Wednesday 2 June 2010

Katie Price in photocall bloop!

You'd think a model pro like Jordan would know how to pose for the cameras, but nope, she's only gone and stood in front of two balloons that make her look like she's got her own breast implants attached to her head!

Or perhaps it's intentional and she's trying to look like Lady Gaga - jeez, a KP/LG hybrid? Could a more annoying concept exist? Anyway, our beloved heroine was plugging some horse shit (not literally manure - although it's only a matter of time) in Essex when these pictures were taken, but we can't help but notice that her promotional appearances have been getting a little lackluster of late.

Yeah, she's wearing a colourful outfit and posing dutifully and all that, but the eyes are deader than ever (we're actually struggling to distinguish her from the plastic horse beside her), and the whole thing lacks the OTT glittery madness (and all-important cross-dressing husband element) of vintage Jordan.

So, could it be that she's finally getting sick of flogging herself to death? Even sicker than we are of witnessing it?

(PIC: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)

Sunday 30 May 2010

Mikey Carroll goes back on the bins!

He became the self-proclaimed king of the chavs after turning up to collect his £9.7million lottery win wearing an electronic offender's tag.

But eight years on, having blown all that money, Michael Carroll is practising for a return to his old job as a binman.

The 26-year-old, who squandered his multi-million fortune on drugs, gambling and thousands of prostitutes, has since February claimed £42 a week in jobseeker's allowance. But he is keen to get off the dole and back to earning £200 a week collecting rubbish near his home in Downham Market, Norfolk. The father of two told us: ‘I can’t wait to stop signing on and start getting paid for doing a proper job like normal people.’ He also said he hoped to see some of his old friends back on the job, adding: ‘It was a good laugh when I was doing it before I won so I don’t mind going back to it.’

Carroll's jackpot win in 2002 disappeared with astonishing speed as the tattooed self-styled 'King of the Chavs' lavished several million pounds on family and friends and hundreds of thousands on drugs.

(PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)

Monday 15 February 2010

Jodie Marsh turns into Jordan!

Jodie Marsh, the only glamour model in the UK not to have received either naked pictures of Ashley Cole or a cheeky text from Vernon Kay, was spotted out in Brentwood today looking just like her arch enemy Katie Price, aka Jordan.

Jodie, who was seemingly sporting yet another new mystery man in her life, has dyed her hair jet black and taken to wearing an all black outfit, just like Katie. The only thing you need now Jodie is a tough Cage fighter boyfriend too!

(EXCLUSIVE PIC: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)

Katie and Alex reunited on Valentines Day

NEWLYWEDS Jordan and Alex Reid were reunited for Valentine’s Day and able to start their honeymoon two weeks late.

The 31-year-old glamour girl went to Heathrow Airport to welcome cage fighter Alex, who has been filming his new reality show in India.

But attention-seeking Jordan, real name Kate Price, seemed peeved Alex got more attention than her. The model snapped at waiting paparazzi: “You should be photographing me, not him.”

Celebrity Big Brother winner Alex, 34, arranged a romantic Valentine’s Day surprise for Jordan.

She boasted on Twitter that he had arranged for three boxes of treats to be delivered to her home.

(EXCLUSIVE PIC: Gareth Connolly/NEWSPICS)

Sunday 14 February 2010

BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT: FREAKIES V CHEEKIES

Two months before the show starts NewsPics have revealed some of the finalists of this years hit ITV show Britain's Got Talent, much to the shows dismay! Today in The People you can see them in all their glory..!

This bunch may look like oddballs but they have made it to the quarter finals of the nation's top TV show. And don't forget last year's shock star was the unlikely Susan Boyle.

Our exclusive snaps show the wannabes arriving to try out for the live semis.

Among them, green-faced witches, a family of monks, an 18th century drag queen and a leprechaun. Our photogrpher, who gatecrashed the fun, also spotted a pig, Michael Jackson lookalikes and raging patriot.

And just when we thought it could not get any freakier, up popped the Cheeky Girls wearing clothes. Our BGT source said: "This year's definitely got some of the most colourful characters. It's going to be a cracker." The hopefuls performed for judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan at London's Vaudeville Theatre on Friday.

We won't spoil it by revealing who made it through. But we will report Simon confirmed what Brits have known since their appearance on 2002's Popstars - the Cheeky Girls DON'T have Talent. The Touch My Bum singers were axed after their belly-dancing flopped.

Our source said: "They were disappointed but you can see the level of competition they were up against."

Our vote for the most entertaining act of the day goes to the traffic warden who ticketed all four contestants' coaches, Ant and Dec's people carrier but left alone Simon's car! BGT fans can see who made it when the TV show returns in April.

(EXCLUSIVE PIC: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)

Monday 8 February 2010

Gary Lucy defends Gardiner's acid tongue

Dancing on Ice star Gary Lucy has defended acid-tongued judge Jason Gardiner. The Australian choreographer sparked a flurry of complaints about his comments last week.

He had to issue an apology after he compared Sharron Davies's outfit to "faecal matter."
Lucy has given his backing to the judge, insisting that his comments help the contestants to improve.

He told us: "Jason has been great to me. "He is an expert in his field and I take all of his comments on board. I value and listen to his opinion." He added: "I would rather have a judge criticise me so that I can get better, over one who tells me I'm great when I'm not. "I am out of my comfort zone doing this show, just like the other celebrities, so I listen to what Jason has to say."

"He has been a judge on the show since it started and has helped everyone on it. I wouldn't dare answer him back."

(PIC EXCLUSIVE: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)

They come... He goes, Alex is off out again!

Just days after their whirlwind wedding in Las Vegas, Katie Price and Alex Reid have been seperated.

While the bride is at home with her children in the UK, her new husband has flown to India to film a new reality TV programme. The couple, dubbed K-Pex, flew to London together from the US arriving at Heathrow's Terminal 5 at 2.33pm, they both drove to Katie's home before the cagefighter went to Heathrow again at 7pm and onto Mumbai.

Reid is filming for his show Alex Reid: The Fight Of His Life where he will go up against a range of martial art experts.

Price is preparing for an early morning TV interview on Tuesday, February 9. It will be the first time the newlywed has spoken since marrying the Celebrity Big Brother winner.

(PIC EXCLUSIVE: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)

Wednesday 3 February 2010

JT fools about just a week before his wedding..

Dirty dancing with a brunette in a club and draped over blondes at a bar, this was John Terry enjoying his stag party.

Just one week before he tied the knot in 2007 with his childhood sweetheart Toni Poole, Terry was trying his luck with women during his time in Portugal.

Although he was with his team-mates it was the women in the club he was more interested in spending time with.

And if this was not enough to worry his bride-to-be, his behaviour post-wedding should have sent out a warning as he shunned a romantic honeymoon with Toni.

Instead the Barking boy, who has a penchant for gambling, went to Las Vegas with teammates Wayne Bridge, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Joe Cole.

(EXCLUSIVE PIC: Mac/NEWSPICS)

Wednesday 27 January 2010

NewsPics expands it's team with new Picture Editor


We at NewsPics are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Picture Editor Nikki Sutherland, formally of Kent News (Images International) who will be joining our team in very near future. Many in the industry will already know Nikki as an extremely experienced professional who is well versed in the art of News Photography assignments and is a fantastic new addition to our team.

We also are happy to make known that photographer Gareth Connolly has agreed to work with NewsPics covering shift assignments. He too comes with many years experience and has previously worked for you through his previous employer. Over the next few days we hope to add more names to our creative team as well.

NewsPics, with Nikki are keen to provide you with fantastic photography coverage. We will be in touch to discuss any needs you might have but in the meantime please do not hesitate in contacting us with any assignments you may have - we would love to continue to work with you and we are well and truly open for business.


Marion Sprake
Director

Sunday 24 January 2010

Bedroom stalker - The neighbour from hell!

Terrified mum Christine Body has told how a hulking stalker secretly broke into her home more than FIFTEEN times and leered over her and her daughter as they slept.

Next-door neighbour Michael Coombes, 41, crept in after stealing Christine's house key and making a copy. In a year-long stalking campaign, the 19-stone weirdo also stole Christine's jewellery and dirty laundry as bizarre souvenirs.

But he was finally caught when suspicious Christine's boyfriend lay in wait and ambushed him as he sneaked in yet again. Now, as the sick stalker begins a three-year jail sentence, Christine, 39, has spoken about the 12-month ordeal that has left her frightened to live in her home.

The mum of two said: "I have always been a really independent person, but knowing that Coombes has been in my house has really shaken me. Horrible "I feel like he's violated me and I keep getting these horrible images of him rifling through my things. I feel like I have to move to get away from what's happened." Christine noticed Coombes staring at her as soon as she moved into the terrace house in Newmarket, Suffolk, 18 months ago with daughters Amber Rose, 15, and Ferne, 13. He then began using feeble excuses to call round. She said: "He came to borrow a spoonful of coffee and I thought that was odd because there's a shop at the end of the road. Later in the week he returned with a whole jar of coffee with a rose attached to it. "I thought he was harmless so I didn't take it seriously."

But Coombes' developing obsession was about to take a more sinister turn. Showering after a gym session one day, Christine looked through her open bathroom window and saw her neighbour watching hungrily from his bedroom in the rear extension opposite. She said: "I screamed and he backed away from his window. I had no idea how long he'd been watching. At first I was furious and the thought of him leering made me feel sick. "But when I calmed down I convinced myself it could have just been a mistake."

Soon after, Christine began to notice that cash and jewellery were going missing. She said: "There were times I'd walk into my bedroom, and it just didn't feel right. "It felt as though someone had been in there and gone through all of my belongings. Towels I'd folded in the laundry basket would be crumpled or on the floor and other things would be missing. "I felt I was going mad but I couldn't be sure that I hadn't misplaced the things and I didn't want to worry anyone by mentioning it."

Frightening But Christine's suspicions were confirmed in the most frightening way possible when Amber Rose woke up to find their neighbour standing over her bed. Christine said: "Amber Rose was off school sick that day, and she was half-asleep when she saw Coombes creep into her room.

"He moved to her bed and when he saw she was awake, started asking her if she'd lost an iPod. Amber was terrified and screamed for him to get out, until eventually he did. She then called me sobbing and hysterical and told me what had happened, so I called the police and rushed home from work.

"The whole thing was horrifying. Imagine how it felt for a 15-year-old to wake up and see a 19-stone skinhead in her bedroom. "Amber refused to be alone for a long time after that and I had to call the girls' dad a few times to take Ferne because the fear of being in our house made her physically sick." Police found no evidence of an illegal break-in and told Christine she must have left the house unlocked.

But their reassurances did nothing to calm Christine. She said: "Things just kept going missing, especially underwear, and a couple of times I found knickers that I knew hadn't been worn in the laundry basket. "I asked the girls if they'd been messing around in my room but they insisted they hadn't." Spooked by the bizarre movements, Christine decided to set a trap by laying a folded towel in the wash basket before going to work at a property rental company.

To her horror, when she returned she found the towel crumpled among dirty washing. But without proof of a break-in, she knew police would not believe her. So boyfriend Derek Sinfield, 41, offered to lay in wait downstairs. And at 7am the next morning Derek was woken by Coombes standing in the doorway of the front room. He bravely held the burly stalker in a headlock until police arrived.

Christine said: "It was such a relief when I heard he had been caught and that I wasn't going crazy after all. But my blood ran cold when the police told me what he had been doing in our house." Coombes confessed he had pinched a door key that Christine had left for Amber Rose under a wheelie-bin and had made a copy.

Sick He had entered the house 15 times, stealing the family's belongings and watching them in secret. She said: "The police said that Michael was obsessed with me and had used the key to come and go when he pleased. "It makes me sick to think about it.

Things went missing overnight as well so he must have been there when the girls and I were asleep, watching us. "I dread to think what he could have done if he had wanted to." Twisted Coombes admitted four counts of burglary and one of harassment at Ipswich Crown Court in November.

He was jailed for three years and banned from ever contacting Christine again.

Now the distraught mum is hoping to rebuild her life far from the house that is tainted by his intrusions. She said: "I can't help being scared that one day I'll come home and he'll be waiting for me in my garden. "I'm much more paranoid now than I ever was before, and I panic if I think I haven't locked the doors.

"But I'm hoping that if we can move house and start again, eventually things will go back to normal and I'll be able to forget Michael Coombes ever existed."

(EXCLUSIVE PIC: John Clare/NEWSPICS)

Mills urges "send your second hand legs to Haiti"!

Amputee Heather Mills is doing her bit for Haiti by sending thousands of artificial limbs to the disaster hit country.

The Red Cross announced yesterday that thousands of patients have had amputations after the Caribbean island was devastated by a massive earthquake. And in a TV interview this morning Mucca appealed for people to send her their spare false limbs and crutches.

She asked: "Can anyone contact HeatherMills.org to donate second-hand limbs, wheelchairs, and crutches? "We're taking tons of them out to Haiti for our recycling limbs campaign. "We've got thousands and thousands of amputees. That's really important."

The 42-year-old ex-model is currently appearing on hit ITV show Dancing On Ice. This morning she said the training for the British show was "20 billion times harder" than her appearance on a US dance series.
Her dance partner Matt Evers said he and Mills were "reinventing the wheel" with their routines and training.

(EXCLUSIVE PIC: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)

Friday 22 January 2010

Ivana survives as Sisqo and Stephen get the boot!

STEPHEN Baldwin and rapper Sisqo have been given the Boot from Celebrity Big Brother.

Stephen, 43, was the least popular, pulling in 50 per cent of the votes - and the most boos. Meanwhile rapper Sisqo, 31, received 29 per cent. Ivana Trump - who bookies had as second least popular at 66/1 to win - lives to fight another day.

Vinnie Jones remains the one to beat on odds of 5/6 to take the crown, followed by model Nicola T at 7/2. Alex Reid is third at 7/1 followed by Dane Bowers on 8/1.

(PIC: Matt Sprake & Dave Toney/NEWSPICS)

Tuesday 19 January 2010

It's ladies night at the Brits!

It will be ladies’ night at this year’s 30th Brit Awards after Lily Allen, Pixie Lott, Florence And The Machine and Lady Gaga raked in three nominations each at last’s night’s star-studded announcement - but Cheryl Cole was snubbed.

The X Factor judge failed to be short listed by the industry in the British female solo artist and British breakthrough act categories. Her lone nomination came in the British single group for her hit Fight For This Love, where she will be up against her X Factor protégé Joe McElderry (The Climb) and Alexandra Burke (Bad Boys).

Meanwhile, her bitter rival Lily Allen will be celebrating her tally with nominations for British female solo artist, Mastercard British album (It’s Not Me, It’s You) and British Single (The Fear).

Teen chart sensation Pixie Lott will be equally pleased with her three nods for British female solo artist, British single for Mamma Do and a nod in the British breakthrough act category.

(PIC: Dave Toney/NEWSPICS)

Monday 18 January 2010

Lady Sovereign gets the boot from Big Brother!

Lady Sovereign became the third housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother house tonight as she was voted off the show leaving glamour model Nicola T to live another day.

The feisty rapper, who once famously beat up a reporter who called her a chav, left the house to a chorus of boos at the studios in Elstree.

(PIC: Dave Toney/NEWSPICS)

ICEY START FOR DANCING FAVOURITE LUCY AS DAVRO VOTED OUT!

The Bill actor, and 2-1 pre-show favourite Gary Lucy, had to endure a skate off with outsider Bobby Davro before advancing through to another week in the latest series of Dancing on Ice, and Coral bookmakers have pushed his price to 5-1 to win outright, and now make Coronation Street star Hayley Tamaddon the new favourite at 2-1.

Lucy was top on the judges scorecard, but after the phone lines closed, it was he and lowest scorer Davro that were forced to compete again for a place in next week’s show..

“As has proved in the past, it’s the viewers, not the judges that need impressing, so despite being the highest scorer, you still need public votes,” said Coral spokesman Gary Burton.

Bobby Davro was the 7-4 favourite to be voted off first, and proved a poor result for the bookies!

(EXCLUSIVE PIC: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)

Another girl to leave Celeb BB tonight!!!

The dust has only just settled after the excitement of Friday night's double eviction, but tonight yet another housemate will exit the Celebrity Big Brother house. In the firing line tonight are Lady Sovereign (again) and ditzy Nicola T, both of whom have managed to enrage their fellow housemates somewhere along the line. Vinnie Jones has branded Sovs "one of the most selfish birds I've ever met" this weekend, after she unashamedly begged fag after fag from Basshunter.

(PIC: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)


Ronnie still loves Katia!

Katia Ivanova has revealed that her ex Ronnie Wood got in touch within hours of her leaving the Celebrity Big Brother house.

"Ronnie told me he thought I was great. He said he's been staying watching me in the house all hours," she told the Daily Star.

"He said he was really proud of me for being myself and that he really misses me. There's still a strong connection there, but that chapter is over."

The 21-year-old also confessed her feelings for Jonas Altberg, and said their brief romance in the house was more than just a fling.

"I really do fancy Jonas and want him; I watched him saying he was falling in love with me and it was so sweet, I just wanted to go back in - I think he's the one," she told the newspaper.

Katia - who said he was too "clingy" and too "clean-cut" - revealed they "struggled" with their feelings, and added: "I knew I was starting to fall for Jonas."

(PIC: Matt Sprake & Dave Toney/NEWSPICS)

UKIP calls for burka ban!

The burka and other face-covering veils worn by Muslim women should be banned, the UK Independence Party says.

Ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who leads UKIP's 13 MEPs in Brussels, told the BBC's Politics Show they were a symbol of an "increasingly divided Britain". He also said they "oppressed" women and were a potential security threat.

But Schools Secretary Ed Balls said it was "not British" to tell people what to wear in the street, and accused UKIP of indulging in "unpleasant politics".

(PIC: Zed Jameson/NEWSPICS)

Gordon Brown now claims to be a champion of the middle classes!

There's been nothing like it since the wolf dressed up as grandma in order to turn Little Red Riding Hood into pot-roast.

Gordon Brown now claims to be a champion of the middle classes. Apparently, only he can be trusted to look after their interests. And there were millions of us thinking that he was, in fact, the unreconstructed arch-enemy of the middle classes and of everything they hold dear.

For sheer unadulterated brazen gall, his pretence surely takes the latest of many mouldy digestive biscuits. Of course, we can all see the reason for this play-acting. After the recent failed coup against Brown, Lord Mandelson won his strategic battle to fight the election campaign on New Labour's territory of aspiration rather than as another front in Old Labour's failed class war.

In the circumstances, Brown had no alternative but to agree. Yet this is the man whose entire political persona rests upon constraining, punishing and extorting from the middle classes.

(PIC: Zed Jameson/NEWSPICS)

Loloahi Tapui pleads guilty at court

The Tongan housekeeper who was illegally employed by the Attorney General today admitting using a fake British visa for more than two years.

Loloahi Tapui, an illegal immigrant who was housekeeper for Baroness Scotland, pleaded guilty to possessing a false document at Southwark Crown Court.

The charge relates to a Tongan passport with a counterfeit UK visa stamp. The 27-year-old admitted using the visa from June 2006 until September last year.

But she denied a further charge of fraud, rejecting the allegation that she used the counterfeit document to establish facts about herself and earn money as a cleaner.

(PIC: Dave Toney/NEWSPICS)

Monday 11 January 2010

Heather Mills has her skating leg... Off!

She's already tried her hand at ballroom dancing across the pond, and now Heather Mills is putting her best foot forward by stepping on to the ice for a spot of skating.

Heather, who turns 42 this week, was spotted carrying her false limb as she headed into rehearsals for the show - however, she admitted that the leg has held her back.
She said: 'its ankle doesn't band and I fall 50 per cent of the time.'

Judge Nicky Slater has already expressed his concern as to whether Heather will be able to perform well after seeing her in rehearsals.

He said: 'Choreography should work to hide disability, and one-legged skating IS possible, but here it's how the other leg reacts that affects aesthetics. A challenge.'

(WORLD PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Matt Sprake/NEWSPICS)