Day: February 3, 2012

UK NEWS: CROSS-EYED RIOTER AND ARSONIST FROM PECKHAM CAUGHT AFTER POLICE SPOT HIS EYES ON CCTV

I laughed hysterically today when I read this story on the train. You just could not make this up. Via The Daily Mail A cross-eyed arsonist who set fire to a shop that sold pants during the August riots was caught after police spotted his unusual eyes on CCTV. Firebug Andrew Burls, 23, has now admitted in court starting the blaze, which caused nearly £1million in damage and left six people homeless. He is due to be sentenced on February 20. Burls, []

VIDEO: MADONNA – GIVE ME ALL YOUR LUVIN (FEATURING M.I.A AND NICKI MINAJ)

Give Me All Your Luvin is Madonna’s new single featuring M.I.A and Nicki Minaj. Why Madonna felt the need to team up with the likes of M.I.A and Nicki Minaj I don’t know. Madonna is still considered relevent so she didn’t need to go down that road. Nicki and M.I.A should be banned from the recording studio, especially the over-rated M.I.A. This song sounds like something Madonna would have recorded in the 80s. I don’t like it. She is far too mature to be singing a song like []

UK NEWS: FORMER T4 PRESENTER MIQUITA OLIVER FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY

It has been reported that former T4  presenter Miquita Oliver (27) has filed for bankruptcy. Oliver first got her big break on television (thanks to being well-connected) at the age of sixteen when she was chosen to c0-host hit Channel 4 music show Pop World alongside Simon Amstell. She also went on to become a regular T4 presenter for many years before quitting in 2010. According to The Daily Mirror Oliver failed to pay a tax bill of more than £170,000, according to a firm of  accountants. A statement released []

UK NEWS: JOHN TERRY STRIPPED OF ENGLAND CAPTAINCY

The Telegraph reports that footballer John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy. John Terry, as predicted, has been stripped of the England captaincy for the second   time this morning after losing the support of the FA board amid concerns   over his ongoing racism court case. The news comes two days after the criminal trial into Terry’s alleged racist  abuse of Queens Park Rangers’s Anton Ferdinand was postponed until after the  European Championships in July. It has been reported that David Bernstein, the FA chairman, []

UK NEWS: WOMAN DIES AFTER POSSIBLY SUFFERING AN ALLERGIC REACTION TO BONDING GLUE IN HER HAIR

Via The Daily Mail A woman died from a massive allergic reaction that could have been caused by the glue in her hair extensions, a pathologist said yesterday. Atasha Graham, 34, who had used hair extensions for 14 years, collapsed after clubbing until the early hours. Home Office pathologist Michael Heath told the inquest into her death that the latex glue used to apply her extensions – or the solvent for removing old ones – may have been to blame. He added: []