Monthly Archives: October 2002

Alicia Keys Says She’s Pressurized To Be Sexy

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Alicia Keys says the pressure she is under to be sexy makes her sick. The singer says she is constantly fighting with her stylists over the clothes they try and make her wear. And she reckons its a shame that people put appearance before talent.

“See, the amount of pressure I’m under to look good and to be an object of desire is really sickening” she said to reporters.

“I fight against it by saying ‘No, goddammit, I won’t wear that’ and ‘No, I won’t do that.'”

“And I’ll probably have to keep doing this because people try to make you into what they want you to be.”

But the singer admits that her appearance has had a role to play in her huge success.

“If I weighed 23 stone and just had a tuft of hair on the right side of my head then people probably wouldn’t be as willing to listen to what I have to say. It’s true that people look at your appearance before anything else. And I think that’s a real shame.”

Hazel Kaneswaran Close To Inking Deals

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Hazel Kaneswaran says she has been inundated with offers of a record deal.

The singer, who gave birth to a baby boy last week, was eliminated from the competition for being ten days over the age limit.

But she says the judges’ decision means she is destined to become a solo artist.

She is now planning to take the rest of the year off before starting work in January.

“Obviously at first I was devastated by the fact I wasn’t going to be in the final ten” she told Heat magazine.

“But the more I thought about it, the more I realised it was a positive thing actually. As far as I’m concerned this has happened for a reason. Polydor Records are interested in me; they have been from the start of the auditions.”

“The actual offer hasn’t come in yet, but I’m sure it will. At this stage I’m getting offers from everywhere too but the baby is the priority at the moment.”

Tears And Punch Up Between Rejected Male Popstar Wannabes

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I can’t believe this.

Boys are officially weepier than girls and are worse losers, at least that’s what the new series of Popstars seems to indicate.

During a recent filming when the contestants were being wittled down to 15 boys and 15 girls, the rejected lasses kept stiff upper lips and put a brave face on things. The boys, however, burst into tears and started a punch up! The judges, including Geri Halliwell, kept well clear.

One of the succesful contestants, Annika Gabbitas, told the papers “As the judges began cutting down the numbers it became clear that the girls were coping better with rejection than the blokes were. The guys broke into tears and a few of them got into punch ups. Everyone was talking about it.”

Geri reportedly was heard saying “Gosh! Boys are really sentimental aren’t they?”

Madonna Believes Guy Is Gay

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Madonna suspects her film director husband Guy Ritchie has gay tendencies. The singer told her hubby she was worried about the “strange homosexual undertone” between him and other men on the set of the couple’s new movie.

“There was lots of exhibitionist behaviour such as pulling pants down, fondling bits, hugging, slapping and kissing” she revealed.

Madonna was speaking on a US television show where the couple were promoting Swept Away, which Guy directs.

The ‘Frozen’ hitmaker put her husband on the spot by saying “Are your crew so intimate on all your films? I saw their bums on several occasions.”

She also criticised him for disrupting schedules when they were shooting the film in Malta last year.

“I didn’t appreciate that at four o’clock you guys suddenly decided to wrap the set and run off to watch a football game. I thought that it was terribly unprofessional” she added.

Daniel Bedingfield Surprised By Audience Embracing His Single

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While Daniel Bedingfield wrote ‘Gotta Get Thru This’ for the “pretty girl from New Jersey” who now is his girlfriend, the singer tells Chris Chandar of Pulse! magazine that to his surprise, audiences worldwide embraced the song’s unaffected lyrics in ways he never imagined.

“There’s a guy who had cancer surgery, and he said the song helped him through it.”

He also revealed “And a girl who wanted to die. She felt the song was a message from God, telling her to get through it. I didn’t realize that because the song meant something to me, it would mean something to others, and it did. It really did.”

Heidi Sugababes And Her Busty Behaviour

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Heidi from the Sugababes had a job to keep herself covered up at the Ibiza Lynx Extended Play Summer Party over last weekend. The 300 sun-soaked crowd were savouring every second while Heidi bounced around stage in a very skimpy black satin top.

This busty behaviour is becoming an ongoing trend as the video for their new single ‘Stronger’, according to Heidi, is very revealing.

She told the Mirror “We all have different roles. I’m a stripper, Mutya is a gangster and Keisha is a heartbroken woman.”

She afterward added “But it wasn’t exactly enchanting filming the scenes. Being part-naked in front of the camera was weird, and very invasive.”

Kelly Osbourne Doesn’t Know Why She Does The Osbournes

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Kelly Osbourne got asked by members of the press why she does the hit MTV reality show ‘The Osbournes’.

“You’ve got to ask my mum for your answer to that” she responded.

“Sincerely, I don’t fu**ing know. For experience I guess. It’s like a home video we’ll all get to look back on in 20 years. But it’s weird. I wouldn’t want to watch me if I wasn’t me. I’d hate me if I wasn’t me.”

Like Justin Loves N’Sync

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Justin Timberlake spoke to reporters and got asked if branching out solo meant the end of N’Sync.

Justin said “Not at all. It’s never the end. The reason people ask that is because they get used to comparing us with groups that may have been put together, and the thing we keep explaining to people is that we put ourselves together a long time ago. We were friends for a long time before N’Sync blew up as a group, and even if we don’t sell another record next go around, we’ll still be friends. We’re in it together.”

“These guys are my brothers and I love them so very much.”

He also revealed that after releasing his solo LP, he’ll go back to the guys and probably clock in studio time writing new material for the next N’Sync album.

Ms Dynamite Gives Girl Wannabes Advice

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Having been cornered backstage at the MOBO awards by a gaggle of journalists, the lady with the sing-song surname had some words of advice for any would-be pop ladies looking to follow in her footsteps.

She told “Essentially, you don’t need to take off all your clothes. You don’t have to have a big bumper or a big bust. Look at me! I have none of those things.”

“Just do your best and work hard.”