebrity, Give Me Attention” contestant Gemma Atkinson has revealed her role in a “sexy” lesbian romp...for a film she is taking part in.
The 22-year-old former Hollyoaks actress did say however that it took a few shots of vodka before she felt full prepared for the scene in London based movie Boogie Woogie.
"I had to do a scene
with Jaime Winstone. A full-on lesbian scene.” She told her fellow
jungle enthusiasts.
"I
was more... well not relaxed ....but more comfortable doing it with
Jaime because she's straight."
Panto dame Christopher Biggins asked her if she had to strip naked to which she said,"I asked to keep my bottoms on and the director let me - so that was cool. When it came to the kissing, he [the director] basically said: 'I just want you to go for it because the more you do it the more happy it's going to be”
Shocker
that. A straight man asking her to “go for it” with another
woman. The director will soon say that he picked her for acting
ability.
Oh we are cruel. Only joking Gemma, we are sure you are a
great actress and its got nothing to do with your huge bristols.
Check out her website - its hilarious!
photo: Gemma in the lovely Loaded magazine.
Former Hollyoaks actor turned reality TV personality (what is it with them today?) Paul Danan has been sacked from a pantomime he was due to play in after his appearance turning on the Christmas lights in Preston went down for all the wrong reasons.
While the ceremony was taking place he swore several times down the microphone at the audience. Well isn't that lovely?
To be honest, what were the bosses behind the switch on thinking? That he would maybe read a nice Shakespeare Sonnet or quote something from a Christmas Carol? This is someone who had sex on live television and told every girl that he met that he loved.
Ken Hudson, the leader of Preston council called the outburst “a disgrace”, and rightly so. The whole council should be sacked for thinking that hiring the Z List celeb would ever be a good idea.
Loads of muscular, topless men, on an island, who are all having sex with each other, tends to indicate porn, no?
Well not always. Dante's Cove (no really, not porn), is what critics have been calling “Queer as folk meets Buffy.”
Set in a world of demons and monsters, but to a backdrop of a beautiful remote island, Dante's Cove looks set to be one of those cult gay TV shows along the lines of Dallas or the Golden Girls. Only with hotter guys and bitchier cat fights.
The show follows the story of Kevin, who leaves an abusive household to follow his boyfriend Toby to the remote island.
It's only after arriving and checking into the Hotel Dante that strange and mysterious things begin to happen, and they end up releasing a spirit locked in the hotel for 150 years.
Although the plot sounds thinner than Kate Moss, it has gained a cult status in the US with lesbian website afterellen.com saying its, "campy, gothic, mysterious, homoerotic, and a bit silly."
It also does have some seriously hot cast, including the former Dark Angel actor William Gregory Lee as the evil Ambrosius. Well, hot if you like that sort of thing.
So
if you like soft core porn and don't have access to the internet,
give it a look when the DVD is released in January 2008.
So Simon Cowell has admitted it. He isn't gay. Though he has had Botox.
The pantomime baddie from X-Factor today told the Daily Mail: “If I was, why hide it? It's not as if the music business would be an odd place for a gay man to work.”
Still, there is hope for everyone who loves the domineering music mogul, he refuses to have kids and settle down just yet.
“I love kids - at least they are old enough to talk,” he said.
“But my own? No. I'm terrified of the responsibility. Where would they fit in? I have to be able to fly to Los Angeles at a minute's notice.”
We're sure his long term girlfriend Terri Seymour is absolutely overjoyed at that.
His not being gay is no bad thing really. Do we really want another self-righteous, bitchy, orange idiot to add to the population of gay men of the United Kingdom? Didn't think so.
Hottie actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers was arrested yesterday after being refused permission to get on board a flight in Dublin.
The Tudors star was apparently engaged in a clash with airport employees after being told he was unfit to travel.
JMR was later released from jail after paying a cash bail and will appear in an Irish court next month. He was in town promoting his new film August Rush and had appeared on the TV show Turbidy Tonight hours before his arrest.
Rhys Meyers attended rehab earlier this year for alcohol addiction. It seems everyone is doing it these days.
Britney, Amy, Pete. Maybe rehab shouldn't stand for rehabilitation any more. Maybe it sho
