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MEAT LOAF has taken aim at bosses of the Australian Football League (AFL) over a recent pre-match performance, branding them "jerks" and vowing to dissuade other artists from singing at future games.
The Bat Out Of Hell rocker took the stage at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to sing at the AFL’s grand final game earlier this month (Oct11), but many critics dismissed his performance as shambolic and out of tune.
Meat Loaf has now spoken out to defend his set and has accused AFL bosses of failing to provide a live piano and not giving him enough time for a sound check.
He also claims he could not hear the music in his earpiece, according to the Sunday Herald Sun.
The star has now vowed never to perform for the AFL again, telling the publication, "I’m sorry, they’re jerks. I do not like them… And I’ll tell you what, anybody that I hear announces that they’re going to play for them I’m going to write to that particular artist a letter and tell them not to. And I hope the AFL hears this and I want this everywhere. Because I will go out of my way to tell any artist do not play for them."

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NOEL GALLAGHER took a cheeky swipe at his brother Liam at his first solo show since the break-up of OASIS by opening with the band’s track (IT’S GOOD) TO BE FREE.
The guitarist, who left the Wonderwall hitmakers in 2009, celebrated his ’single’ status by performing the 1994 B-side as he made his debut with new band Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday (23Oct11).
The rocker created the group after falling out with his bandmate brother Liam in a backstage bust-up prior to a gig in France two years ago (09).
But despite the acrimonious split, Gallagher relied heavily on Oasis’ back catalogue throughout his live show, playing Oasis songs including Wonderwall, Supersonic and Talk Tonight between new material.
His encore also included the Oasis classics Don’t Look Back In Anger, The Importance Of Being Idle and Little By Little.
The star’s triumphant concert came the same day his debut solo album, titled Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, entered the U.K. album chart at number one.

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Actor TOM SELLECK is haunted by a MAGNUM, P.I. poster he still wishes he hadn’t agreed to be photographed for - because it’s the one fans seem to want signed more than any other.
The ageing hunk admits he was reluctant to pose for the Hawaiian hammock-themed shoot but signed on to be "a nice guy".
And he’s regretted his decision ever since.
He explains, "They put me in a hammock between two palm trees and I had on a purple Hawaiian shirt… and they gave me one of those pineapples that are cut off with a big straw and an umbrella.
"I said, ‘I don’t wanna do this’, and they said, ‘Oh, come on, just be a good sport’.
"Now, everywhere I go, that poster comes up or that picture comes up and I have to sign it."

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TWILIGHT villain CAM GIGANDET thumbs through film scripts to find the scene where his character strips off - because it’s becoming the norm for him to get naked in his films.
The actor has shown off his impressive physique for Christina Aguilera in Burlesque and Nicole Kidman in new film Trespass and he has come to accept that every role he lands will have a naked scene.
He tells WENN, "There’s a lack of clothes running through my career." But he admits he’ll never be more nervous than when he had to strip for his crush Kidman: "That scene was heightened because the person across from me was intimidating, so it was tough. I mean it was Nicole Kidman.
"I did extra sit-ups before that scene. We had to shoot it a few times so I think all the body make-up ran off and my abs were fading away with the make-up!"

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Actor/director EMILIO ESTEVEZ has become the latest celebrity winemaker after tasting success with his first Casa Dumetz collections.
Estevez, the brother of embattled star Charlie Sheen, started the business in Malibu, California in 2005 while working on his Robert F. Kennedy biopic Bobby, and now his winemaking dreams have been realised.
Casa Dumetz’s Viognet white is a big hit and the actor is currently developing a new Gewurtztraminer.
The St. Elmo’s Fire star joins the ranks of Francis Ford Coppola, Lorraine Bracco, Gerard Depardieu, Sir Cliff Richard, Kyle MacLachlan and Dave Matthews among the world’s celebrity vintners.

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Actor BEAU BRIDGES is hoping to follow brother Jeff into the album charts after recording new tunes with Cuban jazz great ARTURO SANDOVAL.
The Fabulous Baker Boys star recorded a handful of self-penned songs as a gift for his wife’s birthday and he was so impressed with the results he’s considering heading back into the studio with Sandoval.
He says, "I threw a special birthday party for my wife and she asked me to record some of my songs for her gift. I’ve written songs all through my life but I’ve never really taken them seriously and recorded them.
"We walk every morning in our neighbourhood with our buddies and one of our friends who walks with us is Arturo Sandoval. So Arturo got wind that my wife had made this request and he said, ‘Man, you better do it and come to my house and lay down some songs!’ So I did for the first time and it was so much fun.
"The songs are mostly stories that come to me. One came to me in the middle of the night. I woke up and just wrote it all down. I call it God’s Song. Arturo did the music for it. He started off something on his horn and then he played some crazy piano.
"Who knows what will happen with them. Maybe they’ll wind up on a CD!"

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Actor RHYS IFANS feels his acting career has come full circle after working with VANESSA REDGRAVE in new period film ANONYMOUS - because he started out as the veteran’s ‘flyman’.
The Notting Hill star landed a role as a trainee at a theatre in North Wales after leaving school and worked on the scenery for Redgrave’s Cleopatra.
He recalls, "A flyman is the guy who pulls the ropes and brings the scenery in and out. Vanessa Redgrave was working in that theater playing Cleopatra with (then-boyfriend) Timothy Dalton. So my first experience in life was with Vanessa, but I only saw the top of her head from where I was! "When she was in the make-up trailer on the first day of shooting Anonymous I said, ‘Oh, hi Vanessa, I’m a big fan. We’ve worked together before.’ I could see her trying to remember me. I said, ‘You won’t remember me but I remember you’." He relayed the story of his humble beginnings to Redgrave’s daughter Joely Richardson, who also appears in Anonymous, during a recent junket.
She said, "That’s an amazing story. And now you’re starring in a film about Shakespeare that mom is in. That’s made my day to hear that story. I love those life things."

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British actor DOMINIC WEST has vowed never to play a serial killer again because he found his role as FRED WEST to be "all-consuming" and "soul destroying".
The Wire star portrayed the notorious British murderer in U.K. TV movie Appropriate Adult, which centred around the interviews Fred West gave to cops after his arrest in 1994.
West admits playing the serial killer was a "traumatic experience" and it has put him off ever taking on such a gritty role again.
He tells Britain’s Daily Star Sunday, "I’ve had quite a few offers to play serial killers. But I will never do it again. They are all ghastly. It’s a soul-destroying thing to do. It is all-consuming. Luckily we shot the drama in about three or four weeks and then I went straight into something else, so I was able to get rid of him very quickly. But it was a traumatic experience." Fred West was charged with murdering 12 young women and girls in Britain between 1967 and 1987, but he hanged himself in his prison cell in 1995 before he could face trial.

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LINDSAY LOHAN’s apology gift of cupcakes was turned away from the Los Angeles County Morgue on Friday (21Oct11), because the actress’ community service bosses felt it was "unacceptable" for staff to munch delicious treats inches from dead bodies.
The Mean Girls star began her court-ordered service at the morgue a day late on Friday morning, after she was turned away on Thursday (20Oct11) for arriving at the wrong entrance, and thought it would be a nice gesture to say hello with cupcakes.
Unfortunately, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter didn’t agree - and he insisted the delivery guy was turned away.
Winter tells TMZ.com, "It’s unacceptable. We’re not here to accept food." Lohan’s representative says, "Lindsay asked her assistant to pick up lunches from the In-And-Out (fast food chain) in Huntington Park around 10:30 a.m. Around 11:00 a.m., her assistant returned with the lunches and brought them into the administrative trailer and set the food on a table for the volunteers to eat on their break.
"Additionally, Lindsay ordered cupcakes for the staff and volunteers. When they were delivered, morgue supervisors would not let them into the building.
"It is unfortunate that Lindsay’s well-intentioned actions were not taken in the spirit in which she intended; to say she was sorry for yesterday’s misunderstanding."

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BARRY MANILOW is to donate $300,000 (GBP185,000) worth of instruments to a high school in Missouri after learning the music department’s equipment was largely destroyed by tornadoes earlier this year (11).
Tornadoes devastated Joplin in May (11), killing dozens of people and levelling many homes, and touched by the tragedy, the singer’s non-profit organisation, the Manilow Music Project, has now donated funds and launched a community instrument drive to help the students and administrators at Joplin High School rebuild it’s music department.
He says, "I know firsthand how invaluable music can be to get you through life’s tough times. It is an honour and a privilege to help these kids after such a disaster." The Copacabana hitmaker will visit the school on Thursday (27Oct11) to hand over the donation..

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SUPER FURRY ANIMALS frontman GRUFF RHYS has won the inaugural Welsh Music Prize for his new album HOTEL SHAMPOO.
The singer/songwriter beat artists like Manic Street Preachers and cult acts Funeral For A Friend and The Blackout to claim the new award, which is being billed as his native Wales’ equivalent to the Mercury Music Prize.
Accepting the award at Cardiff’s Kuku Club on Friday (21Oct11), Rhys said, "Everyone on the list deserved to win, so I am very grateful. I really didn’t expect to win."

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A year-and-a-half in NOEL GALLAGHER’s life is set to become the focus of a new photography exhibition in London.
Photographer Lawrence Watson spent 18 months travelling with the guitarist following his split from Oasis and documented Gallagher launching his solo career.
And now the black and white images are to be put on show at the Londonnewcastle Project Space.
The free exhibit will begin next week (27Oct11) and run until the middle of November (11).
Watson says, "Working so closely and for such a consistently long time with him (Gallagher) has given me a great opportunity to experience his creativity at first hand."

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THE DECEMBERISTS star JENNY CONLEE is winning her battle against breast cancer - the disease is in remission.
The keyboard player was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year (11) and she has undergone five months of treatment.
And now bandmate Colin Meloy is sharing the good news with fans and followers on Twitter.com.
He writes, "For those of you wondering, saw Jenny this week; our girl’s officially in remission!" Reports suggest Conlee, 39, will be back on stage next month (Nov11) as a member of John Wesley Harding’s backing band.

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DEMI LOVATO will mark the first anniversary of her rehab stint at baseball’s World Series on Monday (24Oct11).
The singer/actress was admitted to rehab in October, 2010 following a breakdown on tour with the Jonas Brothers in South America.
Lovato is now in recovery and in the middle of a major comeback after revealing she struggled for years with eating disorders and emotional problems.
And, a year to the day after the beginning of her three-month rehab treatment, Lovato will perform the U.S. National Anthem at Game 5 of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday.
The call-up to the big game comes just days after her sister Dallas tweeted that the Skyscraper singer should belt out the National Anthem during the Major League Baseball championship series, while watching Game 1.

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Celebrated playwright TOM STOPPARD has teamed with Disney bosses to adapt his Oscar-winning SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE script into a theatrical blockbuster.
Stoppard, who dabbled with Shakespeare in his play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, is to revamp his screenplay for the stage, according to Variety.
The play is expected to premiere in London, although no dates have been announced.
There are also no casting details available.
Gwyneth Paltrow won her only Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a cross-dressing noblewoman chasing Joseph Fiennes’ Will Shakespeare.

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HAYDEN PANETTIERE, Oscar nominee HAILEE STEINFELD and GLEE star DARREN CRISS have been named among the stars honoured with prestigious Power of Youth awards by trade publication Variety.
In all, seven celebrities have been recognised for their charity work and together they’ll scoop up the accolades at a special ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday (22Oct11).
Glee hunk Criss has been an avid supporter of the Trevor Project, which raises awareness about the suicide rate among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, Panettiere has been a longtime advocate of the Whaleman Foundation, which preserves oceanic habitats, and breakout True Grit star Steinfeld fronts the hunger campaign Share Our Strength.
Modern Family’s Rico Rodriguez, 12-year-old Brothers actress Bailee Madison, Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz and the teen star of hit sitcom Two and a Half Men, Angus T. Jones, will also receive prizes.

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FOOTLOOSE star DENNIS QUAID has put the Montana ranch where ROBERT REDFORD filmed both A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT and THE HORSE WHISPERER up for sale.
The 418-acre property in Emigrant is on the market at $14 million (GBP8.75 million).
The estate features four guest houses and a home for a ranch manager, stables, a private creek and even gold mines, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Quaid, who purchased the place 25 years ago tells the publication he’s selling up in Montana so he can pursue his new surfing hobby in Hawaii.

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Moviemaker TIM BURTON has created a giant balloon for next month’s (Nov11) Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
His B. Boy will float alongside Garfield and Snoopy inflatables.
Burton admits he was "surprised" to be asked to be a part of the annual parade, which takes over the streets of the Big Apple, and he jumped at the chance to create a balloon.
He tells USA Today B. Boy was inspired by the thought of unwanted balloons left behind at children’s parties at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, that dream of being able to fly free.
Burton adds, "There’s always been something about balloons. You see them deflated and you see them floating. There’s something quite beautiful and tragic and sad and buoyant and happy, all at the same time."

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