D*Face, the contemporary urban artist - some of whose work can currently be seen as part of the "Trailblazers" exhibition at the Above Second gallery, in Sai Ying Pun - recently redecorated Christmas trees discarded on the streets of London by adding eye baubles and tinsel frowns to bare and lifeless branches. With his "aPOPcalyptic" manifesto and subversive, punkish style, D*Face has been touted as the next Banksy …
The acerbic writer and broadcaster showed a softer side in 2011, when he posted online the short video Charlie Brooker is (un)appealing, in support of the charity Anthony Nolan. Brooker joined the bone-marrow-donor register after hearing about a bucket list made by Alice Pyne, a teenager with terminal leukaemia. In 2000, Brooker was a writer on the late-night television comedy The 11 O'Clock Show, which launched the careers of both Ricky Gervais and comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen …
In 2005, Marshall Bruce Mathers III ranked 58th, 57 places behind filmmaker Michael Moore, in Bernard Goldberg's book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. In an interview, the Detroit rapper, a friend of Elton John, responded: "I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable if they want." Eminem sparked a celebrity firestorm after the lyrics to his hit The Real Slim Shady insinuated sexual relations had occurred between tattooed rocker Fred Durst and pop princess Christina Aguilera …