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  • Katie Hopkins Will Step On Perez Like A Small Fly

    Ooooft, it’s all going on the Big Brother house and after an incident today, Katie Hopkins has made her feelings about Perez Hilton very, very clear.

    Perez Hilton will from now on feel the wrath from gay icon wannabe Katie Hopkins, after she screamed at him to be quiet, which brought the celebrity blogger to tears. It all happened when Perez confronted Ken about his behaviour in the house that infuriates Katie. Perez further felt Katie’s anger when he questioned her about sleeping with her now husband when he was still married to a previous woman. Needless to say, Katie was not happy about her actions being questioned.

    Enough is enough: Katie Hopkins silences Perez with a hand, letting him know that she has had enough of his voice and his opinions.

    Reduced To Tears: Perez tries to answer back but Hopkins’ acid tongue silences and reduces him to tears.

    Gleeful: Katie tells Big Brother that she’d like to step on Perez like a small fly.

    Later on, Katie tells Big Brother that today’s task made Perez look like “a dingbat” and admits that she is not likely to ever get on with him. She then likens him to a “small fly that I will step on, and will be removed from this House, hopefully by my hand. I’ll be pleased to see him go”

    Who do you want to see win?

  • INTERVIEW | Adore Delano

    The popularity of drag in recent years can be attributed, at least in part, to Ru Paul and his resurgence as the face of Drag Race.

    I remember him as the face that launched Super Model, appearing as something of an anomaly amongst the big haired, slightly portly drag queens I’d seen down the local gay bar – a quick quip and a nasty put down amongst the flat lager and the hi-energy pop. He arrived, shook the drag world up and then he seemed to disappear…

    For me, Drag Race was a slow burner, a programme I didn’t “race” to watch but when it appeared on my Netflix timeline, I thought “Oh, why not?” and instantly got hooked. From Season 1 onwards, I watched it all, drama, crisis and laughter – but never felt that enthralled?

    And then it exploded, Season 6 of Drag Race seems to have been the one where we got the real characters, the divas, the comedy and the voices.

    And although Bianca Del Rio won, the top 3 all had different talents, and very different personalities. Bianca came across as the queen of quips and put downs, the one you want to read you, and god knows she was, and still is wonderful.
    Courtney Act came over all “big down under” and had a heart, somewhere – but with a voice that could knock your Birkenstocks off! And that body? I had a hard time explaining that this woman was a man!

    And then we come to Adore Delano, to paraphrase Pricilla….she’s a cock in a frock and she rocks!!!

    She doesn’t do the clichéd music, she doesn’t look pretty, pretty – she’s edgy and boy can she rock a tune as well as a dress.

    I got a chance to have a quick chat with the lady herself, and she kept me in stitches – she’s interesting and funny and totally talented.

    With catchphrases such as “party”, “Chola”, “Libra”. “Fk”, “st”, “c**t”…she was sure to win an audience over.

    Born Daniel Anthony Noriega back in 1989 in Azusa, California, her Wiki page lists her occupation as Drag queen, singer, YouTube personality, television personality – and she does all of these so well.

    I asked her how she came into drag?

    “I was heavily influenced by Pete Burns in high School, loved dressing up and altering my look.”

    With the Pete Burns reference, I asked if she’d ever consider surgery later in life:

    “F**k yeah! I want the lot!”

    Review her performance on Drag Race, and watch as she blossoms under the guidance and feedback from both co-stars and mentors.

    I asked her about that entrance, what it was like to be the first into that big pink room:

    “They made me do that twice – the first time, they told me there were others in there and there weren’t!”

    I also asked about the underwear – those of you who’ve watched it might remember her sitting on the chair and swinging her legs over the arm – only to comment that she wasn’t wearing any underwear!

    One comment Michelle Visage constantly made was about Adore cinching her waist, and this led to Adore dubbing her body a “hog body”. I asked her about this, and as she said: “I cinch when I’m doing girlie stuff but not all the time”.

    Another Drag Race comment was around her not being able to sew and make her own outfits like some of the other contestants, and her wardrobe wasn’t as vast or varied as others but what she had she rocked, and when she did create something, it blew them away (hint: that little punk number that reminded me of Hazel O’Connor in Breaking Glass).

    When asked about her sewing skills, she commented that her style of stage drag doesn’t always need sewing skills, and as her style is rock chic, you can understand this.

    I asked her how her style has changed over time, and with the notoriety that Drag Race has given her:

    “I used to dress like the other girls in town – and now I do that but wear more expensive t-shirts!”

    We then turned to her stage show, the bread and butter stuff that now makes the bucks. She’s about to bring this to the UK, and I asked what we could expect in terms of content:

    “I’m trying to showcase different songs, so there’ll be some form the current album (see below) and also I love doing covers so expect some of these too.”

    And with that voice, if you’re lucky enough to have tickets for the UK dates, you’re in for a treat.

    I asked her about that now infamous Starbucks ad with Bianca Del Rio, an ad that perfectly utilises their individual skills and styles.

    “It was filmed in Canada and I didn’t think it was real so I turned up with no make-up.” And yet it’s one of the best ads I’ve seen!

    In these days of mass social media, I asked if she had controlled her own media feed:

    “I have direct input, it’s a way of communicating that we haven’t had before.”

    It is refreshing to meet an entertainer who has some control over the social output we’ve come to expect from our stars.

    And finally, what’s next for Adore:

    “I’m working on a new album, writing new material and hoping to get it all finished for summer this year.”

    In the meantime, enjoy her latest offerings here:
    Adores site:

    http://www.adoredelano.com

    Amazon download:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Till-Death-Do-Party-Explicit/dp/B00KH1PDUO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420894582&sr=8-1&keywords=adore+delano

    Adore/Danny’s YouTube feed:

    https://www.youtube.com/user/DannyNoriega

    With her mini UK tour, feel free to pop to one of the venues and see her live, in the flesh and hear that powerhouse of a voice!

    WEST 5 in WEST LONDON

    THURSDAY, JANUARY 15th
    AXM in GLASGOW

    FRIDAY, JANUARY 16th
    NIGHTINGALE in BIRMINGHAM

    SATURDAY, JANUARY 17th
    AXM in MANCHESTER

    SUNDAY, JANUARY 18th
    SHADE presents SR44 in NEWCASTLE

    MONDAY, JANUARY 19th
    Photo credit: Image with Roses by Crystal Allen

  • FILM REVIEW | Inherent Vice, Expecting Boogie Nights, you will be disappointed

    ★★★ | Inherent Vice, Expecting Boogie Nights, you will be disappointed

    The reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon is known for his dense and complex novels which he has never allowed to be adapted into movies, until now that is. When ‘Inherent Vice’ his seventh novel was published in 2009 the dust jacket proclaimed that it was ‘part-noir, part-psychedelic romp’.

    The piece is set in 1970 and unkempt Doc Spotello a Private Eye sporting big mutton chops and as usual in a dope-fuelled haze, is in his Gordetta Beach hangout when Shasta Fay Hepworth one of his ex-squeezes turns up unexpectedly to ask for his help. She wants him to track down her secret lover, big-shot land developer Mickey Wolfmann, who’s vanished. Shasta is worried that Mrs. Wolfmann who has her own lover, wants to commit her husband to a loony bin but before Doc can even start investigating, Shasta disappears too.

    When Doc gets on the case he heads out to Channel View Estates, Wolfmann’s latest cheesy housing development, and en route pops into a sex parlor there looking for one of the owner’s bodyguards who he thinks will be able to help him. As he gets ready to leave Doc is knocked out, only to wake up much later next to the body of the dead bodyguard, a burly Nazi-loving biker, and he is instantly accused of murder by the cops.

    Doc gets out of this particular mess as his old nemesis Det. ‘Bigfoot’ Bjornsen knows he is innocent but nevertheless he and the FBI press him into helping them locate Wolfmann and a missing musician Coy Harlington who they all want to talk to as well. And looming over everything is the ‘Golden Fang’ that Doc has been warned to avoid. What this is he is never quite sure, and neither are we. At first it appears it is maybe a blacklisted movie star’s personal sailing vessel, or one that belongs to an Indo-Chinese drug cartel. Or it may even be the name of a syndicate of tax-dodging dentists fronted by a coke-snorting Dr. Feelgood.

    Both Wolfmann and Hartigan are found but by this time the plot is so convoluted that we have no chance of making head of tale of it unless we are as perpetually stoned as Doc is. What makes this ‘haze’ so enjoyable however is the inspired and zany delicious humor that is always a strength of Anderson’s films, plus some rather wonderful performances from a fine cast led by Joaquin Phoenix as Doc. Phoenix brings his hallmark manic manner to the role and is excruciatingly wonderful as he totally lives a part that is so tailor-made for him.

    Fine turns too from Josh Brolin as Bigfoot, a barely recognisable Benicio Del Toro as a Lawyer, Owen Wilson (who is always happy when he is stoned) as Coy, and delightfully over-the-top performance by Martin Short as Dr Feelgood.

    If like me you were expecting this to follow on from Anderson’s 1997 breakthrough movie the sensational ‘Boogie Nights’ set in this same period, you will be disappointed as it’s simply not in the same league. It is however still a joy to watch and appreciate his highly personal stylised approach to filmmaking as he revels in a period and culture that he has such empathy with. Just make sure you read the novel first, and maybe take a puff or two as well.

  • Gemma Collins Thinks Katie Hopkins Is Lesbian For Her

    Gemma Collins has finally, and at last, squared up to Katie Hopkins, only to suggest that she is Lesbian.

    In a Tweet, Gemma Collins has finally spoken out against motor mouth Katie Hopkins, by questioning her sexuality, saying, “I swear Katie Hopkins fancies me !! Omg why does she keep going on about me she’s an actual bully keep bringing my name up ! Come see me”

    Fellow openly gay TOWIE celeb Bobby Norris jumped in on the conversation by tweeting, “I can’t help but feel Katie Hopkins is obsessed with @missgemcollins ..She is clearly one very unhappy individual #CBB”

    Whilst Gemma was in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, gay icon wannabe, Katie, plunged into a tirade against Gemma and her size, which caused many people to criticise the former apprentice star and branding her a bully and cyber troll.

    In a column for THEGAYUK celebrity life coach Sloan Sheridan-Williams, said, “Katie Hopkins has chosen put herself in the limelight and present herself as someone who preys on those with obvious faults in order to make a name for herself and that she has successfully done, but the people she chooses to talk about are human and have feelings.’

    Katie, who is currently starring Celebrity Big Brother will escape the public vote next week, after only receiving one nomination from Nadia in the face-to-face nominations.

  • BOOK REVIEW | No Drum To Beat

    ★★★★ | No Drum To Beat

    Mansel Stimpson, co-author of the Film Review yearbook, has written a memoir, a memoir where he states that ‘he was born in 1978 at the age of 40.’

    The Film Review yearbook is the world’s longest-established movie guide and is the only guide that provides essential credits and reviews for all theatrically released films in the UK. Stimpson began co-authoring the book in 2007, but his own memoir, titled ‘No Drum to Beat’, was actually written thirty years ago. It’s not about Mansel’s life as a writer, nor is it about film, it’s about him recognising his sexuality for the first time, at the age of 40, and then embracing it, and immediately seeing it as an opening to the possibility of loving.

    Mansel says that ‘when I recognised that I was gay I immediately saw it not as a problem but as a solution to a problem.’

    ‘No Drum to Beat’ tells an extraordinary and unique story of one man’s realisation that he was gay a bit late in life, but it’s also a record of gay life in London from 1978 to 1981, a time when London was going through a significant period of social change.

    Mansel mentions that his book ‘was written for men who thought being gay was a problem, and it’s also written for women and straight men in the hope of promoting greater understanding.’

    Mansel Stimpson has previously written for the British Federation of Film Societies, What’s On in London, Capital Gay, Gay Times, and the Pink Paper. Throughout his career he has interviewed countless singers, actors, conductors, and directors.

  • INTERVIEW | will.i.am

    will.i.am is a multi-faceted entertainer and creative innovator. He found global success as one of the founding members of The Black Eyed Peas, who have sold 31 million albums and 58 million singles worldwide.

    He is the recipient of seven Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, a Teen Choice Award, two MTV Video Music Awards and three World Music Awards. He is also the first recording artist to have sent a song to Mars as part of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Space Lab project in August 2012.

    How does it feel to be back working on The Voice UK?
    I feel up for it. My foresight tells me that it’s going to be an amazing show. For instance, we have Rita Ora joining the show.

    Have you missed The Voice?
    I missed The Voice UK. It’s one of the best places to be on earth. While there is an amusement park that claims to be the happiest place on earth, I think that The Voice UK is really the happiest place.

    What’s so special about The Voice?
    The Voice format is really about nothing but the voice. That’s what’s so special about the blind auditions. I know that sounds redundant and kind of cliché, but it’s the honest truth.

    What’s it like sitting in that chair?
    It is heart-wrenching, especially when you don’t want to have to say goodbye to someone. Often you say, hey you seem a bit nervous. Doh! You don’t know how long they have been stressing. Maybe they didn’t sleep, tossing and turning as they were kind of anxious. Now I think, what if I was in that situation? What if that was my last chance? What if I was down on my luck and this is the last chance to get my career going? We don’t know the backstories to their lives when they perform for us so we have to be careful.

    How do you know when to hit your button?
    I know when to hit the button when someone is singing with emotion. You can do three things: sing perfectly, sing with emotion or sing with personality. Anything else is flat, sharp or boring.

    What is it like to have Rita Ora join The Voice?
    I’m very proud of Rita. I’ve known Rita since 2008 when we recorded together. She was concerned about coming on The Voice. She asked me before she joined: ‘What do I have to tell these singers?’ I was like, are you kidding Rita? There’s people that haven’t had a record out. There are people who look to you and want what you have achieved.

    What kind of coach do you think Rita will be?
    Rita has that special pizzazz that is infectious, you want to be around it. My gut tells me there’s going to be some fights around the girls. Because girls are going to want to automatically go with Rita.

    With all the success you’ve had, are you still in awe of Sir Tom?
    I’m in awe with Tom as an accomplisher because he’s achieved longevity, Sir Tom Jones is longevity. Not many people in the music industry have that type of career length. It’s incredible. Tom Jones is beyond legend, he’s a monument.

    What has it been like to work with Ricky Wilson?
    Ricky is awesome! He blew me over, he is so full of life. It’s good, he adds a lot. I’m honoured to be on the panel with him.

    How important is a good Voice pitch?
    It’s important, all four of us have different tactics and I have faith Rita is going to be even more outgoing than the three of us, but right now it’s about the anti-pitch. That’s my new mode, I turn around and when they ask me what I would offer them I will say, I don’t know, what would you want me to do for you? It’s more of a, you tell me what you want and I’ll make it.

    What are you looking for this year?
    This year I am looking for a demolisher. I’m looking for a disrupter, a wrecking ball. Not a girl with a g-string on a wrecking ball (even though I love Miley) I’m just looking for somebody really different to come knock down the walls.

  • FILM REVIEW | Foxcatcher

    ★★★★ | Foxcatcher

    John Eleuthère du Pont the spoilt heir to the vast Dupont chemical fortune was a dangerous paranoid psychopath who ended up destroying lives when he didn’t get his own way. The fact that he was also a deeply disturbed closeted homosexual is also very obvious in this new chilling true crime drama based on his life, yet it is a fact that nearly all the critics, without exception, have chosen to ignore.

    Du Pont lived in the shadows of his dominant elderly aristocratic mother on their vast estate in Pennsylvania which he had renamed Foxcatcher Farm. His mother’s one obsession was her herd of thoroughbred horses and the Trophy Room that housed all their awards was the most important place in their Mansion. Du Pont deeply resented his Mother’s preference to her stallions over him, and so he built a gym in the grounds to focus on his one big addiction to the sport of wrestling, well wrestlers in particular.

    The year is 1987, and three years prior Mark Shultz and his brother Dave had won Gold Medals for wrestling at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Whilst Dave has settled down in Colorado and got married, had children and has a job coaching, Mark has a sad solitary life where his main daily function is to train for the next World Games. When he gets a phone call out of the blue from multi-millionaire du Pont inviting him to fly to Pennsylvania as his guest for a meeting, having nothing to lose, he accepts the free plane ticket and goes.

    Du Pont tells Mark that he wants not just to underwrite all his expenses but for him to establish a team of wrestlers under the Foxcatcher banner that he would like to help train for the World Games. If they all live on campus, he will also pay them generous wages too. It’s an offer that loner Mark cannot refuse and without even questioning, du Pont’s possible motives, throws his few worldly possessions in a Uhaul truck and drives across country to his new rather lush quarters on the Estate.

    Du Pont had wanted both of the Shultz brothers to lead his new team, but when Mark failed to persuade Dave to join him, du Pont lavished all his attention on just Mark. The new training facilities pay off, and three months later Mark won a Gold Medal at the World Games and schizophrenic du Pont started to treat the young athlete more like a son whenever he was in a good mood. Up to this point Shultz had kept to his highly disciplined routine which excluded things like alcohol but pressured by du Pont he tried and liked recreational drugs which would eventually lead to the decline in the two men’s relationships.

    Director Bennett Miller shows that du Pont clearly gets off on physical contact with Shultz when the two men attempt to wrestle (du Pont misguidedly thinks he also has a talent for the sport too) and leaves the implication that this may have satisfied the effete older man’s homosexual desires. However, when du Pont doesn’t get what he wants and it seems that Shultz’s new unhealthy addictions render him unable to win matches, he throws a heap of money at Dave to persuade him to come and train the Team after all.

    The vain du Pont who is now underwriting the US Wrestling Team for the Seoul Olympics insists on being recognised as the official coach even though Dave Shultz is actually doing the work. Dave accepts this to a point but a now sober Mark is deeply resentful of du Pont and his power, and although he is still prepared to accept his money, he refuses to have anything do with the man who he once allowed to fawn over him. After he fails to win a Gold Medal at the Olympics, Mark finally moves out of the Foxcatcher Estate leaving his brother to face a fate that no-one could have predicted.

    Miller, working with a script by E. Max Frye & Dan Futterman, allows this excellent creepy tale to unravel at a pace that is a little too slow at times. It’s a great ‘vehicle’ for the talented comic actor Steve Carrell to show his remarkable range playing the thoroughly unpleasant du Pont, but as good as he is I don’t think he will join the list of actors who wore prosthetic noses and won an Oscar for their efforts. He was joined on screen by the great Vanessa Redgrave who had a very tiny lame role as the mother; Channing Tatum as Mark which was at least a role that suited his expressionless style of acting; and Mark Ruffalo who was totally superb as a beefed up Dave.

    P.S. Back to the question of du Pont’s sexuality that Miller throws us so many clues about, from him waking up a near-naked Shultz after midnight to give him a book (!), to his insistence on demonstrating intimate crutch grabbing wrestling moves that he wasn’t trained to do, to the sight of his horrified mother watching her effeminate son getting ‘low’ on the mat etc. To a gay audience this will undoubtedly appear as a classic case of a rich older effete man chasing a big dumb blond sports jock: known as a ‘chicken hawk’: not too dissimilar to ‘foxcatcher’.

  • Trans Drivers Blamed For Russian Road Accident Hike

    Officials in Russia are planning to ban transgender and transsexual drivers from owning or qualifying for a driving license, in a move to lower Russia’s death rate on the road.

    In a truly bizarre move, Russian officials have made an announcement that they are to tighten restrictions on who can apply or qualify for a driver’s license. Those who are likely to be banned are those they claim have ‘metal disorders’ which the government has listed transsexual and transgender men and women. Also banned will be those with gambling addictions and those who compulsively steal.

    Also listed as disorders, those with Fetishism, exhibitionism and voyeurism. The move has been made because the government is worried about too many road accidents. The decree was signed on the 29th December by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

    Human Rights lawyers and activists have decried the move, but the Professional Drivers Union has supported the move. Alexander Kotov, the union’s leader told the BBC, “We have too many deaths on the road, and I believe toughening medical requirements for applicants is fully justified,”

    He did say that the requirements should not be so strict for non-professional drivers.

    According to available statistics, in 2012, 28,000 road fatalities were recorded in Russia, around 55 per 100,000 vehicles. The USA reported 36,166 in the same period, 13.5 per 100,000 whilst the UK reported 2,175 deaths, 6.2 per 100,000 vehicles.

    In countries where homosexuality is illegal such as Zimbabwe, Yemen and Uganda, death rates are 212, 587.6, and 1518.1 per 100,000 vehicles respectively.

    The move is an extension of Russia’s already restrictive campaign against LGBT people. In 2013 the Russia government infamously enacted the anti-gay law, which forbids the promotion of homosexuality to anyone under the age of 18.

  • Moscow City Ballet’s Swan Lake – Sheffield Lyceum and National Tour

    ★★★ | Moscow City Ballet’s Swan Lake – Sheffield Lyceum and National Tour

    It is a tidal wave of tights, tutus and tiaras in this presentation of one of Tchaikovsky’s most famous ballets, performed in typical traditional style by the Moscow City Ballet.

    Telling the story of a Prince who finds his youth slipping away and being pressured into marriage, he meets and falls in love with Odette, Queen of the Swans, who is under a curse from which only true love can free her. But their love is thwarted by Von Rothbart when he tricks the Prince into being betrothed to another. When the Prince realises he has been a victim of such cruel treachery, he battles to save Odette from her curse.

    Having not been overly impressed with my first visit to Moscow City Ballet (for their performance of The Nutcracker) I was not sure what to expect, but found that Swan Lake proved to be a more entertaining and gentile evening that I anticipated. The company as a whole were very talented, and the number of stumbles and heavy footed landings was significantly less than when I had seen them before. The dancers individually were all very talented and quite natural in their performances, and there is no denying the technical ability and suppleness of the cast, but when dancing as an ensemble, there were still some flaws in the performance, with the unison of the dancers not being as tight and synchronised as one would hope for and anticipate, especially from such a prestigious company.

    That aside, the vivacious and playful score by Tchaikovsky sounded as vibrant as ever, and proved absorbing, especially during the first act. There were times when the ballet sparkled brightly, nowhere more evident than the sight of a sheer volume of swans and signets in the latter portion of the second act, which amounted to a fairly mesmerising vision. The tapestry based static set was functional and place the audience in mind of the time when this ballet was first performed; and the costumes were beautifully put together. There was a romantic pas de deux and the soloists portraying the potential suitors displaying their wares at the opening of Act 3 were quite captivating.

    For those seeking a traditionally presented ballet, then this version of Swan Lake is a safe bet and a pleasant evenings entertainment, albeit one which is let down to an extent by a lack of unison within the performance, which is a shame when compared to the tightly performed routines by companies such as Northern Ballet and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. However, there remain many aspects of the show to enjoy and it is an easy, accessible ballet which is more focussed on dance and performance than detailed narrative.

    Further details can be found at www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk and www.moscowcityballet.com/en

  • Not Bieber Bulge… Justin Photoshopped For CK Model Shots?

    Bad news for all those JUSTIN BIEBER fans who drooled over the new photos this week of the boy in his CK pants.

    It turns out that maybe Justin Bieber is not quite as hot as we were led to believe as the folks at CK have appeared to have enhanced the photos to make the boy seem bigger all over. Just like most people do with their Grindr profiles.

  • Did Bieber Had Pubic Hair Photoshopped On

    Now it has emerged that the former Popstar turned model Justin Bieber may have had pubic hair photoshopped on his body.

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