At Home in Hespeler

All the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities

Just when Spotify makes it to Canada, Taylor Swift pulls her music from the streaming service. On the eve of releasing her new album, 1987, Swift refused to release the album to the streaming music service and pulled her previous material. The result: 1984 is the first Platinum album of 2014, selling 1,287,000 copies, 22% of all albums sold in the US.

So much for that whole pick a fight with Spotify strategy.

The women of the English speaking world are, I am reliably told, suffering a mass heartbreak this week Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch has announced his engagement to to actress Sophie Hunter. Cumberbatch being, I am led to understand, somewhat handsome, this caused much gnashing of teeth and tweeting of Cumber-bitch jokes.

A quick survey of my own home led to tears and weeping, which I’m not sure what exactly that means, However, it seems some of womanhood is upset over this whole Sophie Hunter episode.

Tears or no, here at the Fluffernutter World Headquarters we wish the Cumberbatches every happiness.

In one of the weirdest, non-fluffy but definitely nutty, stories I have ever covered, AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd’s arrest this week for trying to hire a hitman is among the top.

The story has yet to unfold in court, presumptions of innocence must be maintained and all statements here are alleged, however, it appears the “Hugh Hefner of Tauranga,” which is in New Zealand, likes the hired ladies. He does not like, however, to pay these ladies once they have offered their services, causing friends of the ladies to come looking for the money.

You’ll have to connect your own dots between the above and “attempting to procure the murder of two men,” a charge that was laid, and withdrawn within 48 hours.

Rudd still faces some less serious charges, but nothing that should stop him from touring with AC/DC next year.

The Duggers are, apparently, a reality TV family of some religious bent. There are 20 or so of them, and the ones of marriageable age do not do any marriagy things. That is to say, kissing is out.

Daughter Dugger Jessa married herself off to one Ben Seewald last weekend. Once married, like most young couples, consummation was on the virginal young minds. As a Dugger, their responsibility is to “wait until the evening to pray and then consummate God’s marriage.” The Seewald’s however, had a peppier timeline than that. They, it seems, were seen to be consummating like bunnies in the church cloakroom immediately after the ceremony.

Hey, when the family tradition is twenty or something kids, there really is no time to spare.

Brian Gardiner Uncategorized