from July1st to Dec 31st
'Satanic Slut'. I could go into details further but the mere ingredients of the story make more interesting reading than the actual story. After much bandwagon jumping on, the fall-out included a couple of sackings, a resignation and a 3 month suspension. 'Wossy' (as I like to call him) also stepped down from hosting the British Comedy Awards, only to be replaced by
Angus Deayton, who not that many years ago was caught taking drugs with a prostitute. Which just goes to show that time can soften people's perception of you, give it a few years and Robert Mugabe will probably be hosting the event.
(sadly he has more chance than me)
Across the 'pond' in America they couldn't compete with the above stories but they did vote in their first ever black president, Barack Obama. It was an historic event, one of those events where you know exactly where you were. I know exactly where I was when it was announced he'd been elected, I was in bed asleep, due to the time difference. I hope Barack does well, my big fear however isn't something 'happening' to him it's that it might raise people's expectation of black people. All of a sudden people/parents might start saying to me "If Barack Obama can become President of America, why can't you get a proper job?"
Heat magazine marked the occasion by making Barack their 'Torso of the week' and some people have the cheek to say we are dumbing down our news stories.
In British politics, David Cameron had his bike stolen after he chained it to a bin, allowing the thief to merely lift the bike over the bin, what a wassock! If he can't look after his bike what chance the country?
And a list of BNP members was leaked on the internet. The people on the list came from all different walks of life but what caused most controversy was that one of the members was a police officer. What I find hard to believe is that there was only one police officer on the list. (I must add at this point that the police do a difficult job in trying circumstances)
TV programme This Morning turned 20 in the second half of the year, they marked the occasion by showing a weeks worth of the best bits of the show, incorporating all the hosts, apart from one. For some reason I didn't see John Leslie's face in the celebrations.
Michael Jackson turned 50 in this period, it's remarkable to think he's 50, he hasn't changed a bit, apart from his face and skin colour.
Talking of This Morning, Kerry Katona appeared on the show slurring her words. She put her strange behaviour down to medication. I would like to say at this point that if anyone sees me out and about slurring my words, it'll be because I am p*ssed. It will have absolutely nothing to do with medication.
I popped into my local Woolworths before it shut, mainly out of morbid fascination and was surprised to see them selling Rhydian's album at a whopping �13. And for that alone they deserve to close.
Pizza Hut changed the name of some of their stores to Pasta Hut, which seemed like a bit of a waste of time. After all Pizza and Pasta are similar in that they are both Italian based foods. It'd be like a librarian calling themselves a publisher, they're still working with books, or a taxidermist calling themselves a vet, they're still working with animals, or a gynaecologist managing Man Utd, they're still working with .....