Oh shut-uuup!!! Brian sues TOWIE!

Brian is not a happy geezer!

Big Brother 8 winner Brian Belo is set to sue the makers of TOWIE for copying his idea for the Essex based show. Yes you’ve heard that right, the lovable Essex geezer who coined such inspirational phrases such as ‘yoghurt-top’ has drafted in lawyers to sue TOWIE makers Lime Pictures and broadcaster ITV for alleged breach of copyright and breach of confidence. Brian’s filed suit at the High Court also claims that they reproduced or adapted part of a format that he created with two companies, Sassy Films and Massive TV, for a show aptly called ‘Totally Essex ‘.

Ooh, sounds like important stuff for Brian who at one point had never even heard of William Shakespeare! TOWIE makers hit back at his claims, issuing a statement saying ‘Brian Belo's claim against Lime and ITV is totally without foundation and will be vigorously defended. The creative team at Lime Pictures is very proud of TOWIE and the notion that it was not entirely their own work is a serious allegation which is completely refuted.’ 

The original TOWIE cast

But clever Brian, who first spoke about his intention to sue last year, has a trump card in the form of a pilot video for ‘Totally Essex’.  The video features ex TOWIE stars Amy, Mark and Kirk and current cast member Sam all pouting, pointing at the camera and doing some sort of weird of dancing. And there’s no doubt that the video which also features Brian and some unknown persons, has rather a lot of similarities to the show we all know and love:

Totally fake? Brian &Totally Essex cast

Flash cars and bling? Check. Fake boobs and tango orange skin? Check. Mark gazing at himself in any reflective surface? Check. 

Well, you can’t hide the fact that there are many (ok loads) similarities between the two, so whatever happens, its sure going to get very interesting! 

and in other news:

Kerry to the rescue!

Kerry to the rescue!

Who needs Wonder Woman or Super Girl when you have everyone’s favourite hero, erm Kerry Katona! Yes, the reality star has been coming to the rescue recently by leaping to the defense of her fellow female celebs, publically defending their naughty actions. Firstly, Kerry waded into the Stacey Solomon smoking row, stating that Silk Cut’s aren’t even real cigarettes! Kerry love, whoever told you that Silk Cut fags were in fact candy sticks were having a little joke with you!

Still, never one to give up super Kerry has now stuck up for X Factor judge Tulisa who has been humiliated this week following that leaked sex tape.  In her OK magazine column, the former Atomic Kitten star wrote: ‘The guy who sold it should be ashamed of himself - it says a lot about the type of guy he is. It's disgusting what he's done but I'm backing Tulisa all the way - she's done no harm to anyone, it was in her own home and she's not broken any laws." Talk about female solidarity!

Kerry who is no stranger to controversy herself, having previously battled drink and drugs, added "At the end of the day, every couple experiments with sex tapes, but it's private!” Rest assured there will be no home-made videos starring Kerry anytime soon as she revealed that she would never do her own sex tape, "Have I ever done a sex tape? No! It's bad enough doing it in front of your partner, never mind watching yourself back doing it”. That’s probably best as the last thing we want to see is Kerry indulging in a bit of hanky panky!  

So who will Kerry be protecting next? Who knows, but I’m pretty sure that Lindsay Lohan could do with some help…

AND...

•  Celebrity big brother star and half-wag Nicola McLean is 6 weeks pregnant. The blonde babe was apparently shocked at the news because she thought she was unable to conceive after her eating disorder battle. Looks like nights out on the lash with Natasha ‘lock up your husbands’ Giggs are of the cards then?

• Olly Murs is set to join one direction on their American tour. Isn’t that it great that you’re supporting one direction on tour Olly? Wait, didn’t you finish higher than them on the x factor Olly? Aren’t you older and wiser than them Olly? Aren’t you proud that they are number one on the American album chart Olly? Weren’t you glad that you interviewed them on the Xtra Factor Olly? Were you jealous when harry hooked up with Caroline Flack when it was obvious to the world and his Mrs that you wanted her Olly? Olly?

• MY. BIG. FAT. AMERICAN. GYPSY. WEDDING. COMING. SOON. MUST. BREATHE. NEED. AIR

• Kim Kardashian got flour-bombed the other day. Apparently she asked her make-up artist for more powder and someone clearly misunderstood! Or something like that…

And for your viewing pleasure, take a look at the Totally Essex pilot video and judge for yourselves. Is Brian just jel? Or is he a professional who 100% should be angry? 

Those pesky celebs!

So I stop blogging for a couple of weeks and what happens? Those pesky celebs cause so much drama and controversy I’ve got more juicy showbiz gossip than I can shake a stick at! So much has happened in celebville over the last couple of weeks that I’ve had to categorise the gossip and condense them into bite size (ish) chunks! So here it goes…

Feuds. 

Family feud: Tulisa and Dappy

• Celebs love nothing better than getting into a good old Twitter scrap, no more so it seems than Tulisa. The X Factor beauty has had a massive row with cousin and (what is now revealed) former N Dubz band mate Dappy. Laying into Dappy, who has a penchant for wearing stupid hats and saying 'na na naii’, Tulisa let rip after the rapper retweeted messages from fans who were trying to appeal to Tulisa to reach out to her band mate. Obviously enraged at being portrayed as the bad guy, Tulisa tweeted a string of messages to Dappy in which she apparently confirmed N Dubz split (I’m not going to try and translate what she says, work it out for yourselves!): 

@TheDappy u know my number mate..I dont know urs cus u aint gave it 2 me since u changed it... so dont gass the fans, u wana talk Im here."
"@TheDappy serious man I hold it down, dont make me start talkin real cus u won't like it nor will the fans, allow twitter,man up n call me.
"4 the ndubletts triena take sides... pls remember... dappy left ndubz, that's y we split, n wen he wanted 2 get away I tried 2 move him... In2 my yard."
"He left n got a new num n I aint heard from him since, he aint called or made contact, just tlks 2 the press about me. Sayin he misses me but where the hells my call, I don't even have his num! had 2 txt me dad 2 pass a message 2 him n got no reply."

She finished her rant by urging Dappy to call her and scolding herself for rowing so publicly. Over to you Dappy…

• Another Twitter row has also erupted (getting a bit boring now, isn’t it) this time between The Wanted’s Tom and TOWIE’s Mario. It all started when Lydia posted a pic of her and her mum reading a magazine in which they gave an interview. For some reason, Tom decided to have a pop and said ‘How ironic is that picture? Is that what you lot call yourselves these days for doing nothing!! #shocking.' This caused an outraged Mario to let rip, with Tom fighting back. I can’t be bothered to go into all the tweets (as there are so many) but basically Mario got labeled a 2^nd class Mark Wright whilst Tom was branded the ugly one in the band and just a backing singer to Max (the bald one in the group who is apparently the ‘fittest’). Can I just say that all these tweets seem to be true, so what’s the beef? Lydia, Lucy and Debbie waded in too but no one really cares.

Where's the love Cheryl?

• Celebrity dispute veteran Cheryl Cole has been ruffling the feathers of former X Factor mentee (is that a word?) Alexandra Burke. The 'Hallelujah’ singer has revealed that Cheryl has practically ignored her for the past year, failing to return the singers texts and calls.  This echoes claims from Cher Lloyd, who also confessed that the Geordie lass isn’t handy with the telephone and has failed to keep in touch with her either. Alex revealed this after Cheryl tweeted her out of the blue saying how hot she was in her latest video. Sounds like Chezza need to work on her people skills…                                                                                                                                                                         
• The Bachelor ‘winner’ Carianne (you know, the one with the voice that makes you want to kill yourself- or her) has slagged off ex ‘boyfriend’ Gavin Henson, branding him boring! She also stated that he tricked her and the whole relationship was fake. No s**t Sherlock! After watching that show religiously, we all knew that Gavin was as dull as Roy Cropper off Corrie and that it was probably more fun having a convo with a brick wall! You knew the score Carianne. Win the show, pretend to be interested for a while, make some money and then done! We all knew it was coming love, so stop kidding yourself!

Romance

• Love is in the air again for Mr. Lover Lover Jermaine Defoe. But clearly the footballer has had a recent bump to his head because instead of going for his normal glamour model/ reality star/ vacuous blonde type- he’s actually hooked up with someone who has a talent and isn’t a fame hungry airhead.  Step forward Alexandra Burke! Yes, Alex clearly pays attention to her song lyrics when she sang she wanted a ‘Bad Boy’. I guess dreams do come true! Although judging by Defoe’s track record with women, it’ll probably be more like a nightmare! Good luck with that one Alex!

• Another couple setting tongues wagging are pop stars Jessie J and Tinie Tempah. The two stars of British music have apparently been seeing each over for a few weeks and seem smitten, with openly bisexual Jessie spending a lot of time at his house. This romance, however unlikely, seems rather cute and fans no doubt are probably wondering if they’ll collaborate in the studio as well as the bedroom. It’ll bring music to their ears! (literally)

Babies

• A massive congratulations to The Saturday’s singer Una Healy who gave birth to baby girl Aoife Belle Foden last week! All the Saturday's girls were really excited and tweeted messages of excitement. Rochelle was recently seen with fiancé Marvin (lucky cow) going to visit baby Aoife and Una, who celebrated her first Mother's Day on Sunday. All together now- aaaww!!!                                                                                                                       

Ready to pop: Jessica Simpson

•  Breaking news- Jessica Simpson is STILL pregnant! She seems to have been carrying that bump around for about 17 years! Perhaps she had the baby ages ago but loved being preggers so much she walks around with a cushion stuffed up her top? Nonetheless, the singer (does she still sing?) looks like she’s about to give birth to a horse let alone a baby, so here’s wishing her a happy and safe birth whenever it is (hopefully sometime in the next decade).                                                                     
                                                                                                                          
  

Is that a nappy your'e waring Kris?

• Ok, so she may not be pregnant, but that doesn’t stop Kris Jenner from showing off her baby bump! The limelight hogging ‘momager’ decided that to celebrate son Rob turning 25, she’d post on her blog a picture of herself pregnant with Rob, in a style similar to that of Demi Moore (albeit years before). Yep. That’s what every 25-year-old guy wants to see. A picture of their mum, starkers (apart from a pair of white pants that looks like a nappy) with a huge bump that contains you as a foetus! Happy birthday Rob!

Other celeb news I can’t be bothered to categorise

•  Simon Cowell has threatened to axe the X Factor if this year’s series isn’t a complete success. This may very well be true what with the controversies surrounding the last series, but Mr. Cowell, isn’t this a convenient time to let this slip? A week before your other show Britain’s Got Talent is set to take on The Voice in the ratings war? I smell a rat!

• A sex tape has been leaked allegedly featuring Tulisa doing a naughty sex act, gasp! If this is true, then the former N Dubz singer is very stupid and may have ruined her X Factor career- unless Simon axes it first of course. Don’t these people ever learn? If you’re going to have sex, just don’t film it! Because as much as you love the person involved at the time, when you get rich and famous, they are only going to betray you and sell the tape! Unless of course, it’s your dream to be the new Paris or Kim… And following her row with Dappy, he responded to the sex tape news by tweeting 'Man this sex video fing is a bit rough! I knew Tulisa weren't talkin to me, but not cos she had her mouf full!!' Hmmm, don't know if that helps Dappy, but it's the thought that counts...

George in handcuffs? I'm not saying a word!

• Both Russell Brand and George Clooney have been arrested in non-related incidents. Whilst George was making people’s hearts melt by protesting outside the Sudanese  embassy about Syrian human rights abuse, Russell meanwhile grabbed a photographer’s phone and lobbed it through a law firm’s window! Tut tut!                                                                                              

• And finally 90’s band Steps recently performed at GAY, with Claire saying she doesn’t mind being the big girl in the band. The size 16 singer, who is happy with her size, doesn’t seem fazed that Lisa 'desperado' Scott-Lee is trying to be the hot one, despite everyone knowing that it was Faye that all the boys fancied. Even if she is bothered, she can always console herself with cake. And that’s not me being spiteful; Claire is actually hosting Lorraine’s Cake Club which aims to find Britain’s best cake. I think I’ll stop right here. As a treat for you, here's Steps doing what they do best: