Coca - Cola accused of using porn

A Facebook promotion for Dr Pepper, part of the Coca-Cola drinks range, posted a reference to a notorious pornographic film on the “wall” of an underage girl.

As part of the promotion, users allowed the company to hijack their Facebook status box, posting apparently embarrassing messages under their names.

More than 160,000 people signed up for the hoax statuses, which included: “Lost my special blankie. How will I go sleepies?” and “What’s wrong with peeing in the shower?”

But the marketing drive backfired when a parent complained that her 14-year-old daughter’s hijacked status claimed that she had watched a hardcore pornographic film which is notorious for the obscene practices it depicts.

The status referred to the film by name, and the mother said she was particularly distressed after finding that her daughter had subsequently searched for it on the internet.

Mrs Rickman wrote on the parents’ networking site Mumsnet: “I am absolutely fizzing with rage and disgust, and want a full apology and explanation.”

She said Coca-Cola had “offensively” offered to compensate her with a night in a hotel and West End theatre tickets, adding: “Fat lot of use to me, we live in Glasgow”.

Other Mumsnet users reacted furiously to news of the “disgusting” promotion, and praised Mrs Rickman for bringing it to light.

Coca-Cola has since apologised and announced an investigation into its promotion procedures. Executives said they had approved the offending message without realising its true meaning.

A spokesman said: "It has been brought to our attention that the Dr Pepper promotion on Facebook posted an offensive status update. We apologise for any offence caused.

"As soon as we became aware of this, we took immediate action and removed the status update from the application. We have also taken the decision to end the promotion. We will take all steps necessary to ensure this does not happen again".

Li Lo starts her jail time

Her incarceration marked a new low point for the troubled 24-year-old party girl who was once considered among the most talented actresses of her generation.

Lohan, star of The Parent Trap, Mean Girls, and Freaky Friday, was met by a swarm of cameras as she arrived at court in Beverly Hills to surrender herself for a sentence imposed two weeks ago.

She was accompanied by her mother Dina, younger sister Ali, and lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley. Her father Michael Lohan, with whom she has a strained relationship, was also in court.

The actress, dressed in dark sunglasses, a black suit and grey T-shirt, did not speak during the five minute hearing but looked tired and tense.

She did not cry when she was handcuffed and led away but her sister broke down in tears.

Judge Marsha Revel ordered that Lohan not be allowed to serve any of her sentence under house arrest or a work release scheme.

However, overcrowding in Los Angeles jails means she is unlikely to serve the full time period and may be out in as little as 23 days.

Lohan had been on probation since August 2007 following a drink driving and cocaine arrest.

The judge determined two weeks ago that she had violated her probation by missing seven alcohol education classes since December and handed down the 90 day sentence, ordering it to start on July 20.

Last month Lohan had also missed a court appearance, claiming she had lost her passport while on a trip to the Cannes film festival. The judge issued an arrest warrant at the time but revoked it when bail was posted.

For the last month the actress has been wearing an alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet and submitting to random weekly drug and alcohol tests. She voluntarily spent the last week in a sober living facility in Los Angeles.

She will serve her sentence at the all-female, 2,200-bed Century Regional Detention Facility south of Los Angeles.

It has previously housed other starlets, including Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Michelle Rodriguez. Lohan was held there for 84 minutes in 2006.

She is expected to be kept in solitary for her own protection following reports that lesbian prison gangs may attack her.

She will live in a 12ft by 8ft cell and will have to wear an orange prison jumpsuit.

Lohan must also attend a 90-day rehabilitation course on her release from jail.

The night before surrendering to the court the former child star posted a message on her Twitter account, saying: "The only 'bookings' that I'm familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that I'd be 'booking' into Jail ... eeeks."

50 Cent and PDiddy at it again!

G-Unit rapper 50 Cent has openly dissed P Diddy recently. Fiddy believes that Diddy doesn’t make good music and that nobody is going to buy his new album, The Last Train To Paris. Harsh!

He told Jam N 94.5: “His music sucks. It’s bad. He’s not an artist anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. When you think about it, is he a rapper? Because he says he doesn’t write rhymes, he writes checks. Like the same things that I would say are wrong with a Rick Ross project, it’s not authenticity to what he’s doing. Now he’s a singer? I think that’s Kanye West’s part. Kanye’s an artist, if he’s making those artistic choices, it’s different. Puff is just buying a record and singing.

“Nobody’s buying [Last Train to Paris.] He even said it himself that he doesn’t expect it to sell, he doesn’t care about the sales, he’s just using it as a promotional tool and standing next to these fools is a promotional tool too. Why does Rick Ross remind him of Biggie? Any Biggie fan objects to that. So how can he say that?”