Last night the Simpsons’ intro was extended.  Imagine sitting down to watch the new episode and finding this at the start instead of the usual music…pretty good!

Brian McFadden has been living what seemed to be a happy and successful life in Australia with fiancee Delta Goodrem for years now.   I always thought, more power to him!  He was never going to be taken seriously on this side of the world so I was happy to see him become a judge on Australia’s Got Talent and get to number 1 recently in a collaboration with Kevin Rudolph.

However, he seems to be shooting himself in the foot of late.  It started with a Twitter rant about his ex-wife Kerry Katona.  She gave an interview to the News of the World in which she spoke about his infidelity and said that he didn’t have much of a relationship with his kids.  She said:

“He phones the girls about five times a year – but Lilly doesn’t really know who he is. I’ve never told them what really happened.”

She went on: “Brian has a new life in Australia now. I’m not bitter. I’m just sad for him. He’s missing out on two amazing little girls.”

He responded with these beautiful tweets:

“A certain pig-faced mole has suggested my own daughter Lilly doesn’t know me and I never talk to my kids.”

“Wish certain f—s would stop selling there (sic) stories to rags and get a real job…”

While I appreciate that if your ex was making allegations like this which were false then you would be angry, I can’t help but think his reaction was foolish.  Firstly, because it’s not right for children to read comments like this about their mother especially not from their father.  Secondly, because it only highlights the article which reminded me that he cheated on Kerry.  And that she was the injured party in their split.

Kerry recalled: “I thought we could work through it, but after Lilly was born, Brian told me he didn’t love me. I didn’t know it then but he’d met Delta.”

In 2004 Brian, 30, left Kerry. She admitted: “I didn’t fight. I saw the way he looked at Delta. He had never looked at me that way – I knew he had gone.”

Kerry’s worst fears were realised when she arranged for the children to see Brian who had just flown back to Heathrow – with Delta. She explained: “I remember thanking God I’d dressed up because this vision with a perfect figure, white shiny teeth, and a beautiful complexion was next to him. She was about a foot taller than me and I felt like a piece of rubbish.

“I was so nervous all I said was: ‘Hiya Love, are you all right?’ This to the woman who had taken my husband.”

That was just the start, because now he has courted controversy in his role as judge on Australia’s Got Talent:

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think he comes across very well here.  His “There are kids in the audience…” defense is weak to say the least.  He just comes across as a bit of a jackass.

If he wants to maintain his reputation in Australia as a well-liked all-round good guy he’d want to cop on before he gets way too big for his boots.

Sometimes food is art.

Although I think I’d have trouble eating them…or maybe not.  God knows I love a cupcake.

If you live on planet Earth, chances are by now you are familiar with Jersey Shore.  It’s the MTV show taking the world by storm, kind of like The Real World, except filled with “guidos”.  Well, some geniuses got together and decided to reenact some of Jersey Shore, except with children.  It is gas.

And they’ve done it with The Hills too!  Check it out here.

Louise

Eh…what?  Seriously, WHAT?!?

She mentions opening Menopause: The Musical, but it had to be cancelled because shortly after this interview her daughter Naomi apparently had to call an ambulance because Twink seemed so unwell.  According to a statement, this is what happened: “She had an adverse reaction to some allergy and asthma medication she had been taking. She became unwell at home and was transferred to a Dublin hospital by ambulance just after lunchtime. She was then transferred to a second Dublin hospital for specialised treatment for her asthma and allergy condition.”

Her producer in Menopause the musical had this to say, “”I didn’t thinks was this ill but she certainly didn’t sound great, she wasn’t herself. She just said that her asthma had been playing up and it always happens in spring. She has hayfever on top of asthma and that exacerbates the asthma, that’s why she takes medicine for both… Adele’s a real pro, if there’s any possibility of her coming back tonight I’m sure she will.”

I don’t think it was the asthma and hay fever that he was referring to when he said “…she wasn’t herself.”  She sounded MENTAL.  Totally MENTAL.  Anyone who has an idea what she was on about is welcome to give their offering in the comments section below.

Eep.

Louise xoxo

So M.I.A.’s video for her new single “Born Free” is pretty intense.  She is clearly exploring the idea of freedom in Western society, and questioning how free we actually are:

Personally, I think it’s pretty amazing.  Not so, says Spencer Pratt.  Yep,  you heard me right.  Spencer Pratt, aka Mr. Heidi Montag and generally recognized dickhead has taken it upon himself to take issue with the video.  Earlier today he tweeted this:  “The music artist MIA should be kicked out of America today for using the US flag on her Nazi like hit squad in her new music video!”

And that my friends, is why George W. Bush was elected twice.

While looking for this tweet I also came across this rant.  It started with this tweet:

“Yahoo reporting that The Hills picked up again for 12 more episodes reports BEEFY-LC will come back for the final 12. LC nobody cares.”

And was followed by FOURTEEN tweets directed at Lauren Conrad.  They all started with @laurenconrad and when linked together this is how they read (all spelling and grammar mistakes belong to Spencer):

“is it true that you want back to the hills. Nobody cared about you the first round or second. What about your boyfriend u pay? isn’t your boyfriend your paying to date you Kyle Howard from Orange county film. That’s cute your both in way from the OC.  does your boyfriend mr serious actor know that his late night sugar mama boot call is going back to the hills!? Desperate?

is the reason you want back on the hills is because of fame? Not money. You have that. So is it cavallari on TV botheringU  dont come back to reality tv your boring and FUGLY. Jeresy shore took any spot that you left open you on MTV moron. LC WHO?  Kyle Howard must love beef. Kyle must have dumped your sloppy wannabe ass if your headed back to the hills. Funny shit.

can’t wait to see you for the first time back on camera. When I’m not filming and you are! Rememmber good ole days with drinks  you haven’t been in the nightlife scene or any with Spencer Pratt in 5years hope you are ready for the super Fun! Love ratings  just make sure you pack no bikinis for your trip back on the hills. Still sick from photos I saw of u in a gutter 3years ago

the fact you are really trying to get back on tv when younsaid you were done and you just wanted to have your ghost writer  you should fire your PR girl Nicole for letting that beefy quote make it in people mag this week of you in the Feud box.  what don’t you do a show abbot you trying to be entertaining? You can’t compete against snookie and situation ha! U are boring

stop trying to get famous you haven’t been relevant since laguna beach. You need ghost writers pretend you can spell or read.  shit has to be hard when your mom looks way better and younger then you. Then again your mom has good doctor you are broken.”

WOW.  You can check it out for yourself here.  I know there are those who will say it’s all for show but I believe he really is as disgusting as he appears.

Woah there little lady – you better put that bicycle aside.  You could hurt someone with that thing!  Y’see, girls can’t ride bikes!

Today’s Irishman’s Diary is curmudgeonly, sexist tripe.  According to Seán Mac Connell, “There is nothing as frightening, dangerous or scary as a woman on one of them new bikes put on to the streets of Dublin last September to supposedly make our lives better.”

Actually there is, and it’s a stuck in the past old man being given a platform to voice his baseless opinions.

I couldn’t believe Avatar was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars this year.  I mean, remove the fancy computer stuff and what do you have?  A pretty crap version of Pocahontas with a few Vietnam tie-ins.  I wasn’t the only one, as this video illustrates brilliantly.

I think you’d be hard pressed to find a woman who hasn’t felt for Sandra Bullock over the past 3 months.  The timing of the revelation that her husband had cheated on her couldn’t have been worse.  Just days before, she had stood on the stage of the Kodak Theater while accepting her Academy Award for Best Actress and professed her love for him.  The humiliation she must have felt is unimaginable.

Now, she has spoken for the first time.  In an interview with People Magazine she says that she has filed for divorce and most surprisingly that she has a new son.  A 3½-month-old boy, born in New Orleans named Louis Bardo Bullock.  Apparently she began the adoption process with her soon to be ex husband 4 years ago and they brought the baby home in January.  She is now finalizing the adoption process as a single parent.

This just adds to the tragedy of the whole situation.  She must have been blissfully happy on Oscar night.  A best actress award, a happy marriage, and a new baby.  WHY do people cheat?  And more than that, why do people cheat REPEATEDLY?

Hope you have a happy day devoid of infidelity.

Louise xoxo

What do we think of this then?  Yesterday everyone seemed to be reacting to these ads, either in their trousers or on the phone to the advertising watchdog who received a large number of complaints about the ads.  Even the IRFU sent the food company which own Hunky Dorys a solicitor’s letter demanding the campaign be pulled because of a reference to the crisps as a “proud sponsor of Irish rugby”.  The campaign has been branded depressing, base, sexist, tasteless and exploitative among other things; but I believe the aspect of this which intelligent people find most frustrating is the amount of publicity the campaign has gotten in it’s first 72 hours.

Raymond Coyle, chief executive of Largo Foods who are responsible for the ads doesn’t see the problem,“I don’t think the ads are at all sexist but if people do think that then I apologise to them,” he said (rubbing his hands together with glee at the attention the campaign is getting). “Everything is so serious and gloomy now and we want to inject a little bit of fun into things.”

Are the ads exploitative?  Yes.  Are men often exploited in ads too?  Yes.  Would I prefer if this type of advertising didn’t exist?  Definitely.  However, the most irritating aspect of this is the thousands and thousands of euro worth of free advertising the company have gotten because they chose to be offensive.