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Downton Abbey Star Blames ‘Naivete’ for Regrettable Nude Scene, Says She’s Done Taking Her Top Off (NSFW)
It was a concern about being typecast that ultimately led Jessica Brown Findlay, AKA Downton Abbey’s Lady Sybil Crawley, to exit in dramatic fashion from the popular series midway into the third season.
“My contract was ending and I was unsure about signing away another year,” she recently told Radio Times magazine. “What scared me more was to keep going and then one day discover it was all I could do and wish I had pushed myself more.”
But Findlay is also setting limits on how far she’s willing to push herself, having reflected on things in her past that she would not have done had she known better.
Namely, her topless scene in 2011′s Albatross (NSFW).
Downton Abbey Star Blames ‘Naivete’ for Regrettable Nude Scene, Says She’s Done Taking Her Top Off (NSFW)
“To be honest, Albatross was naivete and not knowing that I could say no,” she told the publication. “I had no idea what was going to happen and thought I was going to be shot from behind.”
Findlay says she did learn one thing from her nude scene experience, and that is to “be honest and natural.”
The 23-year-old tells other actresses not to stress out about their bodies. “I was drinking pints and eating burgers,” Findlay said. “But actually, it’s not something I would do again.”
Before closing up shop for good, however, Findlay is giving fans one last look around by taking it all off for her latest historical TV series, Labyrinth.
The two-parter is set to air this weekend on Channel 4, but if you’re only tuning in for noodz, you can skip all the talk and go straight to the bedroom by clicking here (NSFW, with bonus Katie McGrath from Merlin casting a sexy spell on The Paradise’s Emun Elliott).
People declares actor Tatum 2012′s sexiest man alive – Indian Express
People magazine today declared Hollywood actor Channing Tatum the “sexiest man alive” in 2012.
A muscular 32-year-old former model, Tatum has appeared in “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” “21 Jump Street,” and “Magic Mike,” among other films.
Upon hearing he had been picked for the annual honour, Tatum was modest, the gossip magazine said.
“Y’all are messing with me,” it quoted him as saying.
via People declares actor Tatum 2012′s sexiest man alive – Indian Express.
BBC News – Obama ‘crashed our wedding venue’
US President Barack Obama nearly crashed a young couple’s wedding in Iowa.
John and Sayli Gibbs’ wedding at the Living History Farms in Urbandale was thrown into chaos, as the president attended a surprise rally.
Rebecca Donovan reports.
Pavarotti lookalike entertains passengers | Orange UK
A Pavarotti lookalike is entertaining train passengers by breaking into song after getting a job as a station guard.
Colin Miller travelled the world as the opera singer’s double after Nessun Dorma became the anthem of the Italia 90 World Cup.
But work dried up after the singer died in 2007 and he has landed a job with Virgin Trains at Lichfield Trent Valley station in Staffordshire.
The former greengrocer, known as ‘Pav’ to colleagues, now sings impromptu choruses of Nessun Dorma to soothe commuters held up by delays.
Some queue up to have their picture taken with the station guard – and others hop off to take a snap before their train leaves.
Mr Miller, 61, said: “I can’t sing like Pavarotti – but I give it a good go.
“All the punters love it, they know the railways don’t always run on time but people know I will be out there to keep them smiling.”
Unemployed Man Finds Steady Work as “Superman” | NBC San Diego
It’s not easy being Superman.
It only earns about $160 a month for Avelino Chavez, who dresses up daily as the caped hero.
But oh, the adventures!
The 52-year-old Chavez can’t fly but does seem to be everywhere in Lima: at political rallies and speeches, at a wedding shoot for Peru’s famed opera tenor Juan Diego Florez, hawking tours and flights on behalf of a travel agency in the central Plaza de Armas.
“Hola Superman!” people shout to him.
“Hola, Superamigo!” he’ll shout back.
Chavez became a superhero 15 years ago after a failed go at bullfighting and jobs as a craftsman, laboratory worker and brothel security guard.
“I lost my job but realized that I could be Superman. I went to the store and bought a blue shirt and a cousin of mine who is a seamstress sewed the cape, the boots, the belt and the red tights,” he told The Associated Press.
He hasn’t lacked for work since.
via Unemployed Man Finds Steady Work as “Superman” | NBC San Diego.
What do you mean – he can’t fly???? Thanks for the tip.
Middle-Aged Batman Authorized to Patrol Brazilian City – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
Nobody can accuse the city of Taubaté of not thinking outside the box when it comes to law enforcement. Residents and business owners in the Brazilian city have given the military police approval to recruit and deploy André Luiz Pinheiro, a 50-year-old man who will operate in a Batman costume. According to Brazilian news source OVALE, this Batman of São Paulo will apparently “combat crimes such as murder and drug trafficking” in a kind of public relations function for the children of troubled neighborhoods.
Pinheiro’s age immediately invites memories of Frank Miller’s seminal graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns, which depicted the activities of a middle-aged Batman with specific emphasis on the youth of crime-ridden Gotham City. Sadly, the ex-military captain was not quoted as saying anything along the lines of “The time has come. You know it in your soul, for I am your soul… You cannot escape me. You are puny, you are small, you are nothing–a hollow shell, a rusty trap that cannot hold me. Smoldering, I burn you – burning you, I flare, hot and bright and fierce and beautiful. You cannot stop me, not with wine or vows or the weight of age – you cannot stop me, but still you try. Still you run. You try to drown me out… But your voice is weak.”
Rather, Pinheiro told OVALE, “I am eager to know how we can work together.”
The Worst Remembrances of Whitney Houston on the Internet
Whitney Houston died on Saturday, and the internet quickly filled with remembrances and tributes. Some of them, despite the short turnaround, were smart and informative and moving: Rich Juzwiak’s terrific piece in The Daily, for example. And some of them were so stupid we had to collect them for you.
People on the internet sure like to talk about themselves. We all do, especially when someone famous dies: if you didn’t know Whitney Houston personally, how else do you remember her except through the concert you went to, or the time “I’m Every Woman” came on the radio, or the moment you heard about her death? And, of course, some people can write movingly and well about their personal experiences, and weave those memories together with enough insight and understanding to connect their individual lives to something larger and more important — something worth saying.
via The Worst Remembrances of Whitney Houston on the Internet.
Naked Santas Go For World Record In San Francisco
It always feels good to be part of something larger than yourself; it’s why people march in protests, attend music festivals or voluntarily watch the World Cup.
This being San Francisco, it’s also why a large group of people, all dressed in Santa hats and little else, are planning on coming together in an effort to set the world record for the largest gathering of naked Santas ever recorded.
This world record attempt, which will be fully documented for posterity by the good people at Guinness, comes as part of San Francisco’s tenth annual Santacon party on December 10th.
Started in San Francisco in the mid-1990s, Santacon is an annual celebration of Santa Claus wherein hundreds of revelers dress up like Kris Kringle and commit wanton acts of intoxicated debauchery in bars and on street corners across the city.
If you’ve ever wandered past a rowdy pub on a crisp December evening and wondered why two gentlemen dressed as Santa Claus were engaged in a fistfight, Santacon was almost undoubtedly to blame.
Limbaugh Thinks Obama Wants To “Kill Christians” | Mother Jones
Rush Limbaugh set a new low for reactionary tribalism on Friday when he reflexively defended Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army after hearing that President Barack Obama was sending a hundred U.S. troops to Uganda to assist in capturing or killing the warlord.
Following some (extremely) superficial Googling, Limbaugh surmised that the LRA were “Christians” who were “fighting the Muslims in Sudan” and therefore wonderful people. In fact Kony and the LRA are what Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth describes as a group of “roving mass murderers” that “descends on a remote village, slaughters every adult in sight, and then kidnaps the children, some shockingly young—the boys to become soldiers slinging AK-47s, the girls to serve as “bush wives.”
Limbaugh then deduced from Obama’s decision to send troops to help fight the LRA that the massacres of Coptic Christians in Cairo carried out by the Egyptian military were done with Obama’s tacit support as well, because Obama offered rhetorical support to the protesters who brought down former Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak.
via Limbaugh Thinks Obama Wants To “Kill Christians” | Mother Jones.
