Australia needs your help...

Up to 75% of Queensland, Australia is underwater (75% of a total area of 1,730,648 sq km / or 1,075,374.81 square miles) and have been devastated by flash floods and rising water. A group of Aussie's have set up a fan fiction fundraiser at www.fandomsfightthefloods.blogspot.com / (@fandoms4floods on twitter and you can like our group fandomsfightthefloods on facebook) where you can donate a minimum of $5 (to be eligible for our effort) to the official Government authorities and let us know and you will receive a collection of exclusive fan fiction for which ever fandom you associate with or wish to associate with (we have a few options).

There are international options for donating including bank deposits and credit cards. This has only just began (this is my first day off work as I live in Brisbane which is where ALOT of the damage will be done) and it's going to take months if not years for some primary industries and families to recover. To make it worse, the water is funneling down river systems into neighbouring states and other states still are having their own flooding issues totally seperate to the Queensland ones! All of Australia needs your help.

10 people are confirmed dead....90 people are unaccounted for...your money goes towards helping everyone

Thankyou

Babies, babies everywhere!!...

There were 3 new celebrity babies born over the weekend!

Princess Mary and Crown Prince Fredrick of Denmark became parents to children #3 & #4 with the birth of their twins, a boy and a girl (no names released yet). There were concerts for Mary's health due to her age (38) but reports have said she's pulled through remarkably well and there were no complications at all. FYI for those of you who don't follow European Royalty, Mary is an Australian who met Fredrick when he was on holidays here and she had no idea who he was.
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The other big news was that Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom have officially become parents as well. Their son was born on Thursday in the USA and Miranda's parents flew in from Australia for the special occassion. The news of a healthy addittion would have buoyed the family spirit after Miranda's grandparent's house burnt down last week. The Kerr's are a very closeknit family and this child is bound to be spoilt rotten (in the best way possible)

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Foo Fighters want YOU to direct their next video...

OK rock fans...are you sick of watching music videos and thinking 'I could soooo do better than that!!' well now here's your chance to put your ego where your mouth is!

Legendary rockers Foo Fighters have asked fans (USA only - sorry...their rules) to submit a video at http://thisvideosucks.foofighters.com/index.html (T&C's here) and win the chance to have it shown. With this band being one of the most well known for their quirky, involved clips, this is going to be a fun contest.

11 aspiring directors will have their flicks shown on Fuse....so what are you waiting for!!!!????!!!!

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Gordon Ramsay gets himself in some trouble...

Whilst filming a doco on the (heinous) shark fin trade in Costa Rica, famously foul mouthed TV chef Gordon Ramsay has gotten himself into a few spots of bother including being held at gunpoint and having petrol poured over him!!

After discovering a stash of fins, filming and leaving the building the locals took offence to his showing up their illegal goods trade and poured petrol over him, "Then these cars with blacked out windows suddenly appeared from nowhere trying to block us in. We dived into (our) car and peeled off." Sounds like he wasn't being very sneaky about it all...you would think that having a camera crew in tow and trying to show up the bad guys (who have guns BTW) you might want to be a bit discrete.

They then made their way to the docks and scammed their way onto a boat where Gordon found a large sack of fins and was then firmly warned to stop filming by dudes with guns! and then was kindly shown the back door to the country by the police and was told that it was probably best if he left. I wonder if his colorful language made an appearance??

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Lindsay Lohan, released from rehab on Monday

After a 3-month court ordered substance-abuse rehab (while on probation) at the Betty Ford Center, Lohan had been released last Monday. Upon her release, the “Mean Girls” star still faces an uncertain future as she still is under investigation for an alleged attack on a Betty Ford Center rehab worker, Dawn Holland. CNN reported that a Riverside County Sheriff's Department spokesperson stated that the altercation between Lohan and Holland was a violation of Lohan’s probation. CNN also reported that despite Holland’s refusal to further assist the investigation and expressing the desire not to file charges against Lohan, authorities are to send the results of their investigation on the Lohan/Holland case to the district attorney’s office. If charged with battery, misdemeanor and other violation charges, Lohan could possibly go back to jail for 6 months.

Despite Lohan’s police and rehab records, counselors, addiction psychiatrist and lawyers alike are staying positive about Lohan’s future not only as an artist but also a person.

'The future depends on what we do in the present,' Lohan’s New Year’s message on her Twitter account stated, quoting Mahatma Gandhi, seemingly addressing her mind-set about her future after being released from the rehab.

SOURCES: MSN; MTV. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images

RIP Pete Postlethwaite...

Iconic British actor Pete Postlethwaite has passed away in hospital not far from his English home.

No details have been released except that he passed peacefully. If you are wondering where you know his name or face from, Pete has been acting in movies since 1975 and was in Inception, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet, The Lost World:Jurassic Park & most famously, In the Name of the Father for which he received an Oscar nomination.

He was also a well rounded stage actor who is survived by his wife of 7 years and children.

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Shania Twain starts again...

It was a short, sharp swap of partners by Shania Twain and her best friend in 2009 and whilst this sort of situation would be odd by anyone's standards I must say that it seems to have worked out eerily OK.

The couple (Shania and Frederic) were married in a small ceremony in Puerto Rico on 1 Jan 2011.This is going to be a big year for Shania as reenters the public arena and embarks on getting her mojo back with a show on Oprah's new cable network. Twain said her show will feature interviews with people who have gone through "big emotional crises & deep life struggles".  
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