Tuesday 9 September 2008

"Blah Girls" bring teen voice to celeb gossip

SAN FRANCISCO () - They're called the Blah Girls and they've got plenty to say nearly celebrities, most of it cheeky.





The threesome animated gossip queens -- Tiffany, Brittney and Krystle -- ar dedicated to spreading rumor and comment on the Internet on the up-to-the-minute pop culture happenings. And all from what their creators hope is a unique adolescent perspective.





Launched on Monday, the Blah Girls ( www.blahgirls.com ) ar the up-to-the-minute creation from actor Ashton Kutcher and his comrade entertainment enterpriser Jason Goldberg.





Using southern California "Valley Girl" jargon sprinkled with "like", "altogether" and "OMG!", the three animated teens riff in their beginning Webisode on celebrity baby adoptions, their love of Vitaminwater (the pink kind) and "Pineapple Express" role player Seth Rogen's qualifications to be a dad.





Kutcher, 30, who created the popular TV series "Punk'd" in 2005 with Goldberg, said the Blah girls were partly inspired by his own ternion step-daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Willis -- the children of Bruce Willis and Kutcher's actress wife Demi Moore.





"I'm somewhat inspired by driving teenaged girls to school in the morning and earshot the conversation in the back seat...eventually it just become blah rant blah.





"That is their (teenaged girls') voice but we don't make fun of them. We are making a comedic play on the fanatism of the girls," Kutcher told .





Kutcher aforementioned the Blah girls were not trying to compete with the crowded reality of celebrity bloggers nor to do fun of famous multitude. Instead the aim is for the site to act in collaboration with other celebrity Web sites and leave new content for them.





"Teens just have a beat on popular culture that is enchanting to younger and older demographics alike," said Kutcher. "We created the Blah Girls to provide a new winding on entertainment themed depicted object."





(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Dean Goodman)









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