Let us all worship at the altar of Oprah.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you would by now know that Oprah is coming to town. I don’t need to bore you with the details of the trip cause that’s all we have heard about for the last 4 days… but what I will enlighten you on is what it will do for our international cool factor rating. Let me set the scene for you. Imagine the cool group at school with the leaders being the US and UK. In their entourage you have South America, France and Richard Branson’s Island in the Caribbean (during the summer, other parts of Europe hang with the cool kids cause they have awesome beaches and parties). In relation to this, Australia is the kid people always forget about but we get to tag along sometimes to make up numbers. Now that Oprah has felt us worthy of her presence, we have suddenly become the invisible nerd who rocks up to school with the most awesome supermodel makeover, thus becoming the hottest topic of conversation and the girl everyone wants to date.
The rumours of J.Lo and her judging role on American Idol continues. This week, Jenny finally signed a deal to be one of the new judges for a cool $12 million a season. Reports suggest that while she did ask for TV and movie deals to be part of her contract, no commitments were made and she agreed to just the money. You may remember last month I reported negotiations broke down after her diva demands ‘got out of hand’, well it turns out that these reports were planted by someone hell bent on making sure she didn’t get a seat at the table.
Every year we wait with baited breath for the MTV VMA’s to see what controversy it will bring to our screens. Over the years we have had The Britney and Madonna kiss, the Taylor Swift and Kanye saga and of cause all those incredible fashion moments (who could forget Rose McGowan in her, ummm… beads? Or Lil Kim in her one shouldered boob exposed pantsuit?). Well this year didn’t disappoint, with Lady Gaga again stealing the show in another fresh meat creation, coming hot off the heels of the Japanese Vogue Hommes cover that came out last week. Coming a close second was the ageless Cher, who turned up in a replica outfit from her ‘Turn Back Time’ video. I freaking LOVE the VMA’s purely for the fact that there is always something shocking to talk about the next day and you just know some of these folks are going to look back in 10 years and be all like, ‘WTF was I thinking?!’ I almost wept when Gaga asked Cher to hold her meat purse. Solid gold VMA moment right there.
No one knows this better than George Michael, who this week was sentenced to eight weeks in jail for driving after taking a ‘dangerous and unpredictable’ cocktail of cannabis and anti-anxiety prescription medication before crashing into a one hour photo shop in London. This was George’s fourth arrest but his first custodial sentence. Deemed a ‘risk to the public,’ the judged labelled him a drug addict and said, “Despite the resources at your command it does not appear that you took proper steps to deal with what’s clearly an addiction to cannabis.” George was then taken to Pentoville Jail (which explains why the rent is so cheap on Pentoville Road on the Monopoly board) where it is predicted he will only serve four weeks of his sentence. Fun fact: Previous residents at George’s new abode include Boy George and Pete Doherty.
When you are a celebrity, there is only one person in this world you will do anything to be friends with and that is Anna Wintour. She can bring you fame, fortune and designer clothes – just ask Blake Lively, who has had two Vogue covers, gets to sit front row with Anna at all the hottest shows and is totally Anna’s new BFF. Get on her bad side and revenge will be served for dinner for the rest of your life. This is Gaga’s fate after Anna went on the Jimmy Fallon show and dissed Gaga for throwing a tantrum at the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Gala earlier this year. Anna told of how she found Gaga backstage praying to God to let her start the performance, even rolling her eyes at one point, which is the signal for eternal damnation from Wintour. Gaga apparently kept Anna waiting for over an hour. “Anna wasn’t impressed. She thought that she was just sort of behaving like a childish diva and not the professional who was about to perform for her peers; these incredibly famous designers and celebrities,” claims the author of the new biography about the singer. “She (Gaga) sort of had a meltdown before she went on and as it was described to me, Anna was really none too pleased with her.” Gaga if you are reading this, apologise and send Anna some Dior!
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