In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
The issue over celebrity privacy has been battled in the press, in the courts, and in school. Once a person becomes famous, do they give up their right to maintain a private life? It’s a debate that remains heated, and a debate that can cause sympathy in some cases, a roll of the eyes in others.
Media outlets, especially the Canadian Press, should be ashamed of themselves for the way they covered the latest Paris Hilton incident this weekend.
The summary: somehow Paris Hilton’s address book from her cell phone was leaked onto the internet late Saturday night, causing dozens of phone numbers of her celebrity friends like Christina Aguilera, Eminem and Lindsay Lohan to be spread across the internet within hours. Also leaked to the web this weekend were nude photographs stored on her phone, and personal notes and reminders she saved.
CNN’s web site reported on the story late Monday afternoon. They used a quote from a T-Mobile (the phone manufacturer) spokesperson who said the company does know about incident and things are being looked into. The Associated Press also reported on the story late Monday afternoon, using a quote from Victoria Gotti that was used in the morning’s New York Daily News. Other sites and news agencies also posted similar stories, relying on the basic facts of the story.
The Canadian Press took it many steps too far.
In the CP’s article, posted on canoe.ca, thestar.com, and macleans.ca Monday evening, the writers appeared to have called numerous numbers that were on the list. The writers of the story, Tara Brautigam and Jen Horsey, knew that the numbers for Eminem, Ashley Olsen, and Anna Kournikova were disconnected. They reported that messages left for Fred Durst, and pages left for Lindsay Lohan and Vin Diesel, were not returned. They wrote that Sum 41 member Deryck Whibley’s voicemail was full and that his outgoing message was a belch. They were able to reach a Montreal businessman, a friend of Hilton’s, who said he received about 400 calls.
They also studied Hilton’s personal notes and revealed private information the hotel heiress would not have wanted the whole world to know.
All these facts should not have been uncovered because it is breaching an unwritten ethical code, breaking the privacy of people who unwillingly and unknowingly became part of a story. If they wanted to know how many times someone called Fred Durst, they should have called his publicist or waited until a spokesperson for either him, Hilton, or the phone company revealed such information. Relying on representatives is something reporters learn to never do (keep digging past the flak), but in this case it would have been acceptable.
Adding more stress to the celebrities and other Hilton friends made the writers part of the story. Her Montreal acquaintance didn’t receive 400 calls. He now received 401.
andPOP did not break the story. We were the second site to report on it after the Drudge Report broke it Sunday morning. The phone list was sent to us Sunday morning, and we soon found more information about it on the Drudge Report site. By Sunday night, the mass media had still not reported on it, but message board around the web had already been spreading the news for hours.
When andPOP found out about it, we decided to report the newsworthy details: her information was leaked, nobody knows how yet, and as Drudge reported, the FBI is investigating. We did not call up phone numbers of people that we did not know for comments, we did not upload Paris’ personal photographs, and we did not report on Paris’ personal notes. That would be an invasion of both Paris and the other people’s privacy. We did not take the information and take it a step further by using it to gain more information; we reported on the information that became available.
We could have called up every person on the list to see what they thought, and we could have posted some of Hilton’s tasks on her to-do list, but it’s something a sleazy tabloid would do, not something a reputable news organization like the Canadian Press would do.
We assumed that when the major news outlets eventually picked up on this story, they would do similar things: report on it, but not cross the line. The line is unwritten because a story like this is so bizarre and demands an instant judgement call.
The Canadian Press failed that judgement call and should issue an apology not just to Hilton and her friends, but to its readers for crossing the line.
