The New and Improved Celebrity Gossip Thread

[Heidi9771]

I was wondering when JA would flip out about the latest and greatest AJ/BP trip to Ethiopia TO ADOPT A BABY!

Good grief!

[southerner]

I wonder if Brad and Jen still talk?? I wonder what she could possibly say to him or him to her about all of this. But then again, if g-d forbid Brad was honest with her in the first place, then she already knew this. But, I'm sure hearing all the details about all the time they spend together isn't easy for her. I can't imagine. For non-famous people it seems a hell of a lot easier to break up or divorce and move on. Never hear anything about the other person again, if that's your choice. But, Jennifer doesn't have much choice, now does she???

[diedra1027]

HMMMM...
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=196098

Is Britney Spears eating for three?

The New York Daily News' Lloyd Grove reports today in his "Lowdown" column that Spears just learned she is carrying twins -- and that she's already begun reigning in the spending habits of her husband Kevin Federline to prepare for the added expense.

The report was not confirmed by Spears' rep.

Spears and Federline most recently starred in the UPN reality show, "Britney and Kevin: Chaotic." The six-episode series featured pre-pregnancy home videos of the couple's dating, engagement and wedding.

[SoCoWife]

Mariah Carey's HIV positive sister has been arrested for prostitution. Alison Carey, who has battled drug addiction for years, was arrested as she allegedly went to meet a customer to have sex in Long Island, New York for $250. But the client turned out to be an undercover policeman. The 44-year-old was charged with "wrongfully, knowingly, recklessly, with criminal negligence, committing the offence of prostitution". Earlier this year she was also charged with disorderly conduct and driving without a license
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[sarahh]

From Page Six: WTF?

ODD couple alert! "Kill Bill" director Quentin Tarantino, 42, and Shar Jackson, 28 — the mother of Britney Spears spouse Kevin Federline's two children — spent the holiday weekend together in Las Vegas. On Saturday, they dined at Nobu in the Hard Rock Hotel, where they were "holding hands and acting like a couple," a source tells Us Weekly. After dinner, they caught comedy show Beacher's Madhouse and were "very touchy," says another witness. Then at 4 a.m., they ate pizza and pancakes with a group of people at the Rainbow Bar & Grill. Jackson told the magazine that she and Tarantino are just "friends" and were in Sin City celebrating her mother's birthdayHere are some pics...

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[Rose]

I wonder if Brad and Jen still talk?? I wonder what she could possibly say to him or him to her about all of this. But then again, if g-d forbid Brad was honest with her in the first place, then she already knew this.

Sources say that they do not talk anymore.

[nylons73]

Let me just say that if Tarantino and Shar Jackson are really a couple - What a HUGE upgrade for her! :)

I have to admit that I think about her now and then, when I see Brit-Brit and KFed, and wonder how it would feel to be 7 months pregnant and left for Britney Spears. Looks like she is bouncing back and I am glad to see it! :D

[Heidi9771]

Mariah Carey's HIV positive sister has been arrested for prostitution. Alison Carey, who has battled drug addiction for years, was arrested as she allegedly went to meet a customer to have sex in Long Island, New York for $250. But the client turned out to be an undercover policeman. The 44-year-old was charged with "wrongfully, knowingly, recklessly, with criminal negligence, committing the offence of prostitution". Earlier this year she was also charged with disorderly conduct and driving without a license
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I am so not surprised by this. The apple never falls too far from the tree.

[Heidi9771]

Let me just say that if Tarantino and Shar Jackson are really a couple - What a HUGE upgrade for her! :)

I have to admit that I think about her now and then, when I see Brit-Brit and KFed, and wonder how it would feel to be 7 months pregnant and left for Britney Spears. Looks like she is bouncing back and I am glad to see it! :D

No kidding. I hope Shar ends up with QT...he kicks arse....looks like she has finaly come to her senses about men!

[polkadot]

i have been laughing my A$$ off at this...so funny..

http://tomcruiseisnuts.com/home.php

[calliope_muses]

Question for those of you who know where to get the lowdown...

A friend of mine heard today that Katie Holmes agreed to marry Tom Cruise and stay married to him for the next 5 years - in exchange for $8 mil. He and his people are supposedly doing this to cover up the fact that he was caught in bed with Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty fame).

I haven't seen anything out there about it... have any of you girls? The info supposedly comes from the mother of a girl at work who is a massage therapist in LA, but I have my doubts. People like to gossip, and anything they can say to add credibility to their story is fair game. Just the same, I wonder...

[lawyerlee]

Question for those of you who know where to get the lowdown...

A friend of mine heard today that Katie Holmes agreed to marry Tom Cruise and stay married to him for the next 5 years - in exchange for $8 mil. He and his people are supposedly doing this to cover up the fact that he was caught in bed with Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty fame).

I haven't seen anything out there about it... have any of you girls? The info supposedly comes from the mother of a girl at work who is a massage therapist in LA, but I have my doubts. People like to gossip, and anything they can say to add credibility to their story is fair game. Just the same, I wonder...
That has been the consistently repeated rumor underlying this entire situation. So who really knows. ;)

[calliope_muses]

I'm so behind on this stuff! I knew someone here would be able to tell me! Thanks!

[Rosebud]

I've heard that same rumor for a while now.

The 5 year contract is pretty much believed by everyone here in town. Supposedly the agreement is 5 years, $5 million and no sex. Evidently it was offered to Kate Bosworth, Jessica Alba and one other girl (Scarlett Johansen, I think) before it was offered to Katie Holmes. It was well known that Penelope Cruz was also under contact when she was "with" Tom.

People have been speculating since the beginning of this whole "romance" that it was a cover up for a gay relationship of Tom Cruise's that was about to go public. I started hearing the Rob Thomas thing a couple of weeks ago. That surprised me, but what do I know?

[MurphysLaw]

:eek::eek::eek:

I feel like such a goob, this is NEWS to me!! I heard this about Rob Thomas, but had NO IDEA it was with TC!! :eek:

[Rosebud]

Oh, I also heard a funny story recently about Tom & Katie. Supposedly they went out to eat somewhere and there were a bunch of photographers waiting for them and they ran around taking pictures of them as they left the restaurant. So Tom starts yelling at them saying, "Why can't you just leave us alone to eat in peace? Why do you have to bother us? How the hell did you know we'd be here?" And one of the photographers says, "Because your sister (his publicist) called us and told us!"

Evidently someone has video or audio tape of this and it's been playing on the radio. I haven't heard it but it sounds pretty darn funny. Just another example of what a ridiculous publicity stunt this "relationship" is.

[polkadot]

but very funny....i did hear that he offered all of this (scientology) to Scarlett JOhansen 1st though...that was in In Touch i think.... that would be really creapy...and i cant beleive someone would be under contract with thier boyfriend ...how werid...but i guess peoplewill do anything for money

[babylove]

I haven't checked back in this thread, but has anyone heard whether or not Brit is pg with twins? I saw it on MSN over the weekend but it just looked like a rumor, no confirmation.

[sarahh]

There hasn't been any confirmation yet...just rumor and speculation.

[Islandbride1025]

Blind Item from yesterday's NY Daily News:

edited to add link: NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/326934p-279503c.html)

Which tomcatting boy-bander has been quietly paying child support for a little bundle of joy that he had outside any of his highly publicized relationships?

[JRPAGV]

Which tomcatting boy-bander has been quietly paying child support for a little bundle of joy that he had outside any of his highly publicized relationships?
Nick Carter??

[Islandbride1025]

Him or JT (Justin Timberlake)

[sarahh]

Those were the two I was thinking of...Justin and Nick.

I am leaning towards Nick because he seems more like the Tomcatting type and his relationship with Paris was all over the place.

But the "highly publicized relationships" comment makes me think Justin. But, I really can't see Justin as a "tomcat" as his relationships (Britney and Cameron) were/are very comitted. Until Britney went and screwed things up! :p

I say Nick!!

[PrincessTommi]

But the "highly publicized relationships" comment makes me think Justin. But, I really can't see Justin as a "tomcat" as his relationships (Britney and Cameron) were/are very comitted. Until Britney went and screwed things up! :p
I agree with this. But wasn't JT linked to a number of people after Brit? Janet, Alyssa Milano?

Wasn't JC linked with Tara Reid and Eva Longoria?

I don't think it's Nick. He hasn't been in any other highly publicized relationships, other than Paris. He dated Amanda Williford for quite awhile before she was "Willa Ford", but she's not exactly high profile. And if there was some sordid secret that Nick had, I'm sure his mother would have tried to cash in on it by now.

[paiger]

i don't really view him as immensly popular, but it could also be JC Chavez. he did 'tomcat' :p w/ Eva Longoria, and i think he is just under the radar enough that it would have taken longer for this to come out.

[paiger]

did anyone else see this:

Crow is undoubtedly hoping the Dell news overshadows the September issue of Hustler, which features nude photos of the singer. The images were obtained by a paparazzo who surreptitiously snapped Crow changing during a recent photo shoot for a fashion magazine.

Crow, who bailed on her Live 8 performance in Paris due to "substantial logistical and personal challenges," was not available for comment on the Hustler images. She remains in France, cheering on Armstrong, who is in pursuit of yet another Tour de France title.


actual article about Crow/Dell advertising partnership (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=795&e=1&u=/eo/20050712/en_music_eo/16917)

i can't believe this. if she didn't authorize those pictures, it is just wrong for them to use them. now, she has something good happening to her, and it is just going to be brought up everytime.

[JRPAGV]

I didn't see this posted...

Tiffani Thiessen Weds Actor Brady Smith
Jul 11, 6:27 PM EST

The Associated Press

Tiffani Thiessen, who played Kelly Kaposki on "Saved by the Bell," wed actor Brady Smith over the weekend.

The marriage was confirmed Monday by Thiessen's publicist, Amy Van Iden. After becoming engaged earlier this year, the couple were married Saturday at a private estate in Montecito, Calif.

Thiessen, 31, and Smith, 33, were surrounded by friends and family for a daytime garden wedding, People magazine reported. It is the first marriage for both.

After Thiessen's breakthrough role in NBC's teenage sitcom, she graduated to Fox's "Beverly Hills, 90210," where she played starlet Valerie Malone. Thiessen dropped her given name, Tiffani-Amber, in 2000. She had a role in Woody Allen's 2002 film, "Hollywood Ending."

She was engaged to actor Richard Ruccolo for 1 1/2 years before splitting in spring 2003.

Smith has appeared in "ER," "CSI: Miami" and HBO's "The Comeback."

[sarahh]

I didn't see this posted...I posted this in the photo thread, but didn't even think to post it here! Thanks Janna! ;)

Tiffani Thiessen's wedding photo

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/news/050725/tthiesssenwed.jpg
Brady Smith and Tiffani Thiessen

[JRPAGV]

She looks beautiful!

[sarahh]

Yeah- she looks really good with blonde hair!

[sarahh]

.....Brad Pitt hospitalized in Los Angeles with flu-like symptoms

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES, July 12 — Actor Brad Pitt has been hospitalized with a flu-like illness.

Pitt, 41, checked himself into an undisclosed Los Angeles area hospital Monday night complaining of flu-like symptoms, his publicist Cindy Guagenti said Tuesday. There were no other details and the name of the hospital wasn't disclosed for security reasons.

Pitt was in Ethiopia last week with his ''Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' co-star Angelina Jolie to pick up the actress's newly adopted baby girl, the second child she has adopted. Guagenti said it wasn't known if the actor contracted the illness while in Africa.

''I think he has the flu,'' the spokeswoman said.

The ''Troy'' and ''Fight Club'' star separated from ''Friends'' actress Jennifer Aniston in January after 4½ years of marriage and she filed for divorce in March citing irreconcilable differences.

© 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[tbell]

Question for those of you who know where to get the lowdown...

A friend of mine heard today that Katie Holmes agreed to marry Tom Cruise and stay married to him for the next 5 years - in exchange for $8 mil. He and his people are supposedly doing this to cover up the fact that he was caught in bed with Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty fame).

I haven't seen anything out there about it... have any of you girls? The info supposedly comes from the mother of a girl at work who is a massage therapist in LA, but I have my doubts. People like to gossip, and anything they can say to add credibility to their story is fair game. Just the same, I wonder...

OMG, I had no idea! DH thinks Rob Thomas' wife is the hottest thing ever.

[sarahh]

Question for those of you who know where to get the lowdown...

A friend of mine heard today that Katie Holmes agreed to marry Tom Cruise and stay married to him for the next 5 years - in exchange for $8 mil. He and his people are supposedly doing this to cover up the fact that he was caught in bed with Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty fame).

I haven't seen anything out there about it... have any of you girls? The info supposedly comes from the mother of a girl at work who is a massage therapist in LA, but I have my doubts. People like to gossip, and anything they can say to add credibility to their story is fair game. Just the same, I wonder...Here's some stuff I found online...

Tom Cruise And Rob Thomas Are Lovers
I've been forwarded this e-mail 6,000 times this week. (Please stop, thanks.) So ridiculous, but it's about Rob Thomas (i.e., music-related) I get to post it and read all your witty dismissals. Rob Thomas, no so 'smooth' after all? I'm assuming the glossy gossip weeklies aren't touching this one. Independent Sources, why do you hate Scientology so? Didn't you listen to that heartbreaking Leonard Cohen ballad I posted?

Tom Cruise and Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas are lovers!

No doubt that anyone with an Internet connection has read about Tom Cruise being gay. According to rumor lore, he has had a long-time boyfriend in Chicago who is an Asian pilot for American Airlines. This is an accusation that Cruise and more importantly Cruise's many attorneys vehemently deny.

There have been many stories that supposedly corroborate his sexuality but never a smoking gun. Rumor mongers attribute this to the fact that Cruise goes to great lengths to cover his tracks. We are told that everyone around him signs extensive confidentiality contracts with enormous penalties for indiscretion. (Exhibit A: the 8-page confidentiality contract Cruise's housekeeper was forced to sign).

Such stories have been around for years and Cruise has evidently attempted to counter them with a series of high-profile heteronormative relationships. First, Nicole Kidman, then Penelope Cruz, and most recently Katie Holmes. In each instance, the "relationship" is actually a contract that gives the women a boost to their careers, a lot of money, and an elegant lifestyle.

Here is where this particular rumor gets interesting. Not long ago, Marisol, the wife of Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas (who has had to contend with his own rumors of bi-sexuality) found her husband in bed with Tom Cruise causing Cruise's people to shift into high gear.

First, Mrs. Rob Thomas was bought off for an undetermined sum.
Second, Cruise and his handlers set out to immediately find Cruise a girlfriend. Second-tier actresses were targeted. A list was drawn up with Jessica Alba (#1 pick) and three other girls who fell out for various reasons. Originally targeted (#3 I think) but later rejected as "undesirable" was rumor queen Lindsay Lohan. Way down at #5 on the list was Katie Holmes, but that was the one with whom they were able to strike a deal.

Once the contact was signed, photo ops were set up, leaks were made to the right places, and we've had celebrity relationship on steroids ever since.

One thing I will credit this rumor for is how it nicely explains Tom's behavior this past few months-including the couch jumping episode on Oprah. Cruise simply didn't have time for the Holmes rumors to circulate at its normal speed and he couldn't allow it to be second page news while the tabloids focused on Brad, Jennifer and Angelina. No, this relationship had to immediately become the "it" topic.

Well, that's how we hear it.

[A reminder to those of you reading this who have trouble differentiating truth from unsubstantiated rumor: at this point this is all conjecture.]

Oh, come now ... everything on the Internet is unsubstantiated rumor! I hope Billy Corgan takes out a newspaper ad or something so we can get to the bottom of this. Source: http://www.stereogum.com/archives/001597.html

Take it with a HUGE grain of salt! ;)

[sarahh]

.....MARC ANTHONY WRITES 'F**K YOU' ON CHARITY CHEQUE.

JENNIFER LOPEZ's third husband MARC ANTHONY stunned hotel guests and staff by refusing to draw a sketch for a charity auction - instead writing 'F**k You' on his slip of paper.

The high-profile couple were in New York attending J.Lo's Bryant Park fashion show after-party in W Hotels' VIP hospitality suite.

Celebrities who attended the event - including actress ELISHA CUTHBERT, comedian JOHN LEGUIZAMO and designer and socialite CHARLOTTE RONSON - were invited to draw caricatures of themselves to be displayed at W Hotels properties and later auctioned off for charity.

But Anthony stunned hotel staff by refusing to participate, instead scrawling his shocking profanity.

A source says, "Everyone was drawing caricatures, doing their little drawings and stuff to be framed.

"They handed a piece of paper to Marc, for either him or J.Lo to draw on.

"He wrote 'F**k You,' and passed it back. People were totally taken aback.

"And now the other art is touring, and they literally have his 'F**k You' in storage."

The paper slip is currently sitting in the basement of the W Hotels headquarters in the Chelsea district of New York, and local newspaper the New York Daily News predicts it will soon appear on internet auction site eBay.

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/49902004.htm

[Rosebud]

Sarahh- That is pretty much exactly the rumor that's been going around town ever since this whole Tom/Katie business started. When these rumors are so prevalent, there's usually a grain of truth to them. I don't that for sure, of course... but something's definitely rotten in this situation.

[lawyerlee]

Johansson: Nudity yes, bra no (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/12/people.johansson.reut/index.html)

Director turns her down: 'It's PG-13'
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Some Hollywood actresses are cautious about revealing too much skin, but 20-year-old Scarlett Johansson had to be persuaded to keep her underwear on, according to her director in "The Island," Michael Bay.

Speaking before Monday's New York premier of the thriller, which stars Johansson and Ewan McGregor as human clones on the run, Bay said he was prepared for the usual actress nerves when it came to shooting a love scene between the two leads.

"We're ready to go and of course the actress is not there," he told reporters. He said he was summoned to Johansson's trailer, expecting to have to reassure the star of "Lost in Translation" that her privacy and dignity would be protected.

"She's standing there and she says, 'I'm not wearing this cheap ... bra. I'm going naked,' " Bay said.

"I said, 'It's PG-13, you have to wear the bra,' " he said.

[lawyerlee]

Mischa Barton, Brandon Davis Split (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1082251,00.html)

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The O.C. star Mischa Barton and Brandon Davis, her boyfriend of more than a year, have split, PEOPLE has learned.

"They are no longer together but they remain close friends," Barton's publicist, Craig Schneider, tells PEOPLE. No third party was involved, Schneider adds.

While Barton's rep would not provide additional details about the split, a source close to the 19-year-old actress says, "It developed over the last week."

Barton began dating Davis, the twentysomething grandson of billionaire Marvin Davis, after the two were introduced at a charity event in February 2004.

[lawyerlee]

Paris, Nicole Reuniting for Simple Life 4? (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1082244,00.html)

http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/news/050725/philton.jpg

It could be a reunion – if not a reconciliation – for Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. The estranged best friends may team up for a fourth installment of their FOX reality show The Simple Life, whether they like it or not, PEOPLE has learned.

The network has picked up the option on the pair's existing contracts for a fourth season of The Simple Life, according to sources close to the deal.

Planning is still in the early stages, but among the ideas being discussed internally in production would be to follow both Hilton and Richie as they prepare for their respective upcoming weddings and their subsequent lives as married women. (Hilton, 24, is engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, and Richie, 23, to deejay Adam Goldstein, who goes by the name DJ AM.)

Another possibility would be to shoot their reconciliation, should such a thing actually happen. But the main parties involved are nowhere near a final decision and have not discussed a start date.

When asked about plans for the show's next season, Hilton's rep told PEOPLE: "No decisions have been made regarding The Simple Life 4."

As for the frayed friendship of the two Simple-tons, Hilton said in a statement last April: "It's no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends. Nicole knows what she did, and that's all I'm ever going to say about it."

A source close to Hilton told PEOPLE at the time that Richie was jealous of the media attention her blonder costar received and resented being left out of things such as Hilton's February hosting gig on "Saturday Night Live."

Meanwhile Richie's friends told PEOPLE that tensions arose because she had grown out of her wild ways, quitting drinking and spending more time with fiancé Goldstein. "She just wants to be with Adam and get married," said one.

Either way, Hilton wasted no time lining up a new sidekick: equally blonde pal Kimberly Stewart, daughter of singer Rod Stewart. And Hilton wasn't shy about hinting that it may be a preview of things to come. "Kim is hysterical and crazy fun, and I love that about her," she said, admitting that she was lobbying to make Stewart her new costar.

Throughout the ordeal, FOX had no comment.

[miel]

Such stories have been around for years and Cruise has evidently attempted to counter them with a series of high-profile heteronormative relationships. First, Nicole Kidman, then Penelope Cruz, and most recently Katie Holmes. In each instance, the "relationship" is actually a contract that gives the women a boost to their careers, a lot of money, and an elegant lifestyle.

Wow! Someone used 'heteronormative'...I thought that was just a word I and my friends used.

Everyone all together now: "Heteronormative." Not JUST heterosexual...heteroNORMATIVE.

[sarahh]

..... Star Jones hires lawyer to disclaim hubby's gay shenanigans

NY DAILY NEWS/LLOYD GROVE...

Star Jones has acquired a scary lawyer. She was so ticked off about
Philadelphia shock jock Patty Jackson's recent column claiming that Al
Reynolds visited L.A. gay bars after the BET Awards that she sicced
Hollywood pit bull Bert Fields on the hapless Jackson - who immediately
issued a retraction and apology. So are Fields and Jones the new match
made in heaven? Yesterday Jones' flack, Brad Zeifman, E-mailed Lowdown:
"When Star needs to make important decisions in her professional or
personal life, she hires the best people in the business to advise her.
There is no question that Mr. Fields falls into that category."

[sarahh]

Follow up to article I posted above...Thomas Slams Reports He Seduced Cruise

Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas has rubbished reports he had sex with Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise - and is even more mortified he's been labeled a fellow Scientologist. The singer is horrified by claims he was caught in bed with the War Of The Worlds star and has finally spoken out to end the rumors. But he's even more offended by reports he's joined Cruise and other followers of L. Ron Hubbard's Church Of Scientology, which has been labeled a "cult" by some critics. He says, "If I were gay, Tom wouldn't be on the top of my list...It would be Brad Pitt. I'm more offended by the rumors saying I'm Scientologist." Source: www.imdb.com

[sarahh]

Mariah Carey's Clothes Fall Off

Pop beauty Mariah Carey accidentally flashed her breasts at stunned fans during a TV show in Germany when her dress fell apart. The star, who experienced a moment reminiscent of Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" last year, was saved from further shame when floor managers cut the lights to allow the singer to recover her dignity - and clothes - in obscurity, according to MTV news. But the red-faced superstar saw the funny side, quipping, "Someone bring me a jacket or the show's off, we all know how quickly these images can spread around the world." Carey dashed backstage in the dark clutching her clothes in place before reappearing looking perfect, and bravely continuing with the show. Zsa Zsa Gabor Out of Hospital

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was released from hospital on Saturday after suffering a stroke at her Bel Air, California, home earlier last week. The star, 88, was rushed to an undisclosed Los Angeles hospital after her stroke and underwent surgery late on Wednesday to clear a blocked artery. Her ninth husband, German royal Frederic Prinz Von Anhalt has confirmed his wife, who is partially-paralyzed due to a car crash in 2002, has returned home and is recovering well. Kidman Gave Up Friends During Cruise Marriage
Nicole Kidman's marriage to Tom Cruise wrecked friendships the Australian actress had kept for years because her husband was so private. The movie star was just 21 when she wed Cruise and struggled to stay in touch with pals back home because she became part of a very different world. She tells style magazine Glamour, "Part of me shut down, put up barriers and became very insular. It was very hard to keep friendships alive during that period." Since the couple split in 2001, Kidman has rediscovered her childhood friends and she's determined not to let her pals slip away again. She adds, "I've been able to keep my female friendships ongoing, which is so important. Recently, I went on a publicity tour and asked one of my oldest girlfriends to come along. Being together was like going back to when to when we were teenagers." Source: www.imdb.com

[LeslieandPaul]

Mischa Barton, Brandon Davis Split (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1082251,00.html)


Ah, I really thought they would last-he bought her a $6000 belt :p

[jimmysgirl424]

BAD NEWS FOR PARIS
July 12, 2005 Provided by:





PARIS HILTON got her ego swatted by Fox execs — they've nixed what she'd thought was a slam-dunk done deal to fire FBFF (Former Best Female Friend) NICOLE RICHIE and hire NBFF (New Best Female Friend) KIMBERLEY STEWART as her new costar on The Simple Life. The moguls concede Paris is a major player on the show, but she's "window dressing" (that's HOT!) — it's personable Nicole who makes things happen. Embarrassed Paris had to break the bad news to crushed Kimberley.

[jimmysgirl424]

PARIS TRIES TO DITCH HIS PET
July 12, 2005 Provided by:

PARIS TRIES TO DITCH HIS PET
July 12, 2005 Provided by:




Paris Hilton may love her Chihuahua, but Paris Latsis' rottweiler is another matter. Sources say the pooch, named Peter Pan to go with Hilton's Tinkerbell, became aggressive at a recent party. The commotion must have temporarily confused the couple and they left the dog at the bash — leaving a big-hearted partygoer to keep it, sources believe. But the pup was too feisty and eventually forced back on the two Parises. Hilton's rep says it's not true, adding that although they do have a rottweiler, his name is Hilton and he's a highly trained guard dog.

— EVAN MATTHEW

[jimmysgirl424]

From Liz Smith:

"ALL MY family ever had was family," snaps poor relation Maggie in Tennessee Williams' "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof."


KATHY AND Rick Hilton, parents of Paris and Nicky, left the Hamptons last week en route to France to meet up with the parents of Paris Latsis. He is their daughter Paris' intended. (You know Miss Hilton purposely picked a guy with the same name as hers. It's an endless source of comment - see?) But the first stop for the Hiltons was not very pleasant. They arrived in London just in time for the terrorist bombings. They were also in Manhattan on 9/11.

Mrs. Hilton praised the "courage, organization and dignity" of the Brits. (But some cable news organizations were all bent out of shape because Tony Blair didn't breathe fire, call on God, and immediately declare war on something.)

As for the Hiltons, they've recovered and are now in Paris, meeting the family of Paris, at the behest of Paris. Then everybody - even those not named after cities - heads for the South of France.

P.S. Although we'd heard that Paris Hilton had implored Prince Charles to allow her to marry at some royal spot, like Windsor Castle, the Paris/Paris nuptials are going to happen in Greece, or so it stands right this second.

[lawyerlee]

Star Jones hires lawyer to disclaim hubby's gay shenanigans
Is it catty of me to suggest that Star's time and money might be better aimed at ending the gay shenanigans themselves?

[cocoa_femme]

Jury In Place For Cameron Diaz Nude Photo Trial

LOS ANGELES -- A jury has been selected in the trial of the photographer accused of trying to release old topless photos of Cameron Diaz without her consent.

John Rutter is charged with attempted grand theft and forging Diaz's name on a release that involved reportedly topless pictures of her from 1992.

If convicted, Rutter could face up to six years in prison.

A civil case involving the photos is also pending.

In that case, Diaz claims Rutter tried to sell her the photos two years ago for more than $3 million before shopping them to others.

She also said the model release was forged.


Source: AP

[sravenne]

Random:
Jesse Metcalfe went to the same prep school I did.

Di

OMG, so hot. :D

[sarahh]

Random:
Jesse Metcalfe went to the same prep school I did.

DiSo, do you have any dirt? Is it true that he's gay??

[JRPAGV]

Didn't see this posted...

Cruise's Co-Star Looking to Convert?

Just because Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have taken a much-needed vacation from the public eye (much needed by us, not them), that doesn't mean the endless stream of news about their unsettling romance has stopped flowing. Yeah, yeah, we know, you're sick of TomKat. We are too, but like a crash at the Indy 500 or Britney's ballooning belly, it's something we just can't seem to look away from. So grab your E-meter and prepare for an audit of the latest doings in the crazy, mixed-up world of the future Mr. and Mrs. Cruise ...


It sounds like a very special episode of "Felicity": Our corkscrew-haired heroine, confused and vulnerable over whether to choose Ben or Noel, ends up taking an L. Ron Hubbard-approved personality test. Hijinks follow. According to Radar Online, Keri Russell has begun exploring Scientology now that she's landed a sought-after role opposite Cruise in "Mission: Impossible III," which is being directed by her onetime "Felicity" boss, J.J. Abrams (filming reportedly starts in Italy this week). Sources tell the mag the actress has "suddenly become very interested" in the controversial religion, picking up books on the subject and popping into the church's Celebrity Center in L.A. Our hope: Russell is just doing her homework in order to communicate with her co-star in a language he understands.

Cruise and Holmes recovered from their stomach-churning, continent-hopping schmoopiness junket of 2005 (we're guessing the tour's official T-shirt will have "He's amazing" on one side and "She's magnificent" on the other) by taking to the high seas. People reports the couple recently enjoyed a Caribbean vacation on board the Freewinds, a 440-foot ship that doubles as a "special Scientology church." On their agenda: scuba diving with sea lions. Over the weekend, the loquacious lovebirds were photographed arriving in Rome -- the place where their amour-fest began two-and-a-half long months ago -- with Cruise's two children, Connor and Isabella.

Speaking of Cruise's kids, the New York Post, citing the in-house Scientology magazine Source, says 12-year-old Isabella has finished the "Basic Study Manual," described as an introductory course within the sect. Meanwhile, Fox News recently reported the tykes are being home-schooled in Beverly Hills by Cruise's two sisters.

Katie (we just can't bring ourselves to call her Kate, as Tom does) continues her robotic repetitions of undying love for her fiancé in the August issue of W, in which she poses in a gothic Comme des Garcons wedding gown. You gotta figure it's a bad sign when a cover story kicks off by talking about arranged marriages and segues into this gem: "The lady doth protest not nearly enough. It's impossible, even for a moment, to slip under the halo of cartoon hearts dancing around Holmes' head." Among the cornball terms of endearment the starlet spouts: "I've found the man of my dreams," "He's the most incredible man," "I've never met anyone like Tom," "Tom and I will always be in our honeymoon phase," "Tom is the most incredible man in the world," "He's the man of my dreams," and, of course, "He is the kindest, smartest, most adoring man." Gee, if only we could discern some sort of pattern in her proclamations.

Present for the tête-à-tête was Katie's constantly hovering "Scientology chaperone" Jessica Rodriguez, who, after the actress ends a soliloquy on how physically irresistible she finds her honey, helpfully prompts, "You adore him." When quizzed about how long she's been working with Holmes, Rodriguez tells the interviewer, "Oh, no, we're just best friends." And how long have they been BFF? "Oh, a while. I don't know." According to the mag, they'd met just six weeks prior.

And in a bit of transparent timing usually reserved for sappy romantic comedies, shortly after Holmes enthuses that it's "a pleasure and a privilege to be with" Cruise, a security guard arrives with a huge silver box. Inside is a Chanel diamond necklace. Screams a bling-blinded Holmes, "He's my man! He's my man!" (Note to future interviewers: Bring tranquilizer darts.)

Finally, fellow Scientology stumpers Kirstie Alley and Kelly Preston are joining Cruise in his anti-psychiatry campaign, although they haven't yet confronted Matt Lauer about the so-called "pseudoscience." "We can no longer sit back and let the clock tick, waiting for more deaths, suicides or people driven to violent acts by psychotropic drugs," the actresses, along with some doctors, wrote in a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (via Agence France-Presse). Said Alley, "Parents in particular have been misled about the effects of these drugs ... kids are using them more than street drugs to get high." (We're sure the statistics to back up this claim are forthcoming). Posited Preston, the wife of Hubbard-ite John Travolta, "Parents don't know that these drugs are turning kids into walking time bombs."

ETA: Oops, I just saw it in the Tom/Katie thread. I never look over there. Sorry!

[kerrykate]

From CNN.com

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Film star Brad Pitt was released on Wednesday from a Los Angeles hospital where he had been admitted for a flu-like illness that turned out to be viral meningitis, his spokeswoman has said.

Pitt, 41, was at home on Wednesday afternoon after his discharge and was "doing well," his publicist said in a statement.

The actor checked in to Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Monday night, a week after returning from a trip to East Africa.

Spokeswoman Cindy Guagenti said on Tuesday that the actor was undergoing tests but was believed to be suffering from influenza.

After his release, her office issued a statement saying Pitt "was diagnosed with a mild case of viral meningitis."

No further information about his condition was offered.

Viral meningitis is an illness that involves inflammation of the tissues covering the brain and spinal cord.

It is generally regarded as serious but is rarely fatal in persons with normal immune systems.

Pitt, who split up with his wife, actress Jennifer Aniston, earlier this year, traveled to Ethiopia last week with actress Angelina Jolie, his co-star in the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," who went there to finalize the adoption of a baby girl.

[sarahh]

.....'Cooter' Urges Fans to Skip 'Dukes' Movie

Jul 14, 8:03 AM (ET)
By DOUG GROSS

ATLANTA (AP) - If television's "Crazy Cooter" has his way, fans of the "Dukes of Hazzard" may be speeding away from a new movie version of the cornpone classic faster than the Duke boys running from Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane.

Ben Jones, a former Georgia congressman who played the wisecracking mechanic on the popular series from 1979-85, said profanity and sexual content in the film make a mockery of the family friendly show.

"Basically, they trashed our show," said Jones, who now lives in the mountains of Washington, Va. "It's one thing to do whatever movie they want to do, but to take a classic family show and do that is like taking "I Love Lucy" and making her a crackhead or something."

Jones said he read a script of the movie, which is scheduled to be released next month, and that it contained profanity, "constant sexual innuendo and some very clear sexual situations."

On Wednesday, Jones wrote an open letter to fans on his web site, cootersplace.com, urging them to stay away.

"From all I have seen and heard, the "Dukes" movie is a sleazy insult to all of us who have cared about the "Dukes of Hazzard" for so long ... ," Jones wrote. "Unless they clean it up before the August 5th release date I would strongly recommend that true blue Dukes fans hold their noses and pass this one up."

A spokeswoman at Warner Brothers pictures, which is releasing the movie, did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment on Wednesday.

"The Dukes of Hazzard" was a surprise hit for CBS, combining with "Dallas" to earn some of the highest Friday-night ratings in television history.

The show pitted "good-ol' boys" Bo and Luke Duke and their moonshine-running Uncle Jesse against the crooked politician Boss Hogg and his bumbling henchman, Sheriff Coltrane, in fictional Hazzard County.

Reruns of the show began airing on the CMT network this year, earning some of the best ratings ever on the country music cable channel.

In the movie, Johnny Knoxville, who made his name on MTV's controversial stuntfest "Jackass," and Seann William Scott, who starred in the raunchy "American Pie" movies, play the main characters.

Pop star turned reality TV icon Jessica Simpson plays Daisy Duke.

Jones was elected to Congress in 1988 as a Democrat. He lost his bid for a third term in 1992 after his district was redrawn, then lost two other bids for House seats, one in Georgia and another in Virginia.

He owns Cooter's Place, a "Dukes" memorabilia shop in Gatlinburg, Tenn. and plans to open another in Nashville. He also is an organizer of "Dukesfest," an annual outdoor concert and convention celebrating the show in Bristol, Tenn.

---

On the Net:

Cooter's Place, http://www.cootersplace.com

"Dukes of Hazzard," movie, http://dukesofhazzard.warnerbros.com/

[tbell]

A Not-So-Happy Birthday for Jessica?

If this is a day ending in 'y', it must be time for yet another story predicting doom and gloom for the endlessly chronicled union of Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.

This latest tale takes place at the blond bombshell's 25th birthday party, which was held Saturday night at the L.A. home of her overly involved parents, Joe and Tina (her actual birthday was July 7). According to the New York Daily News, there was a quite a chill in the air at the star-studded celebration.

"Nick and Jessica weren't even speaking," a spywitness tells the paper. "In fact, they didn't even arrive together -- he met her there. Then, when she was blowing out the candles on her cake, he was in the back with his friends, like he didn't care."

Even worse, says the snitch, the soiree was "really lame. There was hardly any alcohol -- they nearly ran out. They're really bad at planning a party."

Well, the party planning couldn't have been that bad. The Insider reports the event attracted the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Wilmer Valderrama, Christian Slater, Eva Mendes, Seth Green, Mandy Moore and David Spade. Jessica's little sis Ashlee, who has lately been linked to Valderrama, was also on hand for the milestone celebration, which lasted into the wee small hours.

The 150 or so friends and family in attendance reportedly munched on a red velvet cake adorned with a winking Betty Boop and trick candles (no word on whether these bright and shiny objects confused the ditzy birthday girl). They were later sent home with gift bags spilling over with treats such as trendy jeans and vintage T-shirts, with Jessica snagging a tee bearing the likeness of her "Dukes of Hazzard" co-star, Willie Nelson.

And despite claims of their supposed frostiness at the fete, the onetime "Newlyweds" were spied tongue-wrestling in the kitchen during the bash, insists Access Hollywood.

Either way, they did share at least one touching birthday moment. The Insider says Jessica got just what she wanted from Nick: custom rims for her Range Rover. Awww.

[tbell]

Christian Slater Turns Down Plea Deal



Christian Slater rejected a plea bargain deal from prosecutors Thursday on a charge of allegedly groping a woman.

Slater was charged with forcible touching — a misdemeanor that carries up to one year in jail — after he allegedly walked up behind a woman and grabbed her buttocks as she was buying a soda in a small grocery store on Manhattan's Upper East Side in the early morning of May 31.

"We believe this case warrants dismissal," said lawyer Eric Franz, in turning down a proposal that Slater perform three days of community service. Under the plea bargain offer, Slater would have pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree harassment in return for the community service.

The 35-year-old actor said nothing during the brief hearing before Criminal Court Judge Richard Weinberg. Afterward, outside the lower Manhattan courthouse, he complied with a fan's request to autograph the side of her T-shirt, near the hem.

Weinberg set a date of Aug. 19 for lawyers to file any motions in the case. Slater was ordered to return to court on Sept. 19, when the judge said he would rule on the motions.

Slater, whose movies include "Heathers," "Broken Arrow" and "True Romance," told reporters he was due in London at the end of September to rehearse for his role in the play "Sweet Bird of Youth."

According to authorities, Slater and his girlfriend were arguing at a bodega on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 1:50 a.m. The complainant, who has not been identified, was in the same store. She flagged down police, who located Slater a short distance away, authorities said.

Slater was sentenced to 90 days in jail for an August 1997 incident where he reportedly bit one man in the stomach and threw a police officer against a wall during a rowdy Los Angeles party

[sarahh]

A Not-So-Happy Birthday for Jessica?

If this is a day ending in 'y', it must be time for yet another story predicting doom and gloom for the endlessly chronicled union of Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. Here are some pics...

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I posted the rest in the celebrity photos thread!

[sarahh]

Just read this on Oh No They Didn't....Jessica Simpson: The Cast Crumbles?

We have now received the following email from more than one person, so you know it must be true right?!

"Jessica Simpson and Johnny Knoxville are going public. Johnny is leaving his wife, Simpson is filing for divorce - they are shopping the exclusive story to the weeklies under Joe Simpson's direction. Her PR instinct is that the news will break in next week's weeklies to fuel some fire before the July 28th Dukes of Hazzard premiere."

Source Perez Hilton I highly doubt this is true...but it's still a fun read! ;)

[Rosebud]

"Jessica Simpson and Johnny Knoxville are going public. Johnny is leaving his wife, Simpson is filing for divorce - they are shopping the exclusive story to the weeklies under Joe Simpson's direction. Her PR instinct is that the news will break in next week's weeklies to fuel some fire before the July 28th Dukes of Hazzard premiere."

I highly doubt this simply because it would be terrible PR for Jessica. Her people don't want her to be cast as a homewrecker! Johnny has a wife and a young child. Getting in the middle of that would do nothing positive for Jessica's career.

[Katyanne]

I agree, Plus her Father would have a fit! I mean as much as he doesn't really care for Nick he doesn't want his darling daughter to get the new image as "home wrecker" I mean they're trying to sexy up her image a bit but they definately don't want that image. On the other hand I bet it would do great things for Nick. ;)

Katie

[sarahh]

.....frankie muniz GETS ENGAGED

Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz has gotten engaged to his girlfriend, Jamie, whom he met in New Orleans this spring while shooting a movie, PEOPLE has learned.

The 19-year-old actor's publicist, Cara Tripicchio, confirmed the news to PEOPLE, adding that no wedding date has been set.

The rep declined to give out the last name of Muniz's fiancée but said she's not an actress, she's from New Orleans, and the pair met in her hometown this spring while Muniz was filming the horror movie Stay Alive, costarring The O.C. and Entourage's Samaire Armstrong.

Muniz also is continuing with his long-running FOX comedy Malcolm, which begins its seventh season this fall.

source: People.com

[sarahh]

.....Zach Braff has split from gorgeous girlfriend Mandy Moore. However, the Scrubs star doesn't appear to be mourning the end of his relationship: he reportedly spent the weekend "tomcatting" himself round New York. According to a spy for the New York Post, Zach started the partying early, turning up to celebrity hotspot Level V with "a harem of young women" before dropping in at Marquee and Cain over the next few days where he "continued to flirt and hook up with women". (15 July, 2005, 9AM) SOURCE: NEW YORK POST

[lawyerlee]

Sandra Bullock Marries Biker Boyfriend (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1083855,00.html)

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Now you can call her Mrs. Congeniality. Sandra Bullock wed her tattooed beau Jesse James, the star of the Discovery Channel series Monster Garage, on Saturday at a ranch north of Santa Barbara, PEOPLE has learned.

Guests at the wedding confirm the pair were married at the 300-acre Folded Hills Ranch in Solvang, Calif. Bullock wore a white lace dress. "She looked beautiful," one guest tells PEOPLE. "She was incredibly happy."

The pair arrived in a giant red monster truck, with James driving. Guests, meanwhile, were shuttled to the ceremony from hotels in Santa Barbara 45 minutes away.

Invitations to the nuptials suggested a "hoedown" theme, and a country-western band played for those in attendance.

Bullock, who turns 41 on July 26, and James, 36, have been dating for more than a year, after meeting when she took her young godson on a tour of the Monster Garage set in Long Beach, Calif.

It's the first marriage for Bullock, who has been engaged before (to actor Tate Donovan) and previously linked romantically to actors Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling.

James, who owns the custom-motorcycle company West Coast Choppers, has been divorced twice, most recently from adult-film actress Janine Lindemulder. But despite his born-to-be-wild past, the father of three young children comes across as "very low key, very quiet, almost shy," Miss Congeniality 2 director John Pasquin told PEOPLE in April.

Added producer Marc Lawrence: "He's similar to Sandy in that he's not looking for publicity."

Indeed, the couple have kept their romance low-profile, turning up vacationing in Hawaii, hitting a flea market in her home base of Austin and taking in a drag race near Las Vegas.

To Bullock, it's a custom-made match. Once, "I was a bolter," she told Vogue in March. "I would get so scared because my idea of marriage was not a very pleasant one. And now I look at it in a different way. I threw away what society's version of it was and I went, 'Why does it have to be anyone else's version but mine?'"

[lawyerlee]

Angelina Jolie's Daughter Leaves Hospital (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1083736,00.html)

Angelina Jolie's newly adopted daughter, Zahara, was released Friday from a weeklong stay at a New York-area hospital after being treated for dehydration and malnutrition, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

"Jolie has been wonderful," says pediatrician Dr. Jane Aronson. "The baby is doing great. And most importantly they have bonded."

Jolie, 30, who adopted 6-month-old Zahara in Ethiopia earlier this month, also wants to correct a recent tabloid report that showed a photograph of a woman identified as Zahara's grandmother.

In a statement to PEOPLE, Wild Horizons For Children, the organization through which Jolie adopted the baby, says, "The photo is not the woman who they claim it is and the quotes are fabricated."

Zahara has no living siblings, according to sources. Her father is unknown, and it is assumed that her mother died of AIDS a month after Zahara was born.

"Due to devastation by war, drought and HIV, almost two million children are currently orphaned in Ethiopia," says a Wide Horizons spokesperson. "Many are being cared for by members of their extended family and community."

[lawyerlee]

St. Paul's Says No to 'Princess Paris' (http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2005/07/15/parishilton/)

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With her own personal empire well on its way to rivalling that of her famous family's, Paris Hilton is used to getting what she wants. It seems the blonde bombshell will have to give up on her dream of getting married in the same place as Princess Diana, though, because officials in London have ruled her ineligible.

Paris has made no secret of her desire to walk down the aisle with namesake Paris Latsis in the historic environs of Britain's most important cathedral. "I've got my heart set on a ceremony in St Paul's," she declared recently. "I've always wanted to be a princess on my big day and only a wedding in England could make that happen."

Those in charge of the magnificent baroque church, which is one of the most celebrated features of London's skyline, say they will be unable to accommodate the glamorous 24-year-old, however. "Only royalty can marry on the cathedral floor," affirmed a representative. "You can't buy your way in, no matter how rich you are."

The news will come of something of a blow to the love-struck heiress, but it is unlikely to put a dampener on her blossoming romance. At the moment she is holidaying with her fiancé in his Greek homeland and it appears she is much taken with the Mediterranean country. "Paris won't be getting married in Britain," confirmed her spokesman. "She's currently in Greece and it looks like it will be happening there."

[lawyerlee]

Claudia Schiffer and the Kids in Majorca (http://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2005/07/15/claudiaschiffer/)

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Her designer travel bag stuffed with baby gear, German supermodel Claudia Schiffer was spotted at Majorca's Palma airport toting another precious cargo – eight-month-old daughter Clementine.

Dressed in a cherry-print top and slimline jeans, the statuesque blonde looked right at home on the Spanish isle, where she famously spends much of her summer holiday.

And while she snugly held her baby girl, Claudia's two-and-a-half year-old son Caspar showed his independent streak, following closely on his own.

Claudia is among Majorca's most famous homeowners, who also include island neighbours Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The family-oriented covergirl, married to director Matthew Vaughn, built a £6-million mountain-top retreat close to the village of Camp de Mar. The Mediterranean estate has two homes – one for Claudia's young family and the other for her parents and siblings.

[sarahh]

.....Jude and Sienna split?

Jude Law and Sienna Miller were believed to have broken up last night after he was accused of sleeping with his children's nanny.

The relationship between showbusiness's 'golden couple' is said to have been rocky for some time and sources close to Miss Miller say the final straw was when he blamed her for his infidelity.

The 23-year-old actress, who is appearing in As You Like It in the West End, shares a London home with Law. She was said to be in floods of tears after finding out about her fiancee's alleged affair by reading it in a Sunday newspaper.

She told friends that when she phoned 32-year-old Law to confront him he blamed her for not being devoted enough to him, saying she was more interested in her career and was always too tired for him.

'Rather than feeling guilty and contrite he has turned the whole thing against Sienna,' said one. 'He said if she is not partying she is sleeping and he completely blames her for what he has done. 'He told her, "I told you I was unhappy. I told you I needed you to be there for me. Why didn't you listen to me?" '

Miss Miller's reaction was that Law can 'go to hell'. She retreated yesterday to her mother Jo's home in the capital.


Source: This is London

[sarahh]

.....I cheated on Sienna: Jude Law

Jude Law has made a public apology to his fiancee, actress Sienna Miller, after it was revealed he has been having an affair with his children's nanny.

In a statement, Law told of his "sincere regret" over his behaviour, saying he was "deeply ashamed and upset".

The fling with 26-year-old Daisy Wright occurred in New Orleans while Law was in America filming All The Kings Men with Kate Winslet and Sean Penn in March.

Law, 32, the star of Alfie and The Talented Mr Ripley, made the following statement after the affair was revealed in the Sunday newspapers in Britain: "Following the reports in today's papers, I just want to say I am deeply ashamed and upset that I've hurt Sienna and the people most close to us.

"I want to publicly apologise to Sienna and our respective families for the pain that I have caused.

"There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret and I ask that you respect our privacy at this very difficult time."

The Sunday Mirror reported that one of Law's children with his former wife, Sadie Frost, found their nanny in bed with their father.The newspaper said Frost told Wright, who kept a detailed diary of her time with the actor, that her services were no longer required. The newspaper also quoted Wright as describing the tryst as "amazing".

Exhaustive descriptions from her diary follow, including "Jude was a masterful lover who made my whole body tingle." Law and Miller are said by friends to be "working through" the problems following the star's admission.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/i-cheated-on-sienna-jude-law/2005/07/18/1121538900923.html

[msnicolea]

I was just coming to post about this-WTF?!?!?!

[Raven_Girl]

I love Jude Law and its makes me sick to think he's that cold and callous. If you're unhappy BREAK-UP!!

[kris97]

I know it's naive to think that just because he was beautiful, he was somehow above the typical Hollywood philandering... but, really, the nanny?! It doesn't get any more trite or stereotypical. :rolleyes:

[Kimberland30]

I could be wrong, but didn't Jude Law and his exwife (Sadie Frost) break up because he cheated with Sienna Miller?

[Aimee]

Re: Frankie Muniz' Fiancee:

She's from my hometown. And I know exactly how old she is. We were acquaintences at one point in time. She was an artsy-free spirit type - really fun girl. I'm Not going to spill her age here, because they're keeping it private for obvious reasons, but, let's just say she's older than he is.

So weird.

[imagirliegirl]

Frankie Muniz is 19?! I thought he was like 15. Wild.

[Raven_Girl]

LOL i know i guess it was easy access. :rolleyes:

I know it's naive to think that just because he was beautiful, he was somehow above the typical Hollywood philandering... but, really, the nanny?! It doesn't get any more trite or stereotypical. :rolleyes:

[southerner]

I heard on the radio this morning that Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee are engaged AGAIN!!!! Let's hope the third time is a charm for them :rolleyes:

Also, I heard that Paris' Hilton was at some family event in Greece with the other Paris and they go into a fight (about his family not liking her or soemthing to that effect) and she left to go back to LA early w/o the male Paris.

[paiger]

i wonder if she did leave, if it has something to do with this...

Money Woes for Paris' Beau?

Paris Hilton might want to squirrel away some of that cash she's set to pocket for the planned fourth installment of "The Simple Life," 'cause fiance Paris Latsis may not yet be able to keep her in the lifestyle to which she's very much accustomed.

That's the claim made by Gregory Kasidokostas, the Greek shipping heir's chatty dad, who insists to Star magazine (via the New York Daily News) that his son, who recently slipped a bank-busting 24-carat diamond engagement ring on Hilton's finger and reportedly just plunked down big bucks for a Beverly Hills mansion, is "just a [college] student."

Kasidokostas, a onetime water-ski instructor who was briefly married to Paris' heiress mom (Latsis is her maiden name), says his offspring hasn't yet received a chunk of the family's estimated $7.5 billion fortune, and maintains he doesn't have the "money or the property" to throw the elaborate nuptials many are expecting.

"Even if he did have wealth of his own, it would not be in his character to be wasteful and irresponsible," Kasidokostas tells the Star.

Paris and Paris have lately been in Greece, where RadarOnline reports the attention-loving celebutante has been trying to butter up Latsis' family, especially his uncle, Spiro, who controls the clan's purse strings. Hilton's attempts to win over her future relation, according to the mag, included inviting along her party-loving galpal Tara Reid, who's globetrotting as host of E!'s "Wild On" series.

By the by, Radar says Hilton wasn't exactly bowled over by the reception she received from Latsis' relatives during the couple's first trip to Greece back in June. She supposedly complained to pals that the family would ask her opinion on topics "no one my age would ever talk about. Stuff like art and books and stuff." (While we're guessing that quote is probably apocryphal, it doesn't lessen our enjoyment level at all.)

Hilton's rep tells the magazine she "gets along with the Latsis family just fine."


Actual Article (http://entertainment.msn.com/tv/hotgossipc4)

[sarahh]

...Sienna is too angry to cry

By THOMAS WHITAKER and
VICTORIA NEWTON

SEETHING Sienna Miller was last night described as “too angry for tears” over fiance Jude Law’s affair with his children’s nanny.
The stunning actress — who has called off their wedding — is so anguished she has hardly slept, her mum Jo said.

Angry Jo spoke to The Sun after Hollywood star Jude confessed to a fling with Daisy Wright, 26.

Jo opened her heart as two-timing Jude admitted he felt like “the most hated man in Britain”.

The mum said: “Sienna is probably too angry for tears at the moment. It is anger and betrayal. Never in a million years would I have suspected that he would do that to my daughter.

“We have been speaking regularly and neither of us has had too much sleep. But she is an absolute trouper, my Sienna. She has always been very strong.”

Ex-model Jo, who is in her 50s, chatted as she strolled with a grandchild near her £1.5million house in Parsons Green, South West London. She went on: “Sienna is not with Jude at the moment. I have not heard from him and I would not expect to in the circumstances.

“She has spent the last couple of days in the country, staying with friends. I can’t comment on whether they will stay together. It is their affair. They have to work it out.”

Sienna, who dreamed of marrying Jude next year, bravely went on stage in London’s West End last night in Shakespeare’s As You Like It — and received rapturous applause at the end.

But she turned up at the Wyndham’s Theatre WITHOUT her £20,000 cluster diamond engagement ring.

An onlooker said: “Sienna looked very grim-faced. All the revelations about Jude are clearly getting to her.”

But a member of the audience said: “She was a true pro in all the scenes, which went from laughing to crying. You’d never have known that she has had to put up with so much public humiliation.”

A source close to the couple said: “Sienna is furious with Jude.

“But he is doing everything in his power to talk her round. He is desperate and is fighting to keep her.

“They had a big face-to-face meeting on Sunday night. Jude has no idea at this stage whether she will walk away from him for good.

“They were planning to get married as soon as possible but that’s the last thing on Sienna’s mind at the moment.”

Jude, 32, and Sienna, 23, met on the set of the movie Alfie and got engaged on Christmas Day.

They were free to wed after his divorce from Sadie Frost this month. But Sienna was shattered by the weekend’s bombshell news of the affair with blonde Daisy.

The nanny kept a diary of their affair as she cared for one of Jude’s three children in America in March.

She detailed romps on a pool table and told how the movie hunk was a masterful lover who “made my body tingle” during wild sex.

Jude issued a grovelling apology. He said: “I just want to say I am deeply ashamed and upset that I’ve hurt Sienna and the people closest to us. There is no defence for my actions, which I deeply regret.”

It came after The Sun exclusively revealed yesterday that he was still pursuing Daisy to continue their affair as recently as last Thursday.

He told her: “It was a lot more than just sex” — and begged to see her. But Daisy, sacked by Sadie over the affair, turned him down.

Friends of Jude said he sounded like a broken man as he agonised over the thought of losing Sienna.

One pal said: “Jude is devastated. He knows its no one’s fault but his own but wants to do everything he can to protect Sienna.

“He’s hoping that his public apology will go some way towards easing her pain. Jude feels like he’s the most hated man in Britain.

“He doesn’t know whether Sienna is going to be able to forgive him — it’s far too soon to say.

“Her reaction was like a nuclear explosion. Jude doesn’t blame her.”

Jude has left his West London home and gone into hiding.

And he poured out his anguish to his parents Peter, 61, and Margaret, 59, in a call to their holiday villa in the South of France.

They have told him he can join them to dodge the controversy.http://img315.imageshack.us/img315/9328/25yg.png

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Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005330258,00.html

[Chimichanga]

This just has to stink for her! I feel sorry for her and Jude's first wife. To have your private business out in the open like that... :(

[sarahh]

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New York -- Singer Usher Raymond and his new girlfriend, model Eishia Brightwell announced last night at a black tie benefits to aid cancer
research that the two are expecting a baby together. "Eishia is three
months pregnant so I guess the baby is due sometime in January said the star.

I'm really excited and look forward to changing diapers," he said. Sources close to Atlanta Gossip, (AG) say that Usher's mother was taken by surprise and appeared to be extremely upset at the dinner after the big announcement was made. Sources say that his mother and new girlfriend have had their differences and hope that they can put them all aside for the sake of the baby.Source: Oh No They Didn't

[southerner]

:eek: :eek: :eek:

didn't see that one coming.....

[lawyerlee]

That is suprising news about Usher and Eishia. Cool. :)

Pam and Tommy are so freaking nuts. :rolleyes:

NY Post Page Six (http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm)

TRIPLE THREAT

PAMELA Anderson is hoping her third wedding with Tommy Lee will be the charm. Lee — who has already walked down the aisle twice with Anderson — popped the question again on Friday at the Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, our spy reports. "He got her a black diamond with two gray diamonds on the side. After she said yes, they flew on the Palm's private jet back to L.A. — but they crossed out the 'l' on the side of the jet so it said 'Pam's.' " The kooky couple then shacked up at the Mondrian for the weekend and told pals the wedding would happen "this week." A rep for Anderson said, "I don't think so," but then didn't call back after promising to check.


PARIS OMENS?

IS there trouble in Parisian paradise already? Our Tinseltown tattletales tell us Paris Hilton and Paris Latsis have been "fighting a lot." One source even claims the hotel heiress was so upset at the shipping scion that she flew back from Greece to Los Angeles over the weekend. But Hilton's rep, Rob Shuter, insists the engaged couple — who have known each other all of eight months — are still blissfully in love. "She did not fly back to L.A.," Shuter said. "Paris has actually extended her Greek vacation through August." The Parises were last spotted in a Jeep tooling around the island of Mykonos, where the Latsis family yacht was anchored.


LIVING SINGLE

LOOKS like there's something to our item yesterday speculating that Matt Lauer and his wife, Annette Roque, were headed for splitsville. One of our moles confides that Lauer has been living alone in a two-bedroom apartment at Trump Park Avenue for more than a month. Of course, we would never be able to tell you this tasty tidbit if we believed everything that "Today" show spokesman Lauren Kapp told us. Six weeks ago, when we called with a tip about Lauer looking for a bachelor pad in a Trump building, Kapp outright denied it. Honesty is the best policy, Lauren!


HEALTHY HOOKUP

JUST a few weeks after splitting with "Scrubs" star Zach Braff, Mandy Moore may already have landed a new man. The squeaky-clean singer-turned-actress has lately been spending time with Men's Health editor-in-chief Dave Zinczenko. They were spotted hanging out in the Hamptons earlier this summer, and we're told that Zinczenko, who used to date actresses Rose McGowan and Lisa Edelstein, recently flew out to L.A. to visit his new love.


OK!: FOILED AGAIN ON PHOTO RIGHTS

THE celebrity weekly battles are heating up now that the U.S. version of OK! magazine is just two months away from launching. OK!, which admits paying celebrities for exclusive wedding coverage, tried to buy the rights to Nicole Richie and deejay Adam Goldstein's engagement party last weekend for $100,000. Our spy says, "Nicole had been turned down by other tabloids, but OK! still wanted the pictures and, they thought, they had secured the contract." But just a day before the engagement bash at Lionel Richie's house on Saturday, OK! was notified that InStyle and People magazine had secured the rights to the party. Richie's rep, Cindy Guagenti, swears no money changed hands and adds: "Every magazine wanted the pictures, but if you're doing a wedding thing, InStyle does it best." This is not the first time People has outsmarted OK! in a photo battle. The British-based rag also tried to get the rights to shoot Jessica Simpson's 25th birthday but was outbid at the last moment by People.

[lawyerlee]

Paris fitted for $10M suit (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/329371p-281495c.html)

Paris Latsis' ex-girlfriend has slapped Paris Hilton - with a $10 million lawsuit.

Zeta Graff is suing the "Hilton Camp" for causing "a number of vicious lies ... to be published in the New York Post" about an incident June 1 at the London hot spot Kabaret. According to the Post, Graff "went berserk" and "attacked" Paris Hilton, attempting to pry loose a $4 million diamond necklace that had been loaned to Paris by Graff Diamonds - a company run by Zeta's ex-husband Francois Graff.

But Graff says this is all bunk. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, calls the story "baseless" and unsupported "by even a scintilla of truth." In fact, according to court papers, Hilton actually approached Graff that night and whispered in her ear: "You're a [bleep]ing [bleep]. I'm going to destroy you."

Hilton had no comment when contacted for this story.

[lawyerlee]

Jessica Simpson might adopt a Mexican orphan. Maybe. (http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/003186.html)

According to rumors with absolutely no basis, Jessica Simpson wants to adopt a Mexican baby. She revealed that when she was 16-years old, she visited an orphanage in Mexico and wanted to take the kids home with her.

"That's what I wanted for my birthday but I couldn't legally get a baby across the Mexican border," she said. She also hinted that she might adopt, saying, "I'll end up doing something which will touch somebody in some way that's good... through orphanages."

Meanwhile, Johnny Knoxville has urged the press to stop the rumors that he had an affair with Jessica Simpson. "Jessica and I are just friends. She's a great girl and all that, but all the rumours. I just take it in my stride, but it's kind of hurtful to the families that are involved."

I don't know what Knoxville's problem is. If I had an affair with Jessica Simpson I'd be telling every single person I met. Heck, even if I didn't have an affair with her I'd still be telling people I did. Last time I checked, Jessica Simpson was so super duper hot that the sun was like, "Hot damn, that's hot. And I'm the freaking Sun!"

[lawyerlee]

Nicole Richie Slams Weight Loss Critics (http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/50822004.htm)

Socialite-turned-reality TV star NICOLE RICHIE has lashed out at accusations she's taken her diet and exercise regime too far.

Richie's dramatic weight loss has concerned friends and fans, who have linked her new physique to her close friendship with LINDSAY LOHAN - who recently received a petition signed by 12,500 fans, urging her to fatten up.

But Richie, 23, insists her regular workouts with Los Angeles personal fitness trainer ADAM IRNSTER are healthy.

She explains, "I have more energy and I'm more confident. I never thought I could have as much confidence."



Kylie and Olivier would have such beautiful children together.

Kylie Minogue's baby operation (http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/51272004.htm)

Cancer-stricken Kylie Minogue has undergone a cutting edge operation to make sure she can still become a mum.

The pop babe was warned she will struggle to get pregnant after she starts chemotherapy for breast cancer - but didn't want to give up her dream of motherhood.

In the new procedure - which so far has only led to two successful pregnancies - sections of the star's ovaries were removed and frozen. The tissue can later be re-implanted in the hope it will release eggs and Kylie, who is dating French actor Olivier Martinez, will be able to fall pregnant.

The revolutionary treatment is said to have given new hope to the diminutive blonde, who was "completely distraught" after two IVF attempts failed.

A source close to the 37-year-old singer told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Kylie's first thought when she learnt she had breast cancer was not of her own health, but of the fact she may never have babies.

"An expert mentioned this new technique and she jumped at the chance."


Gwyenth Paltrow's Thumb (http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/51282004.htm)

Gwyneth Paltrow's husband Chris Martin has confessed he is under her thumb.

The Coldplay frontman, who has a baby daughter, Apple, with the Hollywood actress, has admitted he will do anything his wife tells him.

Chris says he even got his hair cut when Gwyneth complained it was too long.

He revealed to Britain's NME magazine: "I did have big hair but my wife ordered me to cut it I am under the thumb".

Earlier this year, Chris, who wed Gwyneth in December 2003, shockingly dismissed his wife's Oscar win saying: "A Grammy just sits there An Oscar just sits there It's a hunk of junk."

Chris also claimed he and Gwyneth hate glitzy showbiz parties and bin most of the invites they receive.

He added: "I don't live a Hollywood lifestyle You'll have seen no pictures of me on any red carpets because I don't do it and neither does my lady."


SCARLETT: BACK FOR MORE (http://www.nypost.com/gossip/26051.htm)

July 20, 2005 -- SCARLETT Johansson is having a hard time getting Jared Leto out of her system. The gorgeous "Lost in Translation" star, 20, was dumped by the "Requiem for a Dream" stud, 33, because she was supposedly too young for him. Johansson quickly started seeing hunky Josh ("Black Hawk Down") Hartnett. Leto then moved onto Ashley Olsen, who is even younger than Johansson. But a good source claims Scarlett is sneaking out and having midnight trysts with Leto. His former conquests Cameron Diaz, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan might understand. As does porn star Corina Taylor, who told radar.com she got cozy with well-endowed Leto on his tour bus in Little Rock, Ark., three years ago while he was on tour with his rock band, 30 Seconds From Mars. "I've been a porn actress for three years, and Jared was the most I ever had to work with," Taylor gushed. "There's definitely a second career available for him if he ever runs out of mainstream work."


Scent of a Rose (http://www.nypost.com/gossip/26045.htm)

July 20, 2005 -- HOO-ha! Al Pacino, 65, is said to be romancing "Charmed" actress Rose McGowan, 31. A spy tells Us Weekly that McGowan, whose first date with Pacino was at Mortons in L.A., "thought he was too old for her at first, but . . . Al won her over." Pacino is no stranger to beguiling much-younger Hollywood hotties. A few weeks ago, he went on a date with newly single former supermodel Elle Macpherson and reportedly hooked up with Winona Ryder several years ago.


Beckham's father writes secret biography (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds22685.html)

Sunday, July 17 2005, 10:37 BST -- by Daniel Kilkelly

David Beckham's father is set to earn a six-figure sum, after writing a secret book about his son.

The Real Madrid ace is said to be furious that his dad Ted spent six months penning the biography without telling him.

Ted apparently hopes that he will be able to retire from his job as a gas engineer once the 50,000-word book is published.

"I'm really pleased with the book," he told the Sunday Mirror. "It's come together really well. I talk about everything. The book is all about the early days right the way up to Madrid. But there's no dirty stuff in it - I wouldn't do that.

"David didn't always know I was doing it - but I'm really chuffed with it. I've sent him a copy, but I haven't had a response yet because he's away now."

A friend of Becks revealed, "David and Victoria were stunned. They find it amazing Ted could have kept this under his hat for so long."


Farrell furious over sex tape scandal (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds22721.html)

Tuesday, July 19 2005, 11:45 BST -- by Kris Green

Colin Farrell has taken legal action in a bid to prevent the sale and distribution of a tape showing him having sexual intercourse with ex-girlfriend Nicole Narain.

The actor claims that he had an agreement with Playboy star Narain which stated that the two-and-a-half-year-old tape would remain "strictly private and confidential between them."

Official documents, however, suggest that the Narain's representative, David Hans Schmidt, had the authority to 'commercially exploit the tape'.

According to Ananova Scmidt also offered to meet with Farrell to discuss the possible "commercialisation of the videotape for profit."

Farrell, however, stands by his claim that nobody had the right to distribute the tape without his consent and has asked for a court order be imposed to prevent its distribution.


Restraining Order Issued in Farrell Case (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_FARRELL?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A temporary restraining order was issued Tuesday against a woman who is allegedly trying to distribute a sex tape involving her and actor Colin Farrell.

[lawyerlee]

Tony nearly punches out of work (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/329332p-281480c.html)

Word is that James Gandolfini got so angry and frustrated on the set of "The Sopranos" Friday - apparently because he kept flubbing a line - that he smashed his fist into a plate-glass window.

According to Steppin' Out magazine's Chaunce Hayden - who spoke to an eyewitness at the "So-pranos" studio in Long Island City - "the actor got increasingly agitated and threw a temper tantrum."

Hayden reports that Gandolfini's hand began swelling after he smacked the safety glass on a hospital set.

Crew members worried that the HBO star might have to visit a real hospital for a broken hand, possibly shutting down production on the sixth season and throwing lowly stagehands out of work.

Luckily, the glass didn't shatter, and the man who plays mob boss Tony Soprano went on with the show, an HBO rep told me. "His hand is fine. He's on the set today and in a great mood."

But some crew members spent a nervous weekend.

"Everyone on the set is very upset over Gandolfini's infantile tantrum," the spy worried on Friday. "His stupidity could cost everyone their paychecks. Many people could soon be out of work for a long while because he acts like an infant."

The blue-collar "Sopranos" employees are still smarting from the memory of their docked salaries in March 2003, when the production shut down after Gandolfini - upset that HBO was offering him only $11 million for the show's fifth season - refused to report for work.

This time, it looks like Tony Soprano dodged a bullet.

[lawyerlee]

Night in the City (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1084462,00.html)

Sarah Jessica Parker sure likes her Chinese food. The Sex and the City star was transfixed during a recent outing to New York City eatery Rickshaw Dumpling Bar, where she dined with husband Matthew Broderick. "She sidled*up to the counter, put her elbows down and put her*face in her hands and watched the cooks prepare*her dinner," a source tells us. What was on the menu?*Chicken and Thai basil dumplings, peanut sate soup for her and pork dumplings for him.

On their way out Parker noticed a Coca-Cola sign in Chinese. She asked owner Kenny Lao what it meant. "He told her that the translation for the four characters on the sign means 'thirsty mouth, happy mouth,'" says the source. "She giggled and thought it was great."

[lawyerlee]

The Rap on Oprah (http://radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/07/20/index.php#report_001923)

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Fresh from her PR victory over Hermés, daytime talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has apparently trained her sights on 20-year-old rapper Lucy Diamonds. The Louiseville-based artist says she first came to the host’s attention after recording a song entitled “Sorry Right Number,” a celeb-trashing rant in the spirit of Eminem, which features the near-rhyming couplet, “Yeah I got drunk and I finger-****ed Oprah/ I’m sorry I’m rambling, why don’t we start over.”

Winfrey apparently got wind of the song and made her objections known through an assistant, Diamonds says. But the rapper, undeterred—and clearly sensing the PR value of such a spat—refused to back down. Instead, she recorded a follow up, “Sorry Right Number II.” A sampling:

“Now I received an email from Oprah’s assistant/ Saying my career would be over in an instant/ If I released that song and put the diss in/ Oh’ you rang the bell, bitch I thought you’d go the distance…I got a Hippo from Harpo whose appetite’s hungry/ Damn Oprah, don’t you have enough money?”

The resulting controversy was enough to garner the rapper an exclusive deal with Apple to release the songs on iTunes—and a cease and desist letter from Winfrey’s attorneys. According to Diamonds, Oprah even “asked” Apple to back out of the agreement. Fearing, perhaps, an Hermés-style beatdown, the company complied without offering any explanation. Winfrey’s spokeswoman, Carly Ubersox, called Diamonds’ version of events “completely untrue,” saying that Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Inc., has “no record” of a cease and desist letter and that Oprah is not even aware of the rapper’s music. Diamonds claims she shares a close mutual friend with Winfrey, but would not elaborate. Apple reps did not return repeated calls and emails seeking comment.

[mgrace]

Joe Simpson: Nick & Jessica Are Solid

CREDIT: FRED PROUSER / REUTERS

Jessica Simpson's dad says that his daughter and her hubby Nick Lachey have hit some rough patches in their marriage – but that rumors of a split are dead wrong.

Joe Simpson tells PEOPLE that in fact Jessica and Nick's marriage is much like his own. "Do they fight? Hell yes, they fight. Have there been moments when Nick has wanted to leave Jessica or Jess has wanted to leave Nick? Absolutely," Simpson says.

But he's quick to add that the squabbles are not a sign of major trouble in the relationship. "(It's the) same with me and my wife. If fighting is a sign of divorce, then we're all going to get divorced. My wife and I have been married 27 years. We've been at the edge of divorce for 26 of them."

The Simpsons and the Lacheys have a secret for solving their differences, he says. "We stick together. So we laugh together. We cry together. We drink together."

Simpson talked with PEOPLE while promoting Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive, a reality series he’s coproducing for the E! network. Plus, he's still managing his daughter's career.

Next up, after The Dukes of Hazzard opening Aug. 5: "We're doing a movie called Major Movie Star. It's kind of like Private Benjamin. She's going to go join the Army. It's going to be a good fun thing

[Rosebud]

Aiken’s charity isn’t that charitable
By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 2:52 a.m. ET July 20, 2005

Looks like Clay Aiken’s charity isn’t terribly charitable.

Aiken co-founded the Bubel/Aiken foundation to benefit children with disabilities, but a document filed with the Internal Revenue Service revealed that of the more than $1 million the group raised last year, less than a third was handed out in grants.

More than $150,000 went for travel expenses, $173,000 for “professional services,” and nearly $150,000 for salaries. One of the reasons for the high expenses was high-profile galas held in places like Los Angeles and Hawaii.

Aiken’s rep didn’t return The Scoop’s call for comment, but his partner, co-founder Diane Bubel, told WRAL-TV in Raleigh that critics are misrepresenting the situation. “We’re volunteering and doing something good, and all we hear is complaining,” Bubel said.


Notes from all over
By Jeannette Walls, MSNBC

Let’s hope those red-string Kabbalah bracelets come in infant sizes. Britney Spears is planning a special blessing at LA’s Kabbalah Centre, to be held seven days after the birth of her baby, a source tells Life and Style Weekly. . . .

The celeb debate over psychiatric drugs continues. Scientologist Kelly Preston has said that her Scientologist friend Lisa Marie Presley coped with postpartum depression without the help of drugs. “It was interesting because her doctor said her hormones were elevated. Lisa, I think, just handled it naturally,” Preston said, reports World Entertainment News Network. “If your hormones are out of whack... there’s different homeopathics and different vitamins.” . . .

Meanwhile, Tom Arnold, out promoting “Happy Endings” was asked what he thought of Tom Cruise’s comments slamming the drugs and Brooke Shields’ use of them. “I think he’s just ignorant,” Arnold said. “I think Brooke was very brave.”

[sarahh]

..... Paris & Paris Break-Up
Hilton Dumps Fiancee

July 20 – This spring Paris Hilton fell madly in love with her namesake, Paris Latsis — but Hilton has recently called off her engagement to the Greek shipping heir. http://ivillage.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=995136

[southerner]

Paris squared broke up?? :rolleyes: She'll have a new flavor in less than two months, I bet!

[Kimberland30]

Like nobody saw that one coming. :rolleyes:

[hockeybrat]

I think we should have had a cyber bet as to how long her "relationship" would last.

[taraw]

PAMELA DISMISSES TOMMY LEE'S WEDDING CLAIMS

Twice-married PAMELA ANDERSON and TOMMY LEE still fail to agree on marriage - just a day after Lee confirmed reports of a third wedding, Anderson has blasted them.

After the couple were spotted holidaying in Hawaii recently, gossips speculated the pair are getting back together.

And on Tuesday (19JUL05), Lee confirmed the reports, saying there would be wedding bells "soon".

But yesterday (20JUL05), Anderson dashed the rumours and her ex-husband's 'news' by stating: "There is absolutely no truth to the recent tabloid reports Tommy Lee and I are engaged and getting married.

"I have two beautiful children with Tommy and I will continue to be close friends and supportive of him."

[justHB]

From Salon.com

Talk about a backhanded compliment. Here's Elite Models founder John Casablancas on supermodel Gisele Bundchen: She's "the most beautiful model today, I hate to say it because she has nothing to say from an intellectual point of view. No contribution to make to the human cause. She is an empty shell, one big void as a person. But as a model she is exciting and interesting."

[Katyanne]

WOW!! :eek: That's a horrible comment. Even though he's the founder of Elite I don't think anyone should have the right to say something that cruel about someone. But that's just me.
Katie

[msnicolea]

this is a man who as a 30-something modeling agent dated the 14 year old stephanie seymour--he lacks credibility and class for sure!

[lawyerlee]

What a dick. :(

[sdianems]

From Salon.com

Talk about a backhanded compliment. Here's Elite Models founder John Casablancas on supermodel Gisele Bundchen: She's "the most beautiful model today, I hate to say it because she has nothing to say from an intellectual point of view. No contribution to make to the human cause. She is an empty shell, one big void as a person. But as a model she is exciting and interesting."

That makes no sense whatsoever......was he talking trash about models in general (unlikely, considering it is his business)? I mean, where does a comment like that come from?

eeshh.....

[lawyerlee]

Courteney Cox Reveals Postpartum Depression (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1085027,00.html)

Despite what she describes as a delayed case of postpartum depression after the June 13, 2004, birth of her and husband David Arquette's daughter Coco, Courteney Cox says she'd like to have another child.

"I went through a really hard time – not right after the baby, but when (Coco) turned 6 months," Cox, 41, tells USA Today. "I couldn't sleep. My heart was racing. And I got really depressed. I went to the doctor and found out my hormones had been pummeled."

Taking the steroid hormone progesterone helped Cox get through her difficulties, as did support from such close friends as Jennifer Aniston, who lives nearby in Malibu, and Brooke Shields, who famously suffered and conquered her own bouts with postpartum depression.

Having now shed her vulnerable feelings of what she terms "smallness" – and dealt with such strange suicidal urges as driving off a cliff, she says – Cox reveals that she and Arquette are hoping for a sibling for their daughter, whose expanding vocabulary now includes the words "lion," "flower" and "bellybutton."

As Cox tells the newspaper: "I look at Coco and say, 'I'm blessed. Why mess with this? Should I take any chances?' But we've got to try for a boy. We've got to have a little (boy) Arquette in the family."

[lawyerlee]

Angelina Takes Zahara Out on the Town (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1085153,00.html)

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A radiant Angelina Jolie was seen shopping with her 6-month-old daughter, Zahara Marley, in Calabasas, Calif., which is near the Malibu home of Brad Pitt – where the baby as well as Pitt have been recovering from recent hospital stays.

As PEOPLE reports in its new issue, just a day after picking up her newly adopted daughter in Ethiopia, Jolie began to worry something was wrong. Zahara Marley Jolie, already underweight at just 9 lbs., wasn't drinking enough formula.

Jolie took Zahara for a checkup, and wound up spending a week by her daughter's side in a New York City hospital as the baby battled a bacterial infection that, left untreated, could have been life-threatening. (Zahara's mother is believed to have died of AIDS a month after giving birth and her father is unknown.)

"Like anybody else," Jolie "was a mom who was very concerned and afraid," says Dr. Jane Aronson, the pediatrician and expert in international adoption medicine who treated Zahara.

Fortunately, after being treated with fluids for dehydration and antibiotics to combat what Aronson diagnosed as a salmonella infection, Zahara left the hospital "happy and gurgling" on July 15 with a clean bill of health. She also gained more than a pound.

Angelina, Zahara and the actress' son, 3-year-old Maddox, then flew to L.A. July 16 to reunite with another recuperating friend: They stayed at Pitt's Malibu estate as he spent the week recovering from a bout of viral meningitis.

Pitt had been with Jolie in Ethiopia when she adopted her daughter. (His malady likely has "nothing to do" with salmonella, says Aronson, who told PEOPLE that Jolie never mentioned Pitt to her.)

Mother and daughter both appeared to be feeling much better July 20, when they were spotted in Malibu at a supermarket and toy store and stopping in a Starbucks.

Meanwhile, Pitt also seems to have shaken his illness: He showed up Wednesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel to accept a $250,000 check on behalf of the Film Foundation at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association luncheon.

[AusMarchBride]

Courteney Cox Reveals Postpartum Depression (http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1085027,00.html)

Despite what she describes as a delayed case of postpartum depression after the June 13, 2004, birth of her and husband David Arquette's daughter Coco, Courteney Cox says she'd like to have another child.

"I went through a really hard time – not right after the baby, but when (Coco) turned 6 months," Cox, 41, tells USA Today. "I couldn't sleep. My heart was racing. And I got really depressed. I went to the doctor and found out my hormones had been pummeled."

Taking the steroid hormone progesterone helped Cox get through her difficulties, as did support from such close friends as Jennifer Aniston, who lives nearby in Malibu, and Brooke Shields, who famously suffered and conquered her own bouts with postpartum depression.

Having now shed her vulnerable feelings of what she terms "smallness" – and dealt with such strange suicidal urges as driving off a cliff, she says – Cox reveals that she and Arquette are hoping for a sibling for their daughter, whose expanding vocabulary now includes the words "lion," "flower" and "bellybutton."

As Cox tells the newspaper: "I look at Coco and say, 'I'm blessed. Why mess with this? Should I take any chances?' But we've got to try for a boy. We've got to have a little (boy) Arquette in the family."


Anything you feel you need to say Mr Cruise :rolleyes: Go on, you can't help yourself. :mad:

[Heidi9771]

Paris squared broke up?? :rolleyes: She'll have a new flavor in less than two months, I bet!

How pathetic! I bet Nicole is totally not surprised. PH is the type of attention hog to get engaged just because other people who have LIGITIMATE engagements are stealing her spotlight. :rolleyes:

[lawyerlee]

Love's memory of hospital visit is faint (http://nydailynews.com/news/gossip/v-echo/story/330365p-282327c.html)

Courtney Love was rushed to the hospital early yesterday morning after blacking out at a Hollywood party.

"I don't quite know what happened," the rocker and actress told us yesterday afternoon from her home. "I'm still sleeping it off."

Love said that, on Wednesday night, she stopped by a party at the Roosevelt Hotel.

"It was very hot," she recalled. "I had two Diet Cokes. I started feeling really woozy. I decided to go to the private cabana that they'd given me to use. I must have fainted.

A friend called an ambulance.

I woke up at Cedars-Sinai [Medical Center] on a breathing machine. They didn't keep me there long."

Los Angeles Police Department sources said a "crime report" involving Love was taken during the early hours of yesterday morning.

One source said the report made mention of "poisoning." It wasn't clear yesterday who mentioned "poisoning" - or whether that referred to food poisoning or something more nefarious.

"I don't remember," said Love, 41. "They did some blood tests. I haven't gotten the results back."

The "People vs. Larry Flynt" star was adamant that she wasn't under the influence of any drugs.

"I didn't work for a year on sobriety to blow it," said Love, who has passed one drug test after another during 12 months of court-ordered rehab. "You have my word on that."


Signs Terry is weary

It's not easy pushing a new novel while waging a divorce battle - which may be why Terry McMillan looked a little worse for wear at a Wednesday book-signing.

"She took one look at the press line and sighed," says a witness at the Barnes & Noble Union Square. "Then she slouched down to the floor with the book ['The Interruption of Everything'] in her lap and started rolling her eyes."

The author reluctantly agreed to pose for photos, but she made it clear that she wouldn't be talking about her breakup with hubby Jonathan Plummer, who inspired her best-seller "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."

She must have gotten her second wind by the time she did an interview with BET. Having recently discovered that her husband of six-plus years was gay, she laid into the man who is now vying for a cut of her royalties.

"He's an embarrassment to the gay community," she said. "He's a covetous sociopath who charmed his way into my life, and he lied about everything."

Plummer's lawyer didn't return a call by press time.

P.S.: When it comes to switching teams, "Queer Eye" culture guru Jai Rodriguez may be up for being traded.

"I like girls, too," he told us at Cain Wednesday night, as he headed out the door with a hot babe. "When I signed on to the show I didn't realize I was going to have to always be gay."


Not among his Elite

Elite Modeling founder John Casablancas hasn't worked with Naomi Campbell since 1989 - and he wants to keep it that way.

"Naomi has a really nasty side, because of her temperament, her lifestyle and her history," Casablancas says. "I like her a lot, but I would not work with her again for all the gold on Earth.

"She was abusive with her booking staff and it was unbearable."

Campbell's rep tells us: "Naomi has been very honest about her past and has learned a great deal from it. It's unfortunate that John does not seem to be able to move on. I'm sure Naomi wishes him the best."

Mind you, Casablancas wouldn't mind having her over for dinner.

"She might throw a glass of wine at somebody," he tells Complex Magazine. "But it would be fun."

Who knew he was such a classy guy. :rolleyes:

[lawyerlee]

I bet Goldie will live forever with her young-at-heart attiude toward life. :)

Give it a rest, mum (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=356672&in_page_id=1773)
by CLEMMIE MOODIE, Daily Mail

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After several hours on the dancefloor, Goldie Hawn and her daughter Kate Hudson emerged from a London nightclub looking understandably worse for wear.

And it was at this point that age began to tell.

Kate, 26, decided that 2.30am was well past her bedtime and headed swiftly back to her hotel for some sleep.

But 59-year-old Goldie is made of sterner stuff.

Despite looking a little unsteady on her feet, she ordered her driver to take her to the Groucho Club for a nightcap. Only after that was she prepared to let her evening draw to a close.

The pair were in the capital attending the UK premiere of Miss Hudson's latest film, The Skeleton Key.

'Dressed up to the nines'

They posed together outside The Vue in Leicester Square, mother in skimpy black frock and daughter in strapless, shimmering ball gown.

But rather than staying to watch the movie, the pair went for a meal at the Ivy restaurant.

Then, after Kate had changed into something more suitable for dancing, they headed for the Kabaret nightclub.

A fellow reveller said: "Kate and Goldie both looked absolutely stunning and were dressed up to the nines.

"Both had a brilliant time and really let their hair down in the nightclub, laughing, joking and dancing all night long.

"The way she was moving to a host of R & B tracks, Goldie could easily have passed for a woman half her age - one of Kate's friends in fact.

"Perhaps it was just the excitement of being in London, but it was a distinctly wobbly Goldie who emerged.

"No one could believe it when she announced that the night was still young."

[miaclear]

Goldie looks so torn up. Nasty.

[mierin]

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She looks like the cutest baby, ever! That's one amazing smile.

[sarahh]

.....Frankie Muniz is a liar

Source: Page Six

July 24, 2005 -- NOTHING bugs us more than a lying publicist - unless it's their B-list TV-star client who orders them to fib. So we were rightfully annoyed this week when we read that pint-sized "Malcolm in the Middle" star Frankie Muniz had announced his engagement to an older blonde, identified only as Jamie. We had called two weeks earlier to check on a tip about Muniz's buying an engagement ring, but were told by his fork-tongued flack, Cara Tripicchio, that "he isn't even dating anyone." She later said, "Well, when you called, he wasn't engaged. And if he doesn't want to talk about his private life, it's his prerogative." And it's our prerogative not to ever write about Muniz again.

[miaclear]

I'm not a fan of Frankie Muniz anyhow. Granted I don't know him but he seems like a spoiled, self-centered, I'm better than the world kid.

[sarahh]

Looks like Paris and Paris are still together. Photo taken on 7/23 in St. Tropez.

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[mierin]

Holy cow, that is one GIANT rock on PH's finger. I'm surprised she can lift her hand. I would be terrified to wear something like that.