Noel Gallagher needs a hug. The Oasis lead guitarist dumped his holiday wishes on rollingstone.com recently: “I’d like an iPhone, a laptop, a new haircut and a Christmas card that didn’t say [bleeping] ‘Noel’ on the front. That would be [bleeping] nice. Just one year. I always get this [bleep], right. And people go, ‘Did you get my card?’ And you go, ‘I dunno, which one was that?’ ‘Oh, you must’ve seen it. It had Noel written on the front.’ ‘Really, and how many of those do you think I get?’ That’s right. All of them. … ‘Oh, there’s a card with my name on it, brilliant. That’s from my parents. I’ll thank them again for that.’ [Bleepin’] pair of idiots.”
On second thought, maybe he just needs a different Christmas card.
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Whatever they like
With all the year-end, “best of” lists from critics, it’s refreshing when the talking heads shut up and ask artists what they think. And that’s what rollingstone.com did. Here are the tracks that your favorite artists still are crushing on from 2008.
Chris Martin (Coldplay)
“Human,” The Killers
Taylor Swift
“If I Were a Boy,” Beyonce
Joe Jonas
“Heartbreak,” Kanye West
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Family guy
You have to tip your cap to Lance Armstrong: The man can ride a bike, and he can build a family.
The seven-time Tour de France winner and testicular cancer survivor and his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, are expecting a baby in June, The Associated Press reports. According to a spokeswoman for Armstrong’s cancer foundation, the baby was conceived naturally.
Armstrong had three children with his ex-wife Kristin using in vitro fertilization with sperm he had banked before undergoing chemotherapy, AP says. He announced a return to professional bike racing earlier in the year. What a stud.
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LiLo’s awkward Christmas
Lindsay Lohan says she recently learned she has a half sister — at least that’s what a MySpace post allegedly written by the actress Wednesday says.
Her father, Michael Lohan, has refuted the claim to People magazine.
“My father just let my family and i know … that he had another child after my little sister Aliana,” reads the post. “He cheated on my mother and that really sucks… MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!”
Michael Lohan admitted earlier this year he had a fling with teen Ashley Kaufman’s mother, Kristi, in 1995, the L.A. Times reports. But, according to People, he denied what was written in the MySpace post, and said that there’s a there’s a “99 percent chance” that LiLo’s gal pal, Samantha Ronson, wrote the entry.
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Holiday helpers
Young Jeezy played Santa’s helper this week.
On Wednesday, the rapper delivered gifts to about 50 residences in an Atlanta housing project, the AP reports.
“I’m just trying to be the person who they can count on when things get tough,” he said. “I don’t want them to look at this holiday as a bad thing like I did [when I was younger].”
Also on Wednesday, maybeweds Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of “The Hills” stopped by the Los Angeles Mission, where they were joined by Alyssa Milano, Melissa Joan Hart and “High School Musical’s” Corbin Bleu. The stars dished up ham, potatoes, veggies and rolls to the hungry, Us Weekly magazine reported.
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THE DIGIT
16
The number of new reality shows set to hit MTV in the coming months, according to rollingstone.com. Number of actual music shows left on the “music” channel? One.
