Oct 31, 2008   | COMMENTS     

Jerry Lewis has once again rankled the delicate nature of the gay community, in what is becoming a long string of insults. While on a press tour in Australia, a reporter asked Lewis his opinion on the sport of cricket. Lewis’ response: “Oh, cricket? It’s a fag game. What are you, nuts?”

Dish questions the wisdom of insulting the entire population of Australia by denouncing their national sport — while standing in Australia at the time — but Dish can’t say she’s terribly shocked by Lewis slurring such slurs again. Just like our favorite racist grandma we keep stashed in an upstairs room, Lewis is going to say these things and there’s not much anyone can do about it.

This is not Lewis’ first gay-related gaffe: during his 2007 Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, he pointed to a cameraman and called him an “illiterate fag,” although then he quickly apologized for his “poor choice of words.” And there are hordes of other people he delights in offending as well — during his 2008 Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, he told his lovely (and significantly younger) co-host Jann Carl, “If this were 30 years ago, I’d have been all over you.” On the air, he says these things. Dish wishes we were pretty enough to receive such compliments.

Madonna sticks it to Guy

Alas, the divorce drama continues with Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie. According to the Times in London, Ritchie has turned down a fat divorce settlement from Madonna, of 20 million pounds — about $40 million in U.S. dollars — which is presumably more money than he will make in the rest of his own career. But he rejected the offer because he disagrees on custody terms of their children, Rocco and David (Madonna also has a daughter, Lourdes, from a previous relationship with Carlos Leon).

These problems, of course, stem from the fact that they didn’t marry with a prenuptial agreement, which seems to be a trend in British marriages. Have we learned nothing from Paul McCartney? The divorce battle is destined to become ugly as Madonna tries to keep as much of her fortune away from her husband as possible.

Speaking of getting the shaft: Dish recently stumbled upon a certain photo, posted on her favorite guilty pleasure BillyMasters.com, of Madonna and Guy exiting a London sex shop. Madonna is carrying a new “Purple Penetrator,” a pair of ladies’ panties with an attachable … well, Dish would rather not say, lest she blush. Presuming the purchase was for themselves, in the photo Madonna is devilishly smiling, while Guy’s facial expression is more apprehensive. Perhaps he was nervous about getting caught by the photogs or perhaps he was just anticipating the big night to come. It’s a shame, with all that bedroom excitement, they still couldn’t make things work.

Jennifer Hudson update

We take a serious turn in the news, with an update on the story of Jennifer Hudson’s family. As has been widely reported, Hudson’s mother Darnell Donerson, and brother Jason Hudson, were both shot to death last Friday in Donerson’s West Side Chicago home. Jennifer’s 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, was abducted from the home after the incident, and had been reported missing; but in the latest twist of the sad tale, King’s body was then found in the back of a stolen SUV, with gunshot wounds to the head.

While police have not yet made any arrests, one person has been identified as a “person of interest”: William Balfour, the estranged husband of Jennifer Hudson’s sister. Balfour jumped to the front of the suspect line when police discovered he missed a parole meeting on Friday, the same day as the shootings.

Dish cautions all readers to think twice before falling for those naughty boys. They can be trouble.