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| | Gwyneth Paltrow's 'quietly converting to Judaism after years following Kabbalah' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A large part of Gwyneth Paltrow?s appeal, back when she was first becoming ?a thing? in the 1990s, was that she seemed like a throwback to the icy blonde WASPs of yesteryear. You could picture her in a wealthy suburban enclave in Connecticut in the 1950s. Or the 1970s. Or the 1990s. Goop has always come across that way ? icy, moneyed, not particularly religious. But she?s always talked about how both of her parents affected her ? her Jewish father and her Christian mother. Goop has even experimented with Kabbalah on-and-off throughout the years. And now Page Six says that following her split with Chris Martin, Gwyneth is ready to commit herself fully to the Judaism. Mazel tov!
Gwyneth Paltrow is converting to Judaism after her conscious uncoupling with husband Chris Martin, sources tell Page Six. The actress is quietly converting after years following Kabbalah, which originated in Judaism, and being friends with Michael Berg, the co-director of the Kabbalah Centre.
While Paltrow?s rep didn?t respond to numerous requests for comment, her late father was film producer Bruce Paltrow, a Jew, while her mother, Blythe Danner, is a Christian. The ?Iron Man? star has previously revealed that she was raised both Jewish and Christian, which ?was such a nice way to grow up.?
In 2011, she appeared on NBC?s ?Who Do You Think You Are?? which described how her family came from a long line of influential East European rabbis. She had said in a 2006 Guardian interview that her father descended from a Russian rabbinical dynasty. She was quoted as saying, ?Like, 17 generations of rabbis ? you see, I really am a Jewish princess!?
After appearing on the ancestry show, Paltrow had said that she wants to raise her daughter Apple, 10, and son Moses, 8, in a Jewish environment, even though their father Martin is Christian. She reportedly made the comment to guests of a London event that was hosted by Community Security Trust, a charity that represents Jewish interests.
Last year, while promoting her cookbook ?It?s All Good,? she declared herself ?the original Jewish mother,? because of how she enjoys cooking for people.
Paltrow told You magazine, ?Creating a meal for my family and friends, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking, that?s when I?m happy. Oh my God, if you saw the amount of food that I do. I am the original Jewish mother. I make meals from these new recipes that look, smell and taste like the food I always cooked, but are also super healthy. That is an additional joy.?
[From Page Six]
If that?s what she wants to do, good for her. I?m sure she realizes that there?s more to being Jewish than just feeding people, right? I?m sure she knows. I wonder what the rabbis will think about giving a bar mitzvah to a ?Moses Martin? and a bat mitzvah to an ?Apple Martin.?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Gwen Stefani, out & about in NYC: does she still look Botoxed or has it settled? | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some assorted photos of Gwen Stefani in NYC yesterday. She was photographed out and about, and then at the Refinery 29 Country Club Launch. The outfits are cute (if you like Gwen?s style). As for the work Gwen may or may not have gotten done recently? I still don?t know. I thought she looked good at the VMAs until she tried to speak, and then you could really see the ?frozen? in her face. Then at the Emmys, it seemed like she was trying to look like? Gwyneth Paltrow, maybe? But in robot form. Some say Gwen?s Botox (or whatever) looks like it?s ?settled? since those two events, but I?m not so sure. Radar?s on-call plastic surgeon thinks it?s more than just Botox too:
Gwen Stefani arrived at the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards looking pretty different from her pop diva days, and a top plastic surgeon tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that she appears to have gone under the knife! Dr. Anthony Youn says that the ?Hollaback Girl? appears to have had a nose job, eyelid lift, Botox injections and skin resurfacing!
?Her eyes look more open, and may be the result of a conservative, well-performed upper eyelid lift, which is called Blepharoplasty,? Youn tells Radar. ?Her forehead is also exceedingly smooth for a woman her age, possibly due to injections of Botox.?
How could Stefani, 44, still have the youthful skin of a 20-year-old?
?I also suspect that her perfect skin could be the result of some well-performed chemical peels, such as the ZO Controlled Depth Peel,? Dr. Youn claims.
As if that wasn?t enough, Dr. Youn says, ?It also appears that her nose has been thinned at one time.?
[From Radar]
Dr. Youn has not treated Gwen, obviously, so that?s just his opinion. Personally, I don?t think it?s a question of IF Gwen had work but what kind of work it is and whether it will ever ?settle?. I think there?s a lot of ?Tox and fillers at work? and? Maybe a nose job at some point, but I?m not sure if that?s recent. Do these celebrities look at photos of Nicole Kidman and think, ?Yes, that?s totally preferable to aging naturally?? I?ll say it again ? there?s a happy medium. I wouldn?t fault Gwen (or any celebrity) from experimenting with Botox or some fillers or whatever, but don?t go overboard to the point where you can’t move your face at all.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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| | Alessandra Ambrosio's Perfect Little Funbags Make An Appearance | | Added 10 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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Here’s Alessandra Ambrosio hosting some gig at New York Fashion Week and showcasing her perfect little funbags in a sexy dress. I’m almost certain that natural boobs don’t look like that, but if a chicks going to get implants, this is the way too go. Not too big, not too small. Just right! view […]
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| | Dave Lucado cheated on Britney Spears with multiple women & an exotic dancer | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A week ago, we heard the sad/whatever news that Britney Spears broke up with her (shady) normal-guy boyfriend, David Lucado. The breakup rumors had been swirling for several months, but everything came to a head when TMZ got their hands on proof that Dave was cheating on Britney. TMZ went to Britney?s dad Jamie Spears and Jamie told Britney that she needed to dump Dave and that?s what happened. Now Star has more details about what went down and guess what? It?s way shadier than we thought.
Jamie Spears, Britney?s conservator for the past six years, broke the bad news to Britney. He watched the shocking video of David getting intimate with a petite and attractive brunette, a retired adult performer and exotic dancer named ?Cindy,? and shower it to Britney to let her know whattype of man David really is.
?The tape is shocking,? says a source familiar with it. ?David is slow-dancing with the woman before sweeping her off her feet and passionately making out with her! What?s worse is that there?s rumored to be other videos and other women out there too.?
The revelation has left Britney heartbroken and angry. ?After a lot of lousy relationships, Britney was sure she?d found someone she and her boys could be with forever. She was ready to marry him. Now she?s totally destroyed.?
A source says Jamie Spears controls every aspect of Britney?s life and is happy about the split, adding: ?He never liked David.?
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
Jamie never liked David? Yeah, whatever. Britney?s boyfriends are all vetted by Jamie and have been since the conservatorship. Jamie was even prepared to hand over half of Britney?s conservatorship to Jason Trawick (and had already begun the legal proceedings) when Jason called off the engagement. So, Brit needed a new boyfriend/playmate to keep her occupied during the Vegas gig, so Dave was procured. And he didn?t work out, and it?s a good thing that Britney dumped him and that Jamie protected Britney. But let?s not play fast and loose with the history!
You know who she should date next? Her hot bodyguard.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Ben Affleck complains about the Bennifer 1.0 'soap opera' to the NYT | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ben Affleck has a new interview with the New York Times to promote Gone Girl, which is easily one of the most-anticipated films of the year. Every time a new trailer comes out, I?m hunting for clues to see what was changed and what wasn?t. I personally wish that Rosamund Pike was front-and-center during the early promotion, but I guess there?s a concern that Rosamund won?t get people into the theater, so they?ve got to lead with Affleck. That concerns me, honestly. Gone Girl isn?t a good read because of Nick Dunne: it?s a good read because of Amy. Putting Affleck out there to do the promotional heavy lifting gives me the impression that Amy?s character has been diminished. We?ll see. As for this Affleck interview? he?s sort of grim and serious and we get it, dude. You?re Mr. Dramatic Actor now and you still feel deep shame about dating J.Lo. Sigh. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
An oblique reference to Bennifer 1.0: ?There?s nothing really about this guy or character that I feel connected to personally. Except that I have definitely felt as though I was looking at a version of my life that I didn?t recognize through the prism of the media.?
His evolution as an actor/celebrity: ?I think for me there?s the idea that ?Oh, he was callow and foolish in his youth and has sort of learned the error of his ways and has redeemed himself and is now like, maybe, a person of substance.? But it wasn?t that I was lost and now I?m found. It was because we grow up. We kind of evolve.?
Another Bennifer 1.0 reference: ?[I was] cast in a soap opera where I had no control over the lines I was saying or the story line.? His recurring thought then was: ?This bears no resemblance to me, and I really wish they would write me a better part. Because I don?t want to be this guy.?
The process of doing ?grueling? work with David Fincher: ?It was music to my ears. I love that idea of almost a hair shirt of a movie, when?re you just working very hard, all day every day. The feeling of risk has to do with: ?Is this person going to do something with my humiliation, or with my honesty and with my nakedness and the degree to which I?m exposing myself in a real way? Or are they just going to humiliate me and butcher it???
Playing The Batfleck: ?I?m having a blast? [the film] is really unique to the genre and really smart.?
The ebbs and flows of making movies: ?The world is more naturally full of nos than they are with yeses. And, in fact, the yeses are so rare. I have to make peace with it. I don?t always succeed. All these phases of life I?ve found are challenging in their own way. You keep running into new versions of yourself, and having to acclimate to that.?
[From The NY Times]
I was thinking throughout this interview? how often does Affleck bring up Jennifer Lopez or the Bennifer 1.0 years? How often is he the one bringing it up rather than the interviewer? Because it feels like a lot. It feels like most journalists are pretty much ?over? asking him about that time in his life and he?s the one obsessed with talking about it.
One slightly interesting sidenote ? David Fincher told the NYT that his version of Amy is ?partly based on Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.? Huh. That?s interesting.
Oh, and the NYT puts this as a sidenote too: ?Mr. Fincher granted The New York Times a private screening at his office. Contrary to early speculation, the film hews closely to the book.? Gillian Flynn had said in interviews that she changed the ending when she adapted her book for the screenplay, so I don?t know what any of this means.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Hilary Duff Is One Sexy Call Girl | | Added 10 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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Obviously you guys know how much I love Hilary Duff and that she’s one of my favorite MILFs on the plane, so seeing her dressed in this hooker like short shorts and fishnet stocking makes me want to blow my wad. Big time! view all 16 photos Photos: PacificCoastNews
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| | Ashley Greene in Antonio Berardi & McQueen in Venice: lovely or terrible? | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from the Venice Film Festival photocall and premiere of Burying the Ex. I?m including photos of Ashley Greene, Anton Yelchin and Alexandra Daddario (you might know her from True Detective). Is it wrong to think that Ashley kind of rocked Venice? I usually ignore her even though the male-dominated blogs are trying to make her into a thing. Usually, her style is kind of a snoozefest, but I?m rather enchanted by these photos.
For the premiere look, Alexandra wore Reem Acra ? I don?t really care for it. It?s too ?look at my body! LOOK AT IT.? Meanwhile, Ashley wore this surprisingly dramatic-yet-conservative Antonio Berardi gown. This gown shouldn?t work ? it literally has a dust ruffle and all of the fabric and overlay should make it seem too heavy. But it works, doesn?t it? I really like this on her. This is maybe the most I?ve ever liked her on a red carpet. Great styling too ? her hair and makeup look great.
Here are some photos of Ashley at the photocall for the same movie. She wore Alexander McQueen and once again, I really like it on her. What is happening?! The shade of blue is great, the ponytail works and I don?t mind this peplum.
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| | Charlize Theron & Sean Penn 'have been arguing big time' in South Africa | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Charlize Theron and Sean Penn have been together all year, and I still have zero idea as to the dynamics of their relationship. Charlize pays lip service to this idea of being a powerful, independent, ball-busting woman, but Sean Penn?s history with women shows that he doesn?t really like those characteristics in a woman. Maybe he?s changed. Maybe she?s changed. Maybe he makes her seem grumpy and she makes him seem lighter. I?m telling you, it?s a weird dynamic to figure out. But Star claims that Sean?s old, controlling habits have come back with a vengeance. Sean has been directing Charlize in The Last Face, filming in South Africa, and Star says Charlize hates the way Sean has been treating her:
Charlize Theron is seriously butting heads with her boss?who also just happens to be her boyfriend, Sean Penn! The couple, who are currently filming The Last Face in Cape Town, South Africa, are learning the hard way that mixing business and pleasure doesn?t always work.
Sean is directing the film, while Charlize plays a lead role ? and sources say she?s fed up with his constant criticism. ?Sean is a different person on set,? an insider reveals. ?He?s a perfectionist and it?s driving Charlize insane.?
In addition to interrupting the blonde beauty during her scenes, set sources say the actor also makes her do her lines over and over again and gets upset over her lack of passion. ?Sean the director is not the man Charlize fell in love with,? the source adds. ?They have been arguing big time.? Cut!
[From Star Magazine]
Yeah, it?s Star, but this feels true. The thing is, a lot of people have said that Sean is actually rather nice as a director and he?s just a bastard in real life. Maybe the mix of business and pleasure has been toxic for Sean. I don?t know. Will we be the first in line to yell ?I Told You So? at Charlize if and when this relationship crashes and burns?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Scarlett Johansson & Romain Dauriac welcomed baby girl Rose Dorothy | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ha, on Wednesday I was reading this story at Life & Style about Scarlett Johansson shopping for blue baby clothes and the L&S tea-leave-readers claimed that she was totally having a boy. Not so much! Scarlett Johansson and her no-socks-wearing French lover Romain Dauriac have welcomed a baby girl. The little girl already has a name too: ROSE. Rose Dorothy Johansson-Dauriac? Or just Rose Dauriac? Hm.
It?s a girl! Scarlett Johansson and fianc Romain Dauriac have welcomed their first child, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.
Daughter Rose Dorothy was born in New York City. The baby?s middle name is an homage to Johansson?s grandmother, whom she called ?the first Francophone in my family? while accepting her honorary Csar in Paris last February.
?Mother and daughter are doing well,? publicist Marcel Pariseau tells the Associated Press in a statement.
Further information is not being released at this time.
The actress has had plenty to celebrate in her personal life lately, including an engagement that came six months before PEOPLE confirmed in March that the couple were expecting a baby.
?I?m very happy. Being engaged is an exciting time to enjoy and really savor,? Johansson, 29, has said of Dauriac, a French journalist.
While never addressing the pregnancy, the mom-to-be let her baby belly do the talking, debuting her bump days after the news broke and, more recently, while stepping out for ice cream with Dauriac in New York City.
[From People]
Yes, that?s another interesting piece of information ? despite Scarlett saying over and over that she was going to live in Paris and she and Romain were so happy in Paris and all of that, they decamped to Manhattan and the Hamptons for most of the summer and Scarlett totally gave birth in New York. So, Rose will have American citizenship from the start (the baby would have been eligible for American citizenship even if Scarlett had given birth in France, it just would have taken more time to get through the paperwork). How does France determine citizenship? Romain is a French citizen, so presumably Rose could have dual citizenship?
As for the name? it?s pretty. I tend to think ?Rose? is more a middle name, just because it sounds good attached to so many longer names. Like, Elizabeth Rose, Isabel Rose, Catherine Rose, Madelyn Rose, you get the idea. It?s old-fashioned but classic. And it?s the same in English and French too, which is probably why they chose it. I understand the choice of Dorothy to honor a family member – I have a few “Dorothy” ladies in my family too. My favorite is when a Dorothy is called “Dot”. I think that’s so cute.
PS? I totally lost a bet with myself about ScarJo versus Ryan Reynolds. I can?t believe Scarlett had a baby before Ryan!!
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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