The glitz and glamour of the film world will showcase its talents on the red carpet on the 26th of February 2012 as we celebrate the 84th Academy Awards – or better known as the Oscars to you and me.

Earlier in the week we heard the nominations for each category and immediately the bookies published their Oscar 2012 betting odds on whom Billy Crystal will be announcing come ceremony night.

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It’s prize giving time again. Over the last month or so, we have seen celebrities of all variety parade down the red carpets and take their VIP seats at The Golden Globes, The BAFTA’s and more recently The Brits. However, their is one award ceremony that eclipses ALL award events. It is none other than the Daddy of award shows – The 83rd Annual Academy Awards – or The Oscars 2011, to you and me.

Below are our personal predictions on who will win The Oscars 2011. We have focussed our attention on the main category awards up for grabs and they are as follows : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and finally Best Supporting Actress. To get the latest Oscars betting odds then check out our dedicated page – Oscars Betting 2011.

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The BBC Sports Personality Awards are always a favourite with TV audiences each year as we commemorate those sporting individuals/teams who have reached great heights of achievement throughout the year. Previous winners of this prestigious ceremony have included the likes of David Beckham (01), Andrew Flintoff (05), Joe Calzaghe (07) and more recently Ryan Giggs (09). The BBC have announced this years 10 sports men and women for the BBC Sports Personality 2010 award and looking through the list – this years winner is going to be a very tight call indeed and the Sports Personality betting hightlights this.

Current favourite for the BBC Sports Personality 2010 betting is champion Jockey, Tony McCoy, who has the small accolade of being the greatest jump jockey in history. Best odds on McCoy are 4/5 from 888Sport. Tony McCoy finished 3rd in the same competition back in 2002 with Paula Radcliffe lifting the Sports Personality trophy that year. It is interesting to note that no Racing Jockey has ever won the competition although there have been a couple of winners that participated in the Equestrian discipline (both Royalty, so take from that what you will).

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It’s back! I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here 2010 crept back onto our television screens on Sunday night and we are barely 2 days in to broadcasting and already we have controversy. Now, we all know the idea of the show, to take “celebrities” and place them in the Australian Jungle, get them to do tasks for food involving plenty of creepy crawlies, spiders plus a host of other unmentionables that would make your skin crawl. Seems fairly straight-forward, and it is, but it is normally this basicness that is enough to give the Celebrities a touch of jungle fever and make them behave in all sorts of weird ways to escape their botanic nightmare.

None, was more so present, than last night when that ‘wee wummin off the tele’, Gillian McKeith, a well known nutritionist, whom consistently said she suffers a phobia of insects and a fear of heights (what the heck she doing there then, I hear you say) freaked out on her Bushtucker Trial. Her task involved being plunged underground into pitch darkness in a chained and padlocked crate alongside all sorts of creepy things including rats. Gillian then seemed to take an almighty panic attack and then pass out – but was still concious enough during all of this to make sure her top was pulled down over her exposed belly.

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This Sunday I’ll be brushing down my tuxedo and glossing up those bashed in winkle picker shoes I bought back in the early 90′s for a grand night in front of the TV to watch The 2010 Oscars ceremony.

Considering myself to be an aveage film buff type (hey, if Johnathon Ross can get away with it, then so can I) I’d thought I’d share my views on who’ll pick up the “golden nuddy man bling” for all you Oscar 2010 betting punters.

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What an incredible year it has been for UK sport. British sport has had a rather successful 2009 and when you look over your shoulder at the year almost gone, you can see why the betting for Sports Personality of the Year 2009 is going to be a tough ask.

Understandbly, the bookies have opened the books and made Jenson Button the hot favourite to lify this years Sports Personality trophy. However, look down the 10 nominations and you’ll see names that also gained success this year and who have a story to tell just as remarkable as that of Button’s.

For example, Ryan Giggs, who broke into the Manchester United first team way back in 1991 and has made an astonishing 574 appearances for his club – even more remarkable when you consider a professional footballers shell life with a club is around the 2 – 3 year mark.

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It’s back on our TV screen on the 18th of September and it’s the BBC’s prime time Saturday show that is out to give ITV’s the X-Factor a run for its money – yep, it’s Strictly Come Dancing. The glamour, the glitz, the gowns and 16 new celebrities are ready to glide across the floor (in some cases it may be more grind than glide – yikes) to entertain us all over again on the weekends.

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