Yesterday was the first day in more than two and a half years that Fametastic wasn’t updated with news stories.

It’s a shame that we broke such a long publishing streak - which has obviously included a couple of Christmas, New Years and everything - but I was too knackered to write anything, sorry.

I am also so grateful that my week away was one of the quietest gossip weeks in a long time - it meant I got to enjoy Berlin without having to sit on my laptop all the time.

Travel issues aside (my luggage finally showed up at lunchtime on Wednesday after spending nearly 48 hours in transit), I had a great time and loved the city (and the bits of the suburbs that I saw too). Will have to go back again sometime soon - taking a direct flight then though ;)

Apologies for the lack of posts yesterday afternoon. Apparently airlines hate me.

It should have taken us about 6 hours to get here: it took about 24 hours.

I’d be a lot more forgiving of that if my luggage wasn’t still missing.

Anyway, on with the celebrity gossip (and the currywursts).

I’m off to Berlin later today under the pretext of a conference. Since Heather and Kate now both have jobs in the real world, there isn’t anyone to cover for me here so I’m going to do my best at keeping the site up to date while I’m over there. Apologies if there aren’t as many stories as usual though.

Now, can anyone recommend anywhere for currywurst?

I really like how outspoken Helen Mirren is. I love that she’s got to the point in her career that she can admit taking drugs or say controversial things without worrying it’ll stop Disney hiring her or whatever. But she’s really sending out the wrong signals here.

No means No. No means no even if you’ve said yes at the club but then changed your mind when you’ve got back to his place. No means no even if you’re wearing a short skirt so “asking for it”. No means no even if it’s your husband or boyfriend and you’ve had sex with them countless times before.

Rape is not just something that happens between strangers in dark alleys. It’s something that happens in bathrooms, on sofas and in marital beds.

Yes, it’s “tricky” for those situations to get to court - it’s “tricky” enough for a violent rape by a stranger to get to court - but that doesn’t stop them being rape. And sometimes the most “tricky” things to do are the most important.

If you’ve been raped in whatever circumstances, contact a rape support group - such as Rape Crisis in the UK. They will support you whether or not you want to take the case to the police.

Cor, doing that was more fun than working ;)

The hair in the pigtails isn’t quite right - it’s Judy Garland’s hair recoloured so it’s a completely different texture and I couldn’t get the colour right - but aside from that, I’m pretty pleased with it.

I tried putting her tattoos on the arm as well but it didn’t really work out - a shame because she looks a little too pale skinned at the moment. :)

I feel like I’ve been neglecting the non-news bits of Fametastic lately because I’ve had sinusitis for just ages now and there is only so much work I can do before my head feels like it’s going to explode - writing up the day’s gossip has been interspersed with lots of hot drinks (for the steam), lying down and generally hoping that my ear drum won’t perforate from all the pressure build up. FUN.

Anyway, had a few random thoughts about things from recent days so I thought I’d write a quick blog about them.

• I LOVE the Britney Spears / Russell Brand MTV VMAs promos - the elephant stuff made me laugh so hard. Lovely to see her looking so healthy and happy (in a non-glazed eyes way) again too.
• The Poll that’s going on at the moment - who’ll be the next Queens of the Gossip Scene - has been floating around my head for a while so I’m glad we’re finally running it. There are some people I’ve missed out who should be included - the topical Hayden Panettiere for one - but I couldn’t think how to squeeze them in. I might do a poll about the UK gossip scene next - let me know if you’ve got any ideas.
• We’re still working on some new cool features for Fametastic - should have gone ‘live’ in June but we hit some snags then available time dried up. It’ll be very exciting when it finally does go ‘live’ though and hopefully that’ll happen sooner rather than later. We’ve been going about three years now (although I’ve only been working on it full time-ish for the last two), which is quite insane really. When we first started it, we had no idea it would be going this long!
• Another LOVE. I LOVE that Angelina Jolie is close to signing up for a thriller Edwin A Salt in a role originally intended to Tom Cruise. Well, I potentially LOVE it. I will LOVE it if they don’t change the characters too much - I’d love it if it helped breakdown casting barriers in Hollywood where the gender/race/age of the characters don’t matter to much. I’ll HATE though if they make it all about something stereotypically woman-action-hero-y, like that she has to save her small child at the end of it.