The Loquacious Limey

[The Limey] – The history of music has been blessed with many whose vocal dexterity could hold an audience spellbound, and thanks to America’s Got Talent a new name can be added to that lustrous list – Jackie Evancho.
For Tuesday’s show all the contestants had to submit their auditions by You Tube. One such video [...]

[The Limey] – Fans of Apple’s curious form of overpriced bling are often blessed with a calm outward demeanor, but Jason Bateman made more than 2,000 of them implacable enemies yesterday when he cut in line for the new iPhone 4G.
The former “Arrested Development” star was waiting in line outside Apple’s store at the Grove [...]

[The Limey] – In a disputed piece that is almost certainly more MTV hype it’s being reported that the entire cast of that peerless example of brainless inbreeding, ‘Jersey Shore’ are due to be axed and replaced before season three.
Somebody up there likes me!
Pop Eater says the repugnant collection of talentless half-wits that comprises the [...]

[The Limey] – So, after what feels like six moths of endless, relentless and immeasurably pointless hype and self-serving marketing, the great Betty White / SNL spectacular is finally done.
Now we can suppose NBC will spend the next six months telling us how smart, funny and bitingly relevant the show still is – which is [...]

[The Limey] – In between being every B-list celebrity’s favorite agony aunt on his KIIS-FM radio show, Ryan Seacrest also finds time to front American Idol, and he’s now being praised for saving one contestant, Crystal Bowersox from losing her chance at the prize.
Crystal, it seems, was in the process of quitting the show when [...]

[The Limey] – People, we need a blacklist. A list of all the brainless, worthless, attention-seeking egocentrics who are currently suffering from the groundless delusion they’re famous.

I’m talking about the seemingly unending swathe of mediocre performers who are so irreparably inept, yet driven by ego they engage in one risible, lamentable and inexcusable publicity stunt [...]

[The Limey] – When Joaquin Phoenix stepped out of the limelight in 2008 the world lost a fine actor. Now back, and with a movie in which he’ll play Edgar Allen Poe already in development Joaquin has made a new film for PETA – and the story is brutally true.
The 35-year Puerto Rico-born actor has [...]

[The Limey] – I’m not the man’s biggest fan and I’ve never seen the show, but the way Spencer Pratt disappeared from MTV”s tiresome ‘reality’ slapstick ‘The Hills’ is too much to stand.
The story, first floated by People said the 26-year old actor was leaving because he’d found “a new passion and new purpose to [...]

[The Limey] – In the final denouement of what may be Hollywood’s worst-kept secret since the personal life choices of the late Liberace, Will and Grace actor Sean Hayes has finally agreed that he’s gay.
When the now 39-year old actor first appeared on the screen in 1998 as Will’s constantly unemployed neighbor, Jack McFarland, speculation [...]

[TheLimey] – The curious, virtual peacock that is Twitter has gained a great deal of press since many so-called celebrities jumped aboard to stroke their own egos and compound their fame. But Conan O’Brien is the one viable celeb who has found a good use.
Since he began tweeting on February 24 the 46-year old host [...]