Cheryl Cole raised concern the other day when she collapsed during a photoshoot which she blamed on exhaustion but yesterday she was rushed to hospital and then diagnosed with malaria.
Cheryl took a vacation to Tanzania last month to get away from all the drama of her divorce and she took some malaria tablets which are supposed to prevent you from catching it but a mosquito bit her while she was away. A source says…
“She told doctors she’d had stomach pains since her return from Tanzania. On Sunday evening her condition deteriorated so rapidly she knew it was something serious. She’d spent 48 hours in bed trying to sleep off what she thought was a stomach bug. She was extremely weak, sweating and drifting in and out of consciousness. She was driven to hospital where tests showed malaria. Everyone is really concerned. She is very ill.”
Doctors are going to keep her in hospital for a couple of days and she has canceled all work commitments for the next week, which includes shooting auditions for The X-Factor. Any takers on being Cheryl Cole‘s home nurse? I sure wouldn’t mind nursing her better.
source: Cheryl Got Malaria On Africe Trip With Dancer Pal Derek [The Sun]
When I had the unpleasant experience of seeing this photoshoot I felt sick straight away because seeing a dog almost go down on a model is not hot to me.
This photoshoot is to promote Canadian boutique Ssense, I don’t really know why the people behind this thought having almost bestiality sex is a good way to promote clothes. If you’re wondering how they got the dog to lick the model like this, the trick was they put peanut butter all over her.
Leda and Pierre St. Jacques, the photographers of this shoot explained why instead of using just the model and a plain backdrop (as was originally intended) they went with this dog.
They said “we had this idea to play with dogs, It’s more interesting. It’s big.” When asked why they didn’t use their own poodles they said “She’s so cute. She’s so sophisticated. And it’s a female. It’s very elegant. It’s not this very sexual dog,”
Leda then went on to say “Me personally, I don’t have a fantasy with an animal,But I’m very open. If some people, they prefer dogs, I don’t have a problem with it. “I’m 38 years old and I have a lot of friends, women, and they are not able to find a man. It’s really difficult. They are really difficult, and they have a very specific idea of what a man is supposed to be. It was funny to say, ‘It’s too difficult to find a man, so you can just find a dog. It’s so complicated sometimes that – you can do a joke: if you can have pleasure with yourself or have a dog it’s better than a man.”
I’m kind of speechless, I’ve seen some wacky porn and stuff but this real photoshoot to promote clothes just has me feeling sick.
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source: Photographers Explain “Puppy Love” Shoot: “It’s Too Difficult To Find A Man, So You Can Just Find A Dog.” [Jezebel]
Legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, 92, long known as the “Most Trusted Man in America,” is gravely ill, according to multiple CBS News sources and published reports.
According to Mediabistro’s blog, TVNewser, the network began updating his obituary more than a week ago; a CBS News executive had no comment to TVNewser on the reports of Cronkite’s failing health.
One of the most recognized and honored journalists in America, Walter Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening News” for 19 years, when he was replaced by Dan Rather.
Cronkite remained a special correspondent for the network through the years.
The St. Joseph, Mo., native got his start as a battlefield correspondent during World War II for the United Press. In 1950 he came to CBS radio as a Washington correspondent.
Cronkite jumped into the fledgling TV news world in 1962 when he was named anchor of the 15-minute “CBS Evening News,” which became the first 30-minute network newscast the following year with Cronkite at the anchor desk.
From the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to publicly questioning U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War to the landing of the first man on the moon, Cronkite was known for a tell-it-like-it-is reporting style that was often tinged with genuine emotion.
Thought of as the dean of broadcast journalism, Cronkite’s style has long been the hallmark of television reporting. A journalism school at Arizona State University was named for him, and a number of industry awards are in his name, too.
In addition to leading the “Evening News” to perpetual first-place ratings, Cronkite gave the country one of the best-known catchphrases in TV history with his nightly sign-off, “And that’s the way it is…”
TVNewser quotes Cronkite speaking on his own mortality from a 2006 interview:
“When you get to be 89, you have to think about it a little bit. It doesn’t prey on me, and it doesn’t keep me awake nights. Occasionally, when I’m upset about something else, I think, ‘My gosh, I don’t know if I should do this or that because I’m not sure I’ll be here that long to enjoy it.’”
source: Legendary CBS journalist Walter Cronkite reportedly gravely ill [chicago sun times]
