Eurogamer meets Holly Valance Comments by Ellie Gibson

I sense a lot of latent misogyny.

Grow up you lot. :P

Careful Fab4, that was a joke about Meg Ryan, not gaming. That's not allowed on this gaming website, you'll get the comedy-nazi's on your back!

Holy Violence!

Eurogamer does not equal Edge.

Thank God.

Keep up the good work guys. These pretentious cocklords can go suck a nut.

OK then, why stop at interviewing celebrities? Why don't they interview MP Gordon Banks about... ah fuck it. I can't be bothered arguing anymore.

I find this amusing and entertaining. Not at all informative, but hey 2 outta 3 ain't bad.

Some people need to relax a little, it's just some fun. You know, fun? That thing we all enjoy and seek out in our day to day lives, often finding it in the the tiny pixels that dance across our TVs and monitors? That stuff. This is the same. So relax.

Yep, my bad MasterNameless, I should have used "turtles are the antithesis of Peter Molyneux". ;)

Some people seem to think that if you find this article inappropriate you don't have fun what so ever. I hate fun. DESTROY ALL FUN.

Careful Fab4, that was a joke about Meg Ryan, not gaming. That's not allowed on this gaming website, you'll get the comedy-nazi's on your back!

Oh, you've made me see the error of my ways. I feel so ashamed now. Please, for all our sakes, let's dispense with the whole gaming theme altogether. Let's make this website more pop culture and celebrity themed! I want the latest news on the hottest vidz, celebz, and fashion!

Or, alternatively, we could all stop being a bunch of fucking fanboys and allow some criticism of the site once in a while.

That article wasn't fun or funny.

It was an irrelevant waste of time and effort by the websites token non-gaming hole.

I wonder if http://www.heatworld.com is doing something on videogames today?

What's with all this negativity? Ellie does her own thing and I look forward to every one of them! Not EVERY article has to be serious, you know.

Although she needs to interview hotter girls :P This Holly bird seems nice but compared to Gemma or Jade.. no.

@mkreku

Sorry, but do you think gaming articles are serious?

I think the best point anyone's made about what EG 'should' be doing is that I'd like to see more fluff articles about games. Like that EVE battle report article the other day. But I like this stuff too. It is not offensive to me.

stop crying kids, it's only an interview

I can recall 3...yes, three, interviews with celebrities (Gemma, Konnie and now this one)...its hardly the obsession many of you fear it is, and it certainly nowhere near Heat level. Then again, some of you might just be easily annoyed...that's your prerogative.

We need more pics.

What a completely shit interview, again. At least these actresses are standing up well to Ellie's demeaning questioning.

As Z-List Celebrity interviews guarantee an increase in website click throughs, could I please request interviews with the following Eurogamer:
Dale Winton
Michael Barrymore (I really would like to know his side of the story)
Graham Norton
the fat black guy off the Halifax adverts (do they still run?)
Pam Ayres (whatever did happen to her)
Verne Troyer (love white midgets) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0873942/
Tony Cox (love black midgets) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185272/
The Great Kahli (love tall people too)

Come on liven up you haters...
You could tell from the Heading it was going to be an interview with an ex neighbours hottie.
If it offends you are isn't to your liking as its not game related just don't click on the link or read the article it's no biggie.
It's better to have these articles than not have them so just chill.

Nice one Ellie. Made me chuckle on a depressing Monday lunch time. :-)

this has cheered me up on a miserable monday afternoon ^_^

Oh yeah, one light-hearted article a month - at a push - makes this into a celeb gossip site. Good one. Does the Times not review games occassionally, does that make the Times a gaming newspaper?

edit: In fact, what fab4 said, but he was more accurate, it's not anywhere near one article a month! You forgot the Keith Chegwin one though, that was hilarious!

Yes, but Keith is a legend, not a celeb :P

"is this fucking serious?
Did I just log onto the nuts website?

Fucking hell EG, what a load of shit. "

Not just me then.

I could do without the "celebrity" whore interviews too ...

To all you people throwing a hall of fame hissy fit about this interview not being serious: There's an EVE Online article on the front page with only 28 comments that demand your immediate attention.

Everyone who's saying it's a great idea having this interview here and that it's only every now and then that we get these kind of thing needs to relalse that EG has been on a downward spiral for the past year and a bit.

I used to come here, and only here, for news and reviews but lately the news is being reported up to a week later than anywhere else, if at all. Reviews are being posted a couple of weeks after games have been released and in a lot of cases they're poorly written by people who have little to no interest in the genre in question and have bizarre scores backed up by faulty reasoning. Also, indie = automatically amazing in Eurogamer terms. The hard-on that the EG staff have for indie games and devs is utterly ridiculous.

This is why these kind of articles and interviews are getting up some peoples noses. They're a waste of time and effort that could be used to cover gaming topics on a website that's becoming less about gaming and more about 'the gaming lifestyle'.

" is this fucking serious?
Did I just log onto the nuts website?

Fucking hell EG, what a load of shit. "


we aint all gay like you !! some of us aint full on geeks either we can mix gaming and still pay attention to women.

nice interveiw she is stunning !!!

God lots of people are having shit mondays.
Enjoyed the light hearted irreverance of this interview,
She has been hired to promote the game, therefore it is a gaming interview?

annoys me and also proves a point which i hate most gamers are fucking nerds !!!

damn im a gamer but im few of a dying breed that can game go pub watch footy and shake off the sterotype of being a complete fucking dork because i own a games console.

these interveiws help break that veiw on gamers its a site deadicated to games and news but also throws in the odd women that aint made of polygons and is actually stunning.

so everyone who says " omg this is games site no women " get a fucking grip go out do stuff normal males would do and stop pissing about on WOW ya bunch of nerds.

Mr Bozzey - Another valid reason for non-celebrity interviews is so that hompohobic tossers like you don't start visiting the site. There are plenty of places on the web for scum like you, so kindly fuck off and leave this site to the queers and geeks.

Surely this is precisely about gaming culture?

This is a woman who has a reasonable acting career (Prison Break is a big series, and she's been in other things recently too) and now she's being pulled into working in the games industry. It's interesting to read her experience and light-hearted view of what's happening. She clearly doesn't take games quite as seriously as many people on here, but she does take her job seriously as well as having fun while doing it. If you want to see the future of professional actors involved with games then this article represents that.

Also, it was amusing to see what Ellie could get away with.

@ Spudsbuckley: If I want serious reviews and inciteful commentary on games then I'll probably go somewhere else. For amusing and less mainstream views on gaming I come here. EG likes indie devs, fine, I'm getting older and finding a lot of big releases pretty tedious, so news and jokes about indie games fits me tastes perfectly.

It could just be that the website doesn't reflect entirely what you want - that doesn't make it bad, it just means that the internet doesn't revolve around your views.

@Mr-Bozzey

I too go to the pub, watch footy, watch porn, [insert other manly things here]. Are you suggesting that we need articles like this on a gaming website. If I feel like catching up on the gaming news I'll visit this website. If I want to find out the latest football scores I'll go to bbc sport. If I want to look at sexy girls I'll go and download some porn.

I find this article inappropriate on this website. It's kind of embarrassing that EG and you think we need articles like this so that we don't become too nerdy.

Also, suggesting that anybody who doesn't want articles like this are automatically your stereotypical nerd is retarded.

This is better than console wars.
Homophobe might be a bit strong how about nerdaverse.

Uh huhhuhuhuh! Hollyyy Valaance!

thedaveeyres, I have a lot of Philogyny for Holly Valance.

Holly, why won't you return my calls?

I enjoy it, it's just an entertaining read. It does have relevance to gaming so it isn't totally random...good one I say!

I think Doctor_What sums that up pretty perfectly, on all counts. Saves me responding myself, thanks for that. :)

+1

The level of fanboyism here is astounding. If you like the interview, fine. If you dislike the interview, fine. But uh oh, actually POST about disliking the interview, and you get a storm of shit raining down on you from raging fanboys who feel a need to defend their precious Eurogamer crew.

Waffleaber - Louise Redknapp aint so hot any more. She just shit out another kid...

Domovoi said:
"The level of fanboyism here is astounding. If you like the interview, fine. If you dislike the interview, fine. But uh oh, actually POST about disliking the interview, and you get a storm of shit raining down on you from raging fanboys who feel a need to defend their precious Eurogamer crew. "

I don't think many people were actually defending the site, more like expressing the view that a random fluff interview with a hottie isn't going to make the editor sit up and wonder should he devote more site space to more of the same.

Face it, it's a Monday morning not too long after Christmas. It's a slooow news day for game sites, in fact it's probably a slow news month for game sites. It's just filler and will be pushed off the main page soon.

Also, it's Holly Valance. If she scratches her ear, I want to know about it so well done EG. :)

Man, some seriously dense motherfuckers in this thread.

Hey, she still does it for me in those new Triumph lingerie ads, almost crashed when I drove past the billboard in Birmingham.

I keep calling Holly on 0800-REVERSE and she never answers. :((

I'd much rather read this than some dross about whatever clichéd, over-hyped new games are coming out. Then again, the only gaming magazines I've read recently were my old issues of Super Play. HEAT is far more interesting.

If the interview was actually worthwhile and covered some ground about the process of acting on a computer game, how it is different to film etc, then it would have a reason to exist on here.

But no, the level of quote tends to be "Oh my schoolgirl uniform was so tight, I was busting out of it."
Sounds like the kind of pullquote that gets positioned next to a picture of Lucy Pinder licking an ice cream in Loaded.

I realise a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek from Ellie, but that is not the reason that EG posts shit like this.

Like people have said, you don't read porno mags to get computer game reviews

Please quit arguing over this.

No more telephone interviews, in the flesh only please. Also please interview Gordon Ramsey for his Hell Kitchens game and ask him about the dialogue left out and his inspirations for cooking and Pippa Funnel about whether her horse games are any good and if girl gamers are going to be hopelessly addicted fanboys one day just like the guys.

Does anyone know what Ellie Gibson looks like? Links to a pic? I would like to see if she actually is fitter than Holly! hehehe :-o

Layleeloo - Ellie, bless her little cotton socks, is not quite in Holly's league.

I still would though.

Repeatedly.