Geri Halliwell"s new single flops in Australia with less than 400 sales

5 Nov 2013 00:01

The Former Spice Girl has sold just 393 copies of her new single, Half Of Me

Geri’s new single isn’t doing too well..

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Poor Geri Halliwell. I like her, I really do. But the Australia’s Got Talent judge hasn’t got much… well, talent. And that’s according to the public Down Under.

Despite much hype and a new six-figure record deal with Sony Australia, the former Spice Girl’s single, Half Of Me, isn’t exactly flying off the shelves.

In fact it has sold just 393 copies. That’s nationwide. And Australia is a pretty large continent.

Just to rub salt into the wound, her talent show rival Dami Im – winner of Australia’s X Factor – has debuted at No1, selling 44,025 copies of her single Alive.

In contrast, poor Gezza , 41, scraped into the official Aussie ARIA charts at number 281.

But why such a poor showing?

How could she fail with lyrical beauties such as: “I gave you the finger, and you took me to dinner” and “I thought love was bulls***, only for the foolish”?

Geri with some teddies in her video

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My particular highlight is the line: “I wanna have your babies, gotta have you like crazy” accompanied by scenes of mum-of-one Geri dry humping on the video.

And the video itself is also a big problem.

Produced on a budget (seemingly of about £18), it features Geri dancing and singing with a host of “colourful” characters – all of whom look like they were found on the streets of Sydney and then asked
to mime slightly out of time.

Poor Gez has been trying to revive her career off the back of her judging role on Channel 9 programme Australia’s Got Talent.

Half of Me was even written with producers DNA Songs, who have penned hits for big Aussie star Timomatic and, ironically, Dami Im’s chart-topper Alive.

In retrospect Gezza’s decision to sing live – and not rely on auto-tuning – on the NRL Footy Show last month, though bold, was perhaps not wise. The resulting footage went viral – and not in a good way. Poor, poor Geri…

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04 NOVEMBER 2013 Drew Barrymore is reportedly pregnant with her second child.

The Hollywood actress, who already has a one-year-old daughter Olive, seemed to be hiding a baby bump beneath a floor-length gown when she attended the LACMA Art+Film gala event at the weekend.

Sources have also reportedly confirmed the news to Us Weekly magazine.

 

Charlie’s Angel star Drew has made no secret of her desire to expand her family with art consultant Will Kopelman, who she married in June 2012.

“I was an only child and it was lonely,” she has said. “Some people love it and thrive on the independence, but I want my kids to have other kids around.”

Drew dotes on daughter Olive, who was born in September 2012. “She’s a sweet person, which is all I care about,” she said. “I am obsessed with nice. That’s the most important thing.”

 

Drew had a turbulent childhood, in which she spent time in rehab for drug and alcohol abuse. She once described her relationship with her mother Jaid as “my greatest battle”.

She has revealed that she looks to Will’s mother Coco Kopelman for inspiration.

“She’s the best,” said Drew. “My mother-in-law is actually my muse, just on how to be a person and a wife and a mother.”

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They shocked the world when they started dating in May last year.

But Mary-Kate Olsen and her beau, Olivier Sarkozy, are most definitely still going strong.

The couple, who have a 17-year age gap between them, looked all loved up as they attended the at the Minnesota Timberwolves vs New York Knicks basketball game at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

With her hair scraped back in a scruffy bun, Ashley’s twin looked happy and relaxed as she spent some quality time with her French man.           

The couple, who are clearly totally and utterly besotted with each other, spent the entire game cuddling, kissing and nuzzling each other in the stands.

The fashion designer, 27, looked as trendy as always in a pair of aviators, an over-sized chequered shirt and a black scarf.

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Olivier, 44, who is the younger brother of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, looked equally chic in a blue blazer and jeans.

MK recently spoke out about her past as a child star, saying: “I wouldn’t wish my upbringing on anybody.”

The actress-turned-designer told the September issue of US Marie Claire magazine that she and her sister Ashley were “little monkey performers”.

The 24-year-old, who with her sister found fame on kids hit American sitcom Full House, added: “I look at old pictures of me, and I don’t feel connected to them at all. But I wouldn’t take it back for the world.”

Mary-Kate – who has founded her own fashion label, The Row, with Ashley – said she would rather be known as a designer than an actress.

She describes her new passion as “kind of like a mask to hide behind”.

“I still read scripts, and if something comes a long, that’s great,” she told the mag. “But this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.”

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Demi Moore certainly knows how to snap up soveniers on holiday.

Returning from a trip to India, where the Indecent Proposal actress studied with the Dalai Lama, Demi was seen leading her new spiritual guru through LAX arrivals.

Demi bought Sikh guru Hargopal Kaur Khalsa home from her soul searching pilgrimage to India.

And it looked like the guru had the desired effect on Demi who looked glowing as she walked out of the airport.

Of course Demi didn’t bring the guru back as a souvenir, the pair travelled out to India together so the Charlie’s Angels star could find her spiritual centre.

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Earlier this week the spiritual pair were spotted in McLeod Ganj in Dharamshala, India, studying under His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Demi  and ex Ashton Kutcher have ­finally agreed to settle their bruising divorce ­battle two years after they separated.

According to reports in the U.S. the couple, who split acrimoniously in November 2011 and have been battling ever since, have signed ­divorce paperwork and could file the legal documents as soon as next week.

“It’s been quite a struggle but finally they have signed their divorce agreement,” said a source.

“The paperwork is already to be presented to the courts and once there it will formally end their marriage.”

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After over a year of separation, Kutcher filed for divorce from Moore on December 21, 2012 in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences.

The Indecent Proposal star  filed her response papers in March 2013, requesting spousal support and payment of legal fees from Kutcher.

It has been reported the pair had bitterly argued over money.

Kutcher, 35, became the highest-paid actor on TV when he joined the cast of “Two and a Half Men” and he also has made extensive lucrative investments through his A-Grade investments firm with Guy Oseary and Ron Burkle.

It will be the third time Moore will have been divorced after failed marriages to singer Freddie Moore, 63, and actor Bruce Willis, 58.

She married Kutcher in September 2005 with Willis attending as a guest.

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04 NOVEMBER 2013 Singer and actress Martine McCutcheon flaunts her figure in her most sensuous photo shoot in over a decade in this week’s HELLO!, as she reveals how she has got her body back to its best following a seven-year battle with crippling depression and the neurological condition ME, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome.

The illness saw Martine gain over two stone in weight and left her full of self-loathing, especially when she looked in the mirror.

Posing in HELLO! in seductive vintage lingerie, Martine, 37, tells the magazine: “I would think, ‘That’s not me’.

 

“Because ME is an illness that affects the brain and nervous system, your hormones are all over the place, which makes you prone to bloating and sporadic and sudden weight gain and loss.

“The illness made me lose all my muscle tone and my skin became loose and dry. I had the body of an old woman.”

Through a combination of anti-depressants, alternative therapies such as homeopathy and adjusting her diet, Martine now has her condition under control and has regained her energy sufficiently to start exercising again.

 

Happy to pose in underwear for the first time since she was in her early twenties she adds: “I go to the gym, I walk, I do Pilates and whilst I won’t deny that I would love to be slimmer, I have realised that short of living on fresh air, I’m never going to be a skinny Minnie,” the Love Actually star tells HELLO!

“If I work out hard one day, I have to make sure I rest up the next. But my jeans fit nicely now, so that makes me happy. I feel like I’m getting there again, which is wonderful.”

She also reveals how she and her husband Jack McManus are hoping to be parents, or at least be expecting their first child, within the year.

“It’s what I want more than anything, but I’d been so scared that I wouldn’t be able to. I thought, ‘How can I bring a baby into the world when I’m not well enough to look after myself?’ Now I feel I could.

“Jack so deserves to be a dad, he’ll be wonderful.”

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