- The Olympics are dunzo. Next stop, London, 2012. Ah, the Mother Country – home of boozing culture, WAGs, Harry Potter, Topshop, Kate Moss, Mads, Gywneth and the Beckhams.
- Britain is on the brink of recession... the all-powerful pound is going down! Take advantage online at Topshop!
- Paris Hilton is heading to London to shop and find a BFF after wrapping up shooting on the US version of her new reality show.
- Barak Obama has a new BFF – running mate Joseph Biden, who has major grey-hair/international relations cred. Choice decision.
- Michael Phelps + Stephanie Rice = making a tabloid splash.
- Sporty Spice is having a baby.
- Madonna's Sticky and Sweet tour has seen her eco stocks plummet, with the 45 concerts in 37 venues, and entourage of 250 (including 36 wardrobe designers, 16 caterers and her personal trainer), expected to generate more than 1,635 tons of carbon pollution in travel alone, according to carbonfootprint.com. (The Daily Mail)
- Britney Spears makes a cameo appearance as part of Madonna's show.
- Pink's film clip for her upcoming single "So What" (from forthcoming album Fun House - out October 25) takes aim at her ex-husband, Corey Hart. How publicly cathartic.
- Kylie is touring Sydney and Melbourne in November/December. Hooray for us. Boo for carbon emissions. Our fault for being so far away.
- Pamela Anderson is back in Oz this week. Not invited to Myer's spring/summer launch.
- Michael Jackson turns 50 on Friday. He looks fantastic for his age, no?
- Fashionista reports that Teen Vogue is to publish a book on careers in fashion: "It's set to be a sort of archive of interviews with different people in fashion - designers, photographers, models, editors, etc. and meant to teach young Teen Vogue readers about what it takes to break into the industry."
- Sales of dark chocolate have grown around 40% year on year, according to Lindt. Cadbury's Old Gold chocolate is the number one seller in the dark segment, with 41% market share and sales doubling since 2002. (The Sun-Herald)
- Real men who value "biffo, beer and breasts are in vogue again", says author of The Retrosexual Manual Dave Besley.
- Denis Stevenson is a deadset legend. He gave away all his possessions over the weekend: "I was going to sell it, but had this idea that it would be fun and nice to give it away."
- Expect to see more product placements on TV shows after the introduction of TiVo, the digital video recorder (about $699) that allows you to fast forward through ads.
- New research has found that women who take the Pill have an altered sense of smell, taking "delight" in the scents of men who have a similar – rather than complementary – immune system. Apparently the oral contraceptive may disrupt a woman's pheromone detection system, which plays a part in the mating process. "If Pill-taking women are drawn to what are, genetically speaking, the 'wrong' men, the results could include increased difficulties conceiving, higher rates of miscarriage, longer intervals between pregnancies and genetically compromising offspring... not to mention, more divorces," writes Leslie Cannold in The Sun-Herald. As if the dating game wasn't complicated enough!
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