Dannii Minogue has the botox factor

A journalist I don't turn my nose up at any newspaper, although some more than others I purchase in haste and preferably incognito *cough* News of the World *cough*.
Intrigued by the sex,lies pop-gates and exposes it's a guilty pleasure I confess.

I am ratherfond of their Sunday 'glossy' suppliment Fabulous. Albeit not always living up to its namesake in my opinion it is still a fun read.

And if it wasn't for my younger sibling pointing it out I may never have read the interview that prompted me to scoff so much I was this close to the perfect gurn (think old people with no teeth pulling faces.)

The interviewee being Dannii Minogue. The younger and the more surgeried (in my opinion) of the Minogue sisters otherwise known as one fourth of the judging panel on ITV1's the X Factor.

A 3 page spread in issue 87 on Oct 4th '09. was mainly spent gushing about her love for new beau: "I am totally in love....I never felt like this before and I honestly never ever believed this would happen to me...I just feel the sun is shining every day...I'm exploding with happiness...I am now thinking babies... Ughh OK! we get the picture strewth!!

But just when I thought it couldn't get worse she went on to state the most laughable, ridiculous and in short utter bollocks of a reason to resort to the non invasive surgery procedure botox she is well known for indulging in:

"For me (when Kylie was ill and her friend was dying) all my emotions, all my devastation, were written all over my face I could cope with it inside but I couldn't cope with seeing it and others seeing it too. I wanted to use botox to hide everything I didn't want people to see the emotional devastation on my face, for me so much of it was about hiding"

Now I do not doubt for a second the pain anguish and hurt loosing a friend or nearly a sister to cancer must be and to that all my sympathies are with Ms Minogue.


HOWEVER insisting the reason she sucumbed to the needle is not at all as the article says to 'keep the wrinkles' at bay but instead to hide her grief stricken expression is the biggest whopper and load of BS I have heard in a long time.

I mean sure shes not worried about wrinkles shes only a 38 year old female in the highly age- phobic showbiz industry who is scrutinised on her appearance on a weekly basis and compared to her much younger co-panel judge 26 year old Cheryl Cole. why indeed would she need to resort to it absolute piffle of course.

But for such ingenuity Ms Minogue I must award a crown for the best ever surgical excuse.
I encourage you guys out there if you can think of a more genius excuse please post them here.

Bruce Forsyth needs to keep a lid on it

Well its finally happened Bruce Forsyths brain has dropped into his chin, rendering him an utter buffoon with a severe case of verbal diarreah .

The racial 'gaffe' Anton Du Beke made in calling fellow strictly partner Laila Rouass a highly derogatory term was bad enough without Forsyth wading in to add his 'Brucie Bonus' two cents.

The octogenarian whom its rumoured the BBC consider a bit past it to put it politely further fuelled the situation by stating on of all places Talk Sport Radio, random but Idigress that we the public should have more of a sense of humour about the whole thing digging more of a hole by going on to say:

"We used to have a sense of humour about this. You go back 25, 30, 40 years and there has always been a bit of humour about the whole thing. At one time the Americans used to call us 'limeys' which doesn't sound very nice, but we used to laugh about it. Everybody has a nickname.'

Good god let me slap him now! need I remind you Mr Forsyth that you are from the generation of comedians who believed Bernard Manning racist bigot extraordinaire was funny, Alf Garnett was likely thought normal and people on TV blacked themselves up as minstrels and danced around like a bunch of oafs for the viewing public's light entertainment!

I do believe being seen as politicaly correct these days goes to far, but this is just too much.

Now I don't think Bruce is racist one bit but the old man needs to brush up n oh what say 30-40 years of societies progression and stick to the shows script or get out.