The always charming Wayne Rooney has offered to fight a “fan” who insulted him on Twitter. Wayne told the user that he’d “put him asleep in 10 seconds”.
Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is in town and was spotted at the V&A Waterfront, wearing his trademark face. Rhys Meyers is best known for his roles in the films Bend It Like Beckham and Match Point and his television role as King Henry VIII in the historical drama The Tudors. An Excited fan of his […]
Top three American Idol finalist, Haley Reinart, took an embarrassing tumble on stage tonight during her sexy rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “What Is And What Should Never Be”. Randy Jackson thought the fall was a set up. And Steven Tyler, predictably, loved it.
Blackbeard, Barbarossa, Captain Kidd and Davy Jones would’ve rolled in their sea graves if they’d known fictional pirates like Long John Silver, Captain Hook and Captain Jack Sparrow would become more famous than them. Well, as real as Keith Richards is… he’s no pirate – not the way we think at least! Johnny Depp’s famous […]
The White House Flickr feed has been updated with a series of candid shots of President Obama over the past couple of weeks. Click through for shots of Obama and the family at the annual Easter Egg Roll, surveying tornado damage in the South, and hanging at the Oval Office- among others.
Enjoy this early-release version of a track by local muso, JR (of “Make The Circle Beega”) fame. The track, titled “Show Goes On” will launch officially this coming Friday. Die Heuwels Fantasties and Jack Parow make an appearance on the track. Nicely.
Police officials have said that hours before Queen Elizabeth II was to arrive in Dublin today, the army defused a pipe bomb discovered in a tote bag. The bag was in the luggage compartment of a bus on its way to the capital. Irish police are now on high alert after further scares are keeping them busy.
Wow. Alright. Apple gave the the green light to a mobile app that promises to connect rich old dudes with young women. Sugar daddies with gold diggers. Seriously. They call themselves SugarSugar, “the world’s most effective and discreet place for finding Sugar Daddy and Sugar Baby relationships.”
The man formerly known as the Governator has fathered a child with a staff member who worked for the Schwarzenegger family for 20 years. It has been revealed that this is the reason Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she had recently learned he had fathered the child more than a decade ago.
As many of you will be well-aware, lovely Candice posed nude in Playboy Magazine some time ago. She’s wearing only slightly more this time on the Cannes red carpet, in a fetching Gavin Rajah get-up. Click through for the gallery inside!
A sharp-eyed 2oceansviber sent in a screenshot of a tweet posted by Graeme Smith’s irish fiance, Morgan Dean, which celebrates his prowess in bed.
This is a little like me not being allowed to have posters up in my bedroom, but less serious: the ANC has lodged a complaint with the Electoral Commission after Cape Town city workers were found removing COSATU posters campaigning for Tony Ehrenreich. Because they want their posters back, apparently.
Controversy surrounded the initial trailer’s release because it involved a monkey sexual simulation segment. This saw it pulled from theatres in America as it emerged that it hadn’t been appropriately evaluated by the Motion Picture Association of America. Warner Brothers has now decided to treat us with a few more preview videos ahead of the international release.
It must have been on 29 April or thereabouts and I had decided to see what was happening in town with a friend of mine. Thinking that it was dubstep night, I suggested to my friend that we should go to Kitchener’s Carvery Bar in Braamfontein. We arrived there at around 23h00, only to discover that no, it wasn’t dubstep night, but rather live band night. Not to worry, I thought, it would take a really bad band to ruin Kitchener’s on any night.
In what is surely a ground-breaking ruling around the subject of freedom of speech in South Africa, the words “dubula ibhunu” (shoot the boer) were declared an incitement to murder in a judgement handed down in the High Court in Johannesburg today by Judge Leon Halgryn.
Ex-Springbok rugby captain, Joost van der Westhuizen, has thanked the country for all the support he’s been given since being diagnosed, last week, with Motor Neuron Disease (MND).
At a press conference post screening, Keith Allen has insisted his documentary about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, which screened today at the Cannes Film Festival to a select audience of invited journalists and other guests, was not “a sensationalist film”.
Ananias Rodrigues da Silva, the Brazilian Barack Obama lookalike, stopped by São Paulo to pay a visit to Francisco Fernandes – a bar owner who has been repeatedly harassed for his resemblance to Osama bin Laden. The two had a couple of shots and posed for photographs. It’s pretty great.
Can you hear that? It is the world’s smallest violin playing just for Steve Hofmeyr and that massive chip on his shoulder. In a new song he has written and dedicated to murdered AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, called “Ons Sal Dit Oorleef”, he tackles the issue of white people being oppressed in South Africa. He also throws in the k-word. Yes, that specific one. Lyrics Inside.
2oceansvibers are renowned for appreciating a bit of creative advertising humour from time to time. And with electioneering currently taking up a rather large amount of media space as we get ready for the local government elections next Wednesday, the ever resourceful Kalahari.net has decided to bless us with some radvertising.
The King & Queen of the World’s honeymoon location has been revealed. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have taken themselves to the uber-exclusive Seychelles’ North Island resort. The island on Wednesday was closely monitored by three national coast guard boats, further fueling local speculation that the royal couple had chosen it as their destination. […]
Hooray! I hear you say at the great news that Rovio, creator of the extremely addictive “Angry Birds”, has decided to release a version for Google Chrome. Peter Vesterbacka of Finnish software firm Rovio, made the announcement at a Google developers conference yesterday.
Love or hate them, priests have always been contentious public figures. Fire and brimstone sermons, dipping into the church coffers or abusing choir boys… the stigma of being a priest almost overshadows the religious and sacred duties associated with the holy role. One film seeks to defy this… turning darkness into light and vampires into […]
Following their collective rise to fame on the veil of Catherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa and Will Middleton have had the gory details of their private lives scrutinised with repulsive efficiency by the world’s tabloid media. It’s a textbook case of “what goes on the internet, stays on the internet”.
Vampire Diaries star, Ian Somerhalder (formerly of Lost) is in “Africa” – more specifically, Johannesburg – reports Channel24. Somerhalder tweeted his whereabouts at around 10h30 today.
Videophiles will appreciate the release of the Purple Hearts’ first music video, which was shot in a single take. Gen Akal doubled as the director, and editor of the video, with Tim Henny acting as DP. Between them they managed to capture almost two and a half minutes of uninterrupted footage over the 200 metre route. The entirety of the video was shot on foot, concluding with an elevated shot from a cherry picker. Check out the video after the jump!
Water for Elephants is a film currently showing in our cinemas. The plot revolve around a circus and it stars Reece Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and an elephant named Tai. But an animal rights group is claiming that Tai was physically abused in preparation for her movie role and has released this video as evidence. Have a look at the footage and decide for yourself .
And now I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Around 3,000 words have been added this year in the “most comprehensive Scrabble wordlist ever produced,” which I would be more upset about if most of my Scrabble games didn’t end in tears and fire. Also included: ‘innit,’ ‘thang,’ ‘fansite,’ and ‘Facebook.’
Man, we seem to be running out of classy damsels nowadays. Dana Wynter, 1950’s starlet, best known for starring as the token distressed heroine in low-budget science-fiction film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” died May 5 of congestive heart failure in Ojai, California. She was 79.
This charming fellow is a member of the English Defence League, which is something similar to the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but for racist chavs. He’s clearly afraid of the the encroaching influence of “Muslamic” law. And did I hear him say “Muslamic Ray Guns” at 1:20?