Looking raaaaather uncomfortable in an über-butch leather motorcycle jacket and red hankie (“Now give us a sad puppy pout!”), Sam Smith poses on the cover of the February issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Inside, he opens up about his weight, being bullied as a child, and how he’d give his Grammy to Beyonce if he actually won.

On being tired of being called the “male Adele”:

“We’re very different, and I feel like the constant comparisons might piss her off. It just annoys me that people can’t digest two pop stars singing really personal songs who don’t look like normal pop stars.”

On his weight:

“I just want to lose weight for the Grammys, if I’m honest. I’m just very body-conscious. Sometimes I’m really proud that I don’t look like other pop stars. But there’s also moments where I’m like, ‘Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'”

On wanting Beyoncé to win Album of the Year:

“She deserves it way more than I do. I’d be embarrassed if I got it over her. If I got it, I’d give it to her.”

On his first heartbreak when he wrote a love letter to a popular kid, who wrote back saying he only saw Sam as a friend:

“It makes me emotional, actually. He looked out for me for the rest of school. He just made sure that if anyone took the piss out of me, he would stick up for me. He could have made it hell for me, you know?”

On being bullied after coming out and being called a “faggot” in front of his dad:

“I was just embarrassed that my dad had to see that, because I could only imagine how you feel as a parent. You just want to kill them. I was always embarrassed for the people around me. It actually never deeply affected me, you know?”

On an incident where he got attacked in London for wearing makeup:

“I got punched in my neck, just out of nowhere. It wasn’t the easiest.”

Read more at ONTD: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/#ixzz3Q8zt7uXx

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Really amazing stuff going on at the Givenchy show last week. I’m still absorbing it all. I would lovelovelove to werk that FKA Twigs baby hair that all the male models sported, and the mouth-pierced-shut thing is beyond the beyond. As always Richard Tisci (in collaboration with Pat McGrath) is completely on point. Check out more looks after the jump. 

Tim Blanks, who just intuitively GETS fashion in a way that you and I never could, explained the collection thusly for Style.com:

Riccardo Tisci has often used his Catholicism as an inspiration, but the thing about tipping your cap to God is that you have to acknowledge his opposite number, and that’s what it felt like Tisci was doing with his latest menswear offering. The show notes referred to his “darkest obsessions,” and there was a satanic tug to the presentation, with its red and black color scheme, its echoes of voodoo and candomblé, and its catwalk of red glitter, like a highway to hell. Pat McGrath explained that the gothic extremities of the makeup she’d created were all extemporizations of African masks, but there was something fiendish about them.

Tisci said he’s been obsessed with collecting things his whole life. The venue was decorated with an assemblage of vaguely spooky bits and pieces you might find in a desert town south of the border—the sort of place you’d otherwise speed through on a road trip because you felt like bad things had happened there. Except that, for Tisci, that kind of journey represented freedom. “That’s what this collection is about,” he claimed. And, in a way, that was the story the presentation told, beginning with uptight pinstriped looks liberated by Native American-like patterns, ending in dégradé sequins. But throughout the show there were presentiments of something sinister: models with their faces eerily obliterated, or their lips stitched shut, or their skin dotted with beads as if to suggest an infection. The women who walked in the show were sloe-eyed daughters of darkness, vampish succubi. “The collection’s very spiritual,” claimed Tisci, but this might have been one time when spirit surrendered to flesh, which was probably a smart business move, because it’s hard to imagine his fans having much problem with that.

“The Devil is not always bad,” Tisci said after the show, with a knowing smile. Anyway, for his retailers it was God who was in these details. They were happy to see fewer of the T-shirts and sweats that have been the engines of Givenchy’s growth, and more of the sharp tailoring that is the other side of the Tisci coin.

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Openly gay Alabama state representative Patricia Todd is fed up with her cheating anti-gay colleagues, who have extramarital affairs (or maybe even gay hook-ups) all the while trashing the freedom to marry. This weekend, Birmingham representative fight back on Facebook, threatening to out those colleagues who made anti-gay speeches after a judge recently overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage. She wrote:

“This (is) a time where you find out who are accepting, loving people. To say I am disappointed in Speaker Hubbard comment’s and Attorney General Strange choice to appeal the decision is an understatement. I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about ‘family values’ when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have. I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet OUT.”

In an interview in the Alabama Times Daily, Todd clarifies her comments, saying that it is “pretty well known” that some state politicians fool around. She she that she wants these guys to:

“be careful what they’re saying, some of it might come back to stick on them.”

The court ruling that prompted this exchange caused an outcry among some of the state’s more conservative politicians. The judge has even put a two-week hold saying that gay couples won’t be able to marry until February 9. Well, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Patricia Todd, you know, sometimes whatever it takes… (via New York Magazine)

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Colin Farrell told Nylon Guys, of Ewan McGregor, who is their March cover boy (now outed stud!);

“I don’t think Ewan is as proud of his penis as most men who are as well hung would — or should — or could be. I think that’s the greatest demonstration of his innate humility that he doesn’t wear it like a badge of honor.”

Well, what can you say but good for you, Ewan … and congrats, Mrs. McGregor. (It never looked THAT big on-screen but maybe Colin has seen “it” in real-life.) To see more pics and read the interview go here.

(Photos, Marvin Scott Jarrett; via Nylon Guys)

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Yes, that’s what she says. Gwyneth Paltrow recommends that you steam your vagina. V-Steam is sauna treatment for your vagina. Paltrow writes on Goop:

“You sit on what is essentially a mini-throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus, et al. It is an energetic release—not just a steam douche—that balances female hormone levels. If you’re in LA, you have to do it.”

You do? Well, according to the Tikkun website V-steam can pretty much cure any ailment.

“This steaming treatment stimulates the production of hormones to maintain uterine health, aids regular menstrual cycles, clears up hormonal acne, promotes circulation, and helps correct digestive disorders.”

Wait! But before you run off and get deep clean “down there”, you might want to get another opinion. Ob/Gyn Dr. Jen Gunter doesn’t recommend it. In a blog post she wrote:

“We don’t know the effect of steam on the lower reproductive tract, but the lactobacilli strains that keep vaginas healthy are very finicky about their environment and raising the temperature with steam and whatever infrared nonsense Paltrow means is likely not beneficial and is potentially harmful. Steam is probably not good for your vagina. Herbal steam is no better and quite possibly worse.”

OK, well who knows better? A celebrity or a doctor? I mean her skin looks great and I don’t have a vagina nor do I live in LA, so I guess I’ll never really know?

(Photo, Pacific Coast News; via Grazia Daily)

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Jess Smith couldn’t keep a secret any longer. Smith writes on Facebook:

“So I’ve recently celebrated my 19th birthday and after a lot of thought, I’ve decided it’s time to tell everyone. I used to hide it but after a lot of encouragement from my friends at university, I’ve gained the confidence to come out with it. I am the sun from Teletubbies. There has been quite a few people pretending to be ‘the sun’ but only I could tell you the real story.”

Yes, SHE was the laughing sun baby on Teletubbies that watched over Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po in Teletubbyland. So, how did the show’s producers get Smith to laugh? They didn’t. Her father Bill, a furniture delivery man, made her laugh by playing with a teddy bear off camera. Her mother Anji Smith said:

“They just sat her in front of a camera and she just laughed and smiled at her dad.”

And just this week even more secrets revealed… RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Phi Phi O’Hara admitted on Instagram:

Coming soon!! TRUE LIFE – I AM THE KID FROM UP!

Well, you have to admit, the resemblance is uncanny. (Photos, Facebook & Instagram; via MTV News)

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I really enjoyed this interview with Selma director Ava DuVernay. I did not understand the hoopla about how the Oscars are so white this year. As Ava jokes here, maybe Selma wasn’t any good and didn’t deserve an award. Why do people get so crazy over an Oscar panel of mostly old white guys picking movies like American Sniper?

Why do you need a panel to tell you what’s good if you have your own brain? And if you’re so upset over what you feel is an obvious Oscar snub, then maybe you should rethink the importance of the Oscars on the year they don’t pick what you like. And focus, as the charming and articulate DuVernay says, on how the voting rights won as a result of Selma are now being challenged with voter ID laws which make it harder for people of color to vote? Why have we taken a step backward towards injustice from the hard-won gains in Selma decades ago?

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March 2nd, you guys. Thirty-two days from today! Can you believe it? Drag Race is BACK! After the jump, I ‘ve collected some of the best of the best of the RDR TUMBLR MADNESS. GIFs! Memes! Fan art! and MORE!

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On this episode of Really Queen? Bianca Del Rio throws shade at RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage and her two best assets…her big ass boobies! New episodes of Really Queen? air every Thursday, only on WOWPresents.

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LISTEN UP! Bianca Del Rio, the world’s wittiest drag queen and winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6, is letting her sisters HAVE IT!  World of Wonder Productions announces the exciting new web series premiere of REALLY QUEEN? Watch the debut episode on WOWPresents TODAY! “We’re gonna look back at those special moments that make you think… really queen?!” said Bianca. Bianca is back and she means business. Each HILARIOUS episode features Bianca READING a previous contestant from RuPaul’s Drag Race – and giving them a heavy dose of T with a splash of shade. Of course there are moments on the show where a Queen might blurt out something that makes you want to hurl, gag, or faint – “like, REALLY?” Those who know and love Bianca are sure to be satisfied, her wicked sense of humor and impeccable timing leave NO survivors. “The check is cashed, so I’m gonna say what I want! Uncensored!” said Bianca.

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It’s Big Dipper’s World, and we’re all just living in it. It’s the second episode and big boy rapper Big Dipper plays ‘Cute 2 Me/Not Cute 2 Me’, gives you the letter of the day, teaches you a dance, gives you hook up advice, plays ‘2 Truths & a Lie’, and discusses a big boy style item! Watch the second episode after the jump! New episodes of Big Dipper’s World every Tuesday only on WOWPresents!

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Sit back. Relax. Light a cucumber melon candle. Philosopher/Pornstar Colby Keller brings us a moment of beauty and blinding spiritual clarity in his new WOWPresents series “Colby Keller’s Package & Poetry.” This week, Colby does yoga stretches in his underwear and reads from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” It’s utterly mesmerizing. Eat your heart of Jack Handey.

Wow. That was really something, wasn’t it? Just… lovely. Really makes you pause and reflect your own choices, doesn’t it? Frost’s biographer Lawrence Thompson is cited as saying that the speaker of the poem is “one who habitually wastes energy in regretting any choice made: belatedly but wistfully he sighs over the attractive alternative rejected.” What attractive alternatives have YOU rejected, dear reader? Ponder that.

Watch for new episodes of Colby Keller’s Package & Poetry every Friday on WOWPresents.

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Fairy tale princes! Dashing daddy kings! We’ve rounded up the top five hunkiest royals for your morning perusal. From the Tumblr-ready Prince Carl Philip of Sweden (right) to the impossibly dreamy heir to throne of Dubai, prepare to swoon. These kings are ROYALLY GORGEOUS.

5. Post-twink cutie Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. Says the Daily Mail:

With not one but two films exploring his colourful love life due to be released this year, it seems Denmark’s handsome Crown Prince Frederik, 46, won’t be escaping his playboy past any time soon.

Now happily married to Mary, 42, and a father-of-four, he was once better known for his many conquests, among them lingerie model Katja Storkholm and former MP Malou Aamund.

Both he and his wife have also endured accusations of laziness made by the Danish press, with Mary’s taste for freebie handbags also coming under intense scrutiny. Nevertheless, both halves of the couple remain enormously popular in Denmark and elsewhere with Mary in particular loved as much for her impeccable dress sense as she is for her charity work.

4. Prince Harry, of course.

3. Yummy daddy King Felipe of Spain

2. Prince Carl Philip of Sweden. Says the Daily Mail:

One of the most controversial members of Sweden’s Bernadotte dynasty, Prince Carl-Philip, 35, earned a playboy reputation early on, thanks to his dark good looks, love of fast cars and even faster women. Not even his choice of bride has proved uncontroversial, with his glamorous fiancee, 30-year-old Sofia Hellqvist, boasting a risque past career as a glamour model and reality TV star.

But it is the prince himself who has the most colourful past, with his ‘Wild Summer’ of 2012 still referenced by Sweden’s tabloid press which delightedly documented his antics.

As well as going on a drunken rampage in central Stockholm while wearing an alien mask, the summer also saw him become the victim of a happy slapping incident during a holiday to Cannes.

He also, following a wild night out, managed to lose his wallet and was forced to hitch-hike to the motor race he was due to compete in, before spectacularly crashing his car on the first lap.

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1. WOWZA! Hamdan Bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the heir to the emirate of Dubai, is the “Harry of the Middle East,” says the Daily Mail.

Known as Fazza to his friends, the prince is a keen rider, much like his father who owns the Godolphin racing team, and is well-known for his love of animals. Action man Hamdan is also an avid diver and amateur skydiver. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have time for gentler pursuits, however – his talent for writing romantic poetry has also attracted much attention. 

(Photos: Getty, Pacific Coast News)

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Cory and Alaska get a surprise call from their Nana on this episode of Bro’Laska! The adorableness of this episode will make you so happy you just want to poop! New episodes every Friday on WOWPresents.

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World of Wonder announces a fun new web series starring RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5 fan favorite Alaska Thunderfuck and her SMOKIN’ HOT STRAIGHT BROTHER Cory Binney. Did we mention he’s straight? Presenting: Bro’laska!

Despite having the same mother, Alaska and Cory couldn’t be less similar. In fact they may as well be from different PLANETS! Just watch and fall in love with this hilarious pair of polar opposite siblings.

“My brother Cory and I grew up modestly in a small house with our family in Erie Pennsylvania,” said Alaska. “I, a nerdy introvert and he a rebellious troublemaker. I’m not sure what is more surprising: that I’m now a beautiful singer-songwriter star of stage and screen, or that he is now known as my hot brother, all the girls want to date.”

You will DIE hearing about their sordid adolescence, family vacations, first dates and genealogy.  Other episodes include tales about Cory’s military training, opinions on pick-up lines, a call to mom, and the annual DRAG cruise!

“Growing up with Alaska (Justin) was far from anything normal, but I wouldn’t have it any other way,” said Cory. “The things I’ve learned about life from my brother are priceless.”

Watch the first episode where they explain their botched attempt at living together, when Cory moved in and realized he was living with two personalities; his brother Justin, and Alaska the queen! Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, hunty!

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Conservative watchdog group One Million Moms always has its knickers in a twist over SOMETHING. This time it’s a rather innocuous Pop Tart commercial featuring a talking jar of peanut butter and a talking jar of jelly who are celebrating the birth of their lovely PBJ Pop Tart baby. A hospital nurse, rubbing her hands together and ready to devour the baby pop tart, says, “Time for a feeding.” The parents say, “No! Ah, Jam It!” End of commercial.

So. Let’s play a game. WHAT ABOUT THIS COMMERCIAL HAS THE MILLION MOMS UP IN ARMS? Is it that:

a) Eating babies is WRONG.

b) Peanut Butter should not be fornicating with Jelly, and mixed race babies are WRONG.

c) “Jam it” sounds too much like “Damn it” and that’s just WRONG.

If you answered “c” you would be correct. “The advertisement could have ended with ‘No!’ but Kellogg’s chose to include a phrase that sounded just like a curse word,” they said in a statement on their website.

Kellogg’s new Pop Tart commercial includes a double entendre that is inappropriate and unnecessary. Foul language or the implication of it is not needed in this commercial, but that is exactly what Kellogg’s intended with their play on words.

Kellogg’s should be more responsible in their marketing decisions. Let them know that as a parent and consumer you are offended the company cares more about financial gain than the impression made on our children.

Kellogg’s executives apparently don’t care about what children hear as long as it puts money in their pockets. Everyone knows kids repeat what they hear. This is weak marketing, and Kellogg’s should have the corporate responsibility to not use an age old euphemism that offends families.

Four Gs, One Million Moms: Good God, Get a Grip.

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Obviously 1988 and’89 were the ABSOLUTE EPITOME of glamour for Oprah. She should have just STOPPED RIGHT THEN AND THERE, as she was never going to recapture the beauty and grandeur of that era. I was on her show (twice!) during that period and I can personally attest to it’s shellacked perfection. The other eras are fun, too. A little too much bang action in the ’90s, but that was the style in those days. What’s YOU’RE favorite Oprah hairdo?

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I write to you today from one of England’s smallest cities from my phone. Technology eh?

Katie bad-tan Price told Zelda she liked her but stands by everything she said previously and reckons she won’t be friends with Michelle once they leave the house. Zelda tried to deflect with usual childish drivel, Katie P replied “Im not going to come down to your level”. The house has a new queen of sass.

Some talked about sex and Cami Knockers said she’d slept with a chap wearing a platinum Cartier cock-ring. Who knew? Now you know what to get for the man who has everything.

Big Brother threw a party with conventional corporate party treats, a vodka luge and chocolate fountain. Everyone danced and did another lovely conga. Kavana became a messy drunk demanding more booze, Michelle sang “When You’re Good To Mama” and The Vacuum said “I’m a rainbow” before starting another childish spat.

In the live eviction, the fourth to leave (by public vote) was Nadia who was elated. With her now gone, The Vacuum has no allies remaining. Let’s hope he and Zelda can remain amicable. Yeah right.

She you Sunday

x

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The openly gay Stephen Fry is an unapologetic atheist. If you’re going to ask him a question about God then you had better fasten your seat belt. Gay Byrne was interviewing him for his RTE showThe Meaning Of Life. On it, he asks guests that when you die, you’ll walk up to the pearly gates and you’re confronted by God, what will you say to him?:

“I’d say, bone cancer in children? What’s that about? How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It’s not right, it’s utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God that creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?”

Dumbfounded, Byrne asks: ‘And you think you’re going to get in?…’ Fry responds:

“But I wouldn’t want to. I wouldn’t want to get in on his terms.”

He goes on and it is really interesting. Watch.

(via Gay Star News)

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Paranormal experts around the world are buzzing about this TERRIFYING VIDEO which purports to show A GHOST! knocking down A WOMAN! for no good reason! Cecilia Carrasco of Santiago, Chile, was knocked to the ground recently by what she describes as a paranormal entity. The moment was captured on video by a surveillance camera, which you can watch after the jump. (The video is in Spanish.)

“I wasn’t aware of anybody in front of me as I passed the reception desk talking to a girl,” she tells the news reporter. “And as I looked towards the receptionist I suddenly felt two pairs of hands shove me over. I hit the floor but when I looked up I couldn’t see anybody, and I thought they probably had run off.”

She said she didn’t believe in ghosts until now, and thinks that the spirit is going to continue to haunt her.

Online speculation runs the gamut from “tiny ninja ghosts” to “aliens. You cant rule out Aliens in matters like this,” to “fat bitch slipped.” Watch the video and DECIDE FOR YOURSELF. (via the DW)

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Season 7 is getting closer with each passing minute! To hold you over until March 2, we have a special gift JUST FOR YOU! In a Beyonce-style release, you can enjoy ALL 14 of the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 7 gurlz’ music videos from RuPaul presents CoverGurlz2 on Monday night at midnight RIGHT HERE on the WOW Report! Get a sneak peek after the jump!

RuPaul presents CoverGurlz2 is available for pre-sale NOW on iTunes, and if you purchase now, you’ll be able to listen to  “New York City Beat” by RuPaul featuring Michelle Visage immediately!

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