'I am a Scout, we are the cyber virus'

WTF: Weekly trivia fire

  • James Corden: 'Mat and I would love to continue working together for a long time - but I don't think we've got any aspirations to be Cannon and Ball.'

  • Has Roseanne Barr gone proper nuts? Here's just an extract from her lengthy and very rambling blog this week: 'I am masquerading as an earthly being not in order to hide the fact that I am a Thinker, (thinking is still allowed to those of my class... the female property owner), and not to deny that I am a Scout sifting the ruins and the runes ... (some form of witchery is allowed to older women, mostly to teach younger and therefore more desirable women about glamour, compliance, passive angels, and the art and craft of Love),and passing down the art of living by the tongue and the wit.... we are the cyber virus, no matter what monsanto does to prevent unity of mind, we will still and always SEEK CONTACT WITH OUR OWN KIND.'

  • Stephen Fry has adopted a hectare of Cambridgeshire's Great Fen as a Mother's Day's present for his mother, Marianne Eve.

  • Dave Gorman got captured by the cars that took the photos for Google Maps' new street views near his home in East London. He says he remembers spotting the camera at the time, and now the service is live, you can see him in he image below. The man in pink, leaning against an amusement arcade, is him – though you wouldn't know it from looking:

  • Meanwhile, the first winner of Gorman's Genius TV show tonight – who invented a coat with an extra hood hidden in the sleeve so men can put their arm round their date and keep her hair dry at the same time – is a Sun journalist, Mark Hudson.

  • Want to know David Walliams's eating habits? Well, the tabloids have spotted him twice this week: Once at Nobu with Natalie Imbruglia, who he recently described as his ideal woman, and once at Scott's restaurant in Mayfair with Dale Winton, Jimmy Carr and Jimmy's girlfriend Karoline. And last week he was in in Maddox with Orlando Bloom.

  • Contrast with Johnny Vegas who spent his day off filming Benidorm at local nightspot The Benidorm Palace, where he watched a €10-a-head variety show staged by the Lion's Club

  • Stand-up so bad it's got to be deliberate.... hasn't it?

  • It's probably not the usual sort of lofty tome to be reviewed in the hallowed pages of the New York Times, but the heavyweight broadsheet has taken a look at Russell Brand's My Booky Wook, with its critic concluding 'to my shame, I’ll admit I sort of liked “My Booky Wook.' Meanwhile, Brand has been showing off his primary talent in Sydney – pulling women. It took him 60, 30, or just five minutes to end up snogging this pretty blonde, depending on which newspaper you read. See how he works here.

  • Stand-up Jason Byrne says the first time he went on stage he wore baggy trousers and an over-sized shirt under a tank top, which was covered with badges. He then coloured in the front of his hair with marker pens. 'That was terrible,' he says. 'I died on my arse the whole night. '

  • Ruby Wax has signed up as a member of her local mental health NHS Trust in South-West London to help 'break down the stigma of mental illness'.

  • Got to love those wicked whispers-type gossip columns that keep their subjects anonymous to avoid legal action – or, indeed, verification. From Metro this week: 'Which overweight comedian became uncharacteristically embarrassed in front of holidaymakers at Heathrow recently? When the security guard's beeper kept going off round his chest, he was forced to reveal he was wearing an improvised bra made from coat hangers...’

SOURCES: BBC News, roseanneworld.com, Huntingdon Post, gormano.blogspot.com, The Sun, The Sun/London Lite/thelondonpaper, Round Town News, YouTube, New York Times/Daily Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, South London Guardian, The List, Metro.

Published: 20 Mar 2009

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