JAMES BLUNT SOLD HIS SISTER ON EBAY
Believe it or not this one is real. The “You’re Beautiful” singer tells British GQ that he really did auction his sister on the popular online auction site.
We’ve heard of some strange items being put up on eBay, but this has got to top them all. (Okay, well, maybe not all.)
Blunt tells the magazine: “I came back to the flat where my sister was staying and she was crying because she couldn’t get to a funeral in Ireland. The planes were on strike, the ferry was out of season, and there were no trains.”
So Blunt says he turned to eBay to help his sister in her time of need.
“I ended up whacking it on eBay: ‘Damsel in distress seeks knight in shining armor! Desperate to get to a funeral in southern Ireland, please help!’ The bids flooded in and the guy who won had a helicopter.”
The reason the singer is fessing up about placing his flesh and blood up for bid three years ago is because the tale has a happy ending. Just a few weeks ago the man who flew Blunt’s sister to that funeral married her.
“That was the stupidest thing I’ve ever sold on eBay – my sister,” Blunt says. But, hey, he got a brother-in-law out of the deal.
BRITNEY SPEARS HAS A NEW BOY TOY
This one is actually a rumor. The dark-haired guy who has been seen driving Brit and her kids around town is Daimon Shippen—her bodyguard and manny.
Described by others as “soft-spoken, strong and good with kids,” a rep for Spears says Shippen’s relationship with the pop princess is purely professional.
If he looks familiar to you then you have a good eye and an even better memory. Shippen has been identified as the security guard who helped catch Spears’s son Sean Preston when the singer stumbled in New York in May 2006. Back then Shippen was working for a security firm. When he quit the company Spears hired him.
Recently Shippen has been photographed escorting Spears to a production of Wicked and to church, carrying a crying Jayden. He also has been spotted with Spears at a local gas station where she had to make an emergency restroom stop.