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A few weeks ago, Sarah Harding made it very clear that she would quite like a seat on the X Factor judging panel, saying she’d “definitely” consider it, and that she’d “love to be a mentor”. Obviously while she was making these pointed, hopeful comments, we knew full well she wouldn’t land X Factor. We could see why she thought she might, but we could also see that it would never happen.

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Britains Got Talent is ostensibly a show which aims to reward people with a special set of skills. Unlike the skills needed to say, rescue a daughter from French sex-traffickers however, the skills people have on Britain’s Got Talent are mostly to do with dogs and singing. Skills that you would have thought would be relatively free from corruption. But you’d be wrong.

Because only last week a singing duo – brothers Richard and Adam Johnson – appeared on the show, singing a song that made Amanda Holden cry. Probably. But it turned out IT WASN’T THE FIRST TIME THEY’D SUNG A SONG and since then it has been revealed they previously recieved payment for singing both on cruise ships and in a pub, a fact that has ROCKED THE SHOW to it’s core and left viewers STUNNED and ANGRY with SIMON Cowell. Here’s what BGT had to say about the debacle:

“We refute any ­suggestion we misled viewers. The focus of their VT was on their ­relationship with their gran as she came to the ­audition as one of their biggest supporters. At the beginning of their appearance the boys say they are singers and when asked about their day jobs they say they work in a sandwich shop, which they do.”

Speaking to The Mirror, their mum confirmed the pair had ONCE SUNG IN A PUB, before launching into a parable about the music industry:

“Two years ago, Richard and Adam sang at a pub in Holywell and Gordon [a music producer] rang up and said they had ­something. He took them to Sony for a supposed record deal and Sony said they were interested. But it turned out to be a con and Gordon was trying to sign them up himself and sell them on to Sony. Then Gordon dropped dead, and any chance of a record deal fizzled out.”

Nice.

The only thing we can really learn from this is that even the most holy of television institutions aren’t free from the kind of disgusting behaviour you’d normally only expect from Charles Manson, Harold Shipman or even Adolf Hitler. We suggest the best thing to do is simply to douse your television and anyone who might have seen the show in petrol and burn it and them until nothing remains. Only then will the despicable acts described above be avenged.

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Roll up, roll up! It’s the best British people ever, arriving at the InStyle Best Of British Talent party! Look, it’s that Matt Smith from that science fiction television programme your kids like! And, er, Marina from Marina and the Diamonds. And James Corden! And Mollie King, one fifth of the Saturdays!

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Yesterday’s article about Megan Fox’s recent interview with Esquire magazine focused mainly on the virtually unheard of premise that Fox is quite seriously stupid. Perhaps even terminally so. During our article we hardly mentioned that she had compared Lindsay Lohan to Marilyn Monroe in the worst possible way, or the fact that the article was one of the most sycophantic interviews we’d ever read. Unfortunately for us, it turns out that at least one of our omissions was so important that it yesterday set the internet ON FIRE.

As you can probably imagine (except for that one funny piece by Vice that you’ve all read) we’re talking about Lindsay Lohan being compared to a deceased drug addict. At least, we’re pretty sure that’s what set the internet alight, as Fox hasn’t issued an apology for having a face like a moonlit woodland in the depths of winter yet.

The quote in question is this one:

“[Marilyn] wasn’t powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay [Lohan]. She was an actress who wasn’t reliable, who almost wasn’t insurable,” Fox said. “She had all the potential in the world, and it was squandered. I’m not interested in following in those footsteps.”

Harsh, Megan. Real harsh. No wonder you had to apologise. Only the LA judiciary normally get to make that kind of pronouncement. Still, a Facebook apology is a nice touch:

“In the newly released article that I did for Esquire, there is a reference that is made to Lindsay Lohan that I would like to clarify before it snowballs into something silly. The journalist and I were discussing why I was removing my Marilyn Monroe tattoo, especially since in his opinion, Marilyn was such a powerful and iconic figure for women. 

“I attempted to draw parallels between Lindsay and Marilyn in order to illustrate my point that while Marilyn may be an icon now, sadly she was not respected and taken seriously while she was still living. Both women were gifted actresses, whose natural talent was lost amongst the chaos and incessant media scrutiny surrounding their lifestyles and their difficulties adhering to studio schedules etc.”

“I intended for this to be a factual comparison of two women with similar experiences in Hollywood. Unfortunately it turned into me offering up what is really much more of an uneducated opinion,”

“It was most definitely not my intention to criticise or degrade Lindsay. I would never want her to feel bullied, as she does not deserve that. I was not always speaking eloquently during this interview and this miscommunication is my fault.”

Has she ever spoken eloquently?

Anyway, that aside, our favourite bit is the ‘both women were gifted actresses’. Were. She’s basically said exactly the same thing in a slightly different way. Possibly in a slightly cattier way actually, especially when she says it’s a ‘factual’ comparison. After all, didn’t Marilyn Monroe die at a relatively early age after being thrown off a film set and sued for millions of dollars? Doen’t sound like Lindsay to us.

Oh Megan. Those things you say can hurt sometimes.

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