BRITISH MAGICIAN AND MENTALIST DERREN BROWN INVESTIGATED BY OFCOM

Britain’s leading magician and mentalist, Derren Brown, is currently being investigated by Ofcom because of a homophobic comment he made on his TV show.

The Telegraph have revealed that Ofcom received 27 complaints from offended viewers of his TV show in which he explained how he correctly predicted the lottery numbers just a few days before and made a quip about the bonus ball being for “women and gays”, he also repeated this comment on his official Twitter.

Here are the actual Tweets he made:

“Ok, gays and women. Do you or do you not pay particular attention the bonus ball? I know I do.”

“And I am including gay women in that of course. Twice as much reason to pay attention.”

“May be offending straight men and bisexuals. Apologies, do be sure to complain. X”

… and complain they did, all 27 of them!

Brown, 38, who actually came out as gay in The Independent a few years ago, has been accused of being homophobic (lol) and sexist because of the above comments. It has also been rumoured that Brown has just signed a new £2 million contract with Channel 4 after being head hunted by ITV. We wonder if Channel 4 are regretting this decision after a disastrous week for the mind bender.

Wed 9th Sept – Derren correctly predicts all 6 numbers of the national lottery. The world wide web goes crazy trying to work out how he did it. Public opinion – split screen.

Thurs 10th Sept – A plausible video surfaces showing how Derren probably predicted the numbers. The video makes it to the tabloids, the video makers, to radio.

Fri 11th Sept – Brown explains on TV how he actually predicted the numbers yet doesn’t really tell us anything at all and makes a “women and gays” joke that only Bernard Manning would be proud of. Public opinion – still split screen but now Brown is a knob for thinking the public are stupid and that only women and gays like the bonus ball. Plausible video looking more plausible. 27 offended people contact Ofcom.

Mon 14th Sept – Damage control begins as The Sun reveals that Brown predicted the numbers BEFORE Christmas but the footage of him doing so were cut from Friday’s show due to time. No such footage has (yet) been seen or released. Public still angry, now with possible cover up.

Wed 16th Sept – Derren makes the “women and gays” comment again on his Twitter.

Thurs 17th Sept – It is revealed Brown is being investigated by Ofcom for his remark. His Twitter is more quiet than usual. No comment from Brown or his publicist Greg Day yet.

I wonder if Derren is of the opinion that any publicity is good publicity, hmmm…

CONSPIRACY THEORY #1: MICHAEL JACKSON – DEAD OR ALIVE?

If like me you like conspiracy theories, then you will love this site I’ve stumbled across.

The site in question is dedicated to Michael Jackson’s death being fake and it contains theories, speculation, opinions and fact. Definitely worth a read. Some theories are a bit far out but there will be some content that does make you go “hmmm”. This site does back up it’s own argument a lot which adds to the fact that this site isn’t ran by MJ fans who just don’t want to believe it.

Go there now and have a read for yourself… michaeljacksonhoaxdeath.com

TOY PARROT TELLS CHILD, 5, TO “BUGGER OFF”!

Tara Weston went crackers when the cuddly parrot she bought for her five-year-old uttered a string of obscenities.

Horrified Tara, 32, listened in disbelief as the 99p fluffy toy blurted out a barrage of vile insults when daughter Demi pulled the cord.

“We chose the parrot in the toy section, so I expected it to be completely child-friendly,” said Tara. But instead of repeating: “What’s yer name?” or “Polly wants a cracker”, the foul-mouthed bird squawked: “I’m going to rip you head off and s*** down your neck.”

The parrot finished its torrent of abuse by yelling “b****r off” and “up your bum”. Fuming Tara, from Holloway, north London, marched back to her nearby The 99p Store to demand bosses remove the swearing parrot from its shelves.

“I was shocked with the lack of response I received,” she said. “Really, it’s disgusting. “The manager told me it had been a mistake and shouldn’t have been in the children’s section.

“I insisted they give me the number for head office so I could make an official complaint.”

She added: “My sister went back to the shop later and the parrots still hadn’t been removed. What if another child had been bought one?

“Five-year-olds shouldn’t be hearing swear words like that.” The angry mum contacted Trading Standards officials and was told several complaints had been made by parents around the country.

A spokeswoman for Islington trading standards officers said: “We will be contacting the store to suggest the item is moved into another area, as it’s clearly not suitable to be on sale in the children’s section.”

Nigel Peckham, director of The 99p Store, a nationwide chain, said the product was designed for adults and was clearly labelled as not suitable for children.

“We encourage all our customers to reach us through our customer services department,” he said. “I’ll be very happy to deal with a complaint when it arrives.”

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If the lolparrot was clearly labelled “not suitable for children” then WTF is all the fuss about? It’s just a case of thick (and cheap) parenting, like the time one mother bought a dildo for her baby, thinking it was an odd shaped pacifier. READ. THE. LABEL!! What next? Buying her daughter a copy of Viz magazine thinking it was an innocent comic? Fuck the parrot, I’ll rip her head off and shit down her neck. Dumb cow! I mean if you are going to be a tight-arsed bitch and spend 99p on a toy for your child then you deserve everything you get!

JADE GOODY – THE MUSICAL?

A musical of Jade Goody’s life is in development, a friend and business partner of the late reality TV star revealed today.

Danny Hayward said that the stage show is only in its “infant stages” but he is planning auditions to cast an actress as the late Big Brother contestant.

One of Goody’s “best men” at her wedding, Hayward told ITN On: “We’ve got [a musical] coming out in about four months’ time and it’s going to be the story of her life and we’re going to be on the search for who is going to play Jade.”

The musical is the latest of a series of projects launched following Goody’s death, at the aged 27, last month.

Diaries chronicling her battle with cervical cancer were published last week, while her former publicist Max Clifford has been in negotiations over a film of her life.

Goody went from dental nurse to the country’s most famous reality star after dividing viewer opinion on Big Brother in 2002.

She signed a perfume deal and became a magazine and tabloid favourite before becoming embroiled in a racism row after an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007.

She was diagnosed with cervical cancer last year, causing controversy by continuing to live in the public eye as she succumbed to the disease.

She married on-off boyfriend Jack Tweed shortly before she passed away at home on March 22.

Rumour of a biopic also leaves a vile stench in the air.

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Please say this isn’t so!!! What next… a sitcom? A “Family Guy” style cartoon series? She is dead, now STFU please!! But if you are on the look-out for someone to play Jade in this musical, may I suggest Martin Clunes. Fucking twins!

“CARRY ON” CREATOR & PRODUCER PETER ROGERS DIES

Peter Rogers died on April 14 aged 95. He dreamt up the Carry On comedies and went on to produce the entire Carry On oeuvre, from Carry On Sergeant (1958) to Carry on Emmanuelle (1978).

During the Carry On years, Rogers continued to produce other comedies, such as the spicily titled Please Turn Over and Watch Your Stern and also produced the television series Ivanhoe, with Roger Moore, and the film version of the Sid James sitcom Bless This House.

The Carry On formula began to lose its way in the 1970s as the films became more risqué and less funny. After the lamentable Carry On Emmanuelle (1978), the series was brought to an end.

LEGEND PHIL SPECTOR CONVICTED OF MURDER

Phil Spector is likely to die in prison after the legendary music producer was convicted of murder for shooting the actor Lana Clarkson in a drunken and “sadistic” bout of Russian roulette.

Phil Spector arrives at court in Los Angeles after jurors announced they had reached a verdict in his murder trial. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images.

The Los Angeles jury spent nearly nine days deliberating over the case in which the prosecution portrayed Spector, 68, as a misogynist with a history of pulling guns and “playing Russian roulette with the lives of women” while drunk. Prosecutors said it was only by a miracle that Clarkson, star of the cult film Barbarian Queen, was the first to die.

Spector was taken to prison to await a sentence next month of at least 18 years following his conviction for second-degree murder at his mansion six years ago.

However long he remains in prison, the trial has destroyed the reputation of one of the most influential music producers of the 60s, who pioneered the “wall of sound” with groups such as the Ronettes and went on to work closely with some of the most renowned musicians of the next two decades, from the Beatles to the Ramones.

Spector’s wife, Rachelle, sobbed as the decision was announced.

The defence contended that Clarkson, 40, killed herself because she was depressed over her failing career and financial worries. But the jury at Spector’s second trial – the first ended in deadlock – was persuaded by the prosecution’s claim that the killing was malicious and that the music producer was a “demonic maniac” who on other occasions had pointed loaded guns at five women and pulled the trigger, although the hammer hit an empty chamber every time.

“By the grace of God, five other women got the empty chamber and lived to tell,” said the prosecutor, Truc Do. “Lana just happened to be the sixth woman who got the bullet,”

Do told the court that Spector was used to tormenting women without suffering any consequences because he existed “in a world where money and fame buys you the VIP treatment.”

“Behind the VIP was a very dangerous man, a man who believed that all women … deserve a bullet in their head. In every single one of these incidents, Mr Spector demonstrates conscious disregard for human life. Her death was a death waiting to happen in his world.”

For the final prosecution statement, deputy district attorney Alan Jackson repeated a theme he had struck in the first trial, taking jurors back to the night of Clarkson’s death and asking them to imagine what they might have said to her before she got in Spector’s car.

“You are all thinking the same thing,” Jackson said. “You’d say, ‘Lana, whatever you do, don’t go.'”

In his closing statement, Spector’s lawyer, Doron Weinberg, attempted to dispel the notion of the “demonic maniac”, focusing on the forensic evidence which he said demonstrated that Clarkson had been holding the gun. Weinberg even showed jurors the gun that killed Clarkson, pointing it toward his own head as he argued that the blood stains on the handle proved it had been in her hands when it was fired.

“Phil Spector’s DNA was nowhere on that gun,” Weinberg said. “Every single fact says this is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. How do you ignore it? How do you say this could have been a homicide?”

Wienberg also attacked the testimony of Spector’s chauffeur, who alleged that the producer came out of his house and said, “I think I killed somebody.”

The driver, Weinberg said, was tired and hungry, his English was not great and there a fountain was running next to the car. “How do you know [what he said] wasn’t ‘Call somebody’?”

Spector, who did not take the witness stand in either trial, sat with his hands shaking, looking down at the table before him.

Clarkson’s mother, Donna, is expected to press ahead with a wrongful death suit against Spector, whose fortune was once estimated in the tens of millions of dollars but has been greatly depleted by the cost of his two murder trials.

WOMAN SWIMS TO HUG POLAR BEAR BUT IS SHOCKED WHEN IT TRIES TO NOM HER ASS

This has to be the most stupidest, yet funniest thing I have read in a long time.

A 32 year old woman took her husband and baby to Berlin Zoo to see the famous Knut, who took Germany by storm as a cub after he was hand-raised by a keeper. The insane woman took off her shoes, jumped into the polar bear enclosure and swam towards one of the bears at one of the worst times – feeding time.

No one knows exactly what the woman was trying to achieve by jumping in the enclosure as it isn’t easy to gain access, but one thing’s for sure, she didn’t expect to be mauled. When she swam to the polar bear, it started to bite her arms and legs – like any normal person would expect of a wild animal. Maybe the dumb cow just thought polar bears were really men in costumes. The brave keepers managed to distact the polar bears and pull the mad woman to safety. She was later taken to hospital where she was treat for bites to her arms and legs but not treated for her obvious mental disorder.

Here are some pics of the lolsome occassion:

Aww, look how excited she is to see the soft and gentle wild animals.

Almost there! She can't wait to leap into their open arms (and mouthes).

"Hi Mr Polar Bear... you're a lot bigger than you are on the TV"

"WTF do you think you are doing?!? How dare you!! No, I am NOT seal! His music is shite!"

"FFS piss off will you!! Leave my ass alone!! Now I KNOW you are just men in suits"

"She tasted like chicken... but chicken basted in piss"

PETA: PET SHOP BOYS CHANGE YOUR NAME!

In what could be the strangest request in pop history, animal rights group Peta has asked the Pet Shop Boys to consider changing their name to the Rescue Shelter Boys.

The organisation, whose full name is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the change would encourage people to give homes to unwanted cats and dogs from shelters rather than buying especially-bred animals from pet shops.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, who named themselves the Pet Shop Boys more than 20 years ago, declined the request but delighted Peta by posting the organisation’s concerns on their website.

The group, who found fame in the Eighties with West End Girls and It’s A Sin, reproduced Peta’s written request in full, noting that the issues raised were “worth thinking about”.

The organisation’s special project’s manager Yvonne Taylor wrote: “We have a request that might at first seem bizarre, but we hope that after considering the following facts you will understand why we are asking this of you: will you please consider changing your name from the Pet Shop Boys to the Rescue Shelter Boys.

Taylor goes on to allege that breeders who supply pet shops are “profit hungry” and keep animals in “cramped, filthy conditions”

The letter closes: “By agreeing to change your name to the Rescue Shelter Boys, you would help raise awareness about the cruelty involved in the pet trade and encourage your millions of fans to consider giving a home to an abandoned or unwanted animal from an animal shelter. So what do you say?”

While their request was turned down, Peta remain fans of the Pet Shop Boys. On its own website today, the organisation said it was pleased the band had drawn attention to their cause and would be putting West End Girls on their iPods to celebrate.

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I have a request for Peta – stop wasting your time making such stupid requests like this and concentrate on your cause… like not putting down 95% of rehomable animals [source] like you currently do. As much as I like what Peta (apparently) stand for, I don’t like their blatent hypocricy.

CCF (Center for Consumer Freedom) Research Director David Martosko said: “Since killing pets is A-OK with PETA, why should anyone listen to their demands about eating meat, using lab rats for medical research, or taking children to the circus?”… does that also include telling pop bands to change their name? lol

PARKINSON: JADE WAS “IGNORANT, PUERILE AND NO DIANA”

Sir Michael Parkinson has launched an extraordinary attack on Jade Goody, calling her ‘ignorant and puerile’.

Just days after the reality show star’s funeral, for which thousands of well-wishers lined the streets, Parky, 74, has spoken out to say she represented ‘all that is paltry and wretched about Britain today’.

Writing in the Radio Times, he said Goody, 27, who died of cancer, should not have a ‘martyr’ status and was instead a poor role model who was exploited by the media.

‘Jade Goody has her own place in the history of television and, while it’s significant, it’s nothing to be proud of,’ the veteran TV host said.

‘Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it’s not the passing of a martyr or a saint, or, God help us, Princess Di.

‘When we clear the media smokescreen, what we’re left with is a woman who came to represent all that’s paltry and wretched about Britain today.

‘She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know both drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile.’

His words are bound to come under fire from Goody’s legions of fans, who dubbed her the ‘Essex princess’.

Goody died last month after losing her very public battle with cervical cancer. Her funeral at the weekend saw thousands take to the streets to pay their respects.

The 27-year-old had first come into the public eye in 2002 on Big Brother and went on to make millions before she was struck down by the disease.

She made the decision to live out her final days in the full glare of the media to raise as much money for her two young sons and possible.

Although her very public death was derided by some, it was also credited with prompting a huge rise in the number of women going for cervical smears.

Max Clifford, Goody’s publicist, said today that he was ‘surprised and disappointed’ by Sir Michael’s comments.

‘What Michael forgets to mention is that Jade already has saved, and will save in the future, countless lives of young women through her public battle with cervical cancer,’ he said.

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Goody’s husband, Jack Tweed, has expressed his wish to be buried next to her when he dies.

Goody’s family bought a double plot so he can one day join her.

Tweed, who is currently on bail awaiting sentencing for assault, married Jade in February to fulfil one of his girlfriend’s dying wishes.

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For Gods sake! Yes, it’s sad that Jade died but it’s no sadder than any other person dying of cancer or dying at all for that matter. Jade has done good by raising awareness of cervical cancer and has probably saved many lives BUT that is all she has done. The way the public and media have reacted to her illness has been way OTT, maybe people forget that before she got cancer she was widely thought of as a racist, bullying bitch and was one point hated more than Bin Laden, not many people liked her at all. It’s amazing what a terminal illness can do. In my opinion, Parkinson’s comment’s were not an attack on Jade Goody, they were FACT! If people see them as some kind of attack then that says a lot about Jade herself as what he says was what Jade was.

SHEEN: “CLOUGH FAMILY SHOULD SEE FILM”

Actor Michael Sheen says he hopes Brian Clough’s family will watch his latest film about the late football manager.

The Damned United follows the doomed 44 days Clough spent managing Leeds United in 1974 before he was sacked.

But Clough’s family have said they will boycott the film as they were unhappy with the book upon which it is based.

“It’s a much more affectionate and respectful look at Brian,” Sheen said ahead of the film’s world premiere in London’s Leicester Square later.

“I hope they get to see it because I can understand their fears,” he added.

“I know they weren’t happy with the book but I think the film is a very different animal.

“We felt that any film that was going to be about Brian Clough would have to be something that showed why people had so much affection and admiration for him.

“I think the film does service to that and I hope that if any of the family get to watch it they can make their minds up after that.”

Michael Sheen stars as Brian Clough in The Damned United

Family snub

Clough, a former England player who died in 2004, found success managing Derby County and Nottingham Forrest either side of his unhappy tenure at Leeds.

His son Nigel told BBC Radio Derby that the family would snub the film because the book – which portrayed Brian as the victim of his own ambition – had upset his mother, and Brian’s wife, Barbara.

“I’ll go with the principle that if the film is based on the book, we won’t be going down the road of seeing it,” he said.

Tom Hooper, the director of The Damned United, said that he and screenwriter Peter Morgan had made efforts to get Clough’s family involved with the project.

“We invited them to read the script and see an early cut of the movie and the finished film,” he said.

“I would have loved to speak to them because what better [way is there to do] research? We definitely wanted to involve them.

“Peter and I were affected by what they felt about the book so it did inspire us to make as rounded a portrait of Brian Clough as we could,” he added.

The film goes on general release on 27 March.