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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Another week another accusation. A former Royal Caribbean cruise room attendant is accusing John Travolta of assault, battery, and emotional distress in a federal lawsuit. Fabian Zanzi accuses Travolta of stripping off his robe and pushing against him during a food delivery to his cabin in 2009. Zanzi also alleges Travolta offered him $12,000 of hush money. As with previous allegations against Travolta, the actor's attorney fiercely denies Zanzi's charges. "This is another ludicrous lawsuit with inane claims," says Travolta's lawyer. "It is obvious that Mr. Zanzi and his lawyers are looking for their 15 minutes of fame."
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Rapper 50 Cent was reportedly hospitalized with possible neck and back injuries after being in a serious car accident in New York City late Monday. The site ThisIs50.com reports 50's vehicle was hit by a truck. The site posted photo of 50 on a stretcher with a neck brace. The driver of the truck reportedly told police the load he was transporting shifted and he lost control of the truck. No word yet on 50's condition.
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Jon Hamm and his girlfriend were robbed in London. The Mad Men star and Jennifer Westfeldt were dining in the city earlier this month when Westfeldt's purse was stolen. The thief then took the hotel room key from the purse and cleaned out their belongings. Westfeldt said police are still investigating the robbery. We're sure this is something Don Draper wouldn't stand for.
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Megan Fox proved she's still a knockout, even pregnant. The actress flaunted her baby bump while in Hawaii celebrating her second wedding anniversary with actor Brian Austin Green. The couple actually haven't announced that they're expecting a child but we think the photos take care of that.
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And we have the first look at the movie adaptation of 50 Shades of Gray. OK, that was a cruel joke. Sorry.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Jennifer Hudson took the stand Monday in the case against her former brother-in-law William Balfour, who is charged with the 2008 shooting deaths of Hudson's mother, brother, and nephew. Hudson told the jury what her family thought of Balfour. "None of us, myself, my mother, or my brother, we did not like how he treated her, and I didn't like how he treated my nephew," Hudson said, breaking down into tears. In the courtroom with Hudson was her fiancé David Otunga, a WWE wrestler. Hudson testified she knew something was wrong when her mother had not sent her a text and didn't reply to a message. "My sister called my fiancé's phone. I remember it like yesterday, obviously. And he couldn't understand what she was saying because she was so hysterical, and I grabbed the phone from him, and that's when she told me." Prosecutors say Balfour went into a jealous rage when he saw a balloon bouquet arrive at Hudson's childhood home that he believed was from his estranged wife's new boyfriend.
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Finally some good news for Lindsay Lohan, who has been accused of getting into two bar fights in the past few weeks. She's been cast to play Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime TV movie Liz & Dick. "I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor," Lohan said in a statement. "She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well. I am very honored to have been asked to play this role." At least one celeb doesn't think Lohan should be playing Taylor. While on Today, Rosie O'Donnell said Lohan isn't "capable" of the role because her personal life is still a disaster. "I feel very sorry for her ... I think she needs a lot of time away ... She's had a lot of trouble doing every single movie, including SNL," O'Donnell said. "She was out and not in rehearsal. I think she's not in a place to work." When Donny Deutsch suggested Lohan was "our generation's Elizabeth Taylor," O'Donnell replied, "You're out of your mind! You're a crackhead! The last thing she did good she was 16." To prove at least she looks the part, Lohan recently posted a photo on Twitter that shows she has some resemblance to the legendary actress. Lohan will next be seen playing a judge on Glee. Lilo has some experience with judges.
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E! News is reporting that Megan Fox is pregnant. Rumors that Fox is expecting have been surfacing for weeks now. RadarOnline.com ran a story in March that the 25-year-old actress was expecting a child with husband Brian Austin Green, who has a 10-year-old kid with ex Vanessa Marcil. Fox has made it no secret that she wants to be a mom. "I want at least two, probably three kids," the actress said in the April issue of Cosmopolitan. "I've always been maternal." Neither Fox nor Green had commented to confirm or deny initial reports.
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Are Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds living together? E! News reports the Gossip Girl star and boyfriend Reynolds are rumored to have purchased a "beautiful country home" in Bedford, NY. The new pad reportedly cost $2M. Blake and Ryan met while shooting The Green Lantern but didn't begin dating until late last year.
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And in "celebrate Barbra Streisand's 70th birthday" news, enjoy these 14 gifs of Babs.
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For those hoping for a sequel to last summer's breakout comedy Bridesmaids, the upcoming comedy Friends With Kids might be the best substitute, at least in terms of cast. Written, directed, and starring Kissing Jessica Stein's Jennifer Westfeldt, Friends With Kids includes several Bridesmaids actors, including Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd and Westfeldt's real-life boyfriend, Jon Hamm.
Friends With Kids centers around a group of mostly married friends in their 30's who are at that moment where most are having children. The last two single friends (Westfeldt and Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott) make a decision to have a child together but still date other people (Ed Burns and Megan Fox, respectively). The movie premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival last September to mostly positive reviews, and was quickly picked up by Lionsgate. Set for a March release, the first trailer for the movie is finally online.
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In case you haven't checked your calendar — it's award season. With the Oscars just a few weeks away, the Academy joined forces with Funny or Die to shoot a new Oscar promo with Transformer co-stars Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel, as they search for the elusive Billy Crystal to host the Oscars. There are cameos by Robin Williams, Vinnie Jones, and William Fichtner, who gives a pretty damn good Brian Grazer impression.
Funny? Well, after the Oscar's stumble last year, the bar is set pretty low for a chuckle. watch the promo >> Posted 01.06.12 by Chris -
After underwhelming Borat fans with Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen is back. Once again he treads the line between hilarious and offensive — and often succeeding at both — in the first trailer for his latest comedy, The Dictator.
Cohen plays a egomaniacal and tyrannical depot, based, or at least inspired by Saddam Hussein. Reportedly, Cohen plays two roles, that of the dictator, who travels to America, and a goatherder who replaces him. The trailer is only interested in showing Cohen's misdeeds as his dictator persona, as he insults the U.S., cheats in a track race, and has a romantic transaction with Megan Fox — amongst other transgressions.
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In case you haven't checked your calendar lately, 2011 is soooo last year (almost). With the year winding down, it's time to look forward to all the awesome movies coming out in 2012.
Fandango released its 2012 Hot List poll, showing what movies and stars moviegoers are most looking forward to seeing next year. Interestingly, the poll divvies up votes by gender. While The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the most anticipated 2012 blockbuster for men, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 is women's No. 1 pick. Guess women are from Venus and men are from Middle-Earth. Here is the results of Fandango's (unscientific) poll:
2012's MOST ANTICIPATED BLOCKBUSTER:
According to Women
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
The Hunger Games
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Dark Shadows
The Avengers
According to Men:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
The Bourne Legacy
Men in Black III
check out the rest of the results >> Posted 12.11.11 by Chris -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady top Forbes' "World's Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples" list, earning $76 million between May 2010 and May 2011 and unseating Jay-Z and Beyonce from last year's top spot (they earned $72 million). Rounding out the top 5 are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt ($50 million), David and Victoria Beckham ($45 million), and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart ($40 million).
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Jennifer Garner is pregnant again as she and hubby Ben Affleck are expecting child number three to go along with daughters Violet, 5, and Seraphina, 2.
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David Letterman returned to The Late Show for the first time since receiving a death threat on an extremist web site and joked about it, telling the audience he was a little late coming out because he was backstage "talking to the guy from CBS. We were going through the CBS life-insurance policy to see if I was covered for jihad.
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A juror in the Casey Anthony trial has spoken about his ordeal to People under the condition of complete anonymity. While Anthony "seems like a horrible person," he claimed "the prosecutors did not give us enough evidence to convict." The juror added that the trial "has ruined my life," and that "I live in fear that someone will find me. I Google my name every day to see if anyone has figured out who I am."
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Megan Fox is having the large Marilyn Monroe tattoo removed from her forearm now that she's learned Monroe suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar. She told the Italian magazine Amica, "I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life."
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Octomom Nadya Suleman shows off her gruesome scars and stretch marks, nearly three years after giving birth to octuplets via C-section.
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Jennifer Aniston gave true meaning to the term LBD as she wore a tiny sparkly number at the premiere of Horrible Bosses while new boyfriend Justin Theroux waited in the car.
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A rep for Megan Fox confirmed the actress did have sex with Shia LaBeouf while the two were filming the first Transformers movie, but insists it was while Fox and current husband Brian Austin Green were on a 10-month long split.
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Nadya "Octomom" Suleman is facing foreclosure, says she hates her children, and contemplates suicide, TMZ reports she made $28K in June for celebrity boxing matches, bikini shoots, and MMA fights.
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Two weeks after splitting with Las Vegas club owner Cy Waits, it's belived Paris Hilton has moved on to Hangover director Todd Phillips.
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Previously there were two types of moviegoers in the world: those who knew the moment a new Transformers movie was announced that they'd be in the theater opening weekend, and those who knew just the opposite. But after the first two Transformers, there's now a third group: people on the fence about these flicks, even if the third promises to be the biggest one yet.
For this week's Transformers: Dark of the Moon release, fanboys don't need convincing and film festival-goers can'tbe convinced. But what about the rest of us, that on-the-fence third group? Well, here are five reasons why it may be worth shelling out one more time for the Autobots.
What are the 5 reasons? >>
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Shia LaBeouf has confirmed to Details that he and Megan Fox hooked up during the filming of the first Transformers movie. This is inconvenient since Fox was dating current hubby Brian Austin Green at the time. (The couple recently renewed their wedding vows.) When asked about whether the fling happened while Fox was dating Green, LaBeouf said, "I don't know" a total of 12 times, according to Details.
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A judge will be garnisheen the Masheen's wages to the tune of $55K/month as Charlie Sheen's ex-wife Brooke Mueller doesn't trust that he will make good on his monthly child support payments.
In other Sheen news, he took steroids to improve his pitching for Major League, telling Sports Illustrated, "You can print this, I don't give a f**k. My fastball went from 79 (miles-per-hour) to like 85." He discontinued using the drugs because they made it difficult to control his temper.
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In hopes of saving his marriage, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner will undergo "intense" rehab for his sexting addiction.
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Tom Petty has sent presidential candidate Michele Bachmann a cease and desist order to stop using his song American Girl during her campaign. The tune played as exit music for Bachmann's announcement in Iowa on Monday.
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SPLITTING UP
David Duchovny and Tea Leoni are separated again. They split before in 2008.
58-year-old Jeff Goldblum has split with 26-year-old model Lydia Hearst.
Posted 06.29.11 by reelz