Friday, October 26th, 2007, 5:39 am
Channel 4 has apologised to the mayor and residents of Stoke-on-Trent after it was claimed on one of their programmes that 'nearly one in five people there are homeless'.
The wildly innacurate statement was blurted out during the live edition of Location, Location, Location last week.
Channel 4 has now published an apology on its website, admitting it was a mistake.
What they did not apologise for, however, was subjecting us to two hours of Phil and Kirsty dying a long and painful death as they attempted to do the whole show live.
I'm a fan of the toffee-nosed twosome but whoever decided it would be good to give them a live, albeit scripted, two-hour slot was horribly misguided.
It started badly with a stuttering intro, followed by an attempt at a joke from Phil that prompted a million tumble weeds to drift by up and down the country.
And it got worse.
So, sorry Stoke-on-Trent.
Sorry everyone.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007, 5:12 am
Usually when there's a bit of local trouble that threatens to stain the whiter than white image of the Great British talkshow host, they all stick together and help each other out.
Not if your name's Paul O'Grady.
In a newspaper interview, O'Grady has said that fellow presenters Ant and Dec and Richard and Judy should quit over the recent phone-in swindles.
He said: 'If it was my show, I'd probably leave. If you were running a pub and your name was over the door and someone was selling drugs in there then you'd be liable.
'If your name is connected to a show but you don't know what's going on with it, you need to take more notice.'
Among the programmes that have been investigated over rip-offs relating to phone-ins and text message competitions are X Factor, I'm A Celebrity, Soapstar Superstar, Dancing On Ice and Blue Peter, as well as the Richard and Judy show and Ant and Dec's Saturday Night takeaway.
So basically, if all the presenters of these shows quit, that would leave O'Grady as the only one left!
You can't knock a man for trying...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007, 4:58 am
You'd have to be blind, deaf and stupid not to have seen this coming.
There was an outbreak of complete indifference and lack of surprise today as it was announced Sharon Osbourne, who 'quit' X Factor last week, will return to the show on Saturday.
Well blow me down!
In order to keep up the pretence that the whole episode hasn't been a well-orchestrated and completely rehearsed publicity stunt, word has been put out that Osbourne and Simon Cowell had a 'two-hour meeting' before it was agreed she would return.
Yeah right.
A spokeswoman for the show said: 'We're fully expecting Sharon to be at the studio on Saturday.'
Note to X Factor PR department: must try harder...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007, 4:49 am
It's become something of a norm in celeb circles.
That being the trend of showbiz couples giving their offspring outlandish names - so that when they're a bit older, whether they like it or not, it will hang round their necks like a sign reading 'By the way, (enter celeb's name) is my dad/mum'.
But Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen have bucked the trend by giving their new daughter what I consider to be quite a nice name.
They have called her Olive.
Even if you don't like it, it's relatively normal - no 'Moonlilly' or 'Heavenly Tiger Angel' here.
And, if I was going to put money on anyone giving their kid a stupid name it would have been Cohen, aka Borat and Ali G.
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007, 5:30 am
The quite devastating news breaking this morning is that Simply Red are splitting up...
...in two years' time.
Lead singer Mick Hucknall, who gave hope to millions of ugly blokes by inexplicably dating a string of beautiful women, said that 25 years was 'long enough'.
The 47-year-old added: 'I've enjoyed it so much that I feel the time has come to put a book-end to the story.'
Great use of symbolism there.
But before Mick and his middle-of-the-road-music-playing buddies finally wave goodbye, we will have two years of Greatest Hits albums and Farewell gigs to get through.
They could be the longest two years of your life.
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