Elton John and Judy Garland were yesterday voted the greatest gay icons of all time.



The 62-year-old rock star - who wed David Furnish in 2005 - emerged as the most respected man among the gay community.

While Hollywood star Garland - who played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and was hugely popular with gay men during her lifetime - topped the list of women. A spokesman for www.OnePoll.com, which carried out the survey of 5,000 gay men and lesbians, said: "Interestingly only one of the men on the top 10 list of male celebrity gay icons isn't gay - David Beckham. And yet most of the women put on a pedestal by the gay community are straight.

"It just shows that to advocate a certain way of living, you don't have to live the lifestyle but simply be more accepting of those around you."

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, who died of an Aids related illness in 1991, was second in the male list while comedian Stephen Fry came third.

Fry once said of his sexuality: "My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'That's the last time I'm going up one of those.'"


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Kylie loves it!

Theodore (Jesse McCartney) tells Toby (Zachary Levi) that he had a nightmare, only to be given scarier stories.



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Um I only watched this clip because I think Zach Levi is fab but this actually looks pretty cute TBH

Rowan Atkinson's romantic night out with his wife Sunetra came to an abrupt end yesterday when his vintage car burst into flames.
The comedian, 54, had been driving home from a private dinner at Asprey's in Mayfair when the engine of his 1952 Jaguar racing car started smoking.
In scenes reminiscent of the bad luck which befalls his Mr Bean character, Atkinson tried to put out the flames with an extinguisher, before calling the RAC.

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TBH, I always imagine Rowan Atkinson driving one of these:

Members of the White Earth Band of Chippewa won't always have Paris, but they'll have her for one night next month.

Paris Hilton, that is.

The band announced today that Hilton will appear at its Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen,MN on Jan. 30.

Better known for a notorious sex video than any of her creative accomplishments, Hilton is being billed as the host of a "Brrriffic Beach Bash" that night.

( More of this awesome story under the cut )

Mariah Carey, who hasn't toured in over three years, will embark on a national "Angels Advocate" trek beginning Dec. 31 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and wrapping up on Feb. 27 at The Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada. Presale tickets will be available for Honey B. Fly, the official Mariah Carey Fan Club, members for all show dates. Tickets for the majority of the tour will go on sale on Dec. 19. Visit Carey's official website, MariahCarey.com, for more details.

The eight-week, 19-city tour will feature opening act RydazNrtist, a new R&B group signed to Carey's husband Nick Cannon's label, NCredible Entertainment.

"Angels Advocate" tour is in support of Carey's latest album, "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel," which has sold 344,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

( Are the Angels bringing Mimi to your city? )

Taking her tour to Canada, Lady GaGa was spotted leaving the concert venue after performing in Vancouver on Wednesday night, December 9th.

( She's coming for you monsters! )

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I love when my bb GaGa is in Canada.


PAWS UP ONTD!

Last week was a busy dealmaking time for GE.

The company not only closed its long-awaited $37.5 billion merger agreement with Comcast to create an enlarged NBC Universal but also quietly signed a new three-year contract with NBC Universal president and CEO Jeff Zucker to keep him at the company through 2013.

Last week, Comcast and GE said that Zucker will be CEO of the new joint venture, which is 51% owned by Comcast and 49% by GE, reporting to Comcast COO Steve Burke.

Because the Comcast deal is expected to take up to 18 months to clear regulatory hurdles, Zucker's new pact would allow him to run the new NBC Uni for at least another year and a half.

A long-term contract in Hollywood is rarely an employment guarantee (NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly famously was ousted three months after signing a new three-year deal at the network), but securing Zucker, who has run NBC Uni since 2007, could provide stability during the transition period and first key months of getting the combined company off the ground.

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Michael Jackson’s estate lawyers won’t be amused to hear this: Jackson’s likeness and music are being exploited by Scientology.

My colleague Guy Adams of the U.K. paper The Independent came across this invite to a December 6th Scientology event in Britain:



THE OT COMMITTEE CC LONDON CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO a spectacular evening celebrating one of the greatest artists of all time Michael Jackson in true Celebrity Centre style.

· Get briefed by a Senior Executive from Celebrity Centre International on the plans for CC London.

· Enjoy entertainment in honour of the King of Pop with dance troupe ‘Malfunktion’ and singer supreme Anton Lorien!

· Find out what the OT Committee is all about and what their plans are for the Ideal CC London!

Sunday, 6th December – 7.00pm
Fitzroy House, 33-35 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 6DX
Refreshments will be served.

A spectacular evening that you will NOT want to miss!

CALL xxxxxxxxx TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW!

© 2009 Church of Scientology Religious Education College Inc. A non-profit organisation incorporated in South Australia. Registered Office 24-28 Waymouth Street, Adelaide, South Australia. Registered in the UK under company number FC9154. Registered agent in the UK: P D Hodkin, 42/44 Copthorne Road, Felbridge, East Grinstead, RH19 2NS. OT and CELEBRITY CENTRE are trademarks and service marks owned by Religious Technology Center and are used with its permission.

Michael was many things, but he was NOT a Scientologist. Of course, he was married to one — Lisa Marie Presley — but he resisted the sect’s charms — and hers apparently too.

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From Celebslam:

"You really can't blame Ryan for being drunk. He's leaving a bar in West Hollywood (on Wednesday night). I'm just glad he didn't fall into the trap that so many other stupid celebrities fall into and drive home. It's probably because he has two kids. A family has a way of maturing a man.

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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth get caught up in the moment as they stroll along the Champ-Elysees in Paris on Thursday evening (December 10).

The Last Song costars have been romantically linked since they shot the family drama earlier this year in Tybee Island, Georgia.

Miley insisted to Ryan Seacrest during a recent interview, via US Weekly, about her relationship with the Aussie actor. She answered, “I’ll neither confirm nor deny.”

Hmmm, looks like it’s more confirm than deny to us.

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LOS ANGELES — Some characters, Stanley Tucci will tell you, you take home as an actor. Others you can leave on the set.

Then there's George Harvey, the child rapist and murderer at the center of The Lovely Bones, which opens Friday.

That guy, Tucci says, "you try to go home, take a shower to wash him off you and have a drink. That was the hardest character I've ever had to play. I think because it was such a departure from anything I am or believe in."

Based on the 2002 best seller, Bones was a departure for many involved with the $64 million film.

For director Peter Jackson, Bones marked an exodus from the fantasy worlds of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong. Set in 1973 small-town Pennsylvania, Bones takes an unblinking look at a family dissolved by a murder (though Jackson concedes he gets a little trippy with his heaven sequences).

For Saoirse Ronan, a knowing 15-year-old Irish girl already drawn to adult dramas, the movie is her grimmest yet – and she was in Atonement. "This was the first time I felt like a grown-up and really absorbed the material," she says.

And for Tucci, the 49-year-old who lost his wife, Kate, to breast cancer in April, Bones was a test of how dark he could take a character and not let it invade a personal life already set on its ear. "I've seen the finished movie," Tucci says. "But to tell you the truth, I'm not sure how many times I'll be able to see it again."

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The 24-year-old British actress on stage performing Martin Crimp’s blistering version of Molière’s greatest comedy, The Misanthrope.

( Damien Lewis included for all the lady fans, and the non lady fans who like dick. )
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"I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing."

– Nick Jonas, admitting that he also gets pedicures, on It's On with Alexa Chung


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HAPPY FRIDAY ONTD!

It may be time for Tila Tequila, Casey Johnson and their mutual ex-girlfriend Courtenay Semel to check into The Bad Girls Club.

Within hours of Tequila and Johnson announcing at the Famous Stars and Straps party in L.A. that they're engaged to be married, Semel came out blasting them as frauds.

"They don't even speak," Semel told us yesterday. "Casey can't stand Tila. They've only spoken once, and they're doing this as a publicity stunt to get back at me."

But what about that rock that the Band-Aid-empire offspring supposedly proposed with?

Semel says the ice is fake and is a meaningless accessory that Johnson grabbed from her jewelry box.

Besides, Semel claimed, Johnson isn't exactly living the heiress lifestyle these days.

"Casey can't even fill up her gas tank," Semel said. "She doesn't have a penny to her name. Her parents have cut her off completely. I have texts from her saying she's broke and can’t even afford to meet me for dinner."

Tequila says Semel doesn't know what she's talking about.

"Casey and I are very happily engaged and excited to plan our wedding in Massachusetts, where we can be legally married," Tequila tells us. "And as for Courtenay, we hope that she minds her own business and stays classy."

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