It is with a public statement that Liz Fuller CEO of Miss Great Britain has taken the decision to disqualify judge and Big Brother star Rex Newmark, after last night it emerged he had previously been romantically linked to Miss Central London Lora Jayne Nuttall.Another judge Julian Bennett is also believed to know Lora.
Last night a photo emerged on Facebook of Rex and Lora romantically entwined dated over a year ago. Consequently, the Miss Great Britain office have taken the immediate decision to strip Lora also of the title and to re-run the Miss Central London heat on May 8th.
Liz wants to apologise to the other contestants, to reassure that a heat will never be fixed or be under suspicion of partiality, influence or unfair voting, whilst she is in charge and has issued this statement to the national press,

‘For Miss Great Britain the oldest beauty pageant in the world and most loved national title to have a future, it must be steered into very different waters than its recent past, and with myself in charge I fully intend for the public to see the difference. I want to apologise to the girls and will make sure a beauty competition run by me will never be unfair or cast under a suspicion of fixing, as some often are.’

For further information, visit;
http://www.missgreatbritain.co.uk/

Derek designs the ‘Kiosk-style’ DVD presentation for Windows PC computers, as well as the DVD-Video experience, using SONY Vegas Professional, Adobe CS3 and DVD Architect.

http://www.exposure4.com

Derek Gibbons NewMedia have announced a 12 month contract with Romancart to supply shopping cart facilities for the Derek Gibbons NewMedia website! This exciting news means that a secure environment is available for all of our customers, and safe checkout facilities are available from our brand new webstore (http://www.derekgibbons.com/onlineshop/).

The Webstore also utilises a custom designed web .mp3 player, designed and built by Derek Gibbons, based upon the established “Wimpy RAVE” technology;

“This technology allows an .mp3 facility for us to upload all of our previous music work to, along with adding shopping cart links to the RomanCart technology. In addition, the player is compatible with Flash Player 9 and the brand new (CS4 based) Flash Player 10, making it future-proofed.”

James Heming from Invicta FM’s Breakfast Show Joined Derek Gibbons on air at The Jewellery Channel for a few auctions yesterday! (16/07/2008).

To see how James got on and some behind the scenes footage of the event, click here.

He proved to be pretty good, too!

Derek sees this as an excellent compliment to his presenting work on The Jewellery Channel;

“I am enjoying employing the different skills required to present on shopping TV and through this new gaming channel; together they are giving me more excellent experience in live television and I am greatly enjoying working for both”.

Derek has become a trained croupier through the UK’s Gambling Commission as part of his training for this new project.

Derek has been a presenter on The Jewellery Channel since launch, and continues to be.

Derek Gibbons NewMedia Limited have applied for a Dolby Digital licence to distribute DVD and Blu-Ray content with Dolby Digital (2.0) and (5.1) Surround soundtracks.

Derek stated; “This official licence gives an extra boost to the quality and overall feel of the Derek Gibbons Newmedia Limited experience, and allows for the use of the Dolby Digital logo and cinematic introduction videos within DVD and Blu-ray works.”

The Interactive TV Experience “WeDigTV”, on which Derek is an interactive links presenter, has received the Emmy Award 2008 for Best Interactive Channel. On March 4, 2008 it was announced that WeDigTV had been nominated for an Emmy Award – and the channel won on April 8th 2008.

The following is a press release taken from the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Website;

MIPTV-Cannes, April 8, 2008 — The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced tonight the winners for the International Interactive Emmy® Awards, organized for the third year in a row in Cannes, France in partnership with Reed MIDEM and hosted by British comedian Brian Conley (The Brian Conley Show, Let Me Entertain You).

Scandinavia led the evening with Finland’s children’s program Staraoke winning the Interactive Program category and Sweden’s participation drama The Truth About Marika winning the Interactive TV Service category, while the Interactive Channel award went to the United Kingdom’s WeDigTV.  Complete information on the winners follows this release.

“This year’s winners are an illustration of how technology is enhancing viewer participation and bringing an added value to television content,” said Bruce L. Paisner, President & CEO of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. ”We congratulate them on their achievements.”

The awards ceremony and dinner was attended by over 150 international executives from the television, broadband and mobile industries and sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent.

WeDigTV
The JD Project Limited
United Kingdom

WeDigTV is the world’s first TV2 network. TV2 is a platform which allows viewers to dictate the terms of their interactive video experience. By delivering seemingly linear broadcasts to the user that are in fact fully interactive, TV2 makes the format-type show compelling and relevant in an age of true video on-demand. In each show, the user is able to engage with the host and ultimately decide the fate of their experience within the show itself. WeDigTV brings the user as close as possible to being in the contestant’s chair without actually sitting there.

Derek Gibbons has begun to work with video production company Exposure4 – a company which specialises in creating DVD video presentations, playable on both PC and DVD-Video player formats, for holiday resorts and holiday destinations around the world.

Derek stated “This is excellent news as we can really put to use some of the new technologies coming through, perhaps even looking at Blu-ray authoring and high definition delivery in the near future, to really bring Exposure4′s brilliant video footage to life”.

Exposure4 flies over to destinations around the world and films, photographs and designs factsheets for the resorts – so every DVD created is an original. Derek creates the ‘kiosk’ front ends for these presentations using Adobe’s Master Collection CS3, as well as managing the DVD authoring and encoding with Adobe Premiere CS3 and Sony Vegas 8/Sony DVD Architect Pro 4.5.

More on Exposure4, here.

Equipment used: Adobe Master Collection CS3, Sony Vegas 8, Sony DVD Architect Pro 4.5, Multimedia Builder