You can just imagine the face she made when she came across a website called Ridiculous Pictures of Celine Dion. The blog, which parodies the Canadian singer's often comical expressions, was shut down after Dion sicked her lawyers on its founder, Nick Angiolillo.
Though it must have seemed like innocent fun at the time, the laughs couldn't last. Angiolillo recently received an angry letter. Though he claims the images were well within copyright, he posted the following farewell message on his site: "The dream is over. I can't afford even 1 hour of a lawyer's time to draft a [reply] letter for me."
At one time, Angiolillo claims he ran the most popular Celine Dion blog on the internet, which he was also forced to shut down. Unlike Dion, who obviously failed to see the funny side of the site, Angiolillo said he plans to frame the letter from her lawyers
In the meantime, he continues to run another frivolous blog called Star Jones in Hats, which features images of US TV personality Star Jones wearing a succession of different hats. If a picture really is worth a thousand words (or belly laughs, as it were), then Angiolillo is surely minted.
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