Gay Closet Rugby Guy – Take note of the website called Closet Ruby Guy. The “ABOUT ME” section says “I’m a guy who plays rugby and who is gay. I’m in the closet. No one knows i’m gay. I have a girlfriend.” Maybe you know him? You simply HAVE to read his latest post – he’s pretty funny. Keep an eye on this one – it’s “gonna blow” [closetrugbyguy]

Michael Jackson Movie Goes To Number 1 – Los Angeles – Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” is the No. 1 Halloween thriller for movie audiences. This Is It led the weekend box office with a domestic debut of $21.3m and raised its five-day total worldwide to $101m. The low-budget horror sensation Paranormal Activity slipped from first-place to second domestically with $16.5 million. Paranormal Activity raised its total to $84.8m. [news24]

How Goldman Sachs Secretly Bet On The US Housing Crash – In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting. [mcclatch]

Paperboy offered £6.93 redundancy – A 13-year-old paperboy in Bedfordshire who earns £6.53 a week could have been one of the youngest people in the UK to be offered a redundancy package. Kane Middleton received a formal letter which told him he was being laid off from his round in Clophill. [bbc]

Kelly Brook reveals: Two-faced Ant and Dec wrecked my TV career – When Kelly Brook was unceremoniously axed as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent just six days into the show, she was told in no uncertain terms that her career prospects in television looked far from promising. Not because she was a gorgeous airhead who couldn’t string two words together.. [dailymail]

Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off – The rights to the Terminator film franchise will be auctioned this month in a deal that will test Hollywood intellectual property valuations at a time when film industry profits are under pressure from falling DVD sales. The sale, which comes weeks after the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were sold for $60m — and is likely to exceed that — has sparked considerable interest. [cnn]

The Worst Spy Ever – He thought he was talking to Mossad, but it was really the FBI. How a former NASA scientist, who pleaded not guilty this week to espionage charges, walked into an intelligence trap. If Stewart David Nozette, arrested by the FBI this month, is convicted of imagining he was spying for Israel, though the Israelis never recruited him, then it will be because he built his own prison cell for the next 10 to 20 years. [daily beast]

Ryan Seacrest’s Stalker Arrested – A man wielding a knife was arrested just outside the E! studios, although he never managed to get close to the object of his obsession, Ryan Seacrest. Upon entering the lobby, Chidi Uzomah was recognized by E! security as the man who attacked Ryan Seacrest’s security last month just outside a charity event. As a result, Uzomah was sentenced to 15 days in jail and three years probation. Silly twit. [socialitelife]

Polanski to off Large Sum of Cash for Bail – Film director Roman Polanski has been held in custody for three weeks since he was arrested in Zurich by Swiss police acting on a US extradition warrant. The 76-year-old director is now waiting to find out whether he will be sent to America to face child sex charges dating from 1977. Polanski is to offer a “very, very significant” sum of cash as bail to allow him to be released from a Swiss jail, his lawyer has said. [sky]

Supermodels Strip for Climate Change – When scientists talk about “climate change models,” is this what they mean? In honor of its International Day of Climate Change, the environmental organization 350.org produced this racy video, in which supermodels innocently ask, “Is it hot in here?” (Get it?) Well, this will surely help to sex up—uh, what were they promoting again? [youtube/db]

Will France Ban Scientology? – Five years after Tom Cruise called Nicolas Sarkozy a “wonderful guy,” a French court convicted his church of fraud. Eric Pape on Scientology’s latest crisis. Scientology isn’t a religion, it’s a dangerous sect overseen by convicted criminals—at least as far as France is concerned. [dailybeast]

Angelina Jolie’s Long Lost Modeling Photos – Sweet 16? More like Sexy 16. Before Billy Bob Thornton, Brad Pitt or the adoption agency, Angelina Jolie posed for some racy, provocative photos at 16. The provocative pics, taken in 1991, show a tattoo-less Jolie mugging it up like a Los Angeles Lolita during a wild child, coming-of-age period of her youth. [radar]

First US Man Since 1982 Wins The New York Marathon – For the first time since 1982, an American man won the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Meb Keflezighi, 34, broke the tape in the 26.2-mile course with a personal best time of 2:09:15. Keflezighi emigrated in 1987 to San Diego, California. [cnn]

Dakota Fanning Homecoming Queen – No this is not for a movie. Daktoa Fanning is really a high school cheerleader and homecoming queen. It’s America, happening right before your eyes! [buzzfeed]

Elevator of Love for People – General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited the newly built Pothonggang Shop one August day this year. After making round of the counters on the first and second floors, he stopped walking on the first floor and asked officials whether there was an elevator in the shop. [kcna]

[thanks ken, poppy]