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  • Austin And James The Most Likely To “F”

    Rumours and gossip are all the rage and Celebrity Big Brother’s Jenna Jameson thinks that James and Austin are the couple most likely to “F”

    Speaking with Teen Mom Farrah and Janice Dickinson, former porn star Jenna Jameson commented on the blossoming bromance between former Apprentice star James Hill and reality star Austin Armacost, saying:

    ‘The only two people that are like getting sexually crazy are the two guys together. It’s so ironic. We are like these sexually powerful girls and ….they are the most likely to F.’

    Later on, during a discussion with James, Jenna quizes him about his bedroom antics with Austin saying,

    “I heard this whole thing last night, he was like naked in your bed asking you to massage his hamstring, he pulled down his pants…I don’t know why you don’t shut it down.”

     

    James replied,

    “He has not tried to come on to me once…the minute he tries to f***ing try and touch me I’ll be in bed with Bobby Davro.”

  • Is There A Budding Bromance Between James Hill And Austin Armacost?

    Things look like they’re hotting up between former Apprentice star, James Hill and Austin Armacost.

    Despite James Hill identifying as straight and Austin Armacost being married there’s an undeniable closeness that has grown between the two celebs. It wouldn’t be the first time that a straight and gay man became close during a Big Brother season. In the US version of the show Ariana Grande’s brother, Frankie Grande found a budding bromance with Zach Rance.

    From James sticking up for Austin when Tila threatened to turn him straight, to the pair becoming the first celebs to strip off in the house, to the pair sharing a bath time together, the lads have certainly clicked.

    However James drew the line at massaging Austin’s hamstring… It has to be said, we’ve tried that ploy before…

  • X FACTOR Ratings Down, Celebrity Big Brother Levelled

    Ratings for ITV’s flagship singing competition were down for the launch show, by a whopping 2 million – so were all the changes worth it?

    With half a new judging panel including openly gay Nick Grimshaw the latest viewing figures don’t make for good reading despite all the usual talk of change, upping the game and far-reaching promo for the new series. The new judging panel includes Rita Ora, Nick Grimshaw and Simon Cowell. Cheryl Fernandez-Versini joins the panel despite being voted by Heat readers as the panellist they’d least like to see return.

    X Factor’s first show suffered a near 2 million audience drop, year on year, taking 7.11 million viewers from 8PM. In 2014 the first show received 9.03 million viewers. However, the show did dominate Saturday night TV with nearly 40% audience share.

    Celebrity Big Brother’s debut on Channel 5 was watched by 2.2 million people, which is just down on the 2.4 million people who watched the previous year’s launch.

  • Austin Armacost And James Hill Strip Off On The First Night

    It’s just the first night and already our celebrities are stripping off.

    Hottie openly gay Austin Armacost and former Apprentice star James Hill stripped off for a cheeky dip in the pool.

    As things heated up in the Celebrity Big Brother between the new arrivals, James and Austin stripped off to show their trunks styles for a dip in the pool.

    Austin had to fend off advances from Tila Tequila, who asked if she could change his sexuality from gay to straight and threatened to “sit on his face.”

  • Tila Tequila Removed From The House Over Social Media Comments

    Myspace celebrity Tila Tequila has been removed from the Big Brother house after comments that she released on social media made her position in the house “untenable”

    A spokesperson for Channel 5 said,

    “Unfortunately, Channel 5 and Endemol did not know about the views and attitudes Tila had expressed in social media postings prior to her involvement in Celebrity Big Brother.

    When they were brought to our attention, she was called to the Diary Room for a discussion with producers and was subsequently removed from the house.

    The views Tila had expressed, and permitted to remain uncorrected, are totally unacceptable and, accordingly, her continued involvement in the programme was untenable.”

    In December 2013 Tila had her Facebook account closed because of a “pro-Hitler” article called “Why I Sympathize with Hitler: Part I”.

    The MySpace star argued that her article was not anti-Semitic, and was instead a tribute to “a man who was not a coward, [but] stood up for his country in a DESPERATE TIME OF NEED”.

    She posted comments and a picture of herself in a Nazi costume in front of a picture of Auschwitz. Her page has been re-instated, and she has over 2 million likes.

  • CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER HOUSE: 12 Details Not To Miss

    CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER HOUSE: 12 Details Not To Miss

    The house, the house… it’s all a bit of a designer’s paradise. So here’s some lovely little details we loved about the new Big Brother house…

    The designers have gone to town on the Americana and Britishness of this year’s house design. We take a look at our favourite parts.

    It’s all Red white and blue, I mean of course we share a common language, but we also share the same flag colours – which is handy… It’s always nice to share a colour palette.

    1) Lounge

     

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    The centre of the house is the lounge complete with circular sofa – on one side the theme is US the other is UK. Is that sneaky Big Bro trying to cause a divide by suggestion?

    2) Kitchen

     

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    The milkshakes are fake. Sorry but they are. Plastic. Like any of the celebs perhaps???

    3) Diary Room

     

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    The Big Brother chair is huge and the room is actually massive

    4) Toilet

     

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    Just a bog standard bog. Totally boring.

    5) Bathroom

     

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    Nope this is not a UFO it’s a sink

    6) Lighting

     

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    Top and bowler hats light the way for the celebrities

    7) Exit

     

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    There’s an emergency exit… You know just in case a celeb needs to run for the hills.

    8) Plugs

     

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    God knows why, but there are plugs… The celebs can’t bring anything into the house that needs a plug, but there are plugs. Can you spot them?

    9) Vanity Area

     

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    Big Brother has provided hairdryers and hair straighteners. That’s where we’d be spending most of our time.

    10) Closet

     

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    There’s lots of closet room.

    11) Comfort

     

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    There’s a little bit of fluffy carpet, other than that it’s all pretty hard surfaces.

    12) Pool

     

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    It may look inviting, but the pool is only just warm. But just like a service station coffee, you wouldn’t want to go swimming in it.

     

  • Celebrity Big Bro House Gets A US Vs UK Make Over

    The brand new Celebrity Big Brother has been revealed and it’s distinctively Red, White And Blue as Big Brother smashes the UK and USA together.

    As these pictures show Celebrity Big Brother has gone all Red, White and Blue, underpinned with quintessential British accents and lots of Americana thrown in for good measure.

    Although Rylan has kept tight-lipped about who exactly is due to appear in the house when the new series starts next week, he did say he was much happier to be a spectator rather than participating.

  • Top 5 Best And Worst Fictional LGBT Film And TV Characters

    With LGBT characters starting to become far more mainstream in recent years, I want to take a look at how well they are portrayed.

    So I’m going to list my 5 best examples of LGBT characters and my 5 worst, based on their iconic status or accurate portrayal. For this list I’m using the characters sexuality and identity only, not the actors who portray them.

    1. Maura Pfefferman (Jeffrey Tambor)

    CREDIT: Amazon

    Transparent. A sensitive and moving portrait of a trans-woman struggling to come to terms with her gender identity and having to come out to her family as transgender. Transparent depicts the struggles that families go through when a loved one comes out with a secret like this. Luckily the series doesn’t sensationalise the issue, nor does it become offensive of the portrayal of Maura, who says the most wonderful line “All my life, my whole life I’ve been dressing up like a man, this is me” Definitely worth a watch.

    2. Ellen Morgan (Ellen DeGeneres)

    Ellen. In the 1997 The Puppy Episode the character of Ellen loudly announced to a whole airport terminal she was gay and made television history in the process. DeGeneres herself came out on the same day to Oprah (who had guest starred in the episode) and the show took a light hearted comedic approach to the character who’s sexuality had always been a source of speculation. However after the episode aired ratings started to decline and criticisms were aimed at the writers for concentrating too much on the gay aspect of a character and the show was cancelled a year later.

    3. Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan)

    Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Not only was she a bad-ass powerful witch, she knew how to kick a bad guys behind. Hints of her sexuality were alluded to in season 3, but she didn’t come out as gay properly until mid-way through season 4 when she got her first girlfriend, fellow witch Tara. For the rest of the 4th season and throughout the 5th & 6th seasons Willow and Tara showed every aspect of a gay relationship with it’s ups and downs, until the death of Tara at the end of season 6. By the 7th season a new lesbian character was introduced in Kennedy who was almost predatory in her pursuit of Willow and the series took a nosedive in quality.

    4. Jack Twist & Ennis Del Mar (Jake Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger)

    Brokeback Mountain.Yep it’s a sad one, the tale of two ranch men trying to contain their feelings for one another while stuck in the wilderness of the American West. Much speculation about the characters’ sexuality has been talked about, but the common theory is that Jack is bisexual, and Ennis is straight questioning. But the story is both heartbreaking and sensitive and the characters are portrayed excellently with little done to show it as shocking and done purely for sensationalism. Even cowboys fall in love folks

    5. Albus Dumbledore (Richard Harris & Michael Gambon)

    Harry Potter series. While it’s never specifically mentioned in the films or books that Dumbledore is actually gay, JK Rowling confirmed it and has staunchly defended the fact she made the character gay. Dumbledore is a wise and caring man who knew right from wrong and even suffered heartbreak when the man he fell in love with as a youth turned out to be a dark wizard. Sometimes there isn’t a need to be overt with a character and he can still be a role model.

    Honourable mentions

    Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) – Philadelphia
    Sophia Burset (Laverne Cox) – Orange is the New Black
    Dr Frank N Furter (Tim Curry) – Rocky Horror Picture Show
    Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) – The Birdcage

    And now for the 5 worst

    1. Ben Mitchell (Various)

    Eastenders. From a preening little boy dancing to Lady Gaga he went on to turn into a violent and lascivious teenager with a serious attitude problem. Ben Mitchell is a terrible example of a gay character who has no qualms about having sex in a funeral parlour next to an open coffin, while also deceiving his girlfriend and having gay flings behind her back. Eastenders has written a character with every possible worst gay stereotype they could think of.

    2. Stuart Jones (Aidan Gillan)

    Queer as Folk UK version. While the series was written by a gay man, there is nothing redeeming about the main character of Stuart Jones, who doesn’t think twice before sleeping with a horny 15 year old boy and coming across as a nasty individual overall. He embodies the worst aspects of gay life. Yes the series is iconic for the time it was broadcast and introduced gay men onto mainstream TV, but the characters are portrayed as drug addled sluts.

    3. Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer)

    Glee. Now before you jab me with the pitchfork and tell me how I should be respectful of all gay characters even if they are effeminate, I shall say I have no problem with my effeminate brothers, but the character of Kurt uses every effeminate gay stereotype one can think of and simplifies it to a level that is almost painful. He’s bitchy, jealous and overly emotional which is a stereotype gay men are trying to get away from

    4. Ricki/Rochelle (Jennifer Lopez)

    Gigli. It’s so easy to take pot shots at this travesty of a film simply for existing because it really is a bad bad film. But the horrifically over simplified notion of “a lesbian just needs the right penis” is shocking in its idea that a lesbian character can so easily change sexuality when faced with Ben Affleck and his lesbian curing dong.

    5. Caherine Tramell (Sharon Stone)

    Basic Instinct. Did you know bisexuals will literally sleep with anyone for any reason and use lady sex as a way to turn men on and then turn into a murderous psychopath? Well, that’s what Basic Instinct would have you believe anyway when it comes to the main character. A violent individual who uses her bisexuality to get her own way. Not a very nice portrayal really

    Dishonourable mentions

    Jame Gumb (Ted Levine) – Silence of The Lambs
    Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirshner) – The L Word
    La Tenia (Jo Prestia) – Irréversible
    Waylon Smithers (Harry Shearer) – The Simpsons

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  • Boy George Joins The Voice

    Boy George and Paloma Faith have been named as the newest judges to choice the BBC’s flagship talent show.

    Boy George and Paloma Faith will join Will I Am and Ricky Wilson in the new series of The Voice.

    Speaking about their new coach roles on The Voice UK, Boy George says:

    “I’m thrilled and excited to be a coach on The Voice UK. I’m a huge fan of the show and have watched and engaged with it from series one. If I can help someone to win I will be delighted. What a wonderful opportunity to share my experiences and help someone move forward with their musical career. I can’t wait to sit in that chair!”

     

    Paloma Faith adds:

    “I’m really excited about working with creative people who are there not just to be great singers, but also innovative personalities and performers. I have a long history of helping break artists as in my club nights I booked Kate Nash, Adele, and The Noisettes before they hit the big time, and four of my band members have gone on to pursue successful solo careers. I’m really looking forward to getting my teeth into something that cultivates the talents of another person and takes the focus off myself for a bit.”

    The coaches will all be heading to Media City in Salford, Manchester for the blind auditions next month ahead of a new series, which launches on BBC One in January 2016.

  • Neighbours Goes Gay… Hurrah

    Neighbours Goes Gay… Hurrah

    Neighbours has gone all gay on us, and naturally we’re excited as all butter.

    Male on male kissing in Neighbours? As a young boy watching the Aussie export, I thought I’d never see the day, but here we are as Nate and Aaron have a tumble in bed.

    The steamy scene which aired last week here in the UK, saw characters Aaron Brennan (Matt Wilson) and Nate Kinski (Meyne Wyatt) share their first kiss on screen, but it wasn’t a private moment. No they did it in front of an audience. They were doing it as part of a promotion stunt for Lassiter’s hotel. In our opinion they should have sold tickets.

    So let’s get this straight, put two ridic hot lads into a glass box, give them an audience… and they start kissing? Okay, we need to get the Cube installed in the office.

    Woof. Is all we can say.

    Neighbours in on Channel 5 daily

     

  • New Trailer From X FACTOR Is Here and It Is A Bit Creepy

    Wow… there’s something extremely disturbing about the new X FACTOR promo released by ITV.

    Deep underground, we’re thinking it’s actually Simon Cowell’s lair, Caroline Flack and Olly Murs discover the factory that is in charge of the secret formula for winning the UK’s biggest Karaoke competition, proving the countdown to Christmas is nearly here.

    Nick Grimshaw, who is a “new judge from scratch” is fitted with a microchip which makes him sound like Louis Walsh, where as Cheryl has been turned into a robot, which looks very convincing.

    Finally, Simon Cowell is absolutely sure he’s found the winner of this year’s competition.