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- Britney Spears denies eating squirrels - News.com.au
- Britney Spears Named Top Search On Internet - New Kerala
- No Tiger cub on way for Rachel Uchitel - MSNBC
- The Mother Load: Having the legs to dress your age - Newburyport Daily News
| Britney Spears denies eating squirrels - News.com.au Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:01 PM PST Britney Spears with her son in Sydney during her Australian tour / Melvyn Knipe Source: news.com.au BRITNEY Spears has taken aim at some of the tabloid stories that dogged her through 2009, publishing a list of the top 75 articles deemed to be the most ridiculous. A statement on Spears's official website said more than 13,000 stories had been written about the singer this year - and many were either "patently absurd or simply offensive". "We ranked the ones we believe were the most ridiculous," the statement said, trumpeting the website's list of the "top 75 Bulls#it Britney Spears stories" of 2009. Among the stories to make the list include a report from a London tabloid citing a new Spears biography which stated that the singer's family used to eat squirrel meat during her "trailer park childhood". According to the Daily Star, the revelations had sent "sales of squirrel meat soaring" as fans "snapped up squirrel, rabbit and possum meat from butchers and restaurants". Another item on the list - weighing in at 57th place - was Spears's addiction to "flower therapy", a system which uses plant essences to "balance physical and emotional disturbances". Also on the list was a report from London's Evening Standard claiming that Spears had requested a stripper's pole to be installed at her suite in The Dorchester Hotel to help the singer stay in shape. "Britney loves pole dancing, it is her new favorite workout," an unidentified source told the newspaper. "She wants to be able to do it in the privacy of her own hotel room." At number one was a January story from Britain's Daily Mirror revealing that Spears was dating Indian choreographer Sandip Soparrkar and that she had hosted a private New Year's Eve party to introduce him to her friends and parents. Several of the stories near the top of the list related to Spears's recent troubled tour of Australia, including a November 7 story from the Herald Sun which revealed fans had walked out of a concert in Perth because of her lip-synching. Despite quotes from several named fans unhappy at Spears's performance, promoters for the concert insisted that reports of a walkout were inaccurate. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Britney Spears Named Top Search On Internet - New Kerala Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:29 PM PST 22 December 2009: BRITNEY SPEARS has been crowned the most searched for celebrity on the internet in the last decade, after a turbulent 10 years in the spotlight.
The Toxic hitmaker shot to fame in 1998 with her debut track Baby One More Time, and during her time in the limelight she has been married twice, given birth to two children and suffered a very public meltdown, which saw her hospitalised on an involuntary psychiatric hold in 2008. And her drama-filled personal life has resulted in her being named the most popular celeb on the web, according to search engine Ask Jeeves. U.S. leader Barack Obama, who was elected president last year (08), came in second, while soccer ace David Beckham was the third most searched for star. Late British Royal Diana, Princess of Wales and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair rounded out the top five. --IANS-WENN
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| No Tiger cub on way for Rachel Uchitel - MSNBC Posted: 22 Dec 2009 11:53 PM PST Contrary to reports, Tiger Woods' alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel is not carrying a little cub. Star magazine this week announced, "Tiger's worst fear … Rachel pregnant!" The magazine goes on to claim that Uchitel, who has been spotted near Woods' yacht "Privacy" in Palm Beach, "has told friends she could be carrying his baby!" Only it's not true. She was direct in her denial to GossipCop.com, saying point blank, "I'm not pregnant." Which makes the magazine's following claim more ridiculous: "Tiger and Rachel still love each other and it's definitely possible they'll meet up or go away together soon," the magazine quoted a source as saying. "Especially if she's carrying his baby." Goldie Hawn wasn't rooting for A-Rod "Goldie didn't think Kate should be with him," a source told Us Weekly. "She believes once men cheat, they always cheat." (This would be a reference to talk that Rodriguez split with wife Cynthia in 2008 after a rumored affair with Madonna.) As for what will become of Hudson and A-Rod now that they've split: the Us insider says "They'll stay friends." Britney wants to put a ring on it Although for months there have been rumors that Spears was ready to head down the aisle again, a Dec. 9 outing has people talking. On that day, Spears was spotted in several Beverly Hills jewelry stores, looking at engagement rings — all by herself. "Britney is ready to marry Jason," says a friend of the 28-year-old, who reportedly has been reading bridal magazines and is hoping for a big, traditional wedding in the summer of 2010 — even though Jason has yet to pop the question. "She wants to be with him 24/7," reports In Touch. Determined to get Trawick to settle down with her, Spears has also begun making plans for married life, according to the magazine, and is urging Jason to cut back on his career. An agent at WME, Trawick represented Spears long before the two of them began to date, and his client list has included Hilary Duff and Paris Hilton. "His career is demanding," the friend explains to the magazine. "He can be on the phone or on his computer at any hour, day or night, and Britney finds that she's competing with his work for attention." The friend says that since Spears makes enough money to support both of them, she doesn't see why Jason has to work as much as he does. "Britney doesn't want to marry a workaholic," the friend told In Touch. Courtney Hazlett delivers the Scoop Monday through Friday on msnbc.com. Follow Scoop on Twitter @courtneyatmsnbc Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| The Mother Load: Having the legs to dress your age - Newburyport Daily News Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:30 PM PST Recently, my teenage daughter and I were standing in line at CVS when the title of a magazine article caught my eye. The article asked, "Are You Dressing Your Age?" I looked down at what I was wearing: my fake Ugg boots, straight-legged jeans and rip-off North Face fleece. Then I looked at my daughter — her fake Ugg boots, straight-legged jeans and North Face fleece. I pointed to the magazine article. "You might want to read that," I told her. "You're starting to dress like a middle-aged mom." Just kidding — I didn't say that. I had a more-than-sneaking suspicion that the wardrobe problem — if there were one — was mine. Instead, I distracted my daughter ("Look, honey, mascara is on sale!"), quietly slid the magazine onto the counter under my other purchases and took it home to read in the bathroom when no one was looking. The article, as it turned out, was nothing more than a makeover of some middle-aged woman who dressed like a pre-teen, but still, it put me on the defensive. It's not that I try to dress like my daughter — not at all! I have a good reason for everything I wear: 1. The knock-off North Face fleece. It's warm — that's why I wear it! What can I say? I have the body temperature of your average reptile. 2. The fake Uggs. Again — warm! In this respect, I'm not at all like a teenager, who switches to flip-flops as soon as the temperature rises to 40 degrees. No siree, I wear these furry boots pretty much year round. 3. The straight-legged jeans. Women of my generation have been waiting for almost a decade for the return of straight-legged jeans. We had to stand by while the biggest fashion embarrassment of our lives — bell-bottomed pants—came back to haunt us in middle age. Not only did we have to watch our children relive our '70s fashion mistakes, we were forced to wear "flared" jeans ourselves because the stores carried nothing else. Gradually, of course, flares gave way to boot cuts and finally straight-leg jeans, but still, the whole experience was scarring. We've earned our skinny jeans. All in all, I might simply have brushed off the magazine article if it hadn't been followed by another wardrobe wake-up call. I was meeting my 22-year-old daughter, now employed in Boston, for lunch. As she walked toward me on Boylston Street, I noticed that she was wearing dress slacks, a nice blouse, stylish black flats and a pearl necklace. I looked down at my clothes: a pullover sweater, corduroy pants, L.L. Bean Comfort Mocs and — as decoration — my company ID badge hanging around my neck on some form of black shoelace. Hmmm, I wondered, who looks like the grown-up here? So, I resolved to do my own makeover. Since I had two holiday parties that week and nothing festive to wear, I did the unthinkable: I bought a skirt. You know, a skirt ¬— it's one of those things you have to wear with nylon stockings because your legs show. OK, so maybe you knew that, but for me it had been a really long time. I was trying on my ensemble — plaid skirt, bright red blouse, gray cardigan — when my younger daughter entered the room. She quickly took a step back. "Who are you?" she asked. "And what have you done with my mother?" I was thrilled with this reaction. "Are you sure it doesn't look too young?" I shared my nagging fear that if only I added a pair of ankle socks, I would look like Britney Spears in "Hit Me Baby One More Time." No, she assured me. I looked nothing like Britney Spears. (Which is a good thing, right? I never know.) When I wore the outfit to my holiday parties, I got pretty much the same reaction at both places; however, at my book group's party, the reception was more boisterous, probably because in the time it had taken to persuade myself to put on panty hose a second time, the alcohol at the party had already begun flowing freely. "Oh my gosh!" my friends exclaimed. (Or something like that. This is a family newspaper.) "Nancy is wearing a skirt!" "Look, I can see her legs! I haven't seen her legs since 1987!" "Quick, somebody take a picture." It went on for a while, but you get the idea. I was satisfied with the results of my experiment. Of course, by the end of the evening, my feet were so cold, I had to stick them back in my furry boots. Lesson: you can take a reptile out of her Uggs, but as soon as she can, she'll crawl right back into them. ¬¢¬¢¬¢ Nancy Crochiere is a freelance writer and editor who tries to look at the vagaries of modern family life with humor. You can e-mail her in care of ndn@newburyportnews.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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