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WHEN Mario Balotelli left Manchester City and England a legion of would be mo-dels and kiss ‘n’ tellers sighed. What now for tales of Mario-fuelled pyrotechnics in the bedroom, to go with fireworks in the bathroom?

Thankfully, Liverpool bought the Italian forward.  And readers get to learn what it like to share a “night of passion” with the player:

Of course, Balotelli is “Super Mario”, as Japan’s Nintendo-inspired tradition dictate. He unlocks secret levels of passion, rescues Princess Catherine Wheel and wonders how it is that he’s known as Super Mario but Germany’s World Cup Final winning goalscorer Mario Goetz is just, well, Mario..?

Award-winning producer Mark Ronson has announced he has just finished working on his fourth solo album.

TRANSFER Balls:  Are Arsenal buying PSG’s Adrien Rabiot? The Mirror says they are.

The Mirror also says Arsenal face competition from Roma, Milan and Juventus.

But the Metro told us that Rabiot was already a Gunner.

And then the Metro said Arsenal had lost Rabiot to Roma.

And the trusty Mirror told us that Rabiot had agreed to play for Roma for £12m:

Such are the facts in the balls-peddling tabloids…

Actress Lindsay Price is officially outnumbered in her home! She and celebrity chef Curtis Stone welcomed their second child, a son. They named him Emerson Spencer. Emerson joins big brother Hudson. RELATED: Lindsay Price and Curtis Stone are expecting baby #2!

Emerson arrived on Tuesday and weighed in at 7 lbs, 11 oz. Curtis’s rep confirmed the news to People.

Both Lindsay and Emerson are doing well. Curtis is officially the happiest man in the world!”

Hudson is two, so he’s pretty close in age to his younger sibling. Congratulations to Lindsay, Curtis, and Hudson!

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Since being romantically linked earlier this year, they’ve been going to great lengths to keep their relationship under wraps.

This wasn’t unexpected, but I’m sure Kate Middleton (a.k.a. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge) is disappointed, nonetheless. Kate and Prince William reportedly met with her doctors yesterday and then took the evening to decide before announcing their decision this morning that she would not be able to travel to Malta for her first solo overseas trip. Prince William will go in her place.

Kate’s doctors reportedly advised against the trip, according to what sources told Us Weekly and People. The Palace said in a statement:

The Duchess of Cambridge will no longer visit Malta this weekend. The Duke of Cambridge will undertake the visit instead. Her Royal Highness continues to suffer from the effects of Hyperemesis Gravidarum. The decision not to visit was taken by the Duke and Duchess on the advice of the Duchess’s doctors.
“The Duke is honored to represent Her Majesty The Queen on the visit, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of Malta’s independence. The visit itinerary remains unchanged.”

Clarence House confirmed the change in plans with a tweet.

The Duchess of Cambridge will no longer visit Malta this weekend. The Duke of Cambridge will undertake the visit instead #RoyalVisitMalta

I’m sure this was a tough decision, but it’s completely understandable. The Duchess will have plenty of chances to go on solo overseas trips over the years! Right now she has to take care of herself. And Prince William isn’t a bad stand-in ;).

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TRANSFER Balls: The Daily Express reveals that Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham are in for “£19m target Wilfried Bony”. The headline ends a little esoterically: “CONFIRMS interest.”

So. David Wright says Bony has confirmed that the three clubs were interested in him. Only, he didn’t. All he said was:

“There were some chances (that I might leave). I waited and nothing happened…”

No bid was made for Bony, said Sky Sports. Bony makes no mention of Spurs, Arsenal nor Liverpool.

It’s no-news being presented as news. And it follows a theme because back in July the South Wales Evening News reported that Liverpool were not intersted in Bony.

That paper added:

Monaco, Roma and Borussia Dortmund are among the Continental teams who were said to be keen.

Any of them bid for Bony? No.

And there was the Mirror, which declared in August:

Tottenham plot £45m transfer splurge on Morgan Schneiderlin and Wilfried Bony

News was that Spurs had valued Schneiderlin at £20m; meaning they had earmarked £25m for Bony. But the Express says Bony is avalable for £19m.

The Mail said Spurs were going to bid £18m and wer batlting Liverpool for the player.

No fewer than two Mirror journalists – Steve Stammers, Dave Kidd – added:

He didn’t. He scored 25 goals in his firsst season with Swansea.

And the South Wales Evening Post told us that:

It is understood the striker’s Swansea contract features a release clause of around £20 million.

Which no one bid. But now, as the Express says, you can have him for £19m.

Of course, lots of balls can be about tlaking up a player’s value. The Mirror:

…his agent, Dalibor Lacina, has declared that, having told Newcastle they should have signed him last summer for £10million, his client is now looking for a move “to a club with ambition.”

“I spoke to Newcastle about Bony last summer. Newcastle should have bought Bony a year ago but they didn’t believe in him,” he told The Shields Gazette.

“They could have signed him for £10 million, but they said they weren’t sure if he was good enough, that he was only playing in Holland [with Vitesse]. Now he is worth £20m.

“The next step for Bony is a top-six team in England or a top team in Germany, Spain or France, or he will stay with Swansea.

“We have a certain strategy. Bony is in a totally different place to Newcastle and wants to move to a club with ambition.”

And finally, the Express sys he’s worth £24m.

Such are the facts…

We typically don’t think of weight loss like this! ‘The View’ co-host Rosie O’Donnell opened up about her weight loss; she lost 50 pounds after undergoing gastric bypass surgery. This was necessary after she suffered a heart attack in 2012. Rosie admitted there’s a downside to weight loss. RELATED: Rosie O’Donnell returns to ‘The View’ “in peace,” and then threw shade at Sherri Shepherd- LOL.

Rosie explained:

The fact that I look so different has been difficult and unexpected. Everyone assumes that obese people would just be jumping for joy that they were healthier and thinner and able to fit into store-bought sizes, we don’t have to go to the plus store. But it’s also filled with a lot of emotional turbulence you wouldn’t expect.
“I have a group that I go to, where women talk about how they feel. A lot of marriages break up once one person gets healthy. Luckily, my wife is very healthy, always been healthy, loves me and encourages me to be healthy.”

It can be a challenge: when one person gets healthy, it can upset the status quo in other relationships (friendships as well as marriages). I’m glad Rosie’s wife is able to be supportive! We tend to think losing weight is like the key to someone’s problems in life; it’s refreshing to hear someone talk about how that isn’t necessarily the case!

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DEATH is a terrible inevitability. You could pop your considerable clogs at any given moment. You might be half way through a banana. You could be mid-poo, like Elvis. You could be *this close* to finishing that computer game that proved so difficult all those years. You might suddenly die just before someone finishes a joke.

Worse than all these things put together, is when great actors die before they’ve had the chance to do one last film that is any good.

There’s a whole host of brilliant actors who have been in absolute crap – Robert De Niro in ‘The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle’, Michael Caine in ‘Jaws: The Revenge’, Kevin Spacey in ‘Fred Claus’, Faye Dunaway in ‘Dunston Checks In’ and Al Pacino in Adam Sandler’s beyond woeful ‘Jack & Jill’.

However, they all got another shot at correcting the blips on their showreels.

Sadly, there’s legendary thesps who went and died, bowing out on some pretty awful dreck. It is only fair that we should dredge these films back up and remind everyone that, sadly, the last thing you contribute to the human race might be a load of old shit.

Orson Welles

Orson Welles is a proper, bona fide legend of the silver screen. We all know about Citizen Kane, but what about him finishing his career as the voice of a large robot orb in the pretty crappy animated ’80s Transformers: The Movie? Eric Idle also provides a voice in the film.

Raoul Julia

A marvellous, respected actor who went too soon. While it is true that Julia hadn’t outstayed his welcome and we certainly weren’t finished with him when he died too young, Raoul’s last role was that of M. Bison in the dreadful Street Fighter film with Kylie Minogue and Jean Claude Van Damme. The poor shit.

Paul Newman

Another living legend, Paul Newman exited stage left in his role as Doc Hudson in ‘Cars’. It is a little unfair to say ‘Cars’ is a pile of crap, but it does seem beneath Newman to bow out on a film that only Pixar fans truly enjoy.

Dennis Hopper

Crazy Dennis Hopper, part of cinemas reinvention in the ’60s and ’70s, famed for his roles in Apocalypse Now and Easy Rider, left the world with his last acting credit as ‘Tony’ from the supremely dire ‘Alpha & Omega’, an animated romp about some bloody wolves. Still, it probably paid for the buffet at his wake.

Joan Crawford

One of Hollywood’s leading ladies, Joan Crawford ended her career with the craptacular British horror film, ‘Trog’. Now, to some, crap British horror films are better than any other genre, but to scholars of film, they’d probably wished she’d ended on a more refined note. Tough cheese.

John Candy

John Candy is another fine actor who left us too soon. Star of the wonderful Uncle Buck, Spaceballs and Trains Planes & Automobiles (and more), Candy’s last film was the awful ‘Wagons East’. If only he’d lived a little longer to eradicate that from his CV.

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando may have been immense in the Godfather and grippingly dynamic in A Streetcar Named Desire, but alas, Brando’s last gig was to appear in Michael Jackson’s ‘You Rock My World’ video (so not a film as such, but worthy of inclusion). He appears as the boss, before MJ indulges himself in a protracted dance scene when you’re dying for someone to throw a punch. Ah well.

URBAN Outfitters is delling a sweatshirt  “Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt”. It’s splattered in red blotches that look a lot like blood stains.

Kent State is the place where on May 4, 1970 four students were gunned down by the Ohio National Guard during Vietnam War protests.

Ohio National Guardsmen throw tear gas at students across the campus lawn at Kent State University during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at the university on May 7, 1970. The Guard killed four students and wounded many more.

Ohio National Guardsmen patrol the empty Kent State University, Ohio campus after a three-day riot with students in this May 6, 1970 file photo.

Is it what the killed would have wanted?

Is the shirt made in Vietnam?

The University reacts:

“We take great offense to a company using our pain for their publicity and profit. This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life that still hurts the Kent State community today.”

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