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Kim Kardashian became the subject of much internet ridicule after saying she felt “humbled” by doing what?
Financing a school in Ghana
Flying her closest friends and family to a private island for her 40th birthday in the middle of the pandemic
Releasing a range of velour tracksuits
Kanye West
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Broadway and Glee star Lea Michele drew the spotlight early in the year when ex-cast and crew members accused her of bullying. What did she allegedly say to one colleague?
“I’m gonna shit in your wig”
“I’m gonna eat your cat”
“I’m gonna pelt you with eggs”
“I’m gonna shove that cab driver right up your ass!”
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In his new autobiography, A Promised Land, Barack Obama writes that he used his intellectual curiosity at college as a "strategy for picking up girls" (though it proved "mostly worthless"). Which writers and thinkers helped him get to know an "ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black"?
Frantz Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks
Michel Foucault and Virginia Woolf
JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer
Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse
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Madonna has been getting attention for her eccentric Instagram posts and reels. What did she take a bath in while talking about Covid?
Milky water and petals
Ethically sourced turtle saliva and sprigs of blood orchid
Andean “condor oil”
Martian rock salt
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Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey struck out on a new venture this year. What was it?
He recorded a series of erotic audiobooks detailing his relationship with his sourdough starter
He started taking his clothes off on popular content subscription service OnlyFans
He released a wolf calendar containing a series of photos in which his modesty was protected by wolves
He revealed that he will be starring in a Twilight porn parody
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith had viewers of the online show Red Table Talk open-mouthed this year when Pinkett Smith revealed she’d had a relationship with whom?
Television presenter June Sarpong
RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant April Carrión
Rapper August Alsina
Scandinavian 00s dance act September
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Anna Sorokin, AKA Anna Delvey, became an internet celebrity after scamming half of New York high society by posing as a German heiress, for which she received a four-to-12-year prison sentence in 2019. Speaking from prison this year, what did she ask of her fans?
To please get her the phone number of Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer
To send her a streaming link for the final series of Game of Thrones
To stop visiting her in prison because she’s “kind of busy”
To recommend a good brand of statement jewellery
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In Johnny Depp's unsuccessful libel action against the Sun, what nickname was it claimed he uses for Leonardo DiCaprio?
Pumpkinhead
Jingle Balls
The Easter Bunhead
Snowflake the Elf
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In October we had a revelation from Tiger King’s heroine/villain (depending on how you look at it) Carole Baskin. What was it?
She explained why Meowth, the cat Pokémon, can talk, but other Pokémon can’t
She came out as bisexual
She said that she doesn’t actually like cats that much
She told us her real name
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This year, Paris Hilton's documentary This Is Paris drew praise for portraying her more candid side. But in a less down-to-earth YouTube video, Cooking With Paris, which two things did she declare were “brutal”?
World hunger and poverty
A cleaver and a meat pounder
Spoons and cheese
A $9 bottle of Italian red wine and a supermarket own-brand biscuit
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In October, what did Prince Harry say his relationship with Meghan Markle has taught him about?
The power of love
The danger of the press
Unconscious bias
Class differences
Solutions
1:B - “40 and feeling so humbled and blessed,” she said in an Instagram post. “I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time. We danced, rode bikes, swam near whales, kayaked, watched a movie on the beach and so much more.”, 2:A - Unbelievably, this is what she said. “I’m gonna shove that cab driver right up your ass!” is from Deadpool 2., 3:A - Choosing LGBTQ writers for an LGBTQ romantic conquest does reflect the inclusiveness of Obama's presidency., 4:A - Yes, it's milky water and petals. The other answers don’t exist (that we know of – ask Madonna), 5:B - Posey is one of many new recent converts to OnlyFans, a platform that allows users to upload explicit content of themselves, alone or with others, which users can then pay for., 6:C - When Pinkett Smith described it as an “entanglement”, Smith countered with: “An entanglement? A relationship.”, 7:C - In a note posted on her Instagram, she said: “Thanks for all the letters and support – I appreciate it. But please do not show up here to visit unannounced … I’m kind of busy, and showing up here at 8am on a Sunday morning/New Year’s Day/any day is not the way!” , 8:A - Amber Heard alleged that Depp accused her of having an affair with DiCaprio, calling him “Pumpkinhead” (she also said he did the same with Channing Tatum, dubbing him “Potatohead”)., 9:B - She came out as bisexual, in a very forthright and confident interview with Pink News., 10:C - After about two seconds of grating cheese for her lasagne, Hilton tossed it aside saying: “Ugh, so brutal”; she then proclaimed spoons to be similarly callous., 11:C - In a candid video interview with British GQ, Harry said: “Unconscious bias … I had no idea what it was. I had no idea it existed … It took me many, many years to realise it, especially then living a day or a week in my wife’s shoes.”
Scores
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11 and above.
You're the human equivalent of the sidebar of shame!
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8 and above.
You are very knowledgable about showbiz! You should consider a career in celebrity PR.
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0 and above.
This might mean you actually have a life, in which case: good for you! Now pass the Pringles.
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4 and above.
Not great, but not the absolute worst. A bit like Eamonn Holmes.
