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The Girl in Times Square - Paullina Simons

dunno! I stopped watching it regularly once I was about 16/17

I've got vague recollections of having seen that episode of Blind Date.

BB7 Lisa on Blind Date BIG Brother contestant Lisa Huo is no stranger to the small screen - she once went on a Blind Date trip to South Africa with a rugby player. Lisa, 27, from Ashton, was taken on the romantic journey for the ITV show by Tony Fretwell - but the couple did not get on. Tony, 28, who is now a rugby coach, told viewers: "I so wanted to get away from her that during our meal I went to the toilet six times for a breather." Advertisement your story continues below He even offered to pay for his own flight home after she ordered fish fingers in one of Cape Town's top restaurants. More here: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/filmandtv/s/213/213649_bb7_lisas_big_bother_on_blind_date_.html

It is a bit much really!!

why? because Boyzone are back?

Coldplay were voted the world’s most popular group earlier this year. They’re also possibly the most uninteresting. Despite that, a New York literary agency, David Vigliano Associates, is currently masterminding the sale of their memoirs. I hope there’s some dirt on the coffee-table goody-goodies (Gwyneth Paltrow’s husband, Chris Martin, neither smokes nor drinks). Yet with the former Take That star Gary Barlow’s memoirs having been flogged recently for £1m to Bloomsbury, Coldplay’s will probably sell for zillions. And be bought by as many unquestioning fans. Richard Brooks for The Sunday Times

Grrrrrrrrrrr!! I may own most of your albums but get yourselves out of my boys limelight!! Jumping on the flippin bandwagon!

The Boyzone reunion is “looking hopeful”, according to their manager Louis Walsh. The Pop Idol judge, who has seen the massive success of their pop precursors Take That’s current reunion tour, has been in talks with the boyband about reforming – but has warned them they’ll have to get fit if they want to perform again. He tells The People, “I saw Take That in Dublin last week and it's amazing how good they all look - especially Gary Barlow. The Boyzone lads will have to work if they want to compete. But I've been talking to all of them about the reunion and it's looking hopeful." Stephen Gatley has already taken Walsh’s advice, adding, “It's now just a case of agreeing a time when everyone is free. I've started to hit the gym again to get fitter for the dance moves. I've also started a healthy diet." http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=17387

tis indeed. he was so lovely. :)

I was never that obsessed!! I was upset when they split but I can't say I cried.

OMG!!! I can't believe you just mentioned Take That and McFly in the same sentence!!! :sick2:

I went again!!!!! I got free tickets through work, plus guest pass to meet Gary before the show. Am one very happy Take That fan :D

I can kind of see where they're coming from but its a little extreme. They'll be going the same way as someone in the UK who was suggesting putting folic acid into bread so that everyone would be taking it.

its tonight! 9pm Channel 4

New article on the front page

Roman Catholics in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have received Muslim support in protests against the release of the movie, The Da Vinci Code. Film censors have cleared the movie for release in India on 19 May. An umbrella organisation of Islamic clerics in Mumbai have labelled the film as "blasphemous" because it spreads "lies" about Jesus Christ. One Roman Catholic activist has gone on what he says is a "hunger strike until death" unless the film is banned. 'Violent protests' "The Holy Koran recognises Jesus as a prophet. What the book says is an insult to both Christians and Muslims," Maulana Mansoor Ali Khan, general secretary of the All-India Sunni Jamiyat-ul-Ulema, told the Reuters news agency. "Muslims in India will help their Christian brothers protest this attack on our common religious belief," he said. His stance was supported by Syed Noori, president of Mumbai-based Raza Academy, a Muslim cultural organisation that organises protests on issues concerning Islam. "If the government doesn't do anything, we will try our own ways of stopping the film from being shown," he said. "We are prepared for violent protests in India if needed." A Roman Catholic activist, Joseph Dias, began a hunger strike on Tuesday which he said would be continued until the film is banned. Earlier this month hundreds of Catholic demonstrators gathered outside a convent school in Mumbai in protest over the film's release. Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown explores the premise that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and produced children, whose descendants are alive today. The Catholic Secular Forum has described the film as "offensive" because hits "certain basic foundations of the religion". India's Central Board of Film Certification said Tuesday it would give the movie an adult rating if the film-makers agreed to a disclaimer at the start of the movie saying it was a work of fiction. "There is a visual of self-flagellation and limited amount of nudity in (one) particular scene," board member Vinayak Azad told the AFP news agency. "It has got adult content." One of the three Catholic representatives of the five-member board, the Rev Myron Pereira, said that it was cleared because the contention that Christ married was "fictional". "But it does not portray anything in an obscene fashion," he said. "People can protest about anything since we live in a democracy." It is estimated that there are about 18m Roman Catholics in India, with 500,000 living in Mumbai. The Christian community comprises about 2% of India's population of over one billion. http://www.bbc.co.uk

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has insisted the band will not split with the release of his first solo album. The Eraser has been produced by Nigel Godrich, responsible for Radiohead albums including The Bends, OK Computer and 2003's Hail To The Thief. In an e-mail to Radiohead's fan organisation Waste, Yorke said he had been "itching to do something like this for ages". But he added that his solo ambitions had not outpaced Radiohead's. Cancelled "The band now touring, writing new stuff and getting to a good space, so I want no crap about me being a traitor or whatever, splitting up blah blah," wrote the musician. "This was all done with their blessing. And I don't wanna hear that word solo. Doesn't sound right," added Yorke. Radiohead recently embarked upon a European tour, but a concert in Amsterdam last week was cancelled following the death of drummer Phil Selway's mother. http://www.bbc.co.uk

not even that. its nice to know my licence fee is being used to employ intelligent people :\

if a girl/boy is under the age of 16, you can be charged with having sex with a minor. if that child is under the age of 12, you would be charged with statutory rape. it doesn't matter if they gave consent at that age, because the law considers they are too young to understand the consequences of what they are agreeing to.

that'd be this thread then? :P http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30328 seeing as though this one's more popular, I'll shut the other one

About 250 ferry passengers and crew are stranded on ships after a 500lb (227kg) bomb was found in the River Mersey. The explosive, thought to be from World War II, was discovered by the Royal Navy at Twelve Quays dock, Birkenhead. The Mersey Viking and Dublin Viking, travelling from Dublin and Belfast, were ordered to wait further up the Mersey when they arrived on Tuesday. The Wallasey tunnel was closed for a short time when Navy divers began to move the device out to sea. Merseytravel said the closure was only short and that traffic disruption had been kept to a minimum. The German penetration bomb is being moved to be detonated in deeper water in the Irish Sea before the two Norfolk Line ferries will be allowed to dock. The Mersey Viking has 64 passengers and 55 crew on board. The Dublin Viking has 81 passengers and 46 crew. They were both due to dock in the early hours. Royal Navy spokesman Neil Smith said the bomb would be detonated safely later on Tuesday. He said: "It's an absolutely massive bomb. We don't find bombs that often, although this group of divers throughout the coast of the north of England and Scotland perhaps come across 150 cases of World War II ordnance every year. "So it's something they're used to identifying and dealing with." http://www.bbc.co.uk

When I was in Year 9, I spent a week in France with a host family. It was kind of cool as you really had to speak French to get by. It was arranged by our school, and they had a school in France that they exchanged with. It was timed so that we spent a weekend with them and the had a couple of days in school, and then we went out on trips for the other couple of days. It was nice because you were able to meet up with people you know form england so you weren't too isolated. Later on, I went a couple of times to stay with a friend in Germany. We'd met on holiday in Majora. that was fun too because there was no school involved!! and I also had to get by on my own speaking German.

flippin good cup final that one! shame there were so many England players playing though.