He just can’t keep out of the headlines, can he? This time he’s had an interview with Emma O’Reilly (the whistleblower who first called him out), and claimed that certain individuals at the very top of the UCI hierarchy played a hand in helping him get away scott-free for so long.
Guess what? There’s drama in Google land. The company’s co-founder, Sergey Brin – the one who you always see with a pair of Google Glass glasses on – is having intimate relations with the 26-year-old Google Glass marketing manager, Amanda Rosenberg.
Rosenberg was recently romantically connected to Hugo Barra, another top Googler, who coincidentally no longer works for the company. Interesting.
Another sex tape of Kim Kardashian and her former lover/co-star, Ray J, has surfaced and has gone on sale for R264 million. It appears that the reality TV star, who starred in the film, is the only one shocked by this.
As you no doubt read in the Spice this morning, the most successful Tour de France cyclist ever, Lance Armstrong, might soon be stripped of all seven of his titles. What you might have missed though, is that he’ll also have to pay back all of his accumulated winnings which amount to roughly R35 285 592!
Fans around world were shocked when Twilight star Kristen Stewart (K-Stew) broke the bond that was thought to have been unbreakable by cheating on her on-film and real life lover, Robert Pattinson (R-Patts). None were more hurt by K-Stew and R-Patt’s public scandal than celebrity funnyman, Will Ferrell, who weighed in on the issue on a recent episode of Conan.
After fighting to a semi-final draw with Britta Heidemann, Shin A Lam was on the brink of progressing to the gold medal round with one second left on the clock in extra time. If the match ended in a draw the latter would have moved on, instead the timing equipment was never activated and the final second dragged on, allowing Heidemann to score the final, winning hit. Clearly upset and convinced she was cheated, Shin A Lam refused to leave the piste, for 45 minutes.
When billionaire heiress Tamara Ecclestone received an unexpected phone call from her father summoning her to his office she knew something was up, and immediately suspected the worst. Panicked, she rushed to his office and found her mother there as well. Her father warned her that what she was about to see was “going to upset [her]” and then hit play on his laptop.
Well this is embarrassing, Egypt’s Olympic Organisers has provided over 100 of its Olympians with counterfeit official kits. The news came to light after of the team’s synchronised swimmers took to Twitter to complain.
This weekend we brought you news of Sportswriter Mark Keohane’s alleged sexual harassment and drug abuse scandal. While many claims have yet to be verified, the web is abuzz with conflicting views – some even suggesting that it may finally be Karma catching up with him.
Renowned sportswriter Mark Keohane resigned from his position as spokesperson for the South African Olympic team and stepped down as director of Highbury Safika Media (HSM) following sexual harassment and drug abuse claims.
Reports emerged last night that Kelly Preston, wife of scandal-embattled actor John Travolta has finally had enough of the controversies surrounding the star, and left their home, and possibly their marriage.
Spain’s King Juan Carlos finally issued an apology this morning for the hunting trip he took to Africa recently where he shot live game on a private reserve in Botswana, including elephants. The scandal might never have come to light if he hadn’t had an accident during the trip and had to be taken back to Spain for emergency hip surgery.
In an exemplary case of ‘Stand By Your Man’, Stacey Giggs has dismissed allegations that her footballer husband Ryan conducted an eight year affair with his brother’s wife. The Manchester United star has denied sister-in-law Natasha’s accusations that he cheated on his wife repeatedly with her. And apparently Stacey believes him. Let’s see how long that lasts.
I shall not for a moment attempt to feign journalistic integrity here. This is the kind of thing the public loves. Allegations that King Carl Gustaf of Sweden has been visiting strip clubs and having affairs has the media baying for blood and the public frothing at the mouth.
Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, will stand trial in Milan this April. The charges? Sex with an underage prostitute. Karima el-Mahroug, dubbed Ruby the Heart Stealer, allegedly received 24 gifts from Berlusconi, with a worth totaling £200 000. That’s roughly 2 318 401 Rond here in South Africa.
Weed, porn and political activism are just a few of the rumblings materialising from the infamous Chilean mining accident. Information sharing was tightly controlled by Chilean authorities for the duration of the saga, but New York Times journalist Jonathan Franklin was one of the privileged few considered to be on a need to know basis. He’s written a book on the matter.