Kerry Hebberley: Taane's stoush with reality show

Tiki Taane posted this sign on his Facebook page at the weekend.

Kiwi singer Tiki Taane is not happy with The X Factor New Zealand producers and he's making sure we all know about it.

Along with an open letter to the producers at the weekend, the 38-year-old posted a photo of himself on his Facebook page, holding up a sign with the words X FACTOR crossed out and X PLOITER penned in.

He wants the producers to "stop using my name to promote your show".

That's unusual. Normally ego swells when a star gets a mention. However, Tiki says he is being exploited by the show and contestants should expect to be surrounded by "fake, ego-blowing industry, soul-sucking vampires".

Well, that's telling them. Apparently he didn't give the producers permission to use his name to promote the reality TV show. It turns out all the fuss is because an advertisement stated contestant Steve Broad "takes on Tiki Taane".

Mediaworks spokeswoman Rachel Lorimer said the promotion was not misleading and that Tiki had unsuccessfully auditioned to be a judge on the show.

Maybe that's why he is having "issues over the show's integrity" now.

"Please refrain from fooling the public, especially my fans, that I will be appearing on show," he wrote.

While he was happy for one of his songs to be performed, he did not want to appear as a mentor. Had anyone asked him to?

"Being an independent artist I just wouldn't feel right about being on a programme that promotes the exploitation of its contestants," he posted.

Oh, dear.

Cash Jenner-ation
Not content with making millions of teenagers jealous after her momager posted a clip of her house-hunting for her own $3 million pad, Kylie Jenner now thinks her first name should be exclusively hers.

The 17-year-old has apparently filed an application to trademark her first name to "entertainment in the nature of providing information by means of a global computer network in the fields of entertainment, fashion and pop culture". This includes personal appearances "by a celebrity, actress and model".

I wonder how Kylie Minogue feels about that?

Welcome back
It was lovely to see Keisha Castle-Hughes back on our screens in Game of Thrones on Monday night.

The 25-year-old is a fan of the books, on which the HBO series is based, and knew, because of the story arc, the producers would be needing some ethnic-looking characters.

"I started to do some investigating and asked my manager to keep an eye out for any Game of Thrones casting calls and, sure enough, there was one for Oberyn's daughters, known as the Sand Snakes," Keisha told Vanity Fair.

She plays Obara Sand, a deadly, spear-wielding warrior seeking vengeance against the Lannister family for the death of her father.

I'm looking forward to seeing her role progress.