Singer, songwriter, model and DJ Sophie Ellis-Bextor may have another string to her already very twangy bow. In an interview with the Daily Mail the star made the rather bold claim that she was partly responsible for bringing the original iPod to market.
Does Sophie have previously-unmentioned electronics skills, or did she knock it up using her Blue Peter presenting mum’s supply of sticky-backed plastic & loo rolls? Find out after the jump.
This is a tough one to call. Every week there’s a celeb prattling on about some product or other for an undisclosed sum. Outside of tech our faves were a Desperate Housewife advertising spuds and Louise Redknapp doing an impression of a binge drinker for ladies’ beer brand Eve. Inside the land of gadgets we had the weird and the worrisome. Click through for our top five.
Michael Jackson, the “King Of Pop”, died last night after an apparent heart attack. He was rushed to UCLA Medical Centre after he collapsed in his LA home. The news first appeared on TMZ.com, before rapidly breaking on Twitter and Facebook statuses and spreading like wildfire, before it was later confirmed by mainstream news media.
Sienna Miller gave an interview this week, outing herself and Keira Knightly as closet geeks. While filming The Edge Of Love in Wales the two shared a cottage and, according to Miller: “We’re quite nerdy. We talk about books and we play cards and do The Guardian crossword.”
Sorry Sienna, but that’s not nearly nerdy enough for us. There are plenty of celebrities cranking the geek up to 11. Read on for the top ten true celebrity nerds!
Bored of following the same old instructions? TomTom just announced it’s doing its bit for Children in Need this year, by offering the voices of Terry Wogan, Alan Dedicoat (that’s the National Lottery’s Voice Of The Balls to you), Radio 2’s Sally “Traffic” Boazman and Lynn Bowles, the BBC’s Welsh traffic reporter.
The iPhone’s got more celebrity endorsers than any other mobile, putting it head and shoulders above the rest of the cellular riff-raff.
