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| | Kate Walsh and Alex Young: Getting Divorced | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Just barely making it past the one year mark, Kate Walsh and husband Alex Young are drawing an end to their wedded bliss.
According to Entertainment Tonight, it was Alex who filed for divorce from the “Private Practice” actress, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.
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| | Scarlett Johansson Hosts Nobel Peace Prize Concert | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Taking on the all-important hosting duties, Scarlett Johansson was pretty in purple at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert on Thursday evening (December 11).
Held at Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway, the always-lovely “Match Point” actress teamed up with Sir Michael Caine as they presented musical acts including Jason Mraz and Marit Larsen.
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| | Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise: City Shoppers | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Enjoying a Big Apple retail romp, Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise were spotted out shopping at Williams-Sonoma on Thursday evening (December 11).
While carrying her barefoot 2-year-old on what was a New York City day, Katie reportedly said that she’s happy with Tom’s Golden Globe nomination announced earlier today.
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| | Paula Abdul told by Idol producers to stop talking about stalker | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ever year around this time, Paula Abdul is sent out on a tour of crazy, hitting the talk show circuit to promote American Idol. Only this time, instead of babbling incoherently about Simon Cowell’s man-boobs, she’s slamming the producers of her hit show for allowing a woman to audition for the show who had stalked Paula for 17 years and later ended up killing herself outside Abdul’s home. Paula railed against Idol producers for encouraging contestant Paula Goodspeed in a radio interview with Barbara Walters earlier this week, but before she could repeat her rage on Late Night with Dave Letterman, she was told to keep her mouth shut.
Paula Abdul was told in no uncertain terms before her “Letterman” appearance last night to put a lid on her feud with “A.I.” producers.
Our sources say Paula is “extremely pissed” at “A.I.” producers for putting Paula Goodspeed on the show, despite the fact Goodspeed had been harassing Abdul for years — mad enough to make a stink on Dave’s show.
But before tape rolled, we’re told “A.I.” suits got in touch with Abdul and demanded that she not stoke the coals. “A.I.” made it clear — they were paying Paula’s bills so she needed to play by their rules.
Ultimately, Paula played ball, though somewhat insincerely. But it may have paid off. We’ve learned “A.I.” has already opened negotiations with Abdul for Season 9 — the talks have gone on for more than a month. That goes against the prevailing view that the fourth judge who debuts in the upcoming Season 8 will replace her.
[From TMZ]
Okay, Paula may be a lunatic, but what the Idol producers did was wrong, and she has every right to express her distress over what happened. A woman is dead. There’s no way of knowing if she would have committed suicide one way or another, but it sure seems like her appearance and rejection on the show sent her over the edge. It doesn’t seem right that they’re now bullying Paula into clamming up by hinting that her job is in jeopardy. If they’re going to get rid of her, do it because she’s a lousy judge and adds nothing of value to the show - not because she’s being honest about the shoddy treatment she received in this situation.
Here’s Paula arriving at the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC for her Dave Letterman appearance. Why is she dressed like a British soldier from the 1700’s? Photo credits: WENN.
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(Photo from OK! Magazine)
Private Practice's Kate Walsh who got married on September 1, 2007 is already heading to divorce court according to ETonline. Kate Walsh's husband Alex Young filed for divorce citing Irreconcilable Differences. I wonder what went wrong? I am sure we will hear about in the tabs…
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| | Rachel McAdams Joins the Cast of Sherlock Holmes | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Making an appearance on the London set of the new Guy Ritchie flick “Sherlock Holmes,” Rachel McAdams emerged with her hair and make-up done earlier today (December 11).
The “Red Eye” hottie joined fellow Hollywood heavy-hitters Robert Downey Jr (who plays Sherlock Holmes) and Jude Law (who plays Dr. John Watson), who’ve been hard at work on the project for awhile now.
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Basking in the glory of her rapidly-selling comeback album Circus, Britney Spears was spotted leaving out of LAX Airport in Los Angeles earlier today (December 11).
The “Womanizer” songstress arrived at the airport and met her dad at the executive first class lounge, sporting a black and white checkered coat overtop a blue t-shirt with black trousers and black platform heels.
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| | Ashley Tisdale Gets a Coffee Bean Pick-Me-Up | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Doing her best to grow a strong financial support system, Ashley Tisdale was spotted kick-starting her work day with a coffee run in Los Angeles on Thursday (December 11).
The Sharpay Evans actress sported a white top, black stone washed jeans and Ugg boots as she grabbed up her daily java at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.
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| | Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge: Bikini Shopping! | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Making for quite the sight to be seen, Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge were spotted out filming “The Hills” in Los Angeles on Thursday (December 11).
The MTV reality starlets headed off to do a little shopping at Ashley Paige, where Audrina tried on an itsy-bitsy bikini while Lauren happily looked on.
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| | Samuel L Jackson has been sober for 17 years | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Samuel L Jackson has had an incredibly successful career in Hollywood, and he credits much of it to staying completely sober for the last seventeen years. In 1991 he overdosed on crack cocaine, which led to him being taken to rehab ?kicking and screaming.? And although it normally takes a person hitting rock bottom and wanting to go to rehab to be successful, it worked for Jackson. He said he was so tired of everything, and luckily it worked.
By 1990, though, that drug fog had all but enveloped him. He was working as an understudy to a stage actor called Charles Dutton in a Broadway play called The Piano Lesson and found himself doing more and more crack cocaine just to ‘drown out’ Dutton’s voice, which was echoing in his head even in his sleep. When Dutton was nominated for a Tony award for his performance, Jackson went on an almighty binge that culminated in his wife discovering him unconscious on their kitchen floor. I read somewhere that he had to be dragged into rehab ‘kicking and screaming’. In most cases, that means the cure doesn’t take.
‘Yeah, all the experts say that you’ve got to surrender,’ he says, nodding, ‘but fortunately I was tired. I had reached that place where I could honestly say to myself: I’ve tried everything else, may as well give this a shot. The irony is I never got to taste Cristal. Back then, Mot was my champagne of choice. Now I get sent crates of Cristal and I ain’t never tasted the stuff. Ain’t that a bitch?’
Joking aside, does he ever feel like having a drink, maybe raising a glass of champagne or two to his own extraordinary success? ‘Hell yeah, there are days when I feel like that, but I don’t do it. I ain’t the kind of guy who can have one drink. I never could. That’s what I have to remember. I never had one drink in my whole life. When I bought a six-pack, I didn’t drink a couple of beers and put the rest in the fridge for later in the week. I drank the lot, then went out and bought another one. I was compulsive.’
Does he think that, in some way, that compulsion now drives his work? ‘Yeah, I guess so. I read six to eight scripts a week. I want to get up every day and act. The work defines me now.’
[From the Guardian]
Jackson says that he still goes to the same AA meeting when he?s in New York. He also notes that everyone in rehab discouraged him from taking his role in ?Jungle Fever? because of all the triggers, like holding pipes and lighters. He told them he?d never pick up the habit again because he didn?t want to have to see those people again.
It sounds like he?s come through a lot and worked hard for his success. Completely abstaining from drugs and alcohol is an incredible accomplishment. Samuel is an amazingly gifted actor and is still seen as one of the coolest guys in Hollywood. He should be really proud of all he?s overcome and all he?s accomplished.
Here?s Samuel L Jackson with director Frank Miller, Eva Mendes, and Scarlett Johansson at the French premiere of his movie ‘The Spirit’ on Tuesday. Images thanks to WENN.
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| | Gwyneth Paltrow is trying to save her failing marriage | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s been rumored for quite some time that Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin are having marital problems. And while Gwyneth has been full of nothing but denials, the New York Daily News says she and Martin have definitely hit a rough patch. The problem? Mostly Madonna. Naturally. Gwyneth is so enamored with her BFF that she wants to spend all her free time with Madge and her friends, instead of with her husband.
Gwyneth Paltrow is desperately trying to save her troubled marriage. Amid recent reports of their rocky romance, Paltrow and her husband, Coldplay rocker Chris Martin, are holed up in their London home “trying to make their marriage better,” a close friend of the couple tells us. The Oscar-winner is so committed, “she’s staying overseas until the holidays are over,” even forgoing events she typically loves, like tonight’s third annual Food Bank Lunchbox Auction bash. She usually hosts the event with close friend Mario Batali.
“Gwyneth says she’s totally fine,” her pal tells us. “She’s used the phrase ‘perfectly happy’ a bunch of times, and refuses to read any of the tabloid tales to the contrary.”
But despite Paltrow’s claim that everything is smooth sailing, we hear Madonna may be the thorn in her marriage’s side. “Gwyneth has the Madonna bug… bad,” the pal says. “It’s eerie. Gwyneth acts normally until Madonna comes around, and then Gwyn is all about Madonna, all the time. Madge has even introduced Gwyneth to all her friends.
“Now instead of going to see Chris perform, she’d rather hang out with people like Alex Rodriguez and Ingrid Casares.” When contacted for comment, Gwyneth’s rep said the claims of Madonna’s influence were “complete nonsense.” Madonna’s rep also issued a denial. But if Gwyneth does succumb to Madonna’s mystical powers, there’s one bright side: Guy Ritchie will have a new drinking partner at the pub.
[From Gatecrasher]
It sounds like Gwyneth is refocusing on her marriage, but it?s sort of sad that Madonna was able to take up so much of her time and has such an influence over her. Gwyneth and Chris are rarely photographed together, and have gone to extreme lengths to keep it that way. I?ve always found that incredibly bizarre, and reason enough to question their union. Given that habit, it might be nothing, but Chris was recently photographed taking their kids to Hyde Park?s Winter Wonderland all alone. Gwyneth was probably too busy pumping iron with Madonna to join them.
Here?s Gwyneth arriving at Rumble in the Jumble, a charity event organized to help vulnerable children, on November 6th. She definitely hasn?t been photographed much lately. Images thanks to Fame.
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| | Usher and Tameka Foster welcome their second son | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Usher and wife Tameka in February 2007. The couple are the proud new parents of a baby boy. Photo credit: WENN.
This is one of those times where I have to say I was wrong. Back when the news first broke that Tameka Foster, wife of R&B star Usher, was expecting the couple’s second child, I didn’t believe it at first. I thought it was a ploy by Tameka to hang onto her husband, because of the rumors swirling at the time that they were about to break up. Well, I stand corrected, because the couple today announced the birth of their baby - a boy named Naviyd Ely Raymond.
Usher and wife Tameka have welcomed another boy, his rep confirms to Usmagazine.com exclusively.
Naviyd Ely Raymond was born at 2:33 a.m. Wednesday and weighed 5 lbs, 13 oz. Their first son, Usher Raymond V, turned 1 on Nov. 26.
“Tameka and the baby are doing fine,” a rep for the singer tells Us.
The R&B singer, 30, confirmed he and Foster, whom he wed in 2007, were expecting last month. (Sources first told Usmagazine.com the news in September.)
“Definitively. We’re actually expecting, if you didn?t hear, in December” he told Access Hollywood. “One of the best Christmas gifts there is to have!”
A month before the boy was born, he told Access that they said they still hadn’t settled on a name.
“There are a few names,” he added. “But if you guys have any unique one, please feel free to hit me up. Let me know.”
[From Us Weekly]
Sounds like they finally decided on something “unique.” I’m not even sure how to pronounce it. This is Tameka’s fifth son, and Usher’s second. I suppose the name could have been worse - when the report first came out, I was a little worried that Usher was going to take a page from the George Foreman school of naming kids and christen this baby Usher Raymond VI. Congrats to the couple.
Photos of Usher and Tameka over the last two years. Photo credit: WENN.
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| | Us can't figure it out | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Mark Ruffalo and maybe Amy Adams have dropped out of Greenburg, a film written, film and directed by Noah Baumbach set for release in 2010. Ben Stiller will replace Ruffalo. A search for Amy Adam’s replacement is underway. Us Magazine says:
It is unclear why Ruffalo — whose brother, Scott Ruffalo, passed away late Monday from a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head — backed out of the project.
I couldn’t figure out why Mark backed out either. Was it the money? Or was it the thing that Us mentioned in the middle of their report? Big mystery, people.
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| | Paris thinks very highly of herself | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Paris Hilton insists she’s living proof that blondes are not imbeciles (whatever that means). And that her character on The Simple Life was just that, a character. The 27-year-old said:
“I?m very intelligent. I?m capable of doing everything put to me. I?ve two records (failures), I?ve launched a perfume (probably failed) and I want my own hotel chain (will most likely fail). I?m the living proof that blondes are not stupid.”
No. Those things only prove that you found people dumb enough to bank on your name. So congratulations. In a village full of idiots, you’re the brightest.
Paris also swears that men are attracted to her personality and not her money. Which is partially true. If she’s talking about the raging slut part of her personality. Men like girls who are like that.
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Taking care of some promotional duties, Kate Winslet was spotted at a private screening of her upcoming film “The Reader” this evening in London, England.
The “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” babe looked pleased with herself as she sauntered past the paparazzi in a black blouse/black trousers/black shoes combo.
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| | Brooke Shields Congratulates Tom Cruise | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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This morning the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominees were announced in Beverly Hills, and Brooke Shields was on hand to help out.
The “Lipstick Jungle” babe showed up at the shindig looking stunning in a sexy sleeveless red dress teamed with a pair of animal-print peep-toe heels and blinging gold earrings.
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Narrowly avoiding an open flame, Elisha Cuthbert was spotted on the set of her hit television show “24” yesterday afternoon (December 10).
The “Girl Next Door” hottie was busy filming a scene in which her character, Kim Bauer, escapes from a car accident where her arm ends up catching on fire.
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| | Samantha Ronson's lawsuit may expose private details of life w/ Lohan | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Samantha Ronson has been involved in a malpractice lawsuit against her highly respected lawyer, Martin Garbus, who represented her during her unsuccessful slander trial against blogger Perez Hilton. Garbus has countersued Ronson because she still hasn?t paid him the approximately $140,000 in legal fees she owes. As a result, some very private details may come out about her relationship with girlfriend Lindsay Lohan. Garbus has requested all sorts of highly personal documentation, and it?s likely Ronson will have to hand most of it over. It also sounds like Ronson doesn?t have a leg to stand on.
Now the fight between this solicitor and this celebrity — he’s appeared before the Supreme Court; she appears in Us Weekly — threatens to expose information about Lohan and Ronson that Perez Hilton could only dream about.
Garbus’ attorneys have identified Lohan as the most critical witness in the case besides the two litigants and have requested information concerning their relationship, finances, possible drug use and alleged rehab stays. In one measure of how far his defense plans to go, they have asked for copies of every text message and e-mail between the women over the last two years.
A trial is scheduled for May in Los Angeles. The parties spent the last few months squabbling over procedures for deposing Lohan and Ronson after lawyers for the women raised concerns that videotapes of the pretrial Q & As would be leaked to the media.
“Totally acceptable worry. It’ll likely happen,” Hilton squealed on his blog.
A judge issued a protective order for Ronson, making confidential the time and place of her deposition, and limiting the number of video recordings and transcripts. Attorneys told the judge they were negotiating a similar arrangement with Lohan.
At the bottom of the failed libel suit and the pending malpractice action is a one-car crash: Lohan’s Mercedes-Benz versus some shrubs in Beverly Hills on May 26, 2007. Police reported finding a small amount of cocaine in her car. The actress eventually entered rehab and pleaded guilty to driving under the influence.
[From the L.A. Times]
It might also come out that Samantha really did do some of the things Perez claimed in his blog, like create embarrassing photo ops with Lindsay for the paparazzi. Perez said Ronson got paid for this and was responsible for many of the mortifying Lindsay photos a few years ago. Garbus? legal team is now trying to prove that Perez?s claims are true ? or reasonable enough that they weren?t malicious. If they can do that, they can show that the case was essentially unwinnable from the start, and there was no malpractice. So Ronson?s former lawyer may essentially humiliate the crap out of her.
To defend the attorney, his lawyers must portray the defamation case as unwinnable, and in court papers, they have indicated they are searching for evidence that suggests that if Hilton’s report wasn’t completely true, it may have been close enough to not be malicious.
“Plaintiff would have had difficulty proving that reports that the drugs found at the accident were hers harmed her reputation if she had, in fact, been treated for substance abuse,” an attorney for Garbus wrote in an August letter to Ronson’s lawyer.
[From the L.A. Times]
The L.A. Times goes into great depth about the case, and it?s clear that Samantha had such a grudge against Perez that she refused to do what was sensible legally. There were several points where she could ? and should ? have settled, but she refused to do so unless he apologized. Because of that she lost the case, and was responsible not just for her $140,000 legal bill for Garbus, but also for Perez?s $85,000 legal bill. Considering her stubbornness, I seriously doubt she?ll settle with Garbus either, which means a lot of embarrassing details may soon come out.
Here?s Samantha and Lindsay leaving Bungalow 8 nightclub in London on November 18th. Images thanks to WENN.
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| | Paris Hilton claims she's proof blondes aren't stupid | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Paris Hilton is very similar to Jessica Simpson in that she?s dumb as a brick but goes to great pains to deny it. I?ll never forget reading a Vanity Fair article in 2004 with Joe Simpson, in which he claimed Jessica?s I.Q. was in the 160s. While Paris doesn?t go to the extreme of inventing test scores higher than she can count, she still claims she?s very intelligent, and just has the rest of us fooled.
Paris Hilton yesterday said she was ?living proof? blondes are not stupid.
And the heiress, 27, insisted her dizzy character in her reality show The Simple Life was just a role.
She said: ?I?m very intelligent. I?m capable of doing everything put to me. I?ve two records, I?ve launched a perfume and I want my own hotel chain.
?I?m the living proof that blondes are not stupid.?
The millionairess added men are attracted to her personality rather than her looks or money.
[From the Sun]
Here?s what I found most amusing: the idea that Paris even has a personality. I will acknowledge that it?s possible she is slightly more intelligent than we realize, and we?re all just fooled by her irrefutable lack of depth. But because she is made of nothing more than Pink cotton candy and high heels, I cannot believe that Paris has any personality to speak of.
A man of substance would likely be attracted to a woman who could hold a conversation without using the word ?hot? twelve times. The rest of them are probably just attracted to her looks (wonky) and money (dwindling). I don?t think Paris? argument really holds. She is good at promoting herself, I?ll give her that. But all she generally has to do is show up. So Paris is smart enough to set an alarm clock ? in a variety of time zones no less. I?ll give her some intelligence points for that. But that?s about it.
Here?s Paris arriving on a Delta flight from Madrid at LAX yesterday - wearing no makeup! Images thanks to WENN.
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| | Marisa Miller Loves a Hot Rod! | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Newstoob |
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Marisa Miller looks totally awesome as she shows off her great legs andsmile while promoting the Harley Davidson V-Rod Muscle Motorcycle in New York city. About two months ago Iposted a video and photos of Marisain the initial HD V-Rod advertisements, but these candid photos are almost as sweet. I still have to hand it to Harley Davidson for landing Marisa Miller as their promo girl — she’s perfect for the job!Plus, Marisa loves a big, hotrod!
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| | Alyssa Milano Promotes TOUCH off the Field | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Newstoob |
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Alyssa Milano looks great, and a bit cold, as she promotes her TOUCH clothing line in San Francisco.She had teamed up with MLBfirst, now it looks like the NFL. These photos arefar fromspectacular, unless you are like me andhavehad a thing for Alyssa Milano since the mid-1980s and television show Who’s the Boss. If so, then thesephotosrepresent the maturation of our crush and how hopelessour relationship with Alyssa has really become. But we can overcome that if we still pretend that she really, really like us.
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| | Guess what Jennifer Aniston is talking about? | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Jennifer Aniston would like you to believe that she’s over Angelina Jolie stealing Brad but the truth is she’s not. Which is why in every interview she sounds like a bitter woman talking about the one who got away, or rather, stolen away. In the latest GQ, Aniston quips:
?The funny thing is that people don?t realize we all go away to the Hamptons on the weekends,? Aniston said completely tongue-in-cheek.
?Can you imagine?? she continued. ?That?d be hysterical: I?ve got Zahara on my hip, and Knox??
Hysterical indeed. You know what would be more hysterical? If the interviewer kept twisting the knife in her heart and continued asking about Jolie. Hey, guess what?
Asked if she speaks with Jolie, Aniston immediately replies, “No. Nuh-uh,” with - as Kirby notes - “a forced little tongue-biting grin.”
And twisted it some more.
“Well, you know, that was definitely a confirmation for me of something that wasn’t quite confirmed at the time,” Aniston says.
“But listen… You sit there and you… No. No daggers through the heart. I laugh. Am I surprised? Well, how do I say this?
“Considering the source, nothing surprises me,” Aniston later says.
Damn. I’m surprised that at the end of this interview Aniston didn’t ask for a chair and rope. Granted, Aniston does manage to get a dig in.
She also says she’d never sell her baby photos to a magazine, unlike Jolie, who fetched $14 million for shots of twins Knox and Viv.
“That just doesn’t feel right to me….” Aniston says.
Ouch. Well played, Aniston. Let’s just hope Angelina doesn’t take the gloves off and fire back that at least she has babies to sell. Six of them, in fact. Oh how that will make Aniston’s barren womb weep.
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| | Macaulay Culkin's sister dies in crash | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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This is a pretty bad year for relatives of celebrities. I suggest if you’re in any way related to one, you hide out until 2009.
The latest in celebrity related tragedies is Macaulay Culkin’s sister Dakota who died after being struck by a car. The 29-year-old was stepping off a curb when the vehicle hit. She was taken to UCLA Medical Center but died from her injuries. LAPD is currently investigating although no arrests have been made.
Very, very tragic. Dakota will never again get to see her brother get pissy when people ask him to do that hand on face thing he did in Home Alone. C’mon. It’s not like I was asking to bang your girlfriend Mila Kunis. But now that it’s out there, how about it?
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She spent the weekend glamming up the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC, and now Beyonce Knowles has made her way overseas to one of her favorite destinations - Paris, France.
The “Irreplaceable” songstress was spotted at the luxurious Hotel Meurice on Thursday (December 11), drawing a crowd of fans and photographers, alike.
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Just over a year ago, he welcomed his first son Usher Raymond V, and now sources have confirmed that Usher and his wife Tameka are proud parents once again.
According to reports, the “Yeah” singer was blessed with another healthy baby boy yesterday (December 10), and Usher was right by his bride’s side during the delivery.
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Maintaining her presence in the public eye, Kate Moss was spotted on a night out in London, England earlier this evening (December 11).
The beautiful British babe is said to have met up with Sir Philip Green at the exclusive members-only club Annabels in the Mayfair district.
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| | John Mayer has some advice for gossip bloggers | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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John Mayer has some advice for gossip bloggers. He writes in his column for the Huffington Post that we should aspire to be like legendary comic Don Rickles and temper our snark with some humanity. Half buried in this article is Mayer’s admission that he does read what is written about him online and finds that it often stings. If only we could admit that we like him, that we struggle with the same issues that face him, he could sleep better, feeling that he’s understood despite all the mocking. At least that’s what I read into it:
There’s no doubt that at their most irreverent (and yes, mean), gossip blogs can be truly funny. After all, as Rickles has shown the world for years, there’s infinitely more material to be mined in the delicious details of the detested than there are in the lauded. Five words for good, five thousand for bad.
But there’s one element that has always gone missing in the new era of dissery, and perhaps it’s the most important part of the game. It’s what’s given Rickles the room to move with almost diplomatic immunity through cultural stereotypes and sensitivities: that effusive smile, the “not really”, and most importantly, the implicit “me too.” It’s what has given Rickles both his edge and his charm for over five decades, and its absence in today’s gossip media is what will soon lead to a population tired of it.
At Rickles’ recent performance at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, he made Perez Hilton look like a sycophant. Nobody — and I mean nobody — has what it takes to point out a morbidly obese man in the front row and call him out on it in song. (The man laughed hysterically.) After ribbing two men on stage, making fun of both them and their wives, he had handlers walk bottles of champagne to their seats, thanking them for playing along and suggesting they enjoy the bottles in their hotel rooms while making love. It doesn’t make the bite any less sharp, but it invites people to return to the lion’s cage.
If, in the blogosphere, there is any semblance to Rickles’ style of dressing the very wound he’s inflicted, it seems only to come posthumously; if you’re a celebrity and you want to sniff out who actually wishes you’d get killed by a grizzly bear flying a helicopter and who was only joking about it and had no idea it would actually happen, swear to God, you have to die to find that out. I appreciate kind thoughts in the wake of my passing, but they’d go to better use while
I can still hear them. Or is that too much kindness for one person to be allowed?
Wouldn’t it be nice, every once in a while, to read some sort of evidence of heart? An occasional ‘We kid, the guy’s okay??’ Unless you really don’t, in which case you won’t be sorry when that bear shoots me with a rocket launcher. Mark my words: the gossip-monger whose style closest resembles that of Don Rickles’ mastery of tension and release will stay successful the longest. Because the salient rules of entertainment will always apply. And Don Rickles should know, because he helped write them.
[From The Huffington Post]
Maybe the issue is that everyone doesn’t really think you’re ok, Mayer. You don’t have to please everyone and it’s not even possible. Plus, The Internet is not stand up. We come across stories and have about a half an hour at most to write them up. People like Perez Hilton bang out crap stories in 15 minutes or less and don’t have time to prepare and think out their opinions, and they don’t really care. Add in all the commenters and message boards and online you’re bombarded with all sorts of opinions, some nasty and downright prejudiced, coming from millions of people.
Just because we run a gossip blog doesn’t make our hastily written judgment of you any more valid than the next person. You don’t have to take it to heart. We understand that it can hurt, but it’s up to you how you interpret it. Don’t talk down to people saying they should change their writing style and become more understanding. Maybe you should stop caring so much. You’re rich, famous, arguably talented and get to go home to Jennifer Aniston. Start figuring out how to be a better boyfriend to her and stop worrying about what the fools online are saying about you. She gets it much worse than you do anyway. If we stopped talking about you that would be even more disappointing now wouldn’t it?
John Mayer is shown on 11/13/08 at the Keep a Child Alive benefit. Credit: WENN
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| | Nobody wants to pay to see Bronx Mowgli | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Remember when Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz got married, and the rumor mill said they had a hard time selling their wedding photos to magazines? People Magazine did put them on the cover- with an inset of Ashlee’s big sister Jessica and her boyfriend, Tony Romo. The buzz was, covers of Ashlee and Pete didn’t sell. That rumor is popping up again as the couple get ready to sell photos of their new baby, Bronx Mowgli Wentz.
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are trying to drum up some cash by selling photos of their baby, Bronx Mowgli - but so far, no takers. A celebrity weekly insider told Page Six, “Pete and Ashlee have approached every single celebrity magazine with offers to sell their first photos, but nobody wants them. Covers of them tend not to sell well.” A rep for Simpson denied it.
[From Page Six]
I guess nobody told Ashlee and Pete that the whole point of selling pics of your kid to the magazines is to defuse the lengths to which the paparazzi will stock you to get a coveted photo of the tot. At least, that’s how Brad Pitt explained it when he was on Larry King Live last week. I haven’t seen any evidence that photogs have been stalking the couple or staking out their home to get shots of the baby, so it doesn’t surprise me if there are no takers on their offer. Personally, I could take them or leave them, but I wouldn’t mind taking a peek at a photo of the baby. For some reason I envision him with Pete’s hair. They could always go the Gwen Stefani/Salma Hayek route and just issue a baby photo over the AP newswire for free.
Ashlee before and after: Above leaving an L.A. restaurant the week before giving birth. Photo credit: FAME. Below, her first public appearance just a few weeks after having Bronx Mowgli. She looks happy but very tired. Photo credit: Bauergriffin.
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| | Mark Ruffalo drops out of film project in wake of brother's death | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Actor Mark Ruffalo has dropped out of his latest project to deal with a family emergency: the death of his younger brother, Scott. Earlier this week it was revealed that Scott Ruffalo’s shooting death was the result of a tragic but senseless accident involving drugs and a game of Russian Roulette. Ruffalo was set to appear in a new film by Noah Baumbach, the director behind “The Squid and the Whale” and “Margot at the Wedding.” He’ll be replaced by Ben Stiller, of all people.
Ben Stiller will replace Mark Ruffalo in the upcoming Noah Baumbach dramedy Greenburg. Oddly, no story synopsis has been released, so we know nothing about the project, save for that it’ll be another relationship film like Baumbach’s previous: The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding. Amy Adams was also initially set to star in the film, but has reportedly dropped out as well. While Ruffalo’s leaving might have to do with the tragedy surrounding his brother, we don’t know why Adams left. Stiller is an acceptable replacement, although it will certainly be odd seeing him take on a dramatic role.
[From First Showing.net]
Again, condolences to Mark and his family. Work is probably not a big priority for him at this time, so it’s understandable that he would drop out of this project. I’m rather flabbergasted that the casting directors would think Ben Stiller is a suitable replacement for a serious actor like Ruffalo, but who knows? Maybe Stiller is bored with playing the exact same buffoon in every single movie.
Here’s Mark Ruffalo looking very clean-cut and handsome at the premiere of “Reservation Road.” Photo credits: FAME.
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| | Blake Re-Incarcerated got a prison ass-whupping | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Prince Charming himself: Blake Fielder-Civil at the court-ordered rehab facility, just before failing a drug test and being sent back to prison. Photo credit: FAME.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Upon his recent return to the pokey after failing a drug test, Mr. Amy Winehouse was the victim if a jailhouse beatdown. Somewhere, Mitch Winehouse is having a good chuckle over this one.
JUNKIE BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL has been moved to a softer jail after a lag attacked him just 48 hours after he was banged up.
Fielder-Civil, 26, was beaten up over his treatment of troubled wife AMY WINEHOUSE, 25.
He was moved from London?s tough Pentonville Prison to Edmunds Hill Jail in Suffolk last weekend amid fears for his safety.
A source said: ‘Some lads don?t appreciate men who don?t treat their women well. Blake got a bit of a kicking and was moved away from a gang who were after his blood.’
Fielder-Civil returned to jail last week to continue serving his sentence for assault and trial-fixing.
He broke his early release terms after failing a drug test.
Before going back to jail he visited Amy in hospital. She had collapsed on a drink and drugs bender after a row with him on the phone.
Pals believe he took her drugs.
[From The Sun]
Doesn’t he like to pass himself off as some kind of pub brawling tough guy? They shouldn’t have moved him to a “softer” jail. I’d like to see him moved to that jail where Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend is - the one that is so disgusting he’s vomiting blood. Yeah, that sounds about right. This beatdown was a long time coming, if you ask me. Let’s not forget why he went to jail in the first place- for the severe beating of a pub owner, and his role in paying off a witness to that beating. Now, if someone could just slap some sense into his wife….
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| | Jennifer Aniston Nude in GQ | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Newstoob |
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Jennifer Aniston has appeared nude in the recent issue of GQ magazine. While the pictures are tastefully covered up, I am slowly achieving my goal of seeing Jennifer completely naked. This is even better than a bikini! The article features an interview with Jennifer that contains many words and other things that are lame when I will just stare at the pictures. Jennifer Aniston still looks good after all these years (and maybe a little photoshop)! Oh I hope there’s more pictures!
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| | Pete and Ashlee's baby is worthless | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are coming to the stark realization that their baby, Bronx Mowgli, is worth less than the vagina it came out of. Page Six reports:
“Pete and Ashlee have approached every single celebrity magazine with offers to sell their first photos, but nobody wants them. Covers of them tend not to sell well.” A rep for Simpson denied it.
Chalk this up to the fact that a baby wearing eyeliner and hot pants is not cute. Actually, it’s kind of gay. I mean, was his wrist always limp like that or did he learn from Pete. Also, trying to convince editors that the “awws” you hear from strangers is because your baby is adorable and not because they feel sorry for the kid won’t work.
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Drivers of Southern California, look out! Miley Cyrus is loose on the streets, and last night she was spotted making her way to a beauty appointment.
The “Hannah Montana” hottie drove up to the Sunlounge Tanning Salon in Toluca Lake, California for a fake baking session, setting a good example for her fans by making sure to use her seatbelt.
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Fulfilling her M.A.C. Cosmetics promotional duties, singer Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson was spotted making a personal appearance at Selfridges in London, England earlier today (December 11).
The “Big Girls Don’t Cry” songstress looked absolutely fabulous as she posed for the paparazzi in a semi-see-through top over a black bra with a black skirt and black heels.
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| | Scarlett Johansson: Nobel Peace in Norway | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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It seems her notoriety has earned her a place in this year’s Nobel Peace Prize festivities, and Scarlett Johansson was looking fine as she arrived at a press conference earlier today.
The “In Good Company” actress sported a sexy animal print blouse and black skirt as she arrived at the Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway. She’s due to host tonight’s gala event along with Michael Caine.
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| | Prince William is banned | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Palace officials made the wise decision to ban Prince William from being within a 50 mile radius of the Paris Hilton on New Year’s Eve. Fox News says Paris is tapped to host the Bongo Virus NYE bash that Prince William was also invited as a guest to. When the higher-ups found out Wonky Eye was there, they made the executive decision to take away his car keys and give him the talk about Paris’ airborne herpes even though “William really wanted to go.”
If you were wondering Paris’ NYE was going to be drama free, don’t worry, it’s probably not. One Night in Paris co-star Rock Salomon will also attend as might Sophie Monk and Benji Madden.
I think a good idea to help ring in the new year with Paris is to take her to the middle of the Australian outback and leave her there with only a bottle of pee and a knife and ask her, “You know who Bear Grylls is?,” and then just leave.
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Getting into the holiday spirit, Jessica Biel teamed up with her family’s Make the Difference Network for a star-studded holiday party in Hollywood last night (December 10).
The “7th Heaven” hottie was joined by Kevin James in her hosting duties, and told press that it was a joy to team up with her family to help the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles this Christmas.
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Of all the “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” stars, Vanessa Hudgens may be the most grateful for her chance to participate in the series. She was home-schooled, so the films’ high school experience was her only taste of what it was like to do all the school-related things that most teenagers do.
She recently told press, “This has been my high school experience. I got to make that close group of friends you have in high school. I got to graduate with them, to throw my cap in the air for the very first time. And I guess I got to have a fairytale prom.”
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| | Kim Kardashian Talks South African Trip | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Following the tending to launch of her sister Khloe’s nude PETA billboard, Kim Kardashian was spotted doing some retail therapy with her mom Kris Jenner.
The “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” ladies enjoyed the finer things in life, stopping into XIV Karats jewelry store as well as the Louis Vuitton boutique in Beverly Hills.
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| | Clive Owen Film To Open Berlin Film Festival | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Clive Owen is one of those rare actors who almost always makes good, interesting films. I?m hard-pressed to think of one Clive Owen film where it seemed like he was phoning it in (alright, maybe Derailed). So with that in mind, imagine a Clive Owen film where he runs around fighting international crime in the forms of gun-runners and *cue dramatic music* white-collar crooks. Thus, The International, a film directed by Tom Tykwer and co-starring Naomi Watts. The International will be the opening film of the Berlin Film Festival, which begins February 5.
Tom Tykwer’s “The International,” an action thriller starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, will open the 59th Berlin International Film Festival on February 5.
Screening out of competition, the feature will be Tykwer’s second Berlinale opening, following “Heaven,” which bowed at the 2002 event.
But unlike “Heaven,” which was an art-house film more along the lines of Tykwer’s “Winter Sleepers” (1997) or “The Princess and the Warrior” (2000), “The International” marks the German director’s jump into the major leagues.
The director of indie hit “Run, Lola, Run” (1998) proved he could handle a big budget with his last picture, the opulent olfactory epic “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” (2006). But “The International” is Tywker’s first film with a U.S. studio. Sony co-produced with Germany’s Studio Babelsberg and will release the film in Germany February 12 and stateside, via Columbia Pictures, February 13.
“The International” is Tywker’s first film with a U.S. studio. Sony co-produced with Germany’s Studio Babelsberg and will release the film in Germany February 12 and stateside, via Columbia Pictures, February 13.
“The International” is also Tykwer’s first all-out action movie. The conspiracy thriller follows Owen as an Interpol agent who discovers that the world’s largest bank is secretly engaging in money laundering and illegal arms trading. Watts co-stars as a Manhattan assistant district attorney who joins Owen on his race around the world to bring those responsible to justice.
The film was shot largely in Berlin and Studio Babelsberg with location work in New York, Istanbul and Milan.
The 59th Berlinale runs February 5-15, 2009.
[From Reuters]
Honestly, just from reading the description, it sounds a lot like Owen?s next film, Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts. That one involves white-collar crimes and, evidently, a big Pretty Woman-grin. But I saw the trailer for it, and Clive is shirtless at one point. *swoon*
In other Clive Owen news, there seems to be progress on Sin City 2, according to Frank Miller and the fanboy rantings on such sites as ?Geeks of Doom? (I kid you not). From what I could tell of the rantings of the fanboys, everyone involved with the would-be project wants Owen in it. Production could be starting in the spring.
Frank Miller is also a huge fan of Clive Owen. Check out what he said about Clive at the London premiere of The Spirit:
Looking towards his [Miller's] rumoured Raymond Chandler adaptation, Trouble Is My Business, he could only commit: ?We?re talking it over.? However, when asked about Clive Owen, who is rumoured star in the film as detective Philip Marlowe, Miller said he would be his leading man ?in almost anything I can imagine. He has a manliness which is largely lacking in Hollywood, and a sense of humour that?s unstoppable.?
[From EmpireOnline.com]
Someone?s got themselves a man-crush, don?t they? Frank and Clive, sitting in a tree, K-I-S– Back off, Frank Miller, he’s mine!
Here’s the trailer for The International
Clive Owen is shown filming Duplicity with Julia Roberts on 4/14/08. Credit: PRPhotos. He is also shown in a more recent photo, credit below
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| | John Hamm Stunt-Cast On '30 Rock' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s like the best dream you never want to wake up from. John Hamm, the Clooney-esque leading man from AMC?s critically acclaimed and totally wonderful hit show Mad Men, will be appearing in several episodes of 30 Rock as the lovah of Liz Lemon, Tina Fey?s character. It was mentioned in passing in the Vanity Fair profile of Fey, but now it seems the stunt-casting is complete (SQUEE!!!).
Jon Hamm is temporarily trading the offices of Sterling Cooper for “30 Rock.”
The actor, who plays advertising executive Don Draper on AMC’s “Mad Men,” will portray the love interest of Tina Fey character Liz Lemon ? a doctor who lives in her apartment.
Could it last?
“I just finished a couple of episodes, and I’ll go back in the new year and do another one of those, and then we’ll see what happens,” Hamm said Tuesday at a benefit for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.?
[From The Associated Press]
John Hamm is having a really good year. He won the Best Actor -TV Golden Globe last January during the writers? strike. He?s considered the Coolness Heir-Apparent to George Clooney. Mad Men is a genius show with some of the best writing on television. His Saturday Night Live appearance was hilarious. And Hamm has a supporting part in The Day The Earth Stood Still, starring Jennifer Connelly and Keanu Reeves, which will most likely be an enormous hit over the Christmas holiday.
If you haven?t watched the first two seasons of Mad Men, I really don?t know what to say about you as a person. It?s an excellent show that deserves every award it will receive come awards time. Hopefully, with Hamm?s 30 Rock guest spots, more people will get interested.
PS. He has a live-in girlfriend. *fingers crossed he’s secretly pining away for me*
Jon Hamm is shown with his girlfriend, Jennifer Westfeldt, at the NY
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| | Matthew Perry to get new comedy on Showtime | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Matthew Perry’s awesome NBC show “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” just didn’t have the ratings to stick around and was canceled last year after one season. The show was created and produced by the pair responsible for “The West Wing,” Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme, and it had a real “West Wing” type feel with some of the same actors. Set in a fictional “Saturday Night Live” type environment, you were privy to the work that went into the creation of the show. The dialogue between the characters playing the writers, producers and actors was both smart and funny and it’s a shame the show didn’t last.
Friends staple Perry is coming back to television and will star in a pilot comedy to air on Showtime called “The End of Steve.” He will play a baudy talk show host in Rochester, NY. The latest casting news is that Martha Plimpton and Kylie Sanchez will join:
Showtime is staffing up its Matthew Perry pilot.
Kiele Sanchez, Martha Plimpton, Eddie Shin, Nate Torrence and Dreama Walker have joined the cable network’s dark comedy pilot “The End of Steve,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The story centers on Steve (Perry), a bitter, self-centered local talk show host who is seeking a bigger market and is half-heartedly on the way to redemption. Perry and Peter Tolan are writers and executive producers on the project, which promises to show a darker side to Perry.
The cast additions are rounding out the talk show staff. Sanchez plays Steve’s attractive co-host, on whom he has a crush, while Plimpton will act as the talk show’s producer. Shin will play Steve’s boss, Bob Hu, while Torrence will be Steve’s assistant Nathan.
[From Zap2It]
Perry is a co-writer and co-executive producer on the pilot along with Peter Tolan, who is responsible for “Rescue Me.” So far all that Showtime has committed to is the pilot. With all that talent attached the show will hopefully be successful for Perry and lead to a series. As Zap2IT points out, Showtime has many original series on its plate with “Weeds,” “The Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” “Californication,” and “Tracy Ullman’s State of the Union.”
“The United States of Tara,” written by Diablo Cody, will premiere on January 18 and Showtime has already committed to a full season. There’s no word yet on when we can expect to see “The End of Steve,” which will may be the beginning of Perry’s long overdue return to a successful series.
Matthew Perry is shown out at Madeo on 11/24/08 below. Credit: Fame. He is shown in the header at the Lili Claire Foundation Benefit Dinner on 10/4/08. Credit: PRPhotos
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| | Disneyland fires all Jack Sparrow actors - due to female flashers? | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Would you strip for a Johnny Depp lookalike?
Disneyland park in Anaheim, California is retiring the live actors that play Captain Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. While officials say they’re no longer actively promoting the films, which won’t come out in a fourth installment featuring Johnny Depp until 2012, rumor has it that the park had another reason to get rid of the dashing Depp lookalikes. Women were lifting their tops to pose with the dirty pirates, compromising the family-friendly image of Disneyland. A former employee says it’s true and claims that’s why the actors lost their job right before the holidays:
Disneyland management has fired the four actors who played pirate Jack Sparrow because officials were worried about young female park-goers flashing the swashbuckling actors late at night, according to one former cast member.
“They lost control when they saw Jack Sparrow,” said former pirate Brandon Pinto, who left the role after a dispute with management a year ago. “This is a sexy, rock-star pirate.”
The pirate actors said they were told they were no longer needed at about the same time that
additional fairies were added to the park’s cast, presumably to promote Disney’s new movie “Tinkerbell.”
Disneyland officials confirmed that the pirate was indeed fired (due to declining relevance and diminishing visitor requests), but flatly denied published reports that the dismissal had anything to do with female fans flashing their breasts at the swashbuckling actors who portray Jack Sparrow at the Anaheim theme park.
Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown called the breast-flashing rumors ?absolutely false? and ?simply not true.?
The animatronic characters on the Pirates of the Caribbean water-wide will remain, according to Disneyland officials.
The fired Jack Sparrow actors greeted visitors and posed for photos on Tom Sawyer Island and occasionally wandered around New Orleans Square near the POTC ride. Disneyland promises the bad boy buccaneer, made famous by Johhny Depp in the trilogy of movies, will eventually return ? ?some day.?
[From KTLA.com]
Would you show your boobs to Jack Sparrow? You would hope there are plenty of cocktails involved for the ladies in question. While you can’t drink at Disneyland there are margaritas to be had at nearby Downtown Disney and California Adventure. It wouldn’t take much to get me to take my top off for Johnny Depp, but I would like to think that an imposters wouldn’t inspire as much foolishness.
Images by photographer salady found on Flickr.
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| | Gayle King told Oprah she wasn't looking good after weight gain | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Gayle King was on Good Morning yesterday to talk about her best friend Oprah’s decision to go public with her weight struggle. Oprah recently admitted to weighing 200 pounds at just 5? 6.5? tall, a figure that some people say is too low and contend that she looks heavier than that. Whatever the exact number is, Oprah deserves credit for owing up to her problems with the public, something she could have kept quiet about. Oprah is featured on the cover of the upcoming January issue of O Magazine in a current full body shot in which she points to a fit 2005 version of herself with the caption “How did I let this happen again?” In the accompanying interview, she admits that she’s “mad” and “embarrassed” at her weight gain and says she can’t believe she let it happen again with everything she knows.
Gayle said on GMA that she was surprised Oprah made that decision. As her best friend and the editor of O, she told Oprah frankly that she wasn’t looking that good and it would be a risk to compare herself to her 2005 cover shot.
Gayle explains how she told Oprah she wasn’t “looking so great”
“You’re aware that there’s a difference between the two bodies and you’re not looking so great, and you’re ok with showing that?”
“She goes ‘Yes I am. I really am, because I have eyes, everybody else has eyes. Everybody can see what is happening to me and I feel that I’ve been talking the talk but I haven’t really walked the walk and I just want to put it out there.’”
Gayle also talked about how she felt bad that she didn’t notice that Oprah was upset over gaining weight until she came out with the news herself. Oprah tells a personal story in the magazine about not wanting to go on stage in Las Vegas with Tina Turner and Cher because she felt too fat, something that Gayle says she can see in retrospect but didn’t pick up on at the time.
The letters are coming in from readers who are grateful to Oprah, according to Gayle. She quoted one woman who wrote “I just wanted to thank you. For so long I’ve been embarrassed about how I look. I called myself voluptuous, but really I know I’m fat.”
Oprah contends that she’s not brave for coming out with this personal information and that the really brave people are the ones who come on her show every week.
Gayle said that Oprah is still the same confident person, but that Bob Green, her longterm trainer, told her he could tell that she’s been depressed since she gained weight.
As I said in our earlier coverage of this, Oprah usually bugs me but I can’t fault her in this case. She is going public with something that people struggle with daily and as a well known celebrity she can provide courage and strength to so many. Oprah’s “Best Week Life” starts on January 5th on her show.
Gayle King is shown in the header at the 17th Annual Women In Entertainment Power 100 Breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel on 12/5/08. Credit: Apega/WENN
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| | Jennifer Connelly is Anorexic | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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I almost didn’t recognize Jennifer Connelly without her purse full of children’s teeth and her infanticidal vendetta against the town of Darkness Falls! Boy, where’s a flashlight when you need one?
At “The Day The Earth Stood Still” premiere in New York on Tuesday:
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| | Is this why we haven't Bronx Mowgli Wentz' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Seriously OMG WTF |
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(photo from WireImage)
It has been a few weeks since Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have their Bronx Mowgli, but yet we have not see him and you know Joe Simpson can't have that. Page Six has the reason why we haven't seen him…
"Pete and Ashlee have approached every single celebrity magazine with offers to sell their first photos, but nobody wants them. Covers of them tend not to sell well." A rep for Simpson denied it.
Well if makes thyem and Grandpa Joe feel better, in a few months they will pay for the pix and bury you in the magazine like People did for Ricky Martin this week.
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| | Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff Stand Up to Cancer | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Proving that it never hurts to have a little style while helping out a good cause, Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, and Dave Annable were spotted at the Stand Up to Cancer Merchandise Collection Launch party last night (December 10).
The “All Good Things” songstress looked cute and casual as she arrived at the Kitson Studio on North Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles, sporting a brand new SU2C t-shirt underneath a black leather jacket.
More Photos Here
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She’s been chilling out in Madrid, Spain since earlier this week, and last night Paris Hilton returned back home to Los Angeles via LAX International Airport.
The “House of Wax” cutie was spotted making her way through the terminal sporting a white tracksuit and opting to go makeup-free following her transatlantic flight.
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| | Audrina Patridge's Busy Night Out in LA | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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When you’re as well-known as Audrina Patridge, everyone in Hollywood wants you at their party. And last night she hit not one, but two swanky events.
The “Hills” hottie headed over to the Sportie LA and Fila Melrose Shoe Collection Launch in West Hollywood, looking stunning in a charcoal-colored cleavage-baring dress teamed with a pair of black peep-toe heels.
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She’s been enjoying her time in London as she’s been in town to premiere her new film “Australia.” And after last night’s Leicester Square shindig, Nicole Kidman opted for some English night life.
The “Moulin Rouge” actress decided to head over to the Ivy club to blow off some steam with co-star Hugh Jackman before returning to her swanky hotel.
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From the time she arrived in New York City for “All My Sons” rehearsals, Katie Holmes has been the picture of dedication to her craft. And after last night’s performance, she was spotted chatting on her mobile phone as she arrived back home.
The “Dawson’s Creek” darling looked positively beautiful as she passed the paparazzi, sporting a silver jacket overtop a white shirt, with black trousers and black flats.
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| | Has Jennifer Aniston realized the 'triangle' helps keep her relevant' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jennifer Aniston has a history of quiet indignance regarding the demise of her marriage to Brad Pitt four years ago. She made a couple comments immediately following, and then years of absolute refusal to discuss it, and it was working for her. She has a legion of fans who have made the jilted party of the infamous triangle almost a martyr. But something recently changed and the adoring throngs lauded Aniston finally speaking up and out about the “other” woman.
And yet, sometimes, what starts as commendable can quickly sour when you don’t quite know when to zip it. Just ask that other woman. And if Aniston isn’t careful, she’s going to wish she wouldn’t have fixed what wasn’t broken.
(The interview comes out days after Aniston told USA Today that her personal life is none of people’s “(expletive) business.” She also recently attacked Vogue for being a tabloid for running her Jolie “uncool” remark on its December cover.)
Four years after she split with Brad Pitt, GQ editor Mark Kirby asks Aniston why she thinks people are still interested in the story.
The actress cracks a joke.
“The funny thing is that people don’t realize we all go away to the Hamptons on the weekends,” she snipes. “No. But can you imagine? That’d be hysterical: I’ve got Zahara on my hip, and Knox….”
[From Us Magazine]
Is it just me or is Jen trying to out-manipulate the masters? The bad news is, you can’t be so obvious about your manipulations and expect everyone to fall in step. I get that there’s PR to be done for at least one upcoming movie, but I would have gone with the “happily dating John Mayer” angle and left out the “acid-tongue ex hits back” one.
Maybe it will work for her, but it’s risky. People go to Jennifer Aniston for characters that are quirky, fun, sweet, girl-next-door types. Naked and snarky in GQ just isn’t complimentary to that image. Finally speaking up was bold, then decrying the tabloid turn it took was iffy, now turning around and sensationalizing further is just duplicitous. You can’t feed the dog table scraps, then smack his nose for begging at the table just to turn around and feed him table scraps again.
Note by Celebitchy: I think Aniston was just making a joke and it seemed like a kind of benign one to me. Is she supposed to say “no comment” every time? I think she was trying to sidestep the subject without being sour about it so she cracked wise. Of course US is going to make it into some big move on Aniston’s part. If anything she just seems more comfortable with the subject and I wouldn’t blame her for making light of it.
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| | Lindsay Lohan Cleans Up Nicely | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Newstoob |
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Lindsay Lohan was out promoting her 6126 leggings at a Nordstrom, and it is apparent that she can really dress to impress. Lindsay actually looks nice and sexy in a non-trashy way unlike the last time we saw her. Of all the things that Lindsay decided to get behind, I am confused why she would market leggings. I guess when you’re Lindsay Lohan you can do whatever the hell you want!
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Would you spend $25,000 on week with John Mayer on cruise where he will be at your beck and call?
Ship off from Southern California with three of your lucky friends and meet multi-platinum GRAMMY Winner John Mayer on his “Mayercraft Carrier 2,” a floatable party ship that sails the seas stocked with parties, performers, jam sessions and good times.
This experience includes roundtrip airfare for four to Los Angeles, California where you'll stay at The Leading Hotels of the World's luxuriously intimate Casa del Mar, a hacienda-style beachfront hotel set on the edge of the Sea of Cortez, on both the eve of your cruise and the night of your return.
The Mayercraft Carrier 2 sets sail on March 27 for a four-day voyage of fun, sun and plenty of jawdropping perks—like the guitar of Mayer's that he'll sign and give to you to take with you wherever you roam!
If that sounds like something you would want, then go over to eBay and hurry and bid on him because no one else has.
Even Jennifer Aniston doesn't think he is worth the price. I personally wish Angelina Jolie bid on the cruise, how awesome would that be? Afterall it is for a good cause, Musicians On Call that brings music to hospitals.
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Enjoying a day away from the studio, Ashley Tisdale enjoyed a little bonding time with her mother as the two went on a Malibu shopping spree on Wednesday afternoon (December 10).
The “High School Musical” hottie looked her usual fabulous self, sporting a chic ensemble as she toted her Chanel handbag while playing with her brunette locks.
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| | Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt: Xmas Tree Shoppers | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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This holiday season is an exciting one for Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt because it’s their first as a married couple. And yesterday they were spotted picking out the perfect Christmas tree.
The peroxide pair visited a local Los Angeles Christmas tree retailer, looking blissful as they emerged with their first ‘family’ tree.
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Taking care to be a conscientious mother, Reese Witherspoon was spotted taking her daughter Ava to a Beverly Hills medical center yesterday afternoon (December 10).
The mother-daughter duo looked to be enjoying each other’s company, with Reese sporting a white dress with a black cardigan and animal print flats, while her daughter opted for a blue zip-up hoodie overtop a Pink dress with Pink boots.
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| | Catholic Cardinal says Madonna inspires impure thoughts | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Retired Roman Catholic Cardinal Jorge Medina has come out and said that Madonna is causing ?impure thoughts? on her tour of South America. He said this during a mass honouring Augusto Pinochet. If it comes to a contest between Pinochet and Madonna to see who is most evil, Madonna is probably going to lose. Sure, they?re both dictators, but Madonna really just bosses around her underlings, as opposed to a whole country. If you cross her, she fires you, she doesn?t put you in front of a firing squad.
“This woman comes here and in an incredibly shameless manner, she provokes a crazy enthusiasm, an enthusiasm of lust, lustful thoughts, impure thoughts,” said Medina, the cardinal who was chosen to announce the election of Pope Benedict XV.
Hundreds of fans spent three days camping outside the National Stadium in Santiago to get good spots for Wednesday’s concert, the first of two. About 60,000 people were expected at each performance.
One of those waiting in line, Roberto Lopez, told local reporters that he had quit his job in the southern city of Punta Arenas because his boss had not given him time off to attend the concert.
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Looking at Madonna, I?m not sure I?m getting ?impure thoughts?. Sure, I wonder if she could crack a nut for with her thighs, I wonder if she knows how aging that shade of blonde is, but I can?t say that anything particularly sexy spings to mind. Then again, I?m just not into dominatrix chic, which is clearly what she?s going for. Nice boots though.
Obviously Madonna has a history of deliberately upsetting the Catholic Church, which criticized her Like A Prayer video, and her live act.
Madonna took her kids on a boat ride in Buenos Aires on a break during her Sticky and Sweet tour, where David was wearing the same ?Speed Racer? t-shirt my son has. I wonder who went to Target to buy it for him.
Here’s Madonna out with David in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 12/10/08 and performing in LA on 11/6/08. Credit: WENN
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| | Toni Braxton had a lump removed from her breast | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s been a hard year for Toni Braxton. After canceling concerts due to a heart condition, it now seems that she has had a benign lump removed from her breast. Toni actually discovered the lump while filming Dancing with the Stars, and postponed having it removed until she was off the show on October 20th.
The 41-year-old admits that she discovered the benign tumour before she appeared on the ABC programme, but decided to wait until she was eliminated from the contest to undergo surgery.
And Braxton is now relieved that she exited the show early.
She tells Us Weekly.com, “Getting the boot on the show was actually a blessing in disguise for me. My grandmother on my dad’s side died of breast cancer, and I have aunts on both sides that have breast cancer.”
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Toni is going to be fine, and this will be a reminder to people that finding a lump on your breast doesn?t mean you?ve got cancer. Whatever happens you really need to go get it checked out. Don?t be afriad to go to the doctor.
Toni Braxton has recently created a PSA for parents, comparing her odds of being a successful musician to the odds of her having a child with autism, the point being that the odds are 1 in 150 that you may have a child with autism and that you should learn the early signs. The sooner autistic children get help the better the outcome for them. Toni has been outspoken about her son Diezel?s autism, saying that if he had been diagnosed sooner (he was three) he could have been helped. She was angry that doctors wanted to take a wait-and-see approach, when she felt treatment should have started immediately.
Toni Braxton is shown on 11/7/08 at a Lupus fundraiser she hosted in LA. Credit: WENN
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| | Jennifer Aniston Gets Naked in GQ | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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A naked Jennifer Aniston looks hot as hell in nothing but a patriotic tie on the cover of next month’s GQ magazine. I mean… wow. God. Damn. But then she goes and opens her big fat stupid mouth and ruins it just like that. The Daily Mail quotes her as saying
‘The funny thing is that people don’t realize [Angelina and Brad and I] all go away to the Hamptons on the weekends. No. But can you imagine? That’d be hysterical. I’ve got Zahara on my hip, and Knox…’
[When asked if she was still in touch with Pitt]: ‘We don’t not talk.’
That’s just sad, isn’t it? I’ve seen footage of illegal immigrants clinging to driftwood that wasn’t as desperate or boner-crushing. On the plus side, though, you’re pretty much guaranteed she’ll try anal and probably pay your car note. Desperate is as desperate does, baby!
In this month’s Vogue because the GQ photoshoot isn’t out yet:
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| | Marisa Miller Supports a Hot Rod | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Newstoob |
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Marisa Miller looks totally awesome as she shows off her great legs andsmile while promoting the Harley Davidson V-Rod Muscle Motorcycle in New York city. About two months ago Iposted a video and photos of Marisain the initial HD V-Rod advertisements, but these candid photos are almost as sweet. I still have to hand it to Harley Davidson for landing Marisa Miller as their promo girl — she’s perfect for the job!Plus, Marisa loves a big, hotrod!
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| | Vanessa Hudgens Steps Out in Napa Valley | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Just days away from leaving the teenage years behind, Vanessa Hudgens was spotted out in Napa Valley on Wednesday afternoon (December 10).
Playing with her hair as she walked along with cell phone in-hand, the “High School Musical” sweetheart will be celebrating her 20th birthday this Sunday.
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| | Lindsay Lohan Hits Up the Bagel Broker | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Out for yet another fun-filled day, Lindsay Lohan was spotted grabbing up a beverage on-the-go in Los Angeles on Wednesday (December 10).
The “Mean Girls” starlet looked cute as she busily texted away while waiting in line at The Bagel Broker, offering up a sly smile to paparazzi upon exiting the eatery.
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Splurging on an afternoon shopping spree, Eva Longoria was spotted out and about West Hollywood on Wednesday (December 10).
Showing off her curvaceous figure in a draping blue dress, the “Desperate Housewives” cutie combed the racks before making a few purchases at Zadig & Voltaire in Sunset Plaza.
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| | Lauren Conrad: Logging In the Long Hours | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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After what was a long day of filming, Lauren Conrad was spotted getting dropped off at her car in Hollywood Hills on Wednesday afternoon (December 10).
The MTV reality starlet had changed clothes since starting her “Hills” shoot earlier in the day at Mira’Le, where she was joined by her co-star/roomie Lauren “Lo” Bosworth.
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| | Khloe Kardashian Unveils Nude PETA Billboard | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Doing her part on behalf of animals around the world, Khloe Kardashian unveiled her new PETA Billboard “Fur? I’d Rather Go Naked” in Los Angeles on Wednesday (December 10).
The “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” starlet brought sisters Kim and Kourtney, as well as mother Kris Jenner, out to Harper on Melrose as the campaign was shown off to the gathered spectators.
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Finally able to get behind the wheel, Miley Cyrus was spotted in the driver’s seat as she and her mom Leticia “Tish” Cyrus headed out for a cruise in Los Angeles on Monday (December 8).
Amidst a variety of funny faces and poses, the now 16-year-old “Hannah Montana” starlet happily showed off her learners permit - a prerequisite before she’s actually allowed to drive on her own.
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Stepping out for a night of music in the UK, Rihanna took to the red carpet at Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball in London, England on Wednesday (December 10).
Held at the O2 Arena Docklands, the “Umbrella” songstress took part in the 95.8 Capital FM-hosted event, which featured acts including The Pussycat Dolls, Enrique Iglesias and The Sugababes, among others.
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| | Tila Tequila wants to adopt | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Tila Tequila tells Us that she’ll be ready to adopt a few kids when she becomes a billionaire and moves to her own island. So, yea, big news of the day is Tila Tequila is never going to adopt. What’s funny is she says she wants to make “another billion dollars” insinuating she’s already made her first billion.
This elfin creature then goes on a rant about how she’ll probably kill a kid because she’s inept at taking care of any living creature that’s not herself. Not in those same words, mind you, but pretty close.
“I had a dog, but I had to give him to [my] best friend, because he did not like to travel at all,” she told Us. “And I don’t like little Chihuahuas or poodles or those little dogs those girls carry around. I like bigger dogs, and they get too big for me, because I’m small, so I can’t walk them or anything.”
In conclusion, allowing Tila Tequila to be a mother is like throwing a kid into a pile of dirty needles and expecting it not to contract an incurable disease. Tila’s baby would have a better chance at life playing Russian Roulette with Scott Ruffalo. What? Too soon?
Here’s Tila Tequila at Barnes & Noble. They’ll just let anyone in won’t they?
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| | Celine Dion is flashy | | Added 15 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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I’ve been begging photographers for years to try and get an upskirt photo of Celine Dion. I probably should have mentioned I was 100% joking. I want to see these pictures about as much as I want to look down and see an angry bear wrestling with my scrotum.
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Stepping out to kick-start the work day, Jessica Biel was spotted tending to a few business matters in Burbank, California on Wednesday (December 10).
The “Powder Blue” babe looked stylish in a striped sweater with dark trousers as she ventured on into NBC Studios for an important meeting.
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