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UK NEWS: WOMAN WHO DISGUISED HERSELF AS A BOY AND FOOLED TWO TEENAGE GIRLS FACES PRISON

January 17, 2012

Gemma Barker (19) disguised herself as a teenage boy in order to fool and to engage in sexual relations with two unsuspecting teenage girls. Via The Telegraph Gemma Barker, 19, created three separate fictional characters on the internet  who went on to introduce themselves to the 16-year-old victims online as  potential dates, the court heard. Even though the girls knew Barker well they were totally taken in when she  dressed up as two different teenage males and started real-life  relationships with them. The court heard how even […]

HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY MUHAMMAD ALI

January 17, 2012

THE GREATEST Muhammad Ali celebrates his 70th birthday today. America in the 1960s was a country riven by segregation and racial tension, but a lanky, all talking black boxer from Louiseville, Kentucky, overcame great odds to be idolised world over as “The Greatest” and most important sporting figure of the 20th century. Via The Guardian. Rumble In The Jungle (1996)

VIDEO: MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC POSE NUDE IN BIRMINGHAM FOR ‘2012 CHOCOLATE CALENDER’

January 16, 2012

According to website Brown Eyez  rather than use professional models to pose for ‘The Miss Bleach Blonde Chocolate Calendar’, it’s founder Miss Bleach Blond chooses to use local men and women who, on a normal day are teachers, retail assistants, business owners, cleaners and parents. All proceeds from the calender will be donated to charity. Miss Bleach Blond says, “I ALWAYS make a donation to a local community based project or charity from the proceeds and i’m BIG on giving BACK!! My aim […]

VIDEO: RICKY GERVAIS’ GOLDEN GLOBES 2012 OPENING MONOLOGUE

January 16, 2012

This is especially for UK viewers who stayed up until 1am to watch the Golden Globes on the E! Channel and were then left disappointed when the useless network kept interrupting Ricky’s opening monologue with commercials advertising ridiculous Kim Kardashian’s stupid new show. E! you have a lot of explaining to do.

A SPIKE LEE JOINT: BAMBOOZLED (2000) -WATCH FULL LENGTH FILM

January 15, 2012

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show’s success. The film was given a limited release by New Line Cinema during the fall of 2000, and was released on DVD the following year. Starring Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Paul Mooney, Mos Def, Canibus, The Roots, Savion Glover and Tommy Davidson.  WARNING: Extreme profanity. [Thanks Lorna] Black British folk […]

UK COMEDY EVENT: AFRICA VERSES WEST INDIES – “WHOSE FOOT-BOTTOM IS MORE DRY, AFRICANS OR WEST INDIANS?”

January 15, 2012

It is good to see the hilarious Mr Fraser on the bill but the whole Africa verses West Indies comedy “battle”, where comedians from West Indian and African backgrounds attempt to destroy each other’s cultural backgrounds with some outrageous/too close to the bone put downs has been done to death now. And I see that “Urban” comic Kevin J is going to be the ” show referee”.The same Kevin J who was booed and heckled at last year’s Screen Nation Awards (the […]

UK NEWS: TV CHEF ANTONY WORRALL THOMPSON SAYS PAST ‘ BULLYING AND SEXUAL ABUSE’ IS TO BLAME FOR HIM STEALING WINE AND CHEESE FROM TESCO

January 15, 2012

Earlier this month it was revealed that celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson had been arrested and cautioned for stealing wine and cheese from his local Tesco supermarket (click here to read) He then later apologised and said he would “seek counselling”. Now the star claims his problems relate to being sexually abused and bullied as a child.  He also told Adrian Chiles during a pre-recorded interview for ITV 1’s That Sunday Night Show, ‘My counsellor thinks I am a guy with a gun […]