Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of that cute vomiting boy who did not get lost in the air in a balloon, will plead guilty tomorrow to charges that they concocted the story in order to become famous, which happened.
Apparently no one was listening the first time we went over this because now there is Balloon Boy costume for sale. Don't you dare! We also have some other played-out ideas to add to the list.
A finance slave chained to their desk last week was so distraught over the poor boy-in-the-balloon-that-wasn't they went to the Bloomberg help desk. Daily Intel's Chris Rovzar, who first posted it, says it's the email-forward of choice in financial circles.
There's only ten shopping days left before Halloween. So, it's time for Halloween costume listicles! Lots of people want to tell you what to wear. We'd like to spare you the humiliation of following their advice.
Onetime TV star Bronson Pinchot has some not-so-nice things to say about Tom Cruise. Fate will bring Octomom and Jon Gosselin together. Salman Rushdie is still pining for Padma. Presenting your Tuesday morning Gossip Roundup!
Well look here, it's our friend Robert Thomas—ex-associate of Balloon Dad Richard Heene—all up on the Today Show this morning. Thomas on Heene: "The negatives outweigh the positives." It seems so! Click through for the entire interview.
If you're sick and tired of being treated as a pawn by the Balloon Boy family, you're not alone. In this video, one neighbor is mad enough to get into a fight with 'the media' for blocking his car.
Yes, right now everyone is pissed off at Richard Heene, the man behind the Balloon Boy hoax, but there are some people whose need for fame has ended in with much worse collateral damage—including death.
According to Balloon boy dad Richard Heene, Hillary Clinton is a shape-shifting reptilian humanoid. You may be surprised to learn that he is not the only one who believes this!
In case you were wondering, Sheree Silver—Florida-based psychic adviser and Wife Swap spouse of Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene—has updated her psychic reading of the tragic case.
Felony charges will be brought up against the Heene family, it seems. Warrants will be brought up against them. They don't know when the Heene's are going to be arrested. They're going to be going through Heene's computer and seeking out co-conspirators. "On the bizarre meter, this rates a 10," noted Alderden. They didn't search for drugs. They didn't do a thorough search of the house, and should've looked at the attic. They didn't.
Here we go: Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden's saying that the local police will likely be pressing charges against Richard Heene. And someone claiming to be Richard Heene has left a long, substantial comment at TMZ trying to deflate speculation.
Wow. Ready to have your mind blown? A former research assistant who slaved for Richard Heene is revealing the deceptive, tragic master plan that Heene concocted to manufacture a media thunderstorm. This...is completely insane. Here's a bullet-point summary:
For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course.
The local sheriff in Ft. Collins, Colo., is defending the Heene family, saying at a press conference that he doesn't think Richard and Mayumi Heene were faking their emotions during yesterday's ordeal.
Sheree Silver, the Wife Swap "spouse" of Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene, is from my hometown. Score! The local paper gets the scoop: Sheree—who is a psychic—psychically intuited exactly what was happening.
