“Celebs” Autograph Xboxes In Oz

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Posted on 01-04-2007

Australia is a sad place. They don't make any movies there, they don't write any books (ever read an Australian book?), in fact, they don't do much except play sports and drink beer-Foster's, of course, which is made in England.

Testimony to that is the list of "celebrities" who will sign customised Xbox 360s for sale on eBay, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the console. The proceeds will go to charity.

Apart from well-loved actor Russell Crowe and well-hated bowler Shane Warne, here are most of the others.

Peter Jackson: There are many of them. A search on IMDb brings up a few. A Wikipedia search brings up a few, too-you get to one of those "disambiguation" pages. And the sixth Google search result takes you to Peter Jackson, Information Extrac-tion expert, definitely not the celebrity in question.

"Legendary" kiddie enter-tainers The Wiggles. Bet they haven't heard of them in England or places like that.

Megan Gale, who's been called "Australia's favourite face." Never heard of her, of course. But she's mildly pretty, as you can see. And she's of Italian descent, as it happens.

Sportsmen including Andrew Johns. Andrew who? Johns who?
Imagine an Xbox 360 autographed by The Wiggles. That's what they're going to lap up down under-soon.

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Now, in corporate language, people asked, why didn't he stick to his core competence? "PEREZ HILTON'S INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFFAIRS BLOG FAILS," screams the headline on a popular site. If you knew Hilton, you'd know there's no way on earth his style would beautify international news affairs. (He's got pink hair right now, as an indicator.)

Hilton has a lot to say about it. Let him speak for himself:
"I thought my faithful readers would follow me to my new website, but so far, it hasn't panned out, and I don't understand why." "I've had everything from Nicole Richie telling me to call her anorexic to her face, and I've had Tara Reid threaten to throw me in a pool at a party. I wanted to get the very same attention from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Pakistan's suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry." Just not happening.

PerezHilton.com's daily readership tops four million, but his international news blog's readership is just 400 per day.

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Anderton happens to be a nice-looking English lingerie model, as you can see alongside. A tape of her doing the nasty with her ex-boyfriend "is being circulated," and could come up on the Internet any time now.

Anderton is most known for her appearances in Maxim. So why the hullabaloo about this tape? According to our Chicago special correspondent, this tape will make the Pam Anderson/Tommy Lee Jones sex tape look like something for kindergarten kids!

There's a twist to the tale: the tape is up for sale! Our special correspondent says Anderton is desperately trying to buy it to stop it from getting to the Net for all and sundry to watch (after whipping out their credit cards, naturally). And this, despite her ex-boyfriend having assured her it had been destroyed.

It'll be a bid-fest between Anderton and the webmaster who estimates a few million for his new site with the tape on it... remember parishilton-exposed.com?