Did You Know: #1 bad boy of the Jean Valjean impersonator circuit Hugh Jackman used to be a P.E. teacher? When he was attending the Zurich Film Festival, he ran into one of his former students who now works as an entertainment reporter and proceeded to heckle him and dodge his questions in the most jovial manner.

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According to the reporter, whose name is Rollo Ross, this happens every time the two run into each other. Hugh Jackman lies awake at night plotting mischievous little comments to make to Former Student Rollo Ross, probably. [ONTD]


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It's open season for open letters! Which sort of irrelevant songstress will crawl out of the woodwork next in order to publicly muse about the state of sexuality? Vanessa Carlton? Susan Boyle? Vonda Shepard from Ally McBeal?

Nope, none of the above — it's Annie Lennox (who will never be irrelevant because she's Annie fucking Lennox, but I digress). Annie Lennox took to her Facebook page, as is the new open letter custom, to post this diatribe:

I have to say that I'm disturbed and dismayed by the recent spate of overtly sexualised performances and videos. You know the ones I'm talking about. It seems obvious that certain record companies are peddling highly styled pornography with musical accompaniment. As if the tidal wave of sexualised imagery wasn't already bombarding impressionable young girls enough..I believe in freedom of speech and expression, but the market forces don't give a toss about the notion of boundaries. As long as there's booty to make money out of, it will be bought and sold. It's depressing to see how these performers are so eager to push this new level of low.Their assumption seems to be that misogyny- utilised and displayed through oneself is totally fine, as long as you are the one creating it. As if it's all justified by how many millions of dollars and U tube hits you get from behaving like pimp and prostitute at the same time. It's a glorified and monetized form of self harm.

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"U tube"? MOOOOOOMMMM. [ONTD]