When life imitates art, there’s a choice to be made: whip out an eraser and try to make it go away, or grab some peanuts, sit back, and enjoy the circus. This week’s hot topics let us do the latter, but the newsmakers themselves probably felt differently. Take, for instance, Mr. ShamWow, who was dying for his magical towels to clean up the call girl mess he’d made. Or Jamie Waylett, who turned his Harry Potter-power into, erm, pot. One thing’s for certain; juicy secrets are made to be squeezed - and we’ll take ours with a straw.
Blame it on Voldemort
Harry Potter star Jamie Waylett, who plays bulky bully Vincent Crabbe, has been busted for growing pot in his bedroom – which, all things considered, seems like a perfectly reasonable thing for a Slytherin to do.
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Shut Down Secrets
The CIA has shut down it’s global network of secret prisons, which is excellent news that should probably just have been kept secret. Care to share what happened inside that bag of worms, Pentagon?
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Arts and Snacks
Births to unmarried mothers have jumped 25% in the past few years, causing experts to wonder if single motherhood is an epidemic, or just another side effect of the DIY hipster movement.
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ShamWow Shaming
The ShamWow spokesman got in a battle with a prostitute, and new pictures have surfaced that prove just how nasty it was.
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Fred Gets Famous(er)
“Fred,” the teenybopper YouTube celeb known for his speedy soundtracks and slow-developing love sagas, has become the first user to attain one million subscribers on the video-sharing website. This will probably get him on Ellen, on MTV, and on every 13-year-old girl in the US. Congrats, Fred!
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