A Football’s Journey Through Cape Town – Call Sign Vector produced a quick simple video about the journey of one soccer ball through the streets of Cape Town. It starts from the heights of Rhodes Memorial and UCT, all the way through Cape Town’s CBD, past my residence, The Cape Royale hotel, and to the […]
Benni McCarthy Gets A Game After All! Benni McCarthy Gets A Game After All! – With only 10 days to go until the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off, Electronic Arts South Africa presented the South African national football team with Sony PSP’s as well as the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ game. There […]
There she is.. Louis Vuitton Reveals World Cup Trophy Case – Model Naomi Campbell flew in to Paris to prove this year’s World Cup is going to be the most fabulously stylish yet. Forget what Rooney, Lampard and the WAGs are going to be wearing. The World Cup trophy will reside in a glamorous Louis […]
Gisele Bündchen Modeling’s shrewdest businesswoman The World’s Savviest Supermodel – he announcement that Gisele Bündchen would be the new “propaganda girl” for the Brazilian lingerie giant Hope took even seasoned Gisele watchers—and there are legions of them here in Brazil—by surprise. Just four months after giving birth to her first child, here she was doing […]
Hollywood legend, Dennis Hopper Dies, aged 74 Dennis Hopper Is Dead – The hellraising Hollywood actor and director best known for his wild roles in Easy Rider, Blue Velvet and Apocalypse Now, died yesterday at the age of 74 after a battle with prostate cancer. Despite bitter disputes with his wife in recent months, the […]
Kill me online, I kill you offline.. Video Gamer Hunts Down And Stabs The Guy Who Killed His Online Character – Watch out who you kill in the virtual world, it may inspire someone to attack you in the real one. That’s what happened to one Frenchman, who was stabbed and nearly killed by a […]
Cape Town is World Cup Ready! (click to enlarge)[source: aerialphoto.co.za] Aussie Socceroos First World Cup Arrivals – With the kind of fanfare that is usually reserved for their more celebrated cricketers, the Australian soccer squad became the first of the visiting World Cup squads to arrive in South Africa when they landed at Jan Smuts […]
Rihanna as Slash Rock’s Wildest Photos – Rihanna pays tribute to collaborator Slash in her new video “Rockstar 101,” (which features guitar work from the man himself). Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst and Wes Borland bring their Nineties revival act to Rock on the Range in Ohio and loads more. Check out this gallery of awesome […]
Spotted on PopYaCollar Food Meets Fashion In Provence – Everybody’s favourite street fashion crit, La Muse, merges fashion and food, as we are taken on a journey through the markets of Provence. These recent posts are prescribed reading for all food and fashion junkies. Urrr, deux baguettes s’il vous plaît! [popyacollar] Brittany Murphy’s Husband Found […]
Lindsay Lohan In Cannes Lindsay Lohan Snapped With Coke In Cannes – She’s doing very well, old Lindsay. She was in Cannes this last week, partying up a storm, as a warrant for her arrest was issued back in LA – for not appearing in court for something completely different. Probably DUI. What does it […]
Kevin Costner Will Save BP BP Turns To Kevin Costner For Help – Now there’s a headline I bet you thought you would never see. Enjoy this, Kev has spent years and millions of dollars perfecting a device that cleans oil from seawater. Costner’s high-speed centrifuge (good word) machine is called “Ocean Therapy.” And now, […]
World Cup Stars for Vanity Fair The World Cup’s Stars Wear Their Flags—And Little Else—For Annie Leibovitz – For the June issue of Vanity Fair, Annie Leibovitz set out to capture some of the sport’s biggest stars, including Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba, Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o, Ghana’s Sulley Muntari, the U.S.A.’s Landon Donovan, […]
Miranda Kerr for US GQ Miranda Kerr Goes Topless For GQ Again – United States GQ must *heart* Miranda Kerr something serious, or maybe she just moves magazines, but whatever the reason, the Victoria’s Secret Angel is featured in the men’s magazine for the second time this year. She delivers a smoldering look for the […]
“Welcome to America” Lebanese Muslim Immigrant is Miss USA 2010 – Former pole-dancing champion, Rima Fakih, says it was a certain look from Donald Trump that tipped her off that she had won the 2010 Miss USA title. The 24-year-old Miss Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the title Sunday night, despite nearly […]
Russell Crowe Storms Out Of BBC Radio Interview – Russell Crowe swore and stormed out of a BBC interview after he was accused of making Robin Hood sound Irish in his latest film. “You’ve got dead ears, mate – seriously dead ears if you think there’s an Irish accent,” replied Crowe. Then Lawson, the arts […]
The June 2010 issue of GQ Magazine South Africa Vampire On The Cover Of June SA GQ Magazine – My God, but the cover of the latest SA GQ Magazine is gong to cause a bit of mayhem when it hits the shelves. That’s if it actually manages to settle before it gets snapped up. […]
Georgia May Jagger for Chanel Chanel “Cruise” Collection Hits The Streets Of St. Tropez – There was no better location for Karl Lagerfeld to unveil his Chanel Cruise collection for 2010/11 than the world famous fishing village of St. Tropez (just down the drag from where I am). The streets of St Tropez quite literally […]
It kicks off at the 2 minute mark and carries on till the end – AWESOME! Boulton And Campbell Bust-Up On Sky News, As Brown Quits – Sky News political editor Adam Boulton and Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell clashed today over the current stalemate in British politics.The two men exchanged angry words […]
Harrods – SOLD! Harrods Is Sold For £1.5bn – Harrods, the world famous department store in Knightsbridge, London has been sold by the mercurial Mohamed Al Fayed to Middle Eastern investors for around £1.5bn. The sale to the Qatari royal family’s Qatar Holding group was confirmed today after months of on-off negotiations brokered by the […]
Don’t Mess With My Tutu Big Dez urges all South Africans to get behind Table Mountain Tutu Casts His Vote For Table Mountain – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu yesterday urged Capetonians, their fellow South Africans and international fans to cast their vote for Table Mountain in the Official New7Wonders of Nature campaign. Table Mountain is […]
Lindsay Lohan Takes It on Lindsay Lohan Does Deep Throat – An official announcement is expected at Cannes next week that Lindsay Lohan is set to play the star of the infamous 1972 porn film, Deep Throat, in a new biopic. The LA Times quotes a producer on the independent production, to be titled Inferno, […]
Roman’s Duckie The Biggest Private Yacht In The World – Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s new yacht, measuring nearly 560 feet long, is the biggest private yacht in the world. The yacht, named Eclipse, reportedly features a missile defense system, an anti-paparazzi laser shield and at least one mini-submarine. The Eclipse is also said to have […]
Boom! Someone Tried To Blow Up Times Square – A failed car bomb smoked, popped and shut down Times Square, causing panic, evacuations and confusion Saturday on one of the tourist spot’s busiest nights. Most of the streets in the area were reopened Sunday morning, though a heavy police presence remained in the area. And […]
In 2012 The Cigarette Brand Will Become Irrelevant Ozzies Take Cigarette Pack Warnings To The Next Level – From January 2012, all cigarettes in Australia will be sold in plain packages. No logos, no shiny finishes, no bright colours, no pretty pictures. Instead, graphic health warnings will dominate the pack. In studies with young people, […]
Jackie O, to be played by Katie Holmes Katie Holmes To Play Jackie O – The History Channel has revealed the cast for its eight-hour The Kennedys miniseries, due in 2011: Greg Kinnear will play John F. Kennedy Jr., Barry Pepper will portray Robert Kennedy, Tom Wilkinson will play Joe Kennedy Sr. and, yes, Katie […]
PopYaCollar Captures Another Snappy Dresser On The Streets of Cape Town Police Search Home Of Gizmodo Editor Over Lost iPhone 4G – Those of you who think this whole thing was a publicity stunt may want to revise that stance. It’s unlikely the police would play along with a intentional leaking of an iPhone and […]
Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi Rupert Murdoch Moves To Sink New York Times – Three years ago, Rupert Murdoch coveted the New York Times but was forced to settle for buying the Wall Street Journal. Now, the tycoon is using the considerable resources of his media empire to try to sink the newspaper that […]
Lewis Hamilton In SA This Week Lewis Hamilton Raced Kyalami This Week! WTF? – To launch its new fibre-optic business connection, Vodacom brought the youngest Formula One world champion, Lewis Hamilton, to race around the Kyalami racetrack while 5.4GB of data was sent from Midrand to Sandton on Vodacom’s Metro ethernet service. I find these […]
Britain’s Next Prime Minister? Nick Clegg Steals The Show From Gordon Brown And David Cameron – A week ago, most people in Britain considered Nick Clegg, the “little-known leader” of the Liberal Democrats, to be, by all measures, a long shot to become Britain’s next prime minister. But that was before “Cleggmania” swept the country. […]
Michael Douglas Arrives At Court (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano) Michael Douglas’ Son Sentenced to Five Years In Prison – A New York judge has sentenced actor Michael Douglas’ son to five years in prison on drug charges, calling it his “last chance to make it.” Cameron Douglas apologised and admitted that he had squandered a […]