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"I loved Barbie. I have about 20 dolls, the
huge house, the hot dog stand, the workout
centre, the pool, the Corvette and the
water-slide park" - Katie Holmes

"I'm glad I could wait this long before I
had to deal with reality" - Katie Holmes
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       >> Back door Hamilton <<
       Lewis tries to be nice to everyone
    
   Lewis Hamilton popped into the Dorchester Hotel
   for an event recently. Rather than walk in off
   the street like anyone else, he was secretly
   bundled in the back door.

   Why? Hamilton has a deal with Hilton, and some
   of his people were worried about him being
   photographed going into a different hotel.
   The joys of being a superstar, eh?


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Popbitch's favourite British backstroker:
Liam Tancock. And our favourite Olympic boxing
judge? Cuba’s Juan Ponce.
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       >> Miller liked <<
       Sienna has some admirers

   Overheard in a greasy spoon in North London
   last week, two blokes who claimed to be
   drinking buddies of Rhys Ifans. One of the
   men claimed Sienna Miller had been badly
   treated by the press and "copped the blame
   unfairly" for leaving Mr Ifans, who is "a
   great laugh" and a "wonderful bloke". But
   but such a huge drinker that "it's doubtful
   any woman who'll stick with him for long".
   They were also of the opinion that Miller
   had "done herself proud" by not talking
   about it anywhere.


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Like humans, pandas walk with both their heel and toes.
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     >> Big Questions <<
     What football fans are asking this week

   This player enjoyed a big transfer during the
   summer but was less keen on his other
   activities getting a high-profile.
   With a wife at home, he still lived it up
   shagging around. And reached for a privacy
   injunction the second a one-night stand
   went to the newspapers.

   Which footballer, when caught shagging his
   mistress in the marital bed by a tabloid,
   was so cool about the potential scandal
   he refused to tell his wife the story was
   about to break?


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China are leading America in the Gold race but we
predict a Phelps-led comeback for the USA. Get on
this (and your favourite Brits - see below) with a
series of cheeky flutters making up £25 and Betfair
will give you £25 free:
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       >> Viva la Revolucion!  <<
       Britain’s modern meritocracy
    
   Princess Beatrice has been admitted to trendy
   Goldsmith’s College. But how? Some tutors
   can’t seem to find an application form or
   UCAS entry for her anywhere. You know. that
   form that everyone has to fill out to go to
   University in Britain. Maybe it got lost. Or maybe
   there’s different rules for royalty. Still,
   the tutors aren’t so upset. They did
   manage to head off Peaches Geldof’s application.


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Pandas are black and white because their conspicuous
coat enables solitary pandas to spot one another, and
avoid each other, but also to help males and
females find one another during the breeding season.
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       >> The one and only – more <<
       Chesney Hawkes is a very nice man

DJ V writes:
   “I present a radio talk show. The other week
   we were doing a show on what people earn and
   wanted to get a 'pop star' on to reveal what
   cash they make. We got Chesney Hawkes number
   and called him one afternoon. He answered
   in a half-whisper as we explained who we are
   and what we wanted. He was very polite but
   explained he "can't talk now as I'm looking
   after my sick children, but I'd be more than
   happy to talk later..." He then gave us his
   manager's number! We never ended up calling
   him back but he was very sweet.”
    

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Pandas excrete up to 40 kilograms per day. Because
their feces eliminate more water than their food
brings in, they usually drink at least once per day.
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       >> Team GB: hot or not? <<
       Sports Minister Burnham delivers kiss of death

   One week in, and already the Olympics are creating
   new British household names - there's that Welsh
   bike woman, the swimming one, and who could forget
   the little diving guy? He was rubbish. Blame
   Minister for Culture, Media and Sport Andy Burnham,
   perhaps, whose crass comments about how countries
   like Australia looked enviously at Britain now
   sealed our hapless athletes fates. Still,
   there's always the rowing:

   Here's our tips for making some money...

   *GB coxless four.

   *Kelly Sotherton in the Heptathlon.

   * Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell will be hard to beat
   in the 100m but Tyson Homosexual is good odds
   at 3/1.

Start an account at Betfair, quote OLY008 and claim
£25 of free bets:
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Julian Cope at Latitude had a meltdown, telling the
crowd "Tell your grandparents!  Tell your
grandchildren that people like me existed!'.
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       >> Thought for the week  <<
       John McCain v Barack Obama

   For anyone that didn’t know. John McCain was
   at the bottom of his military class at Annapolis,
   but still got to pilot a fighter plan due to
   his father’s connections. He is the son and
   the grandson of admirals. He finished
   894 of 899 in his graduating class. Despite
   crashing five aircrafts, John McCain was never
   disciplined. And son-of-single-mother Obama
   is, of course, the privileged elitist.


FYI: Most of the male porn stars were Jewish at
the beginning," says Republican Congressional
Candidate and Nazi apologist:
http://hoosieraccess.com/blog/2008/04/21/a-despicable-act/


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Basketball star Yao Ming is the financial backer of
a huge new music download system in China, top100.cn
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       >> All we hear is <<
       Radio Popbitch, Radio Popbitch

   Over the last few months we’ve been putting
   together a radio station online. It’s got
   about 20,000 tunes on it. And it works much
   like a pub jukebox. Select a track and we’ll
   probably play it. Or just listen in. Anyway,
   it’s still a work in progress but you can
   try it out on http://www.radiopopbitch.com

   To celebrate, we have a free download single,
   a new acoustic version of a very nice 80s
   number from the Blow Monkeys, Diggin Your
   Scene. And Dr Robert has kindly recorded a
   radio show detailing his top 10 summer tunes:
http://radiopopbitch.com/artists/blow-monkeys


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When Chairman Mao Zedong's gifted Richard Nixon two
pandas in 1972, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing,  Nixon
responded by sending back a pair of musk oxen.
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       >> Things that make you go hmm <<
       Piggy, Panda v Nixon, Steve McClaren
      
   Miss Piggy does synchronised swimming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRf3_WQzAgQ

   Band:
http://www.myspace.com/nixonversuspanda

   Reality show hell -  Ireland's Failte Towers.
   (Failte, meaning welcome in Irish). Celebs have
   to look after a hotel with "real" guests, The "stars"
   include Brian Dowling from Big Brother (who is
   very orange and looks botoxed), the ubiquitously
   pointless Michelle Heaton and the gay and lesbian twins
   who screwed up the Irish Eurovision entry a few years ago.
http://www.rte.ie/tv/failtetowers/

   Bomb the Bass is back!/Users/camillawright/Desktop/grazia
http://www.myspace.com/bombthebass

    Want to have your say on what’s cool?
    Try Poll The People:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvXGvJXbQPw.

    Steve McClaren’s new Dutch accent:
http://tinyurl.com/6n673p

    Resepct the F.A:
http://www.popbitch.com


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