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  • Big Brother JOEL: There Will Be A Hate Campaign Against Me

    Big Brother’s Joel Williams is worried about the fall out from Aaron’s unexpected removal from the compound in yesterday’s show.

    Openly gay Big Brother contestant Aaron. 24, was removed from Big Brother for what producers called “inappropriate behaviour”, when he paraded around the bedroom and chased Joel Williams, 19, naked.

    In tonight’s show Sarah has it in for Joel. During a blazing row, Sarah has suggested that Joel led Aaron on. In tonight’s episode an argument breaks out where Sarah tells Joel that his behaviour in the wake of Aaron’s departure has been inappropriate.

    Joel asks what Sarah’s reaction would have been if she had been in that situation. Sarah says,

    “No one in this house would do that to me because I would have made it extremely, unequivocally clear that that was not on.”

    Joel responds, “What are you trying to suggest?”

    Nick tries to defend Joel but Sarah tells him not to get involved.

    Sarah says, “I have no issue with the fact they removed Aaron. My issue is you then parade around in women’s clothing. You encourage it.”

    Joel responds: “I think that’s bang out of order for you to suggest that justifies his actions.”

    Later in the bath Nick and Joel are talking, Joel is worried about how he will be perceived out of the house saying: “There will be a hate campaign against me.”

  • The Summer Of Bisexual Big Brother

    Tonight the world of the big brother housemates is going to be turned upside down as three new housemates will be introduced, one stripper and two bi-sexual women.

    After the shock removal of Aaron Frew last night, life in the house isn’t going to get any easier as four original housemates will be evicted tonight in what some media are calling a Big Brother Massacre. However as doors slam for some, doors open for others.

    An unsuspecting Amy & Sally, Chloe, Danny, Harriet, Kieran and Sarah now face a mass eviction and the lines are open for viewers to vote to EVICT four housemates from the house.

    Tonight, however, we’ll be introduced to three new housemates. The three new Housemates include a 29-year-old science student in his final year studying organic chemistry that is also a, ‘UK Pleasure boy’ and strips across the UK. A 22-year bisexual model who has worked as a dominatrix and on Babestation webcams. Apart Sri Lankan bisexual who is a singer and entertainer whose attitude is ‘flirt with the world and get stuff for free’. As a side note, same-sex relationships are illegal in Sri Lanka.

    Big Brother host Emma Willis commented: “Just when they were adjusting to life in the house, Big Brother is about to drop a whopper of a time bomb. I can’t wait to see how the surprise mass eviction, some brand new housemates and a very familiar face go down.”

  • Will Simon Gross Re Enter The Big Brother House?

    Simon Gross entered the Big Brother house on launch night, however his journey as a housemate ended shortly after. He became Big Brother’s first TimeBomb victim.

    The “SHOWBIZ” king was booted from the show within two hours of the show’s start, making history as the first male ever to be the first evictee. However in a twist which will be revealed in tonight’s show, four new housemates will put into the house.

    Big Brother has given details about three of the new housemates, but has remained tight lipped about the fourth only saying, “as an added surprise, one of the ‘new’ housemates will be a very familiar face…”

    Since Simon’s departure he has been a featured guest in Rylan’s aftershow Big Brother’s Bit On The Side and has become notorious for his catchphrase, “Showbiz”

    Sneaky and devilish. We like we like.

  • Naked Dancing Gets Aaron Booted From Big Brother House

    We revealed earlier that Aaron Frew has been removed for inappropriate behaviour, it turns out that he was flashing which upset Joel.

    According to a statement from the Big Brother producers, Housemate Aaron Frew, 24 from Northampton was in the bedroom with Joel, Nick, Jack, Harriet, Sarah and Danny.

    The statement reads:

    “Aaron seems drunk and is flashing Joel and being rowdy, often naked.

    Despite Joel’s continual requests for him to behave himself, Aaron continues to tease and flash to the amusement of some of the other Housemates.

    As a result of his actions, Aaron is ejected from the Big Brother House.”

    Earlier in the series, Joel did admit feelings for Aaron, saying that he could make out with Aaron. However, Joel, 19, has maintained that he is “proudly heterosexual.”

    The model and personal shopper took to twitter earlier today to thank Big Brother for his time in the house.

    Aaron managed to stay in the house for 16 days. Watch his eviction in tonight’s episode at 10PM

  • THEATRE REVIEW | McQueen

    ★★★ | McQueen

    Fashion Designer Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February, 2010 at the age of 39. But his work and memory lives on, including in a new play simply called McQueen.

    Stephen Wight plays (and looks just like) McQueen, who was one of the most celebrated UK fashion designers of our time. McQueen, though very successful, had a troubled life; drugs, depression, the suicide of his friend and muse Isabella Blow, who practically helped McQueen become the success that he was, and the death of his mother are some of the factors that probably led him to take his own life in his Central London flat on Feb. 11, 2010.

    McQueen is written not as a play about his life but more about the journey McQueen took to build his career. The journey is brought on by fictional character Dahlia (Dianna Agron) – the idea taken from McQueen’s 2008 collection ‘The Girl Who Lived in the Tree.’ She’s basically a stalker who breaks into McQueen’s flat. He’s startled at first, but her childlike personality and beautiful looks and curvy body appeal to McQueen in a visual sense.

    So McQueen and Dahlia travel through a few important milestones in McQueen’s life; the tailor shop where McQueen got his start and where, on the spot, he makes a dress for Dahlia. They go to his mother’s home, where she is upstairs in bed, sick. And McQueen gets to be reunited with the ghost that is Blow (a smashing Tracy-Ann Oberman), the woman who bought up all of McQueen’s first collection but who still wants to know why he didn’t take her with him to the top, and why did he leave her behind when it was she who made him what he was. In between these pit stops we are visually treated to very slow moving dancers who change the set and morph with, through and in between each other. Visually it’s stunning, you don’t realise the set is changing because the movements are so mesmerising. But this doesn’t make up for the fact that McQueen the play is a bit too thin and doesn’t provide the theatregoer with a true celebration and story of McQueen’s life.

    Wight is amazing as McQueen. In fact, he looks exactly like McQueen did in his later years. Wight captures all of his mannerisms and idiosyncrasies, including the scene where he instantaneously creates a dress for Dahlia. It’s an excellent performance. Agron as Dahlia is given lots of soliloquy dialogue to recite – is she talking to McQueen, the audience, or to herself? And yes, she does recite, likes she’s reading from a teleprompter. Hers is not a great performance as she’s with the amazing Wright during the whole show. But Oberman practically steals the show from Wright in her all-too-brief turn as Bow. It’s a showstopping performance, with Oberman dressed in a sexy negligee. Playwright James Phillips and Director John Caird have produced a play that is weak in biography but beautiful in its presentation, but we’re still left wanting to know more about McQueen and his life and his fashions. We will have to do with the V&A Museum’s Savage Beauty exhibition as well as the highly-acclaimed book about McQueen; Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin, by Andrew Wilson, as well as Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, by Dana Thomas.

    McQueen is playing at the St. James Theatre until June 27th:

    http://www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/theatre/mcqueen

  • BREAKING: Gay Big Brother Housemate Removed From The Big Brother House

    Openly gay Big Brother contestant Aaron has been removed from the Big Brother for what producers are saying is “inappropriate behaviour”

    More to follow.

    Producers have confirmed that Aaron Frew, 24, from Northampton has been removed from the Big Brother house after “inappropriate behaviour”.

    The model and personal shopper lasted 16 days in the house. Details about his behaviour are due to follow shortly and his exit will be featured in tonight’s episode.

    Aaron tweeted from his official account this after saying: “@bbuk THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME! WILL NEVER FORGET IT! #BBUK”

  • PROBLEM AUNTY | Losing Weight And Dumping My Boyfriend

    Welcome to another month and another of Aunty’s advice columns. Good luck for all those who write into the world’s harshest Agony Aunt.

     

    Dear Aunty,

    I’m a little on the large side and was wondering if you had any top tips for losing some weight before my beach holiday in a couple of weeks?

    With love James.

     

    Dear James,

    Your letter first excited me when you said you were large and I was going to invite you to holiday with me. That was until I realised you were talking about your waistline! I’ve been fooled by that line before. Top tip: cake is not your friend. Neither is the lard you wrap it in before you deep fry it.

    The 40 bottles of coke a day and the evening bag of wine, also a no-no. If you only have two weeks to shed the weight then slap on a Miranda Hart box set.

    This always puts me off my food!

    Aunty XX

     

    Dear Aunty

    I’ve been with my boyfriend for 6 months now and it’s just not working out for me anymore. How do I tell him I no longer want to be with him? I’ve not slept with anyone else but have been tempted. Help!

    Kevin, Manchester

     

    Dearest Kevin,

    When I want someone to leave I usually stop paying them, however, I believe this may be a little different in your case. There are many ways you can get the message across to your ex-to-be.

    Start with increasing your annoying habits. Break wind in bed, be late for everything, forget his birthday, bite a little harder during sex.

    This gradual increase of uncomfortable living will soon have the bf saying enough’s enough and he’ll walk out by himself. Failing this try to get caught boning his best friend or dad, or hamster.

    Aunty XX

     

     

  • And The Eurovision 2012 Winner Is…

    Well what an explosive night of Eurovision 2012.

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  • FILM REVIEW | Testament of Youth

    ★★★★★ | Testament of Youth

    This is one of those titles you may know, you’ve seen it somewhere or have heard of the author, Vera Brittain… it rings bells.

    But you may be like me, know of it but not know it? I’d heard of it, I’d seen the cover, I knew the author (not personally) but it didn’t appeal enough to buy, beg or borrow a copy to read.

     

    I’m glad I didn’t now – I’m glad I waited for this lush, rich adaptation which only makes me want to whizz out and buy a copy to read it and savour every detail.It’s an epic tale, set against the fight for women’s rights, struggles in Edwardian England that then faces the First World War, and all that this entails for the youth of that time – the lost generation.I can only imagine what it was like, but this film helps show it – the life of privilege for upper middle classes, women wanting equality and suffering for it, the horror of going to war and the horror of waiting at home for news of loved ones.It only briefly touches on it in one scene, but it also mentions the love that dare not speak its name, as Vera’s injured brother clutches to a letter from a fellow officer.This is an amazing adaption; the script is rich with Brittain’s words, the scenery gritty and pretty in equal measures and the acting superb.

    Kit Harrington and Alicia Vikander are perfect as the slightly awkward lovers, separated by war and a society that still insists on chaperones for young unmarried couples.

    They are more than ably supported by Taron Egerton as Vera’s brother, Miranda Richardson as a stand offish Oxford tutor, Dominic West as Vera’s father, the list goes on…
    For all its epic proportions and massive story – this is still a very personal film and I defy you not to be touched by it.

  • FILM REVIEW | Sexing The Transman

    When the opening credits roll in Buck Angel’s new documentary and you see that it is an ‘I Love My Vagina Production’, you know that this is going to be a no-holds-barred look at demystifying the whole aspect of sexuality of trans men.

    What the charismatic handsome hunky Angel does is fill this highly unusual ‘sex education’ movie with scenes of explicit sexual activity to ensure that we are shocked enough not to forget his message of how liberated these men became after transitioning.

    In a series of in-depth interviews Angel talks to a several FtM (female to male) trans people about how they felt alienated from the bodies that they were born with and their decisions to transition into a male persona. They all had a great deal in common as they discussed the surgeries to get rid of their breasts, and how the effects of taking testosterone changed their lives in ways they never expected.

    Before transitioning some of them had played the traditional female roles with their boyfriends, some of them were in relationships with lesbians, but once all the hormone treatments kicked in, they all seemed to notice that their sexual libido shot through the ceiling and they started to be much more fluid and open to all different types of people to have sex with. Most of them also followed the same route that Angel took and opted not to have ‘bottom surgery’ with the end result that have started to be proud of the vaginas that had disgusted them previously, and now they were being penetrated and actually enjoying it.

    They all unanimously agreed that transitioning had changed their lives completely and for the better. Some of them are now in relationships, some have sex with other FtM guys like themselves, some like sex with men, some others like it with women. In terms of gender they all feel male. In terms of sexual orientation, they are very different – some of them are heterosexual (they like sex with women), some are gay (they like sex with other men or FtM men) and some like to experiment with men, women and FtM guys.

    As an outsider, it is often hard to get beyond our preconceived ideas of gender and the labels that society insists that we all use. One of Angel’s talking heads was the comedienne Margaret Cho who perfectly articulated her take on it all. Her sexuality had been ‘straight’ and then ‘lesbian’ and then she realised that she loved men sexually, and trans men in particular. She now identifies, as being queer as that, she feels, is not limiting and it makes sense to her as ‘gay’ simply doesn’t cover who she is. And she aptly sums up the feelings she shares with many trans men by saying that she is happy with strap on’s…’a dick is a dick, whether it’s been bought or grown.’

    The message that is loud and clear in Angel’s film is that the effects of injecting so much testosterone is that it makes you aware of many more possibilities and that your sexuality is never finite whatever your gender is. I am however also convinced that we would have completely grasped that concept without nearly all of the film’s subjects getting naked and playing with themselves on camera.

    Above everything, Angel is a powerful advocate for making this community visible and giving them a voice, for which he needs to be applauded for.

  • FILM REVIEW | Seek

    Twenty-something-year-old Evan Brisby is ambitious. Currently working on a gay magazine that covers the local community in Toronto his hometown, he aspires to bigger things and so sends samples of his writing to The Gazette, one of the city’s daily newspapers.

    ★★★

    He doesn’t get offered a job but the editor is suitably impressed to give him the assignment to write a freelance piece on the city’s nightlife, something that shy Evan is not really an expert on. He does, however, accept the challenge, as he knows that this could be his big break, and he also knows that Aidan his colleague at the gay magazine will be able to connect him up with exactly the right sort of people.

    Aidan comes up trumps and hooks him up with Hunter who despite the fact he is Evan’s age is evidently THE king of the night who runs clubs and hosts parties that are the best in the city. It is also obvious that Jordan quickly takes a shine to his interviewer who is so single-minded and determined to get the best story he can, is totally oblivious to his new admirer. Evan is also distracted by the fact that he cannot shake of the memory of a recent ex who very inconveniently keeps popping up in his mind and his dreams quite regularly.

    This micro-budgeted homegrown movie from first time writer/director Eric Henry is evidently partly autobiographical and besides being a fond love letter to the city of Toronto, is very much about different kinds of acceptance. When Evan is not shadowing Hunter for his article he is still doing his regular writing job that includes interviewing people like the gay couple into fetish sex, or the straight couple who have embraced the husband’s cross-dressing. Even when he is off-duty having a drink he has an uncomfortable encounter with an old man looking for company. Very admirable reminders about everyone needing to find their own path to happiness, but still a tad too preachy and really unnecessary to the flow of the story.

    Kudos to the fact that the production values of the piece that are much higher than one has come to expect from movies of this type. Henry helped this by making good casting calls using Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski a very impressive newbie as Evan, Ryan Fisher as Hunter, and hunky male model/actor Matthew Ludwinski as Evan’s lost love, even though the script he gave them had more than the occasionally grimacing moment.

    The whole affair is an enjoyable boy-lite romance that may not stretch your mind too much, but if this is a genre you like, will nevertheless put a big smile on your face when you see that everyone does in fact live happily ever after in the end.