Entertainment News

July 4th 2009
  1. Fans preparing to descend on Los Angeles for Michael Jackson memorial service next week have been urged to watch the event on television amid fears of huge crowds of mourners at the event.
  2. The Government has revealed it actually spent more than one million dollars on a promotional campaign that has been shelved.
  3. Former Hey Hey It's Saturday producer cleared of three indecent assault charges, but is still fighting another 12.
  4. High-profile newsreader Mark Ferguson has quit the Nine Network and will reportedly be defecting to Seven.
  5. Michael Jackson's family will hold a free memorial service for the late pop icon on Wednesday AEST.
  6. Comedian and talk show host Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas man found by a UN agency to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct internet users to a real estate website.
  7. Aussie rockers Jet are throwing a big party to celebrate their new record Shaka Rock.
  8. French-Colombian former hostage Ingrid Betancourt says she will work with a top Hollywood producer on a film about the six years she was held captive in the jungle by leftist guerillas.
  9. Michael Jackson's ex-wife says she plans to fight for her two children, as public memorial details announced.
  10. Jermaine Jackson says that when he first saw his brother, pop star Michael Jackson, dead in a hospital room he kissed him on the forehead and wished that he had died instead.
  11. Tributes are paid Are You Being Served? star Mollie Sugden, who died this week aged 86.
  12. A public memorial for singer Michael Jackson will be held in Los Angeles, probably on Tuesday (local time).
  13. A week since Michael Jackson's death, there is still confusion over his funeral arrangements.
  14. Michael Jackson had a secret long-term girlfriend at the time he died, says his former bodyguard.
  15. A court has been told former Hey Hey It's Saturday producer Gavan Disney fondled a teenage employee in a television station dressing room
  16. Australia's community TV stations are lobbying the Government for funding to help with the changeover to digital transmission.
  17. Mollie Sugden, the TV actress who played the cat-obsessed Betty Slocombe in Are You Being Served?, has died aged 86.
  18. Michael Jackson is once again the king of the pop charts.
  19. The family of Michael Jackson has ruled out the possibility of burying the pop star at his Neverland Ranch, adding no "private or public" services would be held at the estate.
  20. Residents of a Ukrainian village want to rename it after the late pop singer Michael Jackson.
  21. The medical examiner who oversaw a private autopsy on David Carradine says that the Kung Fu star died from asphyxiation and the way the actor's body was bound allowed him to rule out suicide.
  22. Nude Madonna photos, taken while she was a struggling 20yo, are on display in London.
  23. Australian rock artists will play a series of concerts to raise money for the threatened Tasmanian devil, which has been ravaged by a contagious facial tumour disease.
  24. Singer John Lennon's widow has won a lawsuit against a group of collectors who disputed her rights to movie footage capturing intimate moments of the former Beatles legend.
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