Strictly Come Dancing Craig & Flavia Interview

Strictly Come Dancing is off to Blackpool this weekend, but the contestants won’t have time to enter the sandcastle competition – they’ve got bigger fish to fry.

One pair who will be sweating bullets to avoid another dance-off are Flavia Cacace and actor Craig Kelly.

We were delighted when they took time out of their Jacko-like rehearsal schedule to chat to us about Brucey, Titanic and what the hell Craig’s Corrie character did with all Rosie’s money… Read More…

The Lowdown: Things You Never Knew About Pamela Anderson

A red one-piece bathing suit and bleached beach blonde hair are synonymous with Pamela Anderson. Men want to have her baby. Women want to have her body. She is an undeniable staple of pop culture.

At 41, she is best known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. Then there is the eleven-time record for Playboy Magazine cover, and the fact that she is the most downloaded woman on the internet.

And what is one of People Magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People in the World up to these days? Kicking it with Joe Swash, of course. So, to help you brush up on your Pammy know-how, we have compiled a list of things you might not have known about the mother, actress, entrepreneur, and sex goddess. Read More…

Will Poulter Interview: School Of Comedy, Narnia and More!

Back in the days of Corey Feldman, being a child star was all whiskey and cigarettes. These days the next-generation of Hello! fodder aren’t quite so vicarious.

Will Poulter for instance seems to have found a happy balance between film and television – and he he’s only just finished his GCSEs.

So we talked to the young star of the Channel 4 show School of Comedy – which has its series finale on E4 this Thursday – about Voyage of the Dawn Treader (his new film), Son of Rambow (his old film) and whether or not Eustace Scrubb deserved it. Read More…

Soap Awards Of The Week – 2 November 2009

If you were having a good time last week, spare a thought for the poor Darren Miller. Just like the mother of his ill-fated child at a buffet – he has a lot on his plate.

The mite hasn’t even started revising for his GCSE mocks yet and at this rate, his exam failure is about as predictable as the annual soapland firework safety plot-line.

So which character’s turn is it to get third-degree burns in the name of public welfare this year?

Who says romance is dead? After seeing Corrie newbie Jake risk imprisonment for a quick smooch, certainly not us.

The buff handyman quite literally dropped in on the bar-maid as she enjoyed a bath with a bit of Fleetwood Mac, and when her towel fell off, he did what every self-respecting man with a pair of eyes would have done – he gives her a proper snog.

Nice one son! Read More…

The Lowdown: Things You Never Knew About Michael Jackson

Whether you loved him or hated him, Michael Jackson was the King of Pop.

Sure, he was a bit odd. But thanks to MJ, we have classics like Thriller, Billy Jean, Beat It and Bad.

Ultimately selling 750m albums worldwide, with 13 Grammy Awards to his name, Michael Jackson was one of the most commercially successful and influential entertainers of all time.

Four months after his death, This is It has premiered (check out our inspired 5 Most Shameless Movie Cash Ins Ever).

The much-anticipated documentary features rehearsal footage of the London O2 Arena comeback concert which never happened.

So whether you are a die hard fan or merely a pop culture patron, OTB brings you things you may not know about Michael Jackson. Read More…

Marc French Interview: Ugly Modelling Agency Boss

Hiring dwarves for a porno, fat people to test bed springs or 78-year-olds with scrotal piercings… it’s just another day on the job for Marc French, who runs the London-based alternative modelling agency Ugly.

Ugly supplies “character” models for all of the above, as well as for major fashion campaigns and magazine shoots, with clients including Dazed and Confused, Calvin Klein and Vogue.

Britain’s Ugliest Models – a documentary series following the everyday ins and outs of the agency – starts this week on Five, so we caught up with the man who makes it all happen. An ex-model himself, he shares with us his views on SuBo, celebrating diversity and whether a Britain’s Next Top Ugly Model reality show may be on the cards… Read More…

Misfits Trailer

It’s fair to say that when it comes to troubled whippersnappers, Channel 4 knows good drama.

Skins, As If, Hollyoaks may have blazed the teenage trail until now, but we caught sight of an intriguing, darkly funny and excellently acted new show at E4’s Autumn Launch.

And now we have the shiny shiny trailer to share with you lovely people too.

In short, it follows a group of ASBO-licious yoofs as they go about their community service. And then they get struck my lightning. Which grants them superpowers.

Bonkers, maybe, but when it looks this good, who’s complaining?

Sold? Low Low Cheese’s Extreme Mouse Trap

Food and mice? Gasp.

Fallon has launched its first campaign for the Kerry Foods-owned cheese brand Low Low. The commercial features a squealing white rodent boldly bypassing a minefield of traps. Like a little furry Indiana Jones, the mouse spirals through the air in matrix fashion, all for the plate of advertised cheese-on-toast.

This is not a live animal we are talking about. Thanks to CGI, the pest is as precious as Mickey Mouse, except that he does not speak or sing and dance. The little guy merely squeaks. And that is all it takes for us to become enraptured by his quest.

As for what he is after–”the ultimate cheese,” we forget the product the moment our dear protagonist leaps into the picture. The voice-over for “cheese made from semi-skinned milk with a third less fat than cheddar” is muted by a sensational rodent. But just because I secretly wanted the little guy to get snapped by a trap in the end does not mean I did not thoroughly enjoy Fallon’s action-packed advert.


Danielle Jacoby

Soap Awards Of The Week – 26 Oct 2009

Soap writers are a sadistic bunch. Usually they spend their time screwing over innocent/stupid/gormless people, but every once in a while they dish out hot steamy plates of justice to a thoroughly reprehensible character.

This week’s financial demise of Rosie Webster definitely fits this profile. When Michelle dragged this tramp down the street by her hair, we thought that some sort of comeuppance had been levied against the harlot, but those all-powerful writers were only just getting started.

How we laughed when Luke took all of Rosie’s lovely money and ran – ironically enough she was trying to invest the cash in knickers! Read More…

Skycar Interview: Neil Laughton

Ex-marine Neil Laughton is no stranger to danger.

Indeed, as a man who has climbed the highest mountain on every continent, he has laughed in death’s boney face on several occasions.

But none of the various challenges that he had previously taken on could prepare him for this expedition. What use is it being an experienced pilot when you’re flying a bloody car?

Following his trip to Africa in the soon-to-be-famous ‘skycar’ he chatted to OTB about hanging around with Bear Grylls, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and most importantly, how long we will have to wait to get our hands on a aero-buggy. Read More…

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