Lindsay wants to get back to making films again. I haven’t seen her last one.
Showbiz
Here’s Ken Barlow with his new girlfriend. And isn’t Ken Barlow a man everyone would love to get down and dirty with? He can drop trou and lay a Cleveland Steamer on my chest any day.
But not the Keating you think. In 2005 a Ronan Keating lookalike was caught for benefit fraud. He had been raking in up to £140 a night while claiming benefits. This is almost twice what Ronan was earning in 2005.
Oct 16 2005 By Nigel Nelson
Lookalike’s benefit ‘fraud’
A RONAN Keating lookalike who earned thousands of pounds belting out the ex- Boyzone star’s hits is being prosecuted for benefit fraud.
Matthew Sweeting – who used the stage name Matt Carlson – made up to £140 a night modelling himself on the Irish heart-throb.
But from January 2000 until October last year bachelor Sweeting, 34, was allegedly claiming incapacity benefit as well – saying he could not work because he was suffering from anxiety.
He is due to appear before Blackwood magistrates in Gwent tomorrow accused of stealing £8,540.
A source close to the case said: “Mr Sweeting is well known in the local clubs, pubs and holiday parks and likens himself to Ronan Keating.”
Fraud investigators from the Department of Work and Pensions swooped after a trawl of Welsh entertainment agencies.
They discovered that Sweeting had signed up with 11 agencies. And they built up a picture of where the singer, from Pontypool, was performing by going through computers.
One agent, Cardiff-based Greg Lawson, said: “We had a call from the benefits office to ask what sort of work he’d done for us. Under Government rules we were were obliged to tell them.”
The operation was launched because so many club acts are paid cash.
Sweeting said: “This has all been sorted out. It’s not even going to court, mate.”
But a DWP spokeswoman confirmed Sweeting IS due in court.
They built up a picture of where he was performing by “going through computers.” They had the best guys on the job, it seems.
What is it about Jonathan Rhys Meyers and airports? How fucking bizarre.
Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers spewed the ‘N’ word when he was banned from a United Airlines flight due to a drunken display, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
RadarOnline.com broke the story that the Irish actor was banned from flying United In early May when he became increasingly drunk and disorderly while pounding drinks early in the morning in the first class lounge at New York’s JFK airport. He was waiting to fly to Los Angeles.
Now RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting that the story is even more shocking and ugly. When airline workers noticed the actor drinking and getting out of control they prevented him from boarding the flight to Los Angeles, a source at the airport told us.
As the incident unfolded, Meyers, growing furious, flung the ‘N’ word, the source told RadarOnline.com exclusively. He had been drinking vodka and it was before 7 am. It is unclear if the actor was directing the word toward an individual or just spewing it without a specific target.
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It’s by far the ugliest display of behavior for an actor who has a history of traveling misbehavior. In 2007, seven months after checking into rehab for the second time, he was arrested at Dublin airport and charged with being drunk and in breach of peace (the charges were later dropped).Then, in June 2009, three months after checking out of rehab the third time, he was arrested after allegedly attacking a number of staff at a bar in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
Also, Jesus-did they have to mention RadarOnline.com so many times there in that piece? Shameless. Bigmentaldisease.com hates when bigmentaldisease.com sees that kind of thing going on, says bigmentaldisease.com, exclusively (http://bigmentaldisease.com/).
Since that last post referenced ugliness, here’s my idea of ugly- plastic surgery:
Leslie Ash
Mickey Rourke
Just what the flying fuck is going on with his head?!
I’m thinking it’s a bad shop, or in my view, a good one.
From ye olde Daily Fail
