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Farrier stoush repeated by Herald

The Herald have posted an article today about a Twitter stoush between David Farrier and Marino Harker Smith. It was yetersdays news after Regan at Throng broke the story on his site.

Of course the Herald has failed to attribute its story or even bother with the courtesy of a link.

Ding Dong

Ding Dong the Pork Chop is….moving on up?

I heard via the tipline that she earned another nickname after the Metro photoshoot….”Beanbag”. Here is a more appropriate picture

Oh yes you do deary

A woman who is the ex-partner of some guy who is currently seeing Nicky Watson reckons she doesn’t care about it:

Former model Nicky Watson has come under fire from her new boyfriend’s ex partner.

The attack came from celebrity chef Pete Evans’ ex, Astrid Ellinger. TheSunday Telegraph reported that Ms Ellinger was shocked Evans was with Watson.

“He’s got more famous and it inevitably changes anyone,” she said. “All I’m going to say is Pete has had down-to-earth girlfriends so I’m not sure what’s happened now. I’m a down-to-earth and natural person. I don’t know what she is like.”

Evans, 38, is the host of My Kitchen Rules and owner of Hugo’s restaurant in Sydney.

Ms Ellinger would not say why they split after a decade together, though it has been reported that it was “amicable”.

Ms Ellinger said: “I have Googled [Watson] and I am shocked, she is not the type of girl Pete would usually go for. I am shocked. I do not know what has happened.”

“I don’t care. I am just getting on with my life and they can go to it.”

Really! You don;t care but you went crying to the media about it? Come one love who do you think you are kidding.

Are they sharing a tent?

Kerre Woodham is now sharing things she really shouldn’t. Though I must admit the mental picture this time is a whole lot better.

Are Deborah and Kerre sharing a tent?

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You are worthless Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin is worthless:

Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin had to be removed from a flight in Los Angeles today after he failed to turn off his iPad while the plane was waiting to take off.

The American Airlines plane was forced to turn back to the departure gate so the 53-year-old actor could be removed from the aircraft, delaying the early morning flight from LAX airport to New York.

The 30 Rock star, who could be fined over the incident, had been playing a computer game on his iPad, Words With Friends, a puzzle game which the actor reportedly “would risk being thrown off a flight to play”.

Words With Friends players compete online to score the most points by building words with tiles on a Scrabble-like game board.

Baldwin, who pledged never to not use the airline again, vented his frustration over the incident on his Twitter account @AlecBaldwin.

“Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving. #nowonderamericaairisbankrupt,” he wrote on the microblogging site.

On the Wharf with David Henderson

Money makes the world go round so when the tipline received these shots of a man who made the money stop, we felt the public duty to mock senselessly the poor and needy.

This is David Henderson (Auckland). He owes a lot of people a lot of money. Some owe finance companies a lot of money who owe little people a lot of money whom everyone seems to have paid to bailout.

Henderson’s assets don’t seem to be frozen. He’s living it up at Euro wearing an outfit that could have only come from Worzel Gummidge’s tailor. From the creased linen look jacket to the white mafia look cum car-dealer shoes it makes you wonder how early he got up to choose that shirt.

Henderson should apply for a wharfies position. He sits around on his fat lazy arse on a wharf enough. Owing money everywhere and bullying those who try to do free business. He’s on the phone long enough to fund the split between Telecom and Chorus.

All our tipster said about the man was “cash upfront”.

No wonder she ditched him

Asthon Kutcher gave Demi Moore a hybrid car, nek minnit he’s out on his arse:

Given their troubles over the past few months it was no surprise to learn the couple were ending their marriage.

But it appears Ashton Kutcher was eager to try and please Demi Moore right up to the end.

The 32-year-old actor is said to have splashed out over $100,000 on an eco-friendly car just days before she announced she was filing for divorce.

The Two and A Half Men star reportedly splashed out on a 2012 Lexus LS 600h hybrid-engine car for Demi’s birthday on November 11.

What a loser. He’s probably a dud root as well.

Chart of the Day

Throng provides Breakfast’s ratings since axing Paul Henry:

After 12 months of collecting the data, we’re now able to show you how Breakfast has fared without the polarising enigma that is Paul Henry.


The ratings for the year to date, compared to last year, are down approximately 14%.

The spike at the start of 2011 is due to the Christchurch earthquake. This plot shows a 10 point moving average.

Source: Nielsen Television Audience Measurement, All 5+, 7am-8am, Feb – Oct

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Uh-oh

Terry Serepisos can’t catch a cold right now. Seems he has left behind a whole heaps of documents that the Official Assignee is very interested in obtaining.

Bankrupt property tycoon Terry Serepisos hasn’t just lost his empire – he’s also abandoned a lot of potentially sensitive paperwork.

An office he vacated years ago in central Wellington’s Ivivi building is lined with filing cabinets containing personal files, property records, business plans, architectural drawings, loan agreements, mortgage documents, accounts, staff reports, correspondence about leaks in his Roseneath home, letters from the Inland Revenue Department and papers relating to his late father’s business affairs.

The hoard was a surprise discovery for Wellington businessman Frank Wong after he took ownership of the Victoria St building – the former World Trade Centre – earlier this month.

Mr Wong, who opened the filing cabinets just to see what was in them, said leaving this sort of material behind suggested Mr Serepisos’ business affairs were not well organised.

“I thought he would have taken it with him when he left this place at least three years ago when he moved his offices to the ASB Tower. It suggests he was pretty disorganised. Lots of it is documentation I’d have thought you’d keep in safekeeping because of its importance.”

He was considering dumping the hoard, along with the old computers, fax machines, fans, an old boxing glove, chairs and other rubbish scattered around the long-abandoned office.

However, official assignee Joanne Basher, who was appointed by the court to take over all of Mr Serepisos’ affairs after his bankruptcy, said she was very interested in the documentation. “We need to gather all the business records we can.”

Her role was to look into a bankrupt’s affairs to establish their financial position and find out why they failed. She would also look into possible breaches of the law – for example, it was illegal for somebody to continue trading while insolvent or incur credit when there was no means of payment.

Whoopsy.

Eat your heart out Trevor

Berlusconi is a serious rooter.

Silvio Berlusconi was at the centre of further sordid revelations about his sex life on Saturday after the Italian leader was caught boasting of having sex with eight women in one night.

…In one conversation taped by investigators in early 2009, Mr Berlusconi told him: “Last night I had a queue outside my door, there were 11 of them. I only managed to do eight of them, I couldn’t manage any more. You just can’t get round to all of them.

“But this morning I feel great, I’m pleased with my stamina.”

Makes Trevor Mallard’s or Murray McCully’s depredations on the fairer sex seem rather tame. A certain high profile political figure who had three on the go at one time also needs to try harder.