‘Madonna Chef,’ Neill Anthony offers exclusive services
Top Cape Town Chef Offers Everything From Master Class To Supper Clubs – Branded “The God Of Food” by News24’s Cathy Marston, Neill Anthony is Cape Town’s most exclusive private chef and has cooked for the likes of Madonna, the Beckhams, U2, Elton John and can now cook for you! He offers a range of bespoke services from master classes to supper clubs! Follow him on Twitter and Facebook under “Neill Anthony” and always remember to use two LL’s! [neillanthony.com]
Britney Spears’ Bodyguard Filing Sexual Harassment Lawsuit – a bodyguard who claims to have been sexually harassed by Britney Spears is filing a lawsuit today, claiming Britney repeatedly exposed herself to him. According to the suit, Fernando Flores claims, “She was wearing a white lace, see-through dress. She walked over close by, intentionally dropped her cigarette lighter on the floor, bent over to retrieve it and thereby exposed her uncovered genitals.” Hilarious! [tmz]
Rising Tide Of Acid Mine Water Threatens Johannesburg – A toxic tide of acid mine water is rising steadily beneath Johannesburg which, if left unchecked, could cause earth tremors, power blackouts and even cancer among residents. The water is currently around 600 metres below the city’s surface but is rising at a rate of between 0.4 and 0.9 metres per day, meaning it could overflow onto the streets in just under a year and a half. Stunning! [telegraph]
With a Little Help From His Friends – At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he’s the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous—played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network. In theaters this month, the movie purports to tell the story of Facebook’s first year, partly by focusing on a darker side of Parker’s persona. [vanityfair]
Google Debuts ‘Instant’ Search – Because nine seconds is an eternity on the internet, now you can conduct a search in a “Google Instant.” The iconic search site Wednesday unveiled the new feature on Google.com and to a packed auditorium of tech writers in San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art — no doubt doing vanity searches to see how quickly their names came up. And they do come up fast. Google Instant is like the familiar ’suggested search’ type-ahead, but on Javascript steroids. [wired]
Piers Morgan To Fill Larry King Slot – After months of speculation, Piers Morgan, the British newspaper editor best-known to U.S. audiences as a judge on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” has finally completed talks to take over Larry King’s weeknight talk show on CNN. CNN, hoping to bolster its flagging prime-time lineup, has settled on Morgan after delicate and wide-ranging negotiations that cleared numerous obstacles. [latimes]
Is Caroline Wozniacki’s US Open Dress Too Short? – Caroline Wozniacki is enjoying a terrific U.S. Open. On Monday, the 20-year-old sensation ousted Maria Sharapova to advance to the quarterfinals. Her dress, which barely covered any of her legs, was noticeable to many viewers. After the match, Wozniacki was asked about the outfit during a press conference.”I think it’s nice,” she said, adding that she will “get a lot of male fans now” due to the revealing dress. No doubt.. [huffpo]
Condoleeza Rice Got Into Heated Debate With Bush During 9/11 – Condoleezza Rice has revealed that she shouted at President George Bush and banned him from returning to Washington to run the country in the chaotic few hours following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Roughly 30 minutes after terrorists flew a second hijacked airliner into the World Trade Centre in New York, Ms Rice, then the National Security Adviser, became involved in a heated exchange with President Bush. [independent]
Russians Urged To Smoke And Drink More – What a wonderful initiative, as we cross to Moscow. Smoke and drink more, Russia’s finance minister Alexei Kudrin said to citizens on Wednesday, explaining that higher consumption would help lift tax revenues for spending on social services.“If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social problems such as boosting demographics, developing other social services and upholding birth rates.” Brilliant! [thestar]
Manual on How to Molest Children Is Legal, Cops Say – A 170-page manual explaining step by step how to molest children which police in Orange County, Fla., believe has been circulating there for months, is not illegal. Investigators have stated that they still want to know where it came from. “I’ve never seen anything like it. It was pretty amazing when I first saw it just because how detailed it was,” said Orange County Sheriff’s Office Det. Philip Graves. [abcnews]
Did Tony Blair Add Spice To A Section Of His Book? – Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and then there is the question of Tony Blair.In an article published in The Daily Telegraph of London, the screenwriter Peter Morgan suggests that an account of Mr. Blair’s first meeting with Queen Elizabeth after he became prime minister in 1997, as recounted in Mr. Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” is at least heavily inspired by a similar scene Mr. Morgan wrote for the 2006 feature “The Queen.” [nytimes]
News Corp Is Freaking Out – “You don’t get it,” a member of News Corporation’s inner circle in London told me last night, about the phone hacking scandal. “If there was a conspiracy in the company, the conspiracy was to keep Rupert from knowing.”That is called the circle-the-wagons defense. That’s called everybody-else-is-expendable. That’s called a total freak-out. The company has been caught as on the ropes, as it ever has in its 60-year history. [michaelwolff]
Snoek Town Calling – Fans of Living Stylishly Well will be aware that our boy is taking a break from Provence and is in the Mother City with “Madame.” They took a turn at Kalk Bay’s Live Bait restaurant. “It’s September in Cape Town. It’s snoek season. Pop down to Kalk Bay harbour and envelope yourself on the sights, sounds and smells of the snoek season.” More.. [livingstylishlywell]
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