Lily Cole, whilst in the midst of a successful modelling / acting career, has achieved a double first in History of Art from Cambridge: http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/archive/2011/06/24/sigh-lily-cole-gets-double-first-at-cambridge.htm
What a boffin! But well done anyway. Now that you’ve finished your studies, please can you concentrate on ditching the bad brown hair dye job and stop letting Jude Law anywhere near you?
Basically Mick Hucknall has taken to Twitter to express the opinion that ginger jibes are similar to racism. When I was younger, Hucknall was THE ENEMY (see also Phil Collins, Shane Richie, Darren Day, Bono, Lulu). I’m not sure what I think of him anymore, he certainly doesn’t make me feel as angry as he did when I was 15.
Look here: http://twitter.com/mjhucknall
And have a look on the Daily Mail’s own take on it here (plus some extra bits about how many women he’s shagged, in case you didn’t know already (they’ve only mentioned it about a million times)): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2007971/Mick-Hucknall-says-ginger-jibes-akin-racism.html
This is an age old argument – yes it’s hideous to be picked on for your hair colour; yes it’s wrong for people to pick on other people due to their hair colour. But people will pick on you for just about anything, if they are that way inclined. I think that most people of normal / above normal intelligence wouldn’t even think about having a pop at someone for having ginger hair, so remember that the next time some spotty, rotten toothed, Donnay-wearing youth makes some kind of gingerist comment; they don’t really have many brain cells, and the ones they do have are being used to help them drag their knuckles across the floor (see also: Liam Gallagher).
As always, I love the readers comments on the Daily Mail website. A quick glance down the list led me to this one, from Mick in Maidstone: ‘I do not have ginger hair but I think I would rather like it.’ Yes of course you would – until someone shouts ‘ginger pubes’ at you from a speeding chavmobile, THEN you’d be running down to Boots for the nearest pack of Just for Men.
I’m not putting a photo of Katy Perry on here as she’s too much of a dick. Here’s some links to various other websites instead containing ‘the facts’.
http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/866777-katy-perry-tells-twitter-about-ginger-fail
http://stealherstyle.net/2011/06/22/katy-perry-ginger-hair-and-bikini/
Dear Katy – you don’t even deserve to be ginger anyway. Piss off out of my gang!
Another one of these rubbish ‘look how fashionable red hair is!?!?!?’ type articles appeared on the Daily Mail website this week: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1291263/Scarlet-women-From-copper-cherry-red-hair-celebrity-trend-moment.html. I was sure that I was going to find it all really irritating, until I clicked on the link and nearly peed myself at how shit everyone’s hair looks. Basically – get some decent hair dye famous people, surely you can afford it?
I love Ashes to Ashes, and wanted to put Keeley on here to celebrate the finale of the Life on Mars / Ashes story. Off the top of my head I couldn’t think of a role she played where she was a redhead, but I came across these photos from a few years ago where her hair looks *just about* red enough. I think she is ridiculously beautiful and always looks really good, even when they gave her that hideous perm in Ashes or rubbish blond bob in Spooks.
Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes
I think that this is probably scraping the barrel in terms of ginger-ness, and it could be a just a trick of the light… but I don’t care – it’s red enough for her to make an appearance on here.
Rupert Grint
I know of quite a few ladies who have had their lusty eye on this young chap over the last couple of years. For me, he’ll always be that little pipsqueak Ron Weasley, but he has just been in a ’saucy’ film called Cherrybomb getting up to all sorts of no good which has probably made my lady chums like him even more.
I was very pleased to see this quote as part of a news story on Contact Music:
‘I’ve always been quite a proud ginger so I couldn’t dye it and betray the other gingers.’
Glad to hear it!
Full story here: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/proud-rupert-grint_1144197
M.I.A. - Born Free
There’s been a lot of fuss this week about the new M.I.A. ‘Born Free’ video, where some soldiers round up ginger people and shoot them.
The Independent (not sure why this twat feels he needs to make excuses for having red hair, maybe he’s got a chip on his shoulder because someone in Hoxton picked on him once): http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/caught-in-the-net–mia-sees-red-in–violent-new-video-1958285.html.
The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/apr/28/mia-bornfree-youtube
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_10080000/newsid_10087800/10087809.stm
In the rush to comment on what type of a ’statement’ M.I.A. is trying to make, everyone seems to have overlooked the fact that the song itself is quite rubbish.
I’m not a massive fan of gratuitous violence, even if it is making a political statement, so here’s a much more pleasant video instead. Have a look at thousands of gingers attending a gathering in The Netherlands for the fourth Red Hair Day in September 2009:
He’s not so ginger these days, but once a ginge, always a ginge – the change in hair colour that comes with old age doesn’t change this fact (see also – Chris Evans etc). Lets have a photo from his glory years:
The Nugget, on the front cover of an exciting computer game *
Anyway. It has been drawn to my attention by one of my loyal readers that The Nugget is still a complete legend in the sporting ‘arena’:
‘Veteran Steve Davis held his nerve to oust defending champion John Higgins in one of the greatest shocks ever seen at the World Snooker Championship… Coming 25 years after his defeat by Dennis Taylor in the sport’s most famous final, and 21 years since the last of his six world crowns, Davis’s victory is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, shocks in the 33 years the Crucible has hosted snooker’s showpiece event.’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/8641717.stm
And this is worth a watch, skip to 23 seconds in and you’ll get a real treat: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/default.stm. Comedy times.
The other thing that makes The Nugget so special is the fact that he has exceptional taste in music. Go here: http://www.phoenixfm.com/interesting-alternative.php and look at all the playlists. What a man.
The Nugget in the studio, spinning some Magma (probably)
* For any of the geeks out there who are wondering, I think this is what the Steve Davis snooker game looked like:
Steve Davis snooker game
And finally, the Spitting Image version of The Nugget:
Spitting Image
‘Sun beauty expert SUE MOXLEY is predicting a red hair “moment” this year’: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/fashion/beauty/2937267/Redheads-are-taking-showbiz-by-storm.html
Basically there’s someone ginger and foxy in Doctor Who, and all of a sudden – according to The Sun – it’s fashionable to have red hair.
Enjoy being ‘on trend’ while it lasts ginger brothers and sisters!!
I had completely forgotten about this gem of a cartoon until the excellent Den of Geek posted this retrospective: http://www.denofgeek.com/television/457348/classic_geek_cartoons_revisited_ulysses_31.html
Ulysses, Ulysses
I remember my brother stuck in front of this after school, it stuck in my head mainly because the theme tune was so epic.
‘Intelligent storytelling, fantastic weaponry and a bearded ginger hero. What more can you ask for?’ – Mark Oakley, Den of Geek
Exactly.