Martin Jones' canine was pulled out so a tiny optical lens could be fitted to it, then the tooth was inserted in his eye socket.
The 42-year-old lost his left eye and was totally blinded in the right 12 years ago when a tub of molten aluminium exploded in his face at the scrapyard where he worked.
He fell in love with care worker Gill, 50, and the pair married four years ago and settled down in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
But he had never dreamt he would be able to see what she looks like.
Then he heard about these amazing operations performed by surgeon Christopher Lui and his team in Brighton, East Sussex.
He said when the bandages came off the first person he wanted to see was Gill.
"The doctors took the bandages off and it was like looking through water.
"Then I saw this figure and it was her, it was unbelieveable," Mr Jones told The Sun newspaper.
The tooth was implanted in his cheek for three months to grow blood vessels and new tissue.
Once it was moved into his eye it was under two weeks until Mr Jones could see.
"When I tell friends I see through my tooth they don't believe me.
"But then I take off my glasses - and my eye looks like something from a sci-fi movie," Mr Jones told The Sun.
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Madonna is paying tribute to Michael Jackson in the same arena where he was to stage his great comeback.
The superstar is preparing a special part of her concert Saturday at O2 arena. Madonna publicist Liz Rosenberg says she is going to unveil a special choreographed dance in honor of Jackson.
Michael Jackson was to perform his comeback concerts at O2 starting July 13. He died last week at 50. He had been rehearsing for those shows in his final days.
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A local teacher accidentally put pornography into a DVD that was meant to be filled with school memories from the past year, and nobody caught the error until after it was sent home, shocking parents and students alike.
Parents of students who attend Isabelle Jackson Elementary said that the woman is a good teacher, but just made a mistake that may become the most embarrassing moment of their life.
The offending DVD starts with a menu screen that displays various school trips and functions, and when you click on one of them, you see kids in a classroom sharing stories. They start clapping, then the video suddenly cuts to sex.
"It goes from my son, straight to her on the couch," said 'Joe,' who saw the video along with his son and did not wish to be identified. "My son's reaction was, 'Dad, is that Ms. Defanti?'"
"We were up till midnight doing the 'birds and the bees,'" he added.
The person in the video turned out to be Isabelle Jackson Elementary fifth grade teacher Crystal Defanti.
"All she could say was that it was a horrible mix up," Joe said.
The teacher called his home the day after his child got the DVD, crying hysterically, profusely apologizing and asking the man and his wife to call every parent they knew to stop their kids from seeing the DVD too.
The Elk Grove Unified School District says they are investigating, but legal experts say it's unlikely that the teacher will lose her job.
"It's felony stupid, but it's not a crime," said defense expert Ken Rosenfeld. "Is it something that she should be disciplined for? Absolutely, but fired for? She didn't intend for this to happen."
Joe doesn't care if the teacher keeps her job, he'd just like some help from the school.
"Maybe offer some sort of counseling for my children, ask me how my children are doing," he said. "I want somebody to ask me the kind of questions my kids are asking me."
School officials say a new DVD will be sent to students once it has been reviewed.
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SPI addressing all issues with Baby & his boo(pause) Lil Wayne and it kinda sounds like he's dissing Young Buck on the 3rd verse
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Gary Coleman and his wife aren't seeing eye to eye.
The ex-child star's bride - who is 5-feet-5 - was busted after trashing her 4-foot-8 husband's bedroom, police said.
She allegedly greeted cops in her Utah driveway with a profane tirade.
"F--- you and f--- him!" Shannon Price screamed before her arrest Wednesday night.
"You deserve this after how you treated me!" she shouted at Coleman as the "Diff'rent Strokes" star stood amidst toppled furniture, scattered DVDs and strewn clothes.
Price, 23, spent two hours in a county lockup before being released on $1,205 bond.
Police in Santaquin, Utah, were called to the home after Price - who married Coleman in August 2007 - locked her husband out of the house.
Coleman, 41, was not injured, although a police report said "his bedroom was destroyed."
The arrest was the latest marital mayhem for the pair, who met on the set of the comedy film "Church Ball" just five months before exchanging vows.
Last year, the couple reconciled after an appearance on the syndicated "Divorce Court," where Price described Coleman as distant and depressed.
Price was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence and disorderly conduct.
Coleman has had his own legal problems. He pleaded no contest last year to charges he rammed a fan with his truck outside a bowling alley.
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BET has expressed remorse over a performance by Lil Wayne, Drake and Young Money Records that involved underage girls during songs "Best I Ever Had" and "Every Girl."
The songs, which have overt sexual references, were performed during the Sunday BET Awards '09 show as a bevy of young girls danced on stage. The group of girls consisted of Lil Wayne’s daughters and her friends.
In an exclusive statement, BET has responded to the criticism and the public outcry over the segment.
“ BET Networks deeply regrets the performance by Young Money at the BET AWARDS ’09 (featuring Lil Wayne, Drake, Gudda Gudda and Mack Maine),” a BET representative told AllHipHop.com exclusively. “Elements of the performance were unplanned and should not have happened.”
In the aftermath of the show, many have expressed outrage over the outing by Young Money, which was set amid a show dedicated to the late Michael Jackson.
Activist and filmmaker Byron Hurt lambasted the network earlier in the week in an open letter to Debra Lee, the President and Chief Executive Officer of BET Holdings, Inc.
“In a culture where one out of four girls and women are either raped or sexually assaulted - and where manipulative men routinely traffic vulnerable women into the sex industry - it is not okay that BET allowed this to happen,” Hurt said. “BET owes its entire audience - particularly girls and women around the world - an apology for its failure to intervene.”
A representative said generally the company has found such opinions useful.
“We value and appreciate the feedback from our viewers and have edited Young Money’s performance for all BET Awards ’09 encore presentations.”
Drake has apologized and taken responsibility for the performance, admitting it was in poor taste.
"That...was a terrible idea that I'll never do to myself again. But I was being pressed from different areas to perform, and I think what really happened at the BET Awards is with the passing of Mike, the climate really changed, as far as the award show goes,” he told Complex. “I don't think it called for us to perform "Every Girl" and "Always Strapped," and I think it was an award show filled with tributes and music and these genuine heartfelt speeches. And to sort of climax out of a very tongue-n-cheek point, and then people misconstruing Wayne's daughters and her friends coming out on stage -- it was just timed very poorly and it definitely wasn't planned like that, but with that being said, it is what is. I believe in Wayne and myself and it's nothing we can't bounce back from. To anyone who was offended, my personal apologies, it wasn't intended to offend anybody."
An edited version of the show will re-air on Monday July 6. The BET Awards saw a 61-percent increase in viewers this year fueled by the sudden death of Michael Jackson. Ten percent of all turned on television sets watched the show Sunday, a remarkably high number.
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Havoc continues holding down Mobb Deep while Prodigy is locked up, working on his third solo album and a mixtape, both titled From Now On.
The album, slated for a 4th quarter release, will be mostly self-produced with contributions also coming from Chinky P and Sid Roams, according to Hav’s manager. Prodigy will appear on the album, along verses from Nyce, 40 Glocc and Philthy.
The LP’s first single drops early August, while the Ty Fyffe-produced intro to the mixtape “Smells Like Nine/Five” hit the web today (July 2)
Havoc’s previous album, Hidden Files, was released in Feburary on E1 Music.
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The public memorial for Michael Jackson will take place on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, in Los Angeles, Access Hollywood has learned.
The “private and public memorial” will be held at the Staples Center in downtown LA at 10 AM, AEG Live president Randy Phillips told NBC News.
Phillips said all of the details would be finalized when he meets with the Jackson family Thursday afternoon.
“Everything is in preliminary stages except the place and time,” Phillips told NBC.
AEG Live is the organization which was behind Jackson’s planned 50-show stint in London.
Should capacity be reached for the nearly 20,000-seat stadium, Phillips said the overflow crowd will be able to watch the memorial on large screens at nearby Nokia Plaza.
Despite reports that the public ceremony will be a funeral, a source close to the situation previously told Access Hollywood executive producer Rob Silverstein it will actually be a memorial to the King of Pop, who died last week at the age of 50.
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Raffi Nernekian was arrested in the United Arab Emirates this week after getting into an argument over a t-shirt he was wearing which depicted a nude Victoria Beckham with only the words “Protect the Skin You’re In” and her hands covering key private parts.
The t-shirt was made by celebrity favorite designer Marc Jacobs and was aimed to raise money for a skin cancer research project at New York University. Supermodel Naomi Campbell and actress Winona Ryder also posed for the campaign.
Nernekian- who worked as a brand manager at one of Jacobs’ local agents- said he got the shirt from his brother who returned from a trip to New York. After being approached by a man in a bakery, Nernekian left to change but found police waiting for him on his return.
He has been jailed for offending public decency for a month and will be deported after serving his sentence despite having lived in Dubai for five years. Dubai had issued an updated version of its codes of conduct saying: “clothing shall not indecently expose parts of the body, be transparent, or display obscene or offensive pictures and slogans.”
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