BusyBee

No, this isn’t a mug shot. It’s not even a sneek peek at the new series of Desperate Housewives. Eva Longoria had to front the Los Angeles County Courthouse this morning and report for jury duty. Apparently, after waiting all day, she failed to get picked for a jury, but was friendly to her fellow jurists and looked ’smokin hot’.

Nicole Richie, I have some news for you. If it sounds like an eating disorder, it looks like an eating disorder, IT IS A BLOODY EATING DISORDER! Denial is the anorexics best friend. As is constant reinforcement that your weight matters to others. Richie’s enablers need to stop perpetuating this poor girls misery and just admit to themselves, to her and to the rest of the world that SHE HAS AN EATING DISORDER. Don’t tell the world that “She is working with a team of doctors and specialists whose focus is nutrition…” and that “this is not a treatment for an eating disorder.” This is serious, this could kill her, and it is time for the denial to end. Even I don’t think that she is such a waste of space that everyone should stand around taking photo’s of her and getting publicity as she slowly kills herself.
P.S. Nicole, if you don’t eat, like, ever, then go out partying all night, you are going to end up passing out on the floor of those fancy nightclubs you hang out in. Uh,oh, looks like that has already happened…

Marcus Gronholm fanging it down the straight at Glouster Park for Tesltra Rally Australia.
I feel the need, the need, for speed. Watch out anyone who pulls up next to me at the lights in the next few days, ‘cos you will be eating my dirt. That’s right, I have the Rally Australia bug, and I have it bad… Cashing in on some free tickets a friend won in a raffle, BB trotted off to Gloucester Park tonight for some environmentally friendly, mud slinging, eardrum piercing motor action as the last ever Telstra Rally Australia kicked off it’s opening night. There was fireworks, skydivers, music, dodgy food, even dodgier beer and plenty of action. Sitting near BB, taking in the nights action, was Bev Brock, who obviously still loves her motor sport, although she did cut a lonely figure sitting in the grandstand. Jon Steffensen, winner of the 400m gold medal at this year’s Commonwealth Games for Australia was there enjoying a night out with mates. Ray Mickelberg was also spotted in the crowd.

Marcus Gronholm was the fastest man on the night to take on the challenging 2-lap circuit, and he was clearly a crowd favourite, although local lad Chris Atkinson got the biggest cheer, sending the crowd into a frenzy when he recorded a stage win. My highlight was watching the tiny Toyota Yaris’s fang it around the track trying their hardest to keep up with the big boys. Oh, and hearing Ross Dunkerton cluck like a chicken during commentary on the race that Steele, the CEO of Golden Egg Farms was participating in.

I always suspected I had bogancidal tendencies. That rang true tonight, not just for me, but for every wrx owner who gunned it at the lights on the way home tonight - you know who you are!

Our resident train-crash-in-progress, Kate Moss and Pete Doherty are apparently soon going to be hearing the pitter-patter of tiny feet. Real ones, not just the ones Pete thinks he hears in the middle of the night. Please, someone get this baby a nanny, pronto. And while you are at it, maybe you could get one for Kate and Pete too. Clearly, they need one.

You know how Britney had a baby recently? It was a boy, right? Maybe not, according to deadbeat dad Kevin Federline and conspiracy theorists everywhere on the internet. The latest story doing the rounds is that Sutton Pierce Spears Federline is actually named Jayden James Spears Federline. And Jayden might actually be a girl. Oh, and Britnety has been photographed recently looking very slim and not wearing her wedding ring. Partying, without Kev. Splitsville? Or just a beat-up for publicity for the up-coming People magazine spread which will reveal the first photo’s of the latest spawn of Spears and Federline. Can’t wait for that one…

Nicole Kidman does Barbie - and comes off seriously second best.

Nicole, you have always been beautiful, but lately, you just haven’t been able to crack a smile, or a frown, or blink…. Enough is enough! Because Honey, it looks like the wind changed and your face stayed like that.

Here is more proof:

BB donned her favourite cowboy shirt, and muddied up her boots on Friday night before heading to Burswood Dome to see the biggest-selling female band in the world, the Dixie Chicks. I was, as Big Kev was known to say, excited. I was expecting big things. So much hype surrounds this band - they are outspoken, they are thought-provoking, they have a message, they have a documentary about to be released for goodness sake! I was prepared to be amazed. And I was. Martie McGuire and Emily Robison would easily be two of the most talented musicians I have ever seen. Their energy, charisma, enthusiasm and appreciation for the crowd was evident from the get-go. When they played musical solo’s, or just when they jammed with the band, the place absolutely rocked. The celtic overtones of Martie’s fiddle resonated throughout the Dome, you felt it in every cell. Emily was understated, but very engaging, encouraging the crowd with her easy smile and a natural warmth. When the girls played ‘So Hard’, a haunting track about the difficult road to motherhood via infertility, you couldn’t help but feel their pain. Similarly, there was nary a dry eye in the house when they sang the truly beautiful and harmonious ‘Lullaby’. These beautiful songs were nicely balanced with those rocking great songs ranging from ‘Goodbye Earl’ to ‘Wide-Open Spaces’. ‘Not Ready to Make Nice’ had the crowd on their feet, and ‘Landslide’ brought the house down.

And yet, I left the concert feeling, somehow, that I hadn’t been given their best effort. Looking back, I think I felt that lead singer Natalie Maines had forgotten that even though the Dixie Chicks have an enormous fan base and huge sell-out tours in America, not to mention more publicity than they have been comfortable with over the past 3 years, they had never played to Australian audiences before. She has forgotten how to work and win a crowd. It felt like she was ‘phoning it in’ to be honest. Her banter was hardly on the controversial, biting or even witty side. To be honest, it was quite boring. When the audience tried to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to her (her birthday was the following day) she was bordering on rude in her reaction to it. And as neither Emily or Martie spoke at all, that was the only impression we were left with. After the encore, Maines bolted off stage, whilst Robison and McGuire stayed on and thanked the crowd, acknowledging them and giving a bit back.

Perhaps it was just a bad day, or the effect of a gruelling tour schedule. The music certainly rocked. Their message, their passion and their craft is superbly displayed in their lyrics and musicianship. I am looking forward to the next concert, with bells on. But maybe they could just shut-up and sing…

Matthew McConaughy and Kate Hudson will be heading to Australia to begin shooting their new movie ‘Fool’s Gold’. Which means we wil be seeing alot more of Matthew’s famed six-pack and be on the alert for Kate Hudson/Owen Wilson sightings. Woman’s Day and New Idea will be falling over themselves for THAT money shot! Unfortunately, Matthew McConaughy has had to grow one horribly ugly beard for the movie, which is a terrible shame. I wonder if his very close pals Lance Armstrong and Jake Gyllenhaal will be visiting our shores also? The three have been inseparable over the past US summer…

Michael Jackson likes to keep us guessing. Just when we got used to him parading around the countryside in a burqua and applying lipstick in the ladies toilets in Bahrain, he has now demonstrated that really, he is just respecting the social and religious customs of the country he is visiting. Which is why he was snapped in St Tropez recently wearing a lovely sun hat, lipstick, tight top, skinny-leg jeans and a lovely pair of 4-inch killer heels. This is the result:

All this time, people have claimed he was channelling his inner Diana Ross, turns out he actually has an inner Victoria Beckham. Only, he looks better than her…

According to People magazine, Victoria Beckham has finally confessed something we have all known for a long time - she looks awful. Admittedly, Victoria has qualified this statement by claiming that she only looks awful naked, but I think she is just being modest. She has told Australian Harper’s Bazaar that having three babies and losing so much weight has taken it’s toll on her body. Well DUH!!! “

I’ve got so much saggy skin on my stomach,” she says. “I might fit into jeans, but trust me, I look really awful naked.”

Just so you know, Victoria, you don’t look all that flash with clothes on, either. But one thing you seem to have particularly forgotten is that you are never fully dressed without a smile…