Fashionista vs Gladiator Final Round – Who?

Only joking!

Surprisingly, the winner of the fourth, and final, Gland Slam tournament of 2009 (the U.S. Open) was not Federer or Nadal, but the Argentinean player Juan Martín del Potro, who dethroned Mr Fed. to claim his first major title, in his first Grand Slam final. Congrats!

The U.S. Open, however, marks the end of the “Fashionista vs Gladiator” segment for this year, with Federer just edging out Nadal with 2 Slams to the Spaniard’s 1.

It was a good year for the fashion-conscious one, who, after claiming the elusive Roland Garros title, went on to claim back his Wimbledon trophy, and welcome twin girls into his slick world. However, the year wasn’t so rapturous for my little gladiator, who, after a shock defeat at Roland Garros, went into temporary retirement, citing a knee injury. But he was back in action at The Open, and made it into the semi-finals, so there’s hope for a more plausible “Fashionaista vs Gladiator” in 2010.

For now i’ll say that it’s been fun, we’ve watched some great tennis and witnessed a record-breaking moment.

Stay safe. Stay cool. And don’t forget to check back with me next year for more tennis tantrums (yes, I’m talking about Miss Williams!).

See you in January!

So She Thinks She Can Dance!

For the premiere of the seventh season of The Ellen Degeneres Show, the talk show host brought on the guys from So You Think You Can Dance to perform a special routiiiine!

By now you should be familiar with the show’s format (if you watch it!), but if not, it goes a little something like this… Ellen appears, introduces herself etc., and then proceeds to gyrate around the room, among the studio audience and over a coffee table to a funky club banger, before swinging into her chair to start the “talking” segment of her show.

Well, the season premiere wasn’t much different; however, Ms. Degeneres did add an extra scoop of sugar and So You Think You Can Dance spice to the proceedings by gracing the stage with the 10 finalists to perform a rehearsed dance number. Check out the clip below.

p.s. If I were a talk show host, I’d shamelessly steal her format – the “I would ideally like to be a professional dancer, but it’s not going to happen so i’ll masquerade as a talk show host” format! Hey, whatever works. I’m not hating, i’m lovin’ her work.