Myleene Klass in PVC

Myleene Klass dons PVC for a photo shoot in the current issue of Look magazine here in the UK.  The trouble is, if you go to the website for Look, you’ll find nothing about it.  No pictures, no interview, nothing.

Instead, the Daily Mail covers the story for the online audience, including the pictures.  Of course they put their usual ultra-conservative spin on it, but it would have been better to have the story on Look’s website with the original context to link to.

Magazine websites annoy the hell out of me.  They publish these stories and photoshoots in their magazines, but their websites have nothing from the magazines in them, absolutely nothing!

Putting stories that you publish in your magazine onto your website is a way of promoting the magazine and getting the online audience involved.  But without these articles on your website, you have no way of generating online interest in your website.

Get your act together!

Muslim Preacher's Daughter a Pole Dancer!

Here we go again, the so called conservative press showing their so called self righteousness at the daughter of deported muslim cleric Omar Bakri being revealed by The Sun as a pole dancer.

The Daily Mail is also all over this story like a bad rash, but they correctly credit the story to The Sun, almost trying to distance themselves from the story.

The Sun further reports that Bakri paid for the operation whilst living on benefits. All I can say I'm glad the money didn't go on drugs or weapons.

But to be honest, I don't care if she is a pole dancer. She's entitled to make off her life what she wants. She chose to reject her father's extreme interpretation of Islam, she has her own life, leave her be.

Victoria Beckham's gravity defying PVC thigh boots?

Victoria Beckham is known to have worn some quite fetish orientated outfits before, but this one is a different level entirely. According to the Daily Mail, she's wearing PVC thigh boots that are without heels. True, the boots have no heels, but on closer inspection, they do not look like PVC to me. PVC is never that dull, nor that tightly fitted. These are latex pony boots. Latex is similar to PVC or Vinyl in that it can be very shiny, but without care and attention, latex can turn very dull. And pony boots are simply boots without heels.

I never expect the Daily Mail to get it right, but they do seem to have a penchant for picking out the fetish type outfits that some celebrities wear. I wonder why...

Sienna Miller in leather as The Baroness

The Daily Mail has pictures of a dark-haired Sienna Miller, dressed in head to toe leather for her role as The Baroness, in Paramount's GI Joe movie, which is due for release in 2009.

She looks hot in leather and obviously seems to be enjoying herself.  If you don't know, The Baroness is a villainess who works for COBRA, GI Joe's enemies.  Former Doctor Who Christopher Ecclestone is playing Destro, whilst Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Nichols, Dennis Quaid, Ray Park, Marlon Wayans and Jonathan Pryce also star.

Ordinarily I probably wouldn't have looked at this movie, as I wasn't originally a big fan of the animated series.  After these pictures however, I think I might just take a peek.

Carla Bruni Sarkozy... and that picture!

Today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in the UK for a state visit, with his new first lady. at the same time, a photographer has released a nude photograph of Carla Bruni Sarkozy from around 15 years ago.

The photograph can be seen on the sites of the Daily Star and Daily Mail. There's no need for me to post the picture here directly, both links, if you choose to visit them, will show you the photograph. I could go off on one of my usual rambles about press intrusion, or about the price of fame, but there is more than that here.

I suspect that the photographer involved is making somewhat of a political statement rather than purely selling a picture. Nicolas Sarkozy is not a popular figure in France these days, largely down to his affair with Carla Bruni. The most recent poll puts his approval rating at just 37%, which is well down on his early approval ratings just after his election.

It'll be interesting to see if the Carla Bruni situation is as damaging for Sarkozy as Iraq has been for "Dubya".

And now, the non-news, about the newscaster!

Hot on the heels of one piece of bad journalism from the Daily Star yesterday, comes a very different journalistic boo-boo from the ultra-conservative Daily Mail. This time, making a news story out of nothing.

The story is basically that during a trailer for Monday's 10 O'Clock News on BBC1, newscaster Emily Maitliss was caught showing rather too much leg!

Apprantly there have been 30 complaints to the BBC's message boards. Note, not the complaints department, but the message boards!

The picture is there on site, and you can quite frankly see how much the Daily Mail is talking through its hat, a hat that incidentally, I hope they soon have to eat, preferably with a hot sauce!