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Tricia Walsh-Smith Blasts Hubby In YouTube Divorce Videos
Tricia Walsh-Smith has amused several hundred thousand of us this week with her six-minute YouTube rant about her millionaire theatre impresario husband, Phil Smith. Walsh-Smith has obviously gone to a lot of trouble creating this video – there are captions which describe her as an “actress/playwright/good egg”, though few people had heard of her before. [Link]
Jordan Queen Rania Launches YouTube Channel
Jordan’s media savvy Queen Rania has launched a YouTube channel calling on young people to engage in a global dialogue to dismantle stereotypes of Muslims and the Arab world. Rania has vowed to work to break down such preconceptions and has said she wants people to “know the real Arab world … unedited, unscripted and unfiltered.” [Link]
First YouTube Awards Given Out
Tay Zonday morphed from an unknown musician to an Internet superstar who got booked on national TV shows after his song “Chocolate Rain” — an amateur clip of his baritone crooning — went viral last year. Now he’s among the 12 winners of the second annual YouTube Video Awards, recognizing the top user-created videos of 2007.
YouTube users voted on six nominees for each category: music, sports, comedy, instructional, short film, inspirational, commentary, creative, politics, series, eyewitness and “adorable.”
“It’s the new Emmys,” Zonday, 25, said of the video-sharing site’s awards in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “It’s the next Oscars. The next People’s Choice Awards. It’ll be interesting to see what happens five years, 10 years (from now).” [Link]