Matthew Ridge aka Meth-You

Don Murray, self-proclaimed Champion Astrologer and race tipster has been busy spreading rumours. In mid-2007 he penned the nickname ‘Meth-You’ for Matthew Ridge. Talking about Keita Nobilo's drug charges, he says

Latest is an heiress to millions who was sprung with some P and utensils.

Strange how she's eventually gonna inherit millions from the alcohol industry but makes P her drug of choice.

The downhill slide began when her boyfriend, known as "Meth You" in some circles, ditched her for another.

Ms Heiress retaliated with a vengeance and absolutely trashed Meth You's waterfront apartment....

Don isn’t the first to suggest that Matthew loves everyone’s favourite letter of the alphabet, P. A commenter on Throng says,

Mathew is the biggest P smoker in New Zealand, everyone in the inner circles knows it, I'm surprised the press hasn't caught on yet. It is pretty obvious by his actions as well. And the photos of him on the Treasure Island web site.

This isn't the first time we've heard these claims. This leads us to wonder… what is going on in Matthew aka Meth-You’s palatial Herne Bay home. In 2006, housemate Brent Todd pleaded guilty to procuring cocaine when the ‘celebrity drug ring’ bust came down. And sweet young Carly Binding works in an industry notorious for drug use. Is the bond between them love, or love of a shared past-time?

And who is the couple? Don Murray is suggesting that Matthew and his housemate Brent Todd (or Bent according to Don Murray) are an item.

It wouldn't be surprising if someone one day produces an OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE-type series on the lives of Matthew Ridge and his housemate/employee Brent Todd.

Maybe a romantic saga of how the two met while playing with each other on the rugby league field and some 15 years later ended up playing with each other far away from the park?

Hmmmm. Seems unlikely, although we have noticed that Meth-You is a big fan of man love. Murray also suggests that

Ridgie's had enough reversals with women to make a long-running soap opera named " Copulation Street " and he must wonder at times if he'd do better off with a husband.

He then goes on to say that Matthew and Brent are astrologically compatible

Ridgie and Toddy ? Virgo Monkey and Sagittarius Dragon ? Yessssssssss !!!!!!!!

Considering that one of Ridgie's longer liaisons, Nicky Watson (1976) is a Sagittarian Dragon like Toddy....

Maybe Ridgie and Toddy will become an item, then get divorced in August-September ?

Huh. Sounds pretty crazy but we'll watch with interest. Don Murray is the man that predicted the All Blacks wouldn't win the 2007 Rugby World Cup so he has a small iota of credibility. Mind you, Miss Prozac predicted that sans crystal ball or astrology chart.

Don also predicts that in 2008 Matthew Ridge will experience

Three difficult attacks from Uranus create massive chaos in the love life and business.

Don Murray’s website isn’t easy to read, with bright type on a black background, and not much in the way of navigation, but if you scroll down the "news" page you will find some interesting snippets of gossip. Whether they are true is up for debate. Murray boasts that he has previously been sued for defamation, but claims the information was correct. He has posted some gossip in advance of the papers, but whether it is all true or only 50-80% accurate, we’ll leave up to you.


Photos: TVNZ

Carly Binding Is Matthew her Ideal Man?

After noticing that the lads are back on TV2 in Matthew and Marc’s Testosterone Rocky Road - this time to Russia, home of Vodka and women who can arm wrestle Matt and Marc into submission - it reminded Miss Prozac that Carly Binding told interviewers (back in the days when she was single) that she was looking for a man who’s not too pretty. And hey presto, her prince with the moody looks arrived.

Carly and Matthew are no strangers to reality television. We were half expecting to see one of them on Dancing with the Stars. Carly came to fame on Peter Urlich's creation Popstars which launched TrueBliss. She's also been on The Great New Zealand Spelling Bee, and April's Angels as well as being a judge on TV2 Song Star.

Carly and Matthew Ridge are now shacked up together (Carly moved in just the day before her 30th birthday bash) so Miss Prozac thought she’d see how he matches Carly’s checklist for her ideal man. Carly is said to be thinking that this might be ‘the real thing’, but she has admitted in past interviews that she’s a dreamer saying, “I lust after the idea of ‘love’”


Loving
Is Matthew a loving chappie? Probably, yes. As any regular watcher of Testosterone Road will know, Matt is a big fan of “man love” constantly telling mate Marc that he needs a hug. He’s also known for falling heavily in love amid pronouncements that he’s found his life-long mate.

Simone Crowe - who went public to deny claims that she was mixed up in a love triangle with Matthew and Nicky Watson - says Matthew is a very loving man who speaks freely about his emotions. Awww that’s sweet. He's also said to be a caring father. We give Matt 9 points out of 10.

Unfortunately, he also talks freely about bodily fluids and passing wind. Ewwww. Minus three demerit points.

Loyal
Carly hankers for a loyal man. Matthew has certainly shown loyalty to his mates, supporting convicted fraudster Brent Todd. Points 10/10.

However, Miss Prozac does seem to recall that wee problem with Matt getting hooked up with ex wife Sally’s best friend Nicky Watson. Minus a million demerit points.

Not too pretty
Huge tick here. Enough said. Points 10/10.



Photos: TVNZ

Celebs Support Breast Cancer Awareness

Popular fashion designers and personalities are supporting the 2008 Glassons Breast Cancer Research Trust T-shirt campaign to raise funds for the recent appointment of New Zealand’s first Professor of Breast Cancer Research at the University of Auckland.

Fashion aficionados can purchase this year’s t-shirts from Glassons for $29.99 with $10 from each sale going to The Breast Cancer Research Trust. Fashions from eight designers are featured:

• Karen Walker
• Kate Sylvester
• Trelise Cooper
• Zambesi
• Lizzie Shand (Ruby)
• Cybèle
• Chris Cherry from Workshop
• Jun Arita (Air New Zealand Fashion Week competition winner and the first member of the New Zealand public to be involved in the campaign)

Celebrity models for this year's campaign include Carly Binding (who has recently moved in with boyfriend Matthew Ridge), Amber Peebles and Annabel Fay. Lovely Carly is modelling a cute design from Jun Arita.

Photos: Breast Cancer Research Trust

Matthew Ridge & Carly Binding's Friendship

Matthew Ridge & former TrueBliss pop star Carly Binding have been hanging out together for several weeks now, and this week's Woman's Day has photos of the two strolling at the beach with Matthew's son Boston.

According to the gossip mag, the pair are just friends but our spies have seen the pair in Ponsonby (near Matthew's palatial home) holding hands and looking cosy. Sounds like these two are friends with benefits...

Update: They are now living together!

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TrueBliss Retrospective

A flashback to TrueBliss

In this video the girls from TrueBliss squabble over shoes while Peter Urlich looks on helplessly.




Their single, Number One


Peter Urlich introduces this clip as the band start rehearsals. It's a pretty uninspiring song, but wow, Joe Cotton has lost a lot of weight since this video.


Thanks Mary Cherry for correcting the information!

Celebrity Recycling on Pop's Ultimate Star

Grant Smithies of the Sunday Star Times interviews Pop's Ultimate Star judges Peter Urlich and Jordan Luck about the upcoming singing contest.

Peter Urlich is a musician and entrepreneur and he was the creator of the Popstars television show that auditioned and launched the girlband TrueBliss.

Keri Harper, Joe Cotton, Megan Alatini, Carly Binding, Erika Takacs

Unfortunately TrueBliss failed after the weekly television show ended, however most of the band members live on as reality television contestants.

Popstars spawned a number of copycat shows in Australia (Bardot) and UK before Simon Cowell created the now popular Idol series. Two members of TrueBliss (Keri Harper and Joe Cotton) will be competing in the upcoming Ultimate Pop Stars show. Megan Alatini is currently appearing in Dancing with the Stars. Carly Binding has created a successful solo career, and Erika Takacs was a television presenter before disappearing from our screens.

From the Sunday Star Times interview

There is a shameful amount of celeb recycling going on here. (And yes, before you ask, Pop's Ultimate Star is a Touchdown production). Some of the Pop's Ultimate Star contestants seem to spend their professional lives bouncing from one dodgy reality show to the next. They've no sooner gotten over their sunburn from Celebrity Treasure Island and they're struggling to spell "ambidextrous" on The Great New Zealand Spelling Bee or gasping over tedious local gossip on Charlotte's Lists.

Urlich thinks this is just inevitable.

"It's a small country. We don't have a bottomless pool of talented, confident people like they do in America. But even with such familiar faces, Pop's Ultimate Star will be entertaining. If you discover that a singer is better than you imagined, that's entertaining, and if someone makes a fool of themselves, that's entertaining too. People watch shows like this for both reasons."

Read the rest of Peter Urlich's interview

Pop's Ultimate Star starts tonight 7pm on TV2.

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