Farrah Fawcett's golden hair

Two weeks after we broke the story that a celebrity auction website had been offering a lock of Farrah Fawcett's hair for $1,000.00, the item is still up for bid.

The lock of golden hair, in a snow globe casing, went in the block three days after the icon's death on June 25th. It is apparently a novelty item, first made available during Farrah's swimsuit poster-Charlie's Angels heyday, not taken from her final haircuts before her passing,and gives us the excuse to run these vintage Farrah Fawcett ads from the period.


The continued availability of the hair on hunkwithjunk.com, with the promise that it may one day be used to clone Farrah, is a surprise in light of the international publicity the story caused after another, better-financed website, took the post as its own. Our own source was a reader, Michael Europe.

RadarOnline steals our Farrah Fawcett hair story-- without giving us credit-- and now the whole world is running our story-- with credit to Radar!

Anyone who doubts the wisdom of our extensive against-the-grain coverage of the untimely death of Las Vegas superstar Danny Gans and its aftermath, take note: the biggest names in the gossip and entertainment industry keep a close eye on Tabloid Baby, and are not shy about following our lead.

Case in point: our report yesterday that a collectors' website is selling what it purports to be a lock of Farrah Fawcett's hair. We got the tip from one of our readers. We posted it yesterday at 5:26 pm.


This morning, as our report caused a new fury among Farrahphiles, our pals at RadarOnline.com stole the story, labelled it "exclusive" and ran it without attribution (meaning they didn't credit us) at 10:55 am Pacific time.

The Radar writer even came perilously close to plagiarizing our report!

We wrote:

"An online celebrity sales site is offering what is purported to be a lock of Farrah Fawcett's hair...for one thousand dollars."

Radar ripped:

"Online celebrity sales site www.hunkwithjunk.com is offering what it purports to be a lock of Farrah’s famous golden hair -- for one thousand dollars."

Radar's steal was followed by our furry friend Perez Hilton, who unapologetically ran his own version of the purloined story at 12:30 pm-- with a link to Radar!

And the world followed suit. Just click here to see that lots of "mainstream" outlets-- including the LA Times phony alternative "Brand X" site-- are running the story, credited to Radar.

Coincidence? First off, the word "purported" gives it away. Second, that hair's been on sale since June 28th, 2009-- three days after Farrah's death. It's not like it popped up online yesterday. Someone happened to point it out to us and we followed up.


Now we don't mind if the big financed organizations lift our copy. We do think a tip of the hat would be in order. Perez? He oughta know better. And Radar, as part of the National Enquirer family should know what it's like to carry the water for the mainstream media, doing their dirty work so they can get the credit. That's what we'd expect from a corporate porn-pushing gossip site.

Better yet, go after the Danny Gans story.

Will this be used to clone Farrah Fawcett?

Amid the recent excitement and debate in the past week over what would have been Farrah Fawcett's 63rd birthday, the release once again of her drug-addicted son from jail, and the establishment of The Farrah Fawcett Foundation for cancer research comes another scientific tease. An online celebrity sales site is offering what is purported to be a lock of Farrah Fawcett's hair-- apparently a 34-year-old promotional item from her Charlie's Angels days-- for one thousand dollars.


The idea of purchasing this relic of a beautiful woman who is quickly becoming a pop culture saint is made even more enticing by the site's suggestion that in the future the DNA contained inside the hair could be used to clone Farrah, or as the seller writes in the come-on for "a lock of Farrah Fawcett's golden hair":

"Someday the technology will be available,
and you might be able to create your very own angel."

UPDATE: A late-breaking tip of the Tabloid Baby hat to reader Michael Europe for the link!